Sam's Thoughts

Elvish translations – also if a sentence in elvish is too long I'll just put it in Bold meaning to is in elvish not common.

Selmac speaking

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"Thank you, Cass. Let's go see your Grandfather."

The little girl squealed and ran up the path in the direction of the throne room, despite being disappointed about Lúthien's gender, Thranduil had always been the doting grandparent, as he was with all his grandchildren.

"Let's get this over with." She said as she started up the path, greeting the elves on the streets as she went.

When the group entered the throne room, they all approached the throne but before they were too close Sam signalled to the others to stop, Gimli also pulled them to a stop as he had been before the king so many times before. Legolas, Sam and Lúthien however continued forward until they were at the base of the stairs up to the throne where they bowed or curtsied. Behind them Gimli motioned the rest on the group to do the same.

"Legolas, welcome home." Thranduil said walking down the stairs to embrace his son. Sam and Lúthien stayed to the side while father and son greeted each other but as soon as Thranduil turned away from Legolas Lúthien ran over to him and jumped into his arms.

"Hello, tither pen (Little one) did you enjoy your time in Gondor?"

"Yes and we went to where Nana (mummy) is from too." Thranduil raised an eyebrow in question but Legolas shook his head indicating that he would explain later. "and now I have a brother and a sister."

"A brother and a sister, I did not know your Mother was having twins," Thranduil said sending Sam an accusing glare.

"We did not know that Mélawen was having twins until she did," Legolas said coming to his wife's aid.

"We then lets see these children then," Thranduil put Lúthien back down and approached Sam who held both children. The king reached out and took Túrelio from his mother, "What is his name?"

"Túrelio and the girl is Amarië." Sam said, speaking for the first time.

"Good," he said after a moment, "none of those strange names of yours. Good strong names."

Thranduil continued to look at Túrelio for a moment then gave him back to his mother and took Amarië, who promptly started crying.

"She defiantly gets that from her mother's side." Thranduil said putting the little girl back into her mother's arms where she instantly stopped crying.

Someone in the other group must have mumbled something because the attention of every elf in the room turned to the group.

"You who are these people you have brought with you, Mélawen?" Thranduil asked, glaring at Jacob who had obviously been the one to speak.

"These are my friends and family from Earth, my lord." Sam said, "SG-1 is the team I worked with that is Jonathan O'Neill, Daniel Jackson, Jennifer Hailey and Teal'c and this is my father Jacob Carter." Sam told him.

Thranduil didn't say anything for a moment, just studied the group.

"Come, I am sure you are all tired from your journey. Have tea served in the lounge." He said to one of the servants at the side of the room and then left the room trusting the group to follow him.

Legolas motioned for them all to follow and as they walked Jack took the time to talk to Sam.

"You had to call me Jonathan didn't you, you just couldn't resist." He complained.

"Call it pay back." She said simply before passing Túrelio to Jack and dropping back so that she could talk to her father.

"He's not the most inviting type is he?" Jacob said.

"He isn't very kine on humans, don't take it personally."

"But…"

"Shh, we'll talk later and remember elves have very good hearing."

The king led them through the corridors to a large sitting room which he used for entertaining guests.

"So tell me," Thranduil said as soon as everyone was seated, "what brings you to Mirkwood?"

"Well after Sam had tied up all her lose ends back home we thought she thought it might be a nice idea for us to see were she is living now." Daniel said.

"So it was your idea was it?" Thranduil said to Sam almost accusingly.

"Father, don't start." Legolas said before Sam could reply.

Thranduil ignored his son and turned to his eldest granddaughter.

"Why don't you take your mother and her friend and go find your friends?" she said kissing the elfling on the forehead before lightly pushing her towards her mother.

Legolas collapsed back in his seat shaking his head at his father; he always found some way to get rid of Sam from his presents.

SG-1 and Jacob on the other hand were fuming quietly in their seats, and they were only quiet because Sam had given them a warning look before gathering the twins in her arms and following her daughter out of the room with Jennifer in tow.

"Why do you let him do that?" Jennifer asked as they moved through the halls the palace to where the ladies of the court go to gossip and let their children play together.

"I've just given up going against him, I realised after a couple of years being married to Legolas that it was a waste of time and effort, he is use to getting his way. It's like trying to get a Goa'uld to not try and kill an SG team. I just go into military mode now when I'm around him, I don't speak unless I'm spoken to and I leave when I'm dismissed. Anyway there are much better things to do around here then listen to him complain about my existence." She paused outside one of the doors and turned to Hailey. "I'm just warning you this isn't one of them, I call this the equivalent of..." she thought for a moment about what she could compare it to, "a Jaffa ambush."

Jennifer gave her a startled look and prepared herself, although she didn't know what for. Sam opened the door and was immediately swamped by a large group of elf ladies who pulled her over to one of the chairs and pushed her into it so that they could see the twins who were still in her arms.

Larwen, who ran over to the other side of the room where a group of elflings were playing together, leaving Hailey completely alone in the doorway, the ladies completely ignored her until Sam handed the children over to them and called her over.

The elves momentarily stopped fusing over the children to criticise the new woman before turning back to their previous distraction.

"See what I mean?" Sam whispered before one of the twins started crying. Sam moved back into the crowd and took a crying Túrelio which instantly set his sister off.

"Their hungry I better feed them. Almaresáre would you help me please," Sam asked calling on one of her only friends in Mirkwood to loosen her dress enough for her to feed the twins.

"Mélawen you really should get a nursemaid, it really isn't suitable for a women of your status to be doing that." Isidien the eldest of the elves in the room complained.

"Lady Isidien we have this argument every single time we meet, I am not having some poor woman who needs to feed her own child feeding mine."

"It doesn't have to be someone with a child; you could get someone who has had a miscarriage." As soon as the word left her mouth the room went silent, even the children in the corner went quiet, sensing the tension in the room.

"It is hard enough to cope with the trauma of losing a child without having to look after somebody else's. Once again I say NO!"

To her credit, Isidien drifted to the back of the group and returned to her seat and her tea. Slowly the children started their game again and the other women warily went back to their previous conversation. While Mélawen was human she was also a princess of Mirkwood and as such was not to be trifled with they all knew that miscarriage was a sore subject for the entire royal family especially Sam having already lost a prince to it a few years back.

"Are you alright Sam?" Almaresáre asked as she finished with the back of Sam's dress and past her a sheet to cover herself.

"I'm fine. Can you get Amarië for me, I'll feed her in a sec."

The room was almost quiet for awhile while Sam feed the twins and everyone else kept their voices low so as not to disturb the babies.

"Captain?"

Every adult elf in the room went straight to her feet and surrounding Sam, expecting a male to enter the room and so protecting her dignity.

"Yes, sir?" Hailey said into her radio, all the ladies looked over to her to see who she was talking to.

"We're going to bunk down for the night."

"Alright sir I'll be there in 5 minutes." Hailey turned to say goodbye to Sam but one of the ladies beat her to it.

"Was that your husband?"

"No, he's my CO."

"And you are going to sleep in the same room as him?" another said shocked.

"Yeah I do most nights,"

"Three of them at that!" Sam putting knowing what a fuss it would cause.

Sure enough they all instantly broke into a chatter of elvish so that Jennifer couldn't understand them.

Jennifer turned and glared at her.

"And sometimes even more then that." Sam teased.

"Oh like you didn't do it too."

"Of course not, I would never do something so appalling."

Jennifer just glared and started towards the door.

"Wait a minute I'm coming too," she said as Almaresáre retied her dress.

Sam left the twins and Larwen with the ladies and followed her back to where they had left the men.

Sam reminded her that she didn't know where they were going and Jennifer grudgingly followed her to the guest rooms where the team were waiting for her with Jacob and Legolas.

Jennifer instantly started complaining to Jacob and Legolas about Sam's teasing but Legolas just laughed and said, "Don't worry about it."

"But they all think I'm some kind of prostitute!"

"Trust me, by this time tomorrow they will have forgotten about it and be gossiping about something else. It's what they accused Sam of being when she first got here. Look at how they treat her now."

Somehow that didn't comfort her.

A/N –

I didn't do Goa'uld Thranduil cause too many ppl were against it but i was going too until ShaShiSar221 gave me a good reason not to so thanks to her. Also the two names I used for the ladies were given to me what I asked about names for the twins so whoever sent them thanks. I don't have time to look up who my mum is hounding me to go to bed.

Lov

JEDIBANT

PS. i think this is going to be the second last chapter but i don't know when the last will be up i try to get it up in a few days maybe a week.

ShaShiSar221 – thank you for your comments they were really helpful but I think that there are so few chapters left of this fic that a Beta would be rather pointless, but thanks for the thought.