Author's Note: I hate myself... I am the most awful, hypocritical author in the whole fandom kingdom. I get upset when others don't update and then I end up not updating myself. I don't deserve your pity or your reviews (But I do appreciate them!).

This chapter really sucks, but never fear, Legolas is here!

(Again) With this chapter I didn't exactly go by either the movie or book, because I couldn't remember either well, so I just wrote what I thought was right. So please don't jump on my case.

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

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Chapter 14: Old Places and Faces

The next thing I remember was watching a wraith knife enter Frodo's shoulder. My heart stopped, I didn't acquire my short term goal: protecting Frodo. Right before the wraith I was fighting pushed me off the side of the cliff, I remembered the task at hand and sidestepped.

Once I was certain that the wraith was at the bottom of weathertop again, I ran to Frodo's side. Aragorn had already placed Frodo in his care and was ready to move out, as only his medical knowledge would allow.

Rivendell here we come.

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Instead of the twelve days that the trip to Rivendell was going to take, it took sixteen, and that's only because we had to keep stopping and starting once more. Finally once we crossed the Bridge of Mitheithel, Arwen had reached us and carried Frodo on to Rivendell and that speed our journey up tromendiously. We had just arrrived at Rivendell and it was as wondorus as I recalled.

By the time our group was greeted by Elrond, the butterflies were throughly dancing in my stomach. He breifly sent me a glance that shouted We need to talk!, I smiled worriedly, and began to listen to what he had to say.

Elorond gave us a basic lie/summary of what was going on and why everyone was so busy. As soon as he told the Hobbits to go with one of the elf servants, he then told Aragorn and I the real reason everyone was so busy. There was going to be a big meeting once Frodo awoke and it was a secret meeting so don't tell anybody about it and blah, blah, blah... boring.

I interrupted Elrond and said "Hey El, I don't wanna be rude but I'm gonna go hang and catch up with some old friends. Don't worry Aragorn will fill me in later." And I ran off before he cold stop me.

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Once I had ran off from my old friends, I began re-exploring the House of Elrond. Not much had changed in the three years I had been gone, except for the fact that one third of the population was suddenly missing, I figured it was from them leaving and going across the sea. It hadn't hit me yet as to what I was going to do when the time came for Legolas to leave. Actually last time I was in Mirkwood he mentioned briefly that he wasn't going to leave anytime soon.

I was still trying to think of Legolas as a husband, but it was not worth trying. This problem was probably caused by me not seeing him in forever, except for in my dreams. Oh well, maybe I'll get to talk to him during the upcoming months, before he left for the Fellowship trip.

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Did you know that walking around in areas that you have never been in is cool until you get lost? Well I found that out quickly when I decided to not pay attention to where I was going and unintentionally got lost walking around aimlessly in unknown corriders.

Well just as I was kicking my self mentally and physically, I heard the sweetest, most soothing voice whisper my name and I slowly turned around to see...Legolas Greenleaf.

He was dressed in his traveling clothes with his bags in his hands, standing by the room he used on my first visit here with him (that I remembered). He still looked handsome, but he was thinner, older, and more stressed out. I smiled, relieved that I had found someone I knew, and once he returned my smile, it was like someone had wiped all his worries and weariness away.

He dropped his bags and walked over to me, I was about to shrink away thinking that he was going to grab me up and kiss me, but I didn't, something told me to stay. I guess he remembered that I didn't remember, cause he just stood there looking at me.

I gave him a questionable look, "What?"

"Nothing, I'm just surprised to see you, why are you here?" He asked.

I grabbed him by the arm and pulled him back to his door. "Well hon, that's a very long story that will take more than a minute to tell, so lets put your stuff in your room and then talk." So I helped him throw his belongings on his bed and walked to the garden with him (when I say walked I mean followed him).

In the garden I went through my adventrous experience in semi-detail, all the while, I don't think he was listening to me. I think he was listening to my voice, not the actual words, ya know? Especially since the whole time he was 'listening' he had a glazed over look, like a box of krispy kremes, Er...you have to stop doing that Amaris, stop making connections with that dream world I started to think.

I must've paused in my telling of my adventure, because Legolas gave me a curious glance. "What?"

"Why did you stop?" He asked.

"I'm finished, it's not like you were even listening, it looked like you were asleep." I said, thinking about how elves sleep with their eyes closed.

He gave me a sheepish grin and admitted, "I was."

I gave him an astonished look and hit him in the shoulder, "How dare you sleep when I'm talking, I'm not that boring am I?"

"Well I haven't slept well lately and I must've dosed off by accident, I'm sorry I didn't mean to do it." He looked terrified, I guess he thought I was mad at him.

"I guess I can let you slip this one time, maybe, but in exchange ya gotta do something for me." I replied.

"What do you need?"

"Carry me back to my room, cause my legs hurt really bad and I'm tired and I don't know where my room is, so can ya help me?" I got my face set and ready with those huge, puppy dog eyes that only a well practiced beggar has.

For once in my life, I didn't have to use the hound dog eyes from hades, probably because I was this persons true love, and it made me feel real bad, because I couldn't return his love. I know any person would be lucky to have the handsome specimen that was now standing in front of me. He gently helped me up and picked me behind my knees and shoulders.

And even though him carring me up the flights of stairs and down the halls took several minutes, they felt like seconds. You know the saying time flies when you're having fun? Well it was nice to have the free ride, but other than that the whole thing made me uncomfortable. I know I put myself in the situation, but he wasn't supposed to smell so good or make me feel like in his arms was where I belonged.

I hate males! Why are they so good at making you feel things you don't want to?

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When he literarly dropped me off by my door, that just happened to be beside his, I said my thanks and went inside. Everything was the exact way that it was when I first stayed at Rivendell: bed, desk, window, many rooms, etc. It didn't surprise me with the size, even though by now I was used to much smaller and less extravagant sleeping quarters.

All of a sudden, tiredness swept over me and I was filled with the sudden urge to just lay down on the rug and go to sleep. I decided that this was the best choice in action, I figured that if I took a bath before I took a nap then I would probably doze off and drown in the water.

So I laid down on the finely decorated rug and I thought no more.

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"Pippin...go eat an apple and leave me alone." I muttered once I heard someone complain about being hungry. I turned over and started to punch my pillow so I could go back to sleep. When my pillow started making noises like it was in pain, I realized I hadn't had a pillow when I went to sleep...

IT WAS LEGOLAS!

"What are you doing?" I screamed while I was hurrying to stand up.

"It's your fault that I was under you. All I did was come into your room, to return your necklace and you just happened to turn over when I walked past, to trip me. When I fell down, you grabbed me and put your head down on me, and all of a sudden you start hitting me once I made a comment about being hungry." He said with all honesty.

"I did that?" I asked him.

He nodded his head and then said, "By the way, you smell bad, go take a bath I already have." I looked at him and noticed he was wearing a different set of clothes, no longer his traveling attire.

"Oh shut up and get out so I can." I started pushing him out of my room and I could tell he had a huge grin on his face to match the one on mine.

Once I told him goodbye, I paused behind the door, listening to see if Legolas said anything and sure enough I wasn't disappointed. "Valor, I love her."

I silently gasped and walked away from the door to my bed. I knew he loved me but now I wasn't so sure about being so close to him, I would have to think about my feelings some more.

Just as I sat on my bed a memory hit me. It was of my younger years...I was outside in something that resembled a tree house, and Legolas was next to me, telling me about something. No not something, someone, Haseful, he was telling me about Haseful using me. He was using me to get back at Legolas and that Haseful didn't love me, Legolas did.

I had backed up from Legolas surprised that he had told me the very thing I was going to say to him, almost like he had been reading my mind. "I love you too Legolas." I spoke before I even thought about what to say. With out giving me another word Legolas had bent over and kissed me for the very first time. And when his lips touched mine I had felt something close to an explosion going off in my brain.

I opened my eyes still feeling sligthly affected from the memory, and I knew that all his kisses were like that to me, echos of that memory. I sat there a moment or two longer, just thinking about that feeling and about Legolas and then I got up to go take a bath.

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Author's Note: The next chapter is the last chapter in this part, as I have told you before there will be three parts to this story. I will start working on the next chapter ASAP, but it will be a while before you can start reading the next part cause I want to at least get to chapter 8 before I put it up so you won't have to wait so long for an update!

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