Author's Notes: Ask and ye shall receive. Here is the next chapter (and it even has Haldir in it too).

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Those You Love

Lessons to be Learned

by Celebrian

"Namarie." Lutheriel said softly as she looked up at her brother sitting on his horse. "Tell father I love him....And be careful!"

Legolas nodded. "Of course. The sentries are taking me on a secret route; one that orcs rarely use, I'll be in Mirkwood in three days." He assured his sister. "Enjoy it here." He said looking upon the golden leaves.

Lutheriel nodded, her body trembling inside. She feared for her brother, but also knew that the sentries would protect him very well.

Legolas gave his sister a soft smile. "Namarie." He said, then looked to Galadriel. No words were passed between them, just a simple smile. The Elven sentries awaited the Prince to give them the signal to begin their trek out of Lorien. The Prince gave his sister one final look and then nodded to the sentries. They whispered to their horses and the group began to move down the path and soon out of sight.

Lutheriel watched her brother for as long as she could see him. "Maybe I should have at least followed him to the borders..." She thought, sighing deeply. She cast her gaze upward and saw that the sun began to set. The golden leaves of Lorien had now changed to a fiery orange.

Dusk had come.

Lutheriel stood there a moment looking in the direction of the river Nimrodel. She was supposed to meet Haldir there so that he could give her a lesson in Westron. She had been looking forward to it all day, except now she was filled with worry of her brother's journey back to the Woodlands, and of course she remembered his warning about Haldir. "Maybe I should just go back to my flet...I'm really not much up to learning anything tonight...Haldir will understand..." She thought as she turned the opposite way and started back to her flet.

She didn't get more than a few feet away when she stopped again. "No he will not understand. This is Haldir I'm talking about. He'd be so mad... plus I was the one that asked him if he would teach me some Westron in the first place. I should go, if only for a little while." She thought, turning around and heading in the direction of the river.

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It had taken Lutheriel quite awhile to get down to the Nimrodel but at last she finally found herself wondering the banks. Of course she didn't know exactly where Haldir was going to be; the river was wide and long. He could be at the other end or even on the other side. "Ugh... I will be wandering this river all night. Why didn't I ask him for specific directions?" She thought as she walked down the banks, looking for the blond Elf.

"Haldir..." She whispered, her eyes wide on the lookout. "Haldir...." She kept walking, it was pretty much useless though, dark had already come. "So much for that...I bet he tricked me. He probably wasn't even planning on coming. I bet he is sitting back in Caras Galadhon having a good laugh!" She spoke out loud, trying to find her way on to the path to take her to the city.

"You're late." A deep male voice called out from behind her.

Lutheriel spun around to see Haldir leaning casually against a tree with his arms folded. He held a small lantern in his hand, lighting his face up. "I'm sorry..." She apologized. "I got sort of lost."

Haldir shrugged. "Well you wasted time...my time..." He paused, looking over her. "I suppose I could still give you a lesson though."

"Well if you think it'll be a waste of time, then maybe I should just go back." She said snippily. She was a bit taken back by his cold words and attitude. He didn't seem at all like this when they met earlier today.

"I'm here and you're here, so lets just do this." He said, motioning her over to a blanket that he had spread out on the soft grass. "Sit."

Lutheriel looked down at the blanket and then back at Haldir. Slowly she walked over and sat down. Her stomach fluttered inside and she had no idea why. "Lesson...it's a lesson..." She kept telling herself.

Haldir sat down on the other side of the blanket, as far as he possibly could from Lutheriel. He looked at her. Their eyes locked on each other for a moment and then they quickly looked away. "This is more awkward than I thought it was going to be." Haldir told himself, as he stared down at his hands. He shook his head slightly. "Look at what this female has reduced me too! I'm acting like a love struck Elf...."

It was Lutheriel that broke the silence. She refuses to sit the whole night in absolute quietness. "So what will you teach me first?" She asked. "Can I just give you some phrases and you can tell me how to speak them in Westron?"

Haldir looked up. "If you'd like." He arched his eyebrow. "You aren't going to ask me how to say more endearments so that you can say them to your lover, are you?"

Lutheriel blushed, but luckily the night hid it. There was no lover. She only had said there was because she was half hopeful that someday she could tell Haldir that she loved him in Westron. She felt so foolish now. How could she say that she loved him when she didn't even know him. "I guess I just fell in love with his looks..." She thought but, she couldn't help to think that there was something else there. Her mother told her that one day she would find her soul mate. Her eldar. Could Haldir be the one that she had been waiting for?

"Well?" Haldir asked impatiently.

Lutheriel snapped out of her thoughts. "Uh.." She debated whether or not to tell him that she had no lover. "Well, I don't actually have a lover..." She confessed, trying not to look at him.

He furrowed his brows together. "Then why tell me that?" He truly didn't understand. "Why say that you have someone when you don't?" He was confused and happy at the same time. If she didn't have anyone, then that meant he still had somewhat of a chance with her. Of course, even if she did have someone, that wasn't going to stop him from pursuing her.

"I was thinking ahead for my future lover..." She replied. It was the truth too.

"What makes you think you will find a lover?" Haldir said with a slight snort.

"Well." Lutheriel began. "Everyone has an eldar. It just depends on how much that person is willing to look for them."

Haldir rolled his eyes. "Not all Elves get married and some don't even take lovers. Gil-galad for instance.."

"But what if Gil-galad never searched for her?" She asked. "And when Sauron killed him, it was too late. Even though we are immortal we can still be killed, we will never know when our time is going to end..."

Her words struck him deeply and he couldn't figure out why. "Everyone has an eldar? Where is my eldar? Why has she never come to me?" He asked himself. "Of course I have never looked for her. It would just be a waste of time..."

"You don't have a wife or a lover do you?" She blurted out. A second after she said it her hand clasped over her mouth.

"That's none of your business." Haldir snapped.

"I'm sorry..." She apologized.

There was another silence between them. This time longer than the first.

"No." Haldir finally said. "I don't have time to take a lover or a wife. My duty to Lorien is first, everything else is second. Protecting Lorien will always be my first priority."

"Protecting Lorien doesn't make you happy though..." Lutheriel muttered.

"How do you know?! You can't read my thoughts!" She was really starting to aggravate him now with all this talk of eldar, love, and happiness. If he was going to pursue her before, he surely wasn't going to do it now.

"No, Haldir, I can't read your thoughts!" She said sternly. "But anyone can see you are unhappy. You are so cold, you isolate yourself from everyone, you don't make conversation...You are the most arrogant Elf I have ever met! And I'd like to know why? What has hardened your heart?"

Haldir gritted his teeth together. "You ask too many questions, Princess!" He shook his head. "I do not need to listen to any of this..."

Lutheriel got up from the blanket and placed her hands on her hips. "Fine! I just thought I'd help but I see I'm doing more harm that good." She turned away from him. "Legolas was right...Why didn't I take my brother's advice?"

Haldir stood up. "I knew this was going to be a waste of time!" He huffed about picking up the blanket. "I wished I never would have suggested this..." He muttered and then began to walk towards the path.

Lutheriel thought of something she wanted to add and spun around, only to smack into the March Warden, who was walking behind her. Her hands instinctively went out in front of her to brace herself from falling or further impact. They ended up on Haldir's chest, she looked up at him with her wide blue eyes. She was too afraid to even move them off of him. He gazed down at her with the same wide eyes, his mouth slightly agape. They stood there unmoving for a few seconds, just staring into each others eyes. Like she had no control over her actions, Lutheriel slowly slid her hands up Haldir's chest until they wrapped around his neck.

Haldir didn't protest and tilted his head down. His heart was racing a mile a minute. So many different emotions that he had never felt before were taking over his mind. He couldn't think of anything to say; his heart told him to not say a word and let the moment take him. Slowly they moved their mouths closer until they met, kissing slowly and softly. Haldir wrapped his strong arms around Lutheriel's tiny waist, kissing her with passion that he never knew he had.

Her body was a tingling mess as she continued to kiss the March Warden back. This was so unexpected, another thing that she could not believe. They parted their lips and looked deeply into each others blue eyes again. "My eldar..." Lutheriel whispered as she leaned her head against his chest.

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Author's Notes: Yay! By chapter 10 they are finally getting somewhere :D This is not over....much, much more to go! Please read and review ;)