Title: Heart of the Sky
Pairing: Lord Elrond/ Lady Eolande (OC)
Rated: M
Summary:Lord Elrond finally finds his true life mate; there is only one problem. This she elf has not heart and does not know that they are life mates. Too afraid to tell her but to in love to leave her what is Lord Elrond to do, and how can he possible get her heart when she doesn't even have it?
Disclaimer:I own none of the characters or places but those I have created.
Chapter Three:
Of Councils Meets and Feelings
The day had started off as wonderful as normal for the people of Rivendell. Lord Elrond had even greeted the morning with a grin on his face that had not left since the day before after his comforting of Lady Eolande. The two had ended up going to his study library and seated together as Eolande told him tales and stories from her home of Azure Sky. He still found it hard to believe that this beauty was to be his mate if he could ever tell her that is…
The day would have stayed that way but it seemed that some outer force would not allow such a thing, as Lord Elrond had been summand to a High Council Meeting in Mirkwood with the remaining High Elves of the grounded plane. It seemed that the Valar would not give them this day to talk as they had since her arrival. Lord Elrond had not even had the time to spare to personally inform Eolande of his departure that morn. Instead a message was left with his beloved daughter, Arwen, to inform his guest of this news. He had left with his grin having turned to a slight frown. It was untelling as to how long he would be away; he just hoped it would not be too long for he did not wish to allow any of the other men to win the lady's heart away from him.
"Fair well my daughter," Lord Elrond kissed Arwen's cheek then mounted his steed with his escorts. "May the Valar protect you in my absence and please watch over Lady Eolande for me."
"Fair well, may the Valar protect and guide you on your jounry." Arwen waved as her father and his guards vanished over the ridge and through into the forest. "Return soon ada; do not lose Lady Eolande."
"Do not worry my love, we do what we can to encourage Eolande towards him." Aragorn hugged his lovely wife. "She is already falling for him, it is obvious to me as well as quit a few of the guards; it is just Lord Elrond and Lady Eolande who seem not to notice."
"Yes, I believe you are right, love."
It was after sun rise that Arwen had found Lady Eolande wondering through the many rows of flowers. Arwen admitted that the woman was an enchantment even for an elf. The sun caught her silver blonde hair in a way the caused it to gleam with a soft rainbow hue to it that almost matched the rainbow in her eyes. She was also small but only slightly slimmer the Arwen herself but Eolande, though the same height as her, she was portioned just right to make her an enthralling angel; whose wingless appearance brought a deep truth to the meaning of heaven's lore.
"Lady Eolande," Arwen gave a slight tilt of her head as he approached the woman. "I was hoping I would find you hear. "
Eolande smiled and tilted her head as well. "Is something the matter?"
"No, my ada wished for me to inform you that he has regrettably been summoned to attend a High Council Meeting in Mirkwood and will be away for a while. He wishes you well says that he wishes he did not have to leave but that he would miss enjoying your company."
Eolande's smile fell slightly in disappointment. Arwen found this to be a good sign that her husband was right. If they could only be for sure that Lady Eolande was in love with her ada before his return then there would be no reason for him to continue to put off telling her of their connection to one another. This was just what she would do; and if she had to drag all those around her in to help then so be it. Her ada would have his happiness if she got her way.
"I see. Thank you Lady Arwen." Eolande then turned back out towards the garden and gave a wishful smile towards the lilies. "If you speak with him at any time before his return, then please inform him that I shall miss him greatly as well, and that that I said 'may the Valar be with him on his journey."
"Of course my lady." Arwen bowed. "Would you like to join me on a stroll through the village?"
"No, but perhaps you would like to join me in the sky?"
Arwen smiled brightly and nodded. She had never flown before. Elves of the ground did not do that even with animals as an aid. The highest she had ever been was when she had visited the tree tops. She loved to ride horse back for the rush of the wind; it was such a free feeling that she could only imagine what it would be like in the air…
Arwen was officially more in love with the sky then she ever had been before! When she had been flying high above the clouds with Eolande she had felt such freedom, such joy, such over powering peace that Arwen had envisioned that it was being in Valar would feel like. Perhaps she could share this feeling with her own child one day. She had to admit that being held as she had been by Eolande on Moondust and the moment she had just shared with here made her feel as if she had her mother back. Arwen knew that Celebrian would always be her mother but she had barely known the enchanting woman. Eolande was giving Arwen the feeling of having a mother and all it did was increase her need to help the woman and her father together.
"My love, is something the matter?" Aragorn cornered his lovely wife out on one of the many balconies.
"Aragorn, we must get them together. Have you found anything new to use from the old text?"
"Not yet but I have a feeling I am close to something; very close."
"Mama, papa!" A little six-year-old came running up to the two. "Granma says I can come flying with her; oh can I mama, papa? Can I go flying with Granma?"
"Granma?" The two shared a look of confusion.
"I apologize." Eolande appeared from behind their little boy. "He seems to have taken to calling me that and I have not the idea why…"
Arwen and Aragorn shared a secret look then they looked towards their son. It would seem that their little boy wanted to get in on the matchmaking as well. Seems he was his mother all over again only with his fathers' looks.
"Sure sweety." Arwen smiled. "He must really like you to call you Granma Lady Eolande."
"I tried to correct him but he insists that I be 'Granma'." Eolande smiled softly. "I don't really mind but I doubt it would be right if you father where to ever find his mate."
Arwen and Aragorn shared a secret look.
"Come on Granma!" Amos grabbed and pulled on Eolande's hand. "I want to fly!"
Eolande laughed as she allowed herself to be pulled along towards the stables where Moondust was kept. Arwen and Aragorn laughed as well as they watched their son. It seems he was trying to make Eolande part of the family as well. They watched as along the way Frodo ended up joining the other two.
"We must figure something out." Arwen looked off towards the sky. "Is there no way we can get her heart back?"
"I do not know, love."
"I can only imagine what this must be like for ada. His life mate is so close by and the two care for one another so deeply already yet neither knows it. Ada must be having great trouble with this. Eolande is his heart yet she doesn't know this and he fears telling her for rejection."
"I know my sweet, I know." Aragorn placed a kiss upon Arwen's forehead. "We'll figure something out."
What the two had not noticed was that Eolande had returned to ask them if they wished to join them and had heard the whole conversation. Eolande turned from the two and clenched her chest where her heart should be and whimpered in pain. Elrond was her life mate, was that why her chest always hurt when he was near? It would explain so much. The looks, the feelings, and the strange pull that she felt from him, but what was she to do, she had no heart anymore…
"Did they not wish to join us Eolande?" Haldir questioned as he Amos, Frodo, and Gandalf waited at the stables.
"No," She pulled herself back from her thoughts and forced a smile. "They had already left when I went back. Why don't we just go ahead and have some fun."
Gandalf could tell she was hiding something and he wondered what it could be. He wasn't the only one to notice either, Haldir had noticed as well and planned to question her later.
Though Haldir had been the one who had planned to question Eolande, it had been Gandalf who had been the one to actually do it. He set next to her on a bench in the garden and listened as she explain all that had happened and what she had heard. She explained how confused she was and how much this whole thing actually hurt her.
"So, Lord Elrond is your life mate, but you have no heart and because of this when you are close to him you feel great pain where you heart once was, but even with all of that you have found that you are fallen for him even without the pull of a heart-string?" Gandalf wished to clarify all that he had heard from her. "Did I catch everything?"
Eolande nodded. "Yes, but still I don't know what to do."
"Eolande my child, you yourself say you care for him and that it is without the pull. That should tell you there that you two are meant for one another. Just because you heart is not in your chest does not mean you do not have one. You love him and that is obvious, even to yourself." Gandalf hug the beautiful elf to him in a grandfatherly way. "You just have to let yourself love him."
"Thank you Gandalf." Eolande returned the hug.
"I did nothing. You already knew what you needed to do I was just hear so you could talk your thoughts out and have it all make sense." He gave a chuckle. "Now, why don't you go show the others that you are alright. They have all been worried about you since earlier when you started acting so out of sorts."
She laughed but nodded anyway and the two headed off to join the others in the court yard to have fun. Eolande now knew what she needed and had her mind set. She just had to a wait for Lord Elrond's' return.
