Hi.. its me again.. and i tell u, i was really irritated when this document manager didnt want to load, and made u guys wait one more day... hmmm.. anyway...that just shows you how much fanfiction loves me.. oh well....I was just reading my own story again.. and I realized how rushed I was.. so now I will try and erm... change that. And maybe revise a few chaps in front that I totally think suck.. anyway.. as I promised, this chap will be totally devoted to Laurelin, Remus, and Elrond with his crazy antics! Isnt that great! Ya.. Ok so since u guys know that I will get on with the story... and thanks lots for all the reviews!!!

Disclaimer: Nothing Lotr or Harry Potter related is mine, haiz.. :0(

Anyway, back to Laurelin and Remus before I get off the point again.. In case you guys cant remember, Laurelin was rushing out of the room in tears upon finding out that Remus had pranked her the day before,(don't they always do that in Chinese/Japanese/Korean Dramas?) and Remus was chasing her. (ditto)

Laurelin rushed out of the room, biting her lip hard, her heart beating wildly, eyes brimming with tears and confusion. She didn't know why she was feeling like this, but she knew that she shouldn't. Elves aren't supposed to be like this, they were supposed to be perfect, but here she was, a miserable good for nothing that nobody liked and nobody cared about. She didn't know what to think. She didn't know. She was so confused and her head was full of questions that she desperately wanted answered. The problem was, she didn't know what the questions were and who could solve them for her. All she knew was that until the questions were solved, she would never ever feel whole again. She didn't even know why she was feeling like this, so sad and miserable. Elladan and Elrohir had always played tricks on her before, and she never minded, after all this was just their way of showing their affection for people. This time, this time was different.

She had thought that Remus had cared, or at least enough as a friend to not so cruelly humiliate and torture her so. But obviously I was wrong, she bitterly thought to herself, desperately willing herself not to cry. She wouldn't cry for such a heartless creature. He wasn't worth it. However, as she reached the border of Rivendell and unto the endless forests that surrounded it as she had seen a mere day ago, as the calmness of the trees and the comfort that they seemed to give out for Laurelin overtook her and she couldn't help herself. She sat on a rock at the edge of the forest and began to cry. As she cried, she tried to let everything out and straighten out her thoughts. However, no matter how hard she tried, her thoughts still centered on Remus. She thought that he was different from the other ellons. There was an air about him that had made him stand out. That had attracted her to him in the first place, but something inside her, a gut feeling, told her that he was different, that he wasn't like all the other ellons, all so shallow and just caring about themselves, heartless jerks that only cared about their own welfare. "Never again will I follow that stupid gut of mine" she thought, cursing herself mentally and feeling even more sorry for herself. "And never again will I trust another male, orc, elf or dwarf." She didn't even know why on earth she was feeling this way, why just a few words had hurt her so much. So, she did the only thing that she could do. She cried.

However, unknown to Laurelin, Remus had followed her and seeing her current emotional state, he decided to just follow her and wait until she had calmed down. Which also gave him time to think. To think about why on earth he was even bothering to do this, and to think about many, many things. So, as he followed her into the edge of the woods and watched her cry, desperately trying to wipe the tears off from her eyes in an attempt to stop crying, he couldn't help but feel a pang in his heart, and couldn't help but feel sorry for her and guilty that he had somehow or another been the cause for her pain. And so, after he had straightened out his thoughts, reality hit him, and it hit him hard. He cared for Laurelin, deeply, utterly, and wholly. With all his heart. Feeling his heart skip a beat as he neared to Laurelin, caused him to realise this even more. He smiled sadly at Laurelin, sad bitter tears streaming down her face, eyes red and swollen from crying and cheeks flushed from anger, she must have looked a sight to others, but to him, she was perfect. He walked up to her, and handed her a tissue.

"Here, use this," he said gently, handing the cloth to Laurelin to wipe her eyes dry.

"What are you doing here? Why did you follow me? I thought you didn't care about my feelings or basically about my whole welfare in general?" She asked bitterly with a touch of sarcasm in her voice.

"I do, Laurelin, believe me I do," Remus said, gently lifting Laurelin's chin, forcing her to look at him straight in the eye. Then, he added something very quietly, that even Laurelin could only barely hear: "More than you can ever imagine."

For a moment, Laurelin could not believe her ears and for some weird reason almost wanted to jump out of her skin in happiness, she didn't think that it could be possible.. could Remus like her more than.. more than.. she couldn't answer that question herself, afraid of the answers and consequences, afraid of the pain that she would cause herself if she really knew. Then she remembered what had just happened and turned away from him, stubbornly looking at the ground. "I don't want your pity."

Remus laughed dryly and said without humour and caught hold of Laurelin's shoulders, not allowing her to turn from him and looked deep into her eyes, "Believe me, I did not run all this way just to give you my pity." Then, he took a deep breath and continued "I know you're angry with me, but I'm really really sorry and if it makes you feel better, I did all I could to stop them from pranking you, but I was outnumbered."

Laurelin snorted in disgust. "Yes, and I am supposed to be the innocent little girl that believes every single word you say. I assure you, I am not that little girl. Anyway, I have seen you and your friends use that wooden stick before, if you were so eager to help me, why didn't you override the spell or counteract the spell or something?"

Remus was speechless.

Laurelin pursed her lips and said: "You don't have to tell me, its all the same with the other ellons, they don't care about others, all they care about is themselves and their buddies. You didn't do it because you knew that your friends would come after you, demanding an explanation and when it came down to between me and your friends... you chose them, didn't you?" Laurelin got sadder and more depressed by the second, her voice nearly breaking up at the end of her speech.

"I'm sure even if I die, right now, no one will care..."

"I will!" Remus declared

"Yeah, I'm sure you will, just like you cared when they were pranking me" She said bitterly.

Remus winced, but he knew that it was all his fault and that he really had to set it straight, or he would lose her forever. However, before he could even talk, Laurelin cut him off.

"But I guess it doesn't really matter now." She said in a resigned voice "Nothing does, my parents have passed into the Grey Havens, my friends had all but deserted me in my greatest need and the only person who I ever thought I cared for had let me down. There is nothing left for me now. Only pain and sorrow. And now theI might as well choose the easy way out..." Her voice trailed and for the first time she looked Remus in the eye, and they stood there for a few minutes, lost in thought and then suddenly, before Laurelin started running again.

Remus too, for a split second, was very confused, his head spinning, and heart suffering from air sickness. Then, he realized where she was heading to- the ridge where she had stood days before overlooking the nature surrounding rivendell. The easy way out... Oh my.. he cursed himself for being such an idiot, she was about to commit suicide! He only prayed now that he would not be too late. Luckily for him, his werewolf reflexes allowed him to quickly catch up to Laurelin, but only when she was at the end of the ridge. Impulsively, as he screamed out Laurelin's name and jumped and caught Laurelin in his arms, things suddenly seemed to be in slow motion, and he had, to his utmost dismay, accidentally knocked both of them over to ridge. As he cursed himself for being so dumb, from going to trying to save someone, to cause both of them to fall to their deaths. Well, I guess that was why Remus wasn't spiderman. Then, thinking it was now or never, he said to Laurelin, looking deep into her eyes and clutching her tight to him, "I just want to tell you, if we don't make it through this, I love you. Since the day I met you."

Of course, Laurelin was very shocked but then before she could say anything else or do anything else, Remus quickly moved to get something in his pocket and muttered a lot of words that Laurelin didn't understand.

In his heart Remus desperately prayed for it to work, he didn't want to die, or even worst, be the cause of Laurelin's pain... again. This was advanced transfiguration, a subject that Remus hated and did the worst in, and whats more, he hadn't totally mastered the spell yet. Thus, even as he prayed that the spell would work, he prepared himself for death. He smiled faintly, thinking that he could at least die in peace, since he had already told Laurelin what he had wanted to tell her oh so long ago.

So, as they fell from the ridge, which as they found to their utmost happiness was seriously very very high, they did the only thing that they could do. They screamed.

And they fell...

And they fell...

And they fell...

And they fell...

And they fell...

And they fell...

And so they both closed their eyes, waiting for the impact and pain of hitting the jagged rocks below them. And they weren't let down. Soon, they heard a 'thud' and as their backs hit what they thought was the ground, hurt like crazy for a moment and then Laurelin suddenly could not feel any pain. As she opened her eyes, expecting to see the Halls of Mandos, she got a big shock. She was sitting on this gigantic cushion which had somehow appeared at the bottom of the ridge and as far as she could see, she hadn't even left middle earth yet. Remus was on her left, and was gasping, still not over the shock. That was pretty much because, since nobody noticed, Remus was really really afraid of heights.

Laurelin was confused... AGAIN. "Why in the name of the valar did you push me and yourself off the ridge? Why is this freaking pillow thingy here? Do they even make things like this so big? How come I don't even feel anything from being dropped oFF so HIGH?" She was panicking by the second and her voice was getting higher too, too not over the shock off what had just happened, after all it wasn't every day that you got to see death so close up front it was better than a movie.

Remus took a deep breath and calmed himself. He knew that right now Laurelin was totally in need of some help- and information, or not she was ready to go right over the edge (literally)- and into a mental hospital for insane people.

"Relax, take a deep breath... You're going hysterical."

"Firstly, I conjured that thing. What, you think pillows of that size lie around under ridges so that people can get saved?"

"Yeah" said Laurelin, as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

Remus rolled his eyes but grinned, happy that Laurelin was calming down. "Next, I put a healing spell on you. It isn't complicated, just enough to soothe your nerves until we can get you to a doctor."

Laurelin, obviously didn't know what a doctor was and became more confused again. "What is a doctor?"

Remus raised his eyebrows. "He is this guy, that gives you disgusting stuff to eat and you will feel better. He also stitches you up and stuff like that."

"Huh, stitches me up? I am not a doll, how on earth can you stitch me up? But I know who gives you disgusting stuff to eat and you will feel better. Lord Elrond does that all the time... Stupid healers." She wrinkled her nose, remembering the taste of it.

"Well, you are going to see those stupid healers then!" Said remus cheerfully, even happier that Laurelin had recovered so quickly.

"You...." Said Laurelin angrily, not wanting to go to the healers. They just loved to nag at you and give you all sorts of disgusting stuff. She winced and then suddenly grinned again.

Remus didn't like that grin.

"Why did you push me down? Lalalalala, I'm going to tell Lord Elrond, and then he will surely punish you severely, haha!!!"

Remus smiled back as widely at her. "Hey, you're blaming me? I tried to save your life ungrateful brat, it's not my fault that it didn't work!"

Laurelin sticked out her tongue at Remus "Uhuh, how were you saving my life may I ask? I was just taking a look at the scenery!" She said playfully.

Remus argued back, not willing to back down "Really. And you weren't about to commit suicide?"

Laurelin gaped at him open-mouthed, staring straight at him.

"See... hah! I've got you now! You cant beat me! Na ni na ni poo poo!" Remus said, dancing around in a circle, laughing at her.

Laurelin burst into laughter.

"I was about to commit suicide?" she said between her laughter, giggling uncontrollably, "why that's the funniest thing I've ever heard!" and laughed some more.

This time, it was Remus's turn to gape open-mouthed at her. "What do you mean?" Again, it was his turn to be confused. "But you said..."

Laurelin who was still laughing, managed to choke out. "I said what?" and that continued snorting and hitting herself in amusement.

"you said: take the easy way out..." He shook his head confusedly, didn't that mean you wanted to die.

Laurelin burst into more laughter again, now rolling on the floor and clutching her stomach, her cheeks red from having laughed so much. "Man you make me laugh! I meant I was going to leave for the Grey Havens you idiot, not die! You humans are so ignorant!"

Remus looked downcast, his face flushed with embarrassment. "Oh, then it means that you will be leaving middle earth will you not?"

Laurelin grinned, finally able to control her laughter, "Well, it depends on what is holding me back here...But, I don't think its time for me to answer the gull's cry yet. I said that in a rash moment." Then she thought for a second and then became serious again, her eyes alight with hope.

"Did you really mean what you said... as we fell from the the ridge?" She asked, both dreading and anticipating his answer, hoping that it could answer the many questions still burning in her mind.

"I..." Remus was lost for words for a moment, and then taking Laurelin's hands, continued "I don't really know, but... there's something that I have to talk about with Lord Elrond before I can get back to you."

He hesitated a moment, thoughts clashing in his head. He remembered his werewolf problem and the fact that he was, as Anarrima had gladly reminded him a few days ago, just a mortal, and wondered if Laurelin would accept it, and him for who he was. He didn't know, and he decided that it was best to just seek Lord Elrond for advice.

Laurelin face turned sad, and she bit her lip again, looking down at the floor, trying to hide the tears that threatened to overflow although she didn't know why she was reacting like this. Remus, seeing Laurelin's expression, proceeded to talk, his voice gentle. "Believe me, I would rather I just tell you what the problem is right away, but I need the advice of someone wiser first, or both of us will be hurt."

"For now, just hope for the best, and remember that I do care for you, and your friends and family do too, no matter what happens." At this, he then kissed her forehead and , painfully and slowly, let go of her hands and headed for Rivendell.

Then, Laurelin sat on the pillow for a long time, searching her thoughts watching the sun set and the brilliant colours in the sky and all the animals going about their normal life. It was only when the sun rose again did she finally get up and slowly trudge back to rivendell.

Back in Rivendell before Laurelin got home:

Remus burst into Lord Elrond's study, panting, his hair messed up by the wind, screaming Lord Elrond's name. He had run all the way there, eager to know what Lord Elrond thought. However, when he got there, he saw that Lord Elrond was er... actually, he didn't know what Lord Elrond was doing. As he walked closer to Lord Elrond, he stared closely at him, as if not believing that he was really Lord Elrond. And I'm sure that he had cause to think that way. That was because, in the middle of the room, was lord Elrond wearing the most disgusting and weird clothes and doing the weirdest thing possible:

He was imitating William Hung and dancing 'She bangs' and singing to the music too, imitating perfectly how out of tune he was.

Remus exploded into laughter, not believing his eyes, and sat down for a moment to watch the show before remembering his matter of importance and went to Lord Elrond and said: "Yo, Lord Elrond?"

No answer, but more shaking of his bon bon like William hung, only much much more stupidified.

"Lord Elrond?" He asked again, snapping his fingers, to see if Lord Elrond was awake.

Then, as if a channel had been switched, Lord Elrond started singing:

OH... Who lives in a pineapple under the sea

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS!

Absorbent and yellow and porous is he!

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTs!

Whose nautical nonsense is something you wish

SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS! Spongebob squarepants, spongebob squarepants, spongebob squarepants!!!

Then, Remus, trying out his new theory that snapping his fingers in front of Lord Elrond's face worked, and still bursting with laughter about his antics, snapped his fingers again, this time waiting to see what he could come up with.

Lord Elrond did not let him down. Pausing for a moment before starting to sing again, he raised his right fist up in the sky as if reaching for something, and his left hand was parallel to his right. Then, he began:

Fighting crime,

trying to save the world,

Here they come just in time,

The POWERPUFF GIRLS!

Powerpuff!

Remus totally burst out laughing, it was so funny that he cried. "Loony Elrond remakes TV" he thought, that must be the funniest show on the planet! Then, thinking that he should torture Lord Elrond again, after all it wasn't everyday that you could watch a free comedy show for nothing, he snapped his fingers again.

Lord Elrond was paused for a much longer time this time and Remus held his breath, wondering what he would come up with this time. Again, he was not disappointed.

Lord Elrond sat on the floor and, using his hands as bricks, proceeded to pretend to build a building, singing:

Bob the builder,

CAN HE FIX IT?

Bob the builder,

YES HE CAN!

Then, as Lord Elrond clapped and cheered for himself, he suddenly snapped out of the daze that he had been in earlier. As he looked at Remus rolling all over the floor beating it, unable to control his amusement, he blushed blood red. "Er, I... I..."

Remus, finally realizing that Lord Elrond was no longer in "Loony Elrond remakes TV" mode, too snapped out of it, trying not to let Lord Elrond know that he had seen the whole episode, or he would be in deep deep trouble. Luckily for him, Lord Elrond was as hesitant and unwilling to talk about that matter as him and so, the matter was dropped as Lord Elrond regained his composure, smoothed out his clothes and asked: "What may I do for you?"

Remus then asked a tad uncomfortably, his face turning a bit red: "Well you see, Lord Elrond, its about my werewolf problem, and I was just wondering, if, I'm not talking that I have but IF, I fell in love with an elf, would I affect her in any way?" Remus looked at Elrond pleadingly, hoping that Elrond would just say no and they could live happily ever after. Sadly and obviously, Lord Elrond, being the old and naggy person that he was, decided to tell Remus a whole old grandfather story.

Lord Elrond beckoned to Remus to follow him, and they walked to what Remus assumed was a library, after all there were stacks and stacks and mountains of books around. As he pulled out an especially old book, he turned to the first page and gestured to Remus. "Remus, do you know how this earth began?"

Obviously Remus shook his head, and Lord Elrond continued.

"In the beginning, Eru, the One, who in the Elvish tongue is named Iluvatar, made the Ainur of his thought and they made a great Music before him. In this music the World was begun; for Iluvatar made visible the song of Ainur; and they beheld it as a light in the darkness. And many among them became enamoured of its beauty, and of its history which they say beginning and unfolding as in a vision. Then, those of the Ainur who desired it arose and entered into the World in the beginning of time; and it was by their task to achieve it, and by their labours to fulfil the vision which they had seen."

"They were the Valar, the powers of Arda, and Men have often called them gods."

Elrond paused for a second for emphasis, and then continued.

"The Lords of the Valar are seven; and the Valier, the queens of the valar are seven also." Lord Elrond chuckled for a second. "As much as I want to tell you about each and every one of them, I fear that describing them would bore you out. So, we shall now progress to talk about the one that is connected with this story."

"Orome, was one of the valar, and a mighty lord, no doubt maybe less strong than Tulkas, but he is more dreadful in anger, whereas Tulkas laughs ever. Orome loved the lands of Middle-earth, and as he came last to Valinor, he left them unwillingly. Thus, he gave birth to a new race, similar to those of the First-born, there to answer the threat of Melkor before the coming of the elves. He named them the Manthalion. For he delighted in hounds, and thus shaped them in accordance to them. They had heightened senses, sharper hearing and eyesight, far surpassing any elf and were immortal, masters of the blade and bow. And Orome loved them dearly and trained them for the pursuit of the evil creatures of Melkor."

Remus looked confused, wondering what all this had to do with him, but apparently Lord Elrond still had something to say, so he just sat still, kept quiet, and listened.

"And pursue them they did, until even Melkor would not dare even release his evil creatures into Arda," He laughed drily, "for a time. For as Melkor schemed in the depths of the world, he found a way to rid the earth of the Manthalion. Opening a portal, he banished them into another realm where they could harm him no longer. Earth."

Lord Elrond looked at Remus, obviously expecting some dramatic behaviour from him, but none came, so he sighed, and continued on with his story. "When Orome found out what had happened, he was angered, but Manwe had forbidden him to seek Melkor out alone, knowing that it was suicide, and so Orome could do nothing but grieve for the lost of his people. We had not known what had become of the Manthalion for ages, but finally, through Galadriel's Mirror, we knew. Unable to adapt to the world that they were in now, the Manthalion, became mortal, and every few weeks, would turn into the animal which they were so lovingly crafted like by Orome. A wolf."

Remus gasped and breathed in deeply, unable to understand what he was saying. "But that means, that means, I... I am one of those people?"

Lord Elrond nodded gravely. "Yes, the Lady Galadriel had seen it, we had anticipated your arrival for years. So now you know the truth, Welcome back," he smiled serenely at him "After so many years".

"I... I..." Remus took a step back, still unable to comprehend what this meant.

"Does that mean that now, I am immortal?"

Lord Elrond nodded, saying "Now that you are back to the place of your origin, all your abilities are slowly being recovered."

Remus was finally over the shock and almost jumped for joy, finally he wasn't just some weird person, not an outcast, not some one with a weird disease! "Why didn't you tell me this earlier?"

Lord Elrond shrugged: "Well, you never asked me this earlier."

Remus almost snorted out loud: "How was I supposed to know that I was this... Mansomething that you said I was?"

"How would I know, I am not one of the Manthalion anyway!"

"Hmmph, its all your fault, what did you think I was, a mind reader?"

"Yeah, maybe Orome should have gave you psychic abilities, imagine this, a wolf with psychic abilities!!!" Lord Elrond burst into laughter.

"I don't see what is so funny."

More laughter from lord Elrond.

"It's not funny!!!!!"

Still more laughter.

"Argh... I don't care about you anymore, I'm going to tell Laurelin the good news! Bye Bye!" Remus stalked off, leaving Elrond laughing on the floor.

Elrond stopped laughing and listened for a moment. "Hmmph, finally he's gone, I was wondering when he would leave me in peace. Stupid Gandalf, always so good at mahjong, shouldn't have bet with him about this and lost,..." Elrond after talking to himself, got lost in thought.

"Anyway, now I'm by myself, I can continue 'Loony Elrond remakes TV!' Yay!"

Then, he began singing in a sort of gay like voice and doing the moonwalk clumsily in a manner that even William Hung would be proud of:

I love you

You love me

We are one big family

With a great big hug

And a kiss from you and me

Wont you say you love me too!

Wow... that was a really long chapter, haha, cos I didn't want to stop, anyway if you want to know what happens with laurelin and remus, you will have to wait for the next next chapter cos the next chap will be bout Hogwarts! Yay.. and ya.. review.. click the nice little button on the bottom left hand corner of the screen k.. thanks a lot... hehe.. and I am not gonna post another chap unless I get 5 reviews, so there.. haha.. :).. keep smiling.. Amirel