A/N: I LOVE YOU ALL!!! I got plenty of reviews for that one! *hugs
everyone and passes out Figwit cookies for all*
Special thankies to Shivvers, for being my special beta-dude. *hugs
shivvers*
Disclaimer: I'm not dead. I'm not Tolkien. I've learned to live with it. ~sigh~
Ata, Ata!" Alí yelled, banging open the front door, and dropping the freshly bought waffles on the ground beside her.
"Alí, mani naa raika?" (what is wrong) her mother asked as she ran into the kitchen in a rush.
"You'll never believe what Legolas and I saw at the store!" she said. Lily could see that something was terribly wrong.
"What? What did you see?" Lily asked, dropping the pot she had been washing in the sink and walking over to her daughter and son. "What, Legolas? Why so quiet?" She suddenly realized that Legolas was dumbfounded about something, and quite shocked out of words.
"I saw... me..." he said, raising his hand to his forehead.
"Nonsense. You can't have seen yourself, there have been no cameras around here!" Lily chastised.
"I didn't see me now, I was older..."
"What do you mean?" Lily was really, really curious now. How did they see the future?
"It was a movie preview, Ata, about something called "The Lord of the Rings", and they said that this was the first movie out of three of them." Alí explained. Lily went silent.
"Amin hiraetha, hinie, I need to be alone for a while, to figure all of this out," Lily said finally, before retreating into the master bedroom.
Legolas and Alí stood in the kitchen for what seemed like hours, trying to make out what was happening. Legolas soon decided to change the subject. "Hey, do you want to go build that swing?" he asked, trying his best to be his normally jaunty self.
"Alright," Alíana said, "We can probably find some wood and nails and stuff in the garage."
Both of them walked into the garage, where a single green Ford Explorer resided, (they did not need a car much, only for their mother's doings), and along the other wall, where another car would have gone, was a workbench, with hammers, nails, screws, and other craftsman knickknacks hung on the wall. Alí disappeared below the bench for a minute before standing up with a couple pieces of wood.
"Here's the old wood from the play set that used to be out there. Ata threw the plastic swings away," She said. "How many swings are we making?"
"We could make two, one for you and one for me," he said. He spotted a deflated tire in the corner of the garage. "And we can use that, as another swing... in case your sister ever wanted to join us. Like that'd ever happen." He winked.
"Okay... have you ever done anything like this before?" Alí asked, a hammer in one hand and a block of wood in the other.
"Noooooope." Legolas said. "I guess that we should just hammer the wood blocks together, so it will support weight without breaking, and we can use these thingies," he held up screws with a loop hole on top of it, "to hang the chains through."
"You sound like you know what you're doing." Alí commented.
"Well, I used to watch HGTV a lot, and that some of the shows were about woodwork. But I've never done anything of the sort." He took the hammer from Alí and another large wood block from the stack of wood from the bottom of the bench. He also found a tube labeled 'Fast Drying Elmers Wood Glue' and put that on the table as well.
"We can cut these to about two feet by one foot, glue them together, and nail them securely." He said.
"It'll be a miracle if these turn out alright," Alí muttered, taking a saw from the pegboard and attempting to measure and saw the wood.
Three confusing hours, six scrap swings, four mountain dews, five diet cokes, and more nails than one can count later, Legolas and Alí emerged from the garage, carrying a ladder, two relatively good swings, ropes, and the tire. They made their way outside to the pebbled area, and found two trees with strong branches to hang the swings on. Alí climbed the tree and tied up two of the swings. They then moved to another close by tree and hung up the tire swing.
"Wow," Legolas said, "these actually work," he sat down in one of the swings cautiously, and swung gently back and forth. Alí did the same in the swing next to him.
"You're right," Alí commented. She pushed hard off the ground, and swung her legs back and forth, getting slowly higher and higher. When she could not go any higher, she waited a second, before jumping off the swing and soaring across the yard. She landed catlike ten feet from Legolas, who was laughing, his blue eyes sparkling in the setting sunlight.
"Let me try, I haven't done that in years," he joked, swinging higher and higher... He jumped off, and flew towards Alí, who had not moved from her spot. "Ahhhh! Mooooooove!" he yelled, before he was sent crashing into her.
"Hehe..." he chuckled. "I guess I warned you,"
"Legolas, GET OFF OF ME!!" Alí whined, from where Legolas had landed on her lap. "My feet are falling asleep!"
"I can't be that heavy, can I?" he asked, not moving a muscle.
"Yes!" She whined.
"I think I'll stay here a while..." he said, jokingly.
"ATAAAA!" Alí called across the yard. "LEGOLAS WON'T GET OFF OF ME!!!"
"Legolas, get off of your sister!" came a shout from the open window. Tattle tale..." Legolas muttered. Alí smirked.
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Lily walked silently into her room, having just found out about Legolas' debut in the movies...
'The future... but, how?' she thought, sitting on the enormous bed. She leaned over and picked up the flower from the bedside table. She fingered the white flower, and smelled it... it still smelled as good as when he gave it to her... 'Elrohir, how I miss you...' she thought.
Elrohir had only been to this world twice, and both times were at night. He had come here with her originally; he was going to stay with them, but when plans changed, and he was needed at home, he had to leave. He promised to come back, but he left her with a piece of him. When they made love that first night, he impregnated her with Alíana; the second time, he came to visit, but he made sure that it was when Alíana could not see. He had come into her room, and whispered his love to her, before impregnating his wife for a second time.
Though Lily did not like raising three children alone, she could manage it. She knew that Elrohir was in the other world, doing his duty as one of the princes of Rivendell, and she respected his position.
The two of them had met long ago, in Lothlórien, where Lily used to live. Elrohir had been with his twin Elladan and younger sister Arwen visiting their grandmother, Galadriel. They had met while both observing a sunset, Lily on the hill, and Elrohir sitting on a branch. When Elrohir had seen her, he instantly fell in love, and sang her the most beautiful song that she had ever heard. She was also instantly smitten, and the two of them were married years later. But when he had to leave Lothlórien, he gave her one of the flowers of Galadriel. He had said 'as long as our love is strong, this flower will live,'.
And now, 1500 years later, their love was still as strong as ever, for the flower remained intact.
Lily attempted mind communication. All elves had a natural talent of telecommunication, but some of a certain lineage were exceptionally talented with the power. "Elrohir, Elrohir, Listen to me," she chanted. She felt her mind connect with his, and she felt a wave of love and passion sweep over her.
"Mani, melamin?" (What, my love), he asked, worriedly, his fair voice filling Lily's head.
"We must come soon, there is not an option now," she said hurriedly. The communication between realms was beginning to hurt her head.
"I will set it up, walk into the forest tomorrow morning at dawn, bring little, and just keep walking. I will see you then... Amin mela lle," he whispered, before breaking the connection.
"Amin mela lle," she whispered to the silence ringing in her ears. To hear his voice for the first time in over a year was the best thing that had happened for a while. She still held the flower, and as she brought it to her face to smell it again, a small tear leaked down her cheek...
She heard laughing from the garage, and a TV program upstairs. She knew that her children were fine to their own doings for now.
She decided she would not take much with her. She could obviously come back, if needed. She replaced the flower on the nightstand, and stood up off the bed. She wiped a tear away and went back into the kitchen to start preparing dinner.
Shouts were heard from outside. "Ataaaa! Legolas won't get off of meeeee!" came the annoyed scream of her first born.
"Legolas, get off your sister!" she called back, amused to see her adoptive son sitting on Alí's stomach.
The two of them came bounding into the kitchen. When they saw their serious mother, both stopped and walked over to her.
"Ata, are you feeling alright? You look pale." Legolas said, worriedly.
"Go upstairs and pack whatever is valuable to you. We leave at dawn, and tell your sister!" she added.
"Ata, are you serious?" Alí cried happily.
Legolas was speechless. He was going to see his father...
"I am serious, now don't bring too much, and tell your sister, no electronics!" she said. "There is little chance that you will be coming back here, and when we get there, it will be like being born into a new life." She said, her eyes glistening with tears of excitement and joy.
Alí hugged her mother, Legolas did the same, and both of them bounded up the stairs happily.
Alí stepped into her room and immediately began to wonder what she needed in the other realm. She took a cross stitch patterned pillow and hugged it to her chest She knew she would take this. It was of vines of green leaves with white flowers intertwined in them. Her mother made it for her ten years ago, and she had always held it dear.
She lifted open her jewelry box and gently raised a heart-shaped locket. The locket opened to reveal a small picture of her and Legolas. She was on a swing, and Legolas was behind, hugging her, and his head peeking out childishly from behind hers.
It reminded her of how dear her brother was to her, even if he was of no blood relation. He was always a comfort to her whenever she needed it. And he offered whatever council he could give, if he could give any council she had not heard from her mother. He was a star gazing partner, a person to laugh with, and forever he would hold a special place in her heart.
A/N: Again, hello! I hope you loved the Figwit cookies! Glorfindel cookies for everybody who reviews this! And I really appreciate the reviewers that say that they enjoy this, and that they think that it is original, because I'm still working on the originality points. ^^
I'm working the next chapter, so it won't come so fast! Sorry!
...and remember what Thumper said: If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. Its stupid and gross to get reviews, because it does nothing but put people down; and I get the feeling that you all like to torment me and others who write Mary Sues. If I don't like a story, I DON'T READ OR REVIEW IT! So learn from those like me. Oh yeah, and it is a SIN to use vulgar language...so NO CUSSING. It's just wrong. (sorry about the religion thing, I'm learning about it in class...)
So R+R!!! (THANKS AGAIN FOR SHIVVERS' HELP!!!) ~Ivy
Disclaimer: I'm not dead. I'm not Tolkien. I've learned to live with it. ~sigh~
Ata, Ata!" Alí yelled, banging open the front door, and dropping the freshly bought waffles on the ground beside her.
"Alí, mani naa raika?" (what is wrong) her mother asked as she ran into the kitchen in a rush.
"You'll never believe what Legolas and I saw at the store!" she said. Lily could see that something was terribly wrong.
"What? What did you see?" Lily asked, dropping the pot she had been washing in the sink and walking over to her daughter and son. "What, Legolas? Why so quiet?" She suddenly realized that Legolas was dumbfounded about something, and quite shocked out of words.
"I saw... me..." he said, raising his hand to his forehead.
"Nonsense. You can't have seen yourself, there have been no cameras around here!" Lily chastised.
"I didn't see me now, I was older..."
"What do you mean?" Lily was really, really curious now. How did they see the future?
"It was a movie preview, Ata, about something called "The Lord of the Rings", and they said that this was the first movie out of three of them." Alí explained. Lily went silent.
"Amin hiraetha, hinie, I need to be alone for a while, to figure all of this out," Lily said finally, before retreating into the master bedroom.
Legolas and Alí stood in the kitchen for what seemed like hours, trying to make out what was happening. Legolas soon decided to change the subject. "Hey, do you want to go build that swing?" he asked, trying his best to be his normally jaunty self.
"Alright," Alíana said, "We can probably find some wood and nails and stuff in the garage."
Both of them walked into the garage, where a single green Ford Explorer resided, (they did not need a car much, only for their mother's doings), and along the other wall, where another car would have gone, was a workbench, with hammers, nails, screws, and other craftsman knickknacks hung on the wall. Alí disappeared below the bench for a minute before standing up with a couple pieces of wood.
"Here's the old wood from the play set that used to be out there. Ata threw the plastic swings away," She said. "How many swings are we making?"
"We could make two, one for you and one for me," he said. He spotted a deflated tire in the corner of the garage. "And we can use that, as another swing... in case your sister ever wanted to join us. Like that'd ever happen." He winked.
"Okay... have you ever done anything like this before?" Alí asked, a hammer in one hand and a block of wood in the other.
"Noooooope." Legolas said. "I guess that we should just hammer the wood blocks together, so it will support weight without breaking, and we can use these thingies," he held up screws with a loop hole on top of it, "to hang the chains through."
"You sound like you know what you're doing." Alí commented.
"Well, I used to watch HGTV a lot, and that some of the shows were about woodwork. But I've never done anything of the sort." He took the hammer from Alí and another large wood block from the stack of wood from the bottom of the bench. He also found a tube labeled 'Fast Drying Elmers Wood Glue' and put that on the table as well.
"We can cut these to about two feet by one foot, glue them together, and nail them securely." He said.
"It'll be a miracle if these turn out alright," Alí muttered, taking a saw from the pegboard and attempting to measure and saw the wood.
Three confusing hours, six scrap swings, four mountain dews, five diet cokes, and more nails than one can count later, Legolas and Alí emerged from the garage, carrying a ladder, two relatively good swings, ropes, and the tire. They made their way outside to the pebbled area, and found two trees with strong branches to hang the swings on. Alí climbed the tree and tied up two of the swings. They then moved to another close by tree and hung up the tire swing.
"Wow," Legolas said, "these actually work," he sat down in one of the swings cautiously, and swung gently back and forth. Alí did the same in the swing next to him.
"You're right," Alí commented. She pushed hard off the ground, and swung her legs back and forth, getting slowly higher and higher. When she could not go any higher, she waited a second, before jumping off the swing and soaring across the yard. She landed catlike ten feet from Legolas, who was laughing, his blue eyes sparkling in the setting sunlight.
"Let me try, I haven't done that in years," he joked, swinging higher and higher... He jumped off, and flew towards Alí, who had not moved from her spot. "Ahhhh! Mooooooove!" he yelled, before he was sent crashing into her.
"Hehe..." he chuckled. "I guess I warned you,"
"Legolas, GET OFF OF ME!!" Alí whined, from where Legolas had landed on her lap. "My feet are falling asleep!"
"I can't be that heavy, can I?" he asked, not moving a muscle.
"Yes!" She whined.
"I think I'll stay here a while..." he said, jokingly.
"ATAAAA!" Alí called across the yard. "LEGOLAS WON'T GET OFF OF ME!!!"
"Legolas, get off of your sister!" came a shout from the open window. Tattle tale..." Legolas muttered. Alí smirked.
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Lily walked silently into her room, having just found out about Legolas' debut in the movies...
'The future... but, how?' she thought, sitting on the enormous bed. She leaned over and picked up the flower from the bedside table. She fingered the white flower, and smelled it... it still smelled as good as when he gave it to her... 'Elrohir, how I miss you...' she thought.
Elrohir had only been to this world twice, and both times were at night. He had come here with her originally; he was going to stay with them, but when plans changed, and he was needed at home, he had to leave. He promised to come back, but he left her with a piece of him. When they made love that first night, he impregnated her with Alíana; the second time, he came to visit, but he made sure that it was when Alíana could not see. He had come into her room, and whispered his love to her, before impregnating his wife for a second time.
Though Lily did not like raising three children alone, she could manage it. She knew that Elrohir was in the other world, doing his duty as one of the princes of Rivendell, and she respected his position.
The two of them had met long ago, in Lothlórien, where Lily used to live. Elrohir had been with his twin Elladan and younger sister Arwen visiting their grandmother, Galadriel. They had met while both observing a sunset, Lily on the hill, and Elrohir sitting on a branch. When Elrohir had seen her, he instantly fell in love, and sang her the most beautiful song that she had ever heard. She was also instantly smitten, and the two of them were married years later. But when he had to leave Lothlórien, he gave her one of the flowers of Galadriel. He had said 'as long as our love is strong, this flower will live,'.
And now, 1500 years later, their love was still as strong as ever, for the flower remained intact.
Lily attempted mind communication. All elves had a natural talent of telecommunication, but some of a certain lineage were exceptionally talented with the power. "Elrohir, Elrohir, Listen to me," she chanted. She felt her mind connect with his, and she felt a wave of love and passion sweep over her.
"Mani, melamin?" (What, my love), he asked, worriedly, his fair voice filling Lily's head.
"We must come soon, there is not an option now," she said hurriedly. The communication between realms was beginning to hurt her head.
"I will set it up, walk into the forest tomorrow morning at dawn, bring little, and just keep walking. I will see you then... Amin mela lle," he whispered, before breaking the connection.
"Amin mela lle," she whispered to the silence ringing in her ears. To hear his voice for the first time in over a year was the best thing that had happened for a while. She still held the flower, and as she brought it to her face to smell it again, a small tear leaked down her cheek...
She heard laughing from the garage, and a TV program upstairs. She knew that her children were fine to their own doings for now.
She decided she would not take much with her. She could obviously come back, if needed. She replaced the flower on the nightstand, and stood up off the bed. She wiped a tear away and went back into the kitchen to start preparing dinner.
Shouts were heard from outside. "Ataaaa! Legolas won't get off of meeeee!" came the annoyed scream of her first born.
"Legolas, get off your sister!" she called back, amused to see her adoptive son sitting on Alí's stomach.
The two of them came bounding into the kitchen. When they saw their serious mother, both stopped and walked over to her.
"Ata, are you feeling alright? You look pale." Legolas said, worriedly.
"Go upstairs and pack whatever is valuable to you. We leave at dawn, and tell your sister!" she added.
"Ata, are you serious?" Alí cried happily.
Legolas was speechless. He was going to see his father...
"I am serious, now don't bring too much, and tell your sister, no electronics!" she said. "There is little chance that you will be coming back here, and when we get there, it will be like being born into a new life." She said, her eyes glistening with tears of excitement and joy.
Alí hugged her mother, Legolas did the same, and both of them bounded up the stairs happily.
Alí stepped into her room and immediately began to wonder what she needed in the other realm. She took a cross stitch patterned pillow and hugged it to her chest She knew she would take this. It was of vines of green leaves with white flowers intertwined in them. Her mother made it for her ten years ago, and she had always held it dear.
She lifted open her jewelry box and gently raised a heart-shaped locket. The locket opened to reveal a small picture of her and Legolas. She was on a swing, and Legolas was behind, hugging her, and his head peeking out childishly from behind hers.
It reminded her of how dear her brother was to her, even if he was of no blood relation. He was always a comfort to her whenever she needed it. And he offered whatever council he could give, if he could give any council she had not heard from her mother. He was a star gazing partner, a person to laugh with, and forever he would hold a special place in her heart.
A/N: Again, hello! I hope you loved the Figwit cookies! Glorfindel cookies for everybody who reviews this! And I really appreciate the reviewers that say that they enjoy this, and that they think that it is original, because I'm still working on the originality points. ^^
I'm working the next chapter, so it won't come so fast! Sorry!
...and remember what Thumper said: If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all. Its stupid and gross to get reviews, because it does nothing but put people down; and I get the feeling that you all like to torment me and others who write Mary Sues. If I don't like a story, I DON'T READ OR REVIEW IT! So learn from those like me. Oh yeah, and it is a SIN to use vulgar language...so NO CUSSING. It's just wrong. (sorry about the religion thing, I'm learning about it in class...)
So R+R!!! (THANKS AGAIN FOR SHIVVERS' HELP!!!) ~Ivy