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Summary: Two friends and myself end-up in Middle-Earth and meet the fellowship. Might have some romance.
Important A/N – My twin came up with the idea and the basic plotline. This is a different version of her story, 'Children and Fellowships written under the pen name Nathalia Potter. All credit goes her.
High school girls and Fellowships.
Chapter Three
Legolas and Gimli were just about to start yelling loud enough to wake the dead when I came over, Legolas and Gimli quickly stopped arguing "Master Gimli" I said. "It is not kind to speak of things that you are not certain of, because even though I am not sure about the 'Being in love with' part at the moment, I do have feelings for Prince Legolas. And please stop the argument for I do not know how long it will be before the two of you throw the rest of the Fellowship into the trees."
Legolas stopped trying to break free of Aragorn and Boromir's grip while Gimli struggling against the Hobbits restraining hold. "I am sorry that Gimli and I started fighting again My Lady." Said Legolas.
"You are forgiven Prince Legolas just don't start fighting with Master Gimli ever again." I said. "You however Master Gimli are not going to be forgiven until you swear that you will not cause anymore arguments between you and Prince Legolas ever again, starting now."
Gimli did not speak but Legolas looked at me and said, "I am not sure what Gimli is going to say, but I swear to you that I will not fight with him ever again."
"I also swear not to argue with Legolas, but it was his fault that we began fighting in the first place." Said Gimil. "Don't make promises you cant keep" I muttered, then continued in a louder voice "Look, I don't care whose fault it was, just don't do it."
Just then Robin called out, "Alright enough with the talking now came over here and stop flirting, or I'll tell the rest of the Fellowship about something that you asked Sophie and I not to tell anyone about."
Legolas and I reached the place that the Fellowship and us girls would be resting at just as Sophie commented "The last time you spoke like that we were at Rheachelle's 18th birthday party and you decided to try and play matchmaker, and told Adriana that she would one day get married to Rheachelle's twin brother, Nathan."
As Legolas and I sat down, Boromir asked. "Who are Rochelle and Adriana?"
Sophie answered. "Reachelle and Adriana are two of the other girls in our class at school back at home."
It was getting dark and we were all tired so the Fellowship, Sophie, Robin, and I went to sleep ten minutes later, Sophie and Robin were sleeping under a spare blanket, however, that was the only spare blanket, so I was trying to stay warm by rubbing my arms (which wasn't helping much) when I felt myself getting picked up and carried over to one of the tents and put down on one of the make shift beds. Looking up, the last thing I saw was Legolas putting a blanket over me before going to sleep next to me laying on one side with his eyes open.
The next morning I woke up to find Legolas laying next to me with one arm across my waist, ten seconds later Legolas woke up, seeing the position we were in he quickly got up. "I am so sorry My Lady if I have upset you in anyway." I didn't know elves could stammer like that.
"Please don't apologize Legolas," I said, ignoring the fact that I had turned a vivid shade of crimson. "It was kind of you to let me sleep in your tent last night, and I was not surprised that we ended up in that position, for my twin sister and I found our parents like that once when we were seven, because we had gone into their room to wake them up."
Legolas smiled. "Come," he said. "The sun will rise soon and I don't want to know how long your friends and the rest of the Fellowship will tease us for if they find us like this."
As we came out we saw that everyone else was still asleep so we went for a walk, as we went past the stream Legolas asked "Forgive me if I am out of line, " he looked almost nervous, "But have you been romantically involved before?"
I blushed. "Well" I said. "I once had a crush on a boy at primary school, but I got over it after three months, and when I was twelve there was this boy at the camp my twin and I were at who gave me this fake ring with a heart in it, and the other girls in my cabin all said it was a engagement ring, which I believed at first, but stopped believing after seven months. Why do you ask?"
Legolas smiled. "Because you intrigue me." He said and kissed me on the lips, I was surprised at first, but then I started to return the kiss.
"But how?" I asked. "I am in no way beautiful, you are a Prince while I am from a family that is not poor, but certainly not nobility. You are a elf where as I am mortal, and I would have no idea how to act if I ever became a Princess."
Legolas smiled "Don't worry. I told my father, before I left to go to the council of Elrond, that if I found a bride I would return and seek approval from my Father. If you are willing, we could teach you how to be a princess."
I smiled. "Was that because you didn't want to marry through Politics, or because you couldn't stand having maiden's trying to make you love them, because of your rank in life?"
"Both, actually." He replied.
Suddenly we heard someone clearing their throat, looking around we saw Gimli and Robin laughing, and starting to run away.
I rolled my eyes and muttered a curse under my breath. Legolas and I looked at each other. "Shall we" asked Legolas.
"With the greatest of pleasure, and in answer to your question, yes I am willing." I answered, as we ran after them.
Gimli and Robin were just getting close to the camping ground then there when a voice called out "There they are."
Looking behind them Robin and Gimli saw Legolas and I quickly catching up and within five feet of grabbing them, suddenly I caught Robin and started to tickle her, while Legolas tackled Gimli in a free-for-all fistfight.
Aragorn and Boromir quickly broke us up. Apparently, the rest of the Fellowship were just getting up and Sophie had just woken up when they heard voices about three miles away from where they were camping, suddenly Gimli's voice yelling "We just wanted to find out where the two of you had gone."
Quickly followed by Legolas's voice, "Then next time wait for us to come back, don't come and spy on us."
Then Robin's voice crying out "Why not? Sally is the Tutor Captain of our class why shouldn't we come looking for her if she's not with us."
Followed by my voice screaming "I may be the class leader, but I am not going to be at school next year so please just let me be by myself every once in a while."
Hearing the direction that the voices were coming from, Boromir ran towards them with Sophie not far behind.
They came back fifteen minutes later, Sophie holding Robin and me apart, and Boromir keeping himself between Legolas and Gimli to keep them from seriously hurting each other.
"Do we even want to know what happened?" Asked Frodo.
Sophie shook her head. "It seems that Gimli and Robin caught Sally and Legolas kissing down by the stream and started laughing at them, and then Sally and Legolas ran after them."
"Speaking of running," Said Boromir. "Will the three of you girls continue to travel with us, or will you remain here, we will stay here in Lothlorion for a month still so you do not have to decide right away."
Two weeks later Legolas and I were coming back from an early morning walk when Legolas asked, "Sally, our stay in Lothlorion is coming to a end, do you know yet what you will do when our stay here is over."
I thought for a moment. "I would very much like to come with you, but I fear that I would do nothing more then hold you up."
Legolas frowned. "Why do you believe that?" he asked.
"Because I do not know how to fight, I am not a fast runner, and I can not leave Sophie and Robin by themselves." I would have thought that it was obvious.
Legolas looked at me and smiled a bit. "If your two friends decide to continue this journey you might be able to came as well, if you want then I could teach you how to fight, as for the part of you not being a very fast runner, starting from that huge tree over there I'll race you back to the camp." Said Legolas walking towards a tree about three meters from where we were standing. "Alright, and what happens if I win." I said going over to where Legolas was standing "If you win then you get to choose what weapon I teach you how to use first, if I win," this came with a faintly arrogant smirk, "Then I claim a kiss."
I tried not to fall over in shock, allowing a predatory grin to steal across my face. Very well, ready, get set, go."
Legolas started running, I took off after him and caught up rather quickly (much to my surprise.) and managed to get back to camp three strides ahead of Legolas.
"You may not believe it Sally, but you are a very fast runner." Said Legolas. "Now what kind of weapon do you want to learn how to use first?"
I thought for a second. "Could you please teach me how to use a sword first?" I asked. "I have always wanted to learn to use a sword but I have never been able to." I turned to face Legolas, "and this is for almost winning the race that we just had." I said kissing him on the lips.
Legolas grinned. "Alright, but first let us go and ask the Lord and Lady of Lothlorion if we may use two of the swords that their warriors use and find a place to start practicing."
Once we had been allowed to use a pair of the swords that were used by the warriors of Lothlorion Legolas and I went to the place that we had shared our first kiss and started to practice. (We had made sure that Sophie, Robin, and the rest of the Fellowship were still sound asleep before leaving.)
Legolas told me to think of swordplay as a kind of very difficult dancing, the more I thought of it as a sort of dance, the more I started to get better at it. After about three hours we took the borrowed swords back and left to return to the camp, luckily for us the Fellowship, Sophie, and Robin were just waking up when we got back. While we were all having breakfast Gimli asked Robin what her decision about traveling with the Fellowship, or staying here would be and asked Sophie the same question.
Robin and Sophie both said that they would travel with the fellowship since I was going with them, and because I was the leader of their class at school, they would go wherever I went.
"What exactly is a Tutor Captain?" asked Boromir. "I know what a captain in the army is, but I have never heard of a Tutor captain."
Sophie and Robin both looked at him. "Well." Said Robin. "As you know, Sally is the Tutor captain of our class at home, therefore she has the duty of, helping anyone in our class if they need help with their school work, either informing the teachers if any of the other students misbehave, or telling them off like she did when Legolas and Gimli were fighting, and helping the teachers."
Gimli asked, "You are some sort of secretary?" Sophie, Robin, and the whole Fellowship fell silent as I glared at him.
I sighed; he could not be expected to know what we were talking about. "No." I said. "It means that I have the duty of keeping the other students in our class in line, and out of trouble."
Gimli said. "But how can you be a captain when you are a woman."
I shot Gimli a withering look. "You may think that woman are just pretty faces, Master Gimli, But at home while history has known many great rulers, most of the greatest just happen to have been woman, so why do you believe that females are not able to do anything that men cannot do, also Prince Legolas has been teaching me how to use a sword, I doubt I could beat you, but lets not find out."
Legolas attempted to hide a snicker. He failed.
"Alright then lass." Said Gimli. "Let's test your skill with a sword against my skill with my axe." Frodo looked at me and smiled eagerly.
"This is going to be good." Said Pippin.
I smiled at them and turned to face Gimli.
Legolas looked at Aragorn. "What do you think about fifteen silver coins that Sally beats Gimli?
Aragorn looked at Legolas. "You're on Legolas." Said Aragorn as they turned to where Gimli and I were sparring with each other.
Gimli charged towards me with his axe ready to strike, however I was very good at dancing and spun out of his way, when Gimli turned around again I blocked his attack with the sword that the elves had lent me, for the next ten minutes Gimli and I dueled before I kicked him in the groin pushed Gimli to the ground and sat on him with one leg on each side.
Sophie, Robin, the rest of the Fellowship, and a group of elves, who had been watching, all cheered, (or laughed which had been in the case of the elves that had been watching.)
Legolas said "You learn very quickly my love, pay up Aragorn."
After Aragorn had placed the fifteenth coin into Legolas's hand Legolas went back into his tent and started to write a letter to his father. A few minutes later I came in to find him.
"Legolas." I asked. "Is something wrong." Legolas smiled at me. "No." he said. Nothing is wrong I was just writing a letter to my father, to tell him about Gimli getting into a dual and getting defeated by a woman, also that I have found my chosen lady-wife."
I smiled back at him. "May I ask who it is that you are in love with my Prince?"
He laughed. "Don't tease, meleth! You are the woman that I am in love with, Lady Sally, and although I do not know what the fate of Middle-Earth will be, I do know that there is no one else that I would like to spend my life with other then you."
I smiled at Legolas. Ooh, that was nice. "And I feel the same way that you feel Legolas." I said. I paused, "What does 'meleth' translate too in the common tongue?"
" 'Meleth' means 'love' in Sindarin." He changed the subject. "Would you like to see the letter that I just finished writing?"
My mind raced to keep up with all this. I nodded my head.
"Alright." Said Legolas, and showed me the letter.
'Dear Father'. The letter said.
'I have found a truly wonderful young woman that I believe you will approve of. When I return I will bring her to meet you. I think you will get along well.
On a slightly less interesting topic, the dwarf in our company, Gimli son of Gloin, said that woman were no more then pretty faces, which led to a duel. Lady Sally has a fire that I am sure will serve well as a lady of Mirkwood.
Your son
Legolas.
I finished reading the letter and handed it back to Legolas with a large smile. "Your letter is very good, and the comment that you made about me is very sweet." I said, kissing him on the lips.
Legolas returned the kiss, as our kiss deepened we heard a throat being cleared, looking around we saw Sophie standing at the entrance of the tent.
"Sorry about interrupting." Said Sophie, sounding completely unrepentant. "But one of the Lothlorion elves wanted you to know that Lord Celeborn and Lady Galadriel are having a feast to farewell the Fellowship, and that you, Robin, and I have to go and choose something to wear for the occasion, and pick out some clothes to travel in." Sophie continued.
As Sophie and I left, I saw Boromir walk over to Legolas and said, "Legolas, after what happened earlier today I know that you and Lady Sally are in love, but will you just find the courage to ask her if she would like to court you, starting with asking her to accompany you to the feast because Aragorn and I have just spent the last hour warding off all the elves in this wood who are not married, so as soon as Lady Sally, Lady Robin and Lady Sophie come back ask her if she would like to go with you to the feast."
About ten minutes later Sophie, Robin, and I came back from getting our new clothes, feeling less than amused.
We had just escaped from a group of Lothlorion elves who were not married or who were not courting anyone and were talking about the encounter.
"I don't know about you and Robin." Said Sophie. "But if we encounter one more Lothlorion elf who wants to ask us to the feast then I am going to break down."
By this time we had returned to the camp, and Legolas came over to us, "Lady Sally." Legolas asked. "May I please accompany you to the feast this evening."
I smiled, hope was not lost. "Legolas, I would be honored." I said. "However, I now have to make sure that Sophie and Robin have escorts for the feast." "Why is that?" asked Legolas. "Because the only reason that we managed to get away from all the unmarried Lothlorion elves was because Sophie told them that we couldn't go with them, because we were already going with some other people." I answered as we came back to were we had left Sophie and Robin. After we found the two of them, (which took about twenty minutes) we discovered that Frodo had asked Robin to go with him, prompting a few remarks about Robin's height, and that Boromir had asked Sophie to accompany him, and that they had both agreed.
About a month later…
At Amon Hen
Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Sophie, and I had just finished off the last of the Uruk-Hai when we heard the sound of a horn being blown not far away. No one needed to guess who was blowing the horn.
"Boromir" said Aragorn worry laced in his voice. The moment the name left his mouth Sophie ran in the direction that we had heard the sound of the horn of Gondor.
"Sophie, wait." I yelled racing after her, the rest of the Fellowship followed quickly after us. When we caught up with Sophie we saw her next to Boromir (who was seriously injured) before she started giving the Uruk-Hai a first hand experience of what could happen when a female is really angry at someone, while the fellowship and I got Boromir away from the scene one of the Uruk-Hai started to say that "If we live through this, then I am never going to go near a female again, no matter what orders we have." When Legolas, Gimli, and I returned we saw Sophie with a very angry expression on her face and the remaining Uruk-Hai running away from us as fast as they could. After we calmed Sophie down we found out that Frodo and Sam had taken one of the boats and gone off to Mordor and that Robin had gone with them. Aragorn, Legolas, Gimli, Boromir, Sophie, and I left to track down the remaining Uruk-Hai five minutes later.
Back in Mirkwood
King Thranduil was sitting on his throne deep in thought, only two weeks ago the elves that had traveled to Imladris along with his son Legolas had returned but Legolas had not been with them, when they came to the throne room to report to their king, Thranduil had told them that if they wanted to keep their position's as part of the royal guard then they had better have a very good reason as to why his son was not with them, the two guards had then told him that when they arrived in Imladris they had been told at the council that Lord Elrond had called that the one ring had been found, and that when a Fellowship was formed to take the ring to Mordor and cast it back into the fires of mount doom Legolas had been chosen to represent the elves in the quest. Thranduil had burst into a furious rant demanding to know why they had not tried to prevent this. The fact of Legolas being his only child had only made the situation worse, after he stopped his tirade he dismissed the elves in the room telling them to take the rest of the day off, (a command that the elves of the court were only to happy to obey, because their king had not been this angry since the thirteen dwarves had escaped his dungeon after they had accidentally caused a group of giant spiders to attack his people, or since a group of orcs had killed their Queen.) when the room was empty Thranduil had gone to his study to think about what he had just been told. Thranduil smiled a bit, for he knew that according to his people Legolas was almost a smaller vision of himself (with the exception of having his mother's gentle temper and deep blue eyes.) his thoughts were interrupted by a knock on the door of the throne room after telling whoever was outside to enter one of the guards that were off duty had come in with a letter saying that it was from Legolas, Thranduil had dismissed the guard and quickly opened the letter, when he finished reading the letter Thranduil burst out laughing, after he stopped Thranduil wrote a return letter to his son and sent one of his fastest messengers to give it to Legolas.
On the plains of Rohan
We had been running non-stop for almost four days and three nights, and by the look of things Sophie was going to pass out if we didn't rest soon, and if I didn't have such a stubborn and determined will then I may have done that on the second day, just then the sound of thundering hooves came towards us, Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas, Boromir, Sophie, and I quickly took cover behind some large rocks, the moment we sat down to hide ourselves Sophie collapsed right into Boromir's lap out of exhaustion, the rest of us were silent as 2,000 riders on horse back rode past.
The riders did not seem to notice that we were there. I saw Aragorn, Boromir and Legolas exchange puzzled looks. Honestly, had I been the only one listening when Galadriel said that the cloaks would hide us from unfriendly eyes?
Aragorn stepped out from behind the rocks, calling to them. The riders checked their horses with amazing skill and speed as they turned and rode back to us.
Less than a minute later, we were surrounded and had a company of Rohirrim pointing spears at us.
The leader dismounted. "What business does an elf, two men and a dwarf have in the Riddermark? Speak quickly."
Gimli replied to the challenge, "Give me your name, horse master, and I will give you mine."
Eomer narrowed his eyes at us. I winced; this did not look good. I was right. "I would cut off your head, dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground."
I clapped a hand to my forehead as Legolas immediately nocked an arrow and pointed it at Eomer. "You would die before your stroke fell!"
I placed a hand on his arm, lowering the weapon as Aragorn introduced us. "I am Aragorn son of Arathorn. This is Boromir of Gondor; Gimli, son of Gloin, and Legolas of the woodland realm. We track a party of Uruk-Hai across the plain."
Eomer said that they had slaughtered the Uruk-Hai during the night and had left none alive. I had noticed that Sophie and I were still being ignored
That was one of the things that really pissed me off about this place; the whole 'ignore the females' attitude. Normally, I would have put up with it, after all 'when in Rome…' Unfortunately recent events had been wearing everyone down, and I was not in the mood to be accommodating. "We're just festival decorations are we?" I snapped, starting to reach the end of my rope. "I don't suppose you might get around to introducing us."
I had expected a few disapproving looks from the Rohirrim for my bluntness. I did not expect the confused stares that I received. Legolas put a protective arm around my shoulders as Eomer turned to face me. "You are now outspoken, my Lady. I had thought you more fair of speech."
I scowled. "I've been running for miles for three days straight. And you want me to be soft-spoken?" I paused for a moment, "What do you mean 'now'? I do not recall meeting you before."
The rider beside Eomer looked confused. "We saw you at the edge of Fangorn Forest after the battle, fending off Uruk-Hai. There was a man, another woman and a child with you."
I gave him a strange look. "How would I have gotten from there to several here on foot in less time than it would take you on horse?" A horrible thought occurred to me. "Wait. The one you mistake for me near Fangorn, was she gentle and soft-spoken, graceful and swift? Protective of her companions."
Another rider nodded. "Yes, if you count 'protective' as grabbing a broken spear and using it hold off Uruk-Hai then turning it on anyone who tried to get close." He grinned. "Almost makes me regret promising myself not to marry."
I let out a stream of explicit curses. Everyone else blinked, looking at me. I snarled under my breath. "We were pulled here, did they really have to bring Natasha too?"
Legolas looked at me. "Who?"
I sighed "Natasha. My identical twin. Getting us mixed up is a common occurrence." I paused. "She probably hit you somewhere sensitive, I suppose."
There was a faint snicker from nearby. Eomer ignored it. "Anyway, back to what you six are doing in the Riddermark…?" Eomer said, patience obviously wearing thin. After Aragorn explained why we were in Rohan the Rohirrim lifted their spears and gave us four horses (the men who had owned them had been killed in the battle with the Uruk-Hai last night.) telling us to search for our friends but not to trust in hope, before ridding north and leaving us standing with the horses, after a few minutes and a lot of debating over who rode their own horse and who had to share a horse we decided that Aragorn and Gimli would ride their own horses, and that I would ride with Legolas, and Sophie would ride with Boromir. We found the Uruk-Hai dead bodies piled up and burning, but no sign of Merry and Pippin, Aragorn, Boromir, Gimli, and Legolas all looked mournful, but Sophie and I saw some strange marks on the ground, Sophie said to me "I wonder what these are." I answered, "I could be wrong, but it looks like a Hobbit was laying here a while ago, rolled over with their hands bound, somehow managed to cut the ropes that bound their hands, ran away from the battle between the Rohirrim and the Uruk-Hai and into that forest over there." Legolas came up behind us and asked, "How did you figure that out?" Sophie and I yelped in surprise and turned around, "Meleth nin, please do not scare me like that." I gasped while Sophie glared at him.
A while later, after the Battle of Helm's Deep
Aragorn, Boromir, Gimli, Sophie, Legolas and I rode towards Isngaurd with King Theoden, Eomer, and some of the Rohirrim, as we approached we saw Merry and Pippin talking to a young woman who looked very much like me, holding a little girl with dark hair and a round face, a second woman of near the same age and a man who looked about twenty-nine who was getting lectured by tree beard for some reason. After we dismounted I heard Legolas say quietly "I take it that is Natasha. Who are the others?" I answered him, "If I am not mistaken Legolas, then the young woman is my twin sister; the man is Justin, one of my cousins; the darker woman is Carina, another cousin and I have no idea who the child is." By now we had reached where Merry and Pippin were sitting, "Sally?" asked Natasha staring at me. "Yes, Natasha, it's me." I said as we hugged each other, "Come on, I want you to meet somebody." I said as we walked over to where Legolas was standing with Eomer while tree beard informed them why he had been lecturing Justin, as we came towards them Legolas and Eomer saw us and came over Legolas and I sheared a brief kiss before I introduced Eomer and him to Natasha and when I finished Eomer asked Natasha if she would like to came on a walk with him, while Legolas asked me the same question. We both agreed and managed to have a half-hour long walk before anyone saw that the four of us had gone missing, "Legolas, what is it like being a Prince of Mirkwood?" I asked Legolas while we were walking, "Well I am actually an only child and therefore I am the future King, so like any Prince I had to learn how to handle political matters and the matters of court since I was a child, and the one thing that I like about being a Prince is that I can choose who I marry, to an extent. Unfortunately that means that I have to put up with half the maidens in Mirkwood coming after me, my father certainly looked glad when I told him that I was going to search for a bride while I was away." "It must be hard to have so many duties as the Crown Prince." I said. "Sometimes it is, and the fact that one of my fore-fathers decreed that who ever became Princess, or Queen of Mirkwood by marrying the Prince, or the King, was and still is only supposed to bare the heirs to the throne doesn't really help." Said Legolas. "Came on, we should start going back to the rest of the group before my cousin discovers that we aren't there." I said. We got back two minutes after Natasha and Eomer had returned. Natasha refused to say what she and Eomer had been talking about, which was probably a good thing because Justin came to find us thirty seconds later, when he did Justin told us that the riders were going to start leaving soon and that we had to get back to them.
When we got to where Theoden and the rest of our riding party were having a argument over how we were going to travel back to Edoras now that Justin, Carina, the child and Natasha had joined us, since there was only one spare horse and that they had decided to let Justin ride on one of the spare horses there was the matter of how Natasha and I would ride back, Natasha stopped the argument by saying that the two of us would just share with someone, Sophie pointed out that Legolas and I had been riding the same horse together since we had arrived in Rohan (Justin gave Legolas a hostile look when Sophie had said this. Natasha's raised eyebrow said that we would be talking about this later.) And that Natasha might be able to ride with Eomer if he agreed. He did. So we started on the ride back to Edoras, Carina and the child sharing the last horse.
That night King Theoden held a feast to honor the men who had been killed at Helm's deep, after everyone had eaten there was a great round of people dancing (Sophie, Natasha, and I all joined in after being asked to dance by Boromir, Eomer, and Legolas.) and Merry and Pippin started dancing on top of a table singing loudly
"Oh you can search far and wide,
You can drink the whole town dry,
But you'll find a beer so brown,
A beer so brown,
As the one we drink in our hometown.
You can keep your fancy ales,
You can drink them by the flagon,
But the only brew for the brave and true,
Comes from the green dragon!"
Everyone in the hall burst into applause and just as Gimli was trying to talk Legolas into taking part in a drinking game Pippin yelled over all the noise that if they were going to have a drinking game then I should sing a song while all the men were starting to get drunk.
Natasha and I looked up from the corner where she had been grilling me on the exact relation between Legolas and myself. I flatly refused; I hate singing in public. Natasha, on the other hand, loves to sing, even if she rarely gets the chance.
She stood up and moved to the front of the hall. "I don't know any drinking songs that would suit here, but this one should do." She has a very nice voice and I am sure her grace comes from dodging hyperactive children at the daycare where she works.
My older sister took a breath and started to dance, moving with a slow grace as she sang.
"You are always free to begin againAnd you're always free to believe.
When you find the place that your heart belongs,
You'll never leave.
You and I will always be,
Celebrating life together.
I know I have found a friend forevermore.
Though you may not know where your gifts may lead,
And you may not know how to start.
If you live your dream you'll find destiny,
Is written in your heart."
The 'you-come-here-now' glint in her eye brought Sophie and I, along with Eowyn, who had been getting along well with Natasha, over. My imperious twin told us to repeat the last verse with us. Why did I almost automatically always do what she said, without thinking about it? Curse her being the dominant twin!
"Though you may not know where your gifts may lead,And you may not know where to start.
If you live your dream you'll find destiny
Is written in your heart."
This was followed by resounding applause. Natasha, Sophie and Eowyn left the stage, separating to various parts of the room as someone cheered for me to sing. Natasha and I have similar voices, but I am not as fond of singing solo.
I glared my sister back up onto the platform, letting her pick the song. I regretted that almost instantly as she insisted on 'If you love me for me.' For someone who prided herself on subtlety, the implications behind that were as subtle as a charging Oliphant. This was a duet piece and she took the first part.
"Once a lass met a lad,
'You're a gentle one' said she.
'In my heart, I'd be glad
If you loved me for me.
You say your love is true
And I hope that it will be.'
I took over:
" 'I'd be sure if I knew
That you loved me for me.'"
She started again. I joined her.
Natasha: "Can I be the one you're seeking?"
Me: "Will I be the one you choose?"
Natasha: "Can you tell my heart is speaking?"
Me: "My eyes will give you clues."
The next part was Natasha again.
"I'll be yours,
Together, we will always be as one,
If you love me for me."
The last was sung at the same time.
Natasha: I'll be yours
Who can know where this will leave us
Together
Who can promise what will be
We will always be as one
But I'll stay by your side
Both of us together: "If you love me for me.
If you love me for me.
The entire hall erupted in cheering when we finished, Natasha and I left the stage and went back to the table we had been sitting at before and continued our discussion, until Eomer and Legolas came over to us, and Eomer asked Natasha to join him and Eowyn. She agreed, bringing the child, Katerina, with her. I couldn't hear what they were saying, but it appeared to be quite an animated discussion.
After another three hours of drinking and men getting drunk (Sophie, Natasha, and I managed to talk Boromir, Eomer, and Legolas not to drink anymore ale since they would have a dreadful head arch the next morning either way, and drinking more ale would only make the hangover worse.) everyone went to bed.
Unfortunately someone decided that it would be nice to lock Sophie, Natasha, and I out of the rooms we were staying in, so we ended up sharing rooms with Boromir, Eomer, and Legolas (It was a good thing that Eomer lowered his voice to a whisper when he made the suggestion, because Justin was within hearing range.)
A/N – So, third chapter up. Hope you all like.