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Author notes: English is not my mother language, sorry for the mistakes.
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Chapter II
"Morning brother, hope you slept well" Elrohir greeted Estel who was stretching lazily.
"Odd, I did" Elrohir raised an eyebrow "I was sure I wasn't going to be able to sleep, instead I feel as if I had never slept as well in all my life"
"Not even when Legolas and Elladan drugged you?"
"Elrohir..."
"Speaking of those two" the younger twin said changing the subject "Were are they?"
"By Elbereth! Legolas you are right!" Elladan's shout answered the question.
"What is the problem?" Estel and Elrohir went to their side and looked at each other worried, for Elladan and Legolas were paler than usual.
"What's happening?" Estel demanded when neither elf spoke "By the Valar! Say something!"
"Look for yourself my friend" Legolas said pointing. Estel and Elrohir looked at the spot where Legolas' long and elegant finger was pointing and they felt that all their blood was drained.
They were on the other side of the lake.
*****
"Someone must had felt asleep on his watch" Elladan said after a moment of silence
"It is impossible" Legolas disagreed "All of us have experience in watches, no matter how tired or hurt we are and this time we weren't neither. Besides everyone woke up the other"
"But then, it seems that is the only explanation" Elrohir commented "If not, how could it be possible?"
"Say, on your watch, who saw something strange?" Estel asked
"I did not." Legolas shocked his head " I took the first one and when I woke up Estel I had the trees and the lake in front of me"
"Same with me" Estel agreed
"Same here" Elladan nodded "Elrohir?"
"I swear that all the time the trees and the lake were in front of me. I didn't stop looking at them until it was past dawn and I went to see Estel that was waking up"
"Anyway we are inside" Legolas sighed "We can try to go back"
"And then cross again? Maybe it sounds absurd but I agree"
"Yes, just to know that we are not trapped or something"
"Lets go then, maybe..." but Estel couldn't finished what he was going to say, for the elves were listen to the forest "What is it?"
"A laugh" Legolas said, "Someone is laughing, a woman"
"It... it can be" Elladan said while his twin covered his mouth with his hand. Identical green eyes were covered with tears.
"What is it?" Estel asked, he could feel that his nerves were at the edge
"Is... is mother" Elrohir managed to said after a moment " Is our mother's laugh"
"What?!" Legolas said almost shouting "That is impossible! Celebrían passed to the Gray Heavens centuries ago"
"But it is her!"
"Brothers it can be" Estel said softly
"Shut up Estel, you can not know!" Elladan shouted and he and Elrohir started running to where the laughed sounded.
"Wait!"
"Legolas what should we do?"
"We can not leave them, we will have to leave our things behind maybe we can return for them later" and saying this both elf and human started running in the direction the twins took seconds earlier.
*****
The twins ran as fast as they could following the musical laugher. Of course it was their mothers' laughter. They had missed that sound so much, how could they be imagining that kind of thing? Both remembered the first days after Celebrían's departure when they always thought they could hear his mother singing or calling for them, but when they reached the spot it was empty. But know...
Their frantic run came suddenly to an end when they saw a figure who sat at the shadow of a big oak. No doubt she was an elf for her pointy ears could be seen among long and golden locks of hair, she was dressed in deep blue and her green eyes shone with kindness and laughter.
In an instant the twins were in the warm arms of their mother.
*****
Legolas and Estel ran as fast as they could, but there was no sing of the twins.
"How is possible that we lost them?" Estel said when they stopped to recovered their breath "We were just behind them, they couldn't have gain so much advantage"
"I really don't know Estel" an equally confused Legolas said "But we have to find them"
"Legolas you knew Celebrían, did you not?"
"Yes"
"Was that her laugher?" Legolas remained silence for a long time before answering
"It sounded like hers, yes"
"Can it be?"
"Maybe. Estel I am as confused as you are"
"Then come here" another voice interrupted startling them.
"What... It wasn't my brothers' voice"
"Come here Legolas, let me see you. I have wanted to see you for so long"
"Who...?"
"Estel wait here"
"Wait? Legolas you are not planning to go, right? It may be dangerous"
"No, I will be alright. My grandfather will not do me any harm" Legolas was crying
"Grandfather?"
"Yes. Can you not recognize the voice? It has the same tone of my father's "
"What?! Don't tell me it's Oropher" but Legolas kept walking oblivious to his human friend, who trying to have the attention of the prince, grabbed him from his sleeve "Legolas, it can't be!"
"Estel let me go!"
"No! You are being irrational"
"Oh, and why is that? Why Elladan and Elrohir's mother can be here but not my grandfather?"
"Because Oropher DIED more than two millennia ago!"
"Then maybe is his ghost or his reincarnation"
"Legolas!"
"That IS his voice! I know it is"
"How? How do you know"
"I... I just know! Look Estel, it will not take long."
"But..."
"Please Estel" looking at those silver blue eyes full of hope and sadness, the human let go the prince's sleeve. He knew his friend's desire to meet his grandfather, a desire that was impossible to fulfill... until now.
"Promise me you will be careful" he shouted at the leaving elf, but Legolas didn't hear him. He was thinking in all the things Thranduil had told him about Oropher and how the three of them looked alike. He remembered that according to his father it was his grandfather who had named him after having a premonition dream where he saw Legolas. He remembered that the Elvenking always said that Oropher will be proud of his only grandson. Finally he arrived to a small lake where a figure was waiting for him he immediately recognized the father of his father.
*****
"You have come to be a great man Aragorn" Estel jumped from the stone where he sat to wait for his elven friend and looked around. He saw a handsome tall man with gray eyes, he had a powerful and noble aura and it seemed that all his movements were peacefully made.
"Who are you? How do you know my name?" the man laughed, a laugh that made the human remember Elrond in some way.
"I know your name young one, because I gave it to you"
"Father? But... but you are dead!"
"No, I am not. And I am glad that you are alright" Arathorn came closer to his son and to the shock of Estel he embraced him.
TBC...
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