A work in progress

Chapter twelve

POV: Haldir

By: PiXiE

Nearly a day had passed since the ball, I had been lethargic for the most part, wine had a tendency to do that to me.

I had spent the time mulling over the events, spending much time in my room by the window looking over the inhabitants and their goings on.

Imladris was definitely beautiful, no one could contest this, though Lothlorien was better, astonishingly breathtaking and filled with light, the very essence of the elves, it was truly the heart of elvendom.

I was currently walking a well-trodden path, listening to nature, it's birdsong, the calls of animals, the soft rustle of leaves as a light wind passed through them.

"Haldir!" I turned surprised at my tranquillity being broken.

"Lord Glorfindel" I greeted, nodding slightly at him

"Are you well?"

"Aye, milord" I replied, I didn't think he had come to ask me of my well being

"Call me Glorfindel" He sighed, falling into step with me "How is the Lady Laingalad?"

"She was in good health the last time I conversed with her"

"Which was when?" He persisted

"Our engagement celebration" I replied stepping over a stone lodged in the path

"You are to marry soon?"

"Aye" I replied crisply "We will spend another three weeks here preparing to leave, Aglarebwen needs to sort out what she wants to take to Caras Galadhon. We will marry in Lorien just after that"

"Leaving you three weeks to sort out your problem with Lady Cerina"

I looked at him in surprise, did all of Imladris know of my problem "I thought I had solved it"

"Nay" Glorfindel shook his head "That is why I sought you out. She was talking, rather loudly with another Lady. I came to tell you immediately"

"Hannon lle" I replied thank you I sighed heavily this situation was getting slightly dire and Aglarebwen and her family were not to find out. The wedding had to go ahead without any glitches, that then brought me onto Anawen, at the present time she was not a problem, just a hindrance, but if she found some sort of twisted, misguided resolve I could be in a lot of trouble

"Something else plagues you" Glorfindel noted breaking my contemplative silence.

"Unfortunately Cerina is not the only elleth that follows me"

"Really?" Glorfindel sounded slightly amused

"Aye, Lady Anawen"

"She is quite young is she not? What did you do to her?"

"That is the thing! I overheard her talking about me, I had never spoken a word or given a second glance to her"

"You have a gift I suppose" The elf fought to keep laughter from his voice which only succeeded in agitating me.

"Always getting a bulls eye on a target from 400 yards away with your eyes closed is a gift! This is a curse!"

Glorfindel started laughing, not a light elegant laugh, but a full guffaw, he clutched his sides and tears rolled down his cheeks "You are ever the one for melodramatics Haldir!"

"Humph, you must have had this attention before and after you died! How did you get rid of these elleths?"

Wiping a tear from his eye Glorfindel replied "The elleths of *my* generation have sailed west already, or-"

"And which generation would that be, my Lord? Those from your first life or your second?"

Glorfindel frowned and blinked slightly "Both. But as I was saying, I must have realised that I like them not and do now leave me alone"

"But Anawen is hardly of my generation! She is nearly 1000 years younger then I!"

"It hasn't stopped you before"

I gave him a side long glance trying to ascertain his meaning "I will be married soon, and yet these two Ladies" I said the last word in disdain "Still believe that they have a chance with me. One whom I've never spoken to and the other is a misguided harlot"

"You are most amusing soon to-be-march-warden, no matter what the stars say"

"The stars?" I deadpanned "The stars in the sky say I am not humorous? I did not know you knew how to communicate with them" Maybe the Balrog hit him over the head rather hard.

"I am talking of Elladan and Elrohir, it is an Ahh...pet name, I overheard elleths calling them that and I have taunted them with it ever since"

"Furthering my belief that women loose all brains when it comes to males, though, anyone who like those two must not have a brain"

"Careful, Mellon nin my friend you are insulting you betrothed best friends"

I have always insulted them, and vice-versa, though lately they prefer to patronise and shower me with sugar coated compliments"

Glorfindel smiled looking at the sun "And this is where I bid you my leave, for I have business to attend to"

I nodded in goodbye before walking down a separate path; I was in the mood for horse riding.

I approached the stables and went in search for my horse; I found him and saw Aglarebwen washing her horse. She seemed to have her own horse housed in the same stable block.

I was in two minds as to whether to talk to her, she was engrossed in her own task yet I was her betrothed, and surely I should talk to her, show her some affection.

The decision was made for me, however, as something threw itself at me, Causing me to stagger at the weight and momentum. Unfortunately, the thing had caught me by surprise and I found myself falling to the floor.

I looked up and scowled "Lady Cerina" I greeted through clenched teeth, would she ever learn?

"This position seems very familiar," She whispered huskily into my ear, her mouth very close to it's tip.

"No, I don't believe it is, now would you kindly get off me"

She put her hands on the ground at both sides of my face; she looked down at me her hair making a curtain around my face "And why would I want to do that?" She pushed her hips into mine and I made a noise at the back of my throat what she mistook for pleasure.

"I knew it," She hissed in a satisfied whisper "She cannot give you what you want"

I sighed and eyed her with a steely glare "And how can you presume that you know me after merely having you bed me after two weeks for some fun?" I was being unnecessarily harsh to her but it needed to be done, Aglarebwen was near by.

"You do not mean it, you are just testing my love" Love? And there was I thinking that the affair had just been a lusty one, she just had to add something to complicate this already trivial mix.

"Love?" I sneered, "I have never and will never be in love with you"

I sat up only to have her straddling my lap "you are only saying this because she is here"

"I thought I had explained this to you at the ball, I have never even liked you. You were a good lust object, yes, but that was where it ended. You have romanticised a situation as elleths tend to do but you have become delirious and obsessive now would you please get off of me so I can ride my horse"

"I'd rather you ride-" the nerve of this elleth

"Don't be crude, you are apparently a lady, though I'm not so sure, so do act like one and get off of me"

"If that is what you wish"

I have wished that for the last five or so minutes. She kissed the tip of my ear before shunting away as if nothing had happened, the nerve of that girl!

Sighing, I stood up and looked around to realise that Aglarebwen had left. Had she seen me? Most probably, What if she told her parents? Everything I wished would not happen had I made my way to my horse and went off riding. A few hours would delay the inevitable; maybe my march-warden status was not as near as I had thought.

A/n sorry for the delay! Mo couldn't get on the internet to send me this chapter.

Dakota: Be scared, no wait you'll enjoy Fran version of the wedding night, all she's doing is taking her fantasies and inserting Laingalad in her place- you know she tried to steal the end of this chapter for her won enjoyment?

Haldir's heart and soul: The wedding night is ages away, rest assured.

Chibi: Hmm.*wonders* I can't remember if she's warmed up to him by the wedding night.

Me: I'd marry 'the stars' as well!

PiXiE