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The Middle Earthiens have gone back to Middle Earth after spending a few days with Leslie. They had promised to visit as often as possible and try to find a way to get Leslie back to Middle Earth.

4 Years Later

Leslie a was now 18 years old and turning 19 in 2 months. She still wore the ring, and necklace but the watch had stopped working and she kept it in a small case in her room. She was wearing a black dress and was in a cemetery with some white roses in her hands. She had no expression on her face as she stopped in front of a tomb stone and stared at it. She put down the roses and said a quick prayer then went away.

R.I.P.

Janet Rodriguez

Loving wife

Caring mother

Great friend

1960-2005

Nobody has bothered to visit her during those four years, which made Leslie loose hope and start believing that they were only a dream and nothing else. Leslie was currently studying to be a psychiatrist for children and is currently, not the best, but not the worst. She was slightly above most of the students but that was only because of her dedication to children. Leslie had pushed her friends from Middle Earth to the back of her mind and when anyone asked if she had imaginary friends when she was younger. Hopper and the others were always the first in the list.

Nobody from Middle Earth had forgotten her it was just that every time they wanted to go and visit her they would somehow manage to get distracted and forget about visiting her. They didn't realize it but someone was keeping them from going.

Back to Leslie

Leslie had changed and gone to bed in her apartment which was not far from the house where she had lived and often visited her adoptive father. Alex had also moved but unlike Leslie, he had done no effort to visit her or there father. Truthfully, Leslie had no idea where Alex lived.

"Hi dad." Leslie said as she walked into the kitchen where her adoptive father was making himself breakfast.

"Hello Leslie. How have you been?" He asked and Leslie smiled.

"I've been fine. Nothing special has happened." Leslie said.

"It's good to know. Any news on where my ungrateful son is?" he asked scowling.

"Nope, sorry." Leslie said looking down.

"Don't apologize. You're not even my real daughter." He said and Leslie frowned.

"What is that supposed to mean?" Leslie asked sounding hurt.

"Nothing, nothing." He answered and Leslie scowled.

"I need to get home or Jenny will destroy everything." Leslie said heading to the door. Jenny was her pet kitten. Only 12 weeks old, she was completely black except for her white ear and green eyes, she tended to destroy everything in sight that was destroyable.

"Alright. Bye Leslie." He said and Leslie smiled.

"Bye dad." Leslie said with hardly detectable venom in her voice. Leslie walked out of the house and headed toward where the portal was supposed to be. Leslie shook her head then continued on her way.

"Stop it! They don't exist; they were just a dream and nothing else. They won't be coming because they don't exist." Leslie told herself then frowned when she saw a light coming through the trees. Leslie is a very curious person but manages to control her curiosity at times. This was not one of those times. Leslie walked toward the light and slowly walked toward it. It was coming from the trees she had been staring at before. She started to walk toward it.

"Leslie!" Someone shouted from behind her and she turned around only to be tackled with a hug and knocked to the ground. She turned back to where the light was only to see that it was gone.

"What are you looking at?" The man asked. Yes, it was a man that shouted her name and tackled her to the ground with a hug.

"Nothing, I just thought I saw something. How are you Louie? You've gotten taller. Last time I saw you, you were slightly shorter than me." Leslie said looking up at him. Louie was slightly taller than Leslie, about half a foot taller. Leslie had grown from five feet to five feet and 3 inches. He had light brown hair andgreen eyes; he wore a white shirt with pink stripes. His motto was:

'Only a real man would wear pink and not be embarrassed.'

Well, that and:

"I mock you with my monkey pants."

and true to his word... He was wearing pants with monkeys trying to reach bananas in them.

"Yup. It's been what? 2 months since I last saw you. You still single? I find that hard to believe with a body like yours I am surprised there isn't a line at this moment." Louie asked making Leslie quarter smile, quarter, blush, and half scowl.

"Oh, hush you! I don't need you telling me that it's a surprise that there isn't a line. Every day there are three to two men asking me to be there girlfriend. It's annoying, the same person ask me every day. If it isn't about being his girlfriend, it's to have sex with him. I always deny him and all the others too. I still don't understand why anybody would be interested in me. It's not like I am good looking, I am just average and nothing else." Leslie said.

"Why do you always sell yourself short? You're a beautiful girl and any man would be lucky to have you. Besides, I bet that the one that is after you the most is only after you because he likes a challenge." Louie said.

"And that's a reason to date him?" Leslie said raising an eyebrow.

"Well, no. Um, where are we?" Louie asked suddenly looking around. They had somehow appeared away from the road and were currently in the middle of a forest.

"Gee. I don't know. Maybe somewhere that had lots of trees in it. Like a forest?" Leslie said sarcastically.

"Yes, but how did we get here? We weren't even walking." Louie said starting to let his panic show. Leslie had a calm face and was looking around. She turned around to answer Louie but froze.

"Louie. I believe we should run." Leslie said. Louie turned around to see what wanted to make her run and then turned around running along side her for there behind him stood an orc. Aragorn and the others had managed to get rid of most of the orcs but not all. Of course, Leslie had no idea that she and Louie were in Middle Earth, even if she did, she would be asking herself how she was suddenly able to get there when four years ago it would have been impossible. Let me explain to you this. Louie was screaming like a maniac as he ran while Leslie was just running and the orc behind them was notching an arrow into a bow so that he could shoot. Leslie's eyebrow was twitching from all the screaming until finally, while running, she slapped her hand over his mouth.

"Stop your screaming! Unless you haven't noticed; screaming will not get us out of this situation and if we were to hide, you would give away our position! So stop your screaming." Leslie shouted at him and after he nodded, she let go then pulled him sideways and inside a hollow tree. The orc being, well, an orc just stopped for a second then continued to run in hopes that he would find his prey. While they were running, Leslie had gotten her tail, ears, and golden eyes back. This caused Louie to start screaming again and so Leslie muffled his screaming with her hand. Her ears twitched listening for anything and she heard quick approaching footsteps.

"Hush. Stay here, I'm going to go take a look at who it is that's coming." Leslie said and before he could protest, she went out and climbed the tree to see who was approaching. She looked down to see three men, she stood as still as possible sensing that there was something not right about them. As they neared, Leslie hoped that Louie wouldn't do anything stupid. She also slowed down her breathing

A/N: I am going to stop here. I hope you enjoyed it and this is probably going to be out the 31st of December or the 1st of January.