So I rewrote last chapter, I hope you guys like this one better, it has a
lot more detail. Anyway, I made way for a new twist which you will see get
twistier in this chapter. *gnagnagnagna* You honestly didn't think I would
end my twists did you????
Songelf88 and G.H.S. the warg: I have to disagree, it could be better and now it (hopefully) is. Hope you like it.
RedRosettes: I never thanked you? Whoops!!! Here's a big thank you to you then. The people who pointed out that last chapter was lacking something are not stupid! I love it when readers do that, it keeps me more on edge. Sometimes they're wrong and sometimes right. In this case they were very right!!!
Iluvenis: Happy you liked it, now there's an even better version so let me know what you think.
Kate: I hope this is soon enough for ya! Enjoy the newest chapter.
Feanen: Thanks for the compliment and I'm very happy you like this fic. It really makes my day when people say this to me.
Passion Lover: I hope you liked the new version of chapter 57 better, I added a lot of things and worked hard on it. I have to say it is much easier to add stuff than make new stuff up. Anyway, my new chapter will be from scratch again so jst give your opinion again ok?
Lady of Legolas: I know!!! Isn't it amazing. I honestly didn't expect to get so many reviews and I am very flattered by the amount of reviews I have received from all of you.
Leitheindel: I hope you like this new chapter, be warned, there will be sharp twists in the near future.
Aislin: Well, the rewrite is 7 pages longer than it used to be and I added a lot of stuff so I hope you liked it better. I love paychecks. . . ;) My first day was tiring but I think it went well. I'm working in a supermarket. Bleep. . . bleep. . . do you have coupons? Ugh, annoying things but the people I work with are vry nice so that's good.
MaverickGirl: Elladan apologizing to Elrond? Hmmm, that's a thought. Though not any time soon, I like to make Elrond squirm.
Tap-dancing Hobbit: Nope it wasn't the new chapter yet, I'll post that when I post this chapter. Hope you will like them both.
Musicgrl: I know what you mean, I hope you like the changes I made. It was fun to do and I like the chapter much better now.
Shinigami29: That's a good quality. . . seeing something good in almost everything I mean. I'm a pessamistic realist, so I don't have that a lot.
Youkai Ryuu: Nope you did not offend me, I even totally agree with you. As long as you have good grounds to criticize my fic and don't attack me personally I am cool with anything thrown my way. It's not as if it was a : Hey you suck, I hate this fic : kind of review, it was really nice.
Lady Death: *blushes* you really think this fic is that good. *blushes some more* Hope you like the rewrite, I added a lot of details and even some new stuff, let me know what you think of the changes.
Soul: Happy you liked it, but this fic will end someday. No time soon I hope but I am nearing the end I'm afraid. Though I have a few twists in my mind that will add to the length of this fic.
Dragonfly: It took four days! Wow! I'm happy you liked it. Sorry I made you cry, I didn't mean to if that makes you feel any better.
Beth: Exams are over . . . THANK GOD!!!! It's the results I'm waiting for *bites nails*
The Lady Sorcha of Sevenwaters: Yay for you, so happy you passed your finals. Hope you like the new chappie.
Noodle: Good luck on the test and thank you for the nice compliment.
THEwriter Lioncub: Yup, I thought I owed it to you guys to write a long chapter after my weeks of ebsence. Anyway I made some changes so I advise you to read those.
The Great One: Thank you so much for all the compliments!!! I love you!!!!! A professional writer? I'll keep that in mind. Yeah I love charmed as well, even though Prue is dead.
Snalldiver: Happy you liked it, I have a tiny problem though. I can make stuff up on the basis of someone else's work but an original fic is so much harder.
Elvish princess: I will try to stretch this fic as far as I can, until the very end.
Aurumlupi: Gandalf wouldn't know about it since that part of him is. . . well dead. Happy you liked it though.
Lil kawaii doom: Happy you liked it, enjoy this chapter as well.
Lucy: Thank you!
LanierShazar: Happy you liked it, and it's always worth the sacrifise of my time to update.
Mellon: Of course there is more! At least, there is more for now.
The Story Weaver: Happy you liked it and I'm also hoping I passed all my tests.
Kierin: You liked tha twist did you, just wait until you see the next one. ;) I have no idea how much longer it will be but at least ten more chapters I think.
Arwen-evenstar: Won't answer your questions, you'll have to wait to find out.
Donnamira: Happy you liked it so much, here's the update. Was it fast enough?
Prophecy: *cowers in corner* Am I really that evil??? I updated right??? Forgive me????
Kayli: Oh my god!!!!! What a review!!!! I LOVED IT!!!! You do know you're a little insane right? Just checking. The potion brewing? I got that from Harry Potter actually, it truly inspired me. Gimli. . . oops I kind of left him out didn't I? I'll make it up ok? I loved the quote from Eleanor Roosevelt, expect to see it somewhere in this fic.
Norie Ape: Happy you liked, just wait to see what happens next.
Meggers: You're forgiven, finals SUCK!!!! Good luck with the studying.
DISCLAIMER: Don't wanna
Haldir wasted no time in getting to the castle. Somehow he managed to draw very little attention while carrying the almost unconscionce Rita.
Meanwhile Arwen rushed behind him and it was she who opened the door to Rita's chamber and covered Rita with a blanket.
Lingering in the doorway Haldir looked at his best friend one more time before he closed the door behind Arwen.
He decided to stay with Rita for a while longer, he needed to clear his head.
If he had known what Lady Galadriel would have done, he would have. . .
What would he have done? He wondered about this. He knew for a fact that he loved her a very much for she knew him and he knew her. She was his dearest friend.
Should he scold her, be angered with her for putting herself in such a risk? Or should he fall down on his knees and thank her, for now she would be with them for eternity. His best friend forever.
He sat like that for hours until there was a knock at the door. He turned his head and broke out in a sweet smile when he saw Fioma standing there.
"I wondered where you would be, I should have known you were watching over her." Unlike Elladan, Fioma felt no ill feelings about the 'relationship' between the Lothlorien elf and Rita.
She smiled as Haldir pulled her in his lap, holding her tightly. "I worry about her, she has risked so much. There was such sadness and pain in her eyes, I worry if she will survive that."
"Of course she will" reassured Fioma "She is one very strong individual. She already survived the quest, she will survive whatever is thrown her way."
Haldir nodded but muttered his fear to her. "It is not her body I worry about, I fear what the events have done to her soul. You have not seen her eyes love, not like I can see them. It scared me to see her like that."
He frowned a little but Fioma brushed her hand over his forehead, smoothing out the lines of worrying. "You can help her, help her heal her soul with understanding and listening."
"What did I do to deserve such a sweet maiden as you in my life?" Haldir mused out loud. "For I can not remember doing special to earn an angel beside me."
That statement got him a sweet, chaste, peck on the cheek from Fioma and he knew this took a lot of her. She had told him what had happened only months before in Rivendell and he vowed to her to never push her in any kind of way.
He kissed her cheek as well and after that he just put his head on top of her head while she nuzzled her face in his neck.
Slowly she started to drift off into sleep and Haldir found that he had trouble from slipping into sleep as well. It was as if her nearness and her even breathing was lulling him to sleep.
He finally understood why his brothers loved their wives so. For this was truly bliss.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Meanwhile the queen of Gondor was trying to calm down her husband who was pacing in his chamber. He was too preoccupied to do anything so her canceled one of the meetings he had scheduled for that morning.
He was ranting on and on and Arwen listened to him with uttermost patience. "I cannot believe she did a thing like that, she could have DIED Arwen, what would we have then?"
Knowing it was better to stay silent Arwen just put her hand on his shoulder. No minute later he started to ramble once again.
"The stupid, stubborn girl. I wished that for once in her life she would make things easy on herself. Things like accepting love and frienship and not putting herself in danger. But does she do that? Nooooooo, she needs to do things the hard way. Fist she runs and then when she's finally back she pulls a stunt like this. And for what? To pleasure Ada? To save Elladan the trouble of giving up his immortality? What?"
Arwen sighed slightly. "She decided the same thing I have decided for you, only in reverse. I gave up immortality to be with you and she fought to gain it to be with my brother."
"I know my love. . . my queen. I just don't want to see her hurt."
Arwen just hugged him and the two stood like that for hours on end, in silence.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Rita opened her eyes and smiled as she saw the sight that met her. Fioma was enveloped in Haldir's embrace and they were both sleeping.
She took this chance to study the two of them together, they really looked sweet together. She reached for a cup of water next to her bed and bumped her arm against the edge of the bed.
It wasn't a loud sound but it was enough to wake Haldir. He immediately focussed his eyes on her and smiled a bit as he saw she was awake again.
"You look mighty comfortable." Quipped Rita. To her satisfaction her remark made effect on Rita, a slight blush painted his cheeks but he didn't release Fioma for a second,
In fact he held her a little closer, shifting her weight slightly so he could change his position. Proving that elves were very light sleepers Fioma woke up.
As soon as she saw Rita awake she hugged her and Rita smiled at her. Rita tried to keep up the small talk with Fioma about things like what had been going on in the city and so on, but she found she really couldn't pay attention.
Haldir noticed this of course and he signaled to Fioma to leave them for a while. After making up an excuse Fioma left the room, leaving Haldir and Rita alone.
The elf could see Rita needed to talk but decided to take the conversation elsewhere. He told her to get dressed and left the room until Rita came out dressed in some pants and a shirt.
They walked in silence and they needed no words to work out where they were going. Rita led and Haldir followed.
At last they ended up in the special place Rita had visited with Pippin, the cliff.
Rita let herself fall to the ground and leaned against a boulder. Haldir sat on top of a boulder on the other side of her, so he could see her eyes.
Silence was around them until Haldir broke it.
"Talk to me Rita, what happened during your trial?"
Slowly at first but gaining speed Rita began to tell Haldir every detail of the tests, her feelings and fears and last but not least her decision to live on Middle Earth.
Haldir remained silent, being his usual self. But every once in a while he would nod, or send her a reassuring glance, or grab her shoulder to steady her, to calm her.
"I left her Haldir. She told me to, but still. . . what kind of sister am I? Leaving her like that. I thought my second test was hard, but this. . ."
Taking this as a cue to speak Haldir thought carefully about what to say. This was a very fragile matter to Rita after all.
"You are a great sister Rita, to have protected her for so much evil and pain. Your duty to her does not take away the fact that you deserve to have a life of your own. You deserve to live and love and laugh. Carol would never have wanted you to feel guilty for her death, or guilty for leaving her."
Rita nodded mutely. Even though this much had been made clear to her by Boromir and Carol, it still helped to hear Haldir say it as well.
"I guess. . . I just didn't expect it to hurt so much. I mean I'll never see her again Haldir! I will live and live and live some more and I'll never die. She's in heaven and I'll be here. I will never see her face again or hold her or hear her giggles. . . I just miss her so much. I'm supposed to be happy but I'm not."
"Immortality is both a gift as a curse. For you will be able to spend eternity with those who live forever as well. The other side is watching your mortal friends dying around you, and knowing you will never join those who have passed to Mandos."
At these words Rita let her final tears about the subject go. And like Boromir had rocked her like a child, Haldir held her in his arms as she cried bitter tears.
Tears for her loss of the afterlife, tears as the recognition that her old life was over, tears for the fact that the Rita everyone had known and loved had died, and she now had to begin a new life based upon her old one.
From a distance Elladan watched as Rita collapsed into Haldir's embrace and a fire lit in his eyes. A fire of one of the oldest emotions in the world.
Envy. . .
A/N: That's it for today. I think I'm coming down with the flu or something. My head feels heavy and my back's killing me. Anyway, let me know what you think of the beginning of my new twist.
Oh and I want to thank you all. . . I reached 900 reviews!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!
Songelf88 and G.H.S. the warg: I have to disagree, it could be better and now it (hopefully) is. Hope you like it.
RedRosettes: I never thanked you? Whoops!!! Here's a big thank you to you then. The people who pointed out that last chapter was lacking something are not stupid! I love it when readers do that, it keeps me more on edge. Sometimes they're wrong and sometimes right. In this case they were very right!!!
Iluvenis: Happy you liked it, now there's an even better version so let me know what you think.
Kate: I hope this is soon enough for ya! Enjoy the newest chapter.
Feanen: Thanks for the compliment and I'm very happy you like this fic. It really makes my day when people say this to me.
Passion Lover: I hope you liked the new version of chapter 57 better, I added a lot of things and worked hard on it. I have to say it is much easier to add stuff than make new stuff up. Anyway, my new chapter will be from scratch again so jst give your opinion again ok?
Lady of Legolas: I know!!! Isn't it amazing. I honestly didn't expect to get so many reviews and I am very flattered by the amount of reviews I have received from all of you.
Leitheindel: I hope you like this new chapter, be warned, there will be sharp twists in the near future.
Aislin: Well, the rewrite is 7 pages longer than it used to be and I added a lot of stuff so I hope you liked it better. I love paychecks. . . ;) My first day was tiring but I think it went well. I'm working in a supermarket. Bleep. . . bleep. . . do you have coupons? Ugh, annoying things but the people I work with are vry nice so that's good.
MaverickGirl: Elladan apologizing to Elrond? Hmmm, that's a thought. Though not any time soon, I like to make Elrond squirm.
Tap-dancing Hobbit: Nope it wasn't the new chapter yet, I'll post that when I post this chapter. Hope you will like them both.
Musicgrl: I know what you mean, I hope you like the changes I made. It was fun to do and I like the chapter much better now.
Shinigami29: That's a good quality. . . seeing something good in almost everything I mean. I'm a pessamistic realist, so I don't have that a lot.
Youkai Ryuu: Nope you did not offend me, I even totally agree with you. As long as you have good grounds to criticize my fic and don't attack me personally I am cool with anything thrown my way. It's not as if it was a : Hey you suck, I hate this fic : kind of review, it was really nice.
Lady Death: *blushes* you really think this fic is that good. *blushes some more* Hope you like the rewrite, I added a lot of details and even some new stuff, let me know what you think of the changes.
Soul: Happy you liked it, but this fic will end someday. No time soon I hope but I am nearing the end I'm afraid. Though I have a few twists in my mind that will add to the length of this fic.
Dragonfly: It took four days! Wow! I'm happy you liked it. Sorry I made you cry, I didn't mean to if that makes you feel any better.
Beth: Exams are over . . . THANK GOD!!!! It's the results I'm waiting for *bites nails*
The Lady Sorcha of Sevenwaters: Yay for you, so happy you passed your finals. Hope you like the new chappie.
Noodle: Good luck on the test and thank you for the nice compliment.
THEwriter Lioncub: Yup, I thought I owed it to you guys to write a long chapter after my weeks of ebsence. Anyway I made some changes so I advise you to read those.
The Great One: Thank you so much for all the compliments!!! I love you!!!!! A professional writer? I'll keep that in mind. Yeah I love charmed as well, even though Prue is dead.
Snalldiver: Happy you liked it, I have a tiny problem though. I can make stuff up on the basis of someone else's work but an original fic is so much harder.
Elvish princess: I will try to stretch this fic as far as I can, until the very end.
Aurumlupi: Gandalf wouldn't know about it since that part of him is. . . well dead. Happy you liked it though.
Lil kawaii doom: Happy you liked it, enjoy this chapter as well.
Lucy: Thank you!
LanierShazar: Happy you liked it, and it's always worth the sacrifise of my time to update.
Mellon: Of course there is more! At least, there is more for now.
The Story Weaver: Happy you liked it and I'm also hoping I passed all my tests.
Kierin: You liked tha twist did you, just wait until you see the next one. ;) I have no idea how much longer it will be but at least ten more chapters I think.
Arwen-evenstar: Won't answer your questions, you'll have to wait to find out.
Donnamira: Happy you liked it so much, here's the update. Was it fast enough?
Prophecy: *cowers in corner* Am I really that evil??? I updated right??? Forgive me????
Kayli: Oh my god!!!!! What a review!!!! I LOVED IT!!!! You do know you're a little insane right? Just checking. The potion brewing? I got that from Harry Potter actually, it truly inspired me. Gimli. . . oops I kind of left him out didn't I? I'll make it up ok? I loved the quote from Eleanor Roosevelt, expect to see it somewhere in this fic.
Norie Ape: Happy you liked, just wait to see what happens next.
Meggers: You're forgiven, finals SUCK!!!! Good luck with the studying.
DISCLAIMER: Don't wanna
Haldir wasted no time in getting to the castle. Somehow he managed to draw very little attention while carrying the almost unconscionce Rita.
Meanwhile Arwen rushed behind him and it was she who opened the door to Rita's chamber and covered Rita with a blanket.
Lingering in the doorway Haldir looked at his best friend one more time before he closed the door behind Arwen.
He decided to stay with Rita for a while longer, he needed to clear his head.
If he had known what Lady Galadriel would have done, he would have. . .
What would he have done? He wondered about this. He knew for a fact that he loved her a very much for she knew him and he knew her. She was his dearest friend.
Should he scold her, be angered with her for putting herself in such a risk? Or should he fall down on his knees and thank her, for now she would be with them for eternity. His best friend forever.
He sat like that for hours until there was a knock at the door. He turned his head and broke out in a sweet smile when he saw Fioma standing there.
"I wondered where you would be, I should have known you were watching over her." Unlike Elladan, Fioma felt no ill feelings about the 'relationship' between the Lothlorien elf and Rita.
She smiled as Haldir pulled her in his lap, holding her tightly. "I worry about her, she has risked so much. There was such sadness and pain in her eyes, I worry if she will survive that."
"Of course she will" reassured Fioma "She is one very strong individual. She already survived the quest, she will survive whatever is thrown her way."
Haldir nodded but muttered his fear to her. "It is not her body I worry about, I fear what the events have done to her soul. You have not seen her eyes love, not like I can see them. It scared me to see her like that."
He frowned a little but Fioma brushed her hand over his forehead, smoothing out the lines of worrying. "You can help her, help her heal her soul with understanding and listening."
"What did I do to deserve such a sweet maiden as you in my life?" Haldir mused out loud. "For I can not remember doing special to earn an angel beside me."
That statement got him a sweet, chaste, peck on the cheek from Fioma and he knew this took a lot of her. She had told him what had happened only months before in Rivendell and he vowed to her to never push her in any kind of way.
He kissed her cheek as well and after that he just put his head on top of her head while she nuzzled her face in his neck.
Slowly she started to drift off into sleep and Haldir found that he had trouble from slipping into sleep as well. It was as if her nearness and her even breathing was lulling him to sleep.
He finally understood why his brothers loved their wives so. For this was truly bliss.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Meanwhile the queen of Gondor was trying to calm down her husband who was pacing in his chamber. He was too preoccupied to do anything so her canceled one of the meetings he had scheduled for that morning.
He was ranting on and on and Arwen listened to him with uttermost patience. "I cannot believe she did a thing like that, she could have DIED Arwen, what would we have then?"
Knowing it was better to stay silent Arwen just put her hand on his shoulder. No minute later he started to ramble once again.
"The stupid, stubborn girl. I wished that for once in her life she would make things easy on herself. Things like accepting love and frienship and not putting herself in danger. But does she do that? Nooooooo, she needs to do things the hard way. Fist she runs and then when she's finally back she pulls a stunt like this. And for what? To pleasure Ada? To save Elladan the trouble of giving up his immortality? What?"
Arwen sighed slightly. "She decided the same thing I have decided for you, only in reverse. I gave up immortality to be with you and she fought to gain it to be with my brother."
"I know my love. . . my queen. I just don't want to see her hurt."
Arwen just hugged him and the two stood like that for hours on end, in silence.
~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*~*
Rita opened her eyes and smiled as she saw the sight that met her. Fioma was enveloped in Haldir's embrace and they were both sleeping.
She took this chance to study the two of them together, they really looked sweet together. She reached for a cup of water next to her bed and bumped her arm against the edge of the bed.
It wasn't a loud sound but it was enough to wake Haldir. He immediately focussed his eyes on her and smiled a bit as he saw she was awake again.
"You look mighty comfortable." Quipped Rita. To her satisfaction her remark made effect on Rita, a slight blush painted his cheeks but he didn't release Fioma for a second,
In fact he held her a little closer, shifting her weight slightly so he could change his position. Proving that elves were very light sleepers Fioma woke up.
As soon as she saw Rita awake she hugged her and Rita smiled at her. Rita tried to keep up the small talk with Fioma about things like what had been going on in the city and so on, but she found she really couldn't pay attention.
Haldir noticed this of course and he signaled to Fioma to leave them for a while. After making up an excuse Fioma left the room, leaving Haldir and Rita alone.
The elf could see Rita needed to talk but decided to take the conversation elsewhere. He told her to get dressed and left the room until Rita came out dressed in some pants and a shirt.
They walked in silence and they needed no words to work out where they were going. Rita led and Haldir followed.
At last they ended up in the special place Rita had visited with Pippin, the cliff.
Rita let herself fall to the ground and leaned against a boulder. Haldir sat on top of a boulder on the other side of her, so he could see her eyes.
Silence was around them until Haldir broke it.
"Talk to me Rita, what happened during your trial?"
Slowly at first but gaining speed Rita began to tell Haldir every detail of the tests, her feelings and fears and last but not least her decision to live on Middle Earth.
Haldir remained silent, being his usual self. But every once in a while he would nod, or send her a reassuring glance, or grab her shoulder to steady her, to calm her.
"I left her Haldir. She told me to, but still. . . what kind of sister am I? Leaving her like that. I thought my second test was hard, but this. . ."
Taking this as a cue to speak Haldir thought carefully about what to say. This was a very fragile matter to Rita after all.
"You are a great sister Rita, to have protected her for so much evil and pain. Your duty to her does not take away the fact that you deserve to have a life of your own. You deserve to live and love and laugh. Carol would never have wanted you to feel guilty for her death, or guilty for leaving her."
Rita nodded mutely. Even though this much had been made clear to her by Boromir and Carol, it still helped to hear Haldir say it as well.
"I guess. . . I just didn't expect it to hurt so much. I mean I'll never see her again Haldir! I will live and live and live some more and I'll never die. She's in heaven and I'll be here. I will never see her face again or hold her or hear her giggles. . . I just miss her so much. I'm supposed to be happy but I'm not."
"Immortality is both a gift as a curse. For you will be able to spend eternity with those who live forever as well. The other side is watching your mortal friends dying around you, and knowing you will never join those who have passed to Mandos."
At these words Rita let her final tears about the subject go. And like Boromir had rocked her like a child, Haldir held her in his arms as she cried bitter tears.
Tears for her loss of the afterlife, tears as the recognition that her old life was over, tears for the fact that the Rita everyone had known and loved had died, and she now had to begin a new life based upon her old one.
From a distance Elladan watched as Rita collapsed into Haldir's embrace and a fire lit in his eyes. A fire of one of the oldest emotions in the world.
Envy. . .
A/N: That's it for today. I think I'm coming down with the flu or something. My head feels heavy and my back's killing me. Anyway, let me know what you think of the beginning of my new twist.
Oh and I want to thank you all. . . I reached 900 reviews!!!! I LOVE YOU!!!!!!!!!!