wow, it's been 2 years since i last updated! I must be a very lazy writer. -.-" sorry to all my readers...

An elf was walking very fast (on the verge of running) in the corridor of King Gilgalad's palace. He was taking big strides and if people have not looked carefully, they would have thought that Elrond had just glided past.

"How could I be so forgetful?" Elrond thought as he hurried to his room. "If she had faithfully stayed in the closet for so long a time," Elrond imagined her curled up in the corner of his wardrobe, crying and trembling.

"She would be suffocated to death." Elrond pursed his lips as he unlocked the door to his room.

"Lady Catherine?" He whispered to the wardrobe as he closed his door and locked it. Just in case someone decides to drop by.

"Lady Catherine?" He hissed again. No answer.

"Oh dear…………" Elrond pulled open the door of the wardrobe and found no sight of her.

"Have I buried her under those tonnes of clothes?" Elrond thought as he started to forage through his wardrobe, pulling out every single clothe in there.

"What are you doing?" Startled, Elrond turned around as if he had just been caught stealing. He heaved a sigh of relief when he saw that it's the strange girl he had just met.

"It took me more than an hour to tidy up your ward robe!" Catherine said annoyingly, with her hands on her hips.

"Thank the Valar!" Elrond whispered gladly as he grabbed Catherine's hand firmly. "I thought you would be suffocated to death in there!"

"I'm not so stupid to stay in a corner with no air to breathe! What do you think I am? A baby who can't think on its own?" Catherine replied exasperatingly.

"Not really. But normally people are submissive when it comes to a lord's order." Elrond smiled sheepishly.

"Well, you can be rest assured that I'm not the type of people you see around. That also means that however high is your position here, you are just an average elf to me." Catherine said with a exaggerated haughty tone and a smirk on her face.

Elrond was about to reproach her for her insolence when someone knocked the door.

"Lord Elrond?" A female voice can be heard from the other side of the door.

"Quick, hide!" Elrond pushed Catherine into the ward robe and close the door with a slam.

"Lord Elrond?" the maiden knocked again.

"What is it?" Elrond asked hastily, while picking up all the discarded clothing on the floor and stuff it under the bed.

"I heard strange noises in your room while passing by. Do you need help?" She asked softly, with genuine intention of giving a hand.

"Eh, no." Elrond answered too quickly, which aroused the suspicion of the women outside.

"Are you sure? Perhaps I should come in and take a look." After saying so, she tried opening the door but to no avail. "Lord Elrond please unlocks the door."

"Eh, wait! There's nothing in here that would require your attention! It's just a, it's just a……………" Elrond couldn't find a word to get him out of this quandary.

Meanwhile………….

Oh dear, he's in trouble. How should I help him? Catherine thought to herself as she nervously bites her nails, while Elrond is trying to get rid of the nosy maid who kept trying to get in.

Think………think………

Suddenly out of nowhere, an idea came to her. She grinned and opened her mouth,

Meow...

Elrond had almost got a heart attack. He was already going to lose the battle against the maid and there the outlandish girl is trying to get him into trouble by giving an out of pitch meow. That maid is bound to find out that there is a girl in his room.

Not that Elrond is afraid of letting people know that there is a female in his room, it's just that it will be difficult to explain to people where she came from. Elrond shuddered upon this thought. What if others know that she knew the future and try to make use of her? What if Sauron take her and bent her to his will?

She spells trouble……… Elrond thought as he thinks of the possibility of this girl being in the wrong hands.

"Lord Elrond?" the maid outside the room called out to him.

That broke his train of thought. He had totally forgotten about the maid. What should he do now?

He had been reluctant to answer back when the maid called out again, "I heard a cat's meow just now. Is the feline in there?"

Catherine had obviously heard that and before Elrond can answer back, another meow came out from her mouth as she try to sound sad.

Elrond gave a hard kick on the ward robe's door, hinting to Catherine to stop her nonsense but Catherine ignored and continued to give heart broking meows.

"Is the cat hurt? Or is she hungry? Should I fetch some milk?" The maid asked in concern for the poor 'cat'.

Seizing the chance to get her away at last, Elrond immediately send her away to get the milk as well as some food for him self.

It was when he can hear no more the soft padding sounds of the woman walking away, then he let out the girl who was green in her face due to lack of air.

"You have almost given yourself away, do you know that?" Elrond said harshly.

"But she buys it, didn't she?" Catherine retorted. "Besides, why can't I be revealed to others?"

Elrond froze. How should he explain this to her?