A/N: It's my birthday today and because I am in a good mood, I am posting another chapter for anyone that wishes to read it. All I ask is that you review, please!



Disclaimer: All references to Lord of the Rings Characters and places are the property of J.R.R Tolkien, I have just tried to use them for my own story.

Chapter 5: Realisation

The next day Celebfaer was awoken to the sound of knocking on her door. "My Lady, are you awake?" She heard Legolas call through the door, his voice sounded urgent. "Celebfaer are you there?"

"Yes, I am awake and here, though you would not wish to open the door for I am not yet fully clothed." She said, jumping out of bed and throwing on the nearest cloak that she could find, though it was slightly crumpled from being tossed on the floor the night before when she had come back from dinner with Aragorn and Arwen.

Celebfaer was almost about to call him to come in, forgetting that her hood was not over her head just yet, before she stopped herself, her mouth hanging open. So, she stood in front of the mirror and put the hood in place on her head, quickly, hoping she looked respectable and then took a deep breath before calling for him to enter.

"Legolas, what brings you to my rooms at such an hour?" She asked, when he walked in, having no idea of the time and the confused look her gave her did not help.

"It is almost noon my lady. Had I known you were still sleeping I would have come back after noon to speak with you. Though I do not know if it is proper." He said, frowning as though he did not understand her and Celebfaer frowned, also confused about what his last sentence meant.

"Of what do you speak Legolas and why does it concern me?"

"Elrond has announced the members of the Company that shall journey south with the ring and it's barer in seven days time. You are on that list though I cannot figure out why." He said and she looked at him.

"I just wish to go back to Lorien is all. That is as far as I shall travel with the Company and I think some of my skills may be of use." She said cautiously.

"Skills? Have you been trained in battle whilst you dwelt in Lothlorien?" He asked her, a little shocked that a lady would be trained and she nodded.

"Not only men need to have the ability to defend themselves. I have been trained with the knife and bow, though I prefer the bow I am not very good in either of them but I know enough to defend myself." She replied and Legolas searched the room for her weapons with his eyes.

"Where are your weapons then? Or will we all have to protect you as well as the hobbits? We shall without being asked, though it would be better if you had some form of a weapon to protect yourself, in case we are not there to help and you are caught unaware."

"My weapons I keep hidden, until they are needed." She replied walking to the door. "If that is the only reason you come then I shall talk to you of this later when I am more prepared and less sleepy." She said and he nodded, to her, backing down instantly, which she found odd as he never normally backed down on any of her commands.

"As you wish my lady." He said, inclining his head slightly before he turned and walked from the room.

Later that day after the noonday meal Celebfaer was sitting by her favourite pool once again, humming a tune to herself. A tune she had not heard before but had been stored in her memory and in humming the tune she seemed to remember the words, though she had never heard them before. It was a song sung by the fairies about love.

It was there by the pool that Legolas found her and he stood in her field of view, waiting to see if she would notice him. She did, and without breaking the tune, she beckoned to him to come and sit by her. Over the past few months she had enjoyed his company and she hoped that they could still be friends after the ring was destroyed. As he sat down she reached the end of the tune she had been humming and then nodded happily when she had finished confirming to him that she was ready to talk to him.

"What brings you out here Legolas?" She asked and he smiled.

"I have never heard you sing before. Will you sing me a song that is sung often in Lothlorien?" He asked, his eyes sparkling as they always did when he talked of Lothlorien or his home in Mirkwood.

"My singing is much like my dancing, I much prefer to hum the tune before I sing it and it would take me too long to do that for me to sing for you. And I am afraid I do not know many songs from Lothlorien, because the Lady never thought it important to teach me."

"You really are unlike any other Elf I have met and if all Elves in fair Lothlorien are as strange as you, I should very much like to stay there awhile to study their ways."

"Legolas, the Elves in Lorien are much like the Elves in Rivendell. I am just a different kind." She said and he frowned.

"Are you half-elven then?" Legolas asked quickly and she shook her head.

"There is much yet that you and others do not know about me. I am of a special kind that is not often spoken about in these lands or others." She said hoping he didn't ask her for more information for she could give him no more than that.

"Yet Arwen, Elrond and Gandalf seem to know you well enough." He said. "Even Aragorn knows some of your secrets, a mere Man, though one of great power. Other than those four I have not yet seen you with other Elvish friends." He said and she smiled.

"My friends are all back in Lothlorien Legolas." She said, knowing that she only had a few friends in Lorien because most despised that the Lady held such a strange 'Elf' in such high favour.

"You do not tell much about yourself Celebfaer." He replied. "All I have been allowed to know about you is that you do not dance, you do not sing, yet you can whisper words so soft that no Elf can hear them even when they are up close and you can will water to show you images of people."

She looked at him, shocked that he had picked up or seen that much, particularly the bit about the water showing her images of people, but she did not let it show. "You have been spying on me Legolas Greenleaf?" She asked a tinge of anger in her voice.

"Nay, I have not. Though I believe you to be an Elf, your appearance certainly suggests it, I sense there is something about you that does not feel right around Elves." He said and she stood up.

"You dare to question it? I know many languages that you do not. I know many things that you do not as I am a scholar of the Lady of the Wood and she has taught me many things. Some of the things she has taught me most Elves would not dream were possible." Celebfaer said, the anger flashing in her eyes, then she turned and started to walk off.

"Are you promised to another Elf then?" He asked and she whirled around to look at him, finally realising where this had been heading.

"Nay, I am not." She said then she turned and walked off, keen to find Arwen, a little shaken about what had just happened.

She found Arwen in her rooms, sitting by the fire, a book on her lap and Aragorn sitting opposite her, talking to her softly.

Celebfaer felt she would be intruding if she walked any further, but Aragorn sensed her and spoke up, before she could back away and leave them undisturbed.

"You may come in Faer hen. We were just talking, but something ails you, I can feel it. Sit and tell us what it is so that we may be able to sort it out." Aragorn said using the name that he called her when it was just the three of them around and Arwen nodded to her, so Celebfaer walked over to the fire and sat in the empty seat between the two and furthest from the fire.

"It is Legolas." She said and Arwen smiled.

"I thought this day would come, though I hoped it would not come until you reached Lorien and the Lady would know what to do, but it has come and we shall try to instruct you."

"He is starting to suspect I am not an Elf, and I think that he never truly believed I was a Elf from the minute he was told."

"Legolas is very curious by nature. He cannot help it though he will never believe anything until he is shown the proof of it. It can be frustrating and annoying at times but at others it can be quite good for it helps, particularly in battle." Arwen said and Celebfaer nodded.

"I think that he should at least be told of what I am. He may not understand what it means but I am sure it would cure him of his....... curiosity." She said, pausing slightly before the last word was said.

"Legolas will always be curious of what he does not know about......." Arwen started but Aragorn nodded and cut her off.

"It is true. Eventually the Company will find out or need to be told. Frodo just had to look at you before guessing you were not an Elf, though it was smart to do what you did, you cannot fool everyone that you are traveling with despite Gandalf and I being there." He said.

"And then I would not have to try and answer any unwanted questions about my ways and I would not have to wear this hood!" She said, taking it off as if to show how much it irritated her to wear it.

"You will wear the hood despite if they are told or not. There are some people that still know a bit about fairies and their ways, Sauron and Saruman are two of them and although Orcs may not guess, they could be told what to look for if it were suspected that you were with the Company." Arwen said in a commanding tone and Aragorn nodded in response, smiling at Arwen.

"Once again my love speaks the truth, though I think you should wait until we are far from Rivendell before you tell the rest of the Company what you are and if it can be avoided then so it should." Aragorn added.

"But that does not help in the matter of Legolas." Celebfaer said, sighing and Arwen looked at her face then turned to Aragorn.

"Aragorn, my heart will you go and seek Gandalf as I know he would wish to speak with you of the road you will take on the journey." Arwen said to him and he nodded.

"As the lady wishes." He said then he stood up and bowed to her, then to Celebfaer before he walked from the room.

"Tell me spirit child, has Legolas spoken to you of love?" Arwen asked when they were alone, which took Celebfaer a little by surprise.

"Nay, he has not. Though he did ask if I were promised to another Elf, if that is what you speak of." She responded and Arwen nodded.

"You know that Legolas' father will probably tie him down to a maiden from Mirkwood once he returns from the quest, and that the way he looks at you is not how he looks at all the other Elves." Arwen said and Celebfaer nodded.

"Yes." She replied.

"You also know that you are unable to love another creature other than another Fairy do you not?"

"Yes. I do know. Though it is not that I am unable to, it is more that it is forbidden for a Fairy to love one of a different race and the punishment is exile from the kingdom."

"And you feel nothing for Legolas?"

"He is special. Like a close friend that I will stay in contact with once he leaves Lothlorien. He is a close friend but not as close to me as you and Aragorn are because you two know about my wings and my real self. Legolas thinks I am an Elf and so he has fallen for an Elf. If he knew I were a Fairy then he would not have fallen so easily." Celebfaer said, truthfully.

"Yes. Though I agree with Aragorn on this matter. No one else should be told until they absolutely must and on this journey you should not use your skills until there is great need." Arwen replied, then she closed her eyes for a few seconds as though thinking, before she opened them again and looked straight into Celebfaer's eyes. "Though I wish you well on your journey my friend, I cannot foretell what will become of it. Not even my father can foretell what peril you will face."

"Thank you Arwen."

"Do not stay away from Legolas though, he is kind hearted and when he does find out he may react a little strangely but give him time and you shall be friends again."

With that, the Fairy stood up. "Thank you once again Arwen, your wisdom is greatly appreciated." She said then she bowed and smiled at Arwen.

"But you also have wisdom spirit child. I just know what Elves are like. You are almost there, but maybe you need another 2000 years before you will truly figure us Elves out." Arwen said with a slight smile.

Celebfaer just laughed, then departed from the room, leaving Arwen to her book and Celebfaer went for a walk out in the gardens.



A/N: I will only demand that you review simply because it is my birthday and I really do want feedback, even if you think it is really terrible and that I should not continue on with it.

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