Notes: See Notes from pervious chapters for disclaimer. As always I would like to think Jessi (krillball6) for her work on this and all of my stories. I would like to say thank you to my mother for helping me with this chapter and I look forward to working with her on the chapters to come. Finally I would like to thank all of you who have read my story and all of you who have read and left a review for my story…On to the story!

Chapter 5

The day dawned bright and early over the last homely house of Rivendell. Way too early for Elrond's taste but he got up anyway. Today was the day that he was going to sit Tracey down to talk more. She needed to talk and he knew it. He got dressed slowly and hoped that Tracey was up and dressed when he arrived at her room. Unbeknownst to him a storm was brewing right down the hall.

Tracey was indeed awake and dressed but she was not in a good mood at all. She had been here for nearly three weeks with noting to do. This fantasy that she has been living in was getting old. She wanted more she wanted to be more. She needed to do something she was going crazy. She was about to walk out of her room when she walked straight into Elrond. She fell on her butt she then got up and dusted herself off but after that she was positively livid, "You get out of my way elf!"

Elrond was shocked at the attitude towards him so he asked, "Tracey what is the matter?"

Tracey did not dignify that question with an answer she just huffed and stormed right past him out into the hallway. Elrond turned and attempted to follow her but a hand stooped him. It was Tracey she shoved him away. Elrond finally got the hint and let Tracey go.

Tracey headed out of the house and into the garden once again she wanted to be alone she had so much on her mind it wasn't even funny. She had the dream again the one were she was running from what or to where she did not know. She made her way over to the great oak tree that had become her friend. She sat under it and fell asleep and started to dream.

Dream

Tracey was running though a very old forest, running as if her life depended on it.

She usually found comfort in the trees but these trees were threatening. She glanced back to see if she was still being followed. She could not see anyone but she could sense a cold presence surrounding her, pressing in on her as if to strangle her.

She then heard voices sounding very far away at first then they got closer and closer. She realized with a start that they were taunting her. Saying tings like "Your worthless", "No one cares about you", "Your ugly no one will ever love a hag like yourself" The voices just kept taunting her making fun of her. She could not get them to stop. So she ran faster and attempted in vain to get away from them - she couldn't.

She finally reached a clearing and stopped suddenly in front of an old graveyard. She looked at it and fell to her knees. What she saw was a small cluster of stones with names of people that she once cared about. Some of them were her grandfather from her dad's side of the family then her grandfather and grandmother form her mother's side. She also saw AJ there.

That one felt wrong to her, how could he be gone? The last time that she saw him was before she came to middle earth and started this knew life. She got up on unsteady legs and walked over to his stone and started to hit it with her hand until the cold stone bit into the palm of her hand drawing blood. She drew her hand back and looked at the palm and saw a word written on her hand. "Murderer" She screamed in fear but try as she might the word would not disappear. Then she heard it. All of her family was laughing at her and almost in an eerie chant was saying "Murderer murderer" she then let out a blood-curdling scream…

Dream Ends

Tracey sat up suddenly still screaming and could not stop. Then she felt a pair of hands on her shoulders. She was scared out of her mind. She jumped and turned around to find the twin sons of Elrond standing behind her. She started to back up and ran into prince Legolas of Mirkwood. She felt closed in. They all walked over to her and Elladan asked, "Tracey are you alright? Legolas, Elrohir and I were heading out to the archery field and we heard screaming. So we ran over here and found you. What was going on?"

Tracey was not ready to talk about it. The memory was still to painful for her to recall so she instead asked, "Could I come with you guys to the archery fields? I could use the practice again." The three elves agreed and headed out again to the archery fields. Unbeknownst to them, the eyes of Elrond where following them as they walked out of the garden.

Elrond having left Tracey's room headed back to his office to get some work done, though he could not concentrate on his work. He had too much on his mind. Tracey's behavior in the morning was disconcerting to say the least. She acted as if she was irritated but he could not figure out how she got so irritated.

Ok well he could she had been cooped up in the house for a few weeks now with noting to do. So he figured that he could give her something to do to help occupy her mind and her time.

He was thinking about what she could do when he heard a scream coming from his garden so he got up out of his chair almost knocking it over in the process. He ran over to his balcony and practically flung himself to the railing in his haste. He looked down in time to see Tracey backing away from his sons and backing straight into Legolas. He then saw her jump a mile and then back away again. He then watches on as his oldest son Elladan approaches Tracey again and started to ask her if she was ok.

The answer was too soft for him to hear from that distance. However he saw her head shaking a little bit and he knew that she was saying nothing was wrong. He would have to talk to her about telling the truth because they really were there to help. He then heard her ask if she could join them in the Archery fields and they agreed so they all walked out of the garden together.

Elrond then knew what it was that she could do to occupy her mind she could take archery lessons from his sons and Legolas. He walked away from the balcony and headed over to the wardrobe in the corner of his office and pulled out his very fist long bow and a quiver full of arrows with the colors of Rivendell imbedded in the shafts. They were a gift from his father and he was going to give them to Tracey.

Meanwhile…

The group had arrived at the archery fields and they had all taken up their positions. Legolas took his first shot and it hit the target dead center. He smiled.

The twins knew that it was their turn next so they each assumed a standard fighting pose and released their arrows sequentially, both finding their mark and splitting Legoles's arrow down the middle. They both smiled triumphantly and in a little fit of juvenility stuck their tongues out and blew raspberries at Legolas.

Legolas just huffed indignantly and Tracey let out a small snort of laughter. The three elf's then turned to Tracey and Elladan said, "Ok little missy, since you find this so funny show us what you've got."

Tracey took Legolas's bow from his hands and closed her eyes trying to remember what she was taught in girl scouts on how to shoot an arrow. She opened her eyes and shot the first arrow. It flew to the left of the target, missing it by a mile. She expected to get laughed at but she heard nothing. Then she tried a different strategy.

She remembered watching Princess Diaries 2 and Lord Nicholas had helped Mia shoot the arrow. She did not think that it would work but she tried it any way.

This time before she let go she dropped her back elbow a little and touched her mouth with her hand and used it as a guide for the arrow. This time when she released the arrow it at least hit the target but not in the middle - that would take considerably more practice.

She stood back and then looked over her shoulder to see the shocked faces of Elladan, Elrohir and Legolas.

Then Elrohir spoke up, "My Lady how?"

Tracey laughed, "Just a trick I remembered." She shrugged her shoulders. "Its no big deal I just pictured your faces and I shot at them." She heard a shocked gasp behind her and started to laugh really hard. "Oh get over yourselves that's not what I did. I just remembered my lessons from girl scouts…jeesh."

She then noticed a confused look on their faces and she asked, "What's wrong now?"

"Tracey what's girl scouts?" This came from Elrohir.

Tracey smacked her head, of course they did not know what girl scouts was. 'How best to explain this too them?' She thought.

The only way that she could figure out how to describe the girl scouts was compare to something that they already know about. "The girl scouts," Tracey said, "Are like the Dunedin rangers. Yet in a way they are not. They are a group of girls that are taught survival skills and some basic fighting skills but mostly as of late the girl scouts have focused heavily on making the perfect house wife." She said with disdain in her voice.

The elves nodded in understanding but really did not grasp the concept but decided not to push her more because obviously it disturbed her to talk about it. Just then they all heard the bell for lunch and they all headed back to the house to eat, not knowing what the rest of the day held for them.

End of chapter 5