I quickly make my way through the trees to see my mother and father standing in front of a few police officers. My mother's face was full of tears while my father's face was unreadable. Not able to take it anymore I call out to them. They turn toward me and my mother instantly runs toward me wrapping me in a death grip as she says, "______ I thought you were dead. I missed you so much!" 

Tears fill my eyes as I say, "It's okay I'm back now." 

"______?" I hear my father say and I turn to see him staring at me in disbelief and grief. "I am so sorry I never meant the things I said I was just angry," He says as he rushes over and wraps his arms around me pulling me into a tight hug. 

"I know." 

After a few moments of them just holding me my father pulls away from me and says, "Where have you been?" I smile as I say, "I have so much to tell you." After the cops left and we were all alone I told them everything that had happened and when I was done they just sat there staring at me.

"Are you okay?" I ask after a few minutes of them just staring at me dumbfounded. 

"Sweetie, are you okay? There's no way that could have happened." My mother says as I jump to my feet narrow my eyes and say, "But it did happen. I was there I fought in the wars I saved my friend from dying. Look at what I'm wear-" I look down to see the elven dress I had been wearing was gone and I was once again in my blue jeans and t shirt. "What are we supposed to look at?"

My heart drops as I lift my hand to my head and say, "That's impossible," 

"Sweetie I think you must just be upset about what happened-" 

"No! This isn't right. It was real I know it was!" 

"No it wasn't and you need to stop all this talk." He reaches toward me and I jerk away from him as I yell out, "No it was real I was there the man I love is there I have to go back to him!" 

"You won't be going anywhere young lady except to your room!" I remember the scar on my back and I start to pull off my shirt as I say, "If I'm lying then why is there a scar on my back?!"

I turn my back toward them and wait for them to apologize but all I hear is them say, "There is nothing on your back. Now put your shirt back on and go to your room!" 

Tears fill my eyes as I turn back to them and yell out, "You're lying!" I run to the bathroom and turning my back to the mirror feel my heart drop as I see the scar is gone. "No!" I scream out as I run through the house back to the living room where my backpack was and I quickly dig through it. 

"Sweetie you need to stop, you're just hurting yourself." I hear my mom say as she gently places her hands on my shoulders.

I quickly jerk out of her grasp as I find my sketchbook and opening it feel my heart break instantly. The pages were gone... All the drawings I had done while I was in Middle Earth were gone. As the book falls from my hands I cry out in pain. "No! This can't be happening!" 

"_______, Stop you're upsetting your mother!" 

I feel my body act on its own as I jump to my feet and run outside where I look up into the sky and cry out, "Nana? Ada? Manke naa lle? Mani marte? Please I'll do anything just let me go back! PLEASE!" (Where are you? What Happened?)

"_______!" I hear my father yell out as he grabs my arms and jerks me back to look at him. "This has got to stop!" I jerk my arms out of his hands as I yell out, "Don't touch me! You're not my real father! Amin delotha lle!" 

All the sudden I feel a hand collide with my face and I stare into the direction the slap had caused me to look. My reflexes kick in and I throw a fist at his face hitting him square in the nose knocking him unconscious. "______!" I hear my mother yell out causing me to stare at my father in shock. 'What had I just done?' I continue to stare wide eyed as my mother wakes my father up and then they both turn to me as he says, "What is wrong with you?"

I open my mouth to answer but find myself running back inside where I lock myself in my room. I turn away from the door to see the drawings of Middle Earth that I had drawn after reading the books and my anger once again returns making me rip all of them off the walls and throw them all around me. Tears stream down my face as I turn from the drawings to my dressers and desk kicking them and throwing the broken wood pieces at the walls as I scream out in anguish.

Before I had a chance to take a breather I see my door open and I look over to see my father standing there with two men in white coats standing behind him and my eyes widen. "You called the nut house on me?" I cry out as I slowly move to my bedroom window. 

"Hunny this is for your own good?" He says as the two rather large men walk into my room with their hands raised to try and calm me down. I feel the window seal behind me and I quickly turn only to have both of them grab me and hold me tight.

"Get your hands off me!" I cry out as I try to fight against them only finding that my elven strength from before was gone. I thrash around a keep fighting when suddenly I feel a prick and then all goes black. No dreams came to me that night. 

When I woke up I was lying in a bed in a bright white room with my arms and legs strapped down to the bed. "No, no, no, no!" I say before I let out a loud ear piercing scream. I tug at my restraints over and over again as I try to free myself. Moments later a nurse comes in and sticks me with a needle that I can only assume had a sedative in it cause I once again blacked out and yet again no dreams came.

This went on for weeks before I finally felt my body start to grow week and my will breaking. Maybe it had all been a very lucid dream. Maybe I was crazy. I didn't know but all I did know was that my heart was gone I didn't want to live in this place anymore. So one day when they finally took the restraints off I used my nails, which had now grown very long, and slice down my wrists. I let out a sigh of relief as the blood trickles down my wrists to the cold tile floor beneath me. "I'll be home soon," I say as I lay down in my bed and wait for the sweet escape to take me.

But I wasn't that lucky. A nurse on her rounds quickly found me and after a quick visit to the ER I was patched up and placed into a straight jacket and tossed into a padded room. Later when a nurse came to check on me I asked her, "Why won't you all just let me die?" 

I watch as she kneels down in front of me and says, "Sweetie you can't be doing this, it's not good for your baby." 

My eyes widen in shock as I say, "What?!" 

She tilts her head and narrows her hazel eyes in confusion as she says, "Hasn't anyone told you?"

My heart starts to race as I say, "No, no one's told me a thing! I'm really pregnant?" 

She smiles flashing her bright white teeth at me as she says, "Yes about two months now," 

Tears fill my eyes and I smile as I say, "Can you let me out of this please? I promise I'm not going to hurt myself anymore." She bites her lip before and contemplates for a moment before she nods and quickly pulls me out of the jacket. 

As soon as my arms are free I wrap them around my stomach and smile as I say, "Now I know I'm not crazy." Tears fill my eyes and the nurse reaches over and wraps her arms around me. I pull my arms away from my stomach and wrap them around her.

"Thank you for telling me." I say and she pulls away from me and once again smiles brightly at me as she says, "No problem, now let's get you outta here." She quickly helps me to my feet and gently leads me out the door and back to my room. 

Before she goes to leave I grab her hand and say, "Wait what's your name?"

"I'm Peggy," I smile brightly now able to see her better. Her hair was a deep chocolate brown and her eyes hazel with a touch of green. 

"Thank you Peggy, one more question though."

 "Yes?" 

"Do my parents know about the baby?" 

She raises an eyebrow as she says, "I'm sure they do, the doctors are supposed to notify them about any changes in your condition."

I gulp down a breath of air as I say, "Thank you again." She gives me a soft smile before she leaves to go get the doctor. I look out the window and gently rub my stomach as I say; "Now I know I wasn't dreaming. Don't worry my child; I'll never let anything happen to you." 

As the days pass by and my stomach starts to grow I find myself no longer at the mental hospital but with Nurse Peggy who had taken me in after my parents refused too. I was sad at first but I after finding all the love that Peggy had to give I was happy. She was like a sister to me and at times she reminded me of Arwen.

I was also surprised to find that I wasn't having just one child but two. I couldn't think of any names and Peggy after I told her what their father's name was she shook her head and said, "Why would they name their son that?" 

I laugh as I say, "Then you probably don't want to hear my take on their names do you?" 

She raises a perfect eyebrow as she says, "Let me guess it's something exotic like their father?" 

I chuckle as I say, "Well their father and I had two friends that died in war and I was thinking of naming my kids after them that is if they in fact are boys. I don't exactly know since they are being shy at every single ultrasound. Cheeky butts."

Peggy busts out laughing but quickly composes herself as she says, "I'm sorry, please tell me the names." 

I raise an eyebrow as I say, "Okay, well if they are boys I'm thinking Boromir and Haldir." 

She nods slowly trying to hold back her laughter as she says, "Okay, and if they are girls?" 

I smile as I say, "Well One would be called Miolynn and the other; if you don't mind I'd like to name her Peggy; after you." 

Peggy smiles brightly as she says, "Mind? No, I don't mind at all. I would in fact be honored." 

I smile as I say, "Good because i was gonna do it anyway even if you didn't like it." She bursts out laughing and I smile as we once again go about our day.

It was days before the babies were supposed to be here and I was starting to get nervous. 'What if something goes wrong?' Peggy, being fed up with the misogynistic men in the metal hospital, quit her job and was never too far away from me. Then one day when I was in my room drawing another memory from Middle Earth I heard a loud pop and felt water rush down my legs followed by an excruciating amount of pain. "AGH!" I scream out as I feel my leg buckle beneath me. Seconds later Peggy rushes through my bedroom door and instantly pulls me over to the bed and says after she checks how many centimeters I am dilated, "Oh okay so they're coming now. Good thing I know what I'm doing."

Tears fill my eyes as I say, "I can't do this! It hurts so much!" I instantly feel a hand grab mine and I look up to see Legolas standing there next to me. I smile as I hold tight to his hand and say, "I knew you'd come for me." He says nothing but smiles his beautiful smile at me. I grip tight to his hand as I hear Peggy call out, "Okay ______, Push!" After what seemed like forever I suddenly hear the sound of crying and I smile. I look back up to where Legolas had been but he was gone. Panic starts to fill my body as I say, "Where'd he go?"

"Where did who go?" I hear Peggy say and I instantly know that I had been hallucinating. 

I shake my head as I say, "No one, are they okay?" She smiles brightly as she says, "Yes, they both are doing just fine." I smile brightly as I say, "What are they?" Peggy turns to me and her eyes soften as she says, "They are both strapping baby boys." I smile as I feel my body suddenly relax. Peggy brings them both to me and as she places them in my arms I say, "Hi little ones, I'm your momma."

The years passed by fast after that and by the time they were five they had become adventurers just like their father. Boromir had light chocolate hair with emerald eyes; while Haldir had bright blonde hair and deep royal blue eyes. They were neither identical in looks or personalities. Haldir, being the close momma's boy; while Boromir, was always talking about going on an adventure. I was happy that they were happy. We stayed with Peggy, her reasoning being I had nowhere else to go but I knew that in truth she didn't want us to go.

One day I was sitting in the front yard drawing when Haldir runs up to me and calls out, "Nana!" 

I gently place my pencil down as I stand and walking over to him say, "What is it Haldir?" 

"Gwador says he saw father!" 

My eyes widen as I say, "What do you mean?" 

Before Haldir could answer Boromir runs up to me and says, "Nana! I saw Ada!" My heart jumps into my throat as I stare back the way they had come from. 

"What's going on?" I hear Peggy say and I gulp down a breath of air as I say, "They boys said Boromir saw his father."

Peggy's eyes widen as she says, "Then what are we waiting for?!" She takes Boromir's hand and he quickly leads her back the way he had came. 

"Come along Nana," I hear Haldir say as he holds his hand out to me and smiles. I return his smile and gently taking his hand let him lead me off after his brother and Peggy. A few moments later we are standing next to the riverbank and Boromir turns to me and says, "Ada says you must concentrate, only then will you be able to return to him." 

I raise an eyebrow as I say, "I've tried that before, it didn't work."

Peggy takes my hand and says, "But back then you didn't have us; and if you'll have me I'd like to go with you." 

My face lights up as I say, "I would love it!" 

"Take our hands Nana." Haldir says and I smile as I gently clasp my hands around theirs, while they grab Peggy's hands. I take a deep breath and I quickly envision the wondrous place that is Middle Earth.

I feel the wind start to swirl around us and I smile as I picture Legolas's smiling face when he sees us. Then as soon as the wind started it ended. I open my eyes and my heart jumps into my throat as I look around at the familiar sight of the Shire. "We did it! We're home!" I cry out and taking Haldir in my arms start dancing around happily while Peggy and Boromir stare at their surroundings in awe. 

"_____?" I hear a familiar voice say and I turn to see an older Merry staring back at me.