Little elf
Chapter thirty nine
There was a stunned silence "Why?"
"It's been 8 months, I've been here 5 months, my dad will hopefully have learnt his lesson, and the two lovebirds will hopefully have married, so I'll be fine."
"You can't go!"
"Why ever not? There is no need for me here. I'll be happy being the dutiful Princess at home."
"And if being a 'dutiful princess' means marrying?"
Elle paused "so be it"
"You cannot mean that?"
"I can."
"But you will be unhappy!"
"I will be here, without you as a friend."
"You cannot go" he said firmly
"Why?"
"I will not allow you to."
"Why? We are no longer friends."
"Yes we are." He walked hesitantly towards her
"Glad to hear it. Give me hug."
"But-"
Elle looked at him and he pulled her into a tight embrace "They will talk."
"And I care why?" Elle whispered, her head leaning on his shoulder
* * *
"I see you made up." Elle looked at Nibenbaug and was about to reply but someone got there before her.
"It would do you good to remember that the personal lives of all the elves here, elleths or otherwise, are none of your business." Elle looked at Rathlóriel surprised, so far he had not openly shown that he felt anything towards her,
"He is right. You may be a renowned war healer but your bedside manner could see a marked improvement." The elf with the arrow wound from the previous day spoke.
"Is that how it is going to be? A wisp of an elf maiden flutters her eye lashes and suddenly you are all against me?"
"We were never with you. We just put up with you."
"But I have done so much for you."
"You did your job, just as we do ours." Rathlóriel grinned
"You!" Nibenbaug glared at Elle "you set them against me!"
"No I believe you put them against yourself. Now get off your high horse."
"I cannot believe this girl co-"
"Look. I do not bring my opinions into this job, so you shouldn't. I don't care if you don't want elleths in the army, healers or otherwise. You have to keep that out of the job. If I didn't I wouldn't even be here! I'm against war and violence in general but I understand that to protect the elves of Lorien, it has to be done. I personally think that you are totally backwards and delusional if you think that your snooty comments are going to stop elleths of the right persuasion. If they want to be in the army, they'll be in the army."
"Galadriel and Celeborn would not have it."
"How can you be so sure? Look, I don't hate you, it takes much more for that to happen. I'm sure there is a reason for you feeling this, but really I don't want to know what they are."
* * *
13th Rethe 3017
*Home! Finally!* Elle looked at Caras Galadhon in glee
"We are not that bad are we?" Elle turned to Rathlóriel, who she had an arm around. Just after making up with Haldir, orcs had decided to descend upon them wounding two elves; Rathlóriel and an other elf that Elle did not know the name of.
"Yes you all are, Especially you. Having you talking my ear off gor the last two days has been a…"
"Experience?"
"I suppose you could say that."
They eventually reached the lower healing houses "Ahh! A bed!" exclaimed Rathlóriel collapsing onto the nearest one.
"You can't do that! You have to wait for a healer to place you."
"You are a healer and you have placed me here."
"I did not say that. Now get off the bed!"
"Leave him there." A healer walked past, "I will get someone that is free."
"Thanks"
"You are free." Said Rathlóriel
"Yes, but I might just, accidentally cut your leg off."
"Have I taught you nothing?" a hand appeared on her shoulder
"Mithglin! See I'm alive and well! Though thoroughly scared of this here elf. Unfortunately I couldn't get a sedative to shut him up, Nibenbaug refused to give me any, the stupid elf. Just because I had to 'look after him' he just knew how much of a pain Rathlóriel is and wanted to torture me."
"Of course." He smiled affectionately before walking off to get something
"It was great you know."
"Pardon? What was great?"
"The way you manipulated Haldir into saying that he was still friends with you."
"What gave you that impression?"
"How you took him back with open arms, literally."
"I'm just very forgiving."
"And you were walking south rather then north."
"I have a bad sense of direction."
"I know you manipulated him. About time too, he is usually quite insufferable. Just you wait until he realises."
"Realises what?"
"That she is manipulative." Rathlóriel grinned
"Oh we already know that."
"We?" Elle asked
"Haldir and I."
"I am not manipulative!" Elle protested
"You are obviously not yourself. I suggest some bed rest, not be off with you!"
"I do not need bed rest!" Elle protested
"Yes you do. Now out! Ahh, Haldir." Mithglin smirked "Elle needs some bed rest, I suggest you take her up."
"I am not a nursemaid. I am sure that Elle can make her way up a few steps."
"Exactly!"
"I am here to check on members of my troop."
"Well then I cam ordering you out." Mithglin replied
"Yu cannot do that! I am a March warden! The captain of the army!"
"But not captain in chief." Mithglin grinned toothily "and Celeborn, as captain in chief, gives the head healer of a healing house the power over the aforementioned healing house. Now, at the moment I am of the highest rank in this healing house, therefore I dismiss you, now please escort Elle to her bed please."
'Why the incorrigible little-'
"I do not know what you are saying but I can assure you that-"
"I am leaving!"
* * *
"Back again? I just cannot keep you away!"
"Don't flatter yourself Rathlóriel." Elle retorted "I'm here to see Mithglin
"I am afraid my son is indisposed at the moment."
"Curukano! Nice to see you."
"The pleasure is all mine. Now he will be back in a day or two,"
"I guess you are stuck with me then."
"Oh the joy." Elle replied
"You sound insincere."
"However did you guess?"
"Oh! Be gone!" Rathlóriel declared jokingly
"I think I will!" Elle stood and left idly singing to herself as she climbed the stairs to the royal talans. She was nearing it when she was pulled into a room roughly.
A/n Hi all. Another cliffy! Aren't I lovely?
cookies-will-invade: Aww, how's your puppy? Huggles it. But calling it Nibenbaug when you get annoyed with it? ROTFL. But it can't be that evil, biting you hand isn't that bad, just general puppy behaviour, they like play fighting, sorry that's the animal behaviourist side coming out of me.
KindCalypso: Poor, poor Haldir he gets hit on the head a lot, causes him brain damage, probably why he was acting weird.
Hanya the bloody angel: I haven't forgotten about the training with Elrond! Surprisingly I'm a pretty organised writer and have the whole story planned out, as in exact dates (okay only the next 3 or so months in exact dates, but you know, one can only do so much)
Candyfloss: Finally! A person that sympathises with Haldir grins.
lil kawaii doom: gasps Elle wouldn't do something so audacious!
Chibi Chingo: That mistake has been rectified. I can't believe I wrote that, I must have been really dozy when I wrote the last chapter!
Yami dragoness: I couldn't let Elle just go, like that! I still have purposes for those in Lorien.
Sokochan: Haldir is very…protective. And thinking along the same paths as an imaginary character is perturbing.
Crecy: me thinks you may be telling me that I shouldn't have left the chapter this way again, am I right?
Oh and now for some blatant advertising! I've got a new story called 'a spoon full of sugar…' which is under this author name and is co-authored with Earedien. Don't worry it will not stop me from updating oh so regularly as I do here. It should help, as it's an outlet for ideas I can't use in this story, and it won't be a mammoth of a story like this one.
Gwil