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Time Eternal

Chapter 3

The ten mismatched travelers had been walking for a few hours since Rivendell, and already the hobbits were hungry.

"Merry,"whispered Pip,"Do you have anything to eat?"

"Yes, I have some apples." He handed him a red delicious.

"Thank you!" Pippin grinned.

Liliana giggled.

"Hobbits."

Legolas raised a bow.

"You have met a hobbit before?"

"Aye! I often visited the Shire, years ago."

The ellon nodded.

"I never had the pleasure of going there, what is it like?"

At this moment, Samwise interjected.

"The Shire, is a very nice place."

Liliana' s grin spread wider over her face.

"I grew up there, Sam. A homely place, relaxing! Parties all the time, and presents. The children often compare and trade their gifts. Ah, the parties and food are my fondest memories of the Shire. And Longbottom Leaf! I have not had some of that in a long time. Oh! And the Green Dragon."

Then Liliana and the hobbits, (Mainly Merry and Pippin) had a fun time talking and walking until the sun went down.

"Gandalf!" Liliana called quietly as she skipped over to him. "Are we going to stop soon?"

He gave her an amused look, then chuckled.

"Yes child. Just a few more hours."

"Yay!" She cheered before turning to Frodo.

"Master Frodo, how did you like Rivendell?"

He jumped a little, before she turned to him Frodo was in his own world.

"Oh, Lady Liliana. It was very nice, I am happy I got to see Bilbo."

"Me too! He is such a sweetheart."

"How-"

"I... I just know a lot of people. Let's just say my job made it necessary."

Boromir looked up. "You had a job?"

Liliana sighed. "Well, I do not like to talk about it much. I would prefer if nobody brought this up again."

Silence fell on the group for another hour. Tired of no noise, Liliana started humming. After a few minutes, when she stopped, Samwise asked her a question. "Miss Liliana! What's the name of that song yer humming?"

Liliana blushed. "It's just a folk song I picked up on my travels. It's called Greensleves. "

"Thank you, but where did you find it?"

Liliana pulled a small box with beautiful engravings out of her pack.

"Someone gave me this, a long, long time ago. See the faded edges?"

She pointed at the corners of the little box, which were chipped and faded.

"I'm not meaning to be rude, Miss Liliana. But how can a box-"

She interrupted him by roughly opening up the lid. A happy, joyous melody floated out, it made the whole fellowship stop and listen.

"It's a music box. A friend made it... just for me." She whispered the last part, the only one who heard it was Legolas.

"Who made it?" Pippin quipped.

"A friend."

"Oh. Alright." He walked away, a little upset.

Gandalf finally said the words Liliana had been waiting for."We can stop here for the night!" He pointed to a small clearing, surrounded by tall trees. Liliana gave a breath of relief.

"Oh, joy!" She almost yelled as she plopped down on her bottom.

"You!"She pointed at Pip and Merry."Go, collect firewood."

"Sam!" He was busy taking out some food.

He snapped to up. "Yes ma'am?"

"Keep doing that!"

"Bossy, isn't she?" Boromir whispered to Aragorn, who nodded.

"Okay, Gimli... rest."

He sputtered, "WHAA-?"

Liliana smiled. "Frodo, you can rest also." She smiled softly down on him.

"Men, you can continue smoking!"

She then turned to Legolas.

"I'm going hunting!" Liliana declared. "Do you want to join me?"

"I will, but may I go alone?" He seemed hesitant for moment, then cringed.

"You seem to forget who you just addressed." She smirked triumphantly and glided to the trees. "Coming, Lord Legolas? Or will you stay and clean, like a good helpful little elfling?"

"Milady, I'll have you know, I am no elfling." He sniffed, offended at the very thought.

"Aye, we can all see that. Now, come. We have some rabbits to catch!" Liliana bounced through the tree, Legolas a step behind.

Aragorn chuckled and made his way the the wizard.

"Gandalf, what do you make of Lady Liliana?"

Gandalf stared into the empty air, thinking. After a short minute, responded.

"There is many things that describe that one, but the best word, is strange. She has seen too much, a peaceful childhood robbed of her. She was, and is still acting like a child. I think of her as a daughter of sorts, Liliana is certainly odd." He smiled,"I remember when I first saw her, she was just about twenty years, and she stole my staff, and accidentally turned a poor maiden into a bird."

Gandalf's sudden burst of laughter caused everyone to drop everything. Gimli fell of his stump, Sam dropped a biscuit, and Frodo , Merry, and Pippin laughed right along with him.

WITH THE ELVES! (YAY!):::::

There it was, in plain sight. Nibbling on a leaf. The poor, unsuspecting animal. Just as he was going to shoot-

"Legolas! I SEE ONE!"

Groaning, he lat his arms fall down, bringing his loaded weapon with them.

"Lady Liliana! I missed one again."

She gave him a cheeky smile, then yelled even louder than before.

"LEGOOOLASSSS! You must not keep letting our dinner escape!"

"You mean my dinner..."He muttered.

"I heard that." Liliana' s upside down face was quite close to his own, her hands attaching to Legolas's muscular biceps. Her legs were wrapped carefully around a low hanging branch, as she stared down the ellon.

"I though we were going to share," She pouted. "You were thinking that, am I correct?"

Legolas gulped. Of course he wasn't.

"I was Lady Liliana..."

She dropped down and landed on the palms of her hands. Calmly flipping over, she smoothed the front of her black tunic.

"Alright then. I'm going to leave and let you catch my- I mean our- dinner."

Legolas's hand hit his face as she skipped away. What had he gotten himself into?

MEANWHILE, AT THE CAMP :::::::

Liliana skipped in joyfully with a stupid smile glued to her fair face. Squatting down next to a sleeping Frodo, She poked him with a stick she had picked up on her way back.

"Wake up, ! We have food!"

He swatted the air, hoping whatever was bothering him would just go away. He had no such luck.

"Frodo. Frodo. Frodo. Frodo. Crisis!"

Gandalf interrupted her gleeful ranting.

"Child, PLEASE! Leave the poor hobbit alone. Let him rest."

She shied back, like his words were a harsh punishment.

"I apologize, Frodo." Liliana whispered. She saw down next to the dwarf, much to his chagrin.

"Hello, Master Dwarf."

He grunted and response, and Liliana, taking the hint, laid out her cloak and layed down. Once her eyelids closed, Legolas came marching back, with empty hands. He was grumbling, but no one could tell.

"No game?" Aragorn asked.

"She-"He pointed to the sleeping elleth,"Scared them away, with her mouth."

She sighed in her sleep, and rolled over.

"No matter. We have plenty of food, for the moment."

Merry nodded, his cheeks full, so right now he looked more like a chipmunk rather than a hobbit.

"Fa 'acon isth gooth!" He tried.

"Sorry?"

He swallowed in one big gulp.

"I said, the bacon is good!" Merry shoved another piece in his mouth, then held one out to Legolas.

"No thank you. I do not eat meat."

All the hobbits, (save the sleeping Frodo,) looked at him like he was insane.

"Well, more of us, then!" Pippin remarked, grinning.

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Hi! This chapter was simply their first day if travelling, I've always wondered how it went, and this is My idea. The next chapter will have events of importance to the story.

Oh! And

Disclaimer! I don't own Middle Earth, *gasp!* And neither do you.

Until next chapter lovelies!

-Lady Eruanna of Mirkwood