"You look as if you need a place to lie down."

Alexander shook his head. "I still can't believe this. I'm a reincarnated King. Somehow I should be screaming that you're lying, that this is a joke. A trick. But yet here I am and this is seeming right."

Legolas grinned in reply. "Yes here you are and you have many questions I have no doubt."

Alexander was about to speak when his eyes fell on a sleeping Arwen.

She was curled up in a chair, her legs tucked in under her and a hand pressed to her cheek, far away from them in dreams.

She looked so utterly sweet but it was her smile that stole his heart.

Seeing where his mind was, Legolas nodded.

"She's fought so long to get to this point. Everything in her life was Aragorn." He smiled. "You."

He reached for the throw blanket that had been on the edge of the bed and handed it to Alexander.

"From the moment they met. She knew." He shrugged. "Even when her father tried to sway her, she knew her destiny was to be intertwined with yours."

"How, how did she know this?"

Legolas gave him a nudge, sending him forward to gently lay the blanket over her.

"Arwen is descended from another elf maiden named Luthien who made the same choice that she did. To love completely another human male and like Arwen, she gave up her immortality. You two first met as you were singing of Luthien. It was fate coming full circle again."

Alexander felt totally unsettled as he laid the baby soft blanket against Arwen who whimpered at the touch and twisted slightly so that he could see the necklace at her throat.

"That's lovely."

Peeking over, Legolas nodded. "Yes, yes it is. That's the Evenstar, the protector of Arwen's immortality."

With a shaking hand, he reached out to lightly almost reverently graze his fingertips against it.

"As Aragorn, she had given it to you as the symbol of her choice. That come what may she was yours."

Alexander tilted his head, studying the one thing that was so small but yet in another was terrifyingly big in significance.

"How did she get it back?"

"Get what back?"

Alexander couldn't take his eyes off of the jewels in front of him. "Her immortality?"

Legolas began to pace and didn't respond so Alexander turned back to face him.

"Legolas?"

"Arwen was carrying the baby who was destined to be the heir of Gondor when she had been attacked by a poison that had been introduced into her food by one of Gondor's enemies who had slipped a spy into the household."

His expressive eyes showed clearly the turmoil of that horrific time as he found the words to speak.

"She was slipping away and Aragorn . you . had been so utterly devastated that in your fear for her, you gave her back the choice of immortality, you would rather have her and the child living in the Grey Havens safe from harm than have her die in front of your eyes with the babe."

Feeling tears coming, Alexander turned back to her.

"Arwen, as you may have guessed is as stubborn as the summer sun and so she and the child survived. But you never took the Evenstar back from her again."

Standing up, he paused to lean over and gently kiss her cheek.

"Good night Legolas."

With eyes twinkling, Legolas replied back. "Good Morning Alexander."