Chapter Three
Disclaimer: yeah....uh...... I live in a small house and have a cheap ass car definitely not mine!!!!!
A/N:yeah thanx again to my friend Amber for helping me with this chapter. And also thanx to my friend Laura for reviewing and for being my beta for this chapter.
A/N2: This chappie is gonna be in my POV and I'm gonna try to write some of the other chapters in other peoples POVs from now on kay? Not that any of you actually have a choice or that anyone is actually reading this story. (That was just a small hint to REVIEW, if you didn't catch that =)
A/N3: BTW thoughts are in ... English is in "..." and elvish is in '....' any other language, that I decided to put in for some odd reason or another, will be in (...). Kay?
On with the show then.........................
I can't believe that Gandalf didn't tell me any of this before I came here!!! I thought to my self as the old wizard continued to talk to me, oblivious to the fact that I stopped paying full attention to him nearly five minuets ago.
"...so you see Lillyanne, I did not lie to you I merely.... withheld certain information from you." Gandalf said, looking at me as though I might turn him into something with a flick of my wrist. Not a bad idea really considering the circumstances I mused. He really would make a good insect right about now. "Lillyanne?" Gandalf questioned looking at me, concerned, from his seat by the window in my rooms.
"Yes?" I replied staring at him. "Are you all right?" He asked simply, raising his eyebrows at me. Wrong question and at the wrong time, pal. I thought before blowing up at him.
"Am I all right?" I repeated looking at him furiously. "You just told me that my real father, who abandoned me at birth right after my real mother died, lives here in Middle Earth! But that's not all, you also tell me that my mother was an elf and my father is a half-elven!! Which makes me 3/4 elven!!!! AND YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO ASK ME IF I AM ALL RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!" I finished looking at him incredulously "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!!??" I questioned him "Wait!!!" I said much more calmly "I don't want to know. Get out." I finished waving my hand at the door, which slammed opened on its own.
"Lillyanne, please calm down for just a moment-" Gandalf started but I feel that I have every right to be more than a little pissed off at the moment, and I intend to stay that way for right now.
"No I don't want to hear it !! You have about two seconds to leave this room on your own before I make you leave!!" I said again pointing at the door but retaining my temper enough that it didn't explode. Gandalf opened his mouth but wisely chose to close it again before he said anything to make me more pissed off at him.
"Very well, as you wish." He said as he swept out of my rooms, jumping slightly as I made the door slam behind him. As I sat down on my bed I began to feel more than a little claustrophobic. I need to get out of here and to something, go somewhere, anything. I need to get my mind off of this new information about myself. Looking out the window I spotted a practice field for hand-to-hand combat. Better then nothing I suppose. I thought shrugging. Walking over to where I left my bag on a chair by the vanity in my room I heard someone knock on my door.
"Who is it?" I called.
"Hey open up!!!" I heard Gabby shout pounding on the door.
"It's unlocked dumb ass!" I said loudly.
"Oh...so it is." Gabby said sheepishly as she walked through the door and closed it behind her. "What was all that yelling about?" She asked me walking over to sit on my bed.
"I don't think that you'd believe me if I told you, Gabs." I said searching through my bag for some clothes that I could wear to the practice field in.
"Try me." Gabby said with a grin. Okay fine. I thought as I finally found a pair of baggy black pants and a black tank top to wear.
"Gandalf just told me something that I was... rather unprepared to hear from him, of all people." I said carefully, not really ready to admit to myself, let alone anyone else, what Gandalf had told me was probably true.
"And what did he tell you?" Gabby asked looking at her best friend curiously.
"He uhh... he told me that uh...my real parents..they ummm... they kinda live here in Middle earth. Only my mother died giving birth to me and my father couldn't deal with that so he had me left on the door step of the orphanage that I was adopted from." I said sitting down next to her on my bed and putting my head in my hands.
"Oh Lilly I'm so sorry" Gabby said putting her arm around my shoulders and hugging me.
"What for? It's not your fault. It's Gandalfs fault for telling me this, and it's my fathers fault for sending me away in the first place." I finished bitterly. Standing up and walking over to my nifty bag I continued talking. "I need to get out of here for awhile okay? I'm gonna go down to the practice field for a little while. The council isn't starting until noon so we have some time to kill." Grabbing my sword that I had put into my bag at the last second I began to walk towards the door.
Gabby stood up and put a hand on my arm, "Are you sure that you having a sharp pointy object when you're this upset is a good idea?" She asked me gesturing to my sword.
"Yes. It's not like I'm gonna try and kill anyone with it. If I had wanted to kill Gandalf for dumping this on me so suddenly he would have been dead already." I pointed out after Gabby gave me a sceptical look.
"Are you sure you don't want anyone to talk to right now? Do you want me to go with you?" Gabby questioned, no longer worried that I was going to try and kill anyone, but still worried about me.
"Yeah I'll be fine. Besides, do you remember the last time when I tried to teach you how to use a weapon?" I asked her raising an eyebrow and grinning at my shorter friend.
"Hey!!! It wasn't my fault that guy got in the way. Besides he wasn't hurt that bad." Gabby said uncertainly, looking a bit guilty.
"Gabby!! He was put in the hospital for three days!!" I exclaimed laughing slightly at the memory of that experience. "Any way I better get going if I want to get any practice in before the council." I said as I walked through the door with Gabby following me.
"See you at the council then." Gabby told me as she started walking in the opposite direction of me.
"Yeah see you there." I said turning away from her and walking out to the practice field. When I got there everyone there stopped and stared at me then looked at each other as if to say "What is she doing here!!??". It was then that I noticed something that I hadn't seen from up in my room- there wasn't any women here, it was all men. Oops I forgot that they aren't used to seeing women that know how to fight. Oh well guess they are all gonna get the shock of their lives. I thought to myself grinning.
"Anyone up for a bit of a challenge?" I asked, my question sounding loud in the otherwise silent clearing. "I am." One of the men said striding away from the rest. Hey! That's one of the humans from the council yesterday. I thought to myself somewhat shocked that a human would be training with a bunch of elves.
"I am called Strider. May I inquire as to your name milady?" Strider questioned, bowing slightly. What am I doing!!??? I cannot spar with her!!! She is my daughter! What if I somehow hurt her? What then?? He shouted in his head.
"Lillyanne Leigh. Ready?" I asked him stepping into a defensive stance, waiting for Strider to make the first move. He tipped his head to me and tentatively struck out with his sword, obviously thinking that I didn't know what I was doing. I easily deflected the strike and returned with one of my own that Strider barely blocking my strike in time. We continued exchanging blows for quite some time, and after awhile the crowd that had at first surrounded us had dispersed until there was only two elves watching us.
"Estel!!" One of the two elves suddenly shouted. "We shall be late to the council if we do not hurry!!" He stated when both Strider and I had stopped moving and looked at him.
"Oh shit!!! I almost forgot about the council!!" I exclaimed, looking at my watch. "We have ten minutes until the council starts. See you guys there!" I shouted over my shoulder as I walked away from the practice field and up to my room to change quickly.
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The two elves and Strider stared after Lillyanne as she left the field. "Is that her, Estel?" Elladan asked his foster brother.
"Yes that is my daughter." Aragorn said, slightly dazed that he had finally met his daughter after 17 years.
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Okay this is the end of this chappie. The council will be in the next part, which I will hopefully have out in the next few days. And also yes I know that Aragorn isn't really half-elven but for the purpose of my story I decided to make him half-elven. Call it poetic license if you want to. Kay? :)
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Disclaimer: yeah....uh...... I live in a small house and have a cheap ass car definitely not mine!!!!!
A/N:yeah thanx again to my friend Amber for helping me with this chapter. And also thanx to my friend Laura for reviewing and for being my beta for this chapter.
A/N2: This chappie is gonna be in my POV and I'm gonna try to write some of the other chapters in other peoples POVs from now on kay? Not that any of you actually have a choice or that anyone is actually reading this story. (That was just a small hint to REVIEW, if you didn't catch that =)
A/N3: BTW thoughts are in ... English is in "..." and elvish is in '....' any other language, that I decided to put in for some odd reason or another, will be in (...). Kay?
On with the show then.........................
I can't believe that Gandalf didn't tell me any of this before I came here!!! I thought to my self as the old wizard continued to talk to me, oblivious to the fact that I stopped paying full attention to him nearly five minuets ago.
"...so you see Lillyanne, I did not lie to you I merely.... withheld certain information from you." Gandalf said, looking at me as though I might turn him into something with a flick of my wrist. Not a bad idea really considering the circumstances I mused. He really would make a good insect right about now. "Lillyanne?" Gandalf questioned looking at me, concerned, from his seat by the window in my rooms.
"Yes?" I replied staring at him. "Are you all right?" He asked simply, raising his eyebrows at me. Wrong question and at the wrong time, pal. I thought before blowing up at him.
"Am I all right?" I repeated looking at him furiously. "You just told me that my real father, who abandoned me at birth right after my real mother died, lives here in Middle Earth! But that's not all, you also tell me that my mother was an elf and my father is a half-elven!! Which makes me 3/4 elven!!!! AND YOU HAVE THE NERVE TO ASK ME IF I AM ALL RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!" I finished looking at him incredulously "WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH YOU!!??" I questioned him "Wait!!!" I said much more calmly "I don't want to know. Get out." I finished waving my hand at the door, which slammed opened on its own.
"Lillyanne, please calm down for just a moment-" Gandalf started but I feel that I have every right to be more than a little pissed off at the moment, and I intend to stay that way for right now.
"No I don't want to hear it !! You have about two seconds to leave this room on your own before I make you leave!!" I said again pointing at the door but retaining my temper enough that it didn't explode. Gandalf opened his mouth but wisely chose to close it again before he said anything to make me more pissed off at him.
"Very well, as you wish." He said as he swept out of my rooms, jumping slightly as I made the door slam behind him. As I sat down on my bed I began to feel more than a little claustrophobic. I need to get out of here and to something, go somewhere, anything. I need to get my mind off of this new information about myself. Looking out the window I spotted a practice field for hand-to-hand combat. Better then nothing I suppose. I thought shrugging. Walking over to where I left my bag on a chair by the vanity in my room I heard someone knock on my door.
"Who is it?" I called.
"Hey open up!!!" I heard Gabby shout pounding on the door.
"It's unlocked dumb ass!" I said loudly.
"Oh...so it is." Gabby said sheepishly as she walked through the door and closed it behind her. "What was all that yelling about?" She asked me walking over to sit on my bed.
"I don't think that you'd believe me if I told you, Gabs." I said searching through my bag for some clothes that I could wear to the practice field in.
"Try me." Gabby said with a grin. Okay fine. I thought as I finally found a pair of baggy black pants and a black tank top to wear.
"Gandalf just told me something that I was... rather unprepared to hear from him, of all people." I said carefully, not really ready to admit to myself, let alone anyone else, what Gandalf had told me was probably true.
"And what did he tell you?" Gabby asked looking at her best friend curiously.
"He uhh... he told me that uh...my real parents..they ummm... they kinda live here in Middle earth. Only my mother died giving birth to me and my father couldn't deal with that so he had me left on the door step of the orphanage that I was adopted from." I said sitting down next to her on my bed and putting my head in my hands.
"Oh Lilly I'm so sorry" Gabby said putting her arm around my shoulders and hugging me.
"What for? It's not your fault. It's Gandalfs fault for telling me this, and it's my fathers fault for sending me away in the first place." I finished bitterly. Standing up and walking over to my nifty bag I continued talking. "I need to get out of here for awhile okay? I'm gonna go down to the practice field for a little while. The council isn't starting until noon so we have some time to kill." Grabbing my sword that I had put into my bag at the last second I began to walk towards the door.
Gabby stood up and put a hand on my arm, "Are you sure that you having a sharp pointy object when you're this upset is a good idea?" She asked me gesturing to my sword.
"Yes. It's not like I'm gonna try and kill anyone with it. If I had wanted to kill Gandalf for dumping this on me so suddenly he would have been dead already." I pointed out after Gabby gave me a sceptical look.
"Are you sure you don't want anyone to talk to right now? Do you want me to go with you?" Gabby questioned, no longer worried that I was going to try and kill anyone, but still worried about me.
"Yeah I'll be fine. Besides, do you remember the last time when I tried to teach you how to use a weapon?" I asked her raising an eyebrow and grinning at my shorter friend.
"Hey!!! It wasn't my fault that guy got in the way. Besides he wasn't hurt that bad." Gabby said uncertainly, looking a bit guilty.
"Gabby!! He was put in the hospital for three days!!" I exclaimed laughing slightly at the memory of that experience. "Any way I better get going if I want to get any practice in before the council." I said as I walked through the door with Gabby following me.
"See you at the council then." Gabby told me as she started walking in the opposite direction of me.
"Yeah see you there." I said turning away from her and walking out to the practice field. When I got there everyone there stopped and stared at me then looked at each other as if to say "What is she doing here!!??". It was then that I noticed something that I hadn't seen from up in my room- there wasn't any women here, it was all men. Oops I forgot that they aren't used to seeing women that know how to fight. Oh well guess they are all gonna get the shock of their lives. I thought to myself grinning.
"Anyone up for a bit of a challenge?" I asked, my question sounding loud in the otherwise silent clearing. "I am." One of the men said striding away from the rest. Hey! That's one of the humans from the council yesterday. I thought to myself somewhat shocked that a human would be training with a bunch of elves.
"I am called Strider. May I inquire as to your name milady?" Strider questioned, bowing slightly. What am I doing!!??? I cannot spar with her!!! She is my daughter! What if I somehow hurt her? What then?? He shouted in his head.
"Lillyanne Leigh. Ready?" I asked him stepping into a defensive stance, waiting for Strider to make the first move. He tipped his head to me and tentatively struck out with his sword, obviously thinking that I didn't know what I was doing. I easily deflected the strike and returned with one of my own that Strider barely blocking my strike in time. We continued exchanging blows for quite some time, and after awhile the crowd that had at first surrounded us had dispersed until there was only two elves watching us.
"Estel!!" One of the two elves suddenly shouted. "We shall be late to the council if we do not hurry!!" He stated when both Strider and I had stopped moving and looked at him.
"Oh shit!!! I almost forgot about the council!!" I exclaimed, looking at my watch. "We have ten minutes until the council starts. See you guys there!" I shouted over my shoulder as I walked away from the practice field and up to my room to change quickly.
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The two elves and Strider stared after Lillyanne as she left the field. "Is that her, Estel?" Elladan asked his foster brother.
"Yes that is my daughter." Aragorn said, slightly dazed that he had finally met his daughter after 17 years.
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Okay this is the end of this chappie. The council will be in the next part, which I will hopefully have out in the next few days. And also yes I know that Aragorn isn't really half-elven but for the purpose of my story I decided to make him half-elven. Call it poetic license if you want to. Kay? :)
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