(Lexi's POV)

The morning after our encounter with Beorn, I found myself woken by the sound of gigantic bees buzzing around the room. Not the best way to wake up in the morning, let me tell you. If it weren't for Fili covering my mouth with his hand I would've woken everyone up with my screaming. The bees knew I feared them. I don't know how they know. But they do. They're evil. Every now and then they like to come up to me, and every time they do I panic. It was easy enough to avoid the ones back at home, those ones were small. However the bees at Beorn's house are bigger than my palm and are not so easy to avoid.

I heard Freya constantly mumbling. Something about a 'giant wasp' and 'Doctor Who'. I thought it best that I wouldn't even attempt to open that can of worms.

During breakfast Beorn had told us about his own kind. How they used to live in the mountains until the Orcs came. Now he was the last of his kind. He was all alone. It made me realize how lucky I was that I hadn't fallen into this world alone. I had Freya with me. I pushed those thoughts away. I didn't want to think about home right now, I couldn't start thinking of my family.

Gandalf had taken it upon himself to suddenly reveal that we would be going through Mirkwood, and that we'd be taking the Elve's path. Now after hearing Beorn saying how dangerous both the forest and the Elves of Mirkwood were, I wasn't exactly excited to go there. I had heard Freya sharply inhale. Turning to look at me cousin, she discreetly shook her head and mouthed 'later'.

Which leads to where I was at the moment. Out in the garden with Freya, Kili, Fili and Bilbo in another group meeting we made sure that no one else was close enough to hear us. I could see Thorin with Balin and Dwalin a good distance away, throwing us a few suspicious glances. Was he onto us?

I didn't dwell on that for too long, as Freya started speaking "So, Mirkwood. This is definitely something that happened in the book. And while I was thinking about it, something came to mind."

Freya brought out her copy of The Hobbit from behind her back. She opened the book and began flipping through the pages until she reached the end of the book. She held out the book and showed us a map of Middle Earth. The map started from Rivendell, and carried on all the way to the Lonely Mountain. The map showed us everywhere we had been on this journey, and everywhere we would go.

Fili looked up from the map at Freya "Is there something we are meant to be looking for?"

Kili tapped his brothers shoulder and pointed at Mirkwood on the map "Look there, brother. Are those spider webs?"

"Yeah, they are. But if you find the Elf path and follow it, you can see there's 5 different spider webs near the path. Something's going to go wrong in the forest, I can feel it. I remember something about a river and someone falling into it. It wasn't any normal river, either." Freya said.

Bilbo spoke up "There is a line intercepting the Elf path. And some writing 'Enchanted R'."

"Maybe that's the river you remember" I added.

"It must be." Freya shrugged.

We moved on to other things after that. One thing was clear to us though, we had to be on our best guard in Mirkwood. There would be Elves, giant spiders and the forest itself trying to get us. Getting out of Mirkwood alive seemed like it was going to be our biggest challenge yet, and I wasn't sure if I was ready to face it.

"What was in that book Freya was showing you?" A voice asked from behind me. I spun around to see Thorin. His arms were crossed and he was narrowing his eyes at me in an intense gaze. If I were to be honest, though, everything about the Dwarf was intense.

Ignoring my nerves, I raised an eyebrow "The book belongs to Freya, so go ask her if you're so interested."

"I'm asking you." Came his reply.

I sighed. This wasn't something I was expecting to happen. The others weren't anywhere near me either, so I was on my own. Great.

"She's had that book for a while. Before we met you," I told him calmly. I had to stick to the truth as much as I could "There's drawings inside it. It's one of her hobbies."

Now that part was an utter lie. She couldn't draw for shit. But Thorin didn't need to know that. Thorin was still staring at me. He had one of those looks that seemed to peer into your very soul, unearthing every secret you've ever tried hiding. I shifted uncomfortably under his gaze.

"I know my nephews very well, Lexi. I know when they are lying to me. I know when they are hiding something from me. And whatever it is they are hiding, it involves you and your cousin. What is it." He demanded.

My mouth dropped open. So he was onto us! Now I really was starting to panic. I couldn't tell him, not without asking the others first. And if I told Thorin, what would stop him from telling the others? That could put all kinds of pressure on Freya, who was already feeling guilty enough for not remembering the events. Would they blame her for all the bad things that happen, even though she could do nothing about it without her memories of said events?

"Well? I am waiting." I could hear the impatience oozing out of him.

So I did what any sane person would do. I told him. I told him everything. About my home world, how I got here. Everything up to this point. When I had finished, Thorin's face was impassive. Then he glared at me "You think I would believe such a thing? I asked for the truth and instead you lie to me!"

Today seemed to be full of surprises. If he wasn't going to believe me, then I would have to simply go along with it. Although I couldn't stop myself from having some fun with it. I gasped dramatically "Me? Lie to you? How could you accuse me of such a thing?!"

I seemed to fuel his anger "It must be a lie! This world is the only world to exist. Even if it did, I refuse to believe that I am just some- just some character from a childrens story!"

Utter disbelief laced his words. I admit that even I would have a hard time believing I was only fictional, that in another world I wasn't real.

Deciding that I was finished with the conversation, I walked up to Thorin and stood right in front of him. I placed a hand on my hip "You believe what you want to, sweetcheeks."

Now it was his turn for his mouth to drop open. I lifted his chin up, closing his mouth. And with a wink sent his way, I pushed past him and left him to his thoughts.

(Freya's POV)

We weren't staying at Beorn's for long. We couldn't afford to lose too much time. I would have loved to have stayed for longer, the place was beautiful. Like most of Middle Earth. It was decided that we would spend one more night at Beorn's house, then set out the next day.

Thorin was acting weird. He kept shooting glances at Lexi and I. And I swear, one time I saw Thorin looking at Lexi, when she caught him, she winked at him. She winked. What the hell was that about? After she winked at him, he paled and looked away. If I could scare Thorin away like that I would be content for the rest of my life.

Determined to find out what was going on, I went up to Fili and asked "What's up with Thorin?"

Fili shot me a confused look "I don't see anything up about him. What do you mean?"

Resisting the urge to slam my head against the wall for my stupidity, I rolled my eyes and said "It means like, what is happening with Thorin, what's going on with him. Your Uncle's been looking at us strangely and I want to know why."

"This is Thorin we're talking about. You probably won't ever know."

Well he had a point. Thorin the most private person I had ever met. Also the most broody. I couldn't ask Lexi, as I knew that she wouldn't tell me. It was almost as if it were her goal in life to irritate me. I had no other choice but to let it go for the time being.

The next day, we awoke at dawn. Something I've had to get used to, not that I was used to it. Having known me for a while now, Bofur knew very well that I would try to fall asleep again after waking up.

"Come on now, Freya. We need to get going." Said Bofur in his cheerful voice. How is it that he could be so, so happy in the mornings? He tugged my arm, pulling me up off the floor. Too tired to help myself, I relied fully on him to get me up. My eyes were still shut, as I refused to get up at such an early hour in the morning.

"Nooo," I groaned sleepily, my free arm flailing "Sleeep!"

Bofur sighed "You know, I bet a few of the other lads would be wanting revenge on that time you woke us all up by dumping buckets of water over us. There's a nice big bucket outside waiting."

My eyes opened just a crack "You wouldn't."

"Lass, if you don't get up, I may just have to." Was his reply.

In 0.7 seconds I was leaping up into the air, making Bofur stumble back a bit. Before I knew it I was helping Ori prepare the ponies that Beorn was kindly lending us. Ori had certainly changed since the first day I'd met him. He was finally coming out of his shell, we all were now that we'd had the time to get to know each other. Many nights we'd spent sat around the fire, swapping tales. Of course Lexi and I hadn't had many adventures before we came to Middle Earth, so we stuck to telling stories from our world. We'd told them of Harry Potter, Narnia, and even Disney stories like Beauty and the Beast.

I knew that I cared a lot about them all. If I had to, I'd give up my life for them in a heartbeat. That's what made me worry even more. I knew there was a war coming, but I didn't know who'd survive it. I couldn't be everywhere at once, watching over them and making sure they didn't get themselves killed.

It wasn't long until we were all ready to go, and together we set out towards Mirkwood. For some unknown reason I couldn't get rid of the feeling that something was going to go se terribly wrong inside the dark forest. And knowing the Dwarves as much as I did, something would definitely happen.

So I feel like I might've rushed that chapter a bit, whoops. I'm kind of supposed to be doing homework that was due three weeks ago right now but somehow I ended up writing this instead. Weird. I'm really hoping there's no college tomorrow, I just really want to sleep for the rest of my life.

I have no idea when the next chapter will be up, it depends on how much spare time I have between revising for my exams (That I probably won't revise for anyway.)

Have a nice day!

~ SparkleMuffinz