Suilad, mellon! This is the forst time I write a fanfic of TLOTR, so excuse me please if I don´t do it splendid. Also, my native language isn´t English so excuse me again if I have spelling mistakes or with the grammar! I hope you enjoy it and you like it too! No veren!

Chapter 1

It was almost twilight when Gimli and Legolas where crossing the Grey Mountains. They had been in Gondor for a few days visiting their friend Aragorn and his wife Arwen. They had just been parents for the first time and there were a lot of celebrations in the kingdom. In fact, they had spent a very good time, having fun day and night, chatting about old battles and legendary stories. But now, they were silently riding a pony and a hourse while the stars began to cover the deep blue sky.

When the moon was in the top of the sky, Legolas stopped riding and came down of the hourse.

"I thought we weren't going to stop untill we arrived to Mirkwood" said Gimli following Legolas. He had just found a cave.

"I changed my mind." Legolas said simply and smiled a little.

"What? You are not the kind of man that just changes his mind like that!"

"I thought that a little of rest would be good for you, my friend" the elf started to build a fire then.

"I don't need to rest! I'm strong like a stone!... Also, there are still a lot of those disgusting goblins and other creatures in the mountains. They can try to kill us while we sleep."

Legolas stared ad Gimli's eyes for a second and then turned his look to the fire again. He was preparing some tea when the dwarf spoke again.

"Perhaps there's another reason that you don't want to tell me... Isn't it?"

"My Dwarf Lord what's the big trouble about having some rest? It's heatly."

"You are hiding something, huh? I cought you!"

Legolas laughed for an instant and then drank his tea. Gimli also drank his but kept wainting for the elf to tell him the truth.

"It's wonderful to see how our friend Aragorn is now the father of that little baby, isn't it?" Muttered Legolas looking at the stars.

"Well, yes... But taking care of a baby is a hard and unnecesary job. WE are warriors! That's not work for us."

"Don't say that! A baby is the result of two people's love! They are beautiful!"

"Oh, my! Now I see!" Gimli smirked.

"See what?" Legolas crossed his arms.

"You want a baby! Oh, friend you are so romatic..."

"It's not just a baby, Gimli." Legolas stared at the dwarf's eyes again.

"So?"

"Well, an elf's life is very long and I've been meditating since a couple of months about my solitude. Also, when I sleep..."

"Wait a minute, Legolas." Gimli said. "When do you sleep? I've never seen you sleeping. I thought that you couldn't..."

"I can stay awake for a long time, yes, but now I try to sleep more because she only talks to me in dreams."

"Who?"

"I don't know. I can't see her. But I feel a lot of peace when she is around. We walk through the woods and she sings old elvish songs to me. But when I try to reach her to see her face, or when I ask for her name, she vanishes with the breeze."

"That's weird. Sounds more like a bad curse or something."

"I don't think it's a course, Gimli. The only person who sang those songs to me was my father when I was a kid."

"Perhaps you should ask him. Or maybe your dreams are just very old memories."

"Maybe." Legolas sighed and then finished his tea.

A couple of minutes later Gimli covered with a blanket and layed on the ground to sleep for some hours.

"If I were immortal like you, the last thing I would think about would be finding a partner. That can wait a two or three centuries more, don't you think? I don't believe you would get old in that time.

"You must be right." Answered Legolas smiling gently.

"Sure!...well, good night."

Gimli fall asleep very quickly but the elf kept staring at the flames for what seemed to be a long time.

Time. He thought. Time is so relative. It may be a gift or a torture.

He closed his eyes, but at the end he could not sleep. Instead he tried to remember something that he might missed. However the dawn appeared in the horizon and he found no clue till then.

That morning just before leaving the cave again Legolas decided to put an end to those thoughts that were taking him nowhere.