** Disclaimer: I only own Zana.
I've updated too fast, typing all night, so I couldn't ask you for music and song's suggestions..
*Winqweaver, I included your songs :) But I'll accept more suggestions because a dance event like this needs 2 paragraphs! So the second one will come this weekend!
*stardust-creations. My intention was to make a confusing paragraph :) I couldn't leave things so clear.. :)
Thank you all for your reviews! I'm so happy that some people like my story! Now for real, I'm leaving to university, but I'll be coming back soon.
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I'm so tired but I can't sleep
Standin' on the edge of something much too deep
It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word
We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard
- I will remember you- Sara McLachlan
Haldir took a deep breath and looked at the sky. Thousands of stars shining there, and the pale moon filling everything with a soft light. He was still surprised with himself, upset with his decision. Something was wrong and he wasn't the elf he used to be. Taking his bag, he picked up a small kind of necklace that Galadriel gave him and he kept it in his hand. It made him feel better as he walked in the night, lost in his thoughts.
Legolas came in the big saloon and saw Zana in the distance, sitting with Gandalf and writing something in a piece of paper. She looked so different from the day she arrived. And only two days had passed, but they had been enough to change that human girl, she was now like a new person who was getting adapted to a new world, paying attention to all the things around her. He smiled at that sight, the view of the absent minded gaze, with her brown hair falling over her eyes. She fixed it with a hand, and made a face when it crashed with the adornment she was wearing to hold her long hair. Somehow she managed to repair it and looked back at the paper.. sometimes she stared at some point, as if she was thinking of something very important.. Gandalf was half asleep, next to her, waiting for that list. It seemed that he had followed his advice about the music. Walking to the opposite side of the large room, in order to meet his father again, he watched back once more, as Zana looked up at him too. He greeted her with a smile. The party was going to begin.
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Legolas caught me staring at him. I just couldn't help it, this is too much for me. I try to avoid my feelings but I can't. Anyway, I was starting to think that something was wrong inside my head, because the past hours I had started to feel something different too.. great, I was analysing my brain in the middle of a party.
I sighed and gave the paper to Gandalf. "This is it. Here you have all my favourite songs.. and if you're interested, I separated the ballads from the dancing ones" Gandalf seemed not to understand what I wanted to say, and I explained him.
"Oh, I understand. Very well.." he stood up walked to join the king and this one asked for silence. All the elves there, together with Gimli, stopped talking and looked at Thranduil.
" My friends and citizens.. this party will include a new event that was never made before. Gandalf will bring music from Zana's world, and we all will enjoy the sounds from the Earth" All elves watched me with curiosity. "So.. the party has began. Enjoy and have a good time".
The music started to sound, filling the big room. One of my favourite songs, "With or without you", by U2. Some elves started dancing with their couples, and I approached one of the drink's tables and took a glass of a sweet wine. The taste was so nice, soft, and I felt a bit dizzy, but it was a very comfortable sensation that warmed me. I thanked Gandalf all what he had made, and he winked. "No need to say thanks, Zana." His smile was kind and finally, I didn't feel alone any more. He was like a grandfather, taking care of everybody. And he joined me with a drink.
"Cheers!" I said, and he looked at me with interrogative gaze. "It's an expression we use when we drink and wish the best to our friends".
"Cheers then" He said, drinking the whole glass. The king came with us.
"I'm glad that you're having a good time, Zana. Feel free to drink whatever you'll want, but please, be careful" he smiled and left with the magician.
No, oh no.. they left me alone in the crowd. Some elf- girls were laughing near from me, and a group of male- elves asked them for a dance. Yes, heart business were similar in all worlds. A new song was playing, "Take my breath away". Many memories came to my head, and the wine in my stomach warmed me again as I went on drinking. I knew I should control myself, I was so sensitive to alcohol.. but that liquid was too good to stop .. there was an open window near from where I was , and also a small glass door that led to the gardens. I walked there and watched the landscape under the moonlight, with the glass still in my hand. I looked at the stars , shining above us.. as if they could be seen throw the ceiling. I really liked that place. Behind me there was a marble column, and I leaned against it. I was hidden from the rest of elves and at the same time, inside the saloon.. and I liked that feeling. I liked listening to the music that was bringing me so many memories from Earth. I looked at the glass, it was already empty. "Well, lets go back to the table". And in some seconds I was back again.
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Legolas' eyes searched for Zana. He couldn't see her in the room, and he walked around the place, the candle lights made shadows move in the walls as elves danced.. a very nice music made them crazy, as if they were charmed by it. He crossed between some couples, greeted some elves, and then found Gimli, completely drunk.
"Gimli!" He approached him, and looked with disgust. "The night has just begun and you're already drunk" The dwarf didn't reply, he was singing with the music, sitting next to some elves who had joined him. "Gimli, listen to me" He took his arm and pushed him. "Gimli, can you hear me?" He nodded and Legolas sighed. "Ok , have you seen Zana?"
Gimli opened his eyes, as if he was thinking about something.. and then he started to sing in very loud voice " Oh, the looooove, and the looooovers.. where is Zana, he asks???? Zana, my love, come hereeeeeeee! I'm a lonely elf who claims for your looooooooove!!" All elves burst into laughs , and Legolas stood up, taking a deep breath. When all the elvish eyes stopped watching, he asked Gimli again, but he didn't pay attention to anybody else than the elves next to him.
"Ok, Gimli, I won't forget this so easily" Legolas went on walking, a bit angry. It was useless, maybe she had left. He went to the first floor, looking for her room, and knocked on the door, but nobody replied. "The gardens.." he whispered.
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What the hell was shouting Gimli? All elves were laughing at him and I felt so ashamed.. why was he singing that, all from the sudden? I waited for some minutes before checking who was with him.. and when I finally saw the small dwarf, I couldn't recognise any of the elves who were having fun there.. they all seemed to be too drunk to be able to think about anything..
I walked towards another window, a more lonely one, with a small fountain near from there. I had taken the third glass of wine and I felt that the "easy laughter", as I call it, was coming.. I was smiling, I had the need to dance, or sing.. yeah, the effects of alcohol.. but I was alone, I had to keep myself busy, and there was nothing bad on that.. "I love this song" I whispered, when "Think twice " was starting to play. I looked back at the dancing floor, and throw the crowd of couples I saw someone known. I couldn't tell who was him, because my sight was a bit clouded, but I would have said that he looked like Haldir. "Oh, greeeat... now I miss Haldir and I see him everywhere.." Yes, I was talking alone. And I didn't remember that elves had a perfect hearing. Some of them looked at me, but I didn't feel too ashamed, that wine was good! " Don't say what you're about to say.. Look back before you leave my life..." I started to sing in low voice, almost a whisper.. nice song.. and I turned again.. Legolas wasn't there.. maybe he was with an elf -girl.. "yes, this is my destiny, I'll even attend his own wedding". I drank a bit more of wine. The moon was shining like a lamp, I couldn't stop watching at it. "Wait!" I almost shouted to myself.. "what did I do now..? I was looking for Legolas.. but I miss Haldir.. crazy, I'm becoming crazy!!" I think I was talking to myself too loud.
"Maybe you should stop drinking, Zana" I turned around to meet Legolas. He walked towards me, took my glass of wine and put it over a table. "What are you talking about so concentrated? Don't you know that half of the elves here can hear you?" He was smiling with the sweetest smile I had never seen.. yes, I was a bit drunk. "You're lucky that they all are drunk" I smiled too, and then shrugged.
"So the good thing is that everybody will forget about what I have said some moments ago"
"Not everybody, because I'm not drunk" I blushed deeply under his gaze. And even more when, to my great surprise, he gave one more step, staying closer to me.
"Would you dance with me, Zana?" I couldn't believe that, I was too nervous to talk, so I just extended my hand and put it over the hand that Legolas was offering me, and he took me to the dancing floor. Another great song, "Falling into you". Yeah, I like some ballads of Celine Dion. We started to dance, slowly, I wasn't able to look at him, I was so surprised, so shocked that I didn't react, so I followed him as the music spread all around us. He was quiet, like me. And time seemed to stop, all from the sudden. it was like being in heaven.. if that place really existed, sure it was something similar to that thing.
We were dancing "I will remember you", when Legolas got a bit separated from me.
"Are you still feeling dizzy?" he was so kind asking me, and I lied, saying no. The truth is that I felt dizzy but not because of wine exactly.. "Ok, then can I ask you about the things you were talking to yourself before?" He was smiling lightly.
"Well.. I was bored, half drunk and I suppose I didn't know what I was saying.. " I avoided his gaze and we went on dancing. The lyrics of that song made me feel a bit confused.. all time I had been so sure about Legolas, but the first one who came to my head listening to Sara McLachlan was.. Haldir. Yeah, I was confused, so confused. I stopped dancing.
"Legolas, do you mind if I drink something more? No, no! Don't worry, no more wine" I explained, when I saw his scared expression. He separated again and looked confused.. upset? No, I don't think so.. well, maybe I had spoiled the moment.. but.. what moment? He didn't feel anything about me! I was too drunk to think clearly..
" As you want, I'll join some friends and be back in no time" He left me, a strange expression in his eyes.. suddenly I heard him talking to the king.. and Thranduil saying "Thank you, Legolas". What was the meaning of that?? He had forced him to dance with me?? They both looked at me.. yes, he asked Legolas to dance with me! I couldn't believe that, I felt so stupid.. and that song was killing me and I didn't know why.. my eyes were full of tears, I had to escape.
I walked back to my secret place behind the column and took a de p breath.. definitely I needed a psychiatrist. I looked at my glass of juice, the liquid shining under the moonlight, and I closed my eyes, thinking. I wouldn't allow myself to fall into Legolas, I would never allow that. He would harm me too much.
"Hello, Zana" a voice behind me, he had found me.. I turned around, shocked, and I almost dropped my glass.. I couldn't believe my eyes..
"Hello, Haldir.. " my voice just a whisper.
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"Thank you , Legolas" Legolas smiled at his father, and they both looked back to Zana. "We thought she was lost and you finally found her. It's surprising what you did, son"
Legolas stared at him. "What do you mean?"
"Well, you spent quite some time dancing with her, I wouldn't expect that.. you never dance in our parties, I think this is the first time I've seen you asking a girl to dance with you.." Legolas blushed a bit.
" This is a party, right? What's wrong with that?" He took a glass of wine, and joined a group of elves, while his father looked at him with a strange smile.
I've updated too fast, typing all night, so I couldn't ask you for music and song's suggestions..
*Winqweaver, I included your songs :) But I'll accept more suggestions because a dance event like this needs 2 paragraphs! So the second one will come this weekend!
*stardust-creations. My intention was to make a confusing paragraph :) I couldn't leave things so clear.. :)
Thank you all for your reviews! I'm so happy that some people like my story! Now for real, I'm leaving to university, but I'll be coming back soon.
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I'm so tired but I can't sleep
Standin' on the edge of something much too deep
It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word
We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard
- I will remember you- Sara McLachlan
Haldir took a deep breath and looked at the sky. Thousands of stars shining there, and the pale moon filling everything with a soft light. He was still surprised with himself, upset with his decision. Something was wrong and he wasn't the elf he used to be. Taking his bag, he picked up a small kind of necklace that Galadriel gave him and he kept it in his hand. It made him feel better as he walked in the night, lost in his thoughts.
Legolas came in the big saloon and saw Zana in the distance, sitting with Gandalf and writing something in a piece of paper. She looked so different from the day she arrived. And only two days had passed, but they had been enough to change that human girl, she was now like a new person who was getting adapted to a new world, paying attention to all the things around her. He smiled at that sight, the view of the absent minded gaze, with her brown hair falling over her eyes. She fixed it with a hand, and made a face when it crashed with the adornment she was wearing to hold her long hair. Somehow she managed to repair it and looked back at the paper.. sometimes she stared at some point, as if she was thinking of something very important.. Gandalf was half asleep, next to her, waiting for that list. It seemed that he had followed his advice about the music. Walking to the opposite side of the large room, in order to meet his father again, he watched back once more, as Zana looked up at him too. He greeted her with a smile. The party was going to begin.
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Legolas caught me staring at him. I just couldn't help it, this is too much for me. I try to avoid my feelings but I can't. Anyway, I was starting to think that something was wrong inside my head, because the past hours I had started to feel something different too.. great, I was analysing my brain in the middle of a party.
I sighed and gave the paper to Gandalf. "This is it. Here you have all my favourite songs.. and if you're interested, I separated the ballads from the dancing ones" Gandalf seemed not to understand what I wanted to say, and I explained him.
"Oh, I understand. Very well.." he stood up walked to join the king and this one asked for silence. All the elves there, together with Gimli, stopped talking and looked at Thranduil.
" My friends and citizens.. this party will include a new event that was never made before. Gandalf will bring music from Zana's world, and we all will enjoy the sounds from the Earth" All elves watched me with curiosity. "So.. the party has began. Enjoy and have a good time".
The music started to sound, filling the big room. One of my favourite songs, "With or without you", by U2. Some elves started dancing with their couples, and I approached one of the drink's tables and took a glass of a sweet wine. The taste was so nice, soft, and I felt a bit dizzy, but it was a very comfortable sensation that warmed me. I thanked Gandalf all what he had made, and he winked. "No need to say thanks, Zana." His smile was kind and finally, I didn't feel alone any more. He was like a grandfather, taking care of everybody. And he joined me with a drink.
"Cheers!" I said, and he looked at me with interrogative gaze. "It's an expression we use when we drink and wish the best to our friends".
"Cheers then" He said, drinking the whole glass. The king came with us.
"I'm glad that you're having a good time, Zana. Feel free to drink whatever you'll want, but please, be careful" he smiled and left with the magician.
No, oh no.. they left me alone in the crowd. Some elf- girls were laughing near from me, and a group of male- elves asked them for a dance. Yes, heart business were similar in all worlds. A new song was playing, "Take my breath away". Many memories came to my head, and the wine in my stomach warmed me again as I went on drinking. I knew I should control myself, I was so sensitive to alcohol.. but that liquid was too good to stop .. there was an open window near from where I was , and also a small glass door that led to the gardens. I walked there and watched the landscape under the moonlight, with the glass still in my hand. I looked at the stars , shining above us.. as if they could be seen throw the ceiling. I really liked that place. Behind me there was a marble column, and I leaned against it. I was hidden from the rest of elves and at the same time, inside the saloon.. and I liked that feeling. I liked listening to the music that was bringing me so many memories from Earth. I looked at the glass, it was already empty. "Well, lets go back to the table". And in some seconds I was back again.
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Legolas' eyes searched for Zana. He couldn't see her in the room, and he walked around the place, the candle lights made shadows move in the walls as elves danced.. a very nice music made them crazy, as if they were charmed by it. He crossed between some couples, greeted some elves, and then found Gimli, completely drunk.
"Gimli!" He approached him, and looked with disgust. "The night has just begun and you're already drunk" The dwarf didn't reply, he was singing with the music, sitting next to some elves who had joined him. "Gimli, listen to me" He took his arm and pushed him. "Gimli, can you hear me?" He nodded and Legolas sighed. "Ok , have you seen Zana?"
Gimli opened his eyes, as if he was thinking about something.. and then he started to sing in very loud voice " Oh, the looooove, and the looooovers.. where is Zana, he asks???? Zana, my love, come hereeeeeeee! I'm a lonely elf who claims for your looooooooove!!" All elves burst into laughs , and Legolas stood up, taking a deep breath. When all the elvish eyes stopped watching, he asked Gimli again, but he didn't pay attention to anybody else than the elves next to him.
"Ok, Gimli, I won't forget this so easily" Legolas went on walking, a bit angry. It was useless, maybe she had left. He went to the first floor, looking for her room, and knocked on the door, but nobody replied. "The gardens.." he whispered.
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What the hell was shouting Gimli? All elves were laughing at him and I felt so ashamed.. why was he singing that, all from the sudden? I waited for some minutes before checking who was with him.. and when I finally saw the small dwarf, I couldn't recognise any of the elves who were having fun there.. they all seemed to be too drunk to be able to think about anything..
I walked towards another window, a more lonely one, with a small fountain near from there. I had taken the third glass of wine and I felt that the "easy laughter", as I call it, was coming.. I was smiling, I had the need to dance, or sing.. yeah, the effects of alcohol.. but I was alone, I had to keep myself busy, and there was nothing bad on that.. "I love this song" I whispered, when "Think twice " was starting to play. I looked back at the dancing floor, and throw the crowd of couples I saw someone known. I couldn't tell who was him, because my sight was a bit clouded, but I would have said that he looked like Haldir. "Oh, greeeat... now I miss Haldir and I see him everywhere.." Yes, I was talking alone. And I didn't remember that elves had a perfect hearing. Some of them looked at me, but I didn't feel too ashamed, that wine was good! " Don't say what you're about to say.. Look back before you leave my life..." I started to sing in low voice, almost a whisper.. nice song.. and I turned again.. Legolas wasn't there.. maybe he was with an elf -girl.. "yes, this is my destiny, I'll even attend his own wedding". I drank a bit more of wine. The moon was shining like a lamp, I couldn't stop watching at it. "Wait!" I almost shouted to myself.. "what did I do now..? I was looking for Legolas.. but I miss Haldir.. crazy, I'm becoming crazy!!" I think I was talking to myself too loud.
"Maybe you should stop drinking, Zana" I turned around to meet Legolas. He walked towards me, took my glass of wine and put it over a table. "What are you talking about so concentrated? Don't you know that half of the elves here can hear you?" He was smiling with the sweetest smile I had never seen.. yes, I was a bit drunk. "You're lucky that they all are drunk" I smiled too, and then shrugged.
"So the good thing is that everybody will forget about what I have said some moments ago"
"Not everybody, because I'm not drunk" I blushed deeply under his gaze. And even more when, to my great surprise, he gave one more step, staying closer to me.
"Would you dance with me, Zana?" I couldn't believe that, I was too nervous to talk, so I just extended my hand and put it over the hand that Legolas was offering me, and he took me to the dancing floor. Another great song, "Falling into you". Yeah, I like some ballads of Celine Dion. We started to dance, slowly, I wasn't able to look at him, I was so surprised, so shocked that I didn't react, so I followed him as the music spread all around us. He was quiet, like me. And time seemed to stop, all from the sudden. it was like being in heaven.. if that place really existed, sure it was something similar to that thing.
We were dancing "I will remember you", when Legolas got a bit separated from me.
"Are you still feeling dizzy?" he was so kind asking me, and I lied, saying no. The truth is that I felt dizzy but not because of wine exactly.. "Ok, then can I ask you about the things you were talking to yourself before?" He was smiling lightly.
"Well.. I was bored, half drunk and I suppose I didn't know what I was saying.. " I avoided his gaze and we went on dancing. The lyrics of that song made me feel a bit confused.. all time I had been so sure about Legolas, but the first one who came to my head listening to Sara McLachlan was.. Haldir. Yeah, I was confused, so confused. I stopped dancing.
"Legolas, do you mind if I drink something more? No, no! Don't worry, no more wine" I explained, when I saw his scared expression. He separated again and looked confused.. upset? No, I don't think so.. well, maybe I had spoiled the moment.. but.. what moment? He didn't feel anything about me! I was too drunk to think clearly..
" As you want, I'll join some friends and be back in no time" He left me, a strange expression in his eyes.. suddenly I heard him talking to the king.. and Thranduil saying "Thank you, Legolas". What was the meaning of that?? He had forced him to dance with me?? They both looked at me.. yes, he asked Legolas to dance with me! I couldn't believe that, I felt so stupid.. and that song was killing me and I didn't know why.. my eyes were full of tears, I had to escape.
I walked back to my secret place behind the column and took a de p breath.. definitely I needed a psychiatrist. I looked at my glass of juice, the liquid shining under the moonlight, and I closed my eyes, thinking. I wouldn't allow myself to fall into Legolas, I would never allow that. He would harm me too much.
"Hello, Zana" a voice behind me, he had found me.. I turned around, shocked, and I almost dropped my glass.. I couldn't believe my eyes..
"Hello, Haldir.. " my voice just a whisper.
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"Thank you , Legolas" Legolas smiled at his father, and they both looked back to Zana. "We thought she was lost and you finally found her. It's surprising what you did, son"
Legolas stared at him. "What do you mean?"
"Well, you spent quite some time dancing with her, I wouldn't expect that.. you never dance in our parties, I think this is the first time I've seen you asking a girl to dance with you.." Legolas blushed a bit.
" This is a party, right? What's wrong with that?" He took a glass of wine, and joined a group of elves, while his father looked at him with a strange smile.