Chapter Twelve: It was a dream?
Bran flung open the door to her room, flopped onto her bed, and began to stroke Halda's back. She thought of all that had happened to her over the past few weeks. She'd been sucked into Middle Earth, had a brief romance with Legolas Greenleaf, been kidnapped by an emu, been held prisoner, betrayed by her best friend, and had a strange elf confess his love to her. It just seemed to be too much... There was a knock at the door. "Come in." She said automatically, not stopping to look up until Sulel entered and sat down next to her.
"Bran," he began, unsure of what exactly he wanted to tell her.
"Yes?" Bran replied not really paying attention, preferring to stay in her imagination (a/n does the little hand-motion from Spongebob).
"You know how I said that I love you," he said breaking off mid-thought.
"Yes…" Bran said motioning him to continue.
"When I said that, I didn't really know how far my affections went."
"Yes…" Bran said beginning to get impatient.
For lack of words, Sulel began to lean toward her. As their lips touched, Sulel felt that little spark of true love that he hadn't felt since Ryuna. All thoughts of the past were then drowned in the present, as the simple, innocent kiss became something more passionate and whole-hearted. Time seemed to stop around the two.
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Lily was wandering around pointlessly in the gardens. As she approached the little waterfall, she began to wonder why she had come to that particular spot. There were so many lovely areas in Rivendell, why this one? Was it the fact that only a few nights ago she had received her first real kiss? Or was it just coincidence? Oh well, she was there now, might as well enjoy the view. She crossed to the center of the bridge and stood, hands on the railing, wind ruffling her hair. She began to think of her home and all the friends she'd left behind. God, I hope Rose can keep Snuffy under control… or should that be the other way around? I miss them…as her thoughts trailed off, she became aware of a presence behind her.
"Is that you Legolas?" she asked quietly.
"Yes, A'mael amin." He replied simply before kissing her lightly on the neck. She turned to face him.
"I never thought it possible that I could fall in love, until I met you. Every day now, I wake up to find 'wow, I actually am in love and someone cares about me.' All my life, I was ignored by everyone except Bran and a few others, and now…" Lily broke off thinking of what she really wanted to tell him, "my life has an actual purpose other than to waste oxygen."
"Amin mela lle, Lily." Legolas replied smiling. "My life too, has seemed pointless up to now." With that, they kissed. As the kiss continued, the two seemed to become almost one.
When the kiss finally, reluctantly ended, Lily seemed to melt into Legolas' shoulder. "Take me to bed?" she asked sleepily.
"Vee' lle merna (as you wish)." With that, Legolas gently lifted her up and carried her back to her room. Carefully, he pulled back the covers and laid her down. As he prepared to leave, she grabbed his arm.
"Stay." She said simply.
Nardane ron kaima e' i'ranquie en' ilye n'at (entwined they slept in each others arms).
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The next morning
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Bran sat up, yawned and stretched. With everything that had happened yesterday, she had totally forgotten about her promise to make lunch. Oh well, she'd make it today… Suddenly she heard a loud knock on her door. "Come in." she called out. To her surprise, Elrond walked in, looking very serious indeed.
"I hear that you want to get home." He said.
"Uhm. Yeah." Bran nodded, cocking an eyebrow.
"I know how you get home."
"How?" Bran asked.
"Get your friend Lily in here and I'll show you how."
TEN MINUTES LATER:
A somewhat sleepy, yet very content, Lily walked into Bran's room, followed closely by Aragorn, Legolas, Sulel, and Arwen.
Lily smiled hesitantly, waiting for Bran to make the first move.
Bran smiled back and Lily instantly hugged her best friend tight. Elrond then spoke up; "All you have to do is click your heels together three times and chant: 'there's no place like home'."
Bran and Lily nodded.
Lily walked up to Legolas, "Amin mela lle, Legolas, Cormlle naa tanya tel'raa (I love you, Legolas, your heart is that of a lion) to be able to let me go. (a/n Who-hoo… in and out of Elvish cause I've been trying to translate it for at least three days and got fed up w/ my 55 page list of words!)
"I'll miss you forever but if this is the way it has to be, let's both dream of each other and who knows," Here Legolas gave a weak smile, "it might come true." With that, the two kissed.
Bran approached Sulel. "So, I guess this is... goodbye." She said, biting her lip.
"Yeah." Sulel nodded. Bran suddenly brushed her lips across his and ran to the middle of the room. Lily grabbed Halda off Bran's bed and stood in the middle of the room, joining hands with her best friend.
Bran closed her eyes and inhaled deeply.
"There's no place like home, there's no place like home, there's no place like home..."
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Bran awoke groggily. "Where... What-?" She held her head as she sat up. She looked around, only to find herself in her living room, on her drab brown couch with Lily sprawled out on the floor, drooling and snoring in her sleep.
"I'm home." Bran asked. She turned her head to the right to see her big screen playing LOTR theme music and the credits rolling by. "Wow... that was some fucked up dream..." She said, shaking her head and popping the LOTR DVD out of the player. She heard all thirteen of her cats mewing in the kitchen. "I know, I know! I'll feed you in a minute!" She called. She kicked Lily, who sat up quickly, screaming something that Bran's brain thought was "pickled feet!"
Bran snorted. "C'mon we have to feed my cats."
Lily looked confused for a moment. She looked around Bran's living room. It looked the same as always, dark with very little lighting, high wooden rafters, and decorated in completely black and dark purple. A shout came from upstairs; "Feed the children of the night!"
"Okay Daddy!" Bran screamed up the stairs.
"Bran, I had the weirdest dream. You won't believe it!" Lily exclaimed as they walked into Bran's oversized kitchen.
"That's nothing! I had the most screwed up dream ever."
The two girls talked and laughed until they reached Bran's refrigerator. All around the bottom, Bran's menagerie of cats were swarming, yowling loudly. On top, two scared looking elves were perched, and, on the counter-top, a shaggy looking man was standing, trying to fend off the felines with a frozen chicken.
"Oh... Dear..."
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And that's the end of Romance, Emus, and Cereal Spoons! *prep voice* Like, Oh, My, God! I'm starting work on the sequel as you read this. I promise, it's non-stop hilarity. Now, before I give you a little preview of it, I'm adding the final disclaimer of RECS. I do not own LOTR. I really don't. Don't sue me.
Now, prepare for THE SEQUEL OF SEQUELY-NESS! (I'm actually considering that as a title; do tell me how you like it). It's starring; Branwyn and Lily (of course), Legolas, Sulel, Aragorn (Oh goody), Snuffy (my good friend Green-and-Silver, read her stuff!), Gwen (Sam L.), Mary-Sue (Sam R.), and other random people, such as Vincent the Veloceraptor, Westley 'The Worm' Roberts, and Aunt Jemima. SO STAY TUNED!!!