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God-Girl2004- Yes, I do know that my story is different from Tolkien's version. I made it different for a reason. I always wanted to have Aragorn have a sister and I might do it again in a future fanfic but I won't give away all my secrets. Thanks for your review and have a nice day!!

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Disclaimer: I own only Amaris and the maid (so far). Everything else is Tolkien's. I would never take credit for his work.

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Chapter 7: Married to an Acquaintance

As Thranduil continued to make his way around the room, he would pick up an item and tell me a story of my childhood about the particular object. I guess he was doing this because he thought it would help my memory. I noticed that as he walked around the room that I began to grow more comfortable around him. I began to see him as a father figure even though I knew he already was.

I listened to him tell his short tales and smile as I tried to remember what he was telling me. When he was done he came and sat across from me again. He asked me if I was feeling all right, if my head hurt, and those kinds of things. When he was finished "analyzing" me he stood up from his seat, went to the door, and turned back to face me.

Before he left he told me that I needed to remember two things:1) Try to remember as much as possible before I went with Legolas. 2) The other thing was quote, "I don't want anyone who doesn't have to know about your memory loss to find out," Then after saying that he turned to the door and left.

As I was sitting there, left only with the aroma he left in the room as my reminder that he had been there. I thought about what he had said and decided that I was going to make the best of the situation.

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I had moved quite a bit around the room, exploring its secrets and looking at all the little knickknacks. When the door was knocked on again I was sitting at the desk not realizing that it was already dinnertime.

I walked up to the door and opened it. It was Legolas.

When I started to move out of the room he asked, "Um…Amaris…are you not going to change for dinner?" I looked down at myself and then at him, comparing my clothing to his.

"Why should I? You're dressed the same way as me," I told him.

He rolled his eyes an said, "I'm not going to argue with you over it. Come on, my lady we will be late," I looped my arm through his, pulled the door shut, and grinned. We started walking down the hall in silence, both of us nervous.

The silence was broken when Legolas started talking, "You know tomorrow, if you like we could go and visit the stables to see your horse. I'm sure she misses you."

"I'd like that," I said smiling to myself.

"Good, then I'll come and get you first thing in the morning," He paused looking like he wanted to say something.

"What is it?" I asked.

"I was going to ask…no, you wouldn't want to…" He started.

"I wouldn't want to what?"

"Ride Gypsy; I was going to say that she probably was getting very tired of being in the pasture. I know I shouldn't have even thought to ask you that."

"No I want to." I said getting all excited. "Man, I haven't ridden a horse since I was little." My face fell again. "I meant…"

"I understand," He spoke solemnly. The silence floated around us once more. The next time it was broken, I was the criminal.

"The King wants me to go with you to Rivendell," I said very confident with myself, challenging him to tell me no.

"Well Amaris I was expecting you to want to. It has been quite a long time since you seen Arwen." I looked confused so he began to explain quickly. "You and her used to do everything together when you visited Rivendell. When Aragorn was out hunting you would go and keep her company."

"Oh I suppose that was nice," I said once again trying to remember something of my past.

"I'm sure that since your coming with us you will want to know that our trip has been slightly delayed. We will be leaving in less than two days from now."

"Oh it has, why?" I asked curious.

"Because since you have woken up there have been many people, including myself, that are worried that you might slip back into a coma. We are making sure that in by waiting longer that you will not fall into one all of a sudden." I could tell that we were getting nearer to the dining room by all of the chatter and laughing from ahead.

"Oh and one more thing Amaris," He stopped right outside of the entrance. "Don't be surprised by all the village people being here. The dining hall usually isn't this crowded but with you waking up this is a cause of celebration." When he finished speaking he pulled me so I was in the center of the entrance way. All the chatter stopped everyone's head and eyes turned my way.

I felt hundreds of eyes staring at me. Me, not knowing what to do I just stood there dumbstruck, until a voice said from among the crowd, "So it's true the Princess is well again!" Everyone started cheering and clapping and a few even came up to me and hugged me.

Some of the nobles even came up and directly addressed me all with smiles of joy on their faces. To save me from making up an explanation from not knowing their names, Legolas addressed them as they came up. I just smiled and accepted the pleasantries as they came. I know that one of the older nobles came up to me, shook my hand, and told me that "Glad to have you back and it wasn't the same without you." We he went back to his seat Legolas whispered in my ear, "That's Arielond. He's one of my father's advisors." I turned and smiled at him gratefully.

When we had made our way to our seats at the front of the room to our table the food had already been served. We sat down with Legolas beside Thranduil and me on Legolas' other side. I noticed that all of the village people had been invited to stay for dinner, sitting where they could. After a few more nobles came up and congratulated me for waking up a very handsome elf about Legolas' age came up and said very boldly, "It's good to see you well, my lady," And put an extreme emphasis on the MY. (I swear I heard Legolas growl.) Then after telling me that he wanted to see me after supper he turned and left walking very swiftly to his seat.

"Did I hear you growl?" I asked Legolas softly.

"No," He answered plainly his voice sounding very calm.

"Oh whatever, I know I did hear you. Because I think it's very unlikely that Thranduil would allow a dog into the palace." I said smiling.

"You are not going to see him." He commanded.

"Excuse me? Who are you my daddy?" I started to get louder and people were looking.

Legolas put a reassuring hand on my arm trying to calm me. "Amaris, calm down."

"No I will-" He covered my mouth with his hand.

"Amaris," He whispered quickly. "Do you really want to talk to the man who nearly destroyed my chance to be with you?" I looked into his pleading eyes.

Something started to break in me at seeing his eyes like that so I answered with a muffled, "No."

He realized my mouth, "Sorry." He said and turned to his food not wanting to look me in the eyes.

Seeing this I said, "It's alright." I paused for a second and glanced at the back of the head of the elf that raised this issue. "What happened?" I asked.

Legolas turned and looked at me trying to hide his pain at remembering what had happened. "I will tell you later." Then trying to bring more of a happy look at the night he turned back to the food and said optimistically, "Now let's eat before the food gets cold."

"That sounds good," I answered.

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Throughout the night it was an endless stream of people coming up to me and talking to me. Asking me how I felt and making sure that I was going to be okay. By the time Legolas and I left the dining room I had memorized every name of the elf that had talked to me. Once I remember asking about my brother and Legolas told me that Aragorn eats his dinner away from the elves, to avoid stares from the children.

I laughed at imaging Aragorn being stared at by small elves, but then I started to wonder why the children didn't stare at me the way they did Aragorn. I mean I looked nothing like an elf. I asked Legolas this and he shrugged the question off, saying that I should be glad they didn't.

We walked back to my room still talking about how I knew everyone and what I usually did on a regular day basis. When we arrived at my room we said goodnight. I could tell that he wanted to say and do more. But I just smiled and reminded him about tomorrow and went into the room.

I silently changed, climbed between the cold sheets, and fell into a deep sleep.

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Author's Note: See I came through (LOL). Hopefully by next week a new chapter will be up (I really am hoping, because next week will be extremely busy for me)!!

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