I meant to update this sooner, but my dang computer wasn't working, so I couldn't send it to my beta, and so it took forever, and then the stupid thing took an hour to connect...
Haldir- Can you just get on with the story already?
Who? What? When? Where?
~~~
Haldir starred down at the small round object. He held the red candy cautiously between his thumb and index finger, and twirled it around. What kind of strange thing was it? He rolled it around, feeling its smooth surface. He held it up to his nose, taking in a deep breath of the odd object. His cold blue eyes narrowed at it suspiciously.
"It's not infected or anything, honestly," Akira said sighing as she watched the elf handle the small piece of candy. "It's just a jaw breaker."
He raised an eyebrow as he rolled it around in the palm of his hand. "Jaw breaker? What does it do?" he questioned.
The young woman rolled her eyes. "It doesn't *do* anything. You eat it."
He blinked at the red head then at the small object. "Eat it? But, it is so small. It could not possibly provide one with any energy. Nor does it appear very filling."
The young woman smiled. She had to remind herself that he was just an elf. The red head leaned her back against the wall. A few more weeks had passed in the elven city. Akira had deemed that thought she might not yet completely trust the march warden, she did not have to be afraid of him. This discovery had made her become much more relaxed around the elf. Haldir picked up on this, and was glad that she was finally beginning to trust him more.
After yet another sparring lesson, the young woman had plopped down on some grass and began wolfing down a bag of candy she had found a few days earlier in her duffle bag. Naturally curious, the march warden had asked what exactly those things were.
"You're missing the point," Akira said. "You eat them because they taste good. Actually, their not really that good for you," she admitted frowning. "But they taste good." The march warden starred at it for some more moments. "It's a red one, you'll like it."
Taking her advice warily, the elf popped the 'jaw breaker' into her mouth. The young woman's large brown eyes widened. "No!" she said. Nearly chocking on the jaw breaker, Haldir stilled and spit it out into his hand. She smiled weakly at the panting elf and patted his back. "You OK?" she asked trying not to giggle. The march warden glared at her.
"What was wrong with it?"
She blinked at him, then frowned and pulled out another. "Nothing was *wrong* with it. You're just not supposed to swallow it. Or bite down on it," she said handing him a green candy.
He starred down at it. "Then what *am* I supposed to do with it?" he questioned glaring down at the object.
"Just...like...suck on it for a while," she said popping one into her own mouth.
Haldir regarded the object as the young woman held it out to him. He looked from her, to the jawbreaker, and then back to her. She rolled her eyes and put it in the palm of his hand. He watched Akira for a few moments. She seemed to be content while sucking on the small candy. The march warden, after long moments of internal debate, placed the jaw breaker in his mouth.
The red head watched Haldir with amusement as he tasted his first jaw breaker. Surprisingly enough to the elf, it did not taste at all unpleasant. In fact it was quite sweet. He could understand why someone would eat one of them now.
Akira tossed a glance towards the march warden to see him almost completely absorbed in tasting the foreign food. Who knew someone could be so impressed with a jaw breaker?
"Akira," the elf said rolling the piece of candy around in his mouth.
"Hmm?" she asked.
"Why do they call it a jaw-"
Crunch.
"Ah!"
~~~
Haldir glared coldly at Akira and her bag of candy as he rubbed his jaw. The young woman sighed and shook her head, popping another piece of candy into her mouth.
"Don't blame me," she said defensively. "It's not *my* fault that you don't know how to follow directions. I told you not to bite down."
The march warden scowled at her. "Yes, but you did not tell me that it would possibly injure me should I did in fact bite down on it. You did not give me the proper information."
"It's a freaking jaw breaker. Where do you think the name came from?" the red head questioned.
"I did not know," he answered. "You could have told me the dangers of it. I do not understand why someone would go through that for a piece of candy. It does not even taste all that good."
The young woman rolled her eyes and sighed for what seemed like the millionth time that day. After Haldir's little 'accident' with the jaw breaker, he had stormed off to his talan. Who knew he was so sensitive? Akira had run onto him later when she had been heading to the gardens for some nice relaxing yoga. He'd glared at her when she'd questioned his jaw. "You don't have to cry about it pretty boy," she stated dryly. "You had a blond moment and bit down. It happens."
"I did not have a blond moment," he retorted. "And do you see any tears? No, I think not. People in your world must be insane, eating things like that."
"Actually," Akira countered. "People from my world are very intelligent. We have created many things that make our lives easier. *And* they are smart enough not to bite down on things called *jaw breakers*," she informed him.
"And how is that?" Haldir questioned.
The teenager looked at him. "Well, because they infer that from a name like jaw breaker, biting down may not be the brightest idea in the world..."
Sighing, the elf interrupted. "I meant, how have they made peoples lives easier? This, I would like to know," he corrected.
"Well..." she began. She sat down across from the elf, who had been lying about when she had come. Now he was sitting up, waiting for her answer. "How do you communicate with other elves?" she asked.
"Long have the elves of Lorien been out of contact with our kindred. We rarely travel outside of the wood. Should the need arise for communication with the elves of Rivendell or another realm, they usually come to us, though there are times when we would travel there."
The young woman smiled. "In *my* world, if someone wants to talk to someone else, all they have to do is pick up a phone, dial a number, and their connected instantly."
"Phone?" the march warden questioned. This invention sounded quite intriguing.
"It's like a machine. You pick up the receiver, push a few buttons, and then you can talk to the other person. Also, there's the internet. It allows you to send and receive messages in the blink of an eye. And then there are cell phones, and palm pilots, which are things that you can carry with you."
Haldir attempted to follow as the teenager began describing the aspects of life in her world. He got particularly lost when she began trying to explain auto-mo-biles to him.
Rumil, who had been half-way paying attention to the she elf on his arm, noticed his brother and Akira sitting in the grass. The young woman was talking at full speed, while Haldir appeared to be deeply absorbed in what she was saying.
"Rumil?" Lathline questioned.
The elf looked up, and smiled ruefully at the elven woman. "I am sorry," he apologized softly. "But I only saw my brother and the young Lady Akira sitting there, and I am afraid I was distracted. Forgive me," he said flashing a sincere smile of apologies. "I believe you were telling me about the mix up with your dress during the night of the ball. I dare say I am glad such a thing has never happened to me." Lathline raised an eyebrow. "I mean, not with a dress of course, for I do not wear such things. Those types of garments look much better on beautiful ladies such as yourself," he said, causing the she elf to blush slightly.
"You flatter me," she said softly peering over the clearing. "She is a strange young girl, is she not? But it does appear that your brother has taken some liking to her."
Rumil scrunched his brow a bit as he too looked at the couple sitting on the grass. "Lady Akira has been placed in her care," he said. "I do not think that there is anything else."
The elven woman smiled at him. He was so cute when he had no idea what was going on. Haldir seemed almost entranced by the words Akira was telling him. The two elves continued walking.
~~~
"Your world seems...interesting," Haldir said at length.
"It is."
A silence drifted between the two. Akira had answered all of his questions as well as she possibly could. And now it seemed as if he was satisfied, for now at least, with the information he had gained. It was slightly uncomfortable sitting there with him, nothing to talk about. The young woman's dark eyes drifted across the garden. "Is that Rumil?" she asked, peering up, barely catching a glimpse as the blond elf and another elf whom she could not see began walking away.
"I suppose it was," he said.
The young woman turned again to the march warden. "What are your brothers like?"
"Orophin is a good fighter, very skilled, and is very responsible. Rumil is also skilled, and responsible, though more distracted by the elven women of our city then our brother," he said, traces of a smile tugging at his lips.
"What were they like when you were younger?" Akira didn't know why she was asking him so many questions about his family. Maybe she was simply trying to fill the awkward silence that had seemed to fall upon them, or maybe she truly was curious about his past. She frowned a bit at this. Why would she be?
Haldir thought about the question. His brothers had acted much the same now as they had when they had been younger. Though they were more skilled, and wiser, they still seemed to be intent on pestering him at every chance they got. "Troublesome," he answered scowling a bit. "They enjoyed embarrassing myself, as well as one another, as well as making themselves a nuisance at many times. Though, I would have to say Rumil has taken it upon himself to get under his skin more so then Orophin," the march warden explained.
Akira found herself smiling at this information. "Ah, the joys of having siblings," she said.
"Do you" he questioned idly.
"What?"
His blue eyes moved from a group of flowers to the young girl whom he was seated by. She had questioned about his family, he only found it right to ask about her own. "Do you have any siblings of your own?"
The red head starred over at him before pulling her gaze away. She starred off at something. A silence fell upon them again. Haldir wondered if he had touched something a bit too personal. She had only just begun to trust him a bit more, and now he had probably gone and ruined it all by asking a simple question.
He waited for her to answer, but she seemed deep in thought. Her face seemed pain, as if some terrible memories had been brought up. "No," she answered softly. She offered him a weak smile, which he could tell was forced upon her dark lips.
The young woman knew that the march warden could probably tell that she was lying. But what was she supposed to do? Talking about his brothers, she hadn't even thought that he would ask her as to her own family. She berated herself mentally, wishing she would have never even brought up the subject.
Akira couldn't tell him, of course. There was no way. She hadn't ever told *anyone*, now that she thought about it. No one had ever questioned her about her sister. It wasn't as if she had any friends or anyone who ever cared about her enough to ask. And besides, it wasn't as if she went around bearing her soul to everyone. Looking over at the elf, she suddenly felt as if she *wanted* to tell him.
Something that thoroughly baffled and even scared her. She could never tell anyone about her sister. Especially not a heartless march warden like Haldir. How could she possibly tell him about Alan without revealing everything else she so desperately wanted to hide?
She couldn't, and she wouldn't
~~~
Short yes, fun yes!!! Hal eating jawbreakers. *giggles* REVIEWS!
Haldir- *sighs*
Commodores R Ppl 2- SHE LOVES YOU MORE THEN ICE CREAM! Which is really yummy...mmm...ice cream. Anyway, s'kay it took you a while to review. Took me a while to update! Glad you liked the chap. ^_^. And hey, she knows elvish.
Gothic Angel of Death- One, I like your name. *twitches* Two, Haldir, will you got out with or little Angel?
pippin-luva99- Pippin (itn't he just the cutest hobbit ever?!), says you are sexy. Must agree with that.
So Hal, commnets, questions, anything?
Haldir- What's ice cream?
*falls over anime style*
Haldir- I'm to sexy for my bow...to sexy for my hair...
AHHH! I'VE CREATED A MONSTER!
Haldir- I'm to sexy for my ears...to sexy for my shirt...
It's going to go away, it's going to go away.
Haldir- *watches as author begins rocking back in fourth in the damp corner* Hmm...I wonder where that burst of idioicy came from. Oh well. REVIEW! I'm to sexy for my arrow...to sexy for my fluff...to sexy...
Haldir- Can you just get on with the story already?
Who? What? When? Where?
~~~
Haldir starred down at the small round object. He held the red candy cautiously between his thumb and index finger, and twirled it around. What kind of strange thing was it? He rolled it around, feeling its smooth surface. He held it up to his nose, taking in a deep breath of the odd object. His cold blue eyes narrowed at it suspiciously.
"It's not infected or anything, honestly," Akira said sighing as she watched the elf handle the small piece of candy. "It's just a jaw breaker."
He raised an eyebrow as he rolled it around in the palm of his hand. "Jaw breaker? What does it do?" he questioned.
The young woman rolled her eyes. "It doesn't *do* anything. You eat it."
He blinked at the red head then at the small object. "Eat it? But, it is so small. It could not possibly provide one with any energy. Nor does it appear very filling."
The young woman smiled. She had to remind herself that he was just an elf. The red head leaned her back against the wall. A few more weeks had passed in the elven city. Akira had deemed that thought she might not yet completely trust the march warden, she did not have to be afraid of him. This discovery had made her become much more relaxed around the elf. Haldir picked up on this, and was glad that she was finally beginning to trust him more.
After yet another sparring lesson, the young woman had plopped down on some grass and began wolfing down a bag of candy she had found a few days earlier in her duffle bag. Naturally curious, the march warden had asked what exactly those things were.
"You're missing the point," Akira said. "You eat them because they taste good. Actually, their not really that good for you," she admitted frowning. "But they taste good." The march warden starred at it for some more moments. "It's a red one, you'll like it."
Taking her advice warily, the elf popped the 'jaw breaker' into her mouth. The young woman's large brown eyes widened. "No!" she said. Nearly chocking on the jaw breaker, Haldir stilled and spit it out into his hand. She smiled weakly at the panting elf and patted his back. "You OK?" she asked trying not to giggle. The march warden glared at her.
"What was wrong with it?"
She blinked at him, then frowned and pulled out another. "Nothing was *wrong* with it. You're just not supposed to swallow it. Or bite down on it," she said handing him a green candy.
He starred down at it. "Then what *am* I supposed to do with it?" he questioned glaring down at the object.
"Just...like...suck on it for a while," she said popping one into her own mouth.
Haldir regarded the object as the young woman held it out to him. He looked from her, to the jawbreaker, and then back to her. She rolled her eyes and put it in the palm of his hand. He watched Akira for a few moments. She seemed to be content while sucking on the small candy. The march warden, after long moments of internal debate, placed the jaw breaker in his mouth.
The red head watched Haldir with amusement as he tasted his first jaw breaker. Surprisingly enough to the elf, it did not taste at all unpleasant. In fact it was quite sweet. He could understand why someone would eat one of them now.
Akira tossed a glance towards the march warden to see him almost completely absorbed in tasting the foreign food. Who knew someone could be so impressed with a jaw breaker?
"Akira," the elf said rolling the piece of candy around in his mouth.
"Hmm?" she asked.
"Why do they call it a jaw-"
Crunch.
"Ah!"
~~~
Haldir glared coldly at Akira and her bag of candy as he rubbed his jaw. The young woman sighed and shook her head, popping another piece of candy into her mouth.
"Don't blame me," she said defensively. "It's not *my* fault that you don't know how to follow directions. I told you not to bite down."
The march warden scowled at her. "Yes, but you did not tell me that it would possibly injure me should I did in fact bite down on it. You did not give me the proper information."
"It's a freaking jaw breaker. Where do you think the name came from?" the red head questioned.
"I did not know," he answered. "You could have told me the dangers of it. I do not understand why someone would go through that for a piece of candy. It does not even taste all that good."
The young woman rolled her eyes and sighed for what seemed like the millionth time that day. After Haldir's little 'accident' with the jaw breaker, he had stormed off to his talan. Who knew he was so sensitive? Akira had run onto him later when she had been heading to the gardens for some nice relaxing yoga. He'd glared at her when she'd questioned his jaw. "You don't have to cry about it pretty boy," she stated dryly. "You had a blond moment and bit down. It happens."
"I did not have a blond moment," he retorted. "And do you see any tears? No, I think not. People in your world must be insane, eating things like that."
"Actually," Akira countered. "People from my world are very intelligent. We have created many things that make our lives easier. *And* they are smart enough not to bite down on things called *jaw breakers*," she informed him.
"And how is that?" Haldir questioned.
The teenager looked at him. "Well, because they infer that from a name like jaw breaker, biting down may not be the brightest idea in the world..."
Sighing, the elf interrupted. "I meant, how have they made peoples lives easier? This, I would like to know," he corrected.
"Well..." she began. She sat down across from the elf, who had been lying about when she had come. Now he was sitting up, waiting for her answer. "How do you communicate with other elves?" she asked.
"Long have the elves of Lorien been out of contact with our kindred. We rarely travel outside of the wood. Should the need arise for communication with the elves of Rivendell or another realm, they usually come to us, though there are times when we would travel there."
The young woman smiled. "In *my* world, if someone wants to talk to someone else, all they have to do is pick up a phone, dial a number, and their connected instantly."
"Phone?" the march warden questioned. This invention sounded quite intriguing.
"It's like a machine. You pick up the receiver, push a few buttons, and then you can talk to the other person. Also, there's the internet. It allows you to send and receive messages in the blink of an eye. And then there are cell phones, and palm pilots, which are things that you can carry with you."
Haldir attempted to follow as the teenager began describing the aspects of life in her world. He got particularly lost when she began trying to explain auto-mo-biles to him.
Rumil, who had been half-way paying attention to the she elf on his arm, noticed his brother and Akira sitting in the grass. The young woman was talking at full speed, while Haldir appeared to be deeply absorbed in what she was saying.
"Rumil?" Lathline questioned.
The elf looked up, and smiled ruefully at the elven woman. "I am sorry," he apologized softly. "But I only saw my brother and the young Lady Akira sitting there, and I am afraid I was distracted. Forgive me," he said flashing a sincere smile of apologies. "I believe you were telling me about the mix up with your dress during the night of the ball. I dare say I am glad such a thing has never happened to me." Lathline raised an eyebrow. "I mean, not with a dress of course, for I do not wear such things. Those types of garments look much better on beautiful ladies such as yourself," he said, causing the she elf to blush slightly.
"You flatter me," she said softly peering over the clearing. "She is a strange young girl, is she not? But it does appear that your brother has taken some liking to her."
Rumil scrunched his brow a bit as he too looked at the couple sitting on the grass. "Lady Akira has been placed in her care," he said. "I do not think that there is anything else."
The elven woman smiled at him. He was so cute when he had no idea what was going on. Haldir seemed almost entranced by the words Akira was telling him. The two elves continued walking.
~~~
"Your world seems...interesting," Haldir said at length.
"It is."
A silence drifted between the two. Akira had answered all of his questions as well as she possibly could. And now it seemed as if he was satisfied, for now at least, with the information he had gained. It was slightly uncomfortable sitting there with him, nothing to talk about. The young woman's dark eyes drifted across the garden. "Is that Rumil?" she asked, peering up, barely catching a glimpse as the blond elf and another elf whom she could not see began walking away.
"I suppose it was," he said.
The young woman turned again to the march warden. "What are your brothers like?"
"Orophin is a good fighter, very skilled, and is very responsible. Rumil is also skilled, and responsible, though more distracted by the elven women of our city then our brother," he said, traces of a smile tugging at his lips.
"What were they like when you were younger?" Akira didn't know why she was asking him so many questions about his family. Maybe she was simply trying to fill the awkward silence that had seemed to fall upon them, or maybe she truly was curious about his past. She frowned a bit at this. Why would she be?
Haldir thought about the question. His brothers had acted much the same now as they had when they had been younger. Though they were more skilled, and wiser, they still seemed to be intent on pestering him at every chance they got. "Troublesome," he answered scowling a bit. "They enjoyed embarrassing myself, as well as one another, as well as making themselves a nuisance at many times. Though, I would have to say Rumil has taken it upon himself to get under his skin more so then Orophin," the march warden explained.
Akira found herself smiling at this information. "Ah, the joys of having siblings," she said.
"Do you" he questioned idly.
"What?"
His blue eyes moved from a group of flowers to the young girl whom he was seated by. She had questioned about his family, he only found it right to ask about her own. "Do you have any siblings of your own?"
The red head starred over at him before pulling her gaze away. She starred off at something. A silence fell upon them again. Haldir wondered if he had touched something a bit too personal. She had only just begun to trust him a bit more, and now he had probably gone and ruined it all by asking a simple question.
He waited for her to answer, but she seemed deep in thought. Her face seemed pain, as if some terrible memories had been brought up. "No," she answered softly. She offered him a weak smile, which he could tell was forced upon her dark lips.
The young woman knew that the march warden could probably tell that she was lying. But what was she supposed to do? Talking about his brothers, she hadn't even thought that he would ask her as to her own family. She berated herself mentally, wishing she would have never even brought up the subject.
Akira couldn't tell him, of course. There was no way. She hadn't ever told *anyone*, now that she thought about it. No one had ever questioned her about her sister. It wasn't as if she had any friends or anyone who ever cared about her enough to ask. And besides, it wasn't as if she went around bearing her soul to everyone. Looking over at the elf, she suddenly felt as if she *wanted* to tell him.
Something that thoroughly baffled and even scared her. She could never tell anyone about her sister. Especially not a heartless march warden like Haldir. How could she possibly tell him about Alan without revealing everything else she so desperately wanted to hide?
She couldn't, and she wouldn't
~~~
Short yes, fun yes!!! Hal eating jawbreakers. *giggles* REVIEWS!
Haldir- *sighs*
Commodores R Ppl 2- SHE LOVES YOU MORE THEN ICE CREAM! Which is really yummy...mmm...ice cream. Anyway, s'kay it took you a while to review. Took me a while to update! Glad you liked the chap. ^_^. And hey, she knows elvish.
Gothic Angel of Death- One, I like your name. *twitches* Two, Haldir, will you got out with or little Angel?
pippin-luva99- Pippin (itn't he just the cutest hobbit ever?!), says you are sexy. Must agree with that.
So Hal, commnets, questions, anything?
Haldir- What's ice cream?
*falls over anime style*
Haldir- I'm to sexy for my bow...to sexy for my hair...
AHHH! I'VE CREATED A MONSTER!
Haldir- I'm to sexy for my ears...to sexy for my shirt...
It's going to go away, it's going to go away.
Haldir- *watches as author begins rocking back in fourth in the damp corner* Hmm...I wonder where that burst of idioicy came from. Oh well. REVIEW! I'm to sexy for my arrow...to sexy for my fluff...to sexy...