Departure

// -Flashback

Legolas watched the sunset with tears rolling down his face.

// "Don't worry, daddy. I'll be safe." Alana reassured him time and time again. She hugged her father to herself and reached her hand up to touch his turned face. Her fingers came back wet.

"Oh, Ada! Don't weep for me. I'll be free!"

"How can I not. I feel like I'm loosing my little girl." Legolas said sadly, and turned to stroke her face.

"You're not." Alana replied.

A low whistle blew to them and they found themselves saying their last goodbyes.

"Well, goodbye." Legolas said to her.

"Not goodbye, for goodbye is forever. Just 'Until next time.'" Alana hugged Legolas fiercly.

"I love you." Legolas pulled Alana out in front of himself, and gave her a kiss on the forehead.

"Love you." Alana replied.

Legolas took his daughter's hand and helped her onto the ship. The ship took off, but Legolas continued to hold Alana's hand, until only their fingertips touched. His hand was extended, though, long after the ship baring Alana to the Undying Lands had disappeared beyond the horizon. //

"Namarie, nin iell." He murmured. "I love you."

***

Alana looked out upon the sea before her quietly. They had traveled for several weeks now, and the ship was approaching the havens. Alana distressed over her father as she thought this. She was going to the havens without him.

//"What are the Undying Lands, Ada?" A three year old Alana asked her father as she was tucked into bed.

"They are the, well, Undying Lands." Legolas grinned for a fraction of a second. "That's the place where the Elves will go when our time here is finished."

"Like Uncle Bractintoa?"

"Yes, like your uncle."

"Will you go with me?"

"I wouldn't dare leave you here."

"And Atara?"

"She'll come too."

"Promise?"

"Promise."//

"The promise is broken, Ada. You aren't here. Neither is Atara." Alana told the wind.

"Alana!" Bard, a sailor, called from the bow of the ship. "We're at the havens!"

Alana, all things forgotten, ran to the bow of the ship to see the beautiful havens stretching out before her.

The plank was lowered, and Alana, eager to be there, ran down it. The second Alana's foot touched the earth there something happened.

The doors to the hall of Mandos opened.

R/R Please review! One more chapter till the end! *sobs*. I am going to write the companion piece. Last chapter I'll have a name for it. Okay? OK.