Disclaimer: Lori is mine; Legolas and Haldir are Tolkiens, savvy?

This is my first story. Please tell me if you like

Middle Earth 1236... you know they need to get out more.

When Lori and Legolas left the king's office, Lori ran outside. Legolas followed her pleading with her to stop. Lori kept running like there was no tomorrow. She passed Haldir and Whit, they wondered what was going on, but didn't pursue. Whit knew that if she was running it was for good reason, or something didn't go right.

Lori kept running and showed no sign of slowing down. She ran through the village and Dill saw. He started running after Lori and Legolas. When Lori looked back, she saw the one she loved and her father. She didn't know what she was running from. The people that were chasing her loved her very much, as did the people that weren't chasing her. Lori went deep into the forest where the trees were getting thicker. There were roots sticking out of the ground, I mean they were thick roots sticking up.

"Lori, will you please slow down!" pleaded Legolas.

"What is going on?" asked Dill.

"WHY WOULD YOU CARE?" shouted Lori.

"I do care, that's why I'm running after you!" said Dill.

"Lets all stop running and we can talk about this, calmly," said Legolas.

"NO! I'm not stopping until I have a good reason to," said Lori.

"Here's a reason... I order you to stop!" said Dill.

"Don't try to pull any of your military crap on me, remember, you aren't in the military anymore," reminded Lori.

"Why do you run Lori?" asked Legolas.

"I run for lots of reasons," said Lori.

"What is this reason?" asked Legolas.

They came to a cliff so Lori couldn't run. The cliff was about fifty feet high. The river below was a deep river with a strong current.

Lori stopped and turned around to look at the two guys that had been chasing her all this time.

"The reason I run this time is because I realized that the woman that I knew to be my mother, wasn't my mother. The woman that died in the car crash wasn't my mother," said Lori.

"Lori..." said Dill as he came up to her to try to explain things.

"NO! I'm tired of you hiding things from me!" Lori said as she scooted back to try to get away from her father.

"You're right, that wasn't your mother. Your mother is in the village that I'm in. When I went to America I knew I couldn't raise a little girl on my own, so I married Kathy," explained Dill. "Honey, you have to understand that I tried to do what is best for you..."

"And lying to me is one of them?" said Lori as she sobbed. She kept backing up and they kept talking about the past. It hurt Lori so much to hear the truth, but she had to know.

"Why did you keep this from me?" asked Lori.

"To protect you," said Dill.

"How is lying to me going to protect me?" asked Lori.

Dill just stood there. Lori wasn't watching where she was going and she kept backing up. The moment Lori hit the edge she lost her balance and fell off the edge.

Legolas and Dill rushed over to the edge and looked down to try and see Lori. There was no sign of her in the river or on the shore. They looked at the wall and there she was in her silver dress. She blended in with the rock very well, so it was kind of hard to see her.

She was sitting on the rock that extended out of the wall. She was also unconscious.

"LORI... LORI," shouted Legolas.

"I'll go get help," said Dill.

Legolas looked for a way to get down there. There was a tree right on the cliff that could help, I mean literally help.

Legolas ran over to the tree, whispered something to it, and it started moving! Lori was still unconscious. Legolas climbed on to the tree as the tree bended down to where Lori was. Legolas picked up Lori and the tree went back up. Legolas jumped down with Lori in his arms, he whispered a thank you to the tree and the tree went back to the way it was.

"Lori! Lori! Please wake up," pleaded Legolas. She didn't wake up. She just lay there unconscious. There was a tear coming down Legolas's face. He didn't know what he would do if she were gone. She was all that he was looking for in a person. She also reminded him of his mother.

"Lori," he said bringing her closer to his chest. Then he heard a fait breath. 'She's alive' thought Legolas. He set her down on the ground to try to figure out what was wrong. 'What am I doing? I'm not a healer' thought Legolas as he picked her up and went as fast as he could to the palace.

About ten minutes later he was at the archery field. Haldir and Whit saw Lori in Legolas's arms. Her face had a lot of cuts and scrapes.

"Legolas, what happened," asked Whit as she ran over to them.

"She fell off the cliff," said Legolas climbing the stairs into the palace. Whit and Haldir were right behind him.

When Legolas entered the palace he shouted,

"I NEED THE HEALERS!"

Everyone came out to see what was going on. The king and T stuck their heads out of the office that they were in. The king followed Legolas trying to find out what happened. Legolas wouldn't talk to him. For some reason he was mad at him, probably for what happened earlier that day.

It was about 7:00 in the evening. Legolas set Lori down in his room and the healers rushed in. They told Legolas to stay outside until they figured out what was wrong with Lori and fixed her up.

Legolas was outside with Whit, Haldir, the king, and T.

"T, why the fruit monkey are you here?" asked Whit.

"Because there is nothing else to do in this God-forsaken land," said T.

"What did you say?" asked Haldir.

"Nothing," he said in fear. "So, what are you doing here?" he asked Whit.

"This is where I was born," said Whit, not even looking at T.

"No it isn't," he said.

"You know what amazes me? You know nothing," said Whit.

T didn't reply to that comment. Legolas had been thinking and pacing in the hallway waiting for some kind of news. He kept looking at T, giving him evil looks. Finally, Legolas spun around and caught T by the neck and started lifting him up off the ground.

"You ever talk to Lori or Whit again and I will personally kill you. Do you understand?" said Legolas. T couldn't say anything. "Or, to make it easier, do you want me to kill you now?"

"Legolas put him down. You won't accomplish anything by hurting him," said the king.

"No, but it will accomplish something if I kill him," said Legolas. He didn't loosen his grip or anything.

"Guards," said the king. "Take T to the dungeon."

"And make sure there is no metal or wires on him," said Whit.

The group was there all night waiting to hear something about Lori. Whit had fallen asleep in Haldir's arms; Legolas was on the bench with his father.

"Son, I finally realized how much she means to you," said the king, putting a hand on his son's shoulder.

"What took you so long?" asked Legolas.

"You really love each other, don't you?" asked the king.

"Yes... and if I lose her I don't know what I'm going to do," said Legolas with a tear coming down his face.

A/N OHHHHHHHH... cliffy! I know you hate me right now, but that's okay! I promise I'll update. Sorry about the drama in this one. I've had the idea in my head for so long, I just didn't know where to put it. Hey fans of this story... I'm going to another camp this week, but I'll keep writing, I'm just not going to be able to put them up there as fast as I want to. Sorry! Anyway... REVIEW!!!!!