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AN: You asked for fluff, I gave you fluff; you asked for drama, I gave you drama; you asked for a cat fight, I gave you a cat fight! Now who loves me?

Chapter 15 Secrets Unfold

Aragorn sat on the cool marble floor, his head against the wall behind him. His eyes were shut and he was thinking. Telepriel had told him not to come with her to find Arwen, but he did anyways. He followed Telepriel and heard everything she told Legolas, and he now felt horrible. Everything he heard was so true and now he couldn't believe how ignorant he had been. Flirting with Eowyn right in front of Arwen! No wonder she was so sad. How could her do this to her, to the woman he loved? He sighed and stood up. He had to find her.

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Arwen sat alone in the library once again. She had asked Telepriel and Legolas to please leave her alone. She wanted to just sit, and think, and maybe read some more of the diary she had been given. Anything to keep her mind off of Aragorn. To keep her mind off the fact that she wasn't with him right now. That he wasn't holding her and whispering soft things in her ear. She sighed and leaned her head back against the softness of the chair and shut her eyes. Maybe she would just take a nap here, and sleep away everything on her mind, have a dreamless sleep if she could command herself to do it. Then suddenly there was a knock at the door. Arwen groaned.

"What?" Arwen asked her eyes still shut, thinking it to be Telepriel checking on her once again. The door opened and a head poked in.

"Arwen?" Aragorn asked. Arwen's eyes shot open and her breath caught in her throat. She couldn't seem to find any words to say. Aragorn took her silence for anger.

"Arwen… I'm so sorry for anything I've done to hurt you. I would never deliberately want to harm you, I hope you know that." He said taking a seat next to her, lacing his fingers in hers. She turned her head to look at him and, still not having found her voice, nodded.

"Really I am. You can't know…" he said his voice trailing off. He reached his free hand up to tuck a strand of hair behind her ear, and then stroked her face. She shut her eyes, savoring the moment. Finally finding her voice, or at least part of it, she spoke.

"I-I know… I know." she said not smiling.

"I mean it. I wouldn't ever. It hurts me so much to see you pained like this and I know why." he told her.

"Do you? Because I don't think you do. You couldn't." she said looking away.

"Oh Arwen…" he said taking her face in his hands and turning her face towards him. "Please… please forgive me for not saying this to you earlier. Arwen, I love you. I love you so much the world will fall before I stop loving you. I would kill for you, I would die for you. I know I have only known you for a few months, but on that fated day when I first saw you in the woods of Imladris, I knew, I knew that I would never be able to take you off my mind. Arwen, the moment I saw you I loved you and I always will." he told her.

  Arwen smiled and Aragorn reached up to wipe a single tear off her cheek. He then slowly leaned in and kissed her lips. Arwen willingly kissed him back. It was such a passionate kiss that later, when Arwen told her friends about it, it took her breath away to merely speak of it. So deep and pure this kiss was. Arwen had never had a kiss like this before and during that moment she knew. She knew that she was going to be with him forever, for the rest of her life and after.

Arwen broke the kiss. "I love you too." She said, and kissed him again.

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Eowyn sat on her bed in her room in the girl's dormitory. Elenya sat next to her along with Lothiriel and Telepriel each on their own beds. Telepriel sat with her head in her hands, deep in thought. The three other girls though, were talking about what to wear to the ball tomorrow. There was going to be an opening ball, where everyone could meet each other.

"I have a dark blue dress with a light blue smock that I think I might wear." Elenya was saying.

"Yes that'd be nice. It would go very good with your complexion." Lothiriel said. Then the door opened and Arwen came in the room absolutely glowing. Telepriel looked up.

"Arwen, your back." Telepriel said smiling.

Arwen sighed. "Yes, I'm back." She said falling back on her bed a huge grin on her face. All the girls in the room looked at her questioningly.

"Have you met a man Arwen?" Elenya asked laughing at the way Arwen was acting. Arwen's only response was to giggle. Telepriel rose from the bed and went over to where she was and sat on the bed with her.

"Arwen?" She asked.

"He did it Telepriel. He told me." Arwen said to Telepriel.

"No way! Really?" Telepriel asked and Arwen nodded.

"What? What happened?" Elenya asked. Telepriel shrieked with joy and hugged Arwen tightly.

"Hey! What happened? You can't just leave us hanging here." Lothiriel said. Arwen turned to them.

"Okay, do you guys remember Aragorn? The man we ate lunch with?" Arwen asked.

"Yes." They all said nodding. Eowyn, though, didn't nod very enthusiastically.

"Well, he kissed me." She said smiling her biggest. All the girls, save Eowyn, shrieked with happiness and they ran up to hug her. Eowyn however remained on her bed frowning.

"Well what did he say?" Eowyn said from her seat.

"Yeah, you said he said something. What did he say?" Elenya asked.

"Well… he said he loved me." She said, this time blushing a bit and bowing her head. All the other girls, save Eowyn once again, hugged her even harder this time.

"Oh my God that's so amazing! Do you love him as well?" Lothiriel asked Arwen who smiled and nodded.

"Aww that's so cute!" Elenya said and Telepriel and Elenya started to say as well. They were all saying awww when-

"But it will never work." Eowyn said and they all turned to her.

"What?" Telepriel said.

"Well he's mortal and Arwen sure isn't. She's an elven princess for goodness sake, she can't be with a mortal!" she said.

"Sure it can!" Elenya said.

"Really how?" Eowyn asked raising her eyebrows.

"They can figure out something." Lothiriel said.

"The only way this could work is for Arwen to give her immortality. Or at least id she plans on being with him forever." Eowyn said and the others fell silent.

"Eowyn, you don't have to be like this you know. You could just congratulate Arwen." Telepriel said glaring at Eowyn. Eowyn merely shrugged, got off the bed, and went to her mirror where she began brushing her hair. Telepriel glared one last time at Eowyn, and then looked at Arwen whose face was troubled.

"Don't listen to her Arwen. She is just a jealous wart hog." Telepriel spoke to Arwen in elvish. Lothiriel laughed. She spoke and understood the elvish tongue. Elenya on the other hand, who didn't know what was being said, decided to change the subject.

"Hey, I was going to go down toe the armory and practice some sword play. Want to all go?" Elenya asked as she went and took her sword from where it was handing on the wall. The other women agreed and went and got their swords as well. They all then went out of the dormitory on their way to the basement where the armory was.

 On the way down Elenya and Lothiriel made sure to walk between Telepriel and Eowyn because Telepriel was giving Eowyn looks that could kill. Arwen was just walking with her head down looking worried. Telepriel put her arm around her shoulder. Telepriel started speaking to Arwen in elvish again.

"Everything is going to be fin, I promise." Telepriel said. Lothiriel joined in the elvish conversation.

"Yes. If you two really love each other, everything will work out. It had to, if love still exists in this world." She finished as they reached the armory.

 They waked into a room with swords, bows, axes, spears, and arrows aplenty, on the walls, the floor, on the tables. The were everywhere. In the center of the room though, was a large circle. It was a stone floor as opposed to the rest of the carpeted armory.

"Can I help you, my ladies?" asked a voice behind them. The maidens turned around to see an old man there.

 Arwen spoke. "We came to practice our sword play."

"Oh are you the 5 shield maidens of the school I was told about?" he asked. The maidens looked at each other, and then nodded realizing it must be. "Yes I was told you would drop by eventually. I was informed that you all are the best shield maidens of Middle-Earth and couldn't go more than a few days without wielding a sword." He said with a laugh and the women laughed with him each knowing it to be true for them.

Lothiriel then stepped forward. "I am Lothiriel of Dol Amroth."

"Elenya of the Minis Tirith."

"Telepriel of Imladris."

"Eowyn of Rohan."

"Arwen of Imladris."

'Ah so your the Lady Arwen! I figured. You look so much like your mother." The man said.

"You knew…?"

"Yes I knew your mother, though only for a short while right before…" he said bowing his head in respect. "So," he said looking back up, "You are practice right? Okay you can use the practicing floor.\ for as long as you'd like. I will be in my office if you need me. Oh by the way my name is Jarnan."

"Thank you Jarnan." The women said and he left.

Then the girls played Touch. You played Touch by having everyone get into on big sword fight. When you touched your opponent with the sword, you got your sword at their neck or their gut where they could be killed; they were out and had to leave.

  All the girls were playing this. First Elenya was out by Telepriel. Then Lothiriel by Eowyn, then Telepriel by Arwen. Finally the only two that were left were Arwen and Eowyn. They both stood at an edge of the floor glaring at each other, both knowing what this fight would really be about. Then they lunged. Swords were blazing every which way. They had only been fighting for maybe 20 seconds when Arwen had the tip of her sword at Eowyn's throat.

"Never go up against an elf in anything." She told Eowyn, and this of course meant two things.

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