"What truth Elladan?" I questioned.

It was frustrating to know that someone knows something about you that you yourself do not know.

He Replied.

"Long ago Cormamin, I lived in a far different place. I was not born here, but in a place named Imladris or Rivendell. It is an Elven realm in the Land of Middle Earth."

Elladan looked at me and I nodded my head for him to continue…

Flash Back.

Elladan stood in the empty darkness of a Talan that overlooked the vast city of Caras Galadhon; it was long left abandoned after the first war of the great ring. The only source of light was that of a candle that flickered helplessly in the wind. There was little furniture in the Talan. The only remains that were left by the previous owners were the thin linen drapes that fluttered carelessly in the soft wind that kissed Elladan's beautiful face.

Elladan was in that Talan for one reason, which was to think, and his deep thoughts were that of a certain Elleth that plagued him and haunted his dreams. She was named Tiriel and he was in love with her, though he never told her. The young Elf felt guilty and so therefore could not sleep.

Elladan thought of the way her nose wrinkled when she was laughing, the way her eyes looked like wet velvet when she was angry and her hair which turned a midnight black that shone flecks of blue in the light. She was his lover and it was more than just him wanting her in his bed, it was pure and unmistakable love.

Elladan recalled the two last final days in Rivendell before he was to travel to Lothorien and stay there for a month; they had both had a lovers tiff; but it was more than that because they would both have apologized to one another then and there. But sadly not, Tiriel stormed out of the room in a huff but Elladan was too arrogant to see that it was he who was in the wrong. They had fallen out because there was to be a great feast in Imladris, after Elladan and his brother left, Tiriel wanted to go with an elf named Ranion, whom she said was nothing more than a friend, and she wanted to seek Elladan's permission.

So naturally Elladan said no; he remembered how he found Tiriel with her head lain on Ranion's lap and the way he stroked her hair from her face. Jealousy was something that never came easily to Elladan, but he did become jealous when he saw the way in which Ranion looked at her. It was more than friendship, it was lust. But Tiriel remained oblivious to it.

Elladan remembered sitting in his father's library thinking about the way he confronted Ranion, and how he laughed in Elladan's face.

Flashback:

"Maybe if she wasn't so lonely she wouldn't have to come to me every time, after all you do reject her."

said Ranion, his words dripping with scorn. Elladan grabbed Ranion up by the collar of his tunic and pushed him up against the wall.

"I don't reject her, she knows how I feel about her." He snarled.

"Does she?" hissed Ranion, Elladan's eyes bore into his cold and steely.

Elladan let go of Ranion and pushed him away

"She doesn't know does she? you want to know something?"

Elladan turned to look at Ranion

"I enjoyed having her in my lap earlier, there are just some things that you do miss"

Elladan turned around and punched him in the nose.

A little while later Tiriel came up to Elladan looking really annoyed.

"Why did you punch Ranion?" she demanded to know

"Because." snapped Elladan

"Because, what sort of answer is that, he didn't deserve what you gave him." hissed Tiriel

"Oh, believe me Tiriel he deserved it!"

Elladan started to walk out but Tiriel grabbed his arm and tried to cause him some pain, but she knew he was much stronger than her.

"Don't walk away from me Elladan!"

"Get off me Tiriel, you don't have a right to hold me back." he jerked his arm back, Tiriel looked blankly at him.

"Why Elladan?" she questioned sincerely.

"Because I can't trust you!" he shouted.

"What does this have to do with me?" she shouted back.

"Everything, you go to him to discuss us, why can't you talk to me when something troubles you?"

Tiriel stood helpless, she needed a friend to talk to and Ranion was around.

"Elladan whatever you think it is not true! But sometimes I need someone other than you to talk to, I lo-" she was cut short by Elladan.

"How can you say those words, they're scorned Tiriel and I know that you do not feel them."

"How can you stand there and say that it takes a lot to say those three words."

"I know what you did Tiriel, you might as well be known as a whore!"

He shouted the words that came tumbling from his mouth, and he immediately regretted saying them. She stared at him, a single tear sliding from the corner of her eye. Right now all he wanted to do was take her in his arms and embrace her. By Eru what had he said? His father would be ashamed of him.

"Tiriel…" he whispered but she ran off.

He didn't blame her, he should have trusted her, she was right it did take a lot to tell some one that you loved them, Elladan had been holding back telling her how he felt for so long and now he didn't know if she would ever forgive him.

Later on Elladan went to her home but her parents said they hadn't seen her all day. When it was time for Elladan to leave for Lothorien he went to find her one last time. But still he had no luck. He traveled to Lothorien without his lovers good bye; it left him with a heavy heart.

END

Elrohir found his brother in the dark gloom of the lone Talan.

Elladan looked down. Elrohir knew of the argument between his brother and Tiriel, he knew his brother's heart was heavy and it would be even more so once Elrohir told him of the news from home. Placing a hand on his brother shoulder Elrohir turned Elladan so he would face him.

"Elladan" Elrohir spoke softly.

Elladan looked up

"We have news from home"

Elladan's eyes looked sharply at his brother which made him wince

"Elladan, it's Tiriel they found her. Dead in the forest just outside the Northern border"

Elladan stood there, shocked, for several minutes. He couldn't believe the news that had just reached his ears. When he regained the power to speak, the first words that came to his lips were



"How?"

"Orcs. Brother it was a quick death or so we believe. She was knocked out so she wouldn't have had to feel the assaults that were taken place upon her body, she was beheaded Elladan."

Elladan fell to the floor, shocked, angered and confused. It was his entire fault. If he hadn't called her that hateful word she wouldn't have had to run off, he should have just trusted her. But now…

End of flash back.

Elladan wiped away a tear that began to form in the corner of his eye.

"So why are you bound to this tree Elladan?"

I questioned him gently. I could see that it pained him to tell me of his past, but a lot of my questions were unanswered though there were some which I knew he could answer.

"I am bound to this tree little one because I made an oath to the Valar that I would find her again, in this world or the next. I was full of grief and I wasn't in the right state of mind. Mortals get over a death, but for an Elf it's so much more. So I made an oath. There was a great thunderstorm and I found shelter in a tree, this tree, and I woke up finding myself in an open field. I watched for hundreds of years as this town started to take shape, I watched your home being built, and I knew that once your room would stand right in front of this tree. That my love's Fea or soul would live through one of those females whom ever lived within that room and now I see it's you."

"Me? But how Elladan?"

"Your great grand mother was dying as you were being born, your grand mother held Tiriel's Soul for you. It was by the Valar or fate that that your home was to be built here, I have found you Cormamin. We can go home now and when we do I will bind with you"

I stared blankly at him was he serious?

"Uma, I am little one, but to do so we need your grandmothers necklace, the one with the cross, with the intricate patterns and rose in its center."

"Elladan do you know how serious it is of what you ask? I am not Tiriel and what makes you think that I really want to bind with you! You haven't even asked me you just demanded and expect me to fall at your feet." I snapped

"I am sorry little one, go to sleep and we shall discuss it in the morning."

I closed my mind off to him. He expects too much, how does he expect me to sleep now! How can he say that I'm Tiriel, I only have her soul, nothing else. He said that her hair was black, mine is a really dark blonde, mousy almost.

I needed to sleep on it. If I was to leave with him did I really want to bind with him? I wasn't of legal age, but I will be in another week. What about Kayleigh or my mom or dad or Adam? If I did suddenly disappear mom would be heartbroken, everyone would be.

But how will the elf get home? I can not deny I do feel for him, but he doesn't for me, it's only for some she-elf that lives within me. But maybe I am her, but I know nothing of her! It is most confusing. What should I do?

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