Disclaimer: yah, you've heard it all before. Don't own anyone in this story, 'cept Bekki and Michelle. Budda bing, budda boom. There we go.

Chapter II

"Ughh... where am I....?" Bekki murmured, blinking slowly as she woke. She tried to sit up, but found it slightly hard, thanks to her battle wounds. Her wounds! Where were they, she just noticed, the one of her chest had gone, there was nothing there, and her arm had healed, and there was bandage on her hip.

"Oh, you're up. I best go tell the Prince, he has been most worried. And Elithraniel too." An elf maiden by her bedside, smiled kindly at her. she got up and left the room.

"What?" Bekki groaned, feeling dizzy. "I feel like I have a hang over.... and a bad one at that..." She groaned looking at the room she was lying in.

It was lavishly decorated with deep purples, light pinks, blues and silver. The bed she was lying in was a king-sized four poster, with a blue and silver canopy. The floor was grey, with white edges to the paving stones, the main light source was coming from a door, which seemed to lead out side on to a balcony. She thumped her head back in her five feather pillows and sighed contentedly.

"Kick butt, I'm in the lap o' luxury!" She said, trying to look at the scenery out side as the door opened.

Five people bustled in. The elf maiden was leading Michelle, Legolas, Corinath and Tharangard in. Michelle was wearing a long green gown, much to elegant for a whore, that's what Bekki thought anyway.

"Hey." Michelle was the first to speak. She smiled at Bekki who sighed and looked back out the window. "I'm glad to see you up." She said weakly. Bekki still said nothing. "Well, I better go... don't wanna keep King Thranduil waiting." She turned to towards the door. "Bye." Her smile vanished as she left. Legolas said something to Corinath, Tharangard and the elf maiden in his language and they left, leaving only himself and Bekki.

He approached Bekki cautiously with her bag held behind his back. He coughed and Bekki looked at him.

"Why did you not answer Elithraniel?" He asked, sitting on the edge of her bed.

" Elithraniel? That what she's calling herself now?" Bekki scoffed.

"The name given to her by my father. Michelle in elvish. You are known as Tararith." Legolas snapped.

"Tararith." Bekki tried the name out and smiled. "It's pretty."

"It means grace and beauty." Legolas smiled.

"Two things I definatly do not possess, huh?" Bekki smiled sarcastically.

"No, I think you possess both qualities to a great extent." Legolas smiled. He looked at her and handed her, her backpack.


"You got my bag!" She exclaimed joyfully. "I thought I had lost it!"

" Yes, we rescued it from the Orcs den two nights ago." Legolas said lifting it on to her bed.

" Orcs!. Is that what those monsters were?" Bekki asked, taking the books out of her bag.

"Yes not monsters though, mutated elves and humans. Possessed by evil and darkness." Legolas told her.

" Oh! Polluted, you mean?"

" I am afraid I know nothing of the word polluted." Legolas admitted.

" I'll tell you what it means some other time." Bekki placed her empty bag on the floor and rested her hands in her lap.

There was an awkward silence in which Bekki stared at her hands and could feel Legolas's eyes on her.

" So........" she broke the silence.

" Tararith, what is this?" Legolas held up a pendant on a silver chain. It was in the shape of a four pointed star, surrounded by a circle, then the tips of the four pointed star with curves between them.

" My necklace!! It must have come off while I was fighting". Bekki grabbed at it, but her hip wound prevented her from reaching the necklace.

" But what is it?" Legolas asked again.

" The only item I have left from my parents." Bekki replied.

" I am afraid I do not follow." replied Legolas.

" I'm an orphan. I don't know who my parents were or are, I was abandoned when I was four days old at a police station in a Moses basket, with some blankets and that necklace." Bekki sighed, taking the necklace as he place it in her hand.

"You have very unusual eyes." He muttered.

"Oh... thank you." She smiled placing the necklace around her neck and smoothing the chain out so it rested on her collar bone.

"Will you be able to eat with us tonight?" he asked heading towards the door.

"Uh..." Bekki stammered slightly. "Sure." Legolas smiled softly at her and opened the door.

"Until tonight than." He bowed to her and left.