Disclamer: I don't own Legolas but I do own everyone else. Set before the
War of the Ring which is why there aren't many references to LOTR in this
story. Two girls, Leila and Shí disguise themselves as men and join the
army. It's an elvish sort of Mulan with two heroines. Shí/Ahora.
Legolas/Leila. (For once none of the characters are based on me!) The
original version of this story was a swap story between me and my mate Liz.
Ada means father and Nana mother.
The way I'm doing the elves ages is that 500 is the equivalent of a 5 year old so 1500 is a 15 year old. Basically minus the 2 0's and you got the age they look like. And I'm having it that they stop growing at 2000 or 20 so that's why they always look so young. Got it?
To all those who flamed about Éowyn already doing this...she is a human! These are elves. Éowyn fought in one battle, these two fight in lots and train for years. If you notice the whole of the elven army is male so I thought this fitted. Éowyn may do the same but this is set a long time before Return of the King OK? I know Éowyn is a cool character, one of my favourites actually but this is totally different to her. One small note which had been pointed out to me, the reason the girls have joined the army is explained later on because I know it says they wasn't girl power basically but later on it is explained why girl power is so important to them.
This is dedicated to Liz who helped me start it and has told me in person that she loves the fight scenes and ended up cheering out when she was reading it (causing her parents to look at her).
Thanks to whoever it was that informed me about the kids name problem. This Tinw( is supposed to say T-I-N-W-E but the e has 2 dots over it but it doesn't work sometimes.
This contains FemSLASH ok?
Hidden Identity
Chapter 23, I Must Go...
It had been 5 weeks since Legolas had been forced to leave Leila and he hadn't forgiven himself one bit. He had shut himself away from the world and refused to speak to his father, it was his stupid fault anyway.
Leila was much the same, the only 3 people she really spoke to were Risen, Pedi and Tinw( but they were family anyway. She was once again noticeably pregnant and dreading it even more this time. Shí and Ahora both tried to cheer her up but failed each time and many nights they'd wake up to hear her crying quietly.
She was walking through the palace, where they still lived because of Shí still being a male warrior, a high ranking one as she'd been promoted to Captain for her efforts in the great battle. She turned a corner and bumped into someone. Without looking at the person she murmured an apology and started to walk away.
"Excuse me?" a voice behind her, so un-mistakenly familiar asked. She turned slowly and looked at King Tharanduil apologetically.
"I'm sorry my King, I wasn't looking where I was going" Leila said sadly, both arms holding onto her oversized stomach.
"Obviously" the King said, looking at the dreadful looking woman with messy hair, pale skin and who was quite obviously with child, and then realised who she was. "Watch where your going more carefully" he said at last.
"I will my king" Leila said, her voice dead before carrying on walking.
Legolas was in a secluded part of the library reading when he heard giggles coming from outside the window. He got up to investigate and found Risen and Eriaur with Pedi. Pedi was making a daisy chain by the looks of it while Risen, the one giggling, was being tickled by Eriaur who laughed loudly before kissing Risen. Legolas sighed, for he missed Leila and her family terribly, and it ached at his heart to see her walking through the halls disgraced and pregnant. With his second child.
The things that got to Legolas the most was that he couldn't see his son grow up and do what sons were supposed to do with their. There were many rumours going around about Leila, one even being that Tinw( was Shí's son! Of course when Shí had heard this she put the record strait, made up a man's name and told Leila to tell everyone that was who the father was. Legolas sighed and went back to his book.
2 Weeks Later,
Leila was sat alone in her room now, writing to Elrond and his children if she could live permanently in Imladris. Of course when Shí and Ahora heard of this they immediately protested about Risen and Pedi.
"They can choose to go with me or stay here" Leila said sadly.
"But Leila..." Ahora said, glad that Leila was speaking to them but not glad about Leila's decision.
"I can't stay here anymore, with the rumours and all" Leila said slightly angry.
"Your just afraid to be around Legolas anymore" Shí snapped. Leila stiffened and looked at Shí sadly.
"I'll be leaving with Tinw( as soon as I get Elrond's reply" Leila said quietly, picking up the letter and heading to find a messenger.
Elrond was slightly surprised to find a messenger of Mirkwood with a letter to him. He opened it and glanced at who had signed it, smiling when he saw Leila's name. But his smile turned into a frown when he read the letter.
Dear Elrond,
I write to you in need of a friend. Upon arriving in Mirkwood Legolas's father refused to allow us to marry and has forbade Legolas to even speak to me. I am now heavily pregnant again and I am asking you to let me and my son to come and live in Imladris. I must get away from here as tongues are wagging about who the father is and I'd much rather have you lot to help me threw this. Please write back and allow me to stay with you again.
You're Desperate Friend,
Leila
Elrond jumped up and hurried to find one of his sons to return with the messenger.
Legolas was surprised to see one of Elrond's twins arrive with a Mirkwood messenger, but what surprised him even more was that the twin glared at him as he passed, being led by the messenger. Legolas shook his head and carried on towards the warrior training grounds.
Elrohir followed the messenger to Leila's quarters and knocked on the door. A quiet come in was the only answer he got and opened the door to find an empty sort of lounge room with Leila sat on one of the chairs with Tinw( in her arms talking to Eriaur and Risen who were sat close together on the seat opposite her. Leila looked at him surprised.
"It's Elrohir" Elrohir said, knowing she couldn't tell them apart. "Father sent me to escort you to Imladris" he said. Leila looked so happy that Elrohir was sure if Tinw( hadn't been in her arms she'd have run and hugged him. Luckily she didn't.
"So you're going then?" Risen asked, sounding sad. Leila's face saddened immediately.
"Yes, I know you want to stay here so I will not oblige you to come with me" Leila said, getting up slowly and going into her bedroom where she laid Tinw( on the bed gently where he giggled, not understanding what was going on while Leila packed everything she and he owned into 2 bags, ready for the road.
"He's grown a bit" Elrohir said, gesturing to Tinw(.
"You can hold him if you like" Leila said smiling. Elrohir gently picked the boy up, who giggled even more so. Leila smiled as her good friend played with Tinw(. "Shall we? You carry him, I'll carry these" Leila said, picking up the bags.
"Aren't your sister's coming with us?" Elrohir asked as he bounced the giggling Tinw( in his arms. Leila smiled at the sight, only half wishing it were Legolas for Elrohir was as dear as a friend could be.
"No. Risen is too much in love, I don't want her to go threw what I did and Pedi, well I don't think Imladris would suit Pedi as well as it does me or you. She's more of a Mirkwood kinda girl" Leila said as they went back into the lounge to find Risen looking tearful holding Eriaur's hand.
"Aren't you going to wait and say goodbye to Shí when they get back from training, Ahora and Pedi too?" she asked, gulping a breath of air.
"I can't. I can't say goodbye to them" Leila said, looking at the floor.
"You should at least say your going. You owe that to them! Don't you love us at all?" Risen asked, her voice broken.
"Risen, I do love you but if I say goodbye to you, I won't be able to go and you understand that I can't stay don't you?" Leila said, suddenly imploring, dropping her bags and placing her hands on either side of Risen's head. Risen looked at her, looking much younger than she was and nodded slowly before sobbing and throwing her arms around her sister.
"Don't do anything stupid!" Risen hissed, the tears falling from her eyes and splashing on the blue fabric of Leila's dress.
"Nor you, you keep your man close, don't loose him because he is good for you and look after little Pedi. Come and visit me any time you want. I'll say goodbye to Shí if I see her. I'm going to miss you" Leila whispered to Risen who nodded before pulling back, looping her arm through Eriaur's as the 2 watched Elrohir and Leila leave, Elrohir carrying a very happy Tinw( who as per usual was pulling on Elrohir's hair.
They walked out of the palace and passed the training grounds, just in time to see Shí flip some new boy over her shoulder. Elrohir cringed as the boy cried out in surprise. Legolas was there as well, overseeing the lesson. Leila walking up the fence where the ladies usually crowded.
"Hey Gaalin!" Leila shouted loudly, causing all the warriors to turn to her. Shí jogged up to her, smiling until she saw the travelling bags.
"Your running away" she said simply.
"I'm sorry. I just can't take it here, especially not with Legolas looking at me all the time. I'm going back to Imladris. I wasn't going to say goodbye to you but Risen can be rather persuasive. Look after Pedi for me, keep an eye on Risen and come and visit me" Leila said mostly in one breath, reaching over the fence to hug Shí.
"Keep out of trouble Leila, and I expect a letter a week" Shí said smiling, hugging Leila tightly before turning and going back to the group of warriors. Leila took a deep breath and turned to Elrohir.
"Let's go" she said. Elrohir led her to his new horse, the strongest horse Leila had ever seen and handed Tinw( to her so he could tie her bags to the horses back. Then he helped Leila up, Tinw( still in her arms and climbed up behind her.
"If you need to stop just tell me" Elrohir told her. Leila nodded and the horse started moving.
Legolas watched from the wall as Leila galloped out of his life, he'd watched her until she was on the horizon and then had turned to find his father behind him.
"She's gone then. Well you can focus on being a prince again instead of pining for that...lh(g (snake)!"Tharanduil said gladly.
"She's not a snake father, I love her and always will so you can give up any of your hopes of me ever producing an heir with anyone else, I know that's what you want. A boy from a strong family to carry on after me, well I've already got a son and if you can't accept him and his mother, well I can't accept you" and with that Legolas walked briskly away from his father who was feeling a mixture of anger, guilt and happiness. Anger at Legolas defying him, guilt at the words Legolas had said and happiness purely for the fact that Leila had left.
Leila, Elrohir and Tinw( arrived in Imladris a week later. Normally it would only have taken a few days but it was uncomfortable for a heavily pregnant woman to ride at a fast pace so they had to keep stepping. As soon and Elrohir helped Leila down and took Tinw( from her Elrond came up to her and hugged.
"I'm sorry about what has happened but I gladly take you in to my care. Now if you don't mind I need to examine you to make sure this new baby is as fit as the last" Elrond said smiling.
"Thank you lord Elrond, but I need to look after Tinw(..." Leila trailed off.
"I'll look after him until Ada's finished with you. I'm sure he'd love to see his uncle Elladan and Aunt Arwen again wouldn't you little spark?" Elrohir asked, touching Tinw('s cheek with his finger. Leila smiled and readily consented.
"Your things will be taken to your room, same as last time but with 2 cribs instead of one" Elrond said before leading her off.
A/N Sorry it's a bit short but there you go. There is going to be a little Leila/Elrohir romance but don't worry, Legolas will come to his senses and marry her...eventually.
The way I'm doing the elves ages is that 500 is the equivalent of a 5 year old so 1500 is a 15 year old. Basically minus the 2 0's and you got the age they look like. And I'm having it that they stop growing at 2000 or 20 so that's why they always look so young. Got it?
To all those who flamed about Éowyn already doing this...she is a human! These are elves. Éowyn fought in one battle, these two fight in lots and train for years. If you notice the whole of the elven army is male so I thought this fitted. Éowyn may do the same but this is set a long time before Return of the King OK? I know Éowyn is a cool character, one of my favourites actually but this is totally different to her. One small note which had been pointed out to me, the reason the girls have joined the army is explained later on because I know it says they wasn't girl power basically but later on it is explained why girl power is so important to them.
This is dedicated to Liz who helped me start it and has told me in person that she loves the fight scenes and ended up cheering out when she was reading it (causing her parents to look at her).
Thanks to whoever it was that informed me about the kids name problem. This Tinw( is supposed to say T-I-N-W-E but the e has 2 dots over it but it doesn't work sometimes.
This contains FemSLASH ok?
Hidden Identity
Chapter 23, I Must Go...
It had been 5 weeks since Legolas had been forced to leave Leila and he hadn't forgiven himself one bit. He had shut himself away from the world and refused to speak to his father, it was his stupid fault anyway.
Leila was much the same, the only 3 people she really spoke to were Risen, Pedi and Tinw( but they were family anyway. She was once again noticeably pregnant and dreading it even more this time. Shí and Ahora both tried to cheer her up but failed each time and many nights they'd wake up to hear her crying quietly.
She was walking through the palace, where they still lived because of Shí still being a male warrior, a high ranking one as she'd been promoted to Captain for her efforts in the great battle. She turned a corner and bumped into someone. Without looking at the person she murmured an apology and started to walk away.
"Excuse me?" a voice behind her, so un-mistakenly familiar asked. She turned slowly and looked at King Tharanduil apologetically.
"I'm sorry my King, I wasn't looking where I was going" Leila said sadly, both arms holding onto her oversized stomach.
"Obviously" the King said, looking at the dreadful looking woman with messy hair, pale skin and who was quite obviously with child, and then realised who she was. "Watch where your going more carefully" he said at last.
"I will my king" Leila said, her voice dead before carrying on walking.
Legolas was in a secluded part of the library reading when he heard giggles coming from outside the window. He got up to investigate and found Risen and Eriaur with Pedi. Pedi was making a daisy chain by the looks of it while Risen, the one giggling, was being tickled by Eriaur who laughed loudly before kissing Risen. Legolas sighed, for he missed Leila and her family terribly, and it ached at his heart to see her walking through the halls disgraced and pregnant. With his second child.
The things that got to Legolas the most was that he couldn't see his son grow up and do what sons were supposed to do with their. There were many rumours going around about Leila, one even being that Tinw( was Shí's son! Of course when Shí had heard this she put the record strait, made up a man's name and told Leila to tell everyone that was who the father was. Legolas sighed and went back to his book.
2 Weeks Later,
Leila was sat alone in her room now, writing to Elrond and his children if she could live permanently in Imladris. Of course when Shí and Ahora heard of this they immediately protested about Risen and Pedi.
"They can choose to go with me or stay here" Leila said sadly.
"But Leila..." Ahora said, glad that Leila was speaking to them but not glad about Leila's decision.
"I can't stay here anymore, with the rumours and all" Leila said slightly angry.
"Your just afraid to be around Legolas anymore" Shí snapped. Leila stiffened and looked at Shí sadly.
"I'll be leaving with Tinw( as soon as I get Elrond's reply" Leila said quietly, picking up the letter and heading to find a messenger.
Elrond was slightly surprised to find a messenger of Mirkwood with a letter to him. He opened it and glanced at who had signed it, smiling when he saw Leila's name. But his smile turned into a frown when he read the letter.
Dear Elrond,
I write to you in need of a friend. Upon arriving in Mirkwood Legolas's father refused to allow us to marry and has forbade Legolas to even speak to me. I am now heavily pregnant again and I am asking you to let me and my son to come and live in Imladris. I must get away from here as tongues are wagging about who the father is and I'd much rather have you lot to help me threw this. Please write back and allow me to stay with you again.
You're Desperate Friend,
Leila
Elrond jumped up and hurried to find one of his sons to return with the messenger.
Legolas was surprised to see one of Elrond's twins arrive with a Mirkwood messenger, but what surprised him even more was that the twin glared at him as he passed, being led by the messenger. Legolas shook his head and carried on towards the warrior training grounds.
Elrohir followed the messenger to Leila's quarters and knocked on the door. A quiet come in was the only answer he got and opened the door to find an empty sort of lounge room with Leila sat on one of the chairs with Tinw( in her arms talking to Eriaur and Risen who were sat close together on the seat opposite her. Leila looked at him surprised.
"It's Elrohir" Elrohir said, knowing she couldn't tell them apart. "Father sent me to escort you to Imladris" he said. Leila looked so happy that Elrohir was sure if Tinw( hadn't been in her arms she'd have run and hugged him. Luckily she didn't.
"So you're going then?" Risen asked, sounding sad. Leila's face saddened immediately.
"Yes, I know you want to stay here so I will not oblige you to come with me" Leila said, getting up slowly and going into her bedroom where she laid Tinw( on the bed gently where he giggled, not understanding what was going on while Leila packed everything she and he owned into 2 bags, ready for the road.
"He's grown a bit" Elrohir said, gesturing to Tinw(.
"You can hold him if you like" Leila said smiling. Elrohir gently picked the boy up, who giggled even more so. Leila smiled as her good friend played with Tinw(. "Shall we? You carry him, I'll carry these" Leila said, picking up the bags.
"Aren't your sister's coming with us?" Elrohir asked as he bounced the giggling Tinw( in his arms. Leila smiled at the sight, only half wishing it were Legolas for Elrohir was as dear as a friend could be.
"No. Risen is too much in love, I don't want her to go threw what I did and Pedi, well I don't think Imladris would suit Pedi as well as it does me or you. She's more of a Mirkwood kinda girl" Leila said as they went back into the lounge to find Risen looking tearful holding Eriaur's hand.
"Aren't you going to wait and say goodbye to Shí when they get back from training, Ahora and Pedi too?" she asked, gulping a breath of air.
"I can't. I can't say goodbye to them" Leila said, looking at the floor.
"You should at least say your going. You owe that to them! Don't you love us at all?" Risen asked, her voice broken.
"Risen, I do love you but if I say goodbye to you, I won't be able to go and you understand that I can't stay don't you?" Leila said, suddenly imploring, dropping her bags and placing her hands on either side of Risen's head. Risen looked at her, looking much younger than she was and nodded slowly before sobbing and throwing her arms around her sister.
"Don't do anything stupid!" Risen hissed, the tears falling from her eyes and splashing on the blue fabric of Leila's dress.
"Nor you, you keep your man close, don't loose him because he is good for you and look after little Pedi. Come and visit me any time you want. I'll say goodbye to Shí if I see her. I'm going to miss you" Leila whispered to Risen who nodded before pulling back, looping her arm through Eriaur's as the 2 watched Elrohir and Leila leave, Elrohir carrying a very happy Tinw( who as per usual was pulling on Elrohir's hair.
They walked out of the palace and passed the training grounds, just in time to see Shí flip some new boy over her shoulder. Elrohir cringed as the boy cried out in surprise. Legolas was there as well, overseeing the lesson. Leila walking up the fence where the ladies usually crowded.
"Hey Gaalin!" Leila shouted loudly, causing all the warriors to turn to her. Shí jogged up to her, smiling until she saw the travelling bags.
"Your running away" she said simply.
"I'm sorry. I just can't take it here, especially not with Legolas looking at me all the time. I'm going back to Imladris. I wasn't going to say goodbye to you but Risen can be rather persuasive. Look after Pedi for me, keep an eye on Risen and come and visit me" Leila said mostly in one breath, reaching over the fence to hug Shí.
"Keep out of trouble Leila, and I expect a letter a week" Shí said smiling, hugging Leila tightly before turning and going back to the group of warriors. Leila took a deep breath and turned to Elrohir.
"Let's go" she said. Elrohir led her to his new horse, the strongest horse Leila had ever seen and handed Tinw( to her so he could tie her bags to the horses back. Then he helped Leila up, Tinw( still in her arms and climbed up behind her.
"If you need to stop just tell me" Elrohir told her. Leila nodded and the horse started moving.
Legolas watched from the wall as Leila galloped out of his life, he'd watched her until she was on the horizon and then had turned to find his father behind him.
"She's gone then. Well you can focus on being a prince again instead of pining for that...lh(g (snake)!"Tharanduil said gladly.
"She's not a snake father, I love her and always will so you can give up any of your hopes of me ever producing an heir with anyone else, I know that's what you want. A boy from a strong family to carry on after me, well I've already got a son and if you can't accept him and his mother, well I can't accept you" and with that Legolas walked briskly away from his father who was feeling a mixture of anger, guilt and happiness. Anger at Legolas defying him, guilt at the words Legolas had said and happiness purely for the fact that Leila had left.
Leila, Elrohir and Tinw( arrived in Imladris a week later. Normally it would only have taken a few days but it was uncomfortable for a heavily pregnant woman to ride at a fast pace so they had to keep stepping. As soon and Elrohir helped Leila down and took Tinw( from her Elrond came up to her and hugged.
"I'm sorry about what has happened but I gladly take you in to my care. Now if you don't mind I need to examine you to make sure this new baby is as fit as the last" Elrond said smiling.
"Thank you lord Elrond, but I need to look after Tinw(..." Leila trailed off.
"I'll look after him until Ada's finished with you. I'm sure he'd love to see his uncle Elladan and Aunt Arwen again wouldn't you little spark?" Elrohir asked, touching Tinw('s cheek with his finger. Leila smiled and readily consented.
"Your things will be taken to your room, same as last time but with 2 cribs instead of one" Elrond said before leading her off.
A/N Sorry it's a bit short but there you go. There is going to be a little Leila/Elrohir romance but don't worry, Legolas will come to his senses and marry her...eventually.