A/N God, I have so many ideas I just have to get them all down! This is
like, the third chapter I've written in three days! But what can I say? I'm
on a roll!!!
Lem68 ~ Thanks so much! I don't want it to end either... actually I want this story to end so I can get started on the sequel. Oh, and is it ok if I put Alatáriël in the sequel? Because I have it written out and I also have her in future stories that follow on from this one. Thanks, I know how hectic life can be yeah! Hehehehe, enjoy!
Jupiter's Light~ Thanks, enjoy!
Elven-elemnet~ Thanks so much!!! Yeah, I am pretty obsessed with LOTR!!! And yes, I am English. Cold Mountain only won 2 awards at the baftas, LOTR got 5!!!
Best Orange Film of the Year, Best Film of the Year, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Special Effects.
It did really well, though I wish Peter Jackson had got best director, he deserved it more than the director of Master and Commander!!! I was really mad when Johnny Depp didn't get best actor (though POTC got best make-up!) I thought he was brilliant as Captain Jack!!! But Orlando's my fave anyways!!!! Thanks for reviewing! Don't kill me! Here's the update!!!
Chapter 16~ This I Promise
Legolas looked at her, she was serious. "What do you mean?"
"I remember my life before Rivendell, actually, my life before Middle Earth," she sighed placing a hand on her stomach, she grimaced when she moved slightly with the pain.
"I do not understand. How could you have a life before Arda?" he asked, confused.
"I mean... oh god how the hell do I say this?" she muttered to herself remembering words and things she had previously forgotten. "Legolas, I am not from Middle Earth. I come from a place called England on a planet called Earth."
This was too much for the Edhel to process. And what was England? And a planet.... (Elf)
Valia continued noting the blank look on his face. "It's very far away. Anyway, I got transported here... magically I think and I couldn't remember where I came from, but when that orc stabbed me... everything came flooding back when I had a dream about my real home and it was so clear, it felt like, if I opened my eyes, I'd be in my world again. In my world, I am a human, mortal... Elves and beings like that are considered to be mythical... they do not really exist."
Legolas opened his mouth to protest and Valia cut across him hastily. "Some people think that anyway. But I believe and the last thoughts I had before I was hit by a car...a kind of carriage not pulled by horses and made from metal," she added seeing the blank look on Legolas' face. "The last thoughts I had were of a world I created in my head, this world... a world that was so much better than mine. In my world I am fourteen years old, in human years and my life was so boring. Anyway, I wasn't paying attention and then, the next thing I know is you, picking me up and taking me to safety. You told me to hold tight and stay with you."
"Ai Elbereth!" Legolas breathed. "But Valia how-"
"Anna, my human name is Anna." She said.
"Anna? But that is Elvish, it means 'gift' you are my gift from another world." Legolas said taking her hand and kissing it tenderly.
"A gift?" Valia smiled to herself, it was true. She had made the Elf Prince happy.
"And I will keep you forever, safe in my heart forever, I will love you forever. The best anna I have ever had, and will ever have," he said sweetly.
"No, not forever, Legolas, I have to go back to my world. I have to see my parents. I saw my mother, though it was just a shadow I saw her, but she has to see me," Valia said.
"No, no please Valia! You can not leave me! If you leave me... my heart will break!" Legolas said desperately, his happiness from a moment ago fading.
"Leave you! Of course I would not leave you! I could never leave you, but I just have to see my mother and say good bye properly. Then I can return to you. I can not help it Legolas. The next time I close my eyes, weather I want to or not, I will go back to my world. There is nothing anyone else can do. But to you I will always return. This I promise." She pulled him closer and their lips met. "We should tell Lord Elrond though, and make sure I can get back here. I have finally found the love of my life, I will not let him go."
"Wait here, and... do not close your eyes, I will be back in a moment." Said Legolas standing up and going to the door way.
"It's not like I can go anywhere without bursting a few stitches you know!" she laughed.
He left. Valia then wondered what had happened to her friends. Had Alcie been alright? And what about Alatáriël? She had not seen her.
It was not long before Legolas came rushing back in, clutching something protectively to his chest. He resumed his seat by her bedside and opened his hand. In his palm lay the Mithril necklace he had showed her, it seemed so long ago. It glittered in the sunlight pouring through the window, the small design catching the light beautifully. "I now know what she meant by 'give it to the One'. The One is you. She meant give it to the love of my life, and I bestow it to you."
She was speechless. She gasped as Legolas put the necklace around her neck and fastened it at the back. It glittered on her chest and her face lit up. "Now I know I have to return! I was just wondering, so you know what happened to the others? Elladan and Elrohir, Alcie and Alatáriël? Are they alright?"
"They are fine. They have been bonding very well lately, especially Elladan and Alcie. He was the one that pulled her from the battle. An orc stabbed her in the shoulder with an arrow, it was one of our arrows too. But she is fine. She wont be able to use her bow or wield her knives for a while, but Elladan is taking good care of her." he smirked, as did Valia.
"That's good." She sighed. Lord Elrond appeared in the doorway and came into her room a smile on his face.
"Valia, I am pleased to see you awake. How are you feeling?" he asked gently.
"A little uncomfortable, but-" she glanced at Legolas who bowed his head and nodded. "I remember everything before Rivendell, who I am, where I came from." She told him everything, everything she had told Legolas and more, little things came flooding into her memory every second.
Elrond didn't say anything for a while when she had finished her explanation, but when he did, his voice was soft and mildly curious. "How extraordinary, I dare say Gandalf the Grey would be most interested in this, yes he would." He muttered.
Valia looked to Legolas to ask who Gandalf the Grey was but he just smiled and shook his head. Then he nodded for her to continue. "Lord Elrond, I-I well... I have to go back, that dream I just told you about that I had when I was unconscious well, I know that," she took a deep breath and said clearly. "I know that the next time I close my eyes and fall to sleep I will be in my world, and I want to be in my world. I need to see my parents again and well... I want to say goodbye to them. I remember my life in my world, my mortal life and it wasn't all that good. I just want to know, if I go will I be able to come back?" this was something she needed to know. She had to come back to Legolas.
"I can not say. It seems that you have created a world for you to escape, this world and there fore I think you have created two bodies for yourself. So I would think you would be able to return, but I can not b sure. Only Gandalf would be able to answer that and I have no idea where he is. But if you must go you must. You can not stop sleep, no matter how hard you try too it will come and you will pass back into your world." Elrond turned and left leaving Valia and Legolas a little bewildered to say the least.
"So what are you going to do?" Legolas asked.
"I have no choice, I will have to go back." She sighed, she wanted to go back yes, see her family again. But the life she had here was so much better, she didn't know what she would do if she couldn't get back!
~*~
Legolas stayed by her bedside all day, seen as she couldn't get up for fear of bursting her stitches. She wondered whether she would still have her wound back in her world. Maybe not, seen as the wound was on the body she was getting out of and back into her mortal body.
Just after lunch she was surprised to see a limping Elladan supporting a wounded Alcie with Elrohir and Alatáriël coming in begin her holding each other's hand.
"Talk about the walking wounded!" said Valia when she caught sight of all of her friends. Then she glanced down at her own stomach. "Ha, I have the most grievous!" she laughed.
Legolas stood up and gave his seat to Alcie who seemed to need it more than him and stood by her bedside. Elladan leaned on the chair, taking the weight off his wounded foot. "Oh be quiet Val!" he said.
"Lord Elrond told us you were awake, thought we would come and say hello," said Alcie.
"Alcie, how's your shoulder? I saw Elladan carrying you away from the battle," Valia asked her friend.
"Looks like I will live. My shoulder is just a little stiff and I will not be able to use a bow for a while. Other than that though, I m fine." She said. "But I would have been dead if it wasn't for Elladan." They looked at each other lovingly.
"Yeah, Legolas said you'd been getting pretty close over the last week." Valia smirked.
Alcie and Elladan both blushed. "And Alatáriël, Elrohir, how are you two?"
"We are fine. No grievous injuries, just a few cuts and bruises. But we finally got rid of the orcs, everyone was fighting so hard. Especially Legolas. I've never seen anyone fight like that before!" said Alatáriël.
"But he had more reason then most," said Valia.
"No I did not," said Legolas looking to Elladan and Elrohir. "The twins had as much reason to as me, their mother was also taken by orcs."
The twins bowed their heads. "It was long ago." Said Elladan, then his face brightened. "Hey Legolas, did you tell Valia about what we did? I think it as after she got stabbed."
Legolas shook his head, but a smirk crept on to his lips. "Well, do you remember that little invention of ours we showed you a while ago?"
Valia nodded. "Yes I remember, that catapult right? That's what you called it."
"Yes, well that came in very useful in the end helping to drive back those foul orcs." Said Elladan.
"That was funny! You should have seen it Valia, they put rocks onto it and some other things the twins invented, the orcs got the shock of their miserable lives!" Legolas said smiling. That smile that first caught her heart, would she see it again after the next time she closed her eyes?
"I remember where I came from, my life before Rivendell," she blurted out suddenly.
"What? Val, what do you mean?" so she recounted her story for the third time that day, leaving her friends quite shocked to say the least. Then she remembered something which she had completely forgotten about since the day she arrived here almost a year ago. "Legolas, you see over by my dressing table? Well, somewhere there should be some clothes, strange to you, a dress I think." She said pointing n=in that vague direction.
He raised his eyebrows and did as she said. "These?" he said kneeling down and retrieving the discarded garments that had been pushed off her chair and now lay just underneath her dressing table. "Yes, those." He brought them over and handed them, to her. "This was my old school uniform." She said running her fingers over the dirty, faded material.
"I have to go back to my world," she informed her friends not taking her eyes off the worn fabric. "The next time I fall to sleep I will be back there."
"WHAT!" said Elrohir, this was just too complicated for him.
"I've already told Lord Elrond and Legolas. There will be no stopping it, but I will return. Elrond thinks I should be able to easily enough. So..." she trailed off leaving the whole room in silence.
~*~
Legolas was to stay by her bed side that night as was Lord Elrond, he had insisted he needed to be there in case of any problems. Legolas was quietly more worried about her than she, Valia, was.
She lay down comfortably; Legolas perched on the bed next to her, Elrond sitting in the chair next to her. Legolas tenderly stroked her forehead, and they talked for a while until her eyes started to drift. The last thing she heard before her eyes closed was Legolas' soft voice. "Quel kaima. Aa' i'sul nora lanne'lle..." his voice drifted away.
She was falling... falling.... Falling....
A/N Ok then. This story is coming to an end *sob* I think 2 more chapters should do it then I can move onto the sequel. Wow, 3 updates in 3 days!!!
Lem68 ~ Thanks so much! I don't want it to end either... actually I want this story to end so I can get started on the sequel. Oh, and is it ok if I put Alatáriël in the sequel? Because I have it written out and I also have her in future stories that follow on from this one. Thanks, I know how hectic life can be yeah! Hehehehe, enjoy!
Jupiter's Light~ Thanks, enjoy!
Elven-elemnet~ Thanks so much!!! Yeah, I am pretty obsessed with LOTR!!! And yes, I am English. Cold Mountain only won 2 awards at the baftas, LOTR got 5!!!
Best Orange Film of the Year, Best Film of the Year, Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Cinematography, Best Special Effects.
It did really well, though I wish Peter Jackson had got best director, he deserved it more than the director of Master and Commander!!! I was really mad when Johnny Depp didn't get best actor (though POTC got best make-up!) I thought he was brilliant as Captain Jack!!! But Orlando's my fave anyways!!!! Thanks for reviewing! Don't kill me! Here's the update!!!
Chapter 16~ This I Promise
Legolas looked at her, she was serious. "What do you mean?"
"I remember my life before Rivendell, actually, my life before Middle Earth," she sighed placing a hand on her stomach, she grimaced when she moved slightly with the pain.
"I do not understand. How could you have a life before Arda?" he asked, confused.
"I mean... oh god how the hell do I say this?" she muttered to herself remembering words and things she had previously forgotten. "Legolas, I am not from Middle Earth. I come from a place called England on a planet called Earth."
This was too much for the Edhel to process. And what was England? And a planet.... (Elf)
Valia continued noting the blank look on his face. "It's very far away. Anyway, I got transported here... magically I think and I couldn't remember where I came from, but when that orc stabbed me... everything came flooding back when I had a dream about my real home and it was so clear, it felt like, if I opened my eyes, I'd be in my world again. In my world, I am a human, mortal... Elves and beings like that are considered to be mythical... they do not really exist."
Legolas opened his mouth to protest and Valia cut across him hastily. "Some people think that anyway. But I believe and the last thoughts I had before I was hit by a car...a kind of carriage not pulled by horses and made from metal," she added seeing the blank look on Legolas' face. "The last thoughts I had were of a world I created in my head, this world... a world that was so much better than mine. In my world I am fourteen years old, in human years and my life was so boring. Anyway, I wasn't paying attention and then, the next thing I know is you, picking me up and taking me to safety. You told me to hold tight and stay with you."
"Ai Elbereth!" Legolas breathed. "But Valia how-"
"Anna, my human name is Anna." She said.
"Anna? But that is Elvish, it means 'gift' you are my gift from another world." Legolas said taking her hand and kissing it tenderly.
"A gift?" Valia smiled to herself, it was true. She had made the Elf Prince happy.
"And I will keep you forever, safe in my heart forever, I will love you forever. The best anna I have ever had, and will ever have," he said sweetly.
"No, not forever, Legolas, I have to go back to my world. I have to see my parents. I saw my mother, though it was just a shadow I saw her, but she has to see me," Valia said.
"No, no please Valia! You can not leave me! If you leave me... my heart will break!" Legolas said desperately, his happiness from a moment ago fading.
"Leave you! Of course I would not leave you! I could never leave you, but I just have to see my mother and say good bye properly. Then I can return to you. I can not help it Legolas. The next time I close my eyes, weather I want to or not, I will go back to my world. There is nothing anyone else can do. But to you I will always return. This I promise." She pulled him closer and their lips met. "We should tell Lord Elrond though, and make sure I can get back here. I have finally found the love of my life, I will not let him go."
"Wait here, and... do not close your eyes, I will be back in a moment." Said Legolas standing up and going to the door way.
"It's not like I can go anywhere without bursting a few stitches you know!" she laughed.
He left. Valia then wondered what had happened to her friends. Had Alcie been alright? And what about Alatáriël? She had not seen her.
It was not long before Legolas came rushing back in, clutching something protectively to his chest. He resumed his seat by her bedside and opened his hand. In his palm lay the Mithril necklace he had showed her, it seemed so long ago. It glittered in the sunlight pouring through the window, the small design catching the light beautifully. "I now know what she meant by 'give it to the One'. The One is you. She meant give it to the love of my life, and I bestow it to you."
She was speechless. She gasped as Legolas put the necklace around her neck and fastened it at the back. It glittered on her chest and her face lit up. "Now I know I have to return! I was just wondering, so you know what happened to the others? Elladan and Elrohir, Alcie and Alatáriël? Are they alright?"
"They are fine. They have been bonding very well lately, especially Elladan and Alcie. He was the one that pulled her from the battle. An orc stabbed her in the shoulder with an arrow, it was one of our arrows too. But she is fine. She wont be able to use her bow or wield her knives for a while, but Elladan is taking good care of her." he smirked, as did Valia.
"That's good." She sighed. Lord Elrond appeared in the doorway and came into her room a smile on his face.
"Valia, I am pleased to see you awake. How are you feeling?" he asked gently.
"A little uncomfortable, but-" she glanced at Legolas who bowed his head and nodded. "I remember everything before Rivendell, who I am, where I came from." She told him everything, everything she had told Legolas and more, little things came flooding into her memory every second.
Elrond didn't say anything for a while when she had finished her explanation, but when he did, his voice was soft and mildly curious. "How extraordinary, I dare say Gandalf the Grey would be most interested in this, yes he would." He muttered.
Valia looked to Legolas to ask who Gandalf the Grey was but he just smiled and shook his head. Then he nodded for her to continue. "Lord Elrond, I-I well... I have to go back, that dream I just told you about that I had when I was unconscious well, I know that," she took a deep breath and said clearly. "I know that the next time I close my eyes and fall to sleep I will be in my world, and I want to be in my world. I need to see my parents again and well... I want to say goodbye to them. I remember my life in my world, my mortal life and it wasn't all that good. I just want to know, if I go will I be able to come back?" this was something she needed to know. She had to come back to Legolas.
"I can not say. It seems that you have created a world for you to escape, this world and there fore I think you have created two bodies for yourself. So I would think you would be able to return, but I can not b sure. Only Gandalf would be able to answer that and I have no idea where he is. But if you must go you must. You can not stop sleep, no matter how hard you try too it will come and you will pass back into your world." Elrond turned and left leaving Valia and Legolas a little bewildered to say the least.
"So what are you going to do?" Legolas asked.
"I have no choice, I will have to go back." She sighed, she wanted to go back yes, see her family again. But the life she had here was so much better, she didn't know what she would do if she couldn't get back!
~*~
Legolas stayed by her bedside all day, seen as she couldn't get up for fear of bursting her stitches. She wondered whether she would still have her wound back in her world. Maybe not, seen as the wound was on the body she was getting out of and back into her mortal body.
Just after lunch she was surprised to see a limping Elladan supporting a wounded Alcie with Elrohir and Alatáriël coming in begin her holding each other's hand.
"Talk about the walking wounded!" said Valia when she caught sight of all of her friends. Then she glanced down at her own stomach. "Ha, I have the most grievous!" she laughed.
Legolas stood up and gave his seat to Alcie who seemed to need it more than him and stood by her bedside. Elladan leaned on the chair, taking the weight off his wounded foot. "Oh be quiet Val!" he said.
"Lord Elrond told us you were awake, thought we would come and say hello," said Alcie.
"Alcie, how's your shoulder? I saw Elladan carrying you away from the battle," Valia asked her friend.
"Looks like I will live. My shoulder is just a little stiff and I will not be able to use a bow for a while. Other than that though, I m fine." She said. "But I would have been dead if it wasn't for Elladan." They looked at each other lovingly.
"Yeah, Legolas said you'd been getting pretty close over the last week." Valia smirked.
Alcie and Elladan both blushed. "And Alatáriël, Elrohir, how are you two?"
"We are fine. No grievous injuries, just a few cuts and bruises. But we finally got rid of the orcs, everyone was fighting so hard. Especially Legolas. I've never seen anyone fight like that before!" said Alatáriël.
"But he had more reason then most," said Valia.
"No I did not," said Legolas looking to Elladan and Elrohir. "The twins had as much reason to as me, their mother was also taken by orcs."
The twins bowed their heads. "It was long ago." Said Elladan, then his face brightened. "Hey Legolas, did you tell Valia about what we did? I think it as after she got stabbed."
Legolas shook his head, but a smirk crept on to his lips. "Well, do you remember that little invention of ours we showed you a while ago?"
Valia nodded. "Yes I remember, that catapult right? That's what you called it."
"Yes, well that came in very useful in the end helping to drive back those foul orcs." Said Elladan.
"That was funny! You should have seen it Valia, they put rocks onto it and some other things the twins invented, the orcs got the shock of their miserable lives!" Legolas said smiling. That smile that first caught her heart, would she see it again after the next time she closed her eyes?
"I remember where I came from, my life before Rivendell," she blurted out suddenly.
"What? Val, what do you mean?" so she recounted her story for the third time that day, leaving her friends quite shocked to say the least. Then she remembered something which she had completely forgotten about since the day she arrived here almost a year ago. "Legolas, you see over by my dressing table? Well, somewhere there should be some clothes, strange to you, a dress I think." She said pointing n=in that vague direction.
He raised his eyebrows and did as she said. "These?" he said kneeling down and retrieving the discarded garments that had been pushed off her chair and now lay just underneath her dressing table. "Yes, those." He brought them over and handed them, to her. "This was my old school uniform." She said running her fingers over the dirty, faded material.
"I have to go back to my world," she informed her friends not taking her eyes off the worn fabric. "The next time I fall to sleep I will be back there."
"WHAT!" said Elrohir, this was just too complicated for him.
"I've already told Lord Elrond and Legolas. There will be no stopping it, but I will return. Elrond thinks I should be able to easily enough. So..." she trailed off leaving the whole room in silence.
~*~
Legolas was to stay by her bed side that night as was Lord Elrond, he had insisted he needed to be there in case of any problems. Legolas was quietly more worried about her than she, Valia, was.
She lay down comfortably; Legolas perched on the bed next to her, Elrond sitting in the chair next to her. Legolas tenderly stroked her forehead, and they talked for a while until her eyes started to drift. The last thing she heard before her eyes closed was Legolas' soft voice. "Quel kaima. Aa' i'sul nora lanne'lle..." his voice drifted away.
She was falling... falling.... Falling....
A/N Ok then. This story is coming to an end *sob* I think 2 more chapters should do it then I can move onto the sequel. Wow, 3 updates in 3 days!!!
