Here is the second chapter for you. I hope you enjoy!

Disclaimer in the first chapter!

For the next days did the children not say anything to anyone other than Nowien, and that was only things like how they were hungry or sleepy. Basic needs. It was rough and Nowien tried many things to get them to talk, even some elves tried to get them involved in games but the children would cry and run off to Nowien who would hug them until they stopped crying. She wanted them back to the happy children they used to be, running around like crazy and causing mischief.

It was after a week that Nowien got an idea, she had talked with Elrond about her pain and sadness two nights after arriving and cried almost the whole night but felt much better after. But children were another thing, they needed something else to cheer them up as they couldn't really talk feelings.

So, Nowien looked around and found two male elves that looked identical to each other, twins. They introduced themselves as Elrond's sons and were happy to help her with the children, as they were big pranksters themselves. They assured her they could get out the children of their shells, they told her how children couldn't stay like that forever because they needed to play or they would waste away.

They figured that maybe if Nowien started the game they would join, so she took the children to a garden where they found the male elves that looked at the children curiously. Both awfully fond of children but also how the children looked gloomy and held on to Nowien for dear life.

"Alright, this is Elladan and Elrohir and they want to play with us." She said happily and the two elves nodded excited while the children shook their heads and buried their faces in Nowien's legs. Nowien frowned quickly before smiling again and looked up at the elves. "Well, it looks like it will be only you two and me then." She said with a shrug and they caught on to what she was trying to do.

"That is too bad, isn't it brother?" Elladan said with sadness in his voice.

"It is. We wanted to play so badly." Elrohir said with disappointment.

"No one wants to play with us, do they?" Elladan continued the act.

"No they never do." Elrohir said with a sad shake of the head and both looked sad, and slightly over-dramatic, so Nowien looked down at the children who were looking at them, curiously now.

"Are you sure you don't want to play? The elves will be very sad if you don't." Nowien said and they looked hesitant before Edmund walked forward, and then stopped only a little bit in front of Nowien.

"What do you want to play?" he asked slowly and the two elves grinned happily.

"We wanted to play tag!" Elrohir said excited as they discussed a good game to start with, they didn't want any games that were rough or where someone could get lost as they were still learning how to navigate around Rivendell.

"I want to play tag!" Jasmine said suddenly and walked over to the elves, looking a little excited now. Nowien nodded and walked over as well, they both turned to Nowien and Jenifer. Jenifer gathered the last of her courage before agreeing to playing, and Nowien laughed and said she wanted to play too.

It was decided Nowien was going to start to chase them as it felt safest, so she started chasing after the closest who happened to be Jenifer. The little girl screamed in a mix of delight and fright and hurried away, and soon was the chases in full go.

Nowien caught Edmund, who started chasing the other girls before getting Elladan's leg. Elladan was careful and chased after the children in a slow pace to give them time to get away, and soon was everyone laughing and running.

The laughing caught the attention of the other elves that came to see what it was, and was surprised to see the children laughing and playing with Elrond's twin sons. All of the elves had heard about the poor children and wanted nothing more than to help, but had always been rejected with fright. It was not long before both Elrond himself and his daughter Arwen stood and watched amused, knowing how the twins had a childish way of being.

When Jasmine became 'it' did she grip Elrohir's leg and the elf fell to the ground, and while the elf was on his back on the ground (surprised at being tripped) did Jasmine crawl up to sit down on his stomach and beamed with pride.

"I caught you!" she cried delighted and the elf snapped out of the shocked state and started laughing, his brother joining in and soon were they all laughing. The elf started tickling the girl who cried out in laughs and Elladan caught the other two and started tickling them as well and Nowien laughed along.

It wasn't long before the children and twin elves turned their attention to Nowien, who stopped laughing and hurried to try and get away. Unfortunately, was Elrohir quicker and grabbed her while the children and his brother started tickling her, making her laugh until she cried for mercy.

They soon sat on the ground and the children were out of breath while Nowien mock-glared at the twins for turning on her. But were secretly happy to hear the children laugh again, to just see their smiles.

After that day did it get easier, the children got used to the elves and played with the twins every chance they got. Arwen was curious of the humans and helped teaching Nowien fighting while having their girl talk; they grew close and became the best of friends. The children were curious of the elf lady's braiding and often got some hair treatment as Arwen couldn't say no to their cute looks they gave to make her give in.

But there was one big secret that laid heavy on Nowien's mind, she would often go to the library when she got the time and read books. She needed answers, she only knew a little bit about the heritage but she needed to know more. But no matter how much knowledge the books possessed about many topics was it never the one she sought.

It didn't take long until she asked to speak with Elrond, who agreed.

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