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~Translation from Elven to English: Mela en' coiamin: "My love"

Lirimaerea: "Lovely one."

Amy groggily opened her eyes and stretched her arms above her head, yawning loudly before settling her head back on the pillow. Her dreams were filled with nothing but soft singing and landscape scenery that would have blown the mind away. "Man, I feel rather refreshed this morning." She said out loud to the room as she sat up.

"I'm rather glad you feel that way." A voice said very quietly at her side. Amy's head snapped as she looked beside her and found Haldir laying there on his back with his hands behind his head. His clear elven eyes stared up at her for a while. "So how did you sleep?" He asked as she could only stare dumbly back at him, her face reding as memories from the night before hit her like a ton of bricks.

"Er...I slept like a baby." She replied as she took in his half naked form. Something felt different within her. It was like a piece of her mind and soul was actually melded with his in a way that their bond felt stronger, more cemented into stone. She touched a hand to her head and shook it. "Haldir, what did you do to me last night exactly?"

He kept regarding her with his piecing stare. "You don't remember what happened before I took your mind to my world?"

Amy let out a low groan as she felt him pushing into her mind a very brief image of dead bodies before she leaned over the bed and threw up in her trash bin that she kept beside the bed. Once she was done, she wiped her mouth with the back of her hand and got out of bed. "Something feels different between us." She said while going to her closet to get some clothes and toiletries. Haldir got out of bed and busied himself fixing the bed while ignoring her statement He wanted to see if she would feel the connection.

Amy turned around to face him. "Haldir, did you do something to me while I was sleeping."

"No."

"Then what feels different between us?"

He regarded her with a small smile that made her heart sputter. "When I sent you a vision dream to try to banish the dark thoughts from your mind, I bonded more of my soul with yours."

"Oh." She looked down at her things in her arms. "So this how it feels between two...bonded people when there is a stronger connection?"

"Mela en' coiamin, ever since the moment I saw your eyes, I had a feeling that you were connected to me." He used a finger to lift her face up at his before kissing her deeply with such a passion, it made her head spin out of control once he broke away with a slight smirk. "I better give you some privacy so you can clean yourself and see if your mother is downstairs. There is something that I need to discuss."

Amy grabbed his forearm with a hand. "Wait, please." She said shyly when he paused mis-strid. "I made a little something for you last night while before I went to bed." She handed him her things for a moment before going over to her night stand and pulled open a door. Halidr allowed himself to admire the shape of her butt as she was bent over, rummaging through her drawer until she came across what she was looking for. "Here it is." She excalmiend, holding up a silver thread woven bracelet "This is for you." She showed him while fastening the bracelet and stepping back to admire her work.

"It is very pretty, Mela en' coiamin." He praised her. "Thank you for the gift."

"You're welcome." She smiled before taking back her things. She paused for a second just under the door. "Haldir, why do you call me by that name?" She asked.

Halidr caressed the back of her neck with his fingers as he passed by. 'It mean "My love" in the tongue of the elves." He replied with a soft laugh. In due time, you will learn how to pick up my people's language.

Amy felt her body becoming warm inside as his laughter filled her mind while she watched him head off towards the kitchen. She still felt the nightmare's shadow lingering over her mind. She shook her head, banishing the thoughts away and filled it with it with the memory of Haldir's touch as she went off to go shower.

Mrs. Lock was cooking some oatmeal on the stove and scones in the oven. "I still don't like what is going on, but I have no other choice but to accept this graciouly least, your life be suddenly cut off because I won't accept you bonding with my child."

Haldir took a seat on one of the bar stools at the kitchen counter and played around with the satin box she had given him the night before. "What does this necklace have to do with your daughter?" He asked her point-blank. "And I want to know more about how you know about my world as well." He added when she started to respond.

She washed her hand and dried them with a towel while leaning herself against the kitchen sink. "I was a powerful druid when I was Amy's age." She started. "I had the power to open portals into certain worlds, and I just happened to come upon Middle Earth. At first, I didn't believe anything as I wandered upon the vast valleys and hills, lost in a world that I thought only existed in a book series." Her eyes became distant as she remembered the past. "And then one day, after wandering without any food or water for more than several days, I fainted into a dead heap, losing all hope that I would be able to return to my own world. By the time I had finally manged to come around, I found myself sleeping under a sky of stars with a young elven woman looking at me from across a fire pit She didn't ask me any questions except for my name alone and had spent much time nursing me back to health until I was strong enough to stand on my own."

"And so how did Mary come into the picture later one?"

Mrs. Lock smile. "She was about four or five years old by the time I was introduced to her. I knew right away that by her looks alone, she was half human and immortal. Her mother asked me to cast a spell that would turn her into one of the elven children, but I didn't know any spells at the time that could cause her to shift in between. It was some time before I was taken along with her and her mother to the golden forest and introduced to the lady in white. She spoke to me in my mind and asked questions about my world and how it was so different from my own."

Halidr rubbed his head. So his lady had already met this human mother and had known for so long that another world existed besides Middle Earth? Looking up at her, he could only shake his head in disbelief. "Then why didn't she tell anyone about this?"

"Because as a unknown druid from another world, she didn't know what I was fully capable of. I only wished to return home, but wasn't sure how it was possible. And that was when the unknown darkness covered the forest for more than seven days and nights and cut off her powers completely. I had felt the evil from afar, but didn't know from whence it came from, only that it could be looking for me and discover how to overpower my own world." she rubbed a thin scare on her palm. "We fought for many days afterwards once I had cast a protective spell over the whole forest and banished the darkness. Mary lost her human father when he tried to protect her and the mother cave troll after we were struggling to cut off the main gate that was the last portal between both worlds."

She fell silent and went to check on the scones as he took to heart everything that she told him. "You still didn't answer my question about the necklace." He pressed her.

Putting down the baking sheet, she turned her head slightly. "It has the last of my powers within the stone. Only one of my own bloodline, is able to use it and harness the powers that I had locked inside."

"That one being your daughter?"

"Yes, but she doesn't know anything about my past. I never thought of teaching her because I just wanted her to live normally But I guess I never thought that the gate would be torn open years later by an unknown force and cast you here."

"You make it seem like you are regretful about what happened, Mrs. Lock." He observed while staring at her back. "Do you regret allowing me to stay here?"

"No, its non of that, Warden." She replied softly. "I regret only that I am losing what is most dear to me and I have to endure for the rest of my life, the consequences of my past actions." She took a deep breath and wiped a tear away. "My husband will be up soon and Amy will be wanting to have her breakfast soon before heading out to work." She said cheerfully just as Amy walked into the kitchen as she toweled her hair.

"Morning mom." She greeted as she kissed her mother on the cheek.

"Morning, sweetheart." Her mother replied while spooning some oatmeal into a bowl. "It seems that you rested well last night,Amy." She stuck up a conversation while handing Haldir his bowl. He didn't' say anything except thank you as he focused his attention at getting something into his stomach. Amy tired to catch his attention with her eyes, but he kept his eyes on his food. "Yeah, I slept like a baby, mom." She said while getting her own bowl. "Better than being squashed by an elf." She added while slamming the fridge door behind her.

"Yes, well I just hope he takes good care of you from now on." Was all her mother said as she finished preping breakfast. "I will be going over later to see Mary's mother and go over some manuscripts that we may still have. The sooner I can find where the portal is, the sooner I will be able to find a way to get him home."

Haldir felt a timid pull in his mind from Amy. Is everything alright? She asked him in a small voice. Was it something I said earlier that may have offended you?

No, I am just worried that I might be taking you away from everything you know. He replied as he continued to eat.

What do you mean take me away?

A bonded couple cannot be far away from each other for long periods of time, least one dies of a broken heart or from loneliness. But I cannot make the choice for you once I am able to go back home.

Amy took a long swig of hot tea. I am sure we will find something that will worked itself out. But I still am having that fear of losing you somehow.

Don't let your mind thing such thoughts. It won't happen, Mela en' coiamin, I promise you that I will stay safe.

Can I tell you something, Haldir?

He looked beside her with a soft look in his eyes. Yes?

Her face was blushing a soft pink as she kept her eyes on her bowl and nervously played around with her oatmeal with her spoon. I know that we have only known each other for perhaps a week or so and I know that you are from a world that used to be just a fantacy in my mind. But... She trailed off into silence.

But what? He caressed her cheek with a finger. Amy looked up at her mother, but she was keeping her whole attention on cooking bacon the stove, not paying any heed to what was going on behind her.

Um, how do you say "I love you" in your language?

He felt his body warm up while he stared at this little human female who was asking for the definition for the words I love you. It greatly touched his heart that such simple request would make him smile as he gazed upon his soul mate's red face.

Le melin is the sindarin way of saying that phrase.

Then is it alright that I can say that to you from now on?

As much as you want to, I can never tire from hearing it from your beautiful lips. Just wait until when our time to physically bond comes, than it will easily rise from you with my name as I make sweet love to your body and mind.

Amy made a slight noise in the back of her throat as her body reacted to his words of promised seduction. I am looking forward to it soon, Haldir.