Disclaimer: I still don't own anything, sadly. But maybe if I save enough money I will one day, maybe. sigh

Rin: Oh cheer up. At least you've still got us.

Cally: (nodds enthusiastically)

Me: You're not even real; you're just names on paper.

Cally: You don't have to be so mean about it.

Chapter 6: A Discovered Past part 2

"Alright, now that we are settled I can begin. It all started…." Elrond began, but stopped immediately as he glanced at Calien. "First I must ask you to please be seated, for this is not a brief tale." He calmly gestured to the seat beside me.

Cally heaved a great dramatic sigh and plopped her self unceremoniously into the chair. Now there was a sight to see. Why was it a sight to see you ask? Because it was Cally being her normal clumsy, laid back, not a care in the world self and that was the funny part of it. It was hard to picture the both of us as Elves. After all Elves are all about great beauty, wisdom, and almost most important… grace. I guess we were blessed with good looks, the guys back home certainly thought so, but that was by mortal standards. We probably couldn't hold a candle to the elleths in all the Elven realms. And wisdom, hmm, let me think, no. I'm not saying we're stupid; I've got a B average this semester and a 3.7 GPA. But I suppose that the people of Middle-earth could call us wise, considering that we know everything that is going to happen to the ring. And last but not least, grace. My sister and I may be a lot of these, but graceful we are not… at all. Calien is, for lack of a better word, a klutz. Although I do have a feeling that with our newfound Elven heritage that is all going to change. I'm rambling now, back to the meeting.

"Now do either of you know of an elf by the name of Galandiel?" Elrond asked with his hands clasped together in an almost prayer like gesture. At our simultaneous 'no's, he continued. "I figured as much. Galandiel son of Elithiel was a resident of Rivendell, a close friend of mine, and your father." He paused here to look for our reactions.

Cally let out a low gasp and didn't speak. But me, well my jaw was hanging open so wide I was surprised I didn't take in a fly. I couldn't really say anything either. Neither of us could. No questions. No outbursts. Nothing. Elrond must have picked up our very rare speechlessness because he continued once more.

"We were companions, until the time of his departure to Valinor." Elrond's eyes flashed the slightest hint of sorrow.

"So our dad was an elf?" at Elrond's nod, Cally started to chuckle nervously. "Ha! Right. You're really funny Elrond. But seriously the truth would much needed right now." I stared at her incredulously.

'She doesn't believe him? Come to think of it, do I believe him?'

"That is the truth Calien. Your mother, I know about her as well, as do you seeing as you were raised by her." Cally scoffed.

"'Raised'? Yeah we were raised by her for all of six years." She grumbled. Elrond looked confused, so I decided to tell him what Cally meant.

"When we were six our biological Grandmother died. She was the last family that our mom had left. I don't know the whole story but I think this drove her off the edge. Two weeks later she overdosed on some drug purposely. In other words she committed suicide. So we were sent to live with our mom's only friends; Maria and Carlos Diaz. They're our real parents now, but we kept our own last names, ya know Sanderson." I finished the story of how mom died.

"Karen killed herself?" He asked wide-eyed. I nodded, cally didn't reply. "I can hardly believe it. It seems like just yesterday she was here."

"So she was here? In Middle-earth or Rivendell?" Calien finally got that stupid upset look off her face, and asked Elrond.

"Yes. In Rivendell. I'm going to say that about 20 years ago, a woman around the age of 20 appeared in the forest just outside of Imladris. She claimed that she ended up here the same way everyone heard you two describe how you got here: a flash of light.

There isn't much to say except that she was very unique. She refused to wear the dresses provided for her, and when she first arrived she had the strangest hairstyle. It was pointy." He laughed a bit.

"Spike." Cally and I said in unison. Mom(Maria) I'm just gonna call her mom from now on, had told us that she took a liking to Spikes hair from Degrassi High, and she wouldn't stop wearing not even after high school.

"She met Galandiel in the most peculiar way. It was very amusing from what he told me. Karen had been in Rivendell for a little over a month, and Galandiel had been away for two so he had never met her. She took one of the horses and went for a ride just outside our boarders. A few maidens had finally convinced her to change her hair, thank the Valar. Anyway, Galandiel spotted her on his way back into the city. He believed that she was an invader, and brought her back." He took a reminiscing pause. "She hated him at first, and the feeling was mutual, but after a year they grew fond of each. So fond in fact that they fell in love. I tried to warn Galandiel many times of the harm that would come to him for falling in love with a mortal, but he insisted that it was all worth it."

We waited about two minutes. Elrond had just stopped talking and instead had a look in his eyes that said he was deep in thought. Calien finally got fed up with the silence.

"Uh hello." She waved a hand in front of his face. "Yo, Elrond. That can't be all of the story."

"What? Oh yes the story. I'm sorry, just a lot of memories." He smiled a bit. "Now where was I? Oh right. I tried to warn him, but he wouldn't hear it. They were inseparable, spent however much time they could with each other. It seemed like all was going well until that one fateful day when Karen made her announcement two years to the day after she arrived. She had found a way home. Galandiel tried his best to get her to stay here, but she only insisted that this wasn't her world, and that she needed to get home. In the end he complied with her wishes, and didn't push her to stay any more. The last big shocking news re received from her before she left was that she was pregnant, a multiple birth. Twins."

"Us." I breathed.

"Yes you. At this information Galandiel set to work on gifts for you. He hand crafted two necklaces and two bracelets. The bracelets were just plain jewelry, but there was something special about the necklaces. The necklaces that you two are wearing." Instinctively we both reached up and grabbed the angels hanging from our identical chains. The only difference between them was that Cally had an emerald in hers and mine as you already know had a ruby. "It was a unique gift only meant for you. He wouldn't tell me what the special secret about the necklaces was, he only told Karen. Am I correct in saying that she told you?"

We nodded, still too shocked by all of this news to speak. I had a feeling that he wanted us to explain what they were for, but I couldn't bring myself to say anything at the moment. He realized this.

"It is alright. You don't have to speak about if don't wish to." He reassured us. "And now comes the end of this tale, and the most important part that will answer your greatest question. Not even a decade after Karen departed back to her own world Galandiel became deathly ill. We all knew what was happening he was beginning to fade. After much persuasion from me and his family he decided to sail on the next ship that would depart from Middle-earth. His last wish to me was to have his daughters, I haven't any idea how he knew you would be female, to come back to Middle-earth when the time was right. He said that he knew that your destiny could only be fulfilled here, and not in Karen's world. And so with oncoming peril and the ring that Frodo carries it seemed that this was the time that he meant for me to summon you back. And here you are. He finally finished with a very pleased look in his eyes.

I knew that at that moment anger flashed in my own. I was angry at two people and two people only; my parents. I finally had something to say.

"I cannot fucking believe her." I said mostly to myself.

Elrond had an eyebrow raised in that oh-so-Elrond way, most likely at my choice of language.

"Believe who Rin?" Cally asked me.

"Mom! Maria! She lied to us." I said only to Calien.

"Who says she even knew? It was Karen, not Maria that came here." Calien reasoned. But I wasn't seeing the reason.

"Of course she knew! Somebody can't just disappear for two years and no one questions it. Mom was Karen's only friend, of course she would tell her. And you can't tell me that every time we have ever asked her if she knew our father like she knew Karen, she always changed the subject, and you never noticed." I countered.

'Oh" was all she could say. I noticed her start to look down.

"Yeah 'oh'. Don't even get me started on Carlos. That bastard didn't do any better." I said through gritted teeth.

This sent Cally into a rage.

"Hey1 Watch who you're talking about. He's not a bastard." She stood up again and towered over me. I stood up as well me being about two centimeters taller than her.

"Yes he was. He hit mom over and over, then he took you to live on the other side of the country. And not to mention he's been lying to us for the past eleven years." I started to raise my voice little by little.

"First of all the only proof that I have of him ever laying a hand on her is your recollection, which I don't even know if I believe." I glared at her. How could she think that I would lie about something like that?

"And second of all, "she began before I could even retort. "I chose to leave with dad, he didn't force me. And how do we even know that he knew about the whole us having an elf for a father thing? He is probably just as clueless about it as we were." She was about six inches away from my face by now.

"I seriously doubt that! How can you be siding with him? After all the pain he's caused our family and mom. The abuse he put her through. Sure he didn't hit us, but he hit her and that is just as bad. But here you are still sticking up for that no-good son of a bi-" I was cut off by a stern voice booming 'enough'. I turned to see Elrond. I had forgotten about him even being there.

"I cannot say whether or not your foster father knew of any of this, but it is no excuse for sisters to be arguing like this." He continued.

'Tell her that. She's just doing what she always does. Sticking up for him." I said while never taking my glare off of Cally who was sending me one right back.

"And what you're doing is different? You stick up for mom, now. Now that we know for sure that she knew about this, and kept it from us." She had lowered her voice to cold tone.

I was not so lucky to keep my voice low, "She had a good reason." I shouted.

"Really? And what reason would that be?" She challenged.

Silence.

I have no idea at the moment what reason she could have had, but I would still put any amount of money that Carlos knew too. But I couldn't think of a reason for Mom not to tell us.

'That's what I thought. Before you go and accuse my dad of stuff that even you didn't know about until ten minutes ago, don't. Try getting the facts first." She said back to her normal tone, but still sending a death glare my way.

I didn't want to believe it. I couldn't believe that the woman that I had come to except as my own mother over the last years had lied to me throughout all of those years. I just couldn't believe that she would do this to me. To us. But there were the facts staring me right in the face. 'I refuse to believe it.' I thought. 'But you have to except it Aerin.' The logical part of my brain cut in. 'She knew. She knew and she didn't tell you.' It continued. I only had one option to get away from the looks of the elf lord and my twin…run.

So that's what I did. I hightailed it out of there without a second thought. Down the corridor, not having a clue as to where I was going. But I was determined to do one thing; get away.

TBC…..until next time!

Well, there it was. I hoped you liked this chapter it took forever to come up with the story. I hope it makes sense. Next chapter we finally uncover the mystery of the strange horse Valaine, if that is her real name. TTFN. And thank to all of you that take the time to review. Please keep it up.