Warning: Some pretty sad stuff.

The Dwarves won the Battle of Moria.

Sam and Fíli stayed in Moria for a while, because Sam didn't want her boyfriend – yes, they had a relationship by then – to walk the entire way back when he was injured, so they stayed until he was healed, and they also stayed after that.

They married, just like Kíli and Tauriel, in Erebor, and they were very happy.

However, as you may suspect, Sam needed to go back to her own world. She got homesick, and when she was twenty-five, she said goodbye to her husband and her close friends, and went back to the world she was born in, back into her sixteen-years-old body.

Her ring was taken from her almost immediately, and her memory was wiped a couple of hours after that, but although there were no memories, there were feelings that stayed behind, and they drove her almost mad: why did she feel like she was missing someone, or why did she feel like she didn't belong here?

She got nightmares, ones that looked horrifyingly real, of killing, getting killed and watching other people get killed. She didn't fall in love, never again.

Her mother thought that perhaps she had gone crazy, and she was afraid of her own daughter. She sent Sam to her father, who lived in Britain, his grandfather's native country, hoping that she would feel like she belonged there, but she didn't. She abandoned her mother, took her father's last name – Cassidy – and lived in a small house with her father and her brother.

Fourteen years passed in a blur, and it wasn't until her thirtieth birthday that she got a call from an unknown phone number. The man's voice on the other side of the line told her to come back to the United States, to a building in New York, because he had the answer to all of her questions.

Of course, Sam went – she had waited fourteen years for this moment, of course she went.

Her memory got restored, and she got an offer to get her job back as Tale-Changer, under the condition that she would actually be changing some tales this time, instead of screwing the characters – this was said with a mocking smirk.

Incredibly happy to finally be able to put the pieces together, Sam accepted the offer, under the condition that the Council would change her name in the files to Sam Nathaniel Cassidy, because she didn't want to be called 'Kenyi' anymore, or 'Lewis', her mother's first and last name, or 'Samantha', because she hated that name.

And, how could I ever forget that, she asked if she could see her husband again, and her friends.

The woman that had restored her memory smiled mysteriously at that and handed Sam her first assignment in fourteen years.

A story about four small Hobbits with a huge task – you can guess which one.

And our story ends when Fíli, who has gone to live with his family under the Lonely Mountain by now, hears a knock on his door, followed by his brother stumbling into the room, completely out of breath, as if he has run far and fast.

"Kíli?" he asks, surprised. "What is going on?"

His brother looks up, smiles, and pants: "I have got some really good news for you, brother."

And from behind him, a redheaded woman steps into the room, and greets him.

"Haven't seen you in a while. How you doing?"

A/N:

And this is the end of the story! I hope you liked it (well, I guess you have to like it if you've read so many chapters :)) and I hope you're just as sad as I am because it's over (is it bad to hope something like that?).

I want to thank every single one of you for reading this entire story and having so much patience with me every time I didn't have time to write. I want to thank each wonderful reader who took the time to write a review, or who favorited or followed this story. I love you, as I've told you many times before, and I still love every single one of you, my dear readers.

Special thanks, by the way, to thegirlwiththerainboweyes, and to the guest(s (?)) that reviewed the first chapters, and of course everyone else that reviewed by the time they've reached this chapter. I loved reading your reviews! Thank you very much, also for the reviews that I haven't been able to thank you for yet.

Now that I've said that, I want to say a couple of things.

One: Are there any Merlin fans among you? Check out Wandererzaehler's story 'Just a minor change'. It's great, also if you haven't seen the series. You'll have to see for yourself what it's about.

And two: Have any of you read my story 'Blue Eyes Faded To Grey' and payed attention during the epilogue? :) Just sayin' that Nathaniel Cassidy got a daughter named Sam...

All right, I've got to stop now, before my Author's Note is getting longer than the story. I love you, and I'm looking forward to writing my next story, although I've got no idea yet what it's going to be about.

x BookLoverDutch