The building's entrance hall was very tall, at least fifty foot high, but not very wide, barely wide enough for two people to stand next to each other. As the scaly creatures led them through many winding passages, they had insisted they go ahead even though the Doctor offered to go first; Rose was trying to listen to what he was muttering.

"At the first chance," he whispered carefully as one of the scaly creatures hissed loudly. "Run, ok?"

Rose nodded, but didn't see what good it would do when there were seven other people to rescue. But they weren't given a chance. The scaly beings opened a door just ahead of them and flung the lot of them in.

"Our Master will see to you in an hour," one of them hissed. The door banged shut and they were left dusting themselves off.

"Are you ok?" Asked Rose helping Frodo and Merry to their feet.

"Yeah," they replied rather breathlessly as they helped the others up.

"How are we going to get out of here?" asked Harry looking at the Doctor.

The Doctor looked up at the ceiling, then at the Hobbit's, then back at the ceiling. There was a hole, just big enough for a Hobbit to squeeze through. All the others looked up, then at the Hobbit's. Frodo sighed.

"Give us a leg up then,"

"We don't have to do that you know," Harry said pulling out his wand, which the creatures hadn't confiscated. "We could just open our the door with our wands."

The Doctor smiled.

"Nice idea, but I've seen these kind's of doors before, even my sonic screwdriver won't open it. We could use magic to get the Hobbit's up there though," He added seeing the look on Harry's face.

"I'll do it," Ron smiled stepping forwards. Harry and Hermione grinned too; remembering the reason Ron had mastered the levitation spell. The Doctor, Rose and the Hobbit's frowned. None of them knew why the wizards were smiling.

"Wingardium Leviosa!" Ron cried and Frodo began to float through the air.

"You could've warned me," Frodo said as he wobbled precariously. The other three Hobbit's watched Frodo as he floated twenty, thirty, forty, fifty feet up to the hole. Was he was in Ron turned to the other Hobbit's.

"Who's next?" Merry and Pippin stood back leaving Sam in front. He looked behind him and gave them a withering look. Sam sighed and walked forward, Merry shoving him slightly.

Five minutes later all four Hobbit's were in the hole in the ceiling.

"You'll need to find the main electric circuit. Or whatever system the doors run on." the Doctor called.

"Ok," Frodo called back. "What's electric?"

The Doctor sighed and shouted back that they need to find a box on the wall, probably guarded, that would have levers and buttons in it.

Once he'd relayed the orders the Hobbit's began to crawl through what appeared to be a very primitive ventilation shaft.

"And don't get caught!" The Doctor called as a last piece of advice.

"Anything else before we go?" Asked Merry sticking his head back through the hole to look at them.

"Yeah," The Doctor grinned. "Don't die."

Merry rolled his eyes. "Great."

The four Hobbit's crawled along through the narrow tunnel for quite sometime before coming to a fork. Frodo, who was in front, sat down to ponder which way to go. Sam, Merry and Pippin looked over his shoulder, all umming and arring about whether to take the left fork or the right.

Back in the cell Harry, Ron and Hermione were quietly talking in one corner, while the Doctor stared out of the window. Rose watched him for a minute before walking over and standing next to him, slipping her hand into his.

"Why do you do this?" Rose asked carefully, trying to keep her voice sounding offhand and not accusatory.

"Do what?" The Doctor replied frowning.

"Close yourself off and spend so much time brooding," Rose replied smiling.

"I'm not brooding!" the Doctor burst out grinning at her. "Besides I don't, do I?"

"Yeah, you do. Why won't you talk to me? I know what you're thinking about, TARDIS gets inside my head, but you won't let me get inside yours." Rose frowned at him. The Doctor sighed.

"You know when you looked into the time vortex and you could see the whole of time and space? You know how much that hurt your head?" Rose nodded. "That's how much it would hurt if I told you what was on my mind."

"That way," said Merry suddenly, pointing left. The other three Hobbit's frowned.

"How do you know?" asked Pippin.

"Gandalf said, when we were in the mines, if in doubt, use your nose. That way smells of food!" Sam rolled his eyes. Frodo began crawling forwards and soon all four Hobbit's were moving again.

Frodo stopped crawling and felt one, two, three thuds as each of the other Hobbit's went into the back of him.

"Why did you stop?" Asked Sam.

"There's a hole here," Frodo whispered back. "There are more of those scaly creatures guarding some levers and stuff. How on earth are we going to get down though?"

They pondered for a moment before Merry opened his backpack.

"Will this Elvin rope do?" He asked handing it to Frodo. "I kept it from when Galadrial gave it to Sam."

"Right, you three hold on. I'll go down and... keep pulling levers until I get the right one."

"So, when are you two going to admit that you love each other?" Harry asked Ron quietly.

Ron gazed at Harry wide-eyed. Hermione was across the room from them talking to Rose.

"I do not love her. We're just mates. Sam as your just Hermione's friend." Ron replied unconvincingly. Harry gave him a funny look but didn't say anything because Hermione came to join them.

"So, what are you two talking about?" She asked.

Rose watched the Doctor from her position on the floor. She would've liked to talk to him, but she knew, deep down that he really needed to be alone with his thoughts. She sighed and watched, a smile playing on her lips, as he sat down, his back to the wall, facing her. He grinned in his slightly manic way, his sign that he was ok.

"Frodo flicked switch after switch as quietly as possible so the creatures wouldn't hear him. He flicked one near his right and the doors all opened.

"Yes," Frodo felt the others tug him back up but as they did his foot caught another lever and the lights went out. Pulling out a small vial he began muttering.

"Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima!" The vial glowed and the other Hobbit's pulled him to safety as the scaly creatures began to hiss

As Frodo was hauled back up through the hole the other Hobbit's turned to him.

"Aiya Eärendil Elenion Ancalima?" Merry raised his eyebrows.

"The incantation, it means hail Eärendil, brightest star." Frodo replied confused. He thought the others knew that.

"We know what it means and does, we're just surprised you remember it." Pippin said quietly.

"Yeah well," Frodo didn't meet their gaze and went slightly red. "I used to mutter the incantation before I went to bed so it would remind me of a certain someone."

Sam's eyes widened. The only person the vial would remind Frodo of was himself.