Disclaimer: I don't own Lord of the Rings any of the characters or anything.
A/N: I hope you've all seen the Two Towers by now! I've seen it 3 times already and its just sooooo good. I hate it when Haldir dies though, that's heartbreaking because he WASN'T THERE! Being a bookie is so hard sometimes. Anyway this A/N could go on forever if I start talking bout the film. Please review.
Kĩyara slammed her fist into the tree and rested her head on it. The footsteps of her brother's departure faded into the distance.
"Why now? Why does he do this to me now?"
The question didn't need an answer but Kĩyara had hoped for a little comfort. Legolas had always been there for her through everything and now he wasn't. He offered no kind words or any gesture of reassurance. Nothing.
Panic filled Kĩyara's mind; had she finally pushed him too far? It was in this moment when he chose not to console her that she finally realised how much she took him for granted. Whatever she had done, however deep she had cut him he had always come back, he had always forgiven her. Slowly she turned around.
He was sat with his back to her, his legs dangling over the edge of the platform and his good hand holding his shoulder. Kĩyara could feel the lump in her throat as she fought back the tears. How could she have been so unfeeling? Lightly she touched his shoulder. He didn't move.
"I'm sorry. Sorry for everything." She whispered.
It wasn't until she had given up and turned to go back to bed that he answered in the quietest voice
"Why are you constantly breaking my heart?"
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Kĩyara awoke to the sound of a gentle breeze in the trees. The sun warmed her skin and made her forget the pains of the previous night, in her mind she would talk to Legolas and tell him everything. Tell him everything she knew, everything she felt and every heart felt desire. She would tell him how much he meant to her then she would show him…
She smiled lazily, the idle daydream washing over her in soft waves. Kĩyara rolled over and reached out an arm to wrap around Legolas and pull him to her. She clutched at air.
Sitting up she looked around a small frown on her face.
"Legolas? Legolas!"
The bed next to her didn't even look slept in. Quickly Kĩyara rose and dressed all the while scanning the land for any sign of her husband. None came. In desperate haste she left and descended to the forest floor.
"Caradien will you stop messing about!"
The golden horse pranced sideways ignoring the pull on his reins, even an elf could not stop this horse if he wanted to go. He threw his head into the air tried to move in the opposite direction to his mistresses' commands. Kĩyara nudged and pulled but to no avail. He bucked and reared but Kĩyara sat it. She tried to calm him by talking to him in elvish, the tongue of Rohan and finally in the language of the earth.
When he heard the clear notes of the earth whispered into his ear he fell still. Kĩyara spoke to him.
"What is wrong?"
The way"Why?"
There not here"Where did he go?"
There "When?" Last dark and moon"Show me."
Caradien didn't answer but set off in a gallop through the trees. When they had slowed to a rocking canter Kĩyara spoke again.
"How did you know who I was looking for?"
Sense fear worry pain. You hurt, hurt heart. Heart is for mate. Mate lost.
Kĩyara smiled, 'her mate.'
She had talked to Caradien a lot over their years together but since she had married Legolas he had become irritable when they spoke. Kĩyara had identified the feeling as jealously, he always wanted to know why she didn't spend all her time with him anymore and why he had to stay in The Stable. It was hard to understand what he felt at the best of times because even when he could talk to her through the earth he still thought in horse. However when Caradien halted in a clearing the elf that faced her was not the one she expected. She shook her head and tried to turn Caradien away.
"Not him, I don't want to see him. You said you knew where Legolas was!"
Speak to brother tell you why heart hurt. Tell you where mate is! Speak! I not obey order to leave! Speak!
Kĩyara sighed. She was being told what to do by a horse, an intelligent one, but still a horse. She dismounted and gave Caradien a dirty look he tossed his head in answer.
"Kĩyara."
Lanien walked to her and embraced her. Despite her anger Kĩyara let herself fall into it. She clutched at her brother, he had been the one that could make it all better before, he had been the one she had turned to. That was before he left though then she had had no one. Now it all came flooding back.
"I've missed you."
"You too. I'm sorry I left all those years ago but I just couldn't…"
Kĩyara stood back.
"I know. That place holds your grief against you until you can't escape it, believe me."
"What happened? Mother and Father told me bits but they never mentioned him."
Kĩyara sniffed and looked on sadly.
"He's called Legolas brother. Why do you live in the past? The name of Greenleaf is not something to be scorned. The Sindarin are elves and therefore as virtuous as the Valar themselves. His blood means nothing to me and nor should it to you."
"Your great-great-great Grandmother was Queen of the Valar that you know well enough-"
"Yes I do know that! But I'm not her I'm me and I'll do as I please. You know the day I met him was the first day I didn't think about you?"
Kĩyara let the words sink in before continuing.
"I was alone. There was no one that cared like you had. Then I found him and do you know at first I tried to shun him because I was confused? I was confused because I was thinking what you would say, I felt as though I was betraying you. I love him. You have to see that Lanien."
Kĩyara fell silent and looked at her brother; his face was uncertain and worried. Her eyes implored him.
"Please Lanien, you know where he is don't you?"
Lanien hesitated then spoke.
"I told him to go Kĩyara. He came to speak to me and I told him to go. I'm sorry."
"No! How could you?"
"I thought it was for the best!"
Lanien saw the grief descend, only then did he realise what he had done to his beloved sister.
"Kĩ I'm sorry. I didn't understand how much he meant to you until then. I'm sorry. Your not my little sister anymore are you?"
"Yes I am. But things have changed we've changed. I don't think I can live without him Lanien."
"Come on we'll find him."
Lanien called his own horse to him and together they set off. Kĩyara smiled wanly and spoke to Caradien as they thundered off through the trees.
"You're clever for a horse you know."
Instinct not clever. Heart not clouded by mind, mind not clouded by heart. Separate. Me clear, me know. You together, you confused. Have brother heart and mate heart now. We find mate heart and make him see your heart. You, me, us. Separate and together, strong.
"Sometimes you're just daft Caradien."
If a horse could smirk Caradien would've done now.