Chapter 7: Climbing the Wall

It was the second day since Gandalf and Pippin had rode away towards Gondor. Well technically it as the morning before seeing as it was before sunrise. In the morning, nobody was really expecting for anything to happen. After all, at the pace they had been going, it was going to take them two days to get there. But what everyone was sure of was that once Gandalf got there, he would take action immediately.

Everyone seemed a little jumpy. They were all nervous.

Lee wasn't nervous.

She was puzzled.

She had been taught that the Force lived in everything and everyone. And she could feel it here. In the people, in the plants, (especially in Fangorn forest) and in the animals. But that wasn't what was puzzling her. It was Legolas. Whenever she was around him, (which was happening quite often lately) she could always feel the Force more strongly. It pulsed clearer, harder, faster. She could feel it and call on it so easily. She could feel it pulse in Legolas just as strongly. But her was so...unaware. It was as if he had no idea what existed in him so strongly. It sounded odd, but she really wanted to take a sample of his blood, just to see how high his Midi-Chlorian count was. But then it would occur to her that she was not on Courasant and there wasn't a sampler she could use. (Hell, there wasn't even some sort of power coupling she could use!) And that would make her homesick. She had lost count a while ago at how long she had been here. And there was no telling how much time had passed back home.

At the present moment, Lee was wandering around Edoras again (never mind that it was very early in the morning) and then soon found herself outside the back of the Golden Hall.

There was ivy all the way up and down the wall. Because she couldn't see it very well and wanted to explore it a bit more, she pulled at a piece of it to find that it wouldn't budge. It seemed that it had been there so long that it had somehow grown to be apart of the wall.

Lee looked around quickly. Not a soul in sight. She really shouldn't, but what harm could it do? She observed the height. It was about 40 feet. Could she climb that high? She snorted quietly. This was nothing compared to the things Master Skywalker made them climb when he created obstacle courses.

So, being the adventurous sort that she is, she grabbed hold of the ivy and began to slowly pull her-self carefully up the wall by grabbing the ivy and finding small footholds to put her feet in.

After close to a half an hour of this, she finally reached the top. Surprisingly enough, the roof was quite flat. She treaded softly, for there were most likely people beneath her.

There were indeed people beneath her, but there were only a few guards and to their surprise, Legolas.

Unlike Men, Legolas did not need as much sleep and rest. Normally he slept when he could, so he would have energy to spare, but tonight he could not seem to make his mind rest. So after tossing and turning for a few hours, he had gotten up to walk his unrest away.

He then suddenly heard a sound above him somewhere. It sounded like a soft padding. The other men in the hall didn't seem to have noticed it. It was probably his Elven hearing that picked it up. Without glancing at the men again, Legolas silently slipped away to see what the commotion was. He figured there was someone on the roof. And the only way to find out was to climb up there and see what was going on.

As luck would have it, he also found the ivy that had grown to be apart of the wall, and also decided to climb up there, seeing as it was the only was to see what was going on.

He pulled himself up onto the roof and this would have caused Lee to scramble to her feet if she had not been in such deep thought.

Legolas walked softly over to her, not making a noise and lightly tapped her on the shoulder. She didn't move. By now Legolas figured something was wrong. She hadn't scrambled to her feet, nor had she even showed sign of knowing he was there. This wasn't like her.

"Lee?" He asked softly.

"What do you want?" She asked snappishly.

"I just...wanted to know what was going on up here. I heard a noise and decided to come up."

"Fine. You know. Good bye." Lee slid away from him.

"Lee, is something wrong?" Legolas asked, sitting down next to her, rather closely if you asked her.

"N-no."

"Are you sure?" He persisted.

Lee looked up at him, and Legolas was amazed to find that tears were running down her face. She opened her mouth to say something, but nothing came out. So instead, much to her own surprise, she leaned into him and hugged his chest.

Legolas sat there awkwardly. What was he supposed to do? Just sit there and let her cry on his chest? That was definitely not the thing to do. Maybe he should try to sooth her. Elves were good at that. Right?

"Calm down and tell me what is wrong." he asked softly. 'Good Legolas,' he thought. 'Ask her a question while she's crying all over you. That's real good.'

Lucky for him, she did not say anything. She just kept crying. WHY WAS SHE CRYING?!?! Legolas had to think. 'How about we calm her down. Yes, that ought to do something.'

So he began speaking to her in soft Elvish, attempting to calm her down. It seemed to be working, because soon she stopped crying and settled for a sniffle here or there.

Legolas looked down at her, curled in a ball against his chest. She looked just like a lost little girl. Not like the strong woman that he had just begun to learn about. What had brought this on? What had brought on this bought of sadness?

"Lee? What is wrong? Please tell me."

"I c-couldn't t-tell y-you. It-t's to s-silly." Lee finally said, her voice still a little unsteady.

"Sure you can. I'm your jailer remember?" He said lightly, attempting to make her laugh.

She did permit herself a small giggle, but it was quickly replaced with a frown. She took a deep breath.

"I just feel sad..."she paused. "Sad that I left my world on my own free will."

"What do you mean?" Legolas asked curiously.

"When I flew into the...worm hole I told you about...I-I kind of did it o-on p-purpose."

"What made you do such a thing?" He looked bewilderedly at her.

"I-I was feeling a bit suicidal at that particular moment. And now I can't get home, and if I hadn't been feeling like that..."

"Why? What happened that was so bad that made you want to-to kill yourself?"

Lee sat up a little bit and looked into his eyes. Her throat suddenly felt very dry. She had wanted to tell him everything, let everything out, but nothing came out.

All she could see was Legolas' eyes staring into her own. All she could feel was his body against her own. All she could say was...

"I..I..."

When did his face get so close to hers? And how did they get this close? When did all this happen, and WHAT WAS SHE DOING?!?! And suddenly, (although she had no idea how this was all happening) his lips covered hers in a sweet, but very pleasurable kiss.

They broke apart, their foreheads still touching.

"Wow..." Lee said softly. "That was...sith spit..wow.."

It was like she had felt the rush of going into hyper space times about a million. An dit felt...right. It was an odd thing to say, because like her experience with animals, her experience with Men wasn't any better. But then again, her experience with men was NOTHING compared to the incident with the Vornskrs...

"I am going to assume that the term 'sith spit' means a good thing."

"In this case, yes it does. It means something very good."

At that particular moment, the sun was beginning to rise, but neither of our two friends noticed. They were to busy staring at each other, wondering why exactly what happened, happened.

And along with this sunrise, came a new day. You know, sometimes that's all we need. A new day to wipe away everything else that happened the day before. A new day is like a new page, fresh, with no mistakes in it. Not yet at least.

And believe me, they will begin to need to use those new days with fresh starts. But what if you can't fix the mistakes from the day before? What if they don't leave with the old days What happens then?

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And thank you to...

binksbabe2001- I added that Vornskrs part up there just for you. I hope you liked it. I am really glad that someone is reading this who also have (I'm assuming) read the extended series of Star Wars. It makes me feel better, because now you can correct me if something doesn't match the books. Because if you can't tell yet, Lee was kinda added in there. So any help would be appretiated.

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