A/N: Hey thanks to the three people that reviewed... Sorry it's been a
while since I updated, but I've been too busy to write.. second year uni is
a lot more work than I thought it would be!
Lady Katanya - thank you for returning to read another of my stories.. I wonder if you'll be able to pick what happens in this one as well.. I hope it will be as good as Celebfaer - Silverspirit was and that this one doesn't disappoint. Enjoy!
Lyn - thanks so much for saying I have talent.. It's nice to know that people like what I write, but to hear someone say I have talent, you made me blush! I feel bad about Sabin too, but Fairies can't get a divorce, I don't think it was invented back then, although I do have a plan for him... but it won't come out for a while yet. The next few chapters I think.
violet-angel07 - Thanks for the review, I'm glad to hear that you like the story. Hope this chapter is as good as you hoped.
Well, here's the next chapter, I hope you all enjoy it!
Cheers!
Disclaimer: All references to Lord of the Rings are taken from Tolkien and are not my own ideas. But everything else is!!
Chapter Three: The Waterhole
The next day, Celebfaer and Legolas went for a walk in the gardens of the palace and Celebfaer pointed out the different flowers, saying their name, first in Elvish, then in the tongue of the Fairies. Then once he had learned that, she taught him what their symbolism was in Fairy lore.
She had decided to teach Legolas some of the Fairy speech so that he would understand some of what people said to him, if she was not there. Though all the fairies were trained in the Common Tongue, few actually spoke it so it would have been handy for Legolas to know a few words, to save confusion. She had taught him most of what he would need for general conversation and Legolas had almost mastered the art, but she thought that a good way to pass the day would be for him to learn the names of meaningless objects, such as flowers. Also she wanted to teach him the names of the flowers in case her mother allowed them to wed, because the flowers that the female fairy wore in her hair at the ceremony were supposed to represent what their life together would be like.
So, they were walking along, when Celebfaer saw Sabin walking through the gardens, looking like he was looking for something.
"Sabin, would you care to join us?" Celebfaer called to him and Sabin looked up to see who it was before looking around then finally nodding.
"What are you doing?" He asked her and she laughed.
"Teaching Legolas the names of certain flowers in our tongue and what they represent." She said and Sabin laughed, then trailed along with them for a little while, attempting the Elvish names occasionally himself.
Eventually the three of them grew tired of walking around and so they sat down under the shade of a tree, enjoying the peace of the gardens. Celebfaer's mother had gotten the gardens enchanted so that they were always in flower, so the garden was always wonderful at any time of the year.
"Legolas, may I ask where you learnt your skills with the knife?" Sabin asked after a while and Legolas smiled.
"I learnt when I was an elfling. The Head of the Guard taught me. My father has made it compulsory for every male elfling to be trained in both the knife and bow. There were always dangers in Mirkwood forest, but my father helped us so that we would not be caught unaware. However, I never quite enjoyed the knife as much as I did the bow." Legolas said with a smile on his face as he remembered.
"His aim with the bow is hard to be beaten." Celebfaer said to Sabin, then she looked straight at Legolas. "And he always gets his target." She added and Sabin raised an eyebrow in interest.
"Really? Then you would have been a powerful ally at Helm's Deep." Sabin said looking at Legolas, who nodded in response.
"Everyone had their part. Even Gimli, the Dwarf, who could barely look his opponents in the eye." Legolas said with a smile. "We were outnumbered and we lost many, but just when it looked as though we would fall, the sun rose, bringing us new hope and with it Gandalf the White, along with half an army." Legolas said, then he started into an account of his travels with Aragorn and Gimli, relaying everything that had happened after the Fellowship had left Lothlorien.
Celebfaer had not heard the full tale, so she listened with great interest, smiling at how well Sabin and Legolas were getting along. She liked that they did, because if what her mother had said was true, then Legolas was the future King of the Fairies and if his subjects did not get along with him, then there would be no hope for her as a Queen, because she did not want to live without Legolas, even if it meant exile from her own people. Legolas did not know that he might one day be King of Fairies, but if the timing was right and if her mother would allow them to wed according to Fairy lore, then he would be told. She was secretly hoping that it would not come to that, but if it did, she had to be prepared for it and she wanted Legolas to be as well.
They talked for so long, enthralled in the tale, that they did not realize the time and before they knew it they were going to be late for dinner. So they stood up and walked off to the dinning hall, Legolas still continuing his tale.
When they entered the room, only slightly late, Elysa threw Celebfaer a murderous look, before glaring at her husband. Celebfaer sighed to see it, because Sabin really did not deserve her. Elysa was a selfish little brat that did not care for the feelings of others. Sabin would always be the best that he could, but it would never be enough for Elysa. It made Celebfaer sad to see the male fairy being abused as such, when he deserved so much more. But there was nothing that she could do about it.
So the three sat down, not ceasing the conversation and the Queen was even interested to hear it also, so Elysa suffered in silence this time. She even excused herself from the table early, declining Sabin's offer of escort to her room and leaving him to look at her retreating back with a sad look on his face.
"Sabin, are you unhappy with Elysa, because my offer still stands..." The Queen said softly, so only the head table could hear her and Sabin shook his head then looked at the Queen.
"And my answer remains the same. My wife is just not herself of late. She has been feeling a little off colour of late." He said in a mumbled tone and the Queen frowned in concern.
"Is she ill? Shall I send for the healer?" She asked and Sabin shook his head once more.
"That will be unnecessary, my Lady." Sabin said bowing his head to look at his plate.
"Sabin, surely if my sister is ill, then the healer must make an examination." Celebfaer said, concern on her face also, but Sabin shook his head.
"It shall be alright Celebfaer." He said, but he still did not look up, so the Queen changed the subject by asking Legolas another question about the War of the Ring.
Celebfaer did not listen, instead she looked at Sabin, who looked back at her, then quickly looked away, trying to listen to what Legolas was saying.
'Sabin, what is this about?' Celebfaer sent to him, shielding it so that only Sabin could hear it and he looked back at her.
'As I said, nothing.' He replied.
'What has she done?'
'Celebfaer she is my wife and I keep her secrets.' He sent back turning his head to look at Celebfaer with an unreadable look on his face, so she did not pursue it any further.
So, Celebfaer sat there thinking for a minutes before she stood up, causing the conversation to come to a halt. The Queen, Sabin and Legolas all looked at her with puzzled looks on their faces.
"I think I shall retire." She said and her mother frowned at her.
"Why Celebfaer? Are you ill too?"
"Nay. I am a little tired." Celebfaer replied and the Queen nodded.
"Then I shall escort you.." Legolas started, but she shook her head.
"You have not finished your tale Legolas, and I know my way." She said. 'I shall see you in the morning, melamin.' She sent to him and he nodded.
"As you wish." He said, then as she walked away she heard the conversation continue at the table.
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The next few weeks went past and before long, Celebfaer began to forget that her sister was ill, for she certainly didn't look ill. The Queen had been starting to teach Legolas a lot about Fairy customs and sometimes Celebfaer watched, but others she walked around the garden by herself, Sabin joining her occasionally. Or she went down to tend the horses as the stable hand had reported that both their horses, particularly the horse Legolas rode, refused to let him near them. So, Celebfaer went down every morning to feed them and rub them down so that they didn't cause too much trouble.
Celebfaer had also noticed that she saw Mildred a lot more than she was used to. He seemed to be always up at the palace, and never training the rest of the guards in the fields. When Celebfaer asked him about it he had said that the Queen had asked him to patrol the palace grounds instead of train the others, because she had found a replacement.
So, it had been almost six months since their arrival at the Fairy Realm, when the Queen requested for Celebfaer to come to the library with Legolas for one of his lessons. The lessons had become a daily event and the Queen expected as much of Legolas as Galadriel had of Celebfaer when she had been under her care. Though Legolas did not have to do the meditations and the rest of the work, the Queen expected him to remember most of what she taught him and she tended to ask him questions about the last lesson at the start of the next. This lesson was on the history of the Fairies and Celebfaer did not know why Legolas needed to know it, nor why her mother had requested her presence.
So, when her mother wasn't looking, Celebfaer went for a wonder in the library, researching spells and summonings. She still needed to learn about what the spells she knew did, because she knew them, but she did not know their correct use or what to do with them. Her lessons had never really been finished and she needed to know in case a spell she used one day backfired and she killed herself, or worse, Legolas.
The lesson took up the whole morning and after lunch Celebfaer and Legolas were free to roam where they wished. So, Celebfaer took Legolas up to her room, where she changed her dress into a silver more fairy-like dress and Legolas smiled, then pulled her down so that she was sitting on his knee, where he started to nuzzle her ear and neck, but fearing they would be seen and told off, Celebfaer pulled herself away from him.
"Legolas, shall we go for a ride in the woods?" She asked before he could protest about her leaving and he threw her a look.
"Celebfaer, it is your private rooms. I do not think we shall be disturbed." He said and she laughed.
"Servants. They come in here to clean and they could walk in at any moment." She said. "And we have not been for a ride the whole time we have been here! Our horses must be itching for a ride." She said, then she looked straight into his eyes, pleading with him. 'And I know of a place where we shall not be disturbed.' She sent to him and nodded.
"As you wish, my Lady." He said, the hint of a smile on his lips.
Celebfaer just laughed then stood up and led the way to the stables.
At the stables, they rubbed their horses down then took them out for a warm up run around the yard, before mounting and riding off through the trees. They rode for no longer than half an hour until they came to the place Celebfaer had mentioned. It was the waterhole that Mildred had shown her once and she smiled when she saw Legolas' reaction.
"It is beautiful." He said a smile on his face and she laughed, then dismounted, letting her horse graze where it wanted.
Legolas did the same, but she ran off, before he could get close, running to the edge of the water, then running out along the surface of it, staying above it and not getting the tiniest bit wet. Legolas looked at her in wonder, he could not believe what he was seeing. Looking at her wings, they flapped softly as though a gentle breeze pushed them, but he did not believe it was them that were holding her above the water.
"Come and join me melamin, if you can catch me!" She said, running to the middle of the water and turning to watch him as he stripped off his tunic and took off his shoes, so that he was wearing only his leggings and ran into the water after her, making a huge splash as he dived down under the surface. He could not walk on water as she did, though they could both walk on snow as they had discovered during their journey to Lothlorien all those years ago.
When he did not resurface, Celebfaer started to panic and flapping her wings she tipped herself upside down, hovering above the water so that her nose was almost touching the water and her legs were in the air. She was searching under the surface for any sign of him that she could see.
She saw a movement, but before she could pull back, it came to the surface, wrapped its arms around her and pulled her into the water. Laughing, she pushed Legolas down as she swum up to the surface. He came up a few seconds after her, then before she could speak he pulled her into his arms and kissed her.
He kissed her as though it had been years since their last kiss and as though he wanted to treasure this kiss forever because it would be their last. She had never had him kiss her like this and the emotion behind it scared her. Celebfaer tried to break away from him, but Legolas would not let her and she knew she would have to break off soon or else she would not be able to stop herself.
The kiss lasted for what seemed like an eternity and when they finally broke off, Celebfaer was breathless and she looked into Legolas' eyes with shock and surprise written all over her face. The emotions in his eyes were so intense that it surprised her all the more. What she saw in his eyes was a love for her that came from the very core of his being and along with that love was the happiness that he was feeling. It was so intense that she realized at that moment, why Elves are able to die of grief, because they are so passionate about everything that their heart and soul is put into it. So, without their heart or their soul, they will eventually die, deprived of their passion.
"Melamin, thank you for bringing me here." Legolas said softly and she nodded.
"Thank you for allowing me to." She replied just as softly, then she kissed him again, this time not caring what the consequences were.
The distance that they had to keep when they were in the presence of other fairies was starting to get to her too and she longed for the freedom that they had among the elves. There they could flirt and show any kind of affection towards each other that they liked, but with the fairies it was different. Though they were married by Elvish lore, the fairies made them sleep in separate beds and keep their distance as though they were merely friends. They were just waiting to see the two do more than that before they could pull them down and have the Queen banish Celebfaer from the Realm. Elysa was the one who wanted it the most and when they were around her they never mentioned anything remotely related to their relationship because Elysa was waiting to pounce on Celebfaer and bring her down. Celebfaer had never done anything to her sister but the girl hated her with a passion.
A little while later Celebfaer and Legolas came out of the waterhole, saturated in water and oblivious to their environment and walking hand in hand.
"We can't go back to the City like this melamin." Celebfaer said looking down at her saturated dress.
"You can tell them I went for a swim and pulled you in after me." Legolas said smiling and she looked at him, unimpressed.
"Let us lie in the sun to dry off." She said and Legolas nodded, then they found a patch of ground that was dry and in the sun, then lay down, side by side, Legolas looking up at the sky and Celebfaer on her stomach, huddled close to Legolas with her head resting on his chest.
They lay there in a comfortable silence, Legolas, deep in thought, a frown forming on his face occasionally before it disappeared, while Celebfaer lay enjoying the late afternoon sun, the rise and fall of Legolas' chest, slowly putting her to sleep.
"Celebfaer?" Legolas said softly when they were almost dry and Celebfaer opened her eyes then propped herself up on her elbows to look down at him.
"Yes?" She asked sleepily, wondering what he was thinking about, because he only called her by her name if he was thinking deeply about something.
"Would you ever want a child?" He asked and she frowned at him, then started playing with his hair, as she always did when they were lying awake and talking.
"Of course I would, why do you ask?"
"Well, is it possible that you would be with child."
"What do you mean?" She asked, as she stopped playing with his hair and looked down into his eyes.
"Is it possible to have a half-elf half-fairy child?" He asked her and she smiled.
"Of course it is."
"How do you know?" He asked, sounded distressed.
"I cannot tell you, so you will have to trust me." She said, then put a finger to his lips to stop him from speaking. "Legolas, if you are worried about children, you should not, for we will have as many as you like one day!" She said, leaning down to kiss him tenderly. "I promise." She said, smiling at him.
"Sooner than later, melamin. You are with child." He said softly and she searched his face for a few seconds to see if he was lying, before laughing.
"Legolas, surely you jest!" She said and he shook his head.
"If you are not with child now, then you will be before the years end." He said and she laughed again.
"What makes you so sure?" She asked and Legolas sighed.
"I cannot tell you, so you will just have to trust me." Legolas said with a smile and Celebfaer laughed, then punched him playfully, as he pulled her on top of him and kissed her.
"As much as I wish this day would never end, eventually it will, melamin." Celebfaer said when they broke off and Legolas nodded. "Come now, let us call the horses and head back to the palace, it is almost time for dinner and we dare not to be late." She added, using her wings to help her get up before he could make her forget what she had just said.
Legolas just nodded, then got up and he whistled so that both the horses came running. "Let us go back then." He said, so they mounted and returned to the palace.
They had a little time before dinner, so they rubbed down their horses and fed them before heading up to the dinning hall.
Dinner was as normal, the Queen, Sabin, Legolas and Celebfaer held a conversation, while Elysa ate her dinner quickly and quietly. She finished long before everyone else, but due to custom, she waited for the Queen to finish at least before she yawned.
"I am rather tired, so if I may be excused mother?" Elysa asked, looking at the Queen, who in turn nodded.
When they were all finished dinner, they stayed up talking for a short while, before they all retired and went to bed.
Lady Katanya - thank you for returning to read another of my stories.. I wonder if you'll be able to pick what happens in this one as well.. I hope it will be as good as Celebfaer - Silverspirit was and that this one doesn't disappoint. Enjoy!
Lyn - thanks so much for saying I have talent.. It's nice to know that people like what I write, but to hear someone say I have talent, you made me blush! I feel bad about Sabin too, but Fairies can't get a divorce, I don't think it was invented back then, although I do have a plan for him... but it won't come out for a while yet. The next few chapters I think.
violet-angel07 - Thanks for the review, I'm glad to hear that you like the story. Hope this chapter is as good as you hoped.
Well, here's the next chapter, I hope you all enjoy it!
Cheers!
Disclaimer: All references to Lord of the Rings are taken from Tolkien and are not my own ideas. But everything else is!!
Chapter Three: The Waterhole
The next day, Celebfaer and Legolas went for a walk in the gardens of the palace and Celebfaer pointed out the different flowers, saying their name, first in Elvish, then in the tongue of the Fairies. Then once he had learned that, she taught him what their symbolism was in Fairy lore.
She had decided to teach Legolas some of the Fairy speech so that he would understand some of what people said to him, if she was not there. Though all the fairies were trained in the Common Tongue, few actually spoke it so it would have been handy for Legolas to know a few words, to save confusion. She had taught him most of what he would need for general conversation and Legolas had almost mastered the art, but she thought that a good way to pass the day would be for him to learn the names of meaningless objects, such as flowers. Also she wanted to teach him the names of the flowers in case her mother allowed them to wed, because the flowers that the female fairy wore in her hair at the ceremony were supposed to represent what their life together would be like.
So, they were walking along, when Celebfaer saw Sabin walking through the gardens, looking like he was looking for something.
"Sabin, would you care to join us?" Celebfaer called to him and Sabin looked up to see who it was before looking around then finally nodding.
"What are you doing?" He asked her and she laughed.
"Teaching Legolas the names of certain flowers in our tongue and what they represent." She said and Sabin laughed, then trailed along with them for a little while, attempting the Elvish names occasionally himself.
Eventually the three of them grew tired of walking around and so they sat down under the shade of a tree, enjoying the peace of the gardens. Celebfaer's mother had gotten the gardens enchanted so that they were always in flower, so the garden was always wonderful at any time of the year.
"Legolas, may I ask where you learnt your skills with the knife?" Sabin asked after a while and Legolas smiled.
"I learnt when I was an elfling. The Head of the Guard taught me. My father has made it compulsory for every male elfling to be trained in both the knife and bow. There were always dangers in Mirkwood forest, but my father helped us so that we would not be caught unaware. However, I never quite enjoyed the knife as much as I did the bow." Legolas said with a smile on his face as he remembered.
"His aim with the bow is hard to be beaten." Celebfaer said to Sabin, then she looked straight at Legolas. "And he always gets his target." She added and Sabin raised an eyebrow in interest.
"Really? Then you would have been a powerful ally at Helm's Deep." Sabin said looking at Legolas, who nodded in response.
"Everyone had their part. Even Gimli, the Dwarf, who could barely look his opponents in the eye." Legolas said with a smile. "We were outnumbered and we lost many, but just when it looked as though we would fall, the sun rose, bringing us new hope and with it Gandalf the White, along with half an army." Legolas said, then he started into an account of his travels with Aragorn and Gimli, relaying everything that had happened after the Fellowship had left Lothlorien.
Celebfaer had not heard the full tale, so she listened with great interest, smiling at how well Sabin and Legolas were getting along. She liked that they did, because if what her mother had said was true, then Legolas was the future King of the Fairies and if his subjects did not get along with him, then there would be no hope for her as a Queen, because she did not want to live without Legolas, even if it meant exile from her own people. Legolas did not know that he might one day be King of Fairies, but if the timing was right and if her mother would allow them to wed according to Fairy lore, then he would be told. She was secretly hoping that it would not come to that, but if it did, she had to be prepared for it and she wanted Legolas to be as well.
They talked for so long, enthralled in the tale, that they did not realize the time and before they knew it they were going to be late for dinner. So they stood up and walked off to the dinning hall, Legolas still continuing his tale.
When they entered the room, only slightly late, Elysa threw Celebfaer a murderous look, before glaring at her husband. Celebfaer sighed to see it, because Sabin really did not deserve her. Elysa was a selfish little brat that did not care for the feelings of others. Sabin would always be the best that he could, but it would never be enough for Elysa. It made Celebfaer sad to see the male fairy being abused as such, when he deserved so much more. But there was nothing that she could do about it.
So the three sat down, not ceasing the conversation and the Queen was even interested to hear it also, so Elysa suffered in silence this time. She even excused herself from the table early, declining Sabin's offer of escort to her room and leaving him to look at her retreating back with a sad look on his face.
"Sabin, are you unhappy with Elysa, because my offer still stands..." The Queen said softly, so only the head table could hear her and Sabin shook his head then looked at the Queen.
"And my answer remains the same. My wife is just not herself of late. She has been feeling a little off colour of late." He said in a mumbled tone and the Queen frowned in concern.
"Is she ill? Shall I send for the healer?" She asked and Sabin shook his head once more.
"That will be unnecessary, my Lady." Sabin said bowing his head to look at his plate.
"Sabin, surely if my sister is ill, then the healer must make an examination." Celebfaer said, concern on her face also, but Sabin shook his head.
"It shall be alright Celebfaer." He said, but he still did not look up, so the Queen changed the subject by asking Legolas another question about the War of the Ring.
Celebfaer did not listen, instead she looked at Sabin, who looked back at her, then quickly looked away, trying to listen to what Legolas was saying.
'Sabin, what is this about?' Celebfaer sent to him, shielding it so that only Sabin could hear it and he looked back at her.
'As I said, nothing.' He replied.
'What has she done?'
'Celebfaer she is my wife and I keep her secrets.' He sent back turning his head to look at Celebfaer with an unreadable look on his face, so she did not pursue it any further.
So, Celebfaer sat there thinking for a minutes before she stood up, causing the conversation to come to a halt. The Queen, Sabin and Legolas all looked at her with puzzled looks on their faces.
"I think I shall retire." She said and her mother frowned at her.
"Why Celebfaer? Are you ill too?"
"Nay. I am a little tired." Celebfaer replied and the Queen nodded.
"Then I shall escort you.." Legolas started, but she shook her head.
"You have not finished your tale Legolas, and I know my way." She said. 'I shall see you in the morning, melamin.' She sent to him and he nodded.
"As you wish." He said, then as she walked away she heard the conversation continue at the table.
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The next few weeks went past and before long, Celebfaer began to forget that her sister was ill, for she certainly didn't look ill. The Queen had been starting to teach Legolas a lot about Fairy customs and sometimes Celebfaer watched, but others she walked around the garden by herself, Sabin joining her occasionally. Or she went down to tend the horses as the stable hand had reported that both their horses, particularly the horse Legolas rode, refused to let him near them. So, Celebfaer went down every morning to feed them and rub them down so that they didn't cause too much trouble.
Celebfaer had also noticed that she saw Mildred a lot more than she was used to. He seemed to be always up at the palace, and never training the rest of the guards in the fields. When Celebfaer asked him about it he had said that the Queen had asked him to patrol the palace grounds instead of train the others, because she had found a replacement.
So, it had been almost six months since their arrival at the Fairy Realm, when the Queen requested for Celebfaer to come to the library with Legolas for one of his lessons. The lessons had become a daily event and the Queen expected as much of Legolas as Galadriel had of Celebfaer when she had been under her care. Though Legolas did not have to do the meditations and the rest of the work, the Queen expected him to remember most of what she taught him and she tended to ask him questions about the last lesson at the start of the next. This lesson was on the history of the Fairies and Celebfaer did not know why Legolas needed to know it, nor why her mother had requested her presence.
So, when her mother wasn't looking, Celebfaer went for a wonder in the library, researching spells and summonings. She still needed to learn about what the spells she knew did, because she knew them, but she did not know their correct use or what to do with them. Her lessons had never really been finished and she needed to know in case a spell she used one day backfired and she killed herself, or worse, Legolas.
The lesson took up the whole morning and after lunch Celebfaer and Legolas were free to roam where they wished. So, Celebfaer took Legolas up to her room, where she changed her dress into a silver more fairy-like dress and Legolas smiled, then pulled her down so that she was sitting on his knee, where he started to nuzzle her ear and neck, but fearing they would be seen and told off, Celebfaer pulled herself away from him.
"Legolas, shall we go for a ride in the woods?" She asked before he could protest about her leaving and he threw her a look.
"Celebfaer, it is your private rooms. I do not think we shall be disturbed." He said and she laughed.
"Servants. They come in here to clean and they could walk in at any moment." She said. "And we have not been for a ride the whole time we have been here! Our horses must be itching for a ride." She said, then she looked straight into his eyes, pleading with him. 'And I know of a place where we shall not be disturbed.' She sent to him and nodded.
"As you wish, my Lady." He said, the hint of a smile on his lips.
Celebfaer just laughed then stood up and led the way to the stables.
At the stables, they rubbed their horses down then took them out for a warm up run around the yard, before mounting and riding off through the trees. They rode for no longer than half an hour until they came to the place Celebfaer had mentioned. It was the waterhole that Mildred had shown her once and she smiled when she saw Legolas' reaction.
"It is beautiful." He said a smile on his face and she laughed, then dismounted, letting her horse graze where it wanted.
Legolas did the same, but she ran off, before he could get close, running to the edge of the water, then running out along the surface of it, staying above it and not getting the tiniest bit wet. Legolas looked at her in wonder, he could not believe what he was seeing. Looking at her wings, they flapped softly as though a gentle breeze pushed them, but he did not believe it was them that were holding her above the water.
"Come and join me melamin, if you can catch me!" She said, running to the middle of the water and turning to watch him as he stripped off his tunic and took off his shoes, so that he was wearing only his leggings and ran into the water after her, making a huge splash as he dived down under the surface. He could not walk on water as she did, though they could both walk on snow as they had discovered during their journey to Lothlorien all those years ago.
When he did not resurface, Celebfaer started to panic and flapping her wings she tipped herself upside down, hovering above the water so that her nose was almost touching the water and her legs were in the air. She was searching under the surface for any sign of him that she could see.
She saw a movement, but before she could pull back, it came to the surface, wrapped its arms around her and pulled her into the water. Laughing, she pushed Legolas down as she swum up to the surface. He came up a few seconds after her, then before she could speak he pulled her into his arms and kissed her.
He kissed her as though it had been years since their last kiss and as though he wanted to treasure this kiss forever because it would be their last. She had never had him kiss her like this and the emotion behind it scared her. Celebfaer tried to break away from him, but Legolas would not let her and she knew she would have to break off soon or else she would not be able to stop herself.
The kiss lasted for what seemed like an eternity and when they finally broke off, Celebfaer was breathless and she looked into Legolas' eyes with shock and surprise written all over her face. The emotions in his eyes were so intense that it surprised her all the more. What she saw in his eyes was a love for her that came from the very core of his being and along with that love was the happiness that he was feeling. It was so intense that she realized at that moment, why Elves are able to die of grief, because they are so passionate about everything that their heart and soul is put into it. So, without their heart or their soul, they will eventually die, deprived of their passion.
"Melamin, thank you for bringing me here." Legolas said softly and she nodded.
"Thank you for allowing me to." She replied just as softly, then she kissed him again, this time not caring what the consequences were.
The distance that they had to keep when they were in the presence of other fairies was starting to get to her too and she longed for the freedom that they had among the elves. There they could flirt and show any kind of affection towards each other that they liked, but with the fairies it was different. Though they were married by Elvish lore, the fairies made them sleep in separate beds and keep their distance as though they were merely friends. They were just waiting to see the two do more than that before they could pull them down and have the Queen banish Celebfaer from the Realm. Elysa was the one who wanted it the most and when they were around her they never mentioned anything remotely related to their relationship because Elysa was waiting to pounce on Celebfaer and bring her down. Celebfaer had never done anything to her sister but the girl hated her with a passion.
A little while later Celebfaer and Legolas came out of the waterhole, saturated in water and oblivious to their environment and walking hand in hand.
"We can't go back to the City like this melamin." Celebfaer said looking down at her saturated dress.
"You can tell them I went for a swim and pulled you in after me." Legolas said smiling and she looked at him, unimpressed.
"Let us lie in the sun to dry off." She said and Legolas nodded, then they found a patch of ground that was dry and in the sun, then lay down, side by side, Legolas looking up at the sky and Celebfaer on her stomach, huddled close to Legolas with her head resting on his chest.
They lay there in a comfortable silence, Legolas, deep in thought, a frown forming on his face occasionally before it disappeared, while Celebfaer lay enjoying the late afternoon sun, the rise and fall of Legolas' chest, slowly putting her to sleep.
"Celebfaer?" Legolas said softly when they were almost dry and Celebfaer opened her eyes then propped herself up on her elbows to look down at him.
"Yes?" She asked sleepily, wondering what he was thinking about, because he only called her by her name if he was thinking deeply about something.
"Would you ever want a child?" He asked and she frowned at him, then started playing with his hair, as she always did when they were lying awake and talking.
"Of course I would, why do you ask?"
"Well, is it possible that you would be with child."
"What do you mean?" She asked, as she stopped playing with his hair and looked down into his eyes.
"Is it possible to have a half-elf half-fairy child?" He asked her and she smiled.
"Of course it is."
"How do you know?" He asked, sounded distressed.
"I cannot tell you, so you will have to trust me." She said, then put a finger to his lips to stop him from speaking. "Legolas, if you are worried about children, you should not, for we will have as many as you like one day!" She said, leaning down to kiss him tenderly. "I promise." She said, smiling at him.
"Sooner than later, melamin. You are with child." He said softly and she searched his face for a few seconds to see if he was lying, before laughing.
"Legolas, surely you jest!" She said and he shook his head.
"If you are not with child now, then you will be before the years end." He said and she laughed again.
"What makes you so sure?" She asked and Legolas sighed.
"I cannot tell you, so you will just have to trust me." Legolas said with a smile and Celebfaer laughed, then punched him playfully, as he pulled her on top of him and kissed her.
"As much as I wish this day would never end, eventually it will, melamin." Celebfaer said when they broke off and Legolas nodded. "Come now, let us call the horses and head back to the palace, it is almost time for dinner and we dare not to be late." She added, using her wings to help her get up before he could make her forget what she had just said.
Legolas just nodded, then got up and he whistled so that both the horses came running. "Let us go back then." He said, so they mounted and returned to the palace.
They had a little time before dinner, so they rubbed down their horses and fed them before heading up to the dinning hall.
Dinner was as normal, the Queen, Sabin, Legolas and Celebfaer held a conversation, while Elysa ate her dinner quickly and quietly. She finished long before everyone else, but due to custom, she waited for the Queen to finish at least before she yawned.
"I am rather tired, so if I may be excused mother?" Elysa asked, looking at the Queen, who in turn nodded.
When they were all finished dinner, they stayed up talking for a short while, before they all retired and went to bed.