I'm so sorry for the long wait, guys! D: I've been dealing with some stuff at the moment. So please forgive me! (Still no excuse, believe me.) But I promise you, I'm not dropping this story! Having said that, this one is a bit shorter than the others, for some reason it was quite difficult for me to write this. -_- It felt hard trying to figure out how Sarah was going to interact with others when half of them feel like she doesn't belong, but I hope I am putting her on the right path here. I hope you don't feel like the sudden conversation with Tauriel and Sarah is too rushed, they aren't the best of pals yet but little by little I hope they will. :)
P.S. So everyone remembers the little side note I put up a few chapters ago about my M.S. well I will be starting new medicine soon since the one I was on wasn't doing it's job correctly. This new stuff may have some side effects mentally and physically. I have no idea what it will do to me as of yet, but one of them will be loss of interest and depression (once again something I don't need to deal with again but here we go... -_-) but I hope that it won't be too severe and I will keep one with this story. I love you guys and all your reviews are awesome, I look forward to them!
Also, the few reviews I had questioning some of the choices of Sarah's character towards Thranduil when she first arrived, he was hostile understandably yes, but took extra measure to insult her person and so she has been put off from the very start. Also he gave her a room because of Legolas, not because he wanted to so really she would feel more grateful to him for helping her. And yes he is a King to protect his people, but she is from another world and has never had to experience a situation like this, so she doesn't just off hand understand his reasoning fot acting the why he does, so in a way, she matches hostility with hostility. And in the future, there will be more interaction with other character I just haventt brought them in yet, and with the March Warden.
So I hope that may make sense a little, (perhaps I'm just a little crazy that it does for me anyway. lol)
Enjoy! :D
Chapter 7 - New Allies
**Watch where you are walking
Sarah had never found her found to be as interesting as she did at that moment, she neither looked up nor did she look at the King when he sat down. She just kept her eyes glued to the green leaves and berries as she impaled them with her fork. So she didn't see when Legolas looked at her strangely and then looked at his father for some sort of explanation, to which all he did was sip from his wine glass that was just filled. Sarah felt as if all eyes were on her and the longer she kept her eyes down, the scarier the thought of facing those eyes became.
For some reason what happened just a few short moments ago, in that secluded room, the gravity of everything really started to set in her mind. She was not just few skip, jump, and hops away from home, and if that didn't send her heart to her stomach, the thought of it being impossible to go back home did. What was it that Kronis said, she had great power?! She laughed at that. No, he did this to her. There was nothing special about her, she didn't have powers and something like this was never meant to happen to a simple girl who lived in a small town next to corn fields. Not even people in the U.S. found Illinois to be interesting, the only thing that put them on the map was Chicago (and even then she rarely got to visit a city barely two hours away from her.) She never asked for this, and spite being a big bookworm and delved into fantasy books and fiction like she did, you would think differently. That something like this would be a dream, but no, Sarah never asked to be chased by monster spiders, imprisoned by elves, or some weird guy in a mask which only she can see.
She liked her fiction to remain in books!
It was strange, everything felt like it was all delayed. That these were things she should have thought about the moment she got here but only now was flooding her mind and they were beginning to overwhelm her. A hand on her shoulder startled her, she looked up to find Kronis frowning at her.
'Don't cry,' his hand read.
She felt tears sting her eyes, and she defiantly kept them from falling. I'm not, and if I did It'd be your fault! Kronis bowed his head in shame and then nodded, 'again I am sorry...' The way he said it made her feel guilty for being angry with him, but she couldn't help it. She was ripped away from all she knew all so he could see her again? Was that the only reason she was here, there had to be more, and if there was more, what was it?
Please leave me alone, Kronis, I need to think...
Kronis nodded and disappeared, leaving her alone with a table full of elves. Sarah sighed heavily as she rested her head on her hand, she suddenly didn't feel very hungry, if anything the depression setting over her heart was making her stomach upset.
"Lady Sarah, are you feeling alright?" She looked up to find Legolas's concerned eyes looking at her, she then turned towards King Thranduil and saw him peering at her from the corner of his eyes. "Yes, I think I just need some air, I'm not feeling so well suddenly." She stood up and Legolas did so as well as she left the table in respect. Sarah looked at him, confused at the gesture, but then kept on going. Sweet boy... she thought sadly as exited the mess hall, as she did she suddenly bumped into solid wall. She looked to find the red head elf from before, the one that didn't like her much like the King.
"tiria manke lle pada"
"What?"
Tauriel rolled her eyes and walked passed her heading towards the doors she just came from. "What is your problem with me?!" She was so sick of this, 'you're below us' treatment that she wanted to pull her hair out. This was insane! "What have I ever done to you... besides invade your precious land?" She exasperated. The elf turned her head sharply at her and walked briskly towards her, stopping right in front her, she, who towered over the girl looked down to stare her in the eyes. "You are but a girl, a human girl. Never before had Prince Legolas ever had the desire to affiliate himself with your kind. You do not belong here, and you should go back to you own kind."
She wasn't sure what hurt more, not belonging or the fact that she couldn't go back. "You care for him, don't you?" She said, addressing the real issue. She watched as Tauriel was taken back but the bluntness, and she didn't miss the very faint but still noticeable red spreading across her face. "That is none your business, human! He is my Prince nothing more, I am to guard both him and the King, do not mistake my watching over him and an act of affection." The she-elf said, masking her embarrassment with anger.
"Su~re... and my Delorean goes back in time!" Sarah's sarcasm was showing again, as she crossed her arms with a smirk.
"...A what?" Tauriel stopped her verbal attack as she had no idea how to respond to something she could not even understand. Sarah shook her head, "never mind. Anyways, really Legolas is nice gu- elf... but there is nothing to be jealous about, I've barely been here two whole days, a friend is all that I see in him. You weren't exactly the most welcoming person, and neither was your King. He helped me, so naturally it was easier to communicate with him. I'm sorry if I gave you the wrong impression..." Sarah was hoping that perhaps this would solve some kind of hidden feud the Marchwarden had with her. She really didn't seem all that bad, just very protective, which wasn't a bad thing either.
Tauriel stood up a little straighter and looked like she was sizing up the girl up in a new light, and after a few moments the side of her lips twitched just slightly.
"Perhaps... I may have acted a little... rash."
A little?!
"A truce then?" Sarah offered and rose her hand to shake hers. It was a bit delayed but the fair elf finally took her hand with a firm grip, (much stronger than she expected) and at last she felt that she may have made a friend other than the Prince.
"Now about me not belonging here-"
"Don't press your luck, human."
Sarah huffed, Rome wasn't built in a day, as they say.
I know I promised a longer chapter this time, but this just felt appropriate to end it there for today. T_T Don't kill me, please! I hope you guys will take this as a worthy peace offering for my absence and I would so love it if you left reviews! ;_; I know I am unworthy. *kneels*
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