Hi again! I know that I said I would be starting AUJ last chapter, but all you other fic writers out there, you know that sometimes that doesn't always happen. Well, here is chapter three, and this time I can promise you that we will be starting AUJ! Please enjoy, and please review, it will make me feel much better.

When they had finished their story and their tea, Bilbo gave them a sad smile. "I am so sorry about your family. And if you want, you can live here from now on. I wouldn't mind having someone to talk to again. And if you want too, I can be a replacement brother. I know that sounds weird, but I have always wanted sisters. And, because you lost your brothers, I can be that person that you can talk to if you ever need to just talk." They smiled at him, and Elriauna got up and gave him a hug.

"Thanks, Bilbo- brother." He smiled at her, and stood to clear their dishes.

It had now been five years prior to the day that the twins had first met Bilbo, who they now called brother. They had all set up a daily routine, where Bilbo would get them up, they would have breakfast, do chores, have lunch, and then they would have the rest of the day to themselves. They could do whatever they wanted, by themselves or with another person. They had decided that Wednesday would be the family day, when they all hung out together. It had been Bilbo's turn to choose, and he had wanted to sit outside with his pipe and enjoy nature. Eliauna happily agreed, and decided that she would finally get to the book she had been wanting to read for some time. Elriauna took some persuading however, because she was more of the adventurer type, but she finally agreed when Bilbo said that she could work in the garden. So, that was what they were all doing when a tall man in a familiar grey hat stopped in front of the gate. From where Bilbo and Eliauna were sitting, they could not see him because the sun was directly in their faces, prompting them to cover their eyes. When Bilbo blew a smoke ring however, the man turned it into a smoke butterfly and directed it into Bilbo's face. His nose twitched when it hit him, and he looked disconcerted at first. As he looked up to see where it had come from, the tall man shifted so that he blocked the sun in their faces, allowing them to see. Bilbo stared awkwardly at the old man for a moment before breaking the uneasy silence.

"Good Morning." He said hesitantly, not wanting to show that he was disturbed by the old man. The man looked wise, and almost wizardly by the tall, grey pointed hat he was wearing atop his grey hair streaked with snowy white hairs. His beard was moderately long, it hung to his waist, and was the same greyish white as the hair on top of his head. He held a wooden staff in his hand, and the end was twisted into an intricate pattern. He opened his mouth and proceeded to confuse the hobbit sitting in front of him.

"What do you mean? Do you mean to wish me a good morning, or do you mean it is a good morning whether I want it or not? Or, perhaps you mean to say that you feel good, on this particular morning. Or, are you simply stating that this is a morning to be good on?" By that time, both of the twins were sitting and looking at the strangely familiar man, and waiting for Bilbo to answer. Bilbo looked at his now sisters, and thought about an answer.

"All of them at once, I suppose." He answered, and the old man sighed and looked slightly disgruntled. He stood looking at the three, and Bilbo started to get up, before stopping and once more looking at the man. "Can I help you?" He asked, as he glanced at his sisters who were now looking at each other, and obviously communicating silently.

"That remains to be seen," the man said mysteriously, while watching the two girls with a furrowed brow. "I'm looking for someone to share in, an adventure." At the word adventure, Elriauna perked up and looked excitedly at the man.

"An adventure!" she said quietly, but loud enough for the other three to hear. Bilbo shook his head, and tried to convince the man that no one wanted an adventure.

"No, I don't imagine anyone west of Bree, would have much interest in adventures. Nasty, disturbing, uncomfortable things," to which Elriauna protested with a scoff. Bilbo stood and took the mail out of the box as he spoke, and he turned to Elriauna to say the last part of his little speech. "Make you late for dinner." He grunted and glanced at the man as he shuffled through the mail in his hand, trying to decide how to get rid of him. He turned and began to go back inside, pulling the girls with him. "Good Morning," he said one last time, as the three went up the steps to the door.

"To think that I should have lived to be 'Good Morning'd' by Belladonna Took's son, as if I were selling buttons at the door." As the old man said this, he opened the gate and proceeded after them, only stopping when they turned around to stare at him wide eyed, Bilbo looking slightly confused.

"Beg your pardon," Bilbo said with curiosity and alarm as he stepped slightly towards the man.

"You've changed, as well as you two," he gestured to the two girls behind the hobbit, "And not entirely for the better Bilbo Baggins, Elriauna Firemoon, and Eliauna Firemoon." Now all three of the half-siblings looked alarmed, and Bilbo stepped slightly in front of the girls to protect them should the man strike out.

"I'm sorry, do we know you?" Bilbo sounded slightly distressed, and both Elriauna and the man noticed this.

"Would you know my name, although you don't remember I belong to it, I'm Gandalf, and Gandalf means- me." The man sounded slightly irritated as he spoke, but once he said his name, the girl's eyes lit up. Eliauna moved to speak, but Bilbo spoke first.

"Not Gandalf the wandering wizard that made such, excellent fireworks, old Took used to have them on midsummers eve!" He paused to remember, and he now named Gandalf relaxed slightly. "Although I had no idea you were still in business." Bilbo said in such a way that made the girl's roll their eyes, and Gandalf glare at the hobbit.

"And where else should I be?" Gandalf said with indignation at the hobbit.

"Well," Bilbo paused for lack of an answer before clearing his throat and taking another puff on his pipe.

"Well, I'm pleased to find you remember something about me. Even if it's only my fireworks." Gandalf looked slightly displeased despite the fact that he said he was pleased, but Bilbo thought better not to question it. Gandalf looked at Bilbo and the girls for a moment longer before nodding his head and beginning to leave. "Well that decided. It will be very good for you," he pointed at an again confused Bilbo, "And even better for the twins." He put his hand back down and smirked slightly. "And most amusing for me. I shall inform the others."

"Inform the others, what, who, no, no, wait." Bilbo started to panic as he realized what the wizard was suggesting. "We do not want any adventures here, thank you." He pulled his sister up to the door and turned back to the wizard. "Not today, not, no, I suggest you try over the hill, or across the water." He opened the door, and pushed his sisters inside, to the annoyance of Elriauna. He turned back to the wizard one more time, and hesitated. "Good morning," he finally said, before going inside and slamming the door. He waited a moment looking at his sisters before quickly locking the door. Elriauna stared at him with a glare that could shatter a window.

"What, were you thinking, Bilbo! For one, that was very rude the way you talked to Gandalf, and two, you can't just decide for us whether we wanted an adventure or not! For Mahal's sake, you didn't even ask us if we wanted to go. You're not us! You don't know what we want!" She got louder as she talked, and by the end she was all out yelling. Even though Bilbo was smaller than her, he still had authority in the house, and he did not want her talking that way to him.

"It is my job, to protect you at all costs, even if it means my life. I swore to do that, even before you were born! If you don't appreciate everything I have done for you, then why do you still live here?! If I had let you go with that, that wizard, I wouldn't have been able to be there to protect you. I would feel awful if you were to get hurt, or even worse, die." Bilbo had been yelling up to that point and he paused for a moment to calm down before continuing. "Do you not think that I wanted you to go? If I were not concerned for your safety, I would have let you go. But no, I care for and love you Elriauna, because you are my sister. And I would not be able to live with myself if I ever lost you." He looked down at his big hairy feet, struggling not to cry. Elriauna stood still, shocked at what Bilbo had said. She knew that he was right about every part of it, and she now felt remorseful at what she had said. She leaned over and hugged the hobbit close, and he took deep breaths to keep from crying.

"I am so sorry Bilbo. I know how much you love me, and I love you too. I should never have spoken that way. Please, please, can you forgive me?" Bilbo nodded and pulled back, smiling at his sister.

"How could I not? I don't know if I could live without our lovely discussions at the dinner table." Elrianna smiled and stood back up to her full height.

"Now, if you two will excuse me, I'm off to the market to fetch our supper. How does fish sound?" The other two nodded enthusiastically, and she smiled again as she put on her coat. "It's settled then! I will bring back three good fish and some scallop potatoes." She hurried out the door, leaving Bilbo and Eliauna to themselves.

"You do know I love you just as much, and would do the same for you right?" Bilbo asked his other sister. Eliauna laughed and nodded.

"Of course, why do you ask? Do you think I'm jealous or something?" Bilbo laughed as well, and shook his head.

"No, no, I just wanted you to know." They smiled at each other, before going into the kitchen to prepare for cooking supper.

Later that evening, the three were sitting at the table preparing to eat their supper when there was a loud knock at the door. They all stood up, and in unison said,

"I'll get it!" The looked at each other and laughed before they all made their way to the door. Once there, Bilbo reached to open it, and found on the other side and tall, bald, gruff looking dwarf. He had weapons all over his body, and they could tell he had been through countless battles judging by the scars on his body.

"Dwalin, at your service." He bowed deeply, and they could see that his bald head was tattooed with some form of writing. Before any of the three could say something, he came in.

"B-Bilbo Baggins, at yours." Bilbo was slightly flustered as to why there was a dwarf in his front hall, and thought about asking him to leave, but then decided not to when he saw the curious and intrigued faces of his sisters. He quietly closed the door, hoping no other hobbits had seen him let a dwarf into his home.

"Where is it laddie, lasses?" Dwalin was looking around for something, and the other three couldn't guess what.

"Where is what?" Bilbo asked, very confused.

"The food, he said there'd be food." Dwalin sounded as if he was getting annoyed.

"He? Wait, who said-?"

"Ah, here it is." As Dwalin sat down in front of Bilbo's food and started eating, Bilbo immediately went for the other two plates.

"These, are for my sisters." Eliauna stopped the hobbit before he could grab them, and held him back.

"No, its fine, he can have mine." She said loud enough for all of them to hear. "I've quite lost my appetite anyway," she said so just her siblings could hear. Elriauna scoffed and stepped forward, picking her plate up.

"I will take mine, thank you." She tried to sound polite, but ended up sounding as if she was protecting a child. Dwalin smiled slightly as she took it back with her to where her siblings were standing.

"Feisty, are we now." He said playfully, and she shot him the same glare that she had given Bilbo earlier. "Just like Thorin," he said quietly with a shake of his head, but before any of them could ask who that was, there was another knock at the door. When no one moved to get it, Dwalin stopped eating momentarily to look up at them.

"That'll be the door." He said smugly, as if the other three didn't know. As the three moved down the hall to answer the door, Elriauna softly said,

"Well this evening ought to be interesting."