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Chapter Eighteen: Amongst Warnings

Haldir

She was still sleeping when I walked back into the bedroom. Dawn had come, and with it I woke as always. But this dawn, I had been reluctant to roll out of bed. Ashk had looked so comfortable I was afraid to move with her bare body molded to mine.

Yet, as the night before seeped back, I decided it was best to move - To get away from her. So, I did. I left the room and dressed, looked among reports and updated maps I had yet to go through before returning.

"Haldir..."

She'd used my name freely last night. No longer did I hear that distant title, but instead it was my name that breathed past her lips when I let them be free. It had been more like a dream than anything. A passing dream, as she'd put it. I'd asked myself how I could forget her, how the loving she gave was forgotten.

But, I knew why. And I dared not think of it.

I couldn't put a name to what made Ashk different than the others before her. Why last night while our bodies clung and rocked and turned, I wanted to say things I never could to her. To promise things I shouldn't.

I wanted to call myself a fool for making love to her, but I just couldn't. I knew I would again and further more. I was her first, and with her clinging to the name wife, I would be her last. Last night her sister's words were thrown at me in her silent stare. Words warning me of everything I'd stripped Ashk of.

For one night, I just wanted to give her what she wanted. Some sort of comfort as she looked at me so sadly. I just wanted to soothe her for one night. To make her forget everything but the moment.

And I had...but it had backfired.

I'd given Ashk what she wanted, but she gave me what I wanted as well... She wasn't afraid of me as some lovers were. She didn't crave only pleasure nor average excitement.

She had only wanted me and she knew exactly what that meant. She knew me better than most now and I'd felt nothing but warm welcome from her.

However, even knowing this and knowing I would want and take her again - I vaguely wondered if she could hold to the boundaries set.

It was not unusual to have what was affectionately called "Lovers Contracts" for Elves. It was just a simple way to enjoy the company of another with sex, without the clinging romance or claiming of relationship past friendship. However, Elves always enjoyed their romance, I thought sourly. Even I did now and then.

However, humans often did not have the same type of relationships. Their lives were short compared to ours and it was as though they were in a constant race to find love, if, of course, it was love they happened to be looking for.

Would Ashk accept this as nothing more than friendly enjoyment? And what would I do if she did not?

Ashk stirred then, opening her eyes before smothering her face into a pillow. I felt myself smile slightly before it disappeared.

Valar, what was this? What was it this human did to me? The words that built in my throat to tell her were things I never wanted to say. Not to Ashk. Not to a human. Why did she draw these ridiculous thoughts from me?

Thoughts of loyalty, promises, love. That horrid word. Why Ashk?

"Good morning," I greeted, staying at the door rather than entering. She did not open her eyes, but her lips curved into a smile.

"Good morning," she replied, slowly opening her eyes to look at me. Immediately I felt as though she'd grabbed me, pulling me towards her. The feeling nearly suffocated me as I struggled to stay away from her.

"You sleep late," I mentioned, strolling towards the window.

She yawned and stretched like a cat, her hair flipping in every direction but down. It was not completely out of the decoration it was placed in the night before.

"Occasionally," she told me, trying to brush aside her wild locks. She said something more, smiling as she did so, but I didn't hear her.

Gentle sighs. Words breathed more than spoken. Ragged gasps for air.

My heart was slamming against my chest as we rolled and wrestled with each other and ourselves for control. Both of us were looking for some sort of anchor as if not to fall off the edge of the world - the edge of sanity. What would happen if I let myself go?

"Ashk - What is this you do to me?"

"Haldir?"

I focused on her again, drawn from my thoughts.

"Hm?"

She smiled slightly at me, sitting up and thankfully keeping the sheets wrapped around her. "Are you all right? You look flushed."

I cleared my throat and shook my head. "I'm fine," I told her before glancing past the drapes over the window. "Though, the day is growing brighter and Orophin is set to escort you back to Celebruim."

Excitement first filled her eyes and I knew she was ready to return to her children, our children. But, then it dimmed slightly.

"You are not returning with me?" she asked.

I shook my head again. "No. I have been called to the western borders for a few days. I should return within a week or two."

She nodded in silence and I moved forward on some basic instinct. Sitting on the bed near her, I remained out of reaching distance.

"Ashk," I started, unsure of how to put this. "What I said last night..." I said many things last night. Most things in a language she did not even understand. I rethought the phrase. "Before anything happened."

She stared at me innocently enough, but I wanted to holler at her to look away, to stop looking at me the way she was…The way I couldn't even put into words.

"Ashk, what happened last night can't change anything," I told her. She remained still and I briefly saw thoughts flash across her eyes. Surprise, confusion, an attempted understanding.

Then those blunt thoughts all disappeared and her dark eyes were blankly staring into mine, glazed in something; memories probably. Suddenly, she shook herself and nodded.

"I know, Haldir," she told me. I waited for her to say more, and she saw this. She only offered a shrug. "You warned me."

I had warned her. And I hoped she took it seriously.

"No misunderstandings?" I asked. "If it happens again...No misunderstandings?"

She tilted her head. "No," she said softly. "None." She cleared her throat and looked away from me, down to the sheets she smoothed out with her hand. "Just another part of our...Arrangement."

Something in me clenched and twisted, but I shoved it away. That was what I wanted. I could have no more with this woman. It was impossible.

I nodded in reply and looked away as well. Silence reigned before I stood and walked towards the door, advising her to get dressed as I did so.

However, when I stepped into the hall about to close the door behind me, I stopped and turned back. In the bedroom once more, I closed the door.

Ashk looked at me as the door clicked shut.

Galadriel

"With all due respect, my Lady, I did nothing to warrant that attack. The woman should be exiled from these woods!"

I peered at the Elleth in my company. Nearby, Celeborn took a seat with a sigh. Aluna looked between the two of us as I did not reply.

"My Lord, do you not agree?"

My husband looked at her for a moment before shifting in his chair. "If you ask my opinion, Aluna, I would say any who openly and purposely makes it an issue to offend a guest of the Lorien House should be removed immediately."

"You see, my Lady?" Aluna questioned, motioning to my husband. "Lord Celeborn agrees!"

"Do you find it so desperately needy to be this shrill in the morning?" I asked as her voice elevated.

The Elleth took a deep breath and closed her eyes. I raised a brow, waiting for her next tirade.

"My apologies, my Lady," she said as she opened her eyes again. Vaguely, I wondered what that left eye had looked like late last night. The swelling was gone, and the bruising was dim now in the morning, but it still proved its existence.

Ashk delivered a solid blow when she wanted to. I hid a smile.

"But, I am sure you can understand my reasons for being so irate at the moment," she amended.

"Oh, of course," I said, moving towards the Elleth. "How could I not? For months you have been within the sanction of my trees and my city…Under the protection of my people and in the warm bed of many of my unsuspecting guards while trying to gain the shadowed attention of my March Warden."

"I have done no su–"

"Silence before I mute that lying mouth of yours!" I demanded.

The Temptress's eyes widened and she froze.

"I can see your irritation, Aluna, as you send your spies to follow in the business of others. As you plot to retake what you think is so rightfully yours. I know why you hound after my Warden like the dog you are."

Shock rippled in her eyes but my own frustration and anger at her continued.

"How dare you think you are worthy to be at his side - in his name! Much less to even imagine yourself in reign of this forest once I have gone."

"That was never my int– "

"I said Silence!"

Celeborn stood from his seat as light blared from my own body. Aluna took a step back as if to flee, but with a raise of my hand, her feet hovered over the ground and she remained frozen.

"You have the gall to lie to me even now, you fool," I growled at her. She thought she was shielding her mind from me, but I could see past her barriers with ease.

None can hide from my eyes,

I told her. She shuddered.

"You are a disgrace to your parents and your kin! Your Masters who taught you your arts. You received the brunt end of what you deserved last night, Aluna of Rivendell," I told her, my husband moving forward as I stood before the Temptress. "And what that woman started, I will finish.

"The power you have, you use without reasons despite your own. Do you not remember the words you were taught by my own daughter?" I stared at the Temptress a long moment. "When she found you floundering in your own gifts - unable to use control. Do you remember?"

Power is given for the greater good - for any other reason, you will be cursed for every deed you do.

Her voice trickled towards me and I nodded.

"And so you remember," I murmured. "Gift given, come to pass..."

"Lady Galadriel, please, don't do this!"

"Strip this creature of Your power - Wield it to another more gracious than she..."

Sometime later, I vaguely remembered the sound of weeping before I slipped into my husband's awaiting arms, carried away from what had drained me so dearly. I had not finished my task, nor was it my place. To her home in Rivendell this Elleth would return. And there, my son-in-law was the one fit to finish with her.

Ashk

"Ashk, you are so quiet," Orophin noted aloud.

We were half-way to Celebruim and I would admit I'd said very little. I looked at the Elf with me to see his gaze understanding with an expecting glint.

"I'm tired," I told him. He nodded. He then made a look of thought.

"I suppose hitting someone as hard as you did could wear a person out," he mused aloud. My eyes widened and I swung through the distance between us to slap his arm. He flinched with a laugh, ready to block any further blows.

"Don't bring that up!" I ordered, shaking my body as if to rid myself of the anger that wanted to boil just thinking of that creature.

"Why? It is hilarious!"

"For you!" I shouted, laughing despite myself. I then shrugged. "It did feel good hitting her though. She was a wench."

"You can say that again," Orophin agreed with a chuckle.

I cleared my throat then and straightened my shoulders, looking at him with a sly look. "So, my dear brother-in-law," I said. "Tell me about that pretty little Elleth with you last night."

He suddenly got an almost dreamy look in his eyes. I barely refrained from laughing.

"You know - The one who was clinging to your arm and batting her eyes at you."

The Elf sighed and I couldn't hold it in anymore. I laughed. Oh, Elves really where those romantic types! Well...most of them were.

By the time I'd concluded that Orophin was most certainly in desperate love with the Elleth he'd spent thirty minutes talking about, we came into sight of the fields that separated my home from Lorien...From Haldir's home.

I looked at Orophin as he silenced. Smiling at him, I said, "Come in with me?"

He smiled in return and nodded.

Orophin

"There they are!"

Ashk nearly threw herself out of the saddle she was in to run for Ana on the porch with her nephew safe in her cradled arms. Ana gave me a knowing smile before allowing her sister to take the child from her. Ashk immediately planted at least a dozen kisses on her son's face before snuggling him close in her arms.

Onduras looked a bit disheveled, obviously having been awoken by his insane mother, but the distraught face passed and he giggled at her, his mouth moving as if to say something. I smiled at the sight before Ashk rushed inside calling for her daughter as if she could reply.

I sighed as I dismounted and Ana neared me, her own son pouncing onto her back. She laughed and bounced as she walked before she reached me.

"How did it go?" she asked, her son sliding off her back and making a run for the stables. Ana's eyes darted away from me. "Nah! Don't you even think about it, young man!" she exclaimed.

The boy immediately wheeled and went diving into the snow. Ana sighed and looked back to me expectantly.

I smiled. Mother to the core.

"It went well," I told her. "Very well, in fact. Ashk danced with half the visitors, I would swear to it." Ana smiled brightly.

"Did she? Wonderful," she noted, glancing back towards the house as we could see Ashk and Ryn parading the twins around, singing loudly and off key. Ana rolled her eyes and turned her attention to me.

"And all the worries from Haldir?" she asked. I raised a brow. "Were they warranted?" she pressed and I felt like I was under inquisition - doomed to a torturous death if I gave the wrong answer.

I thought on how to put this next statement. "Well.." I started. Ana shifted her weight and crossed her arms. I cleared my throat. "Nothing Ashk could not handle."

Ana stared at me before looking back into the house. She sighed. "Well, she doesn't look any worse for wear," she said. However, she then frowned. "In fact..." Her voice trailed off a moment before fire blasted in her eyes. "Oh, I'll murder her!" she hissed before she was stalking away, up the stairs and booming into the house.

I looked at her son, Lynile. Pointing at his mother I cringed.

"What does that mean?" I asked.

The boy stared at me before tilting his head. "That is her angry face, my da says," he told me. Again, I cringed before moving to put the horses away.

Ashk

"For goodness sake, Ana - You act like I've killed someone!" I hissed, sitting on my bed with my daughter in grasp. Gently, I placed her on the bed as she drifted to sleep. Apparently, I'd awoken both her and her brother from their naps.

"You might as well have!" Ana replied, lying Onduras next to his sister before she started pacing.

I rolled my eyes. "Ana, you're overreacting. It was nothing!" I said with a shrug of my shoulders. However, as my sister turned on me, I felt my walls fall.

I thought I'd been doing well trying to seem uncaring about this situation ever since Ana came storming inside just a few minutes ago declaring she needed to talk to me upstairs right away. The door was barely closed before she pointed at me and said, "You slept with him!"

I was desperate not to show that I felt like I was in the clouds, or I was being crushed between mountains… I couldn't quite decide I felt yet.

I had been so sure that morning when I woke that Haldir would have changed his mind about what our union brought. I was certain he would have retracted his words - giving into the changes that needed to be released. Surely he could not deny what was between us last night. Passion that could not be described.

...Or at least that was what it was like for me. For him, maybe it was nothing more than sex; nothing more than a little time enjoyed.

But, how else could I explain the way his eyes looked? For once not so restricted as always, not hiding anything. When I saw that warm fire he hid away, how could I explain why he let me see that? Did he bestow that look on every female he made love to? I certainly think I would remember that look from the first time. This was new. Something blossomed.

It was that which gave me hope. When he reminded me of our agreement, I felt like pouring my heart out, or running from him. But, I'd stayed put. Something in me told me to have faith in him, to give him time.

I didn't know what love was, but if this was it - I wasn't going to give it up without a fight. Haldir had his reasons for trying to stay at a distance, I didn't know what they were and I wasn't so sure he knew either. Perhaps…Perhaps if I gave him enough time, he'd come to see it was foolish to deny something like love.

But...what if he didn't?

"Ashk!"

I jolted in surprise looking at my sister who looked to have steam blaring out of her ears as she glared at me.

"What!"

"Well, if you would come down from your dream world, we could have a conversation," she told me, crossing her arms and leaning on the wall.

I glared.

"There's nothing to talk about, Ana. It was harmless and meant nothing," I managed to say, my chest contracting with each word.

Ana stayed distant for a moment before moving towards me. She sat beside me in silence and sighed.

"Ashk, you've never lied to me before - Don't start now," she said softly, her arm wrapping around my shoulders. "Now, do you love him or not?"

Shocked at her sudden question, I stumbled over my words. "What? No! I just…"

Ana looked at me from an angle.

I sighed hopelessly and laid my head on her shoulder. "Yes."

Ana sighed and rested her cheek in my hair with a shake of her head. Her hand rubbed my back as Onduras stirred in his sleep a moment before relaxing again. I could only sigh.

"Oh, Ana...What have I gotten myself into?" I murmured. Ana didn't reply for a moment before shifting and pushing me up, gripping my shoulders and staring into my eyes.

"You, my sweet little sister, have found yourself in love," she told me. "And it is about time you admitted it. Keeping something like love pent up inside leaves a person dying slowly," she warned me. This didn't help and she saw it. She smiled. "Don't worry, Ashk - Haldir may be one of the First Borne, but that does not make him see everything clearly. He will find his feelings for you in time."

I frowned. "What if he doesn't have any?" I asked lowly. She only smiled at me.

"Ashk, I see the way you look at him," she told me softly before tilting her head. "And I see the way he looks at you, too."

Her words gave me some sort of hope before Ana hugged me.

"You just be careful. Love is as painful as it is beautiful," she said.

"Was it painful for you?" I asked as she pulled away. She nodded.

"More than you know, little sister." I could only imagine. Ana and I were not so different. Ryn was Gypsy, she was of Rohan. They were two very different cultures. Yet, somewhere in them, I saw hope.

"Just give him time, Ashk," Ana said to me. Yet, she then frowned. "But if he takes too long, you just call on me and I will see what sense I can knock into him."

"Literally," I added with a smile. She laughed and agreed.

Haldir

"Haldir?"

Lifted from my drifting mind, I turned to look at a son of Lord Elrond; Elladan. He frowned at me.

"Is everything all right?" he asked, wariness in his voice.

I nodded in silence and turned away as he neared. Coming to my side, he peered out over the city I gazed at from the talan high above the ground.

The Elf took a breath as if to take in the city itself. "It grows more beautiful every time I see it," he said softly. I nodded again, my unwillingness to socialize this morning beaming.

Elladan glanced at me from the corner of his eye before clearing his throat and straightening his shoulders. "The human last night," he said, "Ashk was her name. Was she all right?"

I frowned and looked at him. "Why would she not have been?"

Elladan raised a brow at my challenging voice before he tilted his head. "I saw her dealings with Aluna," he told me. "She looked distressed even after she sent that Elleth tumbling." He chuckled at the thought but it only served to make me feel cold.

Aluna was powerful, more so than Ashk probably realized. No one had ever struck the Temptress before, especially not a human - and for that, Aluna would never forget Ashk nor the anger she brought.

I'd never known Aluna to hurt someone with her gifts, but that did not comfort me. Just because she hadn't done it before, did not mean she would not do it in the future. It did not soothe me into believing she wouldn't hurt Ashk.

"No matter," Elladan said, continuing with the conversation I was not paying attention to. "Rumor has it, she was punished for her decades of shame."

My attention captured, I raised a brow.

"You did not hear?" he asked. "Everyone was discussing it this morning just after morning meal."

"No," I said, shifting. "I was...detained."

Elladan looked at me, a wicked smile seeping onto his face before I looked away. He chuckled, his hand smacking against my back.

"Detained. Right," he said with a shake of his head. "Aluna was not the only subject at the morning meal tables. Gossip is flying about you and the woman from last night."

"What kind of gossip?" I questioned, my voice taut with dread.

Elladan raised a brow. "Harmless, really. Elleths sighing over how you watched her all night - Danced with her and no one else."

I frowned. "I did not watch her all night," I grumbled and Elladan laughed. He laughed quite hardily in fact.

"Haldir, my friend, do not kid yourself," he told me. "I honestly thought you were going to tackle me at any moment if I neared her last night."

I glared at him as he reminded me of which. "In fact–"

He laughed again. "Give it no mind, Haldir. She would not give me a chance in the world had I even tried. You may have been watching her, but she was watching you too, my friend."

I paused, something striking within me before I shook my head. "There is nothing between us," I told him.

His humor fell aside and he raised a brow. "Is that so?" he murmured. "Only so many understood what Aluna and Ashk were arguing about - but I did. So did my brother...you best be glad that we do not spill the secrets of friends."

I stared at him, unwilling to say anything.

"What are their names?" he asked, shifting his weight and crossing his arms. When I did not reply, he looked at me expectantly.

"Moriana and Onduras," I replied. He simply nodded. He then sighed.

"Your secret is safe with me, Haldir - As with my brother." However, he looked as displeased as his father had the day I told him the twins had adopted a mungrel dog two thousand years ago. "You keep the children as hidden as their mother?"

I did not reply and he shook his head in dismay.

"It is a complicated situation," I said in my own defense.

However, he blew out a breath then. "She is a wonderful woman, Haldir. You should not hide her so...Nor those children."

"After what happened last night? It just proved my point…" I grumbled.

"Aluna is the exception, Warden, you know that. She is as sour as she is beautiful. And the fact that you were looking at Ashk all night and not at her most likely irked her with a burning stab," he told me. However, he then shook his head in dismay. "Though, she has received what was coming to her."

I looked at him in surprise before there was movement near us and down the stairs came a group of Elves. Most were from Rivendell, and one was sanctioned between them more like a prisoner than a friend.

She looked up through tearful eyes to glare at me. However, with that glare, no further touch came. No swirling of air, no whispers, no hand I could not see.

Elladan and I remained silent as Aluna and her escorts passed down the next flight of stairs. Looking to Elladan, he gave me a useless lift of his shoulders.

"It is true then," he said softly. I glanced back the way Aluna had gone. "Galadriel and the Valar stripped her of her gifts."

So that was it. That was why the Elleth could only glare and not attack; not give into her own powers.

That was why I felt free this morning. Her clench on me had released. It was a relief...For a time, I had almost thought it was Ashk who had given me this strange feeling of satisfied contentment.

It was just a spell of Aluna's, I amended. That was all. It had nothing to do with Ashk.

Elladan sighed sadly. "She did it to herself," he said. "We all knew the time would come."

I nodded silently.

Two Days Later

Ashk

"Are you certain you have everything?" I asked, following my sister towards the horses. Moriana was in my arms, bundled against the cold even though I knew she could not feel it like I could.

"Well, we have gone over that list of mine about, what? A dozen times?" she said, smiling at me. I laughed and nodded.

"At least," I said in reply, knowing we were both just stalling. Ryn was speaking with Donavon who held my son near the horses. I glanced at the boy who seemed in better spirits the past three days since before I'd left for the ball. Lynile was floundering about in the saddle bags of the pack horse, obviously looking for something.

Suddenly, he emerged with an object.

"Auntie Ashk!" he cried, running towards me. "Look!" he exclaimed, thrusting a wooden toy at me.

I took it from him. It was a horse, solid body but jointed legs by strings that were limp.

"You can give it to Onduras when he's older!" the child told me. "And when I come back, we can play with it and I'll have more toys. And-and I'll bring a toy for Moriana, too!"

I smiled at him. "Oh, well, thank you," I told him, squatting to hug him. He hugged me in return before placing a gentle kiss on his cousin's forehead. Moriana giggled and reached for him before the boy rushed off to his other cousin.

I stood and looked at Ana as she was nearly beaming with pride.

Ryn suddenly looked at us. "Ana, we need to be moving," he told her, walking toward us.

He looked at me with a big grin and I handed my daughter to Ana before receiving a bone crushing embrace from the man. I laughed and clung to him before I was placed on the ground again, his lips pressing against my cheek.

"You be good, Ashk," he told me. "Keep yourself out of trouble."

"Don't I always?" I asked with a grin. He laughed and shook his head, hugging me once more before going to collect his son.

Ana looked at me, her eyes suspiciously glassy as she did so and I smiled at her.

"I'm going to miss you, Ashk," she told me and my eyes stung not only from the cold wind.

"I'm going to miss you too, sister," I replied. Avoiding crushing my daughter, I hugged her for a long moment realizing all those mornings and evenings with my sister and her family would be gone now. It had been so many months...It just wouldn't seem normal.

Ana backed away, kissing my forehead. "Take care of yourself, Ashk," she told me. "And if you ever need anything, just send word through Mauriel. She'll find me."

I smiled and nodded, cold tears streaking down my face as they did hers as well. We laughed as we both reached to brush each others' away.

My sister handed Moriana back to me before hugging me again.

"Remember what I said, Ashk. Be patient," she said. I nodded. "I love you, little sister. I will return within the year."

"I love you too," I said softly. She smiled at me before walking towards her husband and son, pausing to say good bye to both Donavon and her nephew.

Lynile suddenly came racing at me and I dropped to his level again. He hugged me around the neck and said, "Good bye, Auntie Ashk."

"Good bye, Lyn. Mind your parents, you hear?"

He giggled before racing for his father who pulled the boy onto his horse and settled him before himself.

Ana climbed onto her horse and gave me one last wave, as did her family, before they turned and set off for some land far distant to this one.

"Good bye, Ana," I murmured.

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Well, I hope you enjoyed. For all of you that celebrate Christmas, I hope you are having a wonderful time! Everyone who does not, I wish you a happy holiday season as well!

Let me know what you think, folks. You give me inspiration! Next update: December 28th.

Also, minor question - Would you guys see this fic quite long, or ending within the next ten chapters or so? There are two different routes I can take at the crossroads I'm at now, so I'd like your opinions. And (geez, how bout I write another note on here? gah) another plot bunny has been running about in my head. I hope by March or April, or sooner, a second fic of mine will be posted called The Mage. It will also be a Haldir fic. Anyone interested in a summary? I would so love your opinions.