Chapter 9
By Crystal
*We all know who this belongs to ^^;;*
January 18, 3019
It was yesterday that we arrived at Lothlórien and it's early in the morning on January 18. I'm so tired, but I can't find the strength to sleep. Ever since Lady Galadriel showed me her mirror, I could not sleep... The future haunts me somehow. It was also the fact that Lady Galadriel hinted at me that I should save Boromir, but I don't know how... I have only had one hour of sleep last night, I should sleep more, but the will to sleep has left me... I'm going to take a walk right now, hopefully, that'll tire me out or something of the sort. Bye
-Jessica
I took all the beautiful sceneries in my head and filled my head with it, looking around while walking in silence. I met a few elves here and there and said my greetings before I left once again to walk in the silence. It was too silent, but there was nothing I could do. Even if elves were all around me, it was no use. They were walking with their feather light feet...
I sighed quietly, then closed my eyes and enjoyed the peaceful feeling here. It would have the end soon once I left Lothlórien... Perhaps I would return, perhaps I wouldn't. "Good morning." My eyes snapped opened once again and I once again turned around to look at those blue eyes.
"Oh my god, Legolas! Can you please stop scaring me like that? Perhaps next time, walk with a bit more noise!"
He frowned childishly, "Elves do not make noise while walking..."
"I know! That's the whole point anyway. I want to know that you are coming towards me so you do not scare me shitless every time you speak to me!" He looked at me disapprovingly again, then I corrected, "I mean... So you do not scare me every time you speak to me..." I said quietly, and earned a chuckle from him.
"It is beautiful, is it not?" I heard Legolas ask. I tore my eyes away from the handsome elf in front of me and looked around once again.
I nodded, "Beautiful, yes... But it looks heavenly..." I replied. He chuckled again, and I turned around, my confused gaze on him, "What?"
"I was not talking about the scenery, but if you insist that I am..."
I raised an eyebrow, "If you're not talking about the scenery, then what are you talking about?" I asked, suspicious and confused now.
"Green matches your eyes..." He said, changing the subject.
I sighed, allowing him to change it, "Yes, I was told by Merenwen that green matched my hair and eyes. I do get the part about the eyes, but I don't know about my hair... My hair isn't exactly green..." I said, while playing with a lock of my brown hair, twirling it around my fingers.
"Nay, I agree your hair is not green, but it does match. You do look beautiful in green."
I blushed, "Ah, stop lying."
I saw his grin widen, "If you insist that I am lying... Then I have nothing else to say but that you are an ugly maiden."
I rolled my eyes, "Geez, thanks Legolas. You know just how to flatter a girl... Just call them ugly early in the morning." His mouth opened to speak, but I interrupted, "Tsk, tsk, tsk, Legolas. You're a shame... Just a shame. You disappoint me..." I kept going on like this every time he wanted to speak, until he started frowning, causing me to giggle.
"Women..." He muttered under his breath.
"Now what would you know about women?" I asked with curiously.
He raised his eyebrow, "What would I not know about women? I travel with one everyday and I have been travelling with one for the past month. And a very annoying at that."
I pouted, "So I'm annoying now?" He nodded, smiling innocently, "That's great! But you have to admit, I'm very, very unique."
"You are right. Not a lot of women can tell the future." I heard him say.
I lowered my head, "It's not necessarily a good thing, Legolas. I don't know what to do anymore... Before I came to Lothlórien, I was already burdened with the fact that I know what will happen to most of you... But after last night, Lady Galadriel let me see into her mirror... And I saw even more of the future... It's frightening..."
"How is it frightening?" He said, suddenly becoming serious. He lead me to where I could settle down comfortably and held wrapped his arm around my shoulders. "Tell me..." He urged.
"It's frightening how you know who will die... It's frightening how I see the past in the mirror, and how my view of things have changed within the past few months... And it's frightening, to know that a person's going to die, but you have to save him, because the mirror says so... And you don't know how to save him at all... And I think... I think I'm starting to enjoy my present life, and I don't want to go back."
He said the most logical thing possible, "Then do not go back to your past." He lifted my head up. "If you do not want to go back, then do not go back. Mirkwood is always free for you to come, and I am sure that if you do not like living with elves, Aragorn will not mind you living with him."
"It is not my decision whether I go back or not... It's not mine, nor is it anyone's..."
"What do you mean?"
I lowered down my head once again, "Do you promise that you will not tell a single soul what I have told you? Do you promise that, Legolas?"
"Amin vesta." (I promise.)
"I... I am not from this world, Legolas... Not much people know of this... There was Gandalf... Lord Elrond, now you... I am from a world called Earth... We do not have war against good and evil, but we have war against humans ourselves. We have nothing such as elves and dwarfs... There are only humans and according to the law, women and men are the same."
I took a deep breath of fresh air, wondering how I was suppose to tell him all this, "And I know the future, because in our world, there is a book called 'The Lord of the Rings'. It is about this whole journey, how everything is... And I have read up to a certain page and I know vaguely what happens and who dies... I am burdened with the fact that he dies and how Gandalf has told me to follow my heart. My heart tells me to save him, but my mind tells me to leave him to die, for if I save him, I will change the course of the future... And that might prove to be risky for everyone..."
"So you know how all this is going to end then?"
"No," I answered, "I don't know how it is all going to end, but I know for a fact... That if I save him, then I will risk everyone's life."
"And what if the Fellowship wants you to risk all our lives just to save that one person?" He asked.
I shook my head, "I have no idea, but I know for one that I will still not do that, for I am not only risking the life of the Fellowship, but also all the living life on Middle-Earth. And I have no intentions of telling anyone else... I trust you, Legolas... And I just needed someone to help me with my burden. I apologize if I have made you even worst than you are."
"I am glad." I looked up at him, "I am glad that you trust me then, and do not worry... It is good to know that someone will die... But I think you should listen to Gandalf. Listen to your heart, for the mind makes you do the wrong decisions..."
"I know..." I whispered quietly, "But what if... What if that one wrong decision that my heart made kills all of Middle-Earth, I will never be able to forgive myself."
"We will not be blaming it on you."
I smiled, "Perhaps not the Fellowship, nor anyone I know, but Middle-Earth will..." I sighed, "There's so much things to think about here... How the next step should be taken to not change everything, how I have to watch what I say as to not give away anything..."
"What of your other world then?" He suddenly questioned, "Do you not want to see your family again, and your friends?"
I nodded hesitantly, "I want to see them badly, very badly... But I think... There is a certain someone that makes me want to stay..."
"Is it Boromir?" He asked, a hint of something mixed in his voice that I could not tell.
I shook my head, "Remembered that day when we were walking down the mountain together and talking about love? I told you I was somewhat bound, that I had a boyfriend... It is this thing on Earth. We are boyfriends and girlfriends, though we are not absolutely serious about it... We usually have several of those until we find the right one to get married. Unlike elves, we do not die of a broken heart easily, though some do."
"They might have elven blood in them." Legolas said.
My eyes widened, "I've never really thought about that... But, then again... There are no elves on Earth. Anyways, moving on..." I said, and continued, "Well, I told you I have a boyfriend on Earth already... But, my feelings for him are starting to fade... Perhaps it's because I finally know that I don't love him."
"I see." Legolas replied. "What made you realize that you do not love him?" He asked.
"I... It's because... Well, I don't like him anymore, and I've noticed it's nothing more than just a crush." He was about to say something when I interrupted again, "I know I have told you that if I knew what love was, I think I was in love... But the truth is, I think I finally grasped what love is... And I think I'm falling in love with someone in Middle-Earth... That is why I don't want to leave."
He looked at me, "And how do you know it is love, and not another 'crush', as you would call it?"
"Because, he's made me have feelings I've never had when I was with Alan... Alan is my boyfriend..."
He raised his eyebrows, "Feelings?"
I nodded, "Feelings... It's... I've only known him for a few months, but already, I cannot picture my life without him, because he's always with me... And whenever he's around me, I feel my heart beating a thousand miles per hour..." With hesitation, I took his hand and pressed it just above my breast, "Like this."
His face was a look of shock, then he whispered three words, "It is me...?"
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