A/N!

Bwahahaha! I posted two chapters in one night! :p

So make sure you've read the final chapter, 27, before reading this! Hee hee.

Love you guys :)

Epilogue

The book lay open upon the desk. Of course it did. The Professor had been working on it tirelessly for so incredibly long. All round the book were notes and papers and scraps, doodles and drawings, nonsense, languages, the occasional lecture paper.

Lace walked slowly toward it. She knew she wasn't supposed to look. But the Professor had gone out. And the door was unlocked. And she had been missing Middle Earth more and more as of late …

She pulled herself up onto the stool before the desk and began to leaf through the pages. They were typed up neatly with a type writer. The book still wasn't finished. She looked round. Some of the notes were her own (The Professor had taught her to read and write). Some were Alexis' . For they had told the professor of all their journeys. The Professor loved the idea, but the girls begged not to be put into the story. They wanted to read it from outside the world, and not be hurt in the knowledge that they were no longer there with the ones they loved.

Lace sniffed away a tear as she turned another page. She had to know.

Frodo … what happened to him…?

The Professor was very nice, of course. He had adopted Alexis and Lace, let them live in his home. He had his own son, Christopher, who was lovely himself. But the girls could never feel like they really belonged. Not while they remembered the life they had once lived.

Lace turned another page and squinted at it. A note was scrawled at the top of the page:

Though I write these words by the light of the day, please read them by the light of the moon.

She frowned at the words for a moment, then looked up at the window. The moon was shining rather brighter than usual tonight…

She looked back down and placed her finger on the first line of the page and began to read aloud.

Then, something seemed to pull her backwards …

And Lace disappeared.

:) Haha. A little more satisfying, yes? She disappeared again.

And maybe room for a sequel! We'll see ahahaa…

But I'm taking a break until the New Year. So Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy New Year, and wherever you are or whenever you are while reading this, Thank you, THANK YOU, From the bottom of my heart. May these stories be with you always.

Signing out, Smellyninja :p