Authors Notes: Ok, well, this chapter is probably late, I know, and i'm sorry, but I am writing this ( you aren't going to believe this) In a car. I know! This is what? The third time?! OK well, on with the chapter and PLEASE REVIEW! Also, last chapter I got three reviews ( and I love those of you who reviewed) why? I thought i'd get like 5 at least! Ok, my pride is wounded, and my work will suffer! I'm making this chapter long, in hopes that it will inspire you to REVIEW!

~*~IMPORTANT~*~

A/N2: Where have all my loyal reviewers gone? * sniff sniff* like Mav, or Daredevil, or Sabi2? Waaaaa, I want my reviewers back! OK, as long as some of you review in this chapter I think I'll be able to go on * HINT HINT*


Chapter 19

Jem and Aragorn were celebrating the victory, and all seemed to be well, but an unforeseen evil would prove to be the downfall of these heroes. Jem was suddenly overcome with pain, and she doubled over. Aragorn was kneeling by her side immediately.

What is wrong? He asked concerned. She shook her head, she had no idea! She looked at him, and pleaded with her eyes. He gathered her into his arms and took her to Gandalf, hoping there was simple explanation.


~*~*~*~ Meanwhile ~*~*~*~

Legolas was cheering with the rest of the group, and smiling in victory. He looked about * curious, where is Kat? I thought she was right behind me!* Legolas thought to himself, it was unlike her to be out of his sight. He got off his horse, and looked around the rubble.

Kat! He yelled, hoping that she would answer, but he heard nothing in response. He was getting worried, and after a few more minutes searching proved fruitless, he began to get frantic. A thought struck him, he may be able to find her after all. Legolas opened his mind, he had had years of training to help sharpen all of his senses, and all elves were capable of telepathy ( considering Enkil had no problem talking telepathically with Kat). He opened his mind to the area around him, and he was bombarded with thousands of different thoughts, some were chaotic, some were ecstatic. He separated the thoughts of men, from the thoughts of the Uruk hi that were fleeing, or dying. Then he separated the thoughts of the men rejoicing, and the women in the caves, he looked for a light presence, younger, and more feminine than the others. He found one nearby, but looking closer, he knew it was Jem. He concentrated harder, and finally got something. He locked onto a faint flicker of a thought, very wispy, but he still held onto it. She was going in and out of consciousness, whoever she was, and he prayed it wasn't Kat. Even if it wasn't, this person needed his help, he followed the light trail of thoughts to the stairs before the main hall. It was then that he knew without a doubt it was Kat. He went into the small corridor he had taken Kat down after the Enkil incident.

Legolas heard shallow breathing, and went over to the person's side. It was as he feared, Kat was unconscious sitting on the floor of the corridor. He sat beside her, and tried shaking her awake.

Nooo, I don't wanna regain consciousness dammit! Kat said, through clenched teeth, while her vision cleared. Legolas breathed a sigh of relief, at least she was alive.

What happened? He asked.

I don't know, a soldier slashed my stomach, and got away, I thought it would heal, or it would be no biggie, but i'm in a world of pain at the moment Kat said, trying to go back into the beautiful oblivion that was unconsciousness. Legolas needed her to stay awake, so he checked her stomach for the wound, it was pretty bad.

Kat, you must stay conscious, we have to get you to Gandalf Legolas gathered her into his arms ( sounding familiar?) and ran off to find Gandalf.

Both men, carrying their charges, found Gandalf in the great hall, celebrating with The King.

Gandalf! Legolas cried, upon entering the room We need your help Legolas and Aragorn gently placed the girls on the ground, because neither could stand in their present state. Aragorn and Legolas looked at Gandalf pleadingly, begging for him to ease their fears.

Gandalf, did you not make a charm so that all their mortal wounds would heal? Aragorn asked the old wizard, who was now looking at the girls strangely. Gandalf nodded his head absently, now checking for wounds on the girls.

Then why isn't this healing? Legolas asked, pulling up the bottom of Kat's shirt, to reveal the deep gash. Both girls were well and truly unconscious now, which only increased the anxiety level in the room.

It seems that whatever they were injured with, was tipped with some sort of poison, much stronger than any I have ever encountered Gandalf said thoughtfully.

Can you counter it? Aragorn asked, looking towards Jem with a cross between fear and compassion.

Gandalf shook his head forlornly. I cannot counter it, I can make something to help them with this battle, but I cannot fight it for them He said cryptically.

What do you mean? aragorn asked, stepping up to the wizard in anger.

This poison, cannot be killed with magic, the person infected must fight it themselves Gandalf said, while going back to where the King stood. But I may be able to make something to aid them in their upcoming battle Gandalf disappeared into the back of the great hall, and they assumed he had gone to Shadowfax, to get ingredients. Aragorn and Legolas knelt by Kat and Jem, they couldn't believe this was happening. They felt so useless!

Come now, both girls are strong, they will make it through! The'oden said, having been in the background this entire time. Both men looked at him, with a grim expressions. I'll just go check on the women and children He said, quickly leaving the hall.

Gandalf returned after a few minutes, although it seemed like hours to Legolas and Aragorn. Gandalf took a small flask from under his robe, and looked at the wounds on the two girls.

Hmm, it would seem that a soldier had a special blade, he cut both girls, and the poison took longer to affect Jem because her wound was much less severe, where in Kat's case it took effect immediately Gandalf was mixing different things together while explaining this. All right, I will give them this, I hope that it will aid them at least a little

Both men tried to rouse the girls, but gandalf stopped them. No no no, they cannot drink this! They have already passed into another realm to fight the evil that inhabits their bodies, we put this on their wounds, they are lost to us now, all we can do is wait Gandalf poured a bit of the odd red potion on Jem's leg, it smoked, and slowly healed up. Next he put the potion more liberally on Kat's stomach, which healed as well.

That is all we can do Gandalf said sadly, shaking his head.

Both men felt so useless, they were here, while poor Kat and Jem were in some unknown hell dimension, and they could do nothing to save them.

~*~*~Kat's Experience~*~*~

Kat screamed in her room. I can't believe this, this is gonna be the best week of my life! Kat was ecstatic. She was in her room ( the one in her normal realm, a.k.a. where we live, earth) and she was the happiest she had ever remembered being. According to this note her parents had left her, they were going on vacation for a week, and she had the house to herself! And according to the calendar it was winter break! She didn't have to do anything! She had her TV, DVD player, VCR, her Laptop, books, anything and everything she could want in the house, and most of it in her room! She had junk food, and lots of kick ass movies on TV! She settled onto the ground in front of her TV, and began to watch The Mummy, she had popcorn and coke( the soda!), she was in heaven.

~*~*~Jem's Experience~*~*~

GONE FOR A WEEK?! ALLELUIA! Jem was running around her room, she loved this! She HAD to call everyone she knew, and invite them over, or go to all their houses, THIS WAS HEAVEN! She ran over to her phone, but there was no phone, she checked downstairs, but there were no phones there either. * How odd* She thought to herself. She went back to her room, and sat down, pretending to read. She was really thinking. * Why aren't there any phones? Something has to be wrong, why can't I remember the school year so far? Why cant I remember where I was? God, something is nagging me at the back of my head, i'm forgetting something!* She got up, she had an idea. She slyly went over to her computer.

I should play some games online! She said loudly. She went over to her computer, and almost laughed with relief when she saw she had internet access still. She muted the computer, and signed onto AIM. None of her friends were online. * Maybe they just really aren't online* she tried to assure herself. * I'm being silly, I should enjoy myself!* Jem stayed online, and turned the volume on the computer up, so that if someone signed on, she would hear it.

She went into her room and turned her stereo on, hell her parents weren't home, she could do it loud! Linkin Park began to blare out of the speakers, and she took a book off her shelves, and began to read.

~*~*~Kat~*~*~

Kat was getting very pissed off, where the hell was her cell phone? Finally she gave up and went into the living room to use one of the normal phones. There weren't any. * Ooookaaay, so maybe i'll call Jenn later*

Kat turned her TV on and kept watching whatever channel she was on, because for some reason all her favorite movies were on. After Queen Of The Damned ended, Labyrinth began.

Oooh! I didn't know they even showed this on TV anymore! Kat got closer to the TV( if you have seen this movie, you'll know where i'm going with this, if you haven't, you should). The scene came up where Sara had just escaped Jareth, and found herself back in her old room, back home. Sara couldn't remember where she had been, but had a nagging feeling she was forgetting something. She was surrounded with everything she loved, what didn't she have? She saw a bear she had given to her little brother Toby. Toby! That's what she was forgetting, she had to go back to him! He was trapped with the Goblin King, he made her forget why she had gone into the Labyrinth, and made her forget the entire adventure. Sara screamed Toby's name, and the illusion shattered, and she went back on her search.

Kat backed away from the TV. * OK, that scenario is QUITE familiar* She looked around, SHE couldn't remember what she had been doing before, and SHE had a nagging feeling she was forgetting something. OK she doubted that she had been in a Labyrinth, and she KNEW she didn't have a little brother. Who were they trying to make her forget? And who were they?

* Dammit! I need to call someone! Maybe one of my friends knows where I've been, Erin is usually always around me, it could be her. Maybe Jenn knows something, or Brynn, but how can I talk to them!* Kat was pacing her room, and a thought struck her. * Duh!* She ran to her laptop. She looked at her clock, 12:00 was blinking. Upon checking the rest of the house, all of the digital clocks read a blinking 12, and the non-digital ones were all on twelve as well, even the watches! She was relieved when she found that she still had internet access. She signed onto AIM.

YES! She screamed. On her buddy list was . Jem.

~*~*~Jem~*~*~

Jem was bobbing her head to the music, and she heard a sound from the computer. She quickly turned her stereo off, and ran out of her room. She sat in front of her computer, and screamed with joy, on her buddy list was . Kat.

flamedgrl: Hey!
springyumbrella: Hi!
flamedgrl: ummm, not sure how to ask this...
springyumbrella: this may sound strange to you..
flamedgrl: do u kno where I have been?
springyumbrella: have I been with you recently?
flamedgrl: ok, that was odd, no, actually, i'm not sure if I was with you recently
springyumbrella: yea, I can't really remember where I have been...
flamedgrl: u 2?
springyumbrella: you can't remember where u have been either?
flamedgrl: lemme guess, ur parents are gone for the week, and you have everything you want in your room/ house, and you want to call some friends, but you have no phones in ur house?
springyumbrella: yea... umm no offense, but how can I be sure this is u, ur kinda freaking me out here
flamedgrl: how can I be sure this is u?
springyumbrella: ok, we'll each ask each other a question, that only the other would know
flamedgrl: ok, ummm, why is your sn springyumbrella?
springyumbrella: because one day I told you randomly I like my umbrella, its springy!
flamedgrl: ok, now you ask me
springyumbrella: ok... which one of your books didn't I like, and why didn't I like it?
flamedgrl: easy, it was Wings In The Night, and I believe your exact words were It's perverted!
springyumbrella: k, we both pass
flamedgrl: yay us
springyumbrella: ok, now we gotta figure out why the hell we can't remember what we have been doing for the past few days.
flamedgrl: ever seen the movie Labyrinth?
springyumbrella: yea, u showed it to me once
flamedgrl: remember that scene where Jareth tries to make Sara forget about her brother?
springyumbrella: yea, and she is in her room with all that stuff
flamedgrl: sound familiar?
springyumbrella: oh shit.
flamedgrl: yea
springyumbrella: so what do we do?
flamedgrl: I dunno! what do you think, got any brothers i'm not aware of?
flamedgrl: Jenn?
flamedgrl: hello?

Jem's computer shut down in front of her.

Damn it! she yelled, she was so close, and now she was afraid, she was alone again. Jem went into her room, and put another CD into her stereo, she should at least enjoy herself while she could.

~*~*~Kat~*~*~

Damn it! Kat yelled, as her laptop shutdown in front of her. She turned the TV back on, but even her favorite movies wouldn't cheer her up. She needed music. She put the Daredevil soundtrack in her stereo, and set it on random. Bleed For Me by Saliva began to pour out of her speakers.

All I ever wanted was to be at your service
But now I'm alone cause you were here and you're gone
And all I ever wanted was to feel I had a purpose
But now that's all gone
But if you could give me

Just one love, just one life
just one chance to believe at night
Just one love, just one life...

You bleed for me and I didn't get to notice you
Now I'm stuck out on a line
Bleed for me, I didn't get to be with you
Now you're stuck in my mind

Kat was getting a strange feeling, this song always made her tear up, she couldn't help but sing, she had the oddest reaction to hearing it now though...

All I ever wanted was to be what you needed
Cause something so strong, it could never be wrong
And all I can promise, is to say what I'm feeling
We've made it so long
But if you could give me

Just one love, just one life
just one chance to believe at night
Just one love, just one life

You bleed for me and I didn't get to notice you
Now I'm stuck out on a line
Bleed for me, I didn't get to be with you
Now you're stuck in my mind

Just one love in my life!

It struck Kat like a bolt of lightning, her eyes widened, a picture was in her head, blonde hair, blue eyes, like the sea after a storm, but she couldn't grasp his name...

You bleed for me and I didn't get to notice you
Now I'm stuck out on a line
Bleed for me, I didn't get to be with you
Now you're stuck in my mind

Just one love in my life
Just one love in my life...

Legolas! Kat yelled, she couldn't believe she had forgotten him, forgotten Middle-Earth, forgotten everything! LEGOLAS! As she said his name a sudden wealth of fear enveloped her. She heard two dogs barking in the distance. * What the hell? How could I hear two dogs barking? We live on the fifth floor!* It was true, her apartment was on the fifth floor of a building by the ocean, how could she hear dogs so clearly? Kat slowly turned around, she heard a sound come from her living room. Kat took a tentative look around her room, everything seemed more sinister now. She opened her door with a creak, and poked her head out of her doorway. She got into the hallway, and was slowly trying to make her way out of the apartment, which meant, unfortunately, that she would have to pass by the living room. When she passed the living room, she saw something that scared the daylights out of her. Two angry dobermans, growling at her from the couch. Kat didn't have any dogs. Kat bolted out the front door, the dogs on her tail, she frantically pressed the elevator down button, but it wasn't coming fast enough!

Kat raced down the building's stairway, hoping to god that those dogs couldn't run down stairs. Lucky her, They could. When she got out of her apartment building, she raced down the street, there were no cars, no people, no nothing, and the dobermans were catching up.

Dammit! This is like something out of Resident Evil! Kat screamed, and then she turned around. but these aren't zombie dogs... Kat had an idea, if it worked, she would be saved, if it didn't, she was dead. * Please god* she silently prayed. Kat stuck out her hands, and the dogs were raised into the air. YES! I still have my powers! Now good dogs... Kat smashed the two dogs together in the air repeatedly, before hurling them into the Pacific Ocean. don't bite.(brownie points if anyone knows where I got that from).

Kat returned to her room, and turned the TV back on. All right, seeing as i'm gonna be here for a while, I might as well enjoy myself! She sat back and started watching A Knights Tale.

~*~*~Jem~*~*~

Jem was currently pushing a large ice block down her street. In the ice block were two large dobermans. Jem had been listening to the Daredevil CD when Bleed For Me came on, it hit her like it had hit Kat. She screamed Aragorn's name, and she started to hear a growling coming from downstairs.

Flashback

Princess? Jem asked uncertainly, she doubted the growling was coming from her dog though, when her adorable little dog came through the doorway to her room, and the growling continued, she swore.

Jem slowly descended the stairs of her house, and looked into her living room. Two dobermans. Crap. Jem ran out the doors of her house, and down the empty streets. Jem turned around swiftly, and stuck out her hands. The dogs were frozen in time. An inch away from her face.

Oh thank god Jem said, but seeing the dogs like that unnerved her, so she actually froze them. Jem now had a double dog-cicle. Which brings us back to the present.

Present

Jem walked back to her room, and was about to turn the stereo back on, when a sudden blackness engulfed her. Jem screamed, and found she was being held down by two strong arms.

Let me go! Let me go! Jem yelled, kicking and screaming.

Jem! Jem! It's me, Aragorn! Jem looked up, and saw it was true. It really was Aragorn! She hugged him fiercely, she did NOT want to let go. Legolas was smiling, he was glad to see Jem was all right. The smile melted into a frown as he looked down at Kat. Kat had not awoken, and that could not be good.

Authors Notes: OK, this chapter is long, so I want REVIEWS PEOPLE! It's not that hard, just click the Go button at the bottom of the page by Submit Review', and you will make me the happiest Author in the world! Thanx!

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Hollywood:
Thank You! You are my NEW loyal reviewer, all my other reviewers have left me * sob* thanx, and this was LONG and FAST so, that means we share!

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