Alrighty…so now after that perfectly suish reunion scene…well, it'll be fixed eventually, later in the story. Ah well. Enjoy the rants of Marina and the ermm..okay, not that I have anything against Legolas, he's fairly cool. But rather easy to poke fun at. So enjoy. I hope. Any which way—love, hate, find root canals easier to bear, want to be included in the tale, find it a lovely bedtime story…please review.
"Maybe fairytales do come true! HA! Since when have fairytales ever come true! Despite the fact that he'll be battling orcs, spiders, Uruks…and that petty criminal Sauron. Fairytales come true! Riiiiight—have you forgotten that there's something a little more important—say, the fate of the WORLD on the line here!" Marina was pacing back and forth in a frenzied anger, frustrated that the secretive smile had not left her friend's face for the past hour. "Have you listened to a word I've said! The free world does not entitle you to go around snogging guys in tights. Even if they're future kings. And especially not if they're BETROTHED."
Brittany merely pressed a finger to her swollen lips and shook her head. Marina threw her hangs up in disgust and stomped from the room. Brittany stayed put, her hand pressed against her cheek as she remembered Estel running his hands through her hair and the warmth of the sun as it created patterns through the leaved.
Marina continued stomping through the halls, passing Virginia and Legolas walking side by side as she shot them death glares and muttered something about love blinding. Virginia steered Legolas off to the side with the comment of, "I just saved your life."
"I thank you for that, but I'm afraid I'll have to leave you in the company of this despicable twin, Elrohir," he bowed low and kissed her hand, "I have a few things to take care of, but I will undoubtedly see you at dinner, try not to get attacked by..what was it…furbies? Between now and then?" He then vanished with a quick smile. Virginia went to find Brittany—she needed an explanation. A Big One.
Legolas wandered in the direction of the library, and paused when he heard a string of cursed followed by a loud thump, a crash, and more curses. He peered around a set of shelves and found Marina glaring at several books and sporting a sizable bruise on her forehead. Several heavy tomes and a couple of loose pages were scattered about on the floor, but she was still reaching for one on the top shelf. It teetered precariously on edge, and Legolas knew that in a second it would create a second, sizable lump on Marina's head. Sighing, he walked unnoticed behind her and grabbed the book from her outstretched fingertips. It was one on herb lore.
"Give it back!" He raised an eyebrow skeptically, "A bit of light reading?" Legolas added sarcastically, "What does a young girl like you need a book of spells for?"
"To put curses on annoying, nosy, male elves. Thank you for your assistance," and with that, she plucked the book from his outstretched arms and attempted to shove past the Ellyn leaning against the bookshelf in front of her. He saw she was dangerously close to breaking and recalled Virginia's long description of her friends—"she's incredibly stubborn—won't take help from anyone. She may act naive, but she tries to protect us all from the world's problems. A bit of a messiah complex." It was time to change tactics.
"Would you like to go for a walk?" He voiced it so she didn't have many options, but Marina was pissed beyond belief and attempted again to barrel past him, with the retort, "Shouldn't you be snogging Virginia and fulfilling those mary-sue fantasies?"
yet not even ten minutes later she found herself strolling the unkempt reaches of the gardens as a very annoying elf attempted to pry some information from her. So she hit him with the whole story. She began at Brittany's first "disappearance" nearly seven years earlier, her experiences, the prophecy, her subsequent return, etc. and ended with the three girls being in Lothlorien now. Gradually, this chronological accounting of events turned into a rant against love and Legolas had to piece the story together for himself. It went something along the lines of Brittany falling into Middle Earth, spending a lot of time with Estel, falling for Estel, Elrond locking her memory so she would not say something to ruin the course of the future—and hiding the little piece of information about Estel's eventual marriage to Arwen (perhaps Elrond had hoped that they'd fall into lust…love…whichever, and thus spare his daughter.) And once back in modern "real" earth, Brittany's refusal to discuss or watch anything remotely Lord of the Rings. And then somehow she returns to her once time fling and "only love" and … with said once time fling. Legolas found it to be a bit of a conspiracy theory and not actual fact, but it made some sense. What he did recall was the Evenstar binding herself to Strider.
"dot-dot-dot?" he questioned and watched Marina turn crimson.