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-Jessi + Elle

-Elle's POV-

"Jessi?"

"Mm hmm" she mumbled

"Are you thinking what I'm thinking?" I asked

"It's pretty…" she managed to say, obviously in shock and not taking it all too well. I turned around and looked about for Mili, whom I was meant to take care of. Mili walked up to me. She was looking considerably taller and her hair was longer she didn't look five! She looked to be eight or nine at least. Exactly what happened? Did time fast forward itself?

"Jessi!" I said, shaking her to get her to pay attention to me. "Wasn't Mili smaller?" I asked. Jessi turned around and saw the child rubbing her eyes. Jessi nodded and went…kind of wide eyed and gave me the 'what is going on/ help me' look.

"I want to go home." She said, before starting to cry again, at the same time collapsing…but not fast enough to hit the floor; the almighty Legolas caught her. Well at least one thing was for certain: Jessi and Legolas would fall for each other…or had they already? I was hoping it was all just a silly dream…sadly, I didn't know a lot.

"She needs a healer. Hurry!" Said Legolas. Thank you Captain Obvious! Jessi was probably stressed out and exhausted! I rushed after Legolas, who was carrying Jessi but Mili tugged on my long nightshirt.

"What is it, sweetie?" I asked

"I'm sleepy, didi. Will you take me to bed?" she asked. I nodded and picked her up and looked to the elf twins for help. Elrohir nodded and asked me to follow him. Rivendell was so much more beautiful than what I thought it would be, just by walking to a guest room, I could tell that. Everything about the last homely house was beautiful, the way it smelt, the sound of the waterfalls. I could see that it was close to evening as the sunlight was soft. About half a dozen sunlit corridors and courtyards, Elrohir opened a beautifully carved wooden door and led me inside.

"Thank you, my lord!" I said gratefully, putting Mili down on the bed and tucking her in. It was a really pretty sunlight room and it was all white. "I simply cannot thank you enough, my lord but there is still a favor I must ask of you."

"I hoped that you would find this ideal for your daughter. What do you wish for, my lady?" Damn the sparkling kindness!

"Daughter!" I laughed for the first time in his presence. "Nay, my lord you are mistaken! Wait. How old do I look to you?" I asked, suspiciously

"My guess is that 18 years of your life have passed."

"Nay my lord I have only lived fourteen years and I am not old enough to even be married…eighteen! Even that is too young!"

"Not by the standards of men, no." he said, frowning

"Well then, my lord I only find it appropriate to inform you that I have no interest in males" I said, speaking the truth. "Now, I wanted to ask you if your brother could watch over my cousin, she will be very upset if she wakes up alone. She seems to trust Lord Elladan. I must go and see to my friend also. I do not want her to be alone" I said, emphasizing on 'cousin'. Elrohir gave me a strange look when I said his brother's name but he dismissed it immediately. He nodded and turned to leave but I stopped him

"One more thing, my lord"

"What can I do, my lady?" he asked. The whole 'Lord' and 'Lady' thing was starting to annoy me.

"Please…call me Eleniel. I am not anyone of title or wealth."

"Alright, Eleniel." He said leaving…oh my god he could say 'mud' and make it sound like something good! Well, as soon as he was out of sight, I kissed Mili on the forehead and bounded out of the room and headed for…wherever the healers were. I just hoped Jessi hadn't awoken or if she had I was hoping she hadn't freaked out or anything.

-Jessi's Pov.-

I woke up feeling myself being carried. I snuggled into the warm object near me; I was being gently rocked up and down. I open my eyes a wee bit and saw Legolas. I blinked a couple times and flew out of his arms. He stopped in shock and looked at me…I guess he didn't notice that I woke up. He grasped my arm and pulled me close to him.

"Be careful my lady, you are still are weak,"

I looked up at him, I must have looked like a deer caught in headlights; I was very confused. I swear I must have felt the same way when I was born, I'm in a nice warm place being gently rocked back and forth and then I get brought out into the cold world. I was still in shock I guess, I could feel the tears start to spill out from my eyes. I didn't know where I was or what was happening.

I wrenched myself away from Legolas. I hid my face and threw myself at a nearby wall. I secretly took a second to admire it; it felt ruff yet comforting at the same time. The material was foreign to me; it was cool to the touch.

I slowly slide down the wall; I felt the tears running down my face. I fell in a heap on the ground. Legolas tried to help me up but I jerked away from his touch.

"Don't!" My voice sounded weird to me, distant and cruel. "Just don't touch me"

"My lady, please let me help you,"

God, I'm so weak. Look at me! I need to be strong, for Elle and for Mili.

"N-no I'm fine. I just need to relax for a bit,"

But I'm not strong. The tears are running, no, pouring down my face. I cannot believe that I'm showing so much emotion; especially in front of people I don't know – like Legolas.

"Legolas, please leave me!" The words were getting harder to choke out.

"I'm afraid I cannot do that my lady. You need to go to the healers."

I sniffed and curled myself into a ball; throwing on my hood in the process. I sniffed once again as I let out shaky breaths. "Legolas, they cannot help me," I felt like I couldn't breathe, oh god what's going on? Why am I so weak, what's wrong with me! "My pain is not physical – it's mental,"

He seemed confused, I heard him bend down to my level. "Mental?"

Is this man an idiot! Does he not know of mental pains? Wait, he is an elf, but surely they must feel like humans do.

He went to remove my hood and I shuddered at his touch. He seemed saddened and weighted down with guilt.

"Please, my lady. Walk with me to the healers. I will…not touch you, if you wish,"

I nodded and got up, almost falling over in the process. Why was I so weak? What is happening to me! I'm stronger then this! I never thought this would happen to me.

I walked beside Legolas, following his lead. We seemed to walk for hours; I let my silent tears fall as my emotionless face looked ahead. Once and a while I caught Legolas's worried face looking at me. Why does he care, he hardly knew me. I started to get butterflies in my stomach…did he like me? I mentally slapped myself, I was having a mental breakdown and I was thinking about love? Maybe that means I'm getting better, yay?

"Here we are my lady," Legolas quietly said as he opened the door for me.

I walked in to a scene of chaos. More like Elle shouting at the healersasking to see me.

-Elle's POV-

I ran, I was tense, scared and stressed as I waited in the Healer's room, looking for Jessi. Meanwhile, I started shouting at the healers, demanding to see her.

"My lady, I assure you that your friend is not here," said one, trying to calm me.

"Verpiss dich!" I swore in German. "She has to be here!" Oh yeah, that meant 'fuck you' I have this thing of swearing in German, most teachers at school don't understand German so, I don't get told off by them.

"Please calm down, my lady. I assure you that your friend is in good hands." Said one, offering me a seat on the side. Nodding, I sat down as one of them began to unwrap the bandage on my wrist.

"OW!" the apprentice bent my wrist at the wrong angle "Watch it!"

"Sincerest apologies, my lady" he said, getting back to work. Through all this wondering, I heard crying…Jessi!

"You fool! Do you not understand what she is going through?" I shouted at Legolas once I saw Jessi's eyes swollen and bloodshot from crying.

"You can see, can you not? Well, get her to bed, will you?" I said to the rest of the room. One of the female healers took Jessi from the room and I proceeded to shout at Legolas.

"What have you done to her? Look, these are not the best of times for Jessi and me. I would appreciate if you save the questioning and comments for later!" I said, all in one breath

"My lady, I did nothing!" he argued

"Oh sure, go on, keep denying it!" How dare he argue with ME?

"Whatever is causing all this noise?" asked a slightly more authoritative voice from the doorway. Okay…dark haired elf with a circlet and frown lines…um…Elrond?

"My lord Elrond" Legolas bowed, I curtseyed. "Lady…." Oops, he didn't know my name

"Eleniel. My name is Eleniel"

"Lady Eleniel here, has a problem and wished to seek council with you." He said. Okay, I did NOT want to see Elrond!

"What is the matter my lady?" he asked. "Come, let us remove ourselves from the healer's room. We shall talk in my study" He turned, asking me to follow but I stopped him

"Wait, please. It is better if we talk in my friend's presence. I would want her to know of everything," I said. Elrond nodded and signaled to one of the healers whom we both followed.

Jessi was sitting in a bed of white wood with white sheets and looking out the window and tears of sadness and confusion were pouring down her face still.

"Elle, where were you?" she asked softly when she saw me. Her voice was weak and it made me want to cry but I stopped myself. I couldn't appear weak.

"I'm sorry, Jessi. I had to put Mili to bed. Lord Elrond is here and you know…we need to talk." I said, she nodded; Elrond and I sat down on chairs beside her.

"So, what is it that troubles you, my lady?" he asked politely, his face showing that he was deep in thought.

"My lord Elrond, we…my friend, my cousin and I aren't from here…not only Imladris but all of Middle Earth." I paused, taking a breath and looking back up at him. "We don't belong here."

He smiled…Elrond smiled! You know…one of those mysterious Galadriel smiles. "We have known of your coming, my lady. What other questions do have?" He asked, shocking me. How the hell did he know?

"When can we return to our world?" I asked…hoping it would be soon.

Elrond sighed…damn, not a good thing! "There is little chance of that, my lady. But we cannot be sure until we speak with Gandalf the White. You three are from a different dimension, a parallel universe. Your travel to Arda may have seemed to take only a short while but in truth you three have missed four years of your life in traveling." He explained.

"Four years, my lord? Wouldn't that mean that, we're four years older than what we were on earth?" I asked, my mind was spinning with confusion and too much information for one day.

Jessi hadn't said a word and it was worrying me. She was staring straight ahead with an expressionless face and I could tell she wasn't taking it all easy. I couldn't let her be like that, I got up and sat next to her on the bed and I lifted her hand, which she pulled back, and another tear came out and rolled onto my hand.

"Shhh…Jessi, it's okay, we'll go home. We'll go back and everything will be alright!" I lied, hugging her. She cried more and shook. "Sleep, Jessi. Everything will be fine, I'm sure it will. Sleep for a while, you're in good hands. I want to go check on Mili. I'll be right back." I said, forgetting that Elrond was in the room.

"When is the earliest that we can speak to Gandalf the White?" I asked.

"In a month. Gandalf is in Minas Tirith, for the coronation of the king. Legolas, my sons and I will be riding to Minas Tirith with my daughter, Arwen." He said. So…the war of the ring was over! Great! I would not need any archery skills, which I did possess even though my aim was terrible.

"I see." I said, making my way out of the room and to the room where my little cousin lay, asleep. So, technically, I was eighteen in middle earth and Jessi was nineteen, Mili was nine. Not bad. Plus we were going to attend Arwen and Aragorn's wedding. Cool, that was one upside to the situation. Downside was that there was little chance of my seeing my family again. I love my parents to death! My mom, being tiny as she is, looks like a porcelain doll. My dad…lets just say that calling him my teddy bear sums it up.

Entering the ever so familiar room, I saw Mili asleep on the bed, her straight dark hair spread out on the pillow and a soft voice singing to her in words that I could not understand. I opened the door and saw that it was Elladan singing to her.

"Thank you, my lord Elladan." I said softly, stepping into the room.

"You are mistaken, Eleniel, I am Elrohir" He said, smiling.

"Oh, I'm sorry." I said, walking closer to Mili and lifting her into my arms. She stirred but calmed again once she got comfortable. "I must go back. My friend will be waiting. I know she will not be able to sleep without bad dreams tonight." Elrohir nodded and I headed towards the door.

"Wait!" he said, making me turn around to face him. "Please do not suppress your own feelings in trying to help others around you" he said. I nodded and left. He thought I was hiding my feelings. What nonsense! Stupid Elves!

-Jessi's POV-

Having Elle with me was very comforting. I was confused and drained so when she said I should get some rest I nodded and drifted off to sleep. My dream was haunting.

-Dream-

I was sitting in a boat looking out at the ocean. I began to float along the shoreline. I started to think of all the things that were happening to me and I started to cry. I might not be able to go home, I would never see my family or friends again. I regretted that I took my life for granted. I felt so weak, I was crying so much now, why was I being like that? The boat stopped moving and I looked out to the sandy beach beside me, there I saw Elle and her little cousin. I could hear them talking about me.

"Elle where's Jessi?"

Elle seemed to tense up, "She fell into shadow,"

Shadow - I'm not Gandalf! What's going on here!

"What?"

"Her grief was too much for her, so she decided to go somewhere and never come back,"

"Oh…she was a nice lady"

Elle nodded, they both started to walk away but Elle stopped and looked at me. Her face was serious and she looked deathly pale.

I was shocked and I gasped. I felt this urge to get to her; I leaned forward a bit reaching out to grasp her. The next thing I knew I was in the water being dragged down into the depths of the ocean. I fought to reach the surface but I didn't have enough strength. I took one last look at the surface before I started to black out.

I now saw a version of myself sitting on a healers bed. I was crying and had been for a while, I could see that my eyes were red and puffy. I saw something else there, confusion and the loss of hope.

"I can't take this," I saw myself sitting there holding a blade. She brought it up to her wrist.

I ran to myself, "No! Don't do that! We promised, never again!"

She seemed to hear me and turned to look at me, "I know but I've given up, I don't want to fight," Her eyes seemed hollow.

"No!" I tried to take the blade from her hand but some invisible force stopped me. I was screaming at her to stop but she wouldn't listen.

She brought the blade up to her wrist and pressed it into her skin then drew it across her wrist. I felt a pain in my arm and looked down, blood was pouring from my wrist. She started hacking at her wrist, each time a new line of blood pooled from my arm.

"This is the end," She looked up at me, "Good bye,"

She with that she fell back on her pillow, I screamed and realized I wasn't the only one. I turned around and saw Elle run into the room and she picked me up from the bed screaming at me to wake up. I stood there crying; Elle was in pain and it was my fault! I did this to her.

"Please Jessi wake up! I can't do this all alone! I need you!"

I reached out to her, "I'm sorry!"

Elle twisted her body to me and she looked too serious, "This will happen. This is your future. You must get past this! Stop the tears from coming!"

"I promise I will! Give me another chance!"

She came to me dropping my other body. "I need your help Jessi."

I took her hands in my bloody ones, "I will help you,"

"It may not look like it, but I need your help - more then you'll ever know,"

I nodded and she smiled, she seemed at peace.

I went to hug her only to realize I was alone and in the water again. I pushed my way up the surface, I heard someone calling for me – Elle! I was almost there, I could see a hand in the water waiting for me to grasp it.

"Jessi!" The hand reached down a little father.

I grabbed the hand and was pulled out of the water.

-End of Dream-

I shot up out my bed drenched in a cold sweat. I started to hyperventilate remembering my dream.

"Calm down Jessi" I put my head in my hands and tried to breath slower.

"Man that was one weird dream. Elle needs help?" I looked around the sun filled room. "She doesn't seem like she does but I'm gonna listen to the dream. No more tears and I'll find out how Elle's feeling. She's done so much for me, its time for me to return the favor."

I smiled and felt free; life looked a little better. I was just about to go back to sleep when Elle and her little cousin walked in the room.

Elle walked up to my bed and put Mili on the bed with me. "Hey Jessi, how you feeling?" She seemed hesitant – I didn't want her to feel like that around me.

"I'm feeling pretty good actually. That sleep did me well," I winked at her and gave her a look that hopefully said I'll tell you later.

"I'm glad." She smiled and looked down at her little cousin. "Now we didn't get enough time to introduce everyone properly. Jessi this is Mili, Mili this is Jessi,"

Mili looked up at me and I couldn't help but smile, "Hi Mili," I waved at her.

"Hi," She seemed shy and I didn't want to push it so I just smiled and nodded.

"Jessi, we need to talk about what's gonna happen to us," I looked down at Mili, wasn't she too young to be apart of this conversation. I mean, what if it we talk about people dieing and such. Elle looked at me and seemed to know what I was thinking, "Mili needs to hear this, if she doesn't hear it now, she will hear it later and I would rather save time," She smiled at me.

I nodded, "Ok." I sighed, where to begin? "So what are we gonna do?"

Mili moved to lie down beside me and snuggled up next to me. Elle smiled fondly at Mili, and me "I don't know. First and foremost we can't tell anyone but Elrond or Gandalf who we really are and where we come from. I'm assuming that Elrond's family knows."

I nodded in agreement, "And we can't fall in love or return anyone's feelings towards us," I looked down to the sheets, "I know its gonna be hard, but we may be leaving and we don't want to brake anyone's hearts,"

Elle nodded slowly, "We can't control our hearts,"

I sighed, "We're gonna have to do it,"

"Ok!" Mili cheered and I couldn't help but laugh – she's too cute!

"What else?" I asked myself, "We have remember our new ages…how old are you Mili?"

She beamed and sat up, "I'm magically 9!"

Elle and I laughed. Elle looked at me, "We can't give away too much of ourselves, if you do saying anything keep it brief, we don't want to get caught up in our lies,"

"Ya, true," I huffed and fell down on my pillow, "I guess that's all we can do for now until we meet up with Gandalf. This is going to be really hard Elle,"

"I know Jessi, I know," She looked down.

I smiled a little, "Group hug!" We all giggled and we embraced each other.

"Urgh, I wanna get out of this bed!" I went to get up and groaned in pain. "I guess I've been sitting in the same spot for too long,"

"Oh no you don't!" Elle pulled Mili off the bed then pulled the covers up near me "Your staying in this bed for the rest of that day. You could use the rest,"

I exhaled and pouted, "Fine mommy," I stuck out my tongue and waved as they walked away.

"We'll see you tomorrow Jessi," Elle said.

I waved good-bye to Elle and Mili, "I'll talk to you later Elle," I added as they walked around the corner.

I rolled over and closed my eyes, "Man this is going to be hard,"

Notes:

Jessi and I would just like to say: thank you all!We couldn't have done it without you! Happy holidays!

We wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy now Year!

-Jessi + Elle