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A/N: Everyone please read the following review. This is to clear up any questions regarding the characters.
nilimade: You brought up a great point and I wish to explain myself. Yes they are stereotyped, but it was not meant to offend anyone. I have nothing against cheerleaders, and I got along fine with most of the cheerleaders in my school. But Christy, well she was modeled after the head cheerleader at my school who was a bitch (and went out with the captain of the football team.) As far as the goth "chick", she doesn't hate them all, just Christy, as most of the characters do. In fact her and Alexis have become friends. And you have to admit whether they are sweet or not, people tend to slightly fear those into the goth look. Again no offence to those who are goth (I have several good friends who are.) And in school I WAS the loner to a point. (unfortunately sometimes the real world IS like that.) But as I said I did exagerate the stereotypes and if I offended anyone I am sorry as that was not my intention. Thank you for your review nilimade. I know you were not expecting such a long explanation but I thought I should give you one in fear that I have offended you and others unintentionally.

Late in the afternoon the groups stops to rest the horses near a stream. Alexis sits against a tree and sighs in contentment, happy that she is able to take a break from riding. She loves horses but after sitting in the saddle for so long her butt was beginning to get sore.

Alexis laughs softly when James approaches her rubbing his sore bum in a not so discrete manner. He frowns at her obvious amusement of his problem. "It's not funny. No one told me that riding a horse is like getting your ass spanked non-stop!"

"If you would follow the horse's movements more instead of fighting against it, it wouldn't be so bad," Alexis laughs.

"Now, you tell me," he huffs and sits next to her. He turns his attention to the stream and Alexis quietly watches as Legolas and Círdan give Zach pointers on using the bow. Gwindor sits down next to her and notices her watching Legolas with a look of awe on her face as he shoots his bow.

"Legolas is the best archer in all of Mirkwood and even perhaps in all of Middle Earth," Gwindor tells her.

Alexis smiles and glances at him before returning her attention to the archers. "I have always been fascinated with the bow. One of these days I might even try to learn how to use it," she says absentmindedly.

Gwindor grins mischievously. "Legolas," he calls out. Legolas turns toward Gwindor curiously. "Lady Alexis expresses interest in learning how to use the bow," Gwindor says and Legolas smiles.

Alexis looks over at Gwindor wide-eyed and shakes her head. "I didn't mean now," she hisses in embarrassment.

"There is no better time," Legolas grins as he offers her his hand. Alexis sends Gwindor a death glare before reluctantly slipping her hand into Legolas'. He gently pulls her to her feet and she brushes the dirt off the back of her pants with her free hand as he leads her over to where they were practicing.

Legolas hands her his bow and she curiously looks it over and then pulls back on the string, surprised at how much strength it actually takes. She takes a stance she had seen Legolas and Zach both take earlier and raises the bow.

Legolas steps up behind her. "Move your feet further apart," he says and nudges her left foot with his. She moves her foot and he nods. "Good." Legolas then places his hand over hers on the bow. "Do not hold it so tight. Your grip should be firm but not so firm as to hurt your hand."

Alexis nods and loosens her grip slightly. "Like this?"

"Aye. Much better." he removes his hand from hers and moves around in front of her. "Now draw back the string." Alexis pulls back the string with three fingers and glances over at him. "You only use two fingers," Legolas says and she removes the third finger. He reaches out and lowers her elbow. "Your arm should be level with you shoulder and your hand next to your ear. This allows you to properly sight your target."

Alexis lowers the bow and looks over at Legolas when he steps back "Now you are ready to fire an arrow," he says as he pulls an arrow from his quiver. He steps behind her again and reaches around her. He helps her fit the arrow onto the string. She draws back the string and he moves closer to help her aim at the dead tree stump they had been using as a target.

Christy watches Legolas laugh at something Alexis said as he teaches her how to use the bow and frowns. This wasn't right, he is gorgeous and a prince so why is he wasting his time on someone like Alexis? Sure, she was pretty, Christy couldn't deny that but all she wears are jeans and T-shirts and she never wears make-up. She also always had her nose stuck in some ridiculous book. So, why would any guy spend his time with Alexis when she was so much prettier and more fun to hang out with?

"Prince Legolas?" Christy calls sweetly from where she is sitting. "I'd like to learn how to use the bow as well," she says when he looks over at her.

Legolas nods at her. "Very well. I am sure that either Gwindor or Círdan wouldn't mind teaching you." He turns his attention back to Alexis as she releases another arrow and praises her when it hits closer to the center than the previous arrow did.

Christy stares at him in shock. A guy had never rejected her like that before. Usually they were falling all over themselves trying to get her attention. She crosses her arms and sulks as she glares at Alexis, blaming his rejection on her. Alexis would be the one cast aside before long, she would see to that.

Legolas motions for the group to stop not long after the sky darkens. "We will rest here for the night." He smiles when he hears the relieved sighs of the weary mortals. "Worry not my friends. We will reach Imladris by mid-day tomorrow."

Christy dismounts her horse and lets out a cry of pain as she falls into Legolas' arms. "Are you alright?" he questions in an almost bored tone as he supports her weight.

"I think I twisted my ankle," she replies not catching the tone in his voice. She mentally pats herself on the back as her plan seems to be working. what she didn't count on though is that Zach was also standing nearby. She huffs in irritation when Legolas readily allows Zach to replace him as her support. Zach helps her over to a fallen log and sits her down so that Professor Jones can check her ankle.

"I'll be fine. I just twisted it wrong," she growls as she watches Legolas approach Alexis. Yet again her attepts to get his attention has failed and she was becoming angry.

Alexis glances up at Legolas when he sits on the ground beside her with a couple of arrows in his hand. "Is she alright?"

"Aye. She is fine," he replies undoing the fletching on one of the arrows.

"Probably hurt her pride more than anything," Melinda adds as she drops to the ground next to them.

"Aye. Especially since her ankle was not hurt to begin with," Legolas smirks as he repairs the arrow.

Melinda glances over to where Christy is sitting and nudges Alexis as she begins laughing. Alexis glances over to see Christy glaring hard in their direction and shakes her head. "She pretended to be hurt just to get your attention," Alexis laughs.

Legolas places the repaired arrow on the ground and picks up the other one. "It was not her first attempt to gain my attention. She has been trying for four days now."

Melinda looks over at him in amusement. "How did you know what she was doing?"

Legolas glances up at them before returning his attention to the arrow. "She is not the first maiden to try and catch my eye."

"Wait a minute!" Melinda exclaims and the other two look up at her curiously. "Did you say she started four days ago?"

"Aye," Legolas says clearly confused. Alexis gives her the same confused look when she grins mischeivously.

"She's jealous," Melinda chuckles. Legolas' eyes go wide and he becomes very interested in the arrow he's repairing. Alexis, on the other hand, becomes even more confused.

"Jealous? Jealous of what?" Alexis questions.

Melinda looks over at her. "She started flirting with Legolas on the same day he started teaching you how to use the bow. She's jealous of the attention you've been getting from him."

Alexis rolls her eyes. "Oh good grief! He was just teaching me how to use the bow. He has no interest in me," she says forgetting that Legolas was sitting next to them listening to the whole conversation.

Legolas glances up at her sharply after her last remark and Melinda snickers at his expression. 'If she only knew,' Melinda thinks to herself.