Legolas and Kelly

By

* Aurora Wyvern*

Started Writing: Tuesday, December 25, 2001

Finished Writing: Thursday, January 03, 2002

AN: This is not a full story, but will be soon by 1 chapter. When I was absent for two weeks, I was writing this story for one of my friends who has a crush on Orlando Bloom, (Legolas). First of all, I'd like to thank the following people.

Ashley Patterson for giving me the 4 books last year, my mom for driving me to the movie and making December 19th, Wednesday, 2001, a blessed day. And Peter Jackson for creating the movie. Thanks also to Kelly who gave me this idea to write a story. Didn't plan on making myself in the story, but it happened. Oh, don't forget to R/R and looks like my first attempt at writing elfish has failed.

In the next several weeks since the plan worked that they had managed to fool Legolas' father, Legolas began courting Kelly, by talking and sometimes stealing kisses from her by usually hanging out. Kelly wanted nothing more than the relationship they already had. The two of them went to different places and got to know each other better than they had in days or weeks before.

However, very soon, Kelly introduced Legolas to Svetlana who could only envy the happy couple because Elrohir broke up with her. "Nice to meet you Legolas," she told him sadly. Once they were out of Svetlana's earshot, Legolas asked Kelly what was wrong with her.

"Is she ailing?" He asked her.

"Elrohir broke up with her a week ago. They've been going out with one another for long years."

"That is what was ailing her? Maybe I should go inside and try to comfort her." Legolas told Kelly. They were at her house.

"Perhaps," Kelly replied. She sat down on the soft earthy ground outside cross-legged and closed her eyes. Enchantingly the music began to circle them. They were outside where huge Silmaril like stars began to shine with iridescent colors.

Legolas felt nervous about being alone with Kelly on this beautiful and enchanting night. Usually, he was confident about the things that he did, but not this time. Being around Kelly made him feel nervous and uncertain as to what to do. "It's a beautiful night," he told her nervously, wanting to have a conversation. Kelly only smiled in response as Legolas leaned closer to her. He placed his hands on her slender and firm shoulders and kissed her on the lips.

It was obvious that Kelly didn't expect neither this kiss nor for him to kiss her. After her initial shock was over, however, she began responding by kissing him back and putting her arms around his neck and making him sit down so they could be at an eye level. Soon, much too soon for them, the kiss was over. To say the least, both felt as if they had in this one night became soul mates.

"Wow," Kelly said as soon as the kiss was over. Both were looking at the stars. "Did anyone ever tell you that you are an amazing kisser, Legolas Greenleaf?"

"Not really," he replied. "Many fair maidens that I have courted back many years ago, none of them or even close to being like you. Some were happy and care-free, some were worn down by the troubles of the world, some are ancient, others are but young free spirits, but not all of them were combined."

"Back when I was your age, the elves were the same that had courted me."

"Did you marry any of them?" Legolas asked. Kelly only shook her head.

"No. My parents never allowed for me to get married. They thought I was too young to make such a commitment. Apparently they were correct. Not one of them was suited for me." Legolas nodded his head sympathetically, knowing how it feels when your parents don't allow you to make your choices and they make them for you.

This time she laid her head on his shoulder while he put an arm around her shoulders. They continued to sit this way in silence until both fell asleep and fell on the soft emerald green grass. If anyone had walked by, they would've seen as startling elfish couple, with a young boy lying on the green grass and a girl lying on his chest, her hair covering most of her fair face.

Both wore looks of everlasting happiness as if they had been with one another for more than couple of weeks. Instead they probably were with each other for their whole lives. They didn't notice when stars and the moon into a blinding ray of the sun.

In the morning, Kelly's father who was worried about his daughter came outside and saw her comfortably resting on top of Legolas' chest. Angry, he began shouting. "Kelly Greyleaf, daughter of Haldir, Princess of Ladros, get up right this minute!" The startled couple got up and looked at one another.

"Father—" Kelly began, attempting to tell him the whole story.

"I do not have ears to listen to your story. I know what has happened and do not lie; for indeed it has. Ugh. Just like with—"

"If you had let me live my life father then none of this would've happened!" Haldir turned to his angry and proud daughter.

"Are those the reasons you have rebelled against your own family my daughter? To prove that you can live alone, un-aided? Well my daughter, you have a very long road to walk to prove you can handle living alone." He stopped for a moment to catch his breath. "As for the boy over there, just tell me his name so I call tell his parents where he is. Sleeping with my daughter!"

"Sir," Legolas began. "I, I wasn't sleeping with her like you mean. She was just tired and lay down on my chest." Haldir didn't listen to Legolas' honest words.

"Let me look at you closely." Haldir came up to Legolas and looked at his face with squinting eyes that didn't dare to blink. "Ah yes, I remember you now. Prince Legolas Greenleaf, son of King Thranduil, no mother to speak of. Prince of Mirkwood."

"Yes I am," Legolas told the old king.

"Good. I do not like people who lie to me, Thranduil's son. You are young in our years. Remember that when you court my daughter." He left them alone.

Legolas turned sharply to Kelly. "Is that why you let me court you? TO prove that you are and can be responsible?"

Kelly sat down. "Oh Legolas, it isn't' like that. I really like you."

"If there's anything that I know about, Kelly, is that this is not the way to prove that you can be alone. And after what you revealed to me, it'll be very hard for me to trust you again." Kelly bowed down her head in sadness, not caring if anyone saw or heard her cries.

"Please do not say it's over Legolas. Can't you understand that we are meant to be together?"

"Fine, it isn't over," Legolas told her sarcastically. "But let me leave for a year and a day." He told her. Kelly felt desperate for she knew that she was going to miss him deeply. She stood up and walked over to him and gently she touched his arm, which stopped him for several minutes. Since he was taller than she was, Kelly stood on tiptoes, raised her head and again kissed him on the lips.

This time the kiss seemed to last for a very long time until they felt Haldir's rough hands separate them. "Kelly, you go home." Kelly looked at Legolas with pity in her warm eyes. "You young man stay." He followed the King's orders. Kelly left the two men alone.

"King Haldir," Legolas began.

"There is no need for explanations Legolas. Did you honestly think that you were going to break my daughter's heart?"

"But—" Legolas attempted to reason with him and tell him that he neither was Feanor nor was he Finrod Felagund.

"She is far older than your generation Legolas. If you are going to cause her heartbreak, then be gone I say. For I don't want her to mope again."

Legolas decided to go home and as he was going through Mirkwood to his father's castle, Legolas noticed that Svetlana was sitting near a lake, watching the ripples go in and out with a touch of her finger touch. Concerned, he came up to her. "Are you ailing?" He asked her.

"No my Prince Legolas. Not in body, but in spirit I am." He sat down beside her.

"What is ailing you in spirit?" he asked her. The brown haired girl with brown eyes-only sighed with longing as he looked closely at her startling elfish beauty.

"Elrohir. Many weeks passed since he chose another to court. Yet I do not seem to be healing, I seem to have storm above me, preparing for a strike."

"A strike, for what?"

"My doom, my future and my family, my Prince Legolas." Legolas felt uncomfortable when she called him Prince.

"Call me Legolas, Svetlana," he told her. In response Svetlana nodded her head and looked at him for the first time.

"You're very charming Legolas," she told him as she began toying with her hair. "Did anyone ever tell you that you could charm millions if that was to be your intent?"

"Nay my lady," he told her. "Kelly told me I was a great kisser but not a great charmer."

She stood up and came up to him. "Let us find out f my friend was correct." Since Legolas was sitting down, Svetlana, too, sat down and gently kissed on the lips. Legolas resisted at first, but then began kissing her back with the same vigor that she seemed to have. He realized that he wanted her, not Kelly, but her.

Gently he pulled away form her. Svetlana, noticing his hesitation, sat down beside him and looked at him while he looked at the lake, imagining that it was the sea he dreamed since his long time ago childhood. "What problem is troubling you my fair prince?" She asked him gently. Legolas decided to be honest with her.

"You." He simply answered.

"Debating about Kelly and me," she told him.

"Yes," he replied.

"Do not worry, Kelly will understand." Legolas didn't have any idea what she was talking about. Noticing his confused look, the girl continued. "For years Kelly and I were the bet of friends, even sisters. She knew that she was fairer than I ever was so we agreed to somehow share the guys without getting mad or finding out about each other. If Kelly does find out about us, she wont get mad."

"I see," Legolas, answered her. Svetlana only smiled and touched a strand of his fair hair. "Now I'm a play toy for both of you."

"No you silly goose. As odd as that sounds, I want you, Legolas Greenleaf. DO you not also want me?"

"Not if it means cheating on Kelly," Legolas got up to his feet. "As enlightening as this conversation was, I have errands to run and counsels to give. Pardon me my lady." He walked past her, jumped on a white horse that grazing nearby, and sped off, not glancing back.

Svetlana, feeling frustrated walked away and thought about the fair prince. Kelly would understand, for she told him the truth; plain and simple truth that Kelly knew about this. But only Kelly could convince that stubborn handsome prince that she wasn't lying, Svetlana thought to herself.

Yet again Legolas walked home after releasing the horse, praying that his father wouldn't' get angry with him. Ever since his mother's death, King Thranduil had strange mood swings. One minute everything could be merry for him. The other minute, everything was going wrong. Legolas never knew what mood to expect form his father each time he entered the castle. Bravely, he stepped inside. His father was looking at the letter in his hand in anger. Haldir already wrote to him to tell him of his son's behavior and deeds he never committed. His father turned around and instantly Legolas knew that his father wasn't in a happy mood.

"Father…" Legolas began as his face lost its youthful color. "I can explain."

"Explain?" His father answered angrily. "Explain how you behaved with a daughter of one of my trusted allies and how no you got her with a child?"

"We never slept together!" Legolas told his father. "What Haldir saw was us lying by each other with our clothes on."

"Look Legolas, I a lot of things I can believe your counsel and answers. But this is not one of those time."

"Father, who do you believe more, your own son or a strange elf who's older than you are?" Luckily, his father's anger abated.

"With age comes wisdom," he told Legolas. "The older you are the more respected you are. Don't you forget this." Legolas felt frustrated that his own father thought of him doing something when it never happened.

"What will it take for me to prove so you can believe in me?" Legolas asked.

"Nothing." His father answered. "Nothing at all."

Frustrated at his father's refusal to believe him, Legolas went inside and sat down at the chair, half expecting someone to pop out and ask him what was wrong. As if on cue, Galion came by. "Hey Lego," he greeted his friend. "What's wrong?" he asked seeing the look on his friend's face. Legolas smiled wryly, for he had been thinking that would happen.

"Wrong?" He asked. "Father, frustrations, and women," he replied wisely.

Galion chuckled. "What's wrong with King Thranduil that makes you feel frustrated and what's wrong with women?"

"It's a long story Galion," Legolas replies surly. "It'll take too long a time to tel." Galion shrugged.

"I have plenty of time Lego, and maybe I can offer you advice since I'm much older and wiser than you are."

"Yeah, by two years." He replied. Galion chuckled as Legolas began telling him the tale of what was wrong. He told about the deed he never committed, the love triangle that he shared between himself, Kelly and Svetlana and the King's refusal to believe him that the deed wasn't committed. Soon he was finished.

"That's tough," Galion replied as his friend finished. He stood up and picked up an empty barrel that was nearby. "Listen Lego, let the matter between your father and her father. They'll forget it soon. And follow your heart when it comes to Kelly and Svetlana. For it knows who's the right one for you. Meanwhile have fun with them. For both know about each other and plus they wont' mind." Galion looked at the sun. "Say, listen Lego, I have to be going to the cellar you understand. I have my job to do."

"Thanks for you counsel Galion," Legolas told his long time friend.

"No problem. I am always glad to help out a friend." Galion left Legolas sitting in peace with his solved problems.

In years that passed like the falling leaves from trees in autumn, Legolas did follow Galion's advice and finally chose Kelly as his wife. Everyone forgot about the incident, which never occurred, and soon Kelly gave birth to twin boys, one named Earedhel, the other Lindae. Legolas was pleased with both of them, even if Lindae rather looked more like Kelly than he.

"Both shall be pleasant to look at," Legolas told Kelly on the birth of the twins. Very soon, both began to grow. Earedhel with blonde hair and brown eyes and Lindae with brown hair and blue eyes. Not soon, a daughter was born to them. They called her Lothwen, and she was fair to see with her father's hair and her mother's eyes. Both brothers loved her, and she also loved them back, but Earedhel she favored more than Lindae. Soon the years passed yet again until in Westernese years the twins were thirty and their sister nineteen.

"Father?" Lothwen asked as she stepped outside in bare feet and a dress. She found Legolas sitting by the tree, a letter in his hand.

"Lothwen? Is that you?"

"Yes." Lothwen replied as she came up and sat by her father, her mother's sky blue eyes staring at the letters she managed to read. "What is that?"

"This? A letter." Legolas replied.

"Who's it from?" Legolas had to chuckle at his daughter's curiosity.

"Elrond the Half-elven."

"What does he want?" Lothwen asked for she knew who Elrond was. Legolas, recalling Kelly's story, didn't want to tell her but knew he had to because he would be leaving her with their children, just like her former lovers also did the same thing.

"You'll find out later Lothwen." Legolas replied. "A lot later" he added to himself silently.

Once he told Kelly the news, she took it even worse than he feared she would. He was called to the Council to debate about the ring that was found, Isildur's bane. Kelly cried and begged Legolas not to leave her, but both knew they had no choice. Earehdel, who was the eldest of their children, promised his father to take care of Lindae and Lothwen, who were both, looking pale and scared. "Don't worry dad, I'll take care of them," Earedhel told his father.

"I count on you to keep your promise Earedhel," Legolas told his son gently. Kelly, afterwards, came up to Legolas when he was looking at the stars. She sat down beside him.

"Must you go beloved? We have happy home, plus three children that need their father,"

"Kelly, you of all people should know that you cannot disobey Elrond the Half-elven. He is older and wiser than I am."

"But I'm sure that as a father he'll understand." Kelly told him.

"Kelly my Kelly, where doth the beauty lies in thy fair elfish face? Elrond will not understand." Kelly stood up and ran inside. His daughter in laws cries jerked Thranduil, who was sleeping, from his dreams.

"Kelly, what is wrong? What counsel can I give you?" The old king asked sleepily as he entered the room she was in.

"Legolas is leaving me just like my former loves and suitors.' Kelly replied brokenly.

"He'll return. My son always returns." The king tried to reassure her. Soon Kelly stopped crying and came up to Legolas. Just like many years ago, she stared into his gentle eyes.

"Do you promise to return to me?" She demanded from him.

Very gently Legolas lifted her chin up with his fingers. "I cannot promise you that Kelly." Before they kissed for the lat time, Kelly gave him an emerald in the shape of the leaf. Legolas didn't ask but understood what she meant by her gesture. Never to forget her or the home he was from.