Tell me, Master Elf
Gimli looked up at his friend warily. Ever since the halflings disappeared Legolas had been silent and sad. His face was hidden and the pale skin was nearly white. Something had haunted the Elf before the Company reached Lothlorien and now it had intensified.
"Legolas? Something ails you, I can tell, do you wish to rest?" Aragorn asked coming up behind the Elf.
"I am fine, Aragorn. Do not wait for me, I will overcome whatever ails me." Legolas said, not looking up.
"Legolas, you have kept your secrets long enough. Tell us what it is. Tell me, Master Elf." Gimli practically begged him.
"Some time ago in Lothlorien Galadriel offered me something that is impossible for me to get. And now it is catching up with me."
"What did she offer you?"
"My family."
***
//Flashback//
"And you, Legolas Greenleaf, I can offer you what your heart desires. Your wife and child. I can save you."
'And she offers me the impossible.' Legolas thought as he walked through the paths of Lothlorien.
'She is powerful, but not enough o bring back the dead. Some things just can't happen.'
//End of Flashback//
***
"You have a wife and child?" Aragorn asked.
"Yes. My wife, well, she was the best gambler of all Middle Earth, or so they claim, and the only maiden who can gamble period. My daughter, much like a female version of me. Her name was Alana. She is what keeps me alive."
"I thought you said they were dead." Gimli was becoming confused.
"They are, but we are still wishing that Alana could have escaped. They never found her body." Legolas looked up finally, and they could see the fresh tear tracks on his face.
"So you stay with the hope?"
"Yes."
"Then she is alive."
"What?"
"Galadriel said before we left to you in Quenya that you should not give up hope and you'd be rewarded." Aragorn said, starting up faster.
"Yes." Legolas, smiled blandly.
"Come! Enough of the sadness! We Merry and Pippin to save!" Gimli began to jog down behind his now sprinting friends.
"Hey! Wait up!" Gimli could hear his friends laughter.
Told you I'd get Legolas in the next chapter! Short, I know. More soon! R/R