Chapter 10: did I miss anything
"Say what?" she said,
"Gandalf I can't even get a relationship to last longer than a week" she responded
"A week?" said Elrond raising an eyebrow.
Legolas was laughing at her antics, Gandalf glared at him.
"So let me see if I've got the whole picture now" Said Jada
"I've been kidnapped to this world because some gods tell an old man in a dress that I'm the chosen one from some prophesy" she said
"I get brought here now you tell me that I'm expected to do something pretty much impossible and to add to this I'm supposed to marry someone from a race that is practically immortal" she said
"Did I miss anything?" she said finishing her rant.
The group was staring at her in shock. Elrond's advisor was staring at her in open mouthed shock. The blond beside him was trying not to burst into laughter.
Gandalf frowned he wasn't wearing a dress and this was hardly kidnapping. He honestly couldn't see what she was so upset about.
"My dear you make it sound worse than it is" said Elrond
She lost it and started laughing
"Tell you what, you do it then" she stated to Elrond
"I can't, for one I'm not the chosen nor am I female" said Elrond.
She looked at him levelly and said, "Then why are you wearing a dress?"
Elrond blinked in shock, he wasn't wearing a dress these were robes. Legolas was laughing so hard he couldn't catch his breath. Gandalf was getting frustrated
"Enough girl, you are the chosen one and that is that" said Gandalf
"Says who?" she responded mocking his tone
"I say" said Gandalf sounding angry.
"Ok whatever, do me a favor though buy yourself an I love myself jacket" she said
Gandalf blinked a what? The blond advisor grinned at her and took a sip of tea to keep from laughing out loud. Erestor was sputtering beside him and looked very indignant.
"Young lady that is no way to talk to your elders" said Elrond. He was outraged by the girl's attitude.
She giggled "my what?"she said
"Did your parents teach you no manners?" said Elrond
"Don't go there" she said stopping the laughter. The amusement was instantly gone from her eyes. Glorfindel continued to drink his tea and nibble on the fruit pieces in front of him. This was turning out to quite a show.
"I have no parents," she said.
"surly someone must have raised you" said Erestor. She glared at him she was getting a bit irritated and rapidly losing her appetite. She stood up starting to walk away from the table.
"Sit down!" ordered Gandalf
"Bite me!" she answered.
"Young lady you will sit down and behave yourself" said Elrond losing his patience. Jada spun around
"Excuse me, first of all I don't care if all of you are older than rocks that doesn't give you the right to fuck with my life or order me around" she said
Then she spun on her heal and left the room. "Jada wait" said Legolas. He was trying to stop her from leaving.
She charged down the hallway heedless of the calls after her. Her mind seething how dare they bring them up. She was trying hard not to cry but was rapidly losing the battle.
Gandalf, Elrond Erestor and Glorfindel watched her storm out of the room and threw up their hands in exasperation "well, that went well" Erestor remarked dryly.
The others glared at him angrily and he wisely said nothing else. Glorfindel set his cup down with a sigh and stood up.
Legolas glanced at the two men; way to go guys he thought as he turned to follow. He had claimed her as his friend now, so he should do something to calm her down. Hew really wasn't all that surprised at her reaction, hell he probably would've reacted worse. He followed her easily enough; she wasn't even paying attention to where she was going.
She ran down the steps into the garden, ignoring everyone's queries, no she was not all right she wanted to scream. She found an area with a single stone bench partially surrounded by flowering bushes. She half flung half fell onto the bench and began to sob. Legolas rounded the corner and stopped. She was lying on one of the stone benches. Face down with her arms cradling her head; he could hear her sobs from there. Seeing her like that he instantly pitied the poor child.
We must have turned her world upside down. He walked silently over to her and silently sat down on the bench next to her. He gently ran his fingers through her hair smoothing it down.
She felt someone touch her hair and looked up turning slightly so she could see him.
"Hey you ok?" he asked softly. she shook her head no. He held out his arms and she fell into them. She cried softly for a few moments. He whispered soft words in that strange sing song language of his while he stoked her hair.
"Legolas" she said at last. He drew back a little so he could see her face. He brushed some displaced hair from her eyes. Such beautiful eyes they were a deep sea green with flicks of gold in their centers. For a moment he was transfixed caught in that gaze, he didn't know humans could have eyes that looked like that.
"Jada" he started to say then his mind went blank. Instead he embraced her again.
"It's going to be all right" he whispered into her hair
"Tell me what upset you so?" he asked at last. She sniffled Legolas was her friend he had the right to know.
"My mom died giving birth to me and I don't know who my dad was," she whispered. Legolas closed his eyes in sympathy, poor kid.
"The state raised me well kind of, I was bounced from foster home to foster home" she said
Legolas frowned how horrible at least if she had been born Elvin and orphaned she would have had a stable home. She continued
"then I got tired of it, having to adjust to a new home every few years, sometimes three times a year, so I left" she said
"I lived on the streets after that doing pretty much anything I had to survive" she said. She was staring at him, trying to read him. She hadn't meant to go that far. Now he was probably disgusted, just saying it had made her feel dirty. She looked down not wanting to see if he was judging her.
She was wondering if she had just lost a friend. His heart wrenched when he saw her look away, she's ashamed he thought. He put his fingers under her chin and raised her eyes to meet his
"You have nothing to be ashamed of mela" he said then he pulled her into his arms. She swallowed why does he keep looking at me that way? I've never had a guy look at me so intensely like that before, what gives? Legolas pulled back for an instant then she felt his lips close on her mouth. Jada gasped in surprise her mouth going slightly open. Legolas slid his tongue partly in past her teeth. After a few moments they separated, Jada gasping for breath. Whoa where had that come from?
"Forgive me I'm sorry, I" he started to say
"Why?" she answered,
"Because you were upset, I don't want to take advantage of you like that," he said
Jada smiled the kiss had been unexpected but by no means unwelcome. Such a gentleman, she thought as he dissembled. She grabbed his face and pulled him down closing her lips on him and cutting off his flow of words.