E/N: Sorry it took me so long to update. I had to wait for Endomiel.
Disclaimer: I don't own them *bursts into sobs*
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Chapter 12 - The consequenses of hate
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Day fifteen, the 21st of Halimath, 1384 (Shire Reckoning)
Anarya, the 42nd of Yávië (Iavas), 2984 T.A. (Calendar of Imladris)
Dear diary,
I wonder if I ever told you why I chose to live as a person with a real body and feelings, sensitive to everything any other person is sensitive for. Well, I wanted to understand the world better, wanted to understand the how's and why's, I wanted to understand the reasonings of living creatures, and I was willing to give up life in the Heavens for that purpose.
So I told daddy Eru that I was leaving the Heavens and was sort of, well, "reborn" in a real body. I was still the same being as I used to be, the Goddess of all Good, but now with limitations, with rules I had to stick to. If I do break the rules, well let's say having an almighty God as your father is a very bad thing when you break the rules. Trust me, you don't want to mess with him. But in a body, you're sooner to make a mistake, to do things wrong, to forget or to break a rule. Which was the reason that daddy called me back to the Heavens to talk to me.
It was in the middle of the night, I was sleeping a dreamless sleep. Suddenly my soul, or the spirit that I really am, was torn from my body and before I knew it I was back up in the Heavens.
The real me isn't much more than a spirit, a bright source of light and life. Sometimes you can see me from the corner of your eye, as a thin and bright source of light and life. I'm the bright white, yet very pale blue, vertical dash in your corner of your eye, the dash that disappears as soon as you turn your head to see what it is.
If I do appear in a shape to someone, I transform from that dash into a creature nearly ten feet tall, and extremely thin. If you look closely and your eyes are strong enough to bear the light, you can vaguely see female features, a human shape, but not quite right. Too tall, too thin and some bodyparts at strange sizes, or bodyparts a normal person doesn't have. For instance, I have seven fingers on each hand, and my eyes are a lightsource of their own. They radiate a pale green light, unbearable to those black of heart, and deadly if I want it too. In this shape I am more powerful than in any other. There are no limitations that a body causes, and my energy runs more freely and swiftly. It was in this shape that I came to the Heavens.
'Good day ladies' I heard my father's voice. I turned to Eru. As usual, the only thing I saw was a bright white light. A soothing light; you look at it and you know everthing's gonna be fine.
'Good day father' I greeted him.
'You here too sis?' a familiar voice asked. I turned around to face a deep black mist, the deepest black of all, with red eyes, eyes that loved to see blood spillt. It was about as tall as an Elf, and just like with myself, you could vaguely see female features in the mists that formed my sister, the Goddes of Evil. The darkness was so immense that I couldn't look at it.
'Good to see you, Raukotári (1)' I said to her.
'I wish I could say the same, Meneltári (2)' she answered. Yeah right. She's more evil than bloody Morgoth! Well I guess evil just is as evil does.
'Erumíri (3), calm down. Especially you, Mîr-e-Fuin (4)' father turned to my sister. She crept away into the shadows, in fear of his light 'I want to speak to you two. First things first. Mîr-e-Mantur (5), you know, that as Goddess of Good, you're not allowed to feel hatred towards anything or anybody' a vision of Glorfindel walking towards me appeared in my mind. Father's light grew even brighter of anger. I stepped backwards in fear. Raukotári's shadows grew bigger 'You had better control yourself, or suffer the consequences' he said calmly. Raukotári started laughing at me evilly.
'Oh come on!' she laughed. 'She? Hating somebody? Truly...'
'I wouldn't laugh if I were you' father said to her. She crept into the darkest corner of her shadows. 'You are much worse' I snickered. The Goddess of Evil being worse than me, what else is new? 'She may hate somebody, but not nearly as much as you love somebody else' father said to her. What? She does WHAT?! I suppressed upcoming laughter 'I know more than you think. You cannot shield your thoughts from me, nothing can shield it's thoughts from me'
'So no privacy?' she mumbled.
'This is no time to be funny Mîr-e-Fuin. You had better act the way you should, or he will suffer the consequences.' Ouch, that's gotta suck...
'You leave him out of this!' Raukotári yelled as she stepped into the light. 'I do whatever I like, if I like him, I like him!' Suddenly I felt sorry for her, imagine, not being allowed to love... 'I'll give up all my powers if only I can be with him!' she screamed desperately.
'That is not an option' father spoke.
'It must be part of your great plan! How else could this have happened?'
'Sometimes, some things don't happen according to plan.'
'Surely you must have experience with that!' I laughed at my sister. She glared at me. I shrugged, she can't hurt me anyway.
'Mîr-e-Mantur, enough' father said to me. I fell silent. Slowly I started fading from the Heavens and returned to my body. I woke up. I sat up straight and looked around. Everyone was still asleep. That's odd...
'NO! Don't kill him!' Endomiel yelled in her sleep. She kept tossing and turning, and I wondered if I should wake her up. Somebody knocked on the door. She'd have to wait a moment. I got out of bed and opened the door.
'You wanna get breakfast?' Éomer asked.
'Maybe I should get dressed first' I replied.
'Oh, don't worry, I kinda like your dress' he grinned boyishly as he nodded towards the knee-long nightgown I was wearing.
'It's gonna be cold today'
'I'll keep you warm'
'Dream on'
'I just got out of bed!'
'Very funny. I'll be right back' I closed the door before he could respond and walked to my closet. Then I remembered father's words. Fear crept into my body. I wasn't going to apologize to Glorfindel! I cast a protection spell over myself, to shield me from possible attacks. It wasn't strong enugh to fully protect me from Eru if he got angry, but at least it'd cause him more effort and with people like Elrond around this kind of thing is very handy. In the meantime the others started waking up.
Quickly I got dressed. I wore a long green gown, pretty wide, with complicated patterns on the sleeves. It was one of the more traditional dresses I had, and back home I used to wear it a lot. I picked up my ring, put it on and re-opened the door.
'Ready?' Éomer asked. I nodded. 'You look good' he smiled. I smiled back at him.
'So do you' he took my hand and started walking towards the main entrance of the dormitory. 'I thought we were gonna have breakfast?'
'Change of plans' he responded. He led me out of the building to the backside. The building had no windows on this side and the spot was hidden from view by numerous trees. 'Isn't it perfect?' he asked.
'It's so quiet...'
'Exactly' he pulled me towards him. 'That's what you wanted, right?' I kissed him in response. We spent the following ten minutes there, enjoying each other's company, or kissing, whichever you prefer to say ;), then we headed back to the mess, walking together but not hand in hand. The first thing I noticed when we entered the mess, was that practically everyone was eating from bowls. Is it National Cereal Day or something? We (or actually, Éomer) took a tray and took a place in the line. When we got closer I could see what everybody put in their bowls. Vla. Yeech.
'Hey Éomer, I'll just have cereal again, okay?' I said.
'Sure. Of course. Go ahead. Why, is something wrong?'
'Uh no, it's just that I hate vla' I said. We were next.
'Vla? No! Vla's good! I like it!' Éomer replied. I pulled a face as if I was gonna throw up. Éomer laughed. 'What flavor should I take?' he asked.
'Caramel. I like caramel' I said as I took some cereal and grabbed a can of Mountain dew.
'Cereal and Mountain dew for breakfast? Are you sure?'
'I'm not gonna eat vla!'
'I meant the Mountain dew'
'Oh' we walked towards our friends and sat down at the table. Arwen squealed.
'Oh you guys would make such a cute couple!' she exclaimed.
'You'd better watch out now' Estel said with a grin, 'or she'll have you two engaged before you even know it yourselves'
'Well they should get back together' Arwen said to him. 'I'll lend a hand if I have to'
'Do we also have something to say in that?' Éomer asked her.
'No'
'See what I mean?' Estel said.
'There's nothing wrong about getting married' Arwen defended, 'unless you have a bondage fear'
'Well then, Arwen, there goes your plan' Faramir joined in. 'If anyone at this table suffers from that, it would be Éomer. I'm surprised he's still sitting at our table. He usually runs away screaming in terror at the mention of the word "marriage". Right, Éomer?' we all turned to Éomer for his response. He looked very pale, and was eating his vla at an extremely high tempo. With his other hand he clutched almost desperately to the table.
'Are you okay?' I asked. He sighed and relaxed a little.
'I'm fine'
'You sure you don't need anything?'
'Another bowl of vla, maybe' he looked down at the empty bowl in front of him.
'Alright, I'll get you another one' I said. I stood up to get him another one.
'You moron!' I heard Faramir say. 'You should've said you needed a kiss. Imagine if she'd done that...' I got a new bowl of caramel vla and went back to the table. I handed Éomer the vla.
'Need anything else?' I asked him, wondering if he'd try what Faramir had said. He winked at me.
'A kiss would be good' he said. I sat down next to him.
'Would it?'
'He's hoping you'll actually do it' Faramir said.
'Oh is he?'
'He is'
'And what do you think?'
'What do you mean?'
'Do you think I'll do it?'
'Of course not. That would be getting close. And you don't want that, right? You want them to admire you, but that's all' Faramir said coldly. Oh so we're back at that. Well what he can, I can do better.
'Would you bet on it? On that statement of yours being true, I mean?'
'With anyone at this table for a hundred bucks. Who's in?' he said. Estel raised his hand, followed by Pippin, Merry, and, after a little doubt, Frodo.
'Fine, then it's settled. If I kiss Éomer, Faramir wins, if I don't, the others win' they nodded in agreement.
'Get your money ready guys' Faramir said. I looked at him. He was so sure he was gonna win, it was just funny. They all looked at me expectantly. I waited a moment. 'See I...' Faramir started. I kissed Éomer. '...lost...'
'Hey does this mean you guys are back together?' Arwen asked. I drew back.
'No, it means that Faramir lost the bet' I replied. Faramir glared at me. Sorry boy, point for me. At that point Endomiel and Legolas joined our table. I took a bite of my cereal. Suddenly Endomiel slammed her fist onto the table... Okay... then she started asking everybody what kind of vla they were having. What do you mean, strange behaviour? I resumed eating.
'Don't be such a bitch, just swallow it already' Legolas suddenly said. We all turned our heads in shock-amazement. There was Legolas, looking at something under the table, and that something was Endomiel, hanging over, head down. Oh my friggin' God/dad/Eru!!! She re-appeared above the table, face beet red.
'Too gross!' I exclaimed after the worst shock was over.
'I sure hope he means the vla!'
'Swallow.!?!' we all burst out in hilarious laughter. And then the second surprise came. *KABAM!!!* Endomiel somehow went flying through the mess. I saw a faint blue glow coming from Legolas's direction, then it faded. Somehow Endomiel must've triggered the bracelet, or maybe she tried to take it off... I dunno. Whatever she did, it caused the bracelet to send her flying through the mess. I guess I made the spell on it a bit to strong, because several tables were knocked over, and the students covered with food. Oops...? Well it's too late to change the spell now...
'FOOD FIGHT!!!' someone screamed. Within seconds, everybody in the mess was throwing food at each other. Except for me. Thanks to the spell I had cast earlier this morning I was still clean, but if I stayed too long, people would get suspicions. I stood up and walked towards the exit of the mess. Endomiel threw a bowl of pink vla at me. Eew! Vla! And PINK vla! I hate pink! The spell made it miss by about two inches. Long live that spell!
I went back to my room and picked up a book to read, since I had nothing else to do until class started. After about fifteen minutes there was a knock on the door. I put my book away and opened the door. Before I knew what was happening I got pushed inside and was being kissed.
'I'm sorry' Éomer said when he drew back. 'I just had to do that'
'You idiot! What if other people were in here with me! They would've found out! Have you thought about that?!' I shouted. He pouted and made puppy dog eyes. 'Oh no! It's not gonna work mister! That doesn't work on me! No it doesn't! Really, it's useless! I swear! It works! No wait! Did I just lose my point? I just lost my point right? Shut up! Like I said, it doesn't work, it really doe-' Éomer kissed me again.
'There's no one here, right?' he said.
'No, but-'
'Chill! You're acting as if something crawled up your ass and died there!'
'I do not!'
'Do too!'
'Do not!'
'Do too!'
'Do not!'
'Do too!'
'So do not!'
'So do too!'
'Shut up!'
'You can't take it if you lose, can you?'
'Yes I can! Besides, I never lose'
'Sure Elvy'
'Shut up!'
'See, you're doing it again!'
'Do not!'
'Do too!'
'Do not!'
'Do too!'
'Do not!'
'Do t-' I kissed him. The easiest way to shut him up. It's not like I mind doing it either ;). We spent the remaining time in my room until we had to go to class. Inconspiciously we joined the rest of our group. 'I did win though' Éomer whispered as he walked next to me.
'Did not'
'Did too'
'Did not'
'We're not gonna start this again, are we?'
'I'm not starting it, YOU are starting it!'
'So am not!'
'Yes you are!'
'Am not!'
'See?'
'Not fair! You tricked me!'
'I know' I grinned.
'If it wasn't for the fact that we have class right now...'
'Then what?'
'I'll get back to you on that one' he said as we walk to our seats. Westron was boring. Éomer said I have an accent when I speak it. Glared at him. He said he thought it was sexy. Glared at him some more. Realized it was a compliment. Got us a moment alone after class and kissed him. Then there was... there was... what was there again? Oh right, during Westron still, Endomiel and Legolas had a fight. Something about Endomiel cheating on Legolas with Faramir. Endomiel dragged Faramir out of class. Faramir returned with a blue eye, one side of his face swollen... hah! Suits him well! Hmhmhm... oh right! I remember! We had art class after Westron.
During art class, Celebrían wanted us to paint our emotions, using colors. I was happy (still am, you dumbass) so I used happy colors. Like red and yellow and orange, even... *shudders* ...pink. I was just applying the color when someone said my name from behind me. I turned around, thinking it to be Faramir since he sits behind me in art class, still holding my pencil, purposely stretching my arm out a bit in the hope he'd get pink paint all over his face. He did get pink paint all over his face. Except that it wasn't Faramir, but Éomer... oops?
'Elvea, there is pink paint all over my face' Éomer said in a "I am seriously pissed" sorta voice.
'Oh my, I'm so sorry! Here, let me make it better' I said, a plan taking shape in my mind. I painted a nice butterfly on his face, using a lot of pink, heehee... it looked kinda cute. 'Elvea, what did you do to my face?' he asked, clearly loosing his patience.
'I made a nice butterfly, ask anyone, it's cute!' I squealed.
'I don't want to be cute!' he turned his face. Boromir chuckled, then tried to stiffle his laughter. He failed. Éomer glared at him, took some paint and threw it at Boromir. Boromir ended up having purple paint right in- between his eyes. Of course Boromir wanted vengeance. He missed Éomer though, and Faramir ended up having green paint in his hair. Green, heheh... must've been traumatizing... Faramir glared at me because I was laughing at him, and threw some at me. The spell redirected the paint a bit, and Estel wasn't to happy about his new shirt being covered in orange paint. Merry and Pippin joined the paint fight with that, and Elladan and Elrohir, at that moment turning out to be the type that enjoys making trouble, did the same. Soon almost everyone was throwing paint at each other. Now where have I seen this before...
Then the bell rang. First break. I walked out of the classroom, probably the only one without a single drop of paint on her. Éomer fastened his pace so that he walked next to me. My beautiful butterfly had been ruined by several other colors of paint he'd gotten in his face, and his clothes were covered in colors varying from pink to brown. Frankly he looked like an idiot.
'It seems that you're the only clean person leaving the classroom Elvy' he said, 'even though you started the fight'
'I did not start it! I accidentaly painted a butterfly on your face! You started throwing with paint!'
'See? You just proved my point!' he laughed. I glared. He moved to kiss me. I moved away.
'You didn't think I was gonna let you kiss me when you're covered in paint, now did you? I'd get the paint all over me'
'Damn, you just ruined my brilliant idea of vengeance' he grinned.
'It's not that brilliant. Any idiot could think of it'
'Oh thanks, I feel so intelligent now'
'Said the blonde'
'Look who's talking!'
'Get a shower'
'Huh?'
'You don't want to spend the rest of the day covered in paint, right?'
'No'
'Then get a shower while you still can'
'Yes mother' he said. I glared at him. Again =P. He walked to his room. I followed him. I don't know why, I just followed. I sat down on a bed. 'Elvy, what are you doing?' he asked.
'I'm sitting'
'No shit Sherlock. I meant why?'
'Shut up Watson, and don't question my reasonings. I have a perfectly good reason to sit here'
'Which is?' he said as he took some clean clothes out of the closet.
'Go shower!' I said. He laughed.
'Sure Elvy, a good reason. If you say so...' he walked into the bathroom and closed the door. I waited... and waited... and waited some more... geez how long does he need to take a shower? I stood up and knocked on the bathroom door. Well, I intended to do so anyway. Just at that moment the door flew open. I fell backwards. 'You keep falling for me, don't you Elvy?' Éomer grinned.
'In stead of standing there you could also be a gentleman and help me get up'
'I could...' he held out his hand. I looked at it. What's this? No joking? Where's the catch? I took his hand. He pulled me to my feet. I was caught in his arms. 'I love it when things like these happen' he said. I knew it! I knew it! I knew it all along!
'Is that really all you're interrested in?' I asked him.
'No, but you can't deny that it's a very pleasant activity'
'Your hair smells good'
'Huh?'
'I said your hair smells good'
'Yeah, I got that far, but... never mind' he responded. The bell rang. Eww... archery. I hate archery. I'm not good at it. I hate Glorfindel. No! Wait! Dad! I didn't just think that! Really! I didn't! I'll be a good girl! Nothing happened. Good. We walked to the lockerrooms, separated, and changed to our gym clothes. I walked into the gym. Moments later Glorfindel walked into the gym, looking seriously pissed.
'Class, drop and give me fifty. Lady Elvea, detention' he said.
'What?!' But that's not fair!' I exclaimed. 'I haven't done anything wrong!'
'Oh, haven't you? You're doing something wrong at this very moment. You're arguing with a teacher! That means detention!'
'That's not fair! You started it!'
'Drop and give me two hundred and fifty, Princess!'
'No! That's not-'
'Refusing to do what the teacher tells you to do! Another reason for a detention' he said, look of triumph on his face. I walked over to him.
'You know what I'd like to do right now?!' I asked.
'Well?' he said softly. Wait a second, something is wrong here... why is he sounding so emotional all of a sudden?! Where did the bad mood go? Where did the flower in my hair come from? And the mellorn trees?! And the... how did I end up in my private garden at home? I moved closer to him, so that I was standing against him. What the?! I don't want this! Go back! Take a step back! My body didn't listen. In stead of taking a step back, I kissed him. What the friggin' Mordor is going on?! He wrapped his arms around me and drew back. 'I love you' he whispered in my ear. We kissed again. And I actually enjoyed it. This is not good. This is so not good. I started feeling dizzy. I fell, my head hitting the floor of the gym. I was back where things started. Was it some weird hallucination, a side effect from my illness; or was it daddy Eru trying to tell me I should stop hating Glorfindel, or else...? I got back up, rubbing the back of my head. I felt a serious headache coming up.
'Do you want some ice?' Éowyn asked.
'She'll be fine Éowyn' Glorfindel said before I could reply, 'She's only trying if I will release her from detention'
'What?! I'm not-' I started.
'You're disturbing my class, refusing what I tell you to do and you're continuously interrupting me. Report to my office after class. Now drop and give me fifty' Glorfindel replied. I glared at him. The jerk. We did the fifty push-ups he wanted us to do, much to my annoyance. A princess is not meant for such things. My poor arms... after that we started the archery. Glorfindel kept bugging me, telling me I was doing it all wrong. Felt like shoving my bow and arrows right up his- NO!! Dad! I didn't think that! Really! I swear! I didn't mean it! It was a joke! Really!
I didn't get another vision. In stead, the second part of class started. Fencing. Something I don't suck at. Éomer was my fencing-partner for today, heheh... we started fencing. He's good. No I'm serious! OUW!!! That was my leg! Prepare to die Éomer! Hah! I bet you didn't see that one coming mister! Or this one! Hah! Gotcha! Oi! Ouw! That hurts you know! Stop that! Cut it! Oh shit! Ouwouwouwouw... I hate falling! Hey get your sword away from my throat mister! You are so gonna die! Shut up! Hah! You're in trouble now! Say bye bye to your sword! Yay! Hah! Gotcha! KABAM!!! See, falling hurts! Did I hurt you? Awww... I'm sorry, here I'll- hey! That's cheating! Give me my sword back! No! Not like- aaaaah! No I didn't lose! Did not. Did not. No I didn't. Did not. Shut up Éomer! Now give me my sword! I said- hey cut that out! I'll get you for this! *phweeeeeeet!* Glorfindel's whistle. Aww drat, he made me lose... another reason to- no way, not a vision! I didn't say it dad! Really, I didn't! Lunchbreak. Yay. We left the gym and changed to our normail clothes. I left the lockerrooms and ran into... oh what a surprise... Éomer.
'I so beat you with gym' he said.
'I'll get you next time, wait and see'
'Can't take it that I'm better than you are?'
'I let you win'
'Sure'
'Don't you "sure" me, mister!'
'Hey, sorry...'
'And stop saying sorry! It's really not-' he pulled me behind a tree and kissed me.
'You're seriously way too stressed Elvy. It was only a game, chill...'
'I'll beat you next time anyway'
'We'll see. Now let's get lunch'
'I'm not hungry'
'I am'
'So?'
'There's two of us you know'
'And?'
'I'm getting lunch'
'You're not leaving me behind here!'
'Then come and get lunch'
'No!'
'Whatever' he said, then turned and walked in the direction of the mess.
'You can't leave me standing here!' I shouted.
'Yes I can!' he shouted back.
'No you can't! I'm your girlfriend!'
'And it says where that I can't? How to be a good boyfriend for dummies?'
'Stop mocking me!'
'Okay' he said as he walked away. *jaw drops* I can't believe he just walked away! He just left me for food! He is so dead when I get my hands on him... I spent the rest of my break without Éomer. Annoying boyfriend character. Good thing nobody knows yet. Annunruthiel agreed with me. Boyfriends annoying. Ditch them. Yeah! Hey wait! I'm not gonna dump Éomer! We just got back together! Mani'oio(6)... I got my books and went to class. History first, from Gildor. Turned out to be more like homeroom. We got a lecture on the food fight. That is, Endomiel got a lecture on the food fight. She didn't even get detention! Not fair! After history there was chemistry. From some guy named Aegnor. He's really bad at names, so he brought a map of the class with him, so he could learn easier.
'Okay. Let's get started. Does anybody know any chemicals and their atomic formulas?' Aegnor said. Elanor raised her hand. 'Yes Éowyn?' Éowyn? Okay...
'Uh, sir, I'm Elanor' Elanor responded.
'Then who is Éowyn?' he asked confused. Éowyn raised her hand. 'No, that can't be, on my map it says that you are. wait, that can't be right either...' he scratched the back of his head.
'How do you mean sir?' Éowyn asked.
'On the map it say's your Boromir, but I'm quite sure that Boromir is a boy'
'I am Boromir, sir' Boromir said.
'No, you are Legolas!' Aegnor said in an accusing tone, as if Boromir were lying. What the Mordor is going on?!
'I am Legolas' Legolas said in a clear voice.
'But it says here that you are Vebor!'
'I think your map is wrong sir' Estel concluded.
'I guess so...' Aegnor looked at his map. 'Well, I'll draw a new one then...' He asked everybody's name and drew another map. He then proceeded with his class. 'Faramir, could you tell me the atomic formula of water?'
'H2O' Faramir answered.
'I'm sorry, but are you Faramir?' Aegnor said in a sarcastic tone of voice.
'As a matter of fact, I am' Faramir said dryly.
'Then who is he?' Aegnor asked, pointing at Vebor. 'Elladan, could you go get your dad? I would like to figure this out once and for all' Aegnor said to Elladan. Elladan's probably one of the few he does know by name, since he's Elrond's son.
'Okay sir' Elladan got up and left the classroom. A little while later, he returned with an annoyed Elrond. Elrond explained to him how the map worked, and then took a look at it. He noticed the names were in the wrong places.
'Okay, who changed the maps?' Elrond boomed through the class.
'Somebody changed the maps?' Vebor asked.
'Apparently'
'Cool' Elrond glared at him. 'I mean, like, how childish of him. Or her.' Vebor said quickly. After that Elrond gave Aegnor a new map and put a spell on it, just in case. The rest of the class went on without further complications. Then I had detention. I'm sure dad's got something to do with it. I bet he wants me to apologize. Well it's not gonna happen, evil visions or no. I came to Glorfindel's office. He didn't look that annoyed anymore.
'I uh... came for detention sir' I said, careful as not to get dad pissed.
'Sir? What are you up to, princess?'
'Nothing sir'
'Don't lie to me'
'Don't accuse me of lying'
'Then don't do it'
'I'm not!'
'I'm getting tired of this you know. You're always trying to annoy me, never do as I say... and now this... I fear I will have to report this to the school board if things go on like this'
'Go ahead. I won't get expelled anyway'
'I wouldn't be too sure about that'
'Au contraire. Galadriel and Elrond are in the school board. You know what that means. Besides, even if they wanted to, they don't have the guts to do it. You see, if they expell me, they're in deep trouble. My grandfather will not appreciate it. As High King of the Elves he will not allow it that his own granddaughter should be-'
'Maybe not' Glorfindel cut me off before I could finish. 'But I'm sure he doesn't allow his granddaughter to walk around without the circlet she's supposed to wear. You're insulting him by doing that. I don't think that gets him in a very good mood should the subject come up. His judgement could be affected by that should he hear that you got expelled' triumph crept onto his face. I glared at him.
'You filthy-'
'Now, now... don't go rude on me. You only have to wear the thing and you'll be fine. Of course it doesn't solve the personal problem you seem to have with me. I would very much like to know what I have done that angers you so much'
'You were born. You breathe'
'So you simply dislike me'
'You disgust me!' I shouted. He walked towards me, stopped a step away from me.
'I do? What a pity...' he took another step. We were now practically standing against each other. I found it harder to breathe. He looked down at me, eyes half closed. What if he was going to- eww no! Father must be up to something, he must be behind this somehow... Glorfindel bent his head down a little. I wanted to step back, but found myself unable to move, just like with the vision. No! Not that! Not the kiss! Help! He bent his head down a little further, until our lips nearly touched. He waited a moment. 'Why haven't you moved yet, princess? I disgust you, right? Then surely you don't want anything like this to happen at all. Still you let me get this close... gets you thinking...' he stepped back. I calmly breathed in and out a few time, until I could breathe normally again.
'You're such a creep' I said. 'Am I the only girl you harass like this, or are there others?' he glared at me.
'I'm not harassing you. Sooner the other way around. I can't help it that you keep behaving the way you do. Giving you detention is simply doing my job' he replied.
'Well you know what? I... I...' I said. He smirked.
'Well?'
'I HATE YOU!!!' I shouted. Oops... suddenly there was the sound of an explosion, coming from the dormitory. 'What was that?'
'How am I supposed to know?'
'It came from the dorms'
'You're not-' I ran off to the dorms before Glorfindel could finish his phrase. Estel and Endomiel stood in front of one of the doors, looking at Legolas, who was covered in some blue gooey stuff. Endomiel was picking it out of his hair. Elrond came to see what was wrong.
'What happened here?' he asked angrily.
'We were sitting outside sir' Estel explained, 'And then suddenly we heard a loud bang and we ran inside. Legolas stepped into his room but he slipped and now he's covered in whatever it is that covered everything in the whole room' Elrond looked into the room.
'Who did this?'
'If only I knew.' Legolas grumbled. Elrond started an investigation to find out who had done it, and what the stuff could be. I walked out of the building. I realized Glorfindel was probably seriously pissed that I just ran off like that. Ah well. Creep. I walked towards the forest, hoping he wouldn't look for me there, if he was looking for me.
'Elvea! Wait up!' I turned around. Éomer was running towards me. I waited till he caught up with me. 'Did hear the news yet?'
'What news?' I asked as we started walking.
'Somebody let a glue bomb explode in my room'
'Oh that. Yeah, I knew about it. So it was glue...'
'Yeah. And it's all over my clothes. The joker found it amusing to put open all the closets first before letting the thing explode'
'Oh my...'
'So now I have only these left'
'Do they know who did it yet?'
'Elrond is still doing research. I hope they find whoever it was. Worse is, I have nowhere to sleep tonight'
'The school will arrange things'
'I guess so' he responded. We saw Frodo sitting on the lawn, so we sat with him.
'Hey Frodo' Éomer said. I followed his lead. Frodo smiled at us.
'I was already wondering when I'd find a fellow victim sitting next to me' he said.
'Yeah, well, oh... hey do you have a place to sleep yet?' Éomer asked him.
'No, not really...'
'I guess they'll have another room for us'
'And if they don't?' I asked.
'Well there's always my ex-girlfriend I can count on, right?' he put his arm around my shoulder.
'Yeah, like it's gonna happen'
'Was worth a try'
'Something tells me you two shouldn't have broken up' Frodo said grinning widely, 'or Éomer wouldn't be so flirty. He sure wants you back Elvea'
'Oh does he? Hmmm... things start to make sense now... he made the bomb go off himself, just so he could spend the night with me' I eyed Éomer suspectingly.
'Aww, now you ruined his whole plan'
'I didn't do it!' Éomer exclaimed.
'Sure Éomer' I said. Half a second later I suddenly was somewhere else. As in, the staff section. What the-? How did I end up here? Through a nearby window I could see myself sitting on the lawn, talking to Éomer and Frodo. Okay... I think I get it. I left my body and now my invisible spirit is wandering in the staff section to scare the shit out of Glorfindel. I could still somehow follow the conversation with Éomer and Frodo though.
"...and then when she kissed you this morning..." Frodo.
"Not for love! It was a bet!" Éomer.
"Yeah but I bet that you set it up with your best friend, aka Faramir. It did get me a hundred bucks though" Frodo.
"I didn't set it up" Éomer.
"No. The word 'marriage' makes you freak out by nature..." me, grinning. From the corner of my eye I could see Éomer freeze again.
'Ah! There you are! I've been looking everywhere for you Elvea!' a voice came from behind me. I swiftly spun around. Galadriel. So much for invisibility.
'Uh, oh... hi'
'Do you know how hard it was to find you?'
'Un, no, uh... I was?' I asked.
'Yes, very' Galadriel walked towards the window. What if she saw me sitting there?! Uh-oh!
'NO!' I shouted. Galadriel turned away from the window, confused look on her face.
'Sorry?'
'I mean, uhm... never mind. Why have you been looking for me?' I asked.
"Arwen is plotting something" Frodo.
"Most likely" me.
"Just warn me when I have to hide" Éomer.
'I need to talk to you about... things' Galadriel answered.
'Can... can Éomer come?' I asked. Galadriel smiled at me.
'Sure. I won't take long. Five minutes at most'
'Okay. I need to find him first though'
'No problem, I'll come with you' She said. Uh-oh...
'That's... well I wanted...'
'Time alone' she winked. 'Go on then, I'll be in my office' she turned and walked away. That was close. Now what do I do? There's two me's right now, and they're both me! Why do I always get powers back at all the wrong times?! I don't have this thing under control yet! How do I get back?!
'You two are seriously mocking me' Éomer stated, pulling his lower lip to a pout. Ah, like this. I grinned.
'You're too easy Éomer. Anyway, Galadriel wanted to talk to us, I just remembered that' I said.
'I'll see you two later then' Frodo said.
'Yeah, see you later' I said as I stood up. Éomer followed and we started walking to the staff section.
'I didn't know Galadriel wanted to see us' Éomer said.
'Well, me, mostly. But I wanted you to come with me'
'Why?'
'Why not?'
'Good point'
'I know' I grinned.
'There she goes all arrogant again!' Éomer exclaimed. 'Fair she is indeed! My lady! My love! Her eyes! Her smile! They have me under her spell! The way she speaks... music to my ears... but then... she knows too well what she does to my heart! Alas for me and my helpless soul! She is arrogant! And I don't even mind! Where will it lead me, I wonder greatly!'
'So... Dramaboy... you think I'm arrogant?'
'As a matter of fact, I do'
'I am not!'
'Are too'
'Am not'
'Are too'
'Am not'
'Are too'
'Am not'
'Are too'
'I win'
'You can't do that!'
'Yes I can'
'No you can't'
'Yes I can'
'No you can't'
'Yes I can'
'Silence, arrogant one'
'Shut up, human'
'That didn't make sense'
'So?'
'Never mind'
'Oh can we stop by my room, I need to pick something up'
'Sure' he shrugged and walked into the dorms. 'Anyway, Elvy, you're a bit to arrogant at times'
'Are you saying I should change?'
'Not at all. Please do it more often. I find it very...' as we approached my room, we could hear Estel speaking inside.
'Very...?' I asked. Éomer grinned.
'Take a guess'
'Elegant? Charming?'
'Guess again'
'Looks good on me?'
'That too, but no, I was aiming at something else'
'At what?'
'I think it's, well, sexy' he grinned. I smacked my forehead. Some guys...
'We're sorry' we heard Estel say. 'We didn't mean to disturb you'
'Disturb who? Éomer asked as we entered the room. Estel pointed into the bathroom. There were Endomiel and Legolas, lying completely soaked in the bathtub, Legolas without his shirt, on top of Endomiel... 'Ooh...' Éomer gave Legolas thumbs up. Guys...
'Okay people, I guess we have some explaining to do' Endomiel said. 'Nothing happened. I was picking the blue stuff out of Leg's hair when I slipped and fell backwards into the tub. Trying to keep my balance, I grabbed Legolas's shoulders, but he fell too. Then you guys walked in. There's nothing going on, really!'
'Sure. You don't have to make excuses to us, we won't tell anybody. And we'll leave now, so you can continue. cleaning his hair' Estel said as he pushed Arwen, Éomer and myself out of the room. 'Come on guys, let's give them some privacy.'
'They'd like that...' Éomer grinned.
'Wouldn't you?' Estel responded, nodding in my direction. Éomer's face flushed.
'Come on Elvea, didn't you have to go see Galadriel or something?' he asked, then dragged me out of the dormitory.
'Why such a hurry?' I asked him.
'No reason'
'Whatever' We walked to Galadriel's office. I knocked on the door.
'Come in'
'Galadriel? You wanted to see me?' I asked.
'Yes. I just wanted to say that I'm very proud of you'
'Oh... okay... uh... why?'
'For the way you managed to get permission for Estel and Arwen to get married'
'You mean Lord Elrond gave formal permission?'
'Yes'
'That's wonderful!'
'Indeed it is. But try not to tell too much people, okay?'
'Promise'
'Good. Run along now!' we left her office.
'That went fast' Éomer stated the obvious.
'Uh, yeah...'
'She does have a point... I think you should be rewarded' he wrapped his arms around me.
'I thought you said reward. Isn't this more of a punishment?'
'Bad girl' he bent his head down. Somebody cleared the throat. Just great. *Another* person to interrupt us. We turned around. A tall girl was looking at us, arms folded, smirk on her face. I think I seen her with Anna once, I'm not sure, but I think she's in F:d.
'Sorry to interrupt' she said.
'You'd better' Éomer mumbled under his breath.
'I heard that' she sent him half a glare. She turned to me. 'Are you Elvea?'
'Yeah, that's me'
'Hi, I'm Melandune' we shook hands. 'I heard that you got Elrond to give permission for Arwen's wedding... oh come on! Don't look so shocked! No one else knows! I just happened to hear Elrond...'
'Oh, ok...'
'So anyway, I just wanted to let you know that it's a really great thing you did. And very brave. I mean, we're talking Elrond here...' she pulled a face. We started laughing. Just then, Elrond passed by and raised and eyebrow. If only he knew...
'Maybe we should go some other place, it's not safe here...' Éomer said. We walked out of the Staff Section and sat down on the lawn.
'So how long have you two been together?' Melandune asked.
'How did you know we-' I said.
'He was about to kiss you. It was pretty obvious'
'Well maybe we were about to get together but you had bad timing'
'I don't think so'
'You won't tell anybody, will you?'
'Not me, but I have to warn you. If you're trying to keep it secret, hide it better. Public hallways aren't really a good hidingplace'
'Thanks'
'Any time'
'Hey do you happen to know anything about the bomb incident?' Éomer asked her.
'Blue superglue bomb. It'll take till tomorrow afternoon before the whole mess is cleaned up. Oh and Elrond wants to see your class in his office later tonight'
'How do you know all that?' I aksed.
'Oh, let's call it insight...' she jumped up. 'Well, was nice chatting with you two, but I really have to go now, bye!' she ran off.
'That was odd...' Éomer said.
'Yeah, it was a bit weird indeed...'
'It's dinnertime'
'That didn't make sense'
'What do you mean?'
'You just switched subject'
'So?'
'That doesn't make sense'
'My stomach rumbles. It DOES make sense. Come on, let's get dinner' he stood up. I shrugged. Mani'oio... I followed him to the mess. We got food and sat down with the others. Not much to tell, except Legolas and Endomiel had an argument with Vebor or something and the couple ended up cleaning the floor.
After that we went outside to take a walk. Arwen and Estel went with us at first, Arwen thanking me a million times for getting Elrond's permission, but eventually they left us alone, probably for two reasons. One, they probably had some "urgent business", and two, it was probably another one of Arwen's silent hints for us to get back together. If only she knew... as we walked over the lawn, we saw Endomiel and Legolas, attacking each other with branches, "fencing". Okay...
'Come here!' Legolas yelled at Endomiel. 'I'll chop you into little pieces!' I raised my eyebrow.
'You'll have to catch me first!' Endomiel yelled back.
'Just wait, I'll get you!' Legolas shouted as he chased her over the lawn. We watched the couple for a while, but since neither of us really knew what the Morder they were doing, we walked along. Time flew by, and before I knew it, we were sitting with the class in Elrond's office, listening to a lecture. Endomiel was late.
'As I was saying.' Elrond continued, 'Somebody placed a glue bomb inside of one of the rooms. It is the room of Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Peregrin Took, Éomer Éadig and Legolas Greenleaf. All their stuff has been covered in glue, for whoever put the bomb there, opened all the closets before it went off. My question to you was, if you had seen anybody from another class enter your private hallway, or come out of it' Nobody had seen anyone. 'Then it must be somebody from this class. I ask for the one who did it to tell me this week, for if you turn yourself in, the punishment will be lightened. Keep in mind, that you may skip a class project and pass it with an "A" if you tell who did it.' Would anyone rat on their friends? 'This is not ratting, this is helping to solve a crime, for this paint bomb is a crime indeed...' and so on, Elrond went on for quite a while. Finally he stopped and we could ask questions concerning the bomb.
'Where do we sleep tonight?' Sam asked.
'Uhm.' Elrond said,it was obvious he hadn't thought of that yet. 'We are going to allow you to sleep in other rooms for tonight, and tonight only' he answered.
'Does that mean I get to sleep on the girl's room tonight?' Legolas asked, wide grin on his face. Sigh...
'No.' Elrond said.
'Why not?' Éomer asked, also grinning. I nudged him. 'Oow, that hurts you know' he whispered at me.
'Because the girls wouldn't want that.' Elrond replied.
'Who said that?' Rosie giggled. And once again someone cornered Elrond...
'Well. if none of the girls mind, I guess you could sleep with them.' Elrond responded, thoughtful look on his face.
'You will never fit enough spare beds into their room' Legolas grinned. 'We will have to share beds.'
'I will arrange a supervisor' Elrond said after a while. The guys cursed softly under their breath. Sigh again... after that we could leave. We left his Elrond's office, and together with Éomer, Estel, Arwen, Faramir, Sam, Rosie and Éowyn I sat down on the lawn.
'So we're all settled for the night then...' Estel said. 'Sam and Rosie, Legolas and Endomiel, the other hobbits in other rooms, me and Arwen...'
'Hey! The bomb didn't explode in your room!' Éowyn exclaimed. Estel grinned.
'So?'
'I'm not settled yet' Éomer said, sideways glancing at me. They all turned and looked at me expectingly.
'WHAT?!'
'He could be with you...' Estel suggested.
'No way!'
'Come on Elvea, we all know you want to, let alone Éomer' Sam grinned.
'Who said that?!'
'We do' Arwen answered.
'But...'
'It's just one night...' Rosie joined in.
'Oh no! Nononononono! It's not gonna happen!'
'Please Elvea?' Éomer puppy dog eyed and pouted his lip. 'I won't bite...' he grinned, '...unless you want me to, of course'
'Don't tell me you can resist that' Faramir said, nodding towards Éomer's pout and puppy eyes. 'I don't know a single girl who can'
'Besides, there's gonna be a supervisor, so if he's annoying, you can kick him out' Estel added.
'I won't cause you trouble, I promise' Éomer pleaded. Faramir slyly smiled.
'It's not working, Éomer. Give it up. She's gonna say no anyway. Like I said this morning, she only wants to tease' I glared at him. We'll see about that, Faramir.
'If you annoy me, prepare to sleep outside' I said to Éomer. The guys' eyes grew big.
'It's a yes?' Éomer asked in disbelieve.
'What did it sound like?'
'Thanks man' Éomer gave Faramir thumbs up. Hey! I've been set up! Not fair! Just wait, I'll get them! The others then got up and left us alone.
'You set me up' I accused Éomer.
'Not me, Faramir'
'Still... if my parents hear of this, they'll kill me'
'What do you mean?'
'I'm a High-elven princess, as you know. That means that honor is my most valuable possesion. I have to live in shame forever if I lose it. Spending a night with a guy I'm not bound to, either betrothal or marriage, does not fit in the picture of honor'
'Even if you don't do anything?'
'Even then'
'So I guess I'm causing you trouble already... I'm sorry...'
'No, it's okay, as long as my parents don't know of it, I'm fine...'
'I think it's a pretty brave thing to do then, if your parents actually won't hear of it'
'It's risky... they could force us to... if they find out, I mean... to save my honor they'd probably... you know... to me it wouldn't be so bad, I've lived centuries already. But for you, to be bound in a way like that... you're still so young...'
'I don't think it'll come to that. And if they force us to, I don't think I should complain. A guy would be crazy if he did...' he kissed me. 'Certainly if he loves you'
'Nor would the girl...' I kissed him, '...if she loves him' we got up and walked to my room. It was getting late, and we didn't want the supervisor to get mad at us. I walked into the bathroom with the other girls to get changed.
'I can't believe they'd let us do this.' Arwen said.
'Neither can I!' Rosie said. 'I bet I'll sleep extra good tonight, don't you think so, Endomiel?' Endomiel's face flushed.
'Uhm, no, not really...' she replied.
'Is it that you don't like Legolas's idea, or is it. something else?'
'I don't like his idea.' She answered quickly. Hmmm... wonder if something's wrong... she put on her sweatpants.
'You never sleep with pants on.' Arwen accused her.
'I do now' she replied dryly. I pulled my nightgown over my head.
'High expectations huh?'
'No, I don't want to get the supervisor mad before we even get into the bed.'
'Who is the supervisor tonight anyway?' Arwen asked.
'I don't know...' Endomiel answered. Somebody knocked on our room's door.
'Is everybody decent in there?' someone asked.
'It's Glorfindel.' Elanor sighed happily. She dreamed off... please don't tell me this is true... we stepped out of the bathroom. The guys were almost done as well, except that Estel didn't have his shirt on yet. Not bad... Bad girl! You're taken! I turned to Éomer. He sat on the bed, in his boxers.
'Where's the rest?' I asked him.
'In the lab' he answered, 'all my stuff was covered in glue remember? Besides, I don't think that, if you're honest with yourself, you really mind...'
'True...' I lay down in the bed. He lay down behind me, his arm around my waist.
'Do you mind?' he whispered.
'It's okay' Glorfindel turned off the lights. Éomer tickled me. 'Stop it' I hissed, trying to suppress laughter.
'I can't help it...'
'You made a promise!'
'It's a promise hard to keep' he carefully turned me so that I laid on me back. He leaned over me. 'Especially because you look so beautiful right now'
'Don't suck up Éomer...'
'I mean it... in total darkness, you radiate a white light... soothing... can't take my eyes off it...' he leaned down and kissed me. While doing so, he started to tickle my side again. I started laughing, but since we were kissing, it ended up in being an odd sound.
'Elvea and Éomer, stop that this instant!' Glorfindel yelled at us. Éomer stopped tickling me. We continued kissing. Glorfindel can drop dead for all I care.
'Endomiel, where are you going?' Éowyn asked after some time. A moment of silence.
'We don't even have a dog!' Endomiel yelled. Legolas started to laugh.
'What is going on with you two?' Éomer asked them.
'Nothing' came the reply of Endomiel.
'Endy isn't that bright at night.' Legolas laughed again. They went on arguing for a while. Right about then Éomer decided to start kissing my neck.
'Would you two shut up?' Éowyn asked Legolas and Endomiel, who were still arguing. 'And Éomer, stop that will you? It's too gross. I don't want to see my brother doing that while I'm laying in the bed next to you!'
'Then look the other way...' Éomer replied.
'They're worse!' Éowyn sighed.
'All of you, stop it!' Glorfindel said irritatedly. Éomer lay back down next to me.
'Sorry.' Legolas and Endomiel said in unison.
'Go to sleep already!' Glorfindel said grouchily. It became quiet in the room. Soon everybody was asleep, except me and Glorfindel.
'Are you still awake?' Éomer whispered. Okay, and Éomer.
'I can't sleep' I replied.
'Is it... is it because of me?' he asked hesitantly.
'No, it's because of Mr. Poncy... he gets on my nerves...' I whispered. Éomer laughed.
'Silence you two' Glorfindel glared in our direction. 'And get to sleep'
'Somebody's kranky...' Éomer whispered. My turn to laugh. I turned around and kissed him. Glorfindel walked towards my bed.
'You'd better behaven, princess' he hissed, 'or your parents will not be happy to hear of this... they might just call you back home'
'The school board might also just hear of a certain PE-teacher that harasses students' I said as I got out of bed. He glared at me.
'You wouldn't lie... besides, they won't believe you'
'Oh no? I've had years of drama lessons, they'll believe me. And even if they don't, grandfather will. You know what that means...'
'Don't think you won, princess, I haven't played my final card yet. Trust me, I will win' he turned around and sat back down. I got back in bed, pondering on the meaning of those last words. It was late when I finally fell asleep.
I was walking in my private garden, singing. Suddenly someone jumped me, and both me and the person fell to the ground, laughing.
'Got you' Glorfindel said. He leaned down and kissed me.
'I surrender' I laughed. 'You win'
'What is my prize?'
'What do you wish for?'
'Not much... just one thing...' he paused. 'There's only one thing I desire, and I desire it greatly'
'What is it?'
'Haven't you guessed yet? I desire... you...' we kissed again.
'You already have me...'
'Would you be mine for eternity, if it were asked of you?'
'You know the answer'
'I know in my heart, but I would hear you say it' he said shyly.
'I would love to... more than anything in the world... I love you'
'I love you too...' we kissed again. His hand went down to mine, to the ring on my finger. The other went to the necklace I wore. I woke up with a scream. Éomer moaned next to me.
'What's wrong?' he asked, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.
'Nothing, I had a nightmare...' I looked around. Everybody had left the room, even Glorfin-git. Time to get breakfast then... I snapped my fingers. Full account of the day was now in my diary. Being a Goddess sure has advantages...
Kisses, Elvy.
(1) Raukotári = "Queen of Demons", one out of many names for the Goddess of Evil, one of her preferred names.
(2) Meneltári = "Heavenly Queen" or "Queen of the Heavens", name most commonly used for the Goddess of Good, one out of many.
(3) Erumíri = Jewels of Eru
(4) Mîr-e-Fuin = Jewel of Darkness
(5) Mîr-e-Mantur = Jewel of the Good Power
(6) Mani'oio = whatever in Elvish
E/N: Finally done. Don't blame me, blame Endy. She took so long... Anyway, *fill in usual plea for reviews* we still need more characters for our classes. That is: Humans, Hobbits, a couple of Dwarves *shudders at the thought of Dwarves* and a couple of Ents, if possible. We also need MALE ELVES and more guys of all species... if you have a character, LET US KNOW!!!
Disclaimer: I don't own them *bursts into sobs*
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Chapter 12 - The consequenses of hate
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Day fifteen, the 21st of Halimath, 1384 (Shire Reckoning)
Anarya, the 42nd of Yávië (Iavas), 2984 T.A. (Calendar of Imladris)
Dear diary,
I wonder if I ever told you why I chose to live as a person with a real body and feelings, sensitive to everything any other person is sensitive for. Well, I wanted to understand the world better, wanted to understand the how's and why's, I wanted to understand the reasonings of living creatures, and I was willing to give up life in the Heavens for that purpose.
So I told daddy Eru that I was leaving the Heavens and was sort of, well, "reborn" in a real body. I was still the same being as I used to be, the Goddess of all Good, but now with limitations, with rules I had to stick to. If I do break the rules, well let's say having an almighty God as your father is a very bad thing when you break the rules. Trust me, you don't want to mess with him. But in a body, you're sooner to make a mistake, to do things wrong, to forget or to break a rule. Which was the reason that daddy called me back to the Heavens to talk to me.
It was in the middle of the night, I was sleeping a dreamless sleep. Suddenly my soul, or the spirit that I really am, was torn from my body and before I knew it I was back up in the Heavens.
The real me isn't much more than a spirit, a bright source of light and life. Sometimes you can see me from the corner of your eye, as a thin and bright source of light and life. I'm the bright white, yet very pale blue, vertical dash in your corner of your eye, the dash that disappears as soon as you turn your head to see what it is.
If I do appear in a shape to someone, I transform from that dash into a creature nearly ten feet tall, and extremely thin. If you look closely and your eyes are strong enough to bear the light, you can vaguely see female features, a human shape, but not quite right. Too tall, too thin and some bodyparts at strange sizes, or bodyparts a normal person doesn't have. For instance, I have seven fingers on each hand, and my eyes are a lightsource of their own. They radiate a pale green light, unbearable to those black of heart, and deadly if I want it too. In this shape I am more powerful than in any other. There are no limitations that a body causes, and my energy runs more freely and swiftly. It was in this shape that I came to the Heavens.
'Good day ladies' I heard my father's voice. I turned to Eru. As usual, the only thing I saw was a bright white light. A soothing light; you look at it and you know everthing's gonna be fine.
'Good day father' I greeted him.
'You here too sis?' a familiar voice asked. I turned around to face a deep black mist, the deepest black of all, with red eyes, eyes that loved to see blood spillt. It was about as tall as an Elf, and just like with myself, you could vaguely see female features in the mists that formed my sister, the Goddes of Evil. The darkness was so immense that I couldn't look at it.
'Good to see you, Raukotári (1)' I said to her.
'I wish I could say the same, Meneltári (2)' she answered. Yeah right. She's more evil than bloody Morgoth! Well I guess evil just is as evil does.
'Erumíri (3), calm down. Especially you, Mîr-e-Fuin (4)' father turned to my sister. She crept away into the shadows, in fear of his light 'I want to speak to you two. First things first. Mîr-e-Mantur (5), you know, that as Goddess of Good, you're not allowed to feel hatred towards anything or anybody' a vision of Glorfindel walking towards me appeared in my mind. Father's light grew even brighter of anger. I stepped backwards in fear. Raukotári's shadows grew bigger 'You had better control yourself, or suffer the consequences' he said calmly. Raukotári started laughing at me evilly.
'Oh come on!' she laughed. 'She? Hating somebody? Truly...'
'I wouldn't laugh if I were you' father said to her. She crept into the darkest corner of her shadows. 'You are much worse' I snickered. The Goddess of Evil being worse than me, what else is new? 'She may hate somebody, but not nearly as much as you love somebody else' father said to her. What? She does WHAT?! I suppressed upcoming laughter 'I know more than you think. You cannot shield your thoughts from me, nothing can shield it's thoughts from me'
'So no privacy?' she mumbled.
'This is no time to be funny Mîr-e-Fuin. You had better act the way you should, or he will suffer the consequences.' Ouch, that's gotta suck...
'You leave him out of this!' Raukotári yelled as she stepped into the light. 'I do whatever I like, if I like him, I like him!' Suddenly I felt sorry for her, imagine, not being allowed to love... 'I'll give up all my powers if only I can be with him!' she screamed desperately.
'That is not an option' father spoke.
'It must be part of your great plan! How else could this have happened?'
'Sometimes, some things don't happen according to plan.'
'Surely you must have experience with that!' I laughed at my sister. She glared at me. I shrugged, she can't hurt me anyway.
'Mîr-e-Mantur, enough' father said to me. I fell silent. Slowly I started fading from the Heavens and returned to my body. I woke up. I sat up straight and looked around. Everyone was still asleep. That's odd...
'NO! Don't kill him!' Endomiel yelled in her sleep. She kept tossing and turning, and I wondered if I should wake her up. Somebody knocked on the door. She'd have to wait a moment. I got out of bed and opened the door.
'You wanna get breakfast?' Éomer asked.
'Maybe I should get dressed first' I replied.
'Oh, don't worry, I kinda like your dress' he grinned boyishly as he nodded towards the knee-long nightgown I was wearing.
'It's gonna be cold today'
'I'll keep you warm'
'Dream on'
'I just got out of bed!'
'Very funny. I'll be right back' I closed the door before he could respond and walked to my closet. Then I remembered father's words. Fear crept into my body. I wasn't going to apologize to Glorfindel! I cast a protection spell over myself, to shield me from possible attacks. It wasn't strong enugh to fully protect me from Eru if he got angry, but at least it'd cause him more effort and with people like Elrond around this kind of thing is very handy. In the meantime the others started waking up.
Quickly I got dressed. I wore a long green gown, pretty wide, with complicated patterns on the sleeves. It was one of the more traditional dresses I had, and back home I used to wear it a lot. I picked up my ring, put it on and re-opened the door.
'Ready?' Éomer asked. I nodded. 'You look good' he smiled. I smiled back at him.
'So do you' he took my hand and started walking towards the main entrance of the dormitory. 'I thought we were gonna have breakfast?'
'Change of plans' he responded. He led me out of the building to the backside. The building had no windows on this side and the spot was hidden from view by numerous trees. 'Isn't it perfect?' he asked.
'It's so quiet...'
'Exactly' he pulled me towards him. 'That's what you wanted, right?' I kissed him in response. We spent the following ten minutes there, enjoying each other's company, or kissing, whichever you prefer to say ;), then we headed back to the mess, walking together but not hand in hand. The first thing I noticed when we entered the mess, was that practically everyone was eating from bowls. Is it National Cereal Day or something? We (or actually, Éomer) took a tray and took a place in the line. When we got closer I could see what everybody put in their bowls. Vla. Yeech.
'Hey Éomer, I'll just have cereal again, okay?' I said.
'Sure. Of course. Go ahead. Why, is something wrong?'
'Uh no, it's just that I hate vla' I said. We were next.
'Vla? No! Vla's good! I like it!' Éomer replied. I pulled a face as if I was gonna throw up. Éomer laughed. 'What flavor should I take?' he asked.
'Caramel. I like caramel' I said as I took some cereal and grabbed a can of Mountain dew.
'Cereal and Mountain dew for breakfast? Are you sure?'
'I'm not gonna eat vla!'
'I meant the Mountain dew'
'Oh' we walked towards our friends and sat down at the table. Arwen squealed.
'Oh you guys would make such a cute couple!' she exclaimed.
'You'd better watch out now' Estel said with a grin, 'or she'll have you two engaged before you even know it yourselves'
'Well they should get back together' Arwen said to him. 'I'll lend a hand if I have to'
'Do we also have something to say in that?' Éomer asked her.
'No'
'See what I mean?' Estel said.
'There's nothing wrong about getting married' Arwen defended, 'unless you have a bondage fear'
'Well then, Arwen, there goes your plan' Faramir joined in. 'If anyone at this table suffers from that, it would be Éomer. I'm surprised he's still sitting at our table. He usually runs away screaming in terror at the mention of the word "marriage". Right, Éomer?' we all turned to Éomer for his response. He looked very pale, and was eating his vla at an extremely high tempo. With his other hand he clutched almost desperately to the table.
'Are you okay?' I asked. He sighed and relaxed a little.
'I'm fine'
'You sure you don't need anything?'
'Another bowl of vla, maybe' he looked down at the empty bowl in front of him.
'Alright, I'll get you another one' I said. I stood up to get him another one.
'You moron!' I heard Faramir say. 'You should've said you needed a kiss. Imagine if she'd done that...' I got a new bowl of caramel vla and went back to the table. I handed Éomer the vla.
'Need anything else?' I asked him, wondering if he'd try what Faramir had said. He winked at me.
'A kiss would be good' he said. I sat down next to him.
'Would it?'
'He's hoping you'll actually do it' Faramir said.
'Oh is he?'
'He is'
'And what do you think?'
'What do you mean?'
'Do you think I'll do it?'
'Of course not. That would be getting close. And you don't want that, right? You want them to admire you, but that's all' Faramir said coldly. Oh so we're back at that. Well what he can, I can do better.
'Would you bet on it? On that statement of yours being true, I mean?'
'With anyone at this table for a hundred bucks. Who's in?' he said. Estel raised his hand, followed by Pippin, Merry, and, after a little doubt, Frodo.
'Fine, then it's settled. If I kiss Éomer, Faramir wins, if I don't, the others win' they nodded in agreement.
'Get your money ready guys' Faramir said. I looked at him. He was so sure he was gonna win, it was just funny. They all looked at me expectantly. I waited a moment. 'See I...' Faramir started. I kissed Éomer. '...lost...'
'Hey does this mean you guys are back together?' Arwen asked. I drew back.
'No, it means that Faramir lost the bet' I replied. Faramir glared at me. Sorry boy, point for me. At that point Endomiel and Legolas joined our table. I took a bite of my cereal. Suddenly Endomiel slammed her fist onto the table... Okay... then she started asking everybody what kind of vla they were having. What do you mean, strange behaviour? I resumed eating.
'Don't be such a bitch, just swallow it already' Legolas suddenly said. We all turned our heads in shock-amazement. There was Legolas, looking at something under the table, and that something was Endomiel, hanging over, head down. Oh my friggin' God/dad/Eru!!! She re-appeared above the table, face beet red.
'Too gross!' I exclaimed after the worst shock was over.
'I sure hope he means the vla!'
'Swallow.!?!' we all burst out in hilarious laughter. And then the second surprise came. *KABAM!!!* Endomiel somehow went flying through the mess. I saw a faint blue glow coming from Legolas's direction, then it faded. Somehow Endomiel must've triggered the bracelet, or maybe she tried to take it off... I dunno. Whatever she did, it caused the bracelet to send her flying through the mess. I guess I made the spell on it a bit to strong, because several tables were knocked over, and the students covered with food. Oops...? Well it's too late to change the spell now...
'FOOD FIGHT!!!' someone screamed. Within seconds, everybody in the mess was throwing food at each other. Except for me. Thanks to the spell I had cast earlier this morning I was still clean, but if I stayed too long, people would get suspicions. I stood up and walked towards the exit of the mess. Endomiel threw a bowl of pink vla at me. Eew! Vla! And PINK vla! I hate pink! The spell made it miss by about two inches. Long live that spell!
I went back to my room and picked up a book to read, since I had nothing else to do until class started. After about fifteen minutes there was a knock on the door. I put my book away and opened the door. Before I knew what was happening I got pushed inside and was being kissed.
'I'm sorry' Éomer said when he drew back. 'I just had to do that'
'You idiot! What if other people were in here with me! They would've found out! Have you thought about that?!' I shouted. He pouted and made puppy dog eyes. 'Oh no! It's not gonna work mister! That doesn't work on me! No it doesn't! Really, it's useless! I swear! It works! No wait! Did I just lose my point? I just lost my point right? Shut up! Like I said, it doesn't work, it really doe-' Éomer kissed me again.
'There's no one here, right?' he said.
'No, but-'
'Chill! You're acting as if something crawled up your ass and died there!'
'I do not!'
'Do too!'
'Do not!'
'Do too!'
'Do not!'
'Do too!'
'So do not!'
'So do too!'
'Shut up!'
'You can't take it if you lose, can you?'
'Yes I can! Besides, I never lose'
'Sure Elvy'
'Shut up!'
'See, you're doing it again!'
'Do not!'
'Do too!'
'Do not!'
'Do too!'
'Do not!'
'Do t-' I kissed him. The easiest way to shut him up. It's not like I mind doing it either ;). We spent the remaining time in my room until we had to go to class. Inconspiciously we joined the rest of our group. 'I did win though' Éomer whispered as he walked next to me.
'Did not'
'Did too'
'Did not'
'We're not gonna start this again, are we?'
'I'm not starting it, YOU are starting it!'
'So am not!'
'Yes you are!'
'Am not!'
'See?'
'Not fair! You tricked me!'
'I know' I grinned.
'If it wasn't for the fact that we have class right now...'
'Then what?'
'I'll get back to you on that one' he said as we walk to our seats. Westron was boring. Éomer said I have an accent when I speak it. Glared at him. He said he thought it was sexy. Glared at him some more. Realized it was a compliment. Got us a moment alone after class and kissed him. Then there was... there was... what was there again? Oh right, during Westron still, Endomiel and Legolas had a fight. Something about Endomiel cheating on Legolas with Faramir. Endomiel dragged Faramir out of class. Faramir returned with a blue eye, one side of his face swollen... hah! Suits him well! Hmhmhm... oh right! I remember! We had art class after Westron.
During art class, Celebrían wanted us to paint our emotions, using colors. I was happy (still am, you dumbass) so I used happy colors. Like red and yellow and orange, even... *shudders* ...pink. I was just applying the color when someone said my name from behind me. I turned around, thinking it to be Faramir since he sits behind me in art class, still holding my pencil, purposely stretching my arm out a bit in the hope he'd get pink paint all over his face. He did get pink paint all over his face. Except that it wasn't Faramir, but Éomer... oops?
'Elvea, there is pink paint all over my face' Éomer said in a "I am seriously pissed" sorta voice.
'Oh my, I'm so sorry! Here, let me make it better' I said, a plan taking shape in my mind. I painted a nice butterfly on his face, using a lot of pink, heehee... it looked kinda cute. 'Elvea, what did you do to my face?' he asked, clearly loosing his patience.
'I made a nice butterfly, ask anyone, it's cute!' I squealed.
'I don't want to be cute!' he turned his face. Boromir chuckled, then tried to stiffle his laughter. He failed. Éomer glared at him, took some paint and threw it at Boromir. Boromir ended up having purple paint right in- between his eyes. Of course Boromir wanted vengeance. He missed Éomer though, and Faramir ended up having green paint in his hair. Green, heheh... must've been traumatizing... Faramir glared at me because I was laughing at him, and threw some at me. The spell redirected the paint a bit, and Estel wasn't to happy about his new shirt being covered in orange paint. Merry and Pippin joined the paint fight with that, and Elladan and Elrohir, at that moment turning out to be the type that enjoys making trouble, did the same. Soon almost everyone was throwing paint at each other. Now where have I seen this before...
Then the bell rang. First break. I walked out of the classroom, probably the only one without a single drop of paint on her. Éomer fastened his pace so that he walked next to me. My beautiful butterfly had been ruined by several other colors of paint he'd gotten in his face, and his clothes were covered in colors varying from pink to brown. Frankly he looked like an idiot.
'It seems that you're the only clean person leaving the classroom Elvy' he said, 'even though you started the fight'
'I did not start it! I accidentaly painted a butterfly on your face! You started throwing with paint!'
'See? You just proved my point!' he laughed. I glared. He moved to kiss me. I moved away.
'You didn't think I was gonna let you kiss me when you're covered in paint, now did you? I'd get the paint all over me'
'Damn, you just ruined my brilliant idea of vengeance' he grinned.
'It's not that brilliant. Any idiot could think of it'
'Oh thanks, I feel so intelligent now'
'Said the blonde'
'Look who's talking!'
'Get a shower'
'Huh?'
'You don't want to spend the rest of the day covered in paint, right?'
'No'
'Then get a shower while you still can'
'Yes mother' he said. I glared at him. Again =P. He walked to his room. I followed him. I don't know why, I just followed. I sat down on a bed. 'Elvy, what are you doing?' he asked.
'I'm sitting'
'No shit Sherlock. I meant why?'
'Shut up Watson, and don't question my reasonings. I have a perfectly good reason to sit here'
'Which is?' he said as he took some clean clothes out of the closet.
'Go shower!' I said. He laughed.
'Sure Elvy, a good reason. If you say so...' he walked into the bathroom and closed the door. I waited... and waited... and waited some more... geez how long does he need to take a shower? I stood up and knocked on the bathroom door. Well, I intended to do so anyway. Just at that moment the door flew open. I fell backwards. 'You keep falling for me, don't you Elvy?' Éomer grinned.
'In stead of standing there you could also be a gentleman and help me get up'
'I could...' he held out his hand. I looked at it. What's this? No joking? Where's the catch? I took his hand. He pulled me to my feet. I was caught in his arms. 'I love it when things like these happen' he said. I knew it! I knew it! I knew it all along!
'Is that really all you're interrested in?' I asked him.
'No, but you can't deny that it's a very pleasant activity'
'Your hair smells good'
'Huh?'
'I said your hair smells good'
'Yeah, I got that far, but... never mind' he responded. The bell rang. Eww... archery. I hate archery. I'm not good at it. I hate Glorfindel. No! Wait! Dad! I didn't just think that! Really! I didn't! I'll be a good girl! Nothing happened. Good. We walked to the lockerrooms, separated, and changed to our gym clothes. I walked into the gym. Moments later Glorfindel walked into the gym, looking seriously pissed.
'Class, drop and give me fifty. Lady Elvea, detention' he said.
'What?!' But that's not fair!' I exclaimed. 'I haven't done anything wrong!'
'Oh, haven't you? You're doing something wrong at this very moment. You're arguing with a teacher! That means detention!'
'That's not fair! You started it!'
'Drop and give me two hundred and fifty, Princess!'
'No! That's not-'
'Refusing to do what the teacher tells you to do! Another reason for a detention' he said, look of triumph on his face. I walked over to him.
'You know what I'd like to do right now?!' I asked.
'Well?' he said softly. Wait a second, something is wrong here... why is he sounding so emotional all of a sudden?! Where did the bad mood go? Where did the flower in my hair come from? And the mellorn trees?! And the... how did I end up in my private garden at home? I moved closer to him, so that I was standing against him. What the?! I don't want this! Go back! Take a step back! My body didn't listen. In stead of taking a step back, I kissed him. What the friggin' Mordor is going on?! He wrapped his arms around me and drew back. 'I love you' he whispered in my ear. We kissed again. And I actually enjoyed it. This is not good. This is so not good. I started feeling dizzy. I fell, my head hitting the floor of the gym. I was back where things started. Was it some weird hallucination, a side effect from my illness; or was it daddy Eru trying to tell me I should stop hating Glorfindel, or else...? I got back up, rubbing the back of my head. I felt a serious headache coming up.
'Do you want some ice?' Éowyn asked.
'She'll be fine Éowyn' Glorfindel said before I could reply, 'She's only trying if I will release her from detention'
'What?! I'm not-' I started.
'You're disturbing my class, refusing what I tell you to do and you're continuously interrupting me. Report to my office after class. Now drop and give me fifty' Glorfindel replied. I glared at him. The jerk. We did the fifty push-ups he wanted us to do, much to my annoyance. A princess is not meant for such things. My poor arms... after that we started the archery. Glorfindel kept bugging me, telling me I was doing it all wrong. Felt like shoving my bow and arrows right up his- NO!! Dad! I didn't think that! Really! I swear! I didn't mean it! It was a joke! Really!
I didn't get another vision. In stead, the second part of class started. Fencing. Something I don't suck at. Éomer was my fencing-partner for today, heheh... we started fencing. He's good. No I'm serious! OUW!!! That was my leg! Prepare to die Éomer! Hah! I bet you didn't see that one coming mister! Or this one! Hah! Gotcha! Oi! Ouw! That hurts you know! Stop that! Cut it! Oh shit! Ouwouwouwouw... I hate falling! Hey get your sword away from my throat mister! You are so gonna die! Shut up! Hah! You're in trouble now! Say bye bye to your sword! Yay! Hah! Gotcha! KABAM!!! See, falling hurts! Did I hurt you? Awww... I'm sorry, here I'll- hey! That's cheating! Give me my sword back! No! Not like- aaaaah! No I didn't lose! Did not. Did not. No I didn't. Did not. Shut up Éomer! Now give me my sword! I said- hey cut that out! I'll get you for this! *phweeeeeeet!* Glorfindel's whistle. Aww drat, he made me lose... another reason to- no way, not a vision! I didn't say it dad! Really, I didn't! Lunchbreak. Yay. We left the gym and changed to our normail clothes. I left the lockerrooms and ran into... oh what a surprise... Éomer.
'I so beat you with gym' he said.
'I'll get you next time, wait and see'
'Can't take it that I'm better than you are?'
'I let you win'
'Sure'
'Don't you "sure" me, mister!'
'Hey, sorry...'
'And stop saying sorry! It's really not-' he pulled me behind a tree and kissed me.
'You're seriously way too stressed Elvy. It was only a game, chill...'
'I'll beat you next time anyway'
'We'll see. Now let's get lunch'
'I'm not hungry'
'I am'
'So?'
'There's two of us you know'
'And?'
'I'm getting lunch'
'You're not leaving me behind here!'
'Then come and get lunch'
'No!'
'Whatever' he said, then turned and walked in the direction of the mess.
'You can't leave me standing here!' I shouted.
'Yes I can!' he shouted back.
'No you can't! I'm your girlfriend!'
'And it says where that I can't? How to be a good boyfriend for dummies?'
'Stop mocking me!'
'Okay' he said as he walked away. *jaw drops* I can't believe he just walked away! He just left me for food! He is so dead when I get my hands on him... I spent the rest of my break without Éomer. Annoying boyfriend character. Good thing nobody knows yet. Annunruthiel agreed with me. Boyfriends annoying. Ditch them. Yeah! Hey wait! I'm not gonna dump Éomer! We just got back together! Mani'oio(6)... I got my books and went to class. History first, from Gildor. Turned out to be more like homeroom. We got a lecture on the food fight. That is, Endomiel got a lecture on the food fight. She didn't even get detention! Not fair! After history there was chemistry. From some guy named Aegnor. He's really bad at names, so he brought a map of the class with him, so he could learn easier.
'Okay. Let's get started. Does anybody know any chemicals and their atomic formulas?' Aegnor said. Elanor raised her hand. 'Yes Éowyn?' Éowyn? Okay...
'Uh, sir, I'm Elanor' Elanor responded.
'Then who is Éowyn?' he asked confused. Éowyn raised her hand. 'No, that can't be, on my map it says that you are. wait, that can't be right either...' he scratched the back of his head.
'How do you mean sir?' Éowyn asked.
'On the map it say's your Boromir, but I'm quite sure that Boromir is a boy'
'I am Boromir, sir' Boromir said.
'No, you are Legolas!' Aegnor said in an accusing tone, as if Boromir were lying. What the Mordor is going on?!
'I am Legolas' Legolas said in a clear voice.
'But it says here that you are Vebor!'
'I think your map is wrong sir' Estel concluded.
'I guess so...' Aegnor looked at his map. 'Well, I'll draw a new one then...' He asked everybody's name and drew another map. He then proceeded with his class. 'Faramir, could you tell me the atomic formula of water?'
'H2O' Faramir answered.
'I'm sorry, but are you Faramir?' Aegnor said in a sarcastic tone of voice.
'As a matter of fact, I am' Faramir said dryly.
'Then who is he?' Aegnor asked, pointing at Vebor. 'Elladan, could you go get your dad? I would like to figure this out once and for all' Aegnor said to Elladan. Elladan's probably one of the few he does know by name, since he's Elrond's son.
'Okay sir' Elladan got up and left the classroom. A little while later, he returned with an annoyed Elrond. Elrond explained to him how the map worked, and then took a look at it. He noticed the names were in the wrong places.
'Okay, who changed the maps?' Elrond boomed through the class.
'Somebody changed the maps?' Vebor asked.
'Apparently'
'Cool' Elrond glared at him. 'I mean, like, how childish of him. Or her.' Vebor said quickly. After that Elrond gave Aegnor a new map and put a spell on it, just in case. The rest of the class went on without further complications. Then I had detention. I'm sure dad's got something to do with it. I bet he wants me to apologize. Well it's not gonna happen, evil visions or no. I came to Glorfindel's office. He didn't look that annoyed anymore.
'I uh... came for detention sir' I said, careful as not to get dad pissed.
'Sir? What are you up to, princess?'
'Nothing sir'
'Don't lie to me'
'Don't accuse me of lying'
'Then don't do it'
'I'm not!'
'I'm getting tired of this you know. You're always trying to annoy me, never do as I say... and now this... I fear I will have to report this to the school board if things go on like this'
'Go ahead. I won't get expelled anyway'
'I wouldn't be too sure about that'
'Au contraire. Galadriel and Elrond are in the school board. You know what that means. Besides, even if they wanted to, they don't have the guts to do it. You see, if they expell me, they're in deep trouble. My grandfather will not appreciate it. As High King of the Elves he will not allow it that his own granddaughter should be-'
'Maybe not' Glorfindel cut me off before I could finish. 'But I'm sure he doesn't allow his granddaughter to walk around without the circlet she's supposed to wear. You're insulting him by doing that. I don't think that gets him in a very good mood should the subject come up. His judgement could be affected by that should he hear that you got expelled' triumph crept onto his face. I glared at him.
'You filthy-'
'Now, now... don't go rude on me. You only have to wear the thing and you'll be fine. Of course it doesn't solve the personal problem you seem to have with me. I would very much like to know what I have done that angers you so much'
'You were born. You breathe'
'So you simply dislike me'
'You disgust me!' I shouted. He walked towards me, stopped a step away from me.
'I do? What a pity...' he took another step. We were now practically standing against each other. I found it harder to breathe. He looked down at me, eyes half closed. What if he was going to- eww no! Father must be up to something, he must be behind this somehow... Glorfindel bent his head down a little. I wanted to step back, but found myself unable to move, just like with the vision. No! Not that! Not the kiss! Help! He bent his head down a little further, until our lips nearly touched. He waited a moment. 'Why haven't you moved yet, princess? I disgust you, right? Then surely you don't want anything like this to happen at all. Still you let me get this close... gets you thinking...' he stepped back. I calmly breathed in and out a few time, until I could breathe normally again.
'You're such a creep' I said. 'Am I the only girl you harass like this, or are there others?' he glared at me.
'I'm not harassing you. Sooner the other way around. I can't help it that you keep behaving the way you do. Giving you detention is simply doing my job' he replied.
'Well you know what? I... I...' I said. He smirked.
'Well?'
'I HATE YOU!!!' I shouted. Oops... suddenly there was the sound of an explosion, coming from the dormitory. 'What was that?'
'How am I supposed to know?'
'It came from the dorms'
'You're not-' I ran off to the dorms before Glorfindel could finish his phrase. Estel and Endomiel stood in front of one of the doors, looking at Legolas, who was covered in some blue gooey stuff. Endomiel was picking it out of his hair. Elrond came to see what was wrong.
'What happened here?' he asked angrily.
'We were sitting outside sir' Estel explained, 'And then suddenly we heard a loud bang and we ran inside. Legolas stepped into his room but he slipped and now he's covered in whatever it is that covered everything in the whole room' Elrond looked into the room.
'Who did this?'
'If only I knew.' Legolas grumbled. Elrond started an investigation to find out who had done it, and what the stuff could be. I walked out of the building. I realized Glorfindel was probably seriously pissed that I just ran off like that. Ah well. Creep. I walked towards the forest, hoping he wouldn't look for me there, if he was looking for me.
'Elvea! Wait up!' I turned around. Éomer was running towards me. I waited till he caught up with me. 'Did hear the news yet?'
'What news?' I asked as we started walking.
'Somebody let a glue bomb explode in my room'
'Oh that. Yeah, I knew about it. So it was glue...'
'Yeah. And it's all over my clothes. The joker found it amusing to put open all the closets first before letting the thing explode'
'Oh my...'
'So now I have only these left'
'Do they know who did it yet?'
'Elrond is still doing research. I hope they find whoever it was. Worse is, I have nowhere to sleep tonight'
'The school will arrange things'
'I guess so' he responded. We saw Frodo sitting on the lawn, so we sat with him.
'Hey Frodo' Éomer said. I followed his lead. Frodo smiled at us.
'I was already wondering when I'd find a fellow victim sitting next to me' he said.
'Yeah, well, oh... hey do you have a place to sleep yet?' Éomer asked him.
'No, not really...'
'I guess they'll have another room for us'
'And if they don't?' I asked.
'Well there's always my ex-girlfriend I can count on, right?' he put his arm around my shoulder.
'Yeah, like it's gonna happen'
'Was worth a try'
'Something tells me you two shouldn't have broken up' Frodo said grinning widely, 'or Éomer wouldn't be so flirty. He sure wants you back Elvea'
'Oh does he? Hmmm... things start to make sense now... he made the bomb go off himself, just so he could spend the night with me' I eyed Éomer suspectingly.
'Aww, now you ruined his whole plan'
'I didn't do it!' Éomer exclaimed.
'Sure Éomer' I said. Half a second later I suddenly was somewhere else. As in, the staff section. What the-? How did I end up here? Through a nearby window I could see myself sitting on the lawn, talking to Éomer and Frodo. Okay... I think I get it. I left my body and now my invisible spirit is wandering in the staff section to scare the shit out of Glorfindel. I could still somehow follow the conversation with Éomer and Frodo though.
"...and then when she kissed you this morning..." Frodo.
"Not for love! It was a bet!" Éomer.
"Yeah but I bet that you set it up with your best friend, aka Faramir. It did get me a hundred bucks though" Frodo.
"I didn't set it up" Éomer.
"No. The word 'marriage' makes you freak out by nature..." me, grinning. From the corner of my eye I could see Éomer freeze again.
'Ah! There you are! I've been looking everywhere for you Elvea!' a voice came from behind me. I swiftly spun around. Galadriel. So much for invisibility.
'Uh, oh... hi'
'Do you know how hard it was to find you?'
'Un, no, uh... I was?' I asked.
'Yes, very' Galadriel walked towards the window. What if she saw me sitting there?! Uh-oh!
'NO!' I shouted. Galadriel turned away from the window, confused look on her face.
'Sorry?'
'I mean, uhm... never mind. Why have you been looking for me?' I asked.
"Arwen is plotting something" Frodo.
"Most likely" me.
"Just warn me when I have to hide" Éomer.
'I need to talk to you about... things' Galadriel answered.
'Can... can Éomer come?' I asked. Galadriel smiled at me.
'Sure. I won't take long. Five minutes at most'
'Okay. I need to find him first though'
'No problem, I'll come with you' She said. Uh-oh...
'That's... well I wanted...'
'Time alone' she winked. 'Go on then, I'll be in my office' she turned and walked away. That was close. Now what do I do? There's two me's right now, and they're both me! Why do I always get powers back at all the wrong times?! I don't have this thing under control yet! How do I get back?!
'You two are seriously mocking me' Éomer stated, pulling his lower lip to a pout. Ah, like this. I grinned.
'You're too easy Éomer. Anyway, Galadriel wanted to talk to us, I just remembered that' I said.
'I'll see you two later then' Frodo said.
'Yeah, see you later' I said as I stood up. Éomer followed and we started walking to the staff section.
'I didn't know Galadriel wanted to see us' Éomer said.
'Well, me, mostly. But I wanted you to come with me'
'Why?'
'Why not?'
'Good point'
'I know' I grinned.
'There she goes all arrogant again!' Éomer exclaimed. 'Fair she is indeed! My lady! My love! Her eyes! Her smile! They have me under her spell! The way she speaks... music to my ears... but then... she knows too well what she does to my heart! Alas for me and my helpless soul! She is arrogant! And I don't even mind! Where will it lead me, I wonder greatly!'
'So... Dramaboy... you think I'm arrogant?'
'As a matter of fact, I do'
'I am not!'
'Are too'
'Am not'
'Are too'
'Am not'
'Are too'
'Am not'
'Are too'
'I win'
'You can't do that!'
'Yes I can'
'No you can't'
'Yes I can'
'No you can't'
'Yes I can'
'Silence, arrogant one'
'Shut up, human'
'That didn't make sense'
'So?'
'Never mind'
'Oh can we stop by my room, I need to pick something up'
'Sure' he shrugged and walked into the dorms. 'Anyway, Elvy, you're a bit to arrogant at times'
'Are you saying I should change?'
'Not at all. Please do it more often. I find it very...' as we approached my room, we could hear Estel speaking inside.
'Very...?' I asked. Éomer grinned.
'Take a guess'
'Elegant? Charming?'
'Guess again'
'Looks good on me?'
'That too, but no, I was aiming at something else'
'At what?'
'I think it's, well, sexy' he grinned. I smacked my forehead. Some guys...
'We're sorry' we heard Estel say. 'We didn't mean to disturb you'
'Disturb who? Éomer asked as we entered the room. Estel pointed into the bathroom. There were Endomiel and Legolas, lying completely soaked in the bathtub, Legolas without his shirt, on top of Endomiel... 'Ooh...' Éomer gave Legolas thumbs up. Guys...
'Okay people, I guess we have some explaining to do' Endomiel said. 'Nothing happened. I was picking the blue stuff out of Leg's hair when I slipped and fell backwards into the tub. Trying to keep my balance, I grabbed Legolas's shoulders, but he fell too. Then you guys walked in. There's nothing going on, really!'
'Sure. You don't have to make excuses to us, we won't tell anybody. And we'll leave now, so you can continue. cleaning his hair' Estel said as he pushed Arwen, Éomer and myself out of the room. 'Come on guys, let's give them some privacy.'
'They'd like that...' Éomer grinned.
'Wouldn't you?' Estel responded, nodding in my direction. Éomer's face flushed.
'Come on Elvea, didn't you have to go see Galadriel or something?' he asked, then dragged me out of the dormitory.
'Why such a hurry?' I asked him.
'No reason'
'Whatever' We walked to Galadriel's office. I knocked on the door.
'Come in'
'Galadriel? You wanted to see me?' I asked.
'Yes. I just wanted to say that I'm very proud of you'
'Oh... okay... uh... why?'
'For the way you managed to get permission for Estel and Arwen to get married'
'You mean Lord Elrond gave formal permission?'
'Yes'
'That's wonderful!'
'Indeed it is. But try not to tell too much people, okay?'
'Promise'
'Good. Run along now!' we left her office.
'That went fast' Éomer stated the obvious.
'Uh, yeah...'
'She does have a point... I think you should be rewarded' he wrapped his arms around me.
'I thought you said reward. Isn't this more of a punishment?'
'Bad girl' he bent his head down. Somebody cleared the throat. Just great. *Another* person to interrupt us. We turned around. A tall girl was looking at us, arms folded, smirk on her face. I think I seen her with Anna once, I'm not sure, but I think she's in F:d.
'Sorry to interrupt' she said.
'You'd better' Éomer mumbled under his breath.
'I heard that' she sent him half a glare. She turned to me. 'Are you Elvea?'
'Yeah, that's me'
'Hi, I'm Melandune' we shook hands. 'I heard that you got Elrond to give permission for Arwen's wedding... oh come on! Don't look so shocked! No one else knows! I just happened to hear Elrond...'
'Oh, ok...'
'So anyway, I just wanted to let you know that it's a really great thing you did. And very brave. I mean, we're talking Elrond here...' she pulled a face. We started laughing. Just then, Elrond passed by and raised and eyebrow. If only he knew...
'Maybe we should go some other place, it's not safe here...' Éomer said. We walked out of the Staff Section and sat down on the lawn.
'So how long have you two been together?' Melandune asked.
'How did you know we-' I said.
'He was about to kiss you. It was pretty obvious'
'Well maybe we were about to get together but you had bad timing'
'I don't think so'
'You won't tell anybody, will you?'
'Not me, but I have to warn you. If you're trying to keep it secret, hide it better. Public hallways aren't really a good hidingplace'
'Thanks'
'Any time'
'Hey do you happen to know anything about the bomb incident?' Éomer asked her.
'Blue superglue bomb. It'll take till tomorrow afternoon before the whole mess is cleaned up. Oh and Elrond wants to see your class in his office later tonight'
'How do you know all that?' I aksed.
'Oh, let's call it insight...' she jumped up. 'Well, was nice chatting with you two, but I really have to go now, bye!' she ran off.
'That was odd...' Éomer said.
'Yeah, it was a bit weird indeed...'
'It's dinnertime'
'That didn't make sense'
'What do you mean?'
'You just switched subject'
'So?'
'That doesn't make sense'
'My stomach rumbles. It DOES make sense. Come on, let's get dinner' he stood up. I shrugged. Mani'oio... I followed him to the mess. We got food and sat down with the others. Not much to tell, except Legolas and Endomiel had an argument with Vebor or something and the couple ended up cleaning the floor.
After that we went outside to take a walk. Arwen and Estel went with us at first, Arwen thanking me a million times for getting Elrond's permission, but eventually they left us alone, probably for two reasons. One, they probably had some "urgent business", and two, it was probably another one of Arwen's silent hints for us to get back together. If only she knew... as we walked over the lawn, we saw Endomiel and Legolas, attacking each other with branches, "fencing". Okay...
'Come here!' Legolas yelled at Endomiel. 'I'll chop you into little pieces!' I raised my eyebrow.
'You'll have to catch me first!' Endomiel yelled back.
'Just wait, I'll get you!' Legolas shouted as he chased her over the lawn. We watched the couple for a while, but since neither of us really knew what the Morder they were doing, we walked along. Time flew by, and before I knew it, we were sitting with the class in Elrond's office, listening to a lecture. Endomiel was late.
'As I was saying.' Elrond continued, 'Somebody placed a glue bomb inside of one of the rooms. It is the room of Frodo Baggins, Samwise Gamgee, Meriadoc Brandybuck, Peregrin Took, Éomer Éadig and Legolas Greenleaf. All their stuff has been covered in glue, for whoever put the bomb there, opened all the closets before it went off. My question to you was, if you had seen anybody from another class enter your private hallway, or come out of it' Nobody had seen anyone. 'Then it must be somebody from this class. I ask for the one who did it to tell me this week, for if you turn yourself in, the punishment will be lightened. Keep in mind, that you may skip a class project and pass it with an "A" if you tell who did it.' Would anyone rat on their friends? 'This is not ratting, this is helping to solve a crime, for this paint bomb is a crime indeed...' and so on, Elrond went on for quite a while. Finally he stopped and we could ask questions concerning the bomb.
'Where do we sleep tonight?' Sam asked.
'Uhm.' Elrond said,it was obvious he hadn't thought of that yet. 'We are going to allow you to sleep in other rooms for tonight, and tonight only' he answered.
'Does that mean I get to sleep on the girl's room tonight?' Legolas asked, wide grin on his face. Sigh...
'No.' Elrond said.
'Why not?' Éomer asked, also grinning. I nudged him. 'Oow, that hurts you know' he whispered at me.
'Because the girls wouldn't want that.' Elrond replied.
'Who said that?' Rosie giggled. And once again someone cornered Elrond...
'Well. if none of the girls mind, I guess you could sleep with them.' Elrond responded, thoughtful look on his face.
'You will never fit enough spare beds into their room' Legolas grinned. 'We will have to share beds.'
'I will arrange a supervisor' Elrond said after a while. The guys cursed softly under their breath. Sigh again... after that we could leave. We left his Elrond's office, and together with Éomer, Estel, Arwen, Faramir, Sam, Rosie and Éowyn I sat down on the lawn.
'So we're all settled for the night then...' Estel said. 'Sam and Rosie, Legolas and Endomiel, the other hobbits in other rooms, me and Arwen...'
'Hey! The bomb didn't explode in your room!' Éowyn exclaimed. Estel grinned.
'So?'
'I'm not settled yet' Éomer said, sideways glancing at me. They all turned and looked at me expectingly.
'WHAT?!'
'He could be with you...' Estel suggested.
'No way!'
'Come on Elvea, we all know you want to, let alone Éomer' Sam grinned.
'Who said that?!'
'We do' Arwen answered.
'But...'
'It's just one night...' Rosie joined in.
'Oh no! Nononononono! It's not gonna happen!'
'Please Elvea?' Éomer puppy dog eyed and pouted his lip. 'I won't bite...' he grinned, '...unless you want me to, of course'
'Don't tell me you can resist that' Faramir said, nodding towards Éomer's pout and puppy eyes. 'I don't know a single girl who can'
'Besides, there's gonna be a supervisor, so if he's annoying, you can kick him out' Estel added.
'I won't cause you trouble, I promise' Éomer pleaded. Faramir slyly smiled.
'It's not working, Éomer. Give it up. She's gonna say no anyway. Like I said this morning, she only wants to tease' I glared at him. We'll see about that, Faramir.
'If you annoy me, prepare to sleep outside' I said to Éomer. The guys' eyes grew big.
'It's a yes?' Éomer asked in disbelieve.
'What did it sound like?'
'Thanks man' Éomer gave Faramir thumbs up. Hey! I've been set up! Not fair! Just wait, I'll get them! The others then got up and left us alone.
'You set me up' I accused Éomer.
'Not me, Faramir'
'Still... if my parents hear of this, they'll kill me'
'What do you mean?'
'I'm a High-elven princess, as you know. That means that honor is my most valuable possesion. I have to live in shame forever if I lose it. Spending a night with a guy I'm not bound to, either betrothal or marriage, does not fit in the picture of honor'
'Even if you don't do anything?'
'Even then'
'So I guess I'm causing you trouble already... I'm sorry...'
'No, it's okay, as long as my parents don't know of it, I'm fine...'
'I think it's a pretty brave thing to do then, if your parents actually won't hear of it'
'It's risky... they could force us to... if they find out, I mean... to save my honor they'd probably... you know... to me it wouldn't be so bad, I've lived centuries already. But for you, to be bound in a way like that... you're still so young...'
'I don't think it'll come to that. And if they force us to, I don't think I should complain. A guy would be crazy if he did...' he kissed me. 'Certainly if he loves you'
'Nor would the girl...' I kissed him, '...if she loves him' we got up and walked to my room. It was getting late, and we didn't want the supervisor to get mad at us. I walked into the bathroom with the other girls to get changed.
'I can't believe they'd let us do this.' Arwen said.
'Neither can I!' Rosie said. 'I bet I'll sleep extra good tonight, don't you think so, Endomiel?' Endomiel's face flushed.
'Uhm, no, not really...' she replied.
'Is it that you don't like Legolas's idea, or is it. something else?'
'I don't like his idea.' She answered quickly. Hmmm... wonder if something's wrong... she put on her sweatpants.
'You never sleep with pants on.' Arwen accused her.
'I do now' she replied dryly. I pulled my nightgown over my head.
'High expectations huh?'
'No, I don't want to get the supervisor mad before we even get into the bed.'
'Who is the supervisor tonight anyway?' Arwen asked.
'I don't know...' Endomiel answered. Somebody knocked on our room's door.
'Is everybody decent in there?' someone asked.
'It's Glorfindel.' Elanor sighed happily. She dreamed off... please don't tell me this is true... we stepped out of the bathroom. The guys were almost done as well, except that Estel didn't have his shirt on yet. Not bad... Bad girl! You're taken! I turned to Éomer. He sat on the bed, in his boxers.
'Where's the rest?' I asked him.
'In the lab' he answered, 'all my stuff was covered in glue remember? Besides, I don't think that, if you're honest with yourself, you really mind...'
'True...' I lay down in the bed. He lay down behind me, his arm around my waist.
'Do you mind?' he whispered.
'It's okay' Glorfindel turned off the lights. Éomer tickled me. 'Stop it' I hissed, trying to suppress laughter.
'I can't help it...'
'You made a promise!'
'It's a promise hard to keep' he carefully turned me so that I laid on me back. He leaned over me. 'Especially because you look so beautiful right now'
'Don't suck up Éomer...'
'I mean it... in total darkness, you radiate a white light... soothing... can't take my eyes off it...' he leaned down and kissed me. While doing so, he started to tickle my side again. I started laughing, but since we were kissing, it ended up in being an odd sound.
'Elvea and Éomer, stop that this instant!' Glorfindel yelled at us. Éomer stopped tickling me. We continued kissing. Glorfindel can drop dead for all I care.
'Endomiel, where are you going?' Éowyn asked after some time. A moment of silence.
'We don't even have a dog!' Endomiel yelled. Legolas started to laugh.
'What is going on with you two?' Éomer asked them.
'Nothing' came the reply of Endomiel.
'Endy isn't that bright at night.' Legolas laughed again. They went on arguing for a while. Right about then Éomer decided to start kissing my neck.
'Would you two shut up?' Éowyn asked Legolas and Endomiel, who were still arguing. 'And Éomer, stop that will you? It's too gross. I don't want to see my brother doing that while I'm laying in the bed next to you!'
'Then look the other way...' Éomer replied.
'They're worse!' Éowyn sighed.
'All of you, stop it!' Glorfindel said irritatedly. Éomer lay back down next to me.
'Sorry.' Legolas and Endomiel said in unison.
'Go to sleep already!' Glorfindel said grouchily. It became quiet in the room. Soon everybody was asleep, except me and Glorfindel.
'Are you still awake?' Éomer whispered. Okay, and Éomer.
'I can't sleep' I replied.
'Is it... is it because of me?' he asked hesitantly.
'No, it's because of Mr. Poncy... he gets on my nerves...' I whispered. Éomer laughed.
'Silence you two' Glorfindel glared in our direction. 'And get to sleep'
'Somebody's kranky...' Éomer whispered. My turn to laugh. I turned around and kissed him. Glorfindel walked towards my bed.
'You'd better behaven, princess' he hissed, 'or your parents will not be happy to hear of this... they might just call you back home'
'The school board might also just hear of a certain PE-teacher that harasses students' I said as I got out of bed. He glared at me.
'You wouldn't lie... besides, they won't believe you'
'Oh no? I've had years of drama lessons, they'll believe me. And even if they don't, grandfather will. You know what that means...'
'Don't think you won, princess, I haven't played my final card yet. Trust me, I will win' he turned around and sat back down. I got back in bed, pondering on the meaning of those last words. It was late when I finally fell asleep.
I was walking in my private garden, singing. Suddenly someone jumped me, and both me and the person fell to the ground, laughing.
'Got you' Glorfindel said. He leaned down and kissed me.
'I surrender' I laughed. 'You win'
'What is my prize?'
'What do you wish for?'
'Not much... just one thing...' he paused. 'There's only one thing I desire, and I desire it greatly'
'What is it?'
'Haven't you guessed yet? I desire... you...' we kissed again.
'You already have me...'
'Would you be mine for eternity, if it were asked of you?'
'You know the answer'
'I know in my heart, but I would hear you say it' he said shyly.
'I would love to... more than anything in the world... I love you'
'I love you too...' we kissed again. His hand went down to mine, to the ring on my finger. The other went to the necklace I wore. I woke up with a scream. Éomer moaned next to me.
'What's wrong?' he asked, rubbing the sleep out of his eyes.
'Nothing, I had a nightmare...' I looked around. Everybody had left the room, even Glorfin-git. Time to get breakfast then... I snapped my fingers. Full account of the day was now in my diary. Being a Goddess sure has advantages...
Kisses, Elvy.
(1) Raukotári = "Queen of Demons", one out of many names for the Goddess of Evil, one of her preferred names.
(2) Meneltári = "Heavenly Queen" or "Queen of the Heavens", name most commonly used for the Goddess of Good, one out of many.
(3) Erumíri = Jewels of Eru
(4) Mîr-e-Fuin = Jewel of Darkness
(5) Mîr-e-Mantur = Jewel of the Good Power
(6) Mani'oio = whatever in Elvish
E/N: Finally done. Don't blame me, blame Endy. She took so long... Anyway, *fill in usual plea for reviews* we still need more characters for our classes. That is: Humans, Hobbits, a couple of Dwarves *shudders at the thought of Dwarves* and a couple of Ents, if possible. We also need MALE ELVES and more guys of all species... if you have a character, LET US KNOW!!!