A/N: In the last chapter, Maqueden has been proposed to by Legolas. This
chapter is going to be really short... Considering that I couldn't find a
stopping point and wrote about half of this one into last night's chapter
without meaning to... Sorry...You can all throw peanuts at me at incredibly
high speeds.
"It all started when Kyriana asked if she could talk to Legolas alone." Elenna was sitting on her bed, reading a letter from Maqueden. For some reason, Astoldominien had neglected to come to her room, so she was enjoying this brief moment of silence. "That night he came to my door and asked me if I would marry him. Apparently, it's his plan to marry me instead of Kyriana, then reveal to the world it's me, not her, that he was engaged to! Kyriana has no problem with it, and neither do I. We've already started planning the wedding, and since I'm not exactly built like Kyriana (the girl's a toothpick!!!) she had to tell the dressmaker that she was pregnant with his child and would be bigger by the wedding date! It's pretty amazing how this whole thing has worked out, you really have to come to the wedding. Surely Astoldominien's healed enough to come to Mirkwood... Even just for a few weeks! If you don't come... I will NEVER forgive you!" Maqueden ended the letter with the phrase "You know I love you!"
Elenna smiled. Her sister's sarcasm annoyed her sometimes, but now that she was marrying Legolas... She really did need to go home. She had been in Gondor for the better part of a year, and she missed Maqueden and Kyriana and Legolas terribly. And Maqueden was right, surely Astoldominien was healed enough to travel to Mirkwood. With a sigh, she placed the letter on her beside table and went to find Astoldominien, who must have decided to show up at her door like he usually did.
Astoldominien, however, was busy looking for her and somehow managed to miss her as she walked down the hall to his room. He knocked on her door and went inside when he heard no answer and was sure she wasn't there. He spotted the letter on her bedside table and his curiosity got the best of him... so he picked it up and began to read...
... and suddenly stopped in the middle of a sentence. Memories came flooding back to him.
A/N: these are his memories...
It was early spring. He and Maqueden had gone hiking, and decided to stop to eat. Maqueden pulled a sandwich and some water out of her bag, sat down on a fallen log, and began to eat. A few minutes passed before Astoldominien broke the silence. "You love him." He smiled. "I don't see why you don't tell him."
"Because I don't want to. I like what we have now- friendship. What happens if I tell him how I feel and he doesn't feel the same way?"
"Life goes on." Astoldominien said simply.
"Life without him? We're Mirkwood's biggest troublemakers! If the duo was to split up... I wouldn't have any friends."
"Well, thanks for counting me!" Astoldominien said, slightly miffed.
"Besides you and Elenna." Maqueden said hurriedly. "And you bug me about Legolas." She muttered under her breath. "I know you love Elenna... but you do nothing about it."
"I'm scared, Maqueden. I will die if she doesn't feel the same way about me." When Maqueden laughed, he glared at her. "I'm being serious. I WILL die of a broken heart."
"What if I said I'd already talked to her and she said she likes you?"
"I think you're lying." Astoldominien said, swallowing a mouthful of water.
"I'm not. She loves you. You love her. Trust me. Tell her how you feel!"
"I just..." Astoldominien sighed. "All right, so now we've both realized that we have love problems. Let's go see a psychiatrist!" Maqueden laughed at this remark. "I'll deal with mine." Astoldominien muttered. "So should you, or you'll find yourself wishing you told him how you felt while you baby- sit his child."
A/N: : ) I like this one... ; )
In this memory, it was late summer. Astoldominien had once again been kidnapped by Maqueden, but this time the Elenna and Legolas were coming as well. Legolas and Maqueden had hoped that this trip would bring Astoldominien and Elenna together... Or closer together than they already were. Elenna was flirting pretty hard with Astoldominien and he was flirting back harder, if that was possible.
So it came to be that the four of them set off from the castle at 11 that morning They neared the spot Legolas and Maqueden had found the night before by around noon. Immediately after pitching the tents the girls left to go find a spot to bathe, leaving Legolas and Astoldominien to talk.
"Why don't you tell her how you feel?" Legolas asked, watching as Astoldominien pitched his and Elenna's tent.
"Because I don't know for sure if she feels the same way." Astoldominien longed to tell Legolas about Maqueden and her feelings for him, but he knew very well that Legolas did not feel the same way about Maqueden. He also knew that Maqueden would be heartbroken and would probably die a very long and painful death.
"Life goes on." Legolas grinned. "If you don't do it tomorrow I'm going to throw you in the river and hold you there until you drown."
"Oh... I'm so scared..." Astoldominien's sarcasm made Legolas laugh.
"Please?" He asked. "For me?" Legolas put on his infamous puppy dog face.
Astoldominien sighed. "Fine." He groaned. "I know I'm gonna regret this..."
When the girls came back, Astoldominien "kidnapped" Elenna and led her to the river, where he then realized it was too late to turn back. Swallowing the lump in his throat, he gathered up his courage, kissed her on the lips, and whispered very softly, "I love you."
Elenna was startled. This wasn't what she had been expecting, since she wasn't sure if he liked her or not... but she liked it. She whispered back. "I love you too." And she kissed him back with all the passion she had built up over the last 400 years.
Behind the trees, Maqueden and Legolas gave each other a hi-five and left to go check on their lunch.
When Elenna and Astoldominien joined them again, both were flushed, especially for elves. Elenna's fingers were intertwined with Astoldominien's and the two both had huge, idiot grins on their faces.
A few hundred years had passed since then. It was spring. Maqueden and Legolas were still the biggest troublemakers in all of Mirkwood and probably in the entire elven race, besides perhaps Elladan and Elrohir. Astoldominien had fallen more in love with Elenna, and she with him. So it was that he found himself carrying a ring in his pocket and arriving at her door in the middle of the night.
"Elenna!" He called, grinning as she came to the door in her nightdress.
"What?" She said rather flatly, leaning against the post that held their roof up.
"Elenna... I love you." He took both her hands in his and led her to a little clearing in the forest.
(SOUND FAMILIAR?)
Astoldominien kneeled in front of her. "Elenna... Will you marry me?" He gently slipped the ring onto her ring finger.
"Yes." She whispered. "I will." She wiped a tear away and straightened in shock as she felt him place a gently kiss on her lips. He wiped her tears away with his sleeve and placed a less gently kiss on her mouth, bestowing such passion on her that it made her knees go weak and she would have collapsed on the floor had he not had an arm behind her back.
The memories were too much for Astoldominien to handle. He made his way towards her door, staggering under the weight of a tidal wave of memories he had lost a thousand years before. Once out in the hall, he wandered aimlessly around looking for Elenna. And then he found her.
"Elenna!" He cried, running to her, wrapping her in an embrace, and kissing her soundly on the lips. "Oh Gods, Elenna, I remember! I remember it all!"
"Astoldominien?" She asked, wriggling out of his bear hold on her and looking him in the eye. "How do...why... WHAT?"
"I was... reading a letter of yours and something in it sparked another memory, and then another, and another... I remember!" He embraced her again, so tightly she could barely breathe.
"Prove to me you remember." She managed to choke out, burying her face in his chest. It felt so good to be back in his arms. She felt life rushing back to her, almost a tidal wave of energy. And suddenly she had the urge to become her old self again instead of being this boring lazy creature she had become.
"The last thing I said to you before I left was 'I promise I'll come back.' And I hugged you and fell off my horse."
Elenna laughed, wiping a tear away from her eye. "Do you really remember me?"
"Would I lie to you?"
"No."
"Didn't think so." And he kissed her again, smothering her with kisses like there was no tomorrow. And the two retreated to her room to think, to hold each other, and to write a very long and descriptive letter to Maqueden.
A/N: Here ya go, one nice chapter for you. I'm writing this at the lake the night before the fourth of July... So we were shooting all these fireworks and one hit me in the chest... and now I have a big black spot there. It hurt, too. Anyway, choir tour was awesome! And now I live in a box of potatoes. Haha! hit with potato It's a long story, and I really don't want to explain. : )
THANKYOU'S!!!!!
Kathysidle- he gets it back, as you can tell. Thanks! I'm glad someone likes my story that much. : )
Manveri[reachforthesky]estel- I have a peanut shooter! And I will use it to fend off rabid fans! But I'm back!!!! With memories!
Lucy loo- band geeks rule! I have a good buddy of mine that plays the oboe!
Butterfly-elf – okies! Your vote has been added! And it's set after LoTR. I messed a lot of stuff up, but who cares?
Blondeducky77- yes but I have a peanut gun shooter thingy... yeah. I'll shoot your elephants! Not really...
Aliana Archer- they had to change the dress size because Kyriana is built like a toothpick and Maqueden isn't.
I got 9 reviews while I was gone and they all got deleted... so if you reviewed, srry!!!
Tootles!
"It all started when Kyriana asked if she could talk to Legolas alone." Elenna was sitting on her bed, reading a letter from Maqueden. For some reason, Astoldominien had neglected to come to her room, so she was enjoying this brief moment of silence. "That night he came to my door and asked me if I would marry him. Apparently, it's his plan to marry me instead of Kyriana, then reveal to the world it's me, not her, that he was engaged to! Kyriana has no problem with it, and neither do I. We've already started planning the wedding, and since I'm not exactly built like Kyriana (the girl's a toothpick!!!) she had to tell the dressmaker that she was pregnant with his child and would be bigger by the wedding date! It's pretty amazing how this whole thing has worked out, you really have to come to the wedding. Surely Astoldominien's healed enough to come to Mirkwood... Even just for a few weeks! If you don't come... I will NEVER forgive you!" Maqueden ended the letter with the phrase "You know I love you!"
Elenna smiled. Her sister's sarcasm annoyed her sometimes, but now that she was marrying Legolas... She really did need to go home. She had been in Gondor for the better part of a year, and she missed Maqueden and Kyriana and Legolas terribly. And Maqueden was right, surely Astoldominien was healed enough to travel to Mirkwood. With a sigh, she placed the letter on her beside table and went to find Astoldominien, who must have decided to show up at her door like he usually did.
Astoldominien, however, was busy looking for her and somehow managed to miss her as she walked down the hall to his room. He knocked on her door and went inside when he heard no answer and was sure she wasn't there. He spotted the letter on her bedside table and his curiosity got the best of him... so he picked it up and began to read...
... and suddenly stopped in the middle of a sentence. Memories came flooding back to him.
A/N: these are his memories...
It was early spring. He and Maqueden had gone hiking, and decided to stop to eat. Maqueden pulled a sandwich and some water out of her bag, sat down on a fallen log, and began to eat. A few minutes passed before Astoldominien broke the silence. "You love him." He smiled. "I don't see why you don't tell him."
"Because I don't want to. I like what we have now- friendship. What happens if I tell him how I feel and he doesn't feel the same way?"
"Life goes on." Astoldominien said simply.
"Life without him? We're Mirkwood's biggest troublemakers! If the duo was to split up... I wouldn't have any friends."
"Well, thanks for counting me!" Astoldominien said, slightly miffed.
"Besides you and Elenna." Maqueden said hurriedly. "And you bug me about Legolas." She muttered under her breath. "I know you love Elenna... but you do nothing about it."
"I'm scared, Maqueden. I will die if she doesn't feel the same way about me." When Maqueden laughed, he glared at her. "I'm being serious. I WILL die of a broken heart."
"What if I said I'd already talked to her and she said she likes you?"
"I think you're lying." Astoldominien said, swallowing a mouthful of water.
"I'm not. She loves you. You love her. Trust me. Tell her how you feel!"
"I just..." Astoldominien sighed. "All right, so now we've both realized that we have love problems. Let's go see a psychiatrist!" Maqueden laughed at this remark. "I'll deal with mine." Astoldominien muttered. "So should you, or you'll find yourself wishing you told him how you felt while you baby- sit his child."
A/N: : ) I like this one... ; )
In this memory, it was late summer. Astoldominien had once again been kidnapped by Maqueden, but this time the Elenna and Legolas were coming as well. Legolas and Maqueden had hoped that this trip would bring Astoldominien and Elenna together... Or closer together than they already were. Elenna was flirting pretty hard with Astoldominien and he was flirting back harder, if that was possible.
So it came to be that the four of them set off from the castle at 11 that morning They neared the spot Legolas and Maqueden had found the night before by around noon. Immediately after pitching the tents the girls left to go find a spot to bathe, leaving Legolas and Astoldominien to talk.
"Why don't you tell her how you feel?" Legolas asked, watching as Astoldominien pitched his and Elenna's tent.
"Because I don't know for sure if she feels the same way." Astoldominien longed to tell Legolas about Maqueden and her feelings for him, but he knew very well that Legolas did not feel the same way about Maqueden. He also knew that Maqueden would be heartbroken and would probably die a very long and painful death.
"Life goes on." Legolas grinned. "If you don't do it tomorrow I'm going to throw you in the river and hold you there until you drown."
"Oh... I'm so scared..." Astoldominien's sarcasm made Legolas laugh.
"Please?" He asked. "For me?" Legolas put on his infamous puppy dog face.
Astoldominien sighed. "Fine." He groaned. "I know I'm gonna regret this..."
When the girls came back, Astoldominien "kidnapped" Elenna and led her to the river, where he then realized it was too late to turn back. Swallowing the lump in his throat, he gathered up his courage, kissed her on the lips, and whispered very softly, "I love you."
Elenna was startled. This wasn't what she had been expecting, since she wasn't sure if he liked her or not... but she liked it. She whispered back. "I love you too." And she kissed him back with all the passion she had built up over the last 400 years.
Behind the trees, Maqueden and Legolas gave each other a hi-five and left to go check on their lunch.
When Elenna and Astoldominien joined them again, both were flushed, especially for elves. Elenna's fingers were intertwined with Astoldominien's and the two both had huge, idiot grins on their faces.
A few hundred years had passed since then. It was spring. Maqueden and Legolas were still the biggest troublemakers in all of Mirkwood and probably in the entire elven race, besides perhaps Elladan and Elrohir. Astoldominien had fallen more in love with Elenna, and she with him. So it was that he found himself carrying a ring in his pocket and arriving at her door in the middle of the night.
"Elenna!" He called, grinning as she came to the door in her nightdress.
"What?" She said rather flatly, leaning against the post that held their roof up.
"Elenna... I love you." He took both her hands in his and led her to a little clearing in the forest.
(SOUND FAMILIAR?)
Astoldominien kneeled in front of her. "Elenna... Will you marry me?" He gently slipped the ring onto her ring finger.
"Yes." She whispered. "I will." She wiped a tear away and straightened in shock as she felt him place a gently kiss on her lips. He wiped her tears away with his sleeve and placed a less gently kiss on her mouth, bestowing such passion on her that it made her knees go weak and she would have collapsed on the floor had he not had an arm behind her back.
The memories were too much for Astoldominien to handle. He made his way towards her door, staggering under the weight of a tidal wave of memories he had lost a thousand years before. Once out in the hall, he wandered aimlessly around looking for Elenna. And then he found her.
"Elenna!" He cried, running to her, wrapping her in an embrace, and kissing her soundly on the lips. "Oh Gods, Elenna, I remember! I remember it all!"
"Astoldominien?" She asked, wriggling out of his bear hold on her and looking him in the eye. "How do...why... WHAT?"
"I was... reading a letter of yours and something in it sparked another memory, and then another, and another... I remember!" He embraced her again, so tightly she could barely breathe.
"Prove to me you remember." She managed to choke out, burying her face in his chest. It felt so good to be back in his arms. She felt life rushing back to her, almost a tidal wave of energy. And suddenly she had the urge to become her old self again instead of being this boring lazy creature she had become.
"The last thing I said to you before I left was 'I promise I'll come back.' And I hugged you and fell off my horse."
Elenna laughed, wiping a tear away from her eye. "Do you really remember me?"
"Would I lie to you?"
"No."
"Didn't think so." And he kissed her again, smothering her with kisses like there was no tomorrow. And the two retreated to her room to think, to hold each other, and to write a very long and descriptive letter to Maqueden.
A/N: Here ya go, one nice chapter for you. I'm writing this at the lake the night before the fourth of July... So we were shooting all these fireworks and one hit me in the chest... and now I have a big black spot there. It hurt, too. Anyway, choir tour was awesome! And now I live in a box of potatoes. Haha! hit with potato It's a long story, and I really don't want to explain. : )
THANKYOU'S!!!!!
Kathysidle- he gets it back, as you can tell. Thanks! I'm glad someone likes my story that much. : )
Manveri[reachforthesky]estel- I have a peanut shooter! And I will use it to fend off rabid fans! But I'm back!!!! With memories!
Lucy loo- band geeks rule! I have a good buddy of mine that plays the oboe!
Butterfly-elf – okies! Your vote has been added! And it's set after LoTR. I messed a lot of stuff up, but who cares?
Blondeducky77- yes but I have a peanut gun shooter thingy... yeah. I'll shoot your elephants! Not really...
Aliana Archer- they had to change the dress size because Kyriana is built like a toothpick and Maqueden isn't.
I got 9 reviews while I was gone and they all got deleted... so if you reviewed, srry!!!
Tootles!