Spider-Man is today's movie, my dog got in the house my sister is reading a magazine, my mom is cleaning the house, and I know all this with out looking up from my comp. Today is havoc, first day back from being grounded from the computer. This chapter was written at about the same time as I wrote the last chapter. I promise you that this will NOT sit on my computer.
The next morning Kiki was up before dawn. She sat fully dressed on the end of her bed combing the tangles out of her hair wet from the last bath she was likely see in months. Her hair would go into a braid, cascading down her back to pool in a black curl at her waist. Wearing a cream shirt like the one Legolas wore in the movie and a pair of rough brown pants like everyone here wore, unless they were women, and soft leather boots. She liked the shirt; it brought out the black of her hair and highlighted the darkness in her blue eyes, and the boots. Both were more comfortable than the pants, but Kiki'd rather wear the practical brown pants than the ones she wore to the second council. Those pants were green; grass green, but you couldn't tell that from the embroidery. The embroidery covered almost every inch of emerald fabric in gold and blue-silver. Uck, not good for traveling by foot. Oh sure, they had offered to let her ride a horse, being the only female in the entire fellowship but she couldn't be one of the guys and ride a horse. 'I'd rather tough it, thank you very much.' She had said, scorn showing harshly in her voice. A knock at the door interrupted her thoughts.
"Hello?" Arwen's voice drifted through the pine door. "I want to talk to you, about Aragorn."
"Come in." Kiki said, not mad about the last conversation they had. The door swung open to reveal the pretty woman standing in her nightgown. "You're not here to talk me into switching places with me, are you?"
"Oh, no! I think it's terribly indecent that a WOMAN would travel with so many men for so long! I wanted to talk to you about Aragorn. You see, I've known him since before he was a little boy. I've watched him grow up into a man, at first I loved him. I loved the way he was the perfect hidden king, so handsome and yet he hid it away. But he's more like a brother to me now, for a while he was in between brother and lover but now he's just one of the boys. One of my brothers, like you're my only sister."
"So you don't love him any more." Kiki's tone turned the question into the answer to an unasked question.
"True. I love another man."
"Do I know him?"
"Yes."
"Was he at the council?"
"Yes."
"Look, I don't have time to play twenty questions, will you tell me or not?" Kiki was mad
"OK, I'll tell! Just don't hit me! His name is Legolas, Legolas Greenleaf."
"Isn't that a bit redundant? Green leaf Greenleaf."
"Please, don't tell him! I be embarrassed to death if he knew!" Arwen whisper-screamed.
"I promise, but don't let Aragorn leave without telling him. He might never come back, he might die. If he leaves thinking you love him and he dies, how are you going to feel? What if he asks Legolas to make sure you still belong to him, in case he ever comes back? What happens if he goes on a suicide mission and isn't supposed to come back but does?" Kiki knew the last bit meant nothing to the peace loving Arwen, but said it any way.
"I'll tell him, your right." Arwen replied sullenly, and walked out, supposedly to talk to Aragorn. Ugh, she was annoying. She could talk and talk and talk and never shut up, and she didn't say anything important. Another day, another misery. Another knock at the door told Kiki that it was time to go. She wandered down the halls taking care not to get lost, or find an assassin. There were many people who didn't like her and would do anything to get rid of her.
"AH!" came a scream, it was Boromir. Apparently he was still deathly afraid of Kiki. She wanted to see what would happen next, so she stayed quiet.
"What? What's going on?" said a feminine voice. Arwen. Great, she was doing what Kiki asked of her.
"It's OK, he's just afraid of Kiki. He found out she's going too." Aragorn's voice sounded cold. 'Poor man,' Kiki thought, 'I'd be cold too if I just found out my love didn't love me back.'
"She's here, I can smell her." Whimpered Boromir. He may have been a hunter, but he was a man. A very manly man, but still a man.
"Hush, Boromir. She's not here; she's in her room. No one will invoke her name." Legolas was so bent on calming Boromir that he didn't notice Kiki in the hall. Arwen snickered, she knew Kiki was there.
"Anyone I know?" Kiki asked stepping out of the shadows. She saw Frodo and Sam against the far wall, talking to Merry and Pippin. Gimli leaned up against the far wall and Aragorn was standing near Arwen, back to her. Boromir squirmed like a worm and whimpered like a baby and Legolas kneeled next to him to try and help. 'Good, the effect I wanted.' Thought Kiki. Everyone stared at her. "What?" she asked innocently. Frodo shook his head. Gandalf suddenly walked through the far door.
"Play nice you two." He said and added in a mutter "Maybe this trip will be more fun than I thought." Although only the elves in the room knew what he said, Frodo smiled as though he heard too.
"Well everyone's here, can we leave?" Kiki asked of Gandalf, like a kid asking daddy for candy. No one saw the twin shadows creep into the fellowships midst to mingle amongst the hobbits.
"Sure, I don't see why not." He replied. Boromir pulled out his horn.
"This is the horn…" He said, holding the before mentioned instrument as though it gave him courage to speak. Kiki opened her mouth to scare him, but Gandalf gave her a meaningful look and she closed it. "of Gondor." He raised it to his lips and blew the horn in a loud blast. Kiki couldn't contain herself, one more prompt.
"Oi, not in my ear, you daft Ferret-Boxx!" She smiled as Boromir cowered away from her. "And all is right with the world." She muttered. Gandalf rolled his eyes at her; a playing smile crossed his lips.
"Let's go!" he hollered and the group of rag tag group of warriors wandered out, not knowing that they would each have to fight their own battles, both inside and out. 'I know they are strong, but I can only hope that he is strong enough.' Kiki thought.
And next time the mountains. As I've said before, I'm deeply sorry about not updating sooner, I know I shouldn't make up excuses. I hope you can forgive me and will continue to read this fic. I don't have a lot of supporters, but then again I don't see many neigh sayers either.
