So I haven't updated in forever and honestly I had intended to just leave off where I did. After few recent reviews, however, I realized that for those who were still reading it, it would be unfair for me to not give it a proper ending. I think that I'll end it where I originally envisioned it ending, which will probably take a few more chapters.
Disclaimer: I don't own Lord of the Rings or any of the characters
We spent that day together under the trees. Laughter and tears. He related to me the stories of war until finally, exhausted, he lay back in the leaves. I joined him, curling up against him and together we watched the fading sun.
"I had hoped for this day to come but part of me believed that you would never return. That I had made you up in my dreams."
He ran a finger down my cheek and I felt a shiver run down my spine. "I could not be kept away from you. I may have my own duties, Arwen, but I could never be kept away from you."
The last of the light was fading and I sat up. "Are you afraid?" I asked.
He looked at me, confused. "Afraid of what?"
I was not sure how to phrase it at first. "That though we are together, we will still be apart? Are you afraid of what is to come?" Much as I hated to admit it, much as I wanted to stay here forever under the trees, I knew that we would have to return and face my father. We would have to face the truth of the world and that was that Estel was human and I was not. That I was the daughter of the lord of Rivendell and Estel was but an orphan.
Estel smiled then. "Arwen, I have faced my mortality, I have faced swords of steel and arrows made to pierce armor. I am not afraid of the future."
"But you are afraid of my father." He laughed as I knew he would. "Then if you are not, why can we not be together?"
Estel took my hand. "We will be, that I can promise you."
I believed him and not just because I wanted to believe him. I believed him because I could see the seriousness behind his promise in his eyes and I could hear the conviction in his voice. "When?"
He turned his head to look at me. "Are we not together now?"
I sat up. "I wish to know that you love me, body and soul, Estel. I wish to know that we will never part though…though mortality may take you."
I could see him thinking. Could see him processing my words, trying to sort out an answer. Finally, "Whatever it takes, then. But Arwen, you must trust me."
"I do trust you."
"Then I will do whatever it takes."