Author's Note: Yes I know you hate me. But just remember I still love you all deep down. Sorry this one is kinda rushed I was trying to pack as much as I could into a Chapter. The reason I am dragging the story out is because I'm trying to make this one story into two or three stories. Maybe with at least 20 chapters in them each. Enjoy!!

Disclaimer: I of course do not own any character in this story except for Amaris and maybe a few other characters along the way.

Love You

Chapter 8: Growing Closer

Knocking disturbed my dreamless sleep. When I realized that I was losing my grasp on my dream world, I quickly squinted my eyes. When it seemed I was fighting a losing battle I slowly began to open my eyes to the dim morning light. I had hoped the knocking would stop, but it continued with a new sound: a man calling me to the door.

"What?" I asked irritably, digging my face further into the pillows trying to get comfortable once more and find sleep.

I heard a muffled reply and began to get mad, "I can not hear you! What do you want?" I yelled back in response. Someone cracked open the door and I attempted to hide even further under the covers.

"Amaris, time to get up. Rise and shine." A soothing male voice said.

"I don't wanna," I replied, not recognizing the voice.

"Now Amaris, you told me, "first thing in the morning" and so I am here "first thing in the morning."" He said with a smile.

By now some of the memory of yesterday had begun to drift back into my head. Memories of me finding out that Aragorn was my brother and I being married to Legolas-Crap! Oh darn it! How could I have forgotten? The thoughts ran through my head quickly, making realize that the person who was interrupting my beauty sleep (yeah right) was in fact

Legolas. "Whoops, my bad, Legs. Sorry I forgot."

"Your bad? Legs?" Legolas questioned looking at me like I had lost every bit of my mental stability.

"Never mind," I said as I turned to look at his confused face. My gosh, I thought, He is sooooo cute when he's confused maybe that's the reason we are married. As this thought this, a smile came to my face. Realizing that was staring dreamily at him I turned back to my pillow, laid down, and covered my head to hide myself from the light.

"Amaris, are you going to get up?" Legolas asked, his voice growing closer.

"Not yet, mommy," I answered.

"Mommy? I'll have you know that I am in fact to young to be your mother." Legolas answered and gently sat on the bed. He pulled the covers off of my head and smiled gently down at me with those soft blue eyes of his.

"You're evil," I simply stated and raised up at the hurt look he gave me. "I'm just kidding," I finished lamely, feeling guilty about saying it.

He started smiling, "I know that's just me getting back at you."

"Oh that's not fair," I said innocent like.

"And you calling me evil is?" He asked turning the tables back around.

"In fact, yes it is."

"How?" He said smiling as he attempted to trap me.

"Because I am a little girl and you are a grown up."

"And?" Legolas walked up to the bed and pulled the covers off me, causing me to curl up in a tight ball.

"Ugh, why'd ya do that for?" I asked.

"I did that because I am going to give you five minutes to get out of that bed or you'll be washing dishes for a week."

"Ugh.. I hate washing dishes." I stated, finally getting the strength to sit up. I stretched out the knots in my back and rolled my neck around, getting prepared to start my day. I noticed that he was still standing in the same spot I asked him, "Anything else you want?" Your love, I imagined him thinking.

"No, just making sure you were actually going to get up," He teased.

"Well as you can see I am getting up, so you can leave now." I got off the bed and began pushing him out the door and into the hall, closing the door in his face.

For some reason that felt normal, like I had done it before, Oh well, I probably did it more than once, especially since he is so infuriating. I thought as a smile crawled up my face. Time to start the day... I walked over to a dresser and started going through the drawers looking for something similar to what I wore the previous day.

I grabbed the closest thing I could find and pulled it on quickly. I brushed my hair and pulled it back with a strip of cloth. I walked to the door just in time for Legolas to open it again. Seeing that I was ready he smiled, took my arm and led me down the hall.

On the way to breakfast and during it we made small talk. I loved talking to him, it made me feel so comfortable. He didn't treat me any different than all my friends back home did. Hold on, not back home, this is my home.

We walked to the stables and he led me to one of the stalls. The horse inside was beautiful. It was a Palomino (For those of you that don't know, they are the horses that have the whitish hair and the tan coats, this isn't a breed this is a color of the horse.), I'd say she was about 15 hands high. I knew automatically that this was my horse. This was Gypsy.

I opened the door and stepped inside not being hesitant at all. The horse gently nodded her head at me, happy to see me. I walked up to her and began to rub her nose and her neck.

"Amaris...," Legolas started.

"Yes?" I turned to look at him.

"Shouldn't you stay outside until I get the horses out?" He asked.

"Legolas, I am perfectly fine. I can get the horse out myself." And as if I needed to prove to him I could I grabbed what I thought to be her bridal, put it in her mouth, and hopped on the horse bareback. I nudged her a little with my feet and she trotted out the stables.

"Amaris, you really shouldn't have done that. It could have caused you to get hurt-" He

rode up beside me on a horse similar to mine but of course his was a stallion.

"Excuse me, I have been around horses my entire life and I don't need anyone telling me what I should and shouldn't do," I stated.

"I'm just trying to keep you safe," He said.

"It's alright Legs, I know that," I smiled when he got a grumpy face on. We started heading out through the trees, me looking at the difference between it in the morning and the night. It defiantly looked a lot more safe now. We trotted through the woods not talking just enjoying each others company, listening to the birds chirping.

Once I felt sufficiently bored out of my mind I figured now would be a good time to talk about our married life. "Legolas?"

"Yes?" He answered.

"When did you know you loved me?" I asked.

He looked at me strangely for a moment and then answered, "I fell in love with you the day we met, but for different reasons of course."

"Why?"

"Well at first I fell in love with you it was because I was trying to be an older brother to you. But then that love disappeared and was replaced with a new love. I grew attracted to your beauty as you grew older and I was soon afterwards in love with you. I would say this was probably when you were about twenty."

"Well when did we started seeing each other?"

"What?" He asked confused.

"When did we start being a couple?" I clarified.

"Oh... I would say about nine years after I began to love you."

"You waited nine years for me?" I asked shocked.

"And I would do it again. I was so happy when you said that you felt the same way for me. I had dreamt of what I would say to you if you ever said that you loved me too. But when the time came for me to speak I couldn't. My only response was to kiss you," He looked over at me sheepishly. "I know that you were probably expecting something else but you didn't seem to shocked."

I smiled and looked away beginning to blush. Gosh I hated when guys did that. They would make me blush so hard it was like looking at a beet on shoulders.

He looked up at the sky and frowned. "We should head back to the castle it's going to rain soon." He turned his horse around and started galloping back to the stables. I turned as he did and followed him.

The rain started falling before I got into the stables and so I was sprinkled on. I put Gypsy back into her stall and grabbed a clean rag from a pile to start drying off. I saw Legolas looking at me out of the corner of my eye and wondered what he was up to. I walked to the door of the stables and looked out watching the rain pour down. It was like as soon as we returned the sky spilt open and let out all of it continents.

I looked back at Legolas and noticed that he looked away from me when I turned. I walked over to him and sat down on the bail of hay beside him.

"Now what are we gonna do?" I asked.

"Well we can always finish talking about our history," He said.

"OK, that sounds grrrreat!" He looked at me strangely and I answered with a "What, don't like Tony the Tiger?" As the confusion on his face deepened I sighed a "Forget it."

"Well where was I?" He paused and thought. "Oh yes we were talking about me waiting for you. Well as I was saying I waited nine years before I finally had to tell you of my love and thankfully enough you felt the same way. I had thought you had loved Hasufel."

"Who?" I asked.

"The elf that was making advances on you. While I was sitting right there. The one who wanted to see you after dinner."

"Oh him. I thought he was nice." I answered nonchalantly.

"He is not nice." Legolas said his eyes flashing for a brief moment. "Hasufel is an evil man. Wanting nothing other than to ruin the happiness of others."

"Why do you say that?" I asked.

"Because he caused us almost to not be together. He told me that we would never be together because you saw me as nothing other than a brother. Then he had the nerves to go and court you without even telling me." After saying this Legolas seemed to calm down a bit. He looked at me then sat down next to me on the bail of hay. "I'm sorry Amaris for not telling you that. It's been kept deep down inside me since it happened I swore never to tell you. But alas I did. Can you forgive me?" He slouched over and looked at the tips of his boots.

I looked at him for a long moment trying to find the words to say. I finally just settled for giving him a hug and telling him, "I forgive you." He leaned back against the stall, still holding me in his arms. We stayed like that until the clouds broke apart and let the sunshine in.

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Author's Note: I am truly sorry that I didn't update sooner. I didn't expect to be that busy. But look on the bright side you have a new chapter to review. Unlike last time I got only reviews. So you know what that means let's hustle with those reviews!! LOL!!!

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