This is a sequel, it makes a lot more sense if you read the other story
first!
You've asked for it and there it is, the sequel to 'Thank you for loving me'. When I wrote 'Thank…' I already knew the ending and the story and I never expected to write a sequel. So for this story I don't know how it will proceed and end…
In the first chapter Legolas is completely OOC, but still remains a important figure. Please let me know what you think, for I am not so sure…
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1 Listen to your heart
"You have thirty minutes in the make-up, we'll be live on air at eight. Is that ok for you?" Before Serena even could answer the talkmaster had disappeared and left her in the care of the make up artist. The elder woman smiled, it wouldn't be hard to bring out the beauty of the young woman neither the touch of sadness that seemed to surround her and gave her a mysterious aura.
"Ever since that spectacular dance at the Salt Lake City games there have been rumours about a new lover in your life. How much of this is true?"
Serena kept her professional smile, but inwardly she sighted. 'Rumours? There is no celebrity that has not been connected with me over the last few month…' From the soccer player she had dated before the games over basically every male Olympic champion to several actors, every man she had talked to had become her 'mysterious' lover. "I guess I have answered that question several times, unfortunately I can only repeat that there is no new lover in my life. Believe me, if there were one, I would not hide him." Her voice was soft, but made it clear that she didn't want to pursue this conversation.
The interview went on for another twenty minutes until finally Serena dropped the bomb.
"I have agreed to this interview mainly for one reason, which is to announce my retirement from professional figure skating."
For a second there was no sound in the audience and even the talkmaster didn't know what to say. But the moment passed and the inevitable question came. "What triggered this decision and what are you planning on doing then?"
'I've realized that it was not a dream, that there is another world. A place, where beauty is so pure that it shines even in darkness, a place whose powers are so strong that it even I healed. Another world where my love is.'
"I've always said that I want to stop at the peak of my career and after this season I can't get any higher. It's time to go. And regards your other question, I don't know what I am going to do. Take a long vacation for the first time in my life."
'Trying to find the man I love more than my life. Finding a way to hold him again and being held in his arms.'
Carrying a huge bunch of flowers she left the studio and was greeted by Dimtri. "Little one, are you sure about this?" They had talked for hours and hours about her decision to quit. Dimitri understood her reasons, even though he didn't like it. Serena looked at the man, who had been her father in all that mattered since she was four. 'I owe him the truth, that's the least I can do. Maybe he'll understand then.' "Let's get away from here, somewhere quiet to talk." Thousand questions and worries began to form themselves in Dimitri's head. Was something wrong with the girl sitting next to him? Her reasons had sound sensible, but was there another, deeper reason? Since the games he was concerned, since that dance in which she had expressed so many emotions. Sadness, despair, longing all had been there, but more than anything else her dance had been driven by love.
They drove in silence towards the sea, Dimitri knew how much Serena loved the hidden lagoon, where the treas provided a shelter and the waves clashed against the rocks. Now illuminated only by the moon and the stars it was a place of almost unearthly beauty. In the night the usually rough sea had calmed down and was like a dark mirror of the sky. A soft breeze made the leaves in the treas sing and the wet rocks glittered in the moonlight like jewels. Serena sat on one of the stones and looked at the sea. She loved to watch the waves and the water, just to sit there and to imagine that one day she would sail away and never come back. It had been her secret dream all those years, but now the dream had faded for she knew that no matter how far she would go, she could never reach the land she longed for. Realizing that Dimitri stared at her and she turned towards him and gave him an apologetic smile.
"Have you ever had a dream so real that you weren't sure whether it was true or not?"
"Sure who doesn't know that feeling of getting up and thinking, 'where has that beauty gone'?"
"It was not like this, I was there, you know? I was in this other world and it was real, it was not a dream. He was real…"
"He? What are you talking about, little one?"
Serena took a deep breath, reminded herself that she could trust Dimitri and started to explain everything from the moment she had woken up in Rivendell to the second she had 'died'.
"See, I have dreamed of him every night since then, but those were dreams. When I was there, that was real, but I know that I can't be. Dimitri, what's happening to me? Am I loosing my mind?"
The last thing was only whispered, Serena had tormented herself for weeks and weeks with that question. Her heart wanted to believe that it had been real, but her mind told her that it was impossible.
"Why do you think that you are loosing you mind?"
"For God's sake, Dimitri! I was in another world, I love an elf and was in a quest together with dwarfs! And then I woke up and everybody told me that I had been sleeping all night. What else shall I believe?" Her voice was heavy with doubt, pain and fear. Her face was even paler than usually and tears shone in her eyes.
"What makes you think that there is no other world? We are not alone out here and maybe your destiny does not lay here but there."
"Don't make fun of me, please! I am lost, I don't know what to believe and what to do. I only know, that I want to be with him. I love him…"
"Serena, little one, I am not making fun of you. Stop believing in what you see and start believing in what you feel. If you are ment to be with him, you will find a way to go back to him."
The tears that had shone in her eyes, flowed freely now and she hugged the older man hard.
"Thank you for believing in me and for giving me hope."
Smiling sadly he looked in her black eyes.
"Just promise me one thing. Whatever you do, listen to your heart, for it will tell you where to go!"
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You've asked for it and there it is, the sequel to 'Thank you for loving me'. When I wrote 'Thank…' I already knew the ending and the story and I never expected to write a sequel. So for this story I don't know how it will proceed and end…
In the first chapter Legolas is completely OOC, but still remains a important figure. Please let me know what you think, for I am not so sure…
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1 Listen to your heart
"You have thirty minutes in the make-up, we'll be live on air at eight. Is that ok for you?" Before Serena even could answer the talkmaster had disappeared and left her in the care of the make up artist. The elder woman smiled, it wouldn't be hard to bring out the beauty of the young woman neither the touch of sadness that seemed to surround her and gave her a mysterious aura.
"Ever since that spectacular dance at the Salt Lake City games there have been rumours about a new lover in your life. How much of this is true?"
Serena kept her professional smile, but inwardly she sighted. 'Rumours? There is no celebrity that has not been connected with me over the last few month…' From the soccer player she had dated before the games over basically every male Olympic champion to several actors, every man she had talked to had become her 'mysterious' lover. "I guess I have answered that question several times, unfortunately I can only repeat that there is no new lover in my life. Believe me, if there were one, I would not hide him." Her voice was soft, but made it clear that she didn't want to pursue this conversation.
The interview went on for another twenty minutes until finally Serena dropped the bomb.
"I have agreed to this interview mainly for one reason, which is to announce my retirement from professional figure skating."
For a second there was no sound in the audience and even the talkmaster didn't know what to say. But the moment passed and the inevitable question came. "What triggered this decision and what are you planning on doing then?"
'I've realized that it was not a dream, that there is another world. A place, where beauty is so pure that it shines even in darkness, a place whose powers are so strong that it even I healed. Another world where my love is.'
"I've always said that I want to stop at the peak of my career and after this season I can't get any higher. It's time to go. And regards your other question, I don't know what I am going to do. Take a long vacation for the first time in my life."
'Trying to find the man I love more than my life. Finding a way to hold him again and being held in his arms.'
Carrying a huge bunch of flowers she left the studio and was greeted by Dimtri. "Little one, are you sure about this?" They had talked for hours and hours about her decision to quit. Dimitri understood her reasons, even though he didn't like it. Serena looked at the man, who had been her father in all that mattered since she was four. 'I owe him the truth, that's the least I can do. Maybe he'll understand then.' "Let's get away from here, somewhere quiet to talk." Thousand questions and worries began to form themselves in Dimitri's head. Was something wrong with the girl sitting next to him? Her reasons had sound sensible, but was there another, deeper reason? Since the games he was concerned, since that dance in which she had expressed so many emotions. Sadness, despair, longing all had been there, but more than anything else her dance had been driven by love.
They drove in silence towards the sea, Dimitri knew how much Serena loved the hidden lagoon, where the treas provided a shelter and the waves clashed against the rocks. Now illuminated only by the moon and the stars it was a place of almost unearthly beauty. In the night the usually rough sea had calmed down and was like a dark mirror of the sky. A soft breeze made the leaves in the treas sing and the wet rocks glittered in the moonlight like jewels. Serena sat on one of the stones and looked at the sea. She loved to watch the waves and the water, just to sit there and to imagine that one day she would sail away and never come back. It had been her secret dream all those years, but now the dream had faded for she knew that no matter how far she would go, she could never reach the land she longed for. Realizing that Dimitri stared at her and she turned towards him and gave him an apologetic smile.
"Have you ever had a dream so real that you weren't sure whether it was true or not?"
"Sure who doesn't know that feeling of getting up and thinking, 'where has that beauty gone'?"
"It was not like this, I was there, you know? I was in this other world and it was real, it was not a dream. He was real…"
"He? What are you talking about, little one?"
Serena took a deep breath, reminded herself that she could trust Dimitri and started to explain everything from the moment she had woken up in Rivendell to the second she had 'died'.
"See, I have dreamed of him every night since then, but those were dreams. When I was there, that was real, but I know that I can't be. Dimitri, what's happening to me? Am I loosing my mind?"
The last thing was only whispered, Serena had tormented herself for weeks and weeks with that question. Her heart wanted to believe that it had been real, but her mind told her that it was impossible.
"Why do you think that you are loosing you mind?"
"For God's sake, Dimitri! I was in another world, I love an elf and was in a quest together with dwarfs! And then I woke up and everybody told me that I had been sleeping all night. What else shall I believe?" Her voice was heavy with doubt, pain and fear. Her face was even paler than usually and tears shone in her eyes.
"What makes you think that there is no other world? We are not alone out here and maybe your destiny does not lay here but there."
"Don't make fun of me, please! I am lost, I don't know what to believe and what to do. I only know, that I want to be with him. I love him…"
"Serena, little one, I am not making fun of you. Stop believing in what you see and start believing in what you feel. If you are ment to be with him, you will find a way to go back to him."
The tears that had shone in her eyes, flowed freely now and she hugged the older man hard.
"Thank you for believing in me and for giving me hope."
Smiling sadly he looked in her black eyes.
"Just promise me one thing. Whatever you do, listen to your heart, for it will tell you where to go!"
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