A/N: {thought speech}

'thought'

"Normal Speak"

In case U can't figure it out.

-lindahoyland- No, I don't think there are many of us who have the guts to kill him off. There are a few who have though. I just can't find them right now. Ohh so that's what Cynaro de Berarac is. Interesting I think I've heard of it now, thinks for the info.

-KissTheRainGirl12489- I'm not sure what your joking about so to be safe. Sorry 'bout your mom :(:( It's sad when people die (especially when they are close) but it's best to remember how they were in life and move on. But on a happier note I'm glad I could make you happy in that last one. Here's your next chapter.

- () - eeepp! (runs away) sorry, but I did warn you. This ch. should make U happy.

Chapter 15: And This Is How It Ends

The voice came again, {you have not lost your mind half-elf. I have come to inform you of a choice that now must be made.}

Elrond nodded.

{The visions you have seen are of what will happen if things continue as they do now. However if you allow it I can change it all.}

Elrond wrinkled his brow 'Who are you?'

{I have been around since Middle Earth began. I was the one who created the Valor, who sung you, the first born, into existence. I am the one you call Iluvater.}

Elrond sucked in a sharp breath. He stood in shock as time around him stopped. The waves no longer flowed, the birds froze in midair, and fish were jumping halfway out of the water. The scene soon became fuzzy as colors blurred together. A white haze fell over his eyes as a bright light engulfed him. Elrond quickly raised his arms and closed his eyes to protect them from the blinding light.

Elrond slowly opened his eyes and looked around; he was in what looked to be a white floorless room surrounded in fog.

"Where are we?"

"What's going on?"

Two voices came from nowhere simultaneously, but Elrond would recognize them anywhere.

"Elladan? Elrohir?"

"Ada?" both voices answered.

Elrond watched as two beings walked towards him. When the fog around them cleared some he easily recognized his twin sons.

"Ada what's going on?" asked Elrohir.

{I have brought you here.}

Elladan looked at his father and said, "Ada, who is that?"

{I am Iluvater.}

The twins stood in shock neither knowing what to say or what to think for that matter. They had never thought in all their days in Arda would they meet their very creator, the one who had started it all.

{My time is limited so I will make this brief. The man that was placed in your charge is dead.} All eyes traveled sadly to the ground below their feet. {This was not meant to be his fate. His life was valuable and important. But alas I can not control all that goes on in Arda. Many things were of your own decisions. Such as the last incident with the one you had come to love in your heart and very soul to be a brother and child to you. Yet you so easily cast him aside for someone he loves and who loves him in return. You know of what I speak there is no reason I should voice it. But I will not lie for you know it to be true. Arwen will die should she decide to wed him, but I understand the hurt in your heart. None of you wish to give up your precious sibling and daughter. That is why I will allow you to decide what is to be the fate of all. Should the man live or remain as he is? Take time to think but not do so for long I do have things to get back to.}

All around them things began to disappear and turn back to normal. Elrond looked at his sons an instant message passed between them. With a quick nod Elrond shouted up to the sky from which the voice came.

"Iluvater, we have decided."

The fog and white surroundings came back. {Are you sure, I will not force you to decide what you do not want.}

"We know what we want." said Elladan.

"We want our brother back." said Elrohir.

"And I want my son." said Elrond. "We were horrible to him, we see that now. We should never have let our anger control our actions. I will give anything for you to return him, even my own life if it is needed."

"And mine." said Elrohir and Elladan simultaneously

"Very well. Though it is not necessary to take your lives, however noble an offer it is, I shall return to you what was lost. But be warned should this ever come again I will not bring him back and things will stay the way you made them.}

Another bright light came, but it was not as harsh and blinding. It was however, almost warm and comforting as it passed through Elrond and the twins.

Elrond blinked and looked around he was back in his study. How had he gotten here? Last thing he remembered he had been on a boat headed for Valinor. Then time stalled and he, Elladan, and Elrohir had met Iluvater himself. And now he was here in his study with the twins nowhere in sight.

"Ada?"

Elrond didn't believe his ears. A voice he never thought to hear again had come from behind him. He was almost afraid to turn around in case his ears had in fact deceived him.

"Ada what's wrong?" asked the voice.

Elrond slowly turned his head and stared in shock at no other than Aragorn.

The elf lord dashed to Aragorn's side and knelt down next to the chair his son was in. He reached up to grab the man's face. Feeling it's every detail, his gray eyes studying Aragorn's soft brown ones. He couldn't believe it his son, his little Estel, was sitting here in front of him.

Alive and in one piece.

Aragorn looked at his father curiously. 'What was wrong?' he thought seeing the tears welling up in his father's eyes. 'What happened while we were gone?' he thought staring at his father.

"Ada?"

Elrond looked through his fuzzy vision.

"Ada, what has made you so sad?"

"Sad?" Elrond reached up and hugged his son tight. "Oh Estel. These are not tears of sorrow, but ones of joy."

"But ada Erestor said you were angry and upset about something. What was it that could put you in such a state?"

Elrond then knew where he was or rather when. It was the day his son returned home, the day Elrond had said those harsh cruel things. Iluvater head given him a second chance instead of picking up where they left off. It was there he made his decision. Pulling away from the man he rose to his feet and straightened his robes. He knew what he had to do and how to go about it.

"Aragorn I here you have feelings for my daughter, is this true?"

Aragorn gulped, he was afraid of this. He reluctantly nodded.

'I can get two birds with one stone this way' he thought as a plan formed in his mind.

"Aragorn I can not say I fully agree on the decision between you and my daughter, but it would be wrong of me to force you apart. So instead I shall make a deal with you."

Aragorn looked at his father in shock this was not what he expected.

"You must promise me not wed any mans daughter, whether they be elf or man. For the events of the ring are unclear and there are still many great trials to be placed before you. It would be wrong to betroth one woman only to die in battle somewhere. Though after words you may have any you desire and should you, at that time, still wish for Arwen's hand and her yours I will only allow it if and only if you take your proper place at the throne of Gondor."

Aragorn was shocked to say the least. "But Ada, I can't take the throne. Is there no other way you will allow our union?"

Elrond shook his head, "No. I will have it no other way. If you wish for my daughter then you will do this and you will take what is rightfully yours by birth. Arwen is worthy of no other."

"I understand." with that Aragorn stood. "If you would excuse me I have much to think about."

Elrond nodded he understood. He knew the man's feelings concerning his lineage and destiny, but compared to his other option this was the better rode.

That was not what the man had expected to hear. He knew in his heart that it would be a hard goal for him to reach. For it would deal with his own conflicting feelings on his lineage, but the task was not impossible for him to reach. He would do it for her. It would take him a long time this he knew, but he would do it for her. As he turned to leave he couldn't help but feel like he was getting a reprieve, as if he thought that it could have somehow been worse.

Elrond watched his son walk to the large double doors. Not sure of what to say, but then it came to him. It was if Iluvater had kicked him in the head, he needed to say this lest he make things difficult, "Estel." Aragorn turned to his foster father, "Know this, that no matter what I do, no matter what I say, you shall always and forever be my son and I will have that no other way."

As he looked back at his father he nodded, 'Oh yes it could have gone much worse.'

As Elrond watched his son leave and went back to work a thought crossed his mind.

They still had the orcs to worry about and Legolas was no where to be seen.

'I should probably go and prepare beds and herbs sometime in the next few days. I can guarantee they will be painful.' He stared at the shut door. 'But they won't be as bad.'

[And then he said "It is Complete"]

A/N: I was wondering does anyone out there know of a good Elvish Dictionary Web page.