Author's Note: True to my word I started working on this as soon as I finished the last chapter and here it is. Remember this is the LAST chapter in this PART of the story. So do not expect anything new until probably August from me, unless you're reading my other story. Yes, I am hoping to finish that one very soon.

By the way, I have a beta. Her name is Orlando's Hot Chick, and I love her and thank her greatly for reading my story over and making it sound as if I am at least half awake when I write it.

Extreme Southern Dialect Warning

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 15: The Council

The morning had come way to early for me to be able to process any real thought, so I stumbled around my room long enough to get clothes on and comb my hair, just as I finished pulling back my hair Legolas knocked on my door and when I didn't answer he assumed I was still asleep, so he opened the door. It would have been quite amusing, the look he had on his face when he couldn't see me in bed, if I was awake, but since I wasn't I just stared at him blankly when he started running to my bed and pulling off all the covers looking for me.

I guess he noticed I wasn't there, cause he just kinda did a 180 and stared at me. "Well there you are," He smiled.

"Yep I have been for a while. By the way thanks for destroying the bed, now the maid will have thought we had a morning sex party." Man, am I cranky when I'm forced to be up for no reason.

Legolas just kinda blushed and turned away, "Well lets go down to breakfast, shall we?"

"Sure why not, then maybe we can mess up the table, to make it looked like we were having sex on it too." I mumbled.

He rolled his eyes and started putting the bed slightly back together, so it would look a little more decent. "Happy?" He asked.

"Much," I answered. I guess he had remembered me acting that way before the accident. I smiled at the thought.

He opened the door and let me walk through before following and said. "You know, you don't have to go to this."

"I know, but I wanna, so I am. Plus y'all already outnumber Aragorn, so I'll be there to even up the score a little." I responded.

"There are other humans attending," He replied.

"But no other rangers."

"As you wish my...girl," He finished lamely.

I hid my smile as he pushed open the door to the Great Hall. I had to admit, since Legolas showed up I started feeling a little more alive, and the bath the night before had helped. I suppose if I had waited, then I wouldn't have gotten up this morning.

Everyone, as they had the night before, stared as Legolas and I entered the room. I guess they had all heard about our room arrangements being the same as they were last time, (being seperated by a wall) and had all began thinking about possible trouble in paradise. I personally didn't care what they thought, but I started to believe that it was bothering Legolas, because whenever we walked in the Great Hall Legolas would always pull me in a little tighter and smile brighter. I didn't push away for two reasons: 1) It would cause futher rumors and 2) I kinda liked it.

It made me feel...special...maybe? I couldn't really explain it. It was like he was the perfect height for our arms to loop and it felt comfortable for me, all my 'past' boyfriend's arm holding felt uncomfortable, like their bodies weren't made for mine to be with.

But whatever, I could just be imagining things, afterall these could just be past feelings coming up through my anmesia, or could it? Could I be falling for him? Or am I feeling safe around him because he is the only one I really know?

These thoughts and feelings were really confusing so I pushed them into the back of my mind as I sat down to breakfast, better to think about them when I have nothing else better to do.

Last nights feast seemed to have had some after effects on some of Elronds guest, this morning, because the majority of the people were sitting at their tables supporting their heads as if they had some sort of hang over, except for the elves of course. It was really amusing actually, seeing people wince whenever our host, Elrond stood up to annouce the guest that had arrived after our supper, it was Boromir from Gondor, the stewards son.

Boromir, had come searching for information on the trouble outside of his kingdom and it's source, but I of course already knew that. It was really weird knowing what was going to happen before it happened, but oh well I'll stop knowing about halfway through The Return of the King. Then it'll be up in the air, I just hope that I couldn't change anything to much to alter the ending.

Anyways back to breakfast, I was looking at all the different people trying to figure out who would be there and who wouldn't, it was easy to determine who the Fellowship were, because they looked almost exactly like the character that portrayed them in the movie.

Legolas interrupted my musings with some joke about a Hobbit, a Dwarf, and a Human and drew me into making jokes with him for the rest of breakfast, (especially blond jokes).

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The Council of Elrond was a semi-horseshoe shaped arrangment of chairs, around a podeum, where Elrond was to stand. And after Legolas had led me to my seat, beside Aragorn, he took his seat across from me with his traveling companions. Everyone started piling in and it wasn't long before Elrond followed and called the meeting to order.

I glanced around the semi- thingy and tried to place everyone that I saw, Frodo, I noticed was looking much better now that the Elves had treated his wounds. Bilbo, was looking like someone had sapped the youth out of him since the last time I saw him, which was just a few years ago. Hasufel was giving me his best attempt at a seductive smile, I had noticed he hadn't attempted to talk to me alone since the first night I 'met' him. Legolas simply gave me his best attempt at a 'I'm so jealous that, that guy's looking at my girl, but I'm pretending to not be bothered by it' grin, once I glanced his way, I guess he had noticed Hasufel's smile and was thinking along the lines, I must not allow him no where near her. I tried to name the other guest from what I had been told, but since it started giving me a headache I stopped and I began listening to Elrond.

And continued to listen to Elrond and I soon found out that he can talk forever and ever and ever. My goodness he was worse than my 'history' teacher in the eleventh grade, Mr. Hudson. All the man did was sit at his desk and drink coffee or drone on about why such and such battle was fought or why such and such event could have been prevented, but never actually telling what happened with his current story. And that was why a great mysterious person created books, so students wouldn't fail if their teachers failed to teach.

Well as I was saying, Elrond continued talking about something involving the end of the free world, (otherwise this wasn't very important to me, cause I already knew all about it). So I figured that it would be better for me to catch up on my sleep, because I was still worn out from the trip and eventually I kinda accidentally on purpose dozed off...

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And when I closed my eyes I had the dream again:

As I stood on a precarious cliff surrounded by brush and bare trees, I stared at my death two or three miles below me, my enemy was behind me, pushing and pressuring me to jump, and a sudden thought seeped into my mind, I might as well jump. I have no reason to live. A sickly smile crossed my lips as I took my final plunge. My flimsy nightgown clung to my sweat-covered body as the air rushed past me and the ground welcomed me. Bright light and swirling stars appeared in front of my eyes as I neared the ground. The entire time when I was falling, I kept hearing my name being called over and over again. And after a while I started to feel a sharp pain on my right side of my ribs.

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When my face was about to be smacked into the ground, I awoke not gasping for air as I had done before, but softly, like I had had a wonderful nights rest and was ready for anything.

Unfortunately, that wasn't the case.

Apparantly, I had been snoring and the slight pain in my ribs and the voice had been Aragorn's attempt at waking me up. Thankfully, because I had been wearing my hood on my head no one had noticed the fact that I had fell asleep. No one except the elves and Aragron, who had heard my snoring.

I opened and closed my eyes to make sure I was properly awake and I swear that Elrond gave me a dirty look, when I chanced a quick glance at him. I looked out the corner of my eye and saw my brother smiling slightly.

I saw that everyone except for me was paying close attention to what Elrond had to say. Well not everyone...Haseful was looking directly at me with a blank expression, I knew without being able to read his mind that he knew that something was up between Legolas and I, and he was going to try to finish what he had started years ago.

I looked over at Legolas and was surprised that he had not noticed that Haseful was staring at me, again. Look at me Legolas, please I thought at him, and after he didn't look at me, well what do ya know, it doesn't work Amaris great try though. Oh well...it was worth a try. Now what am I gonna do about it? My thoughts were interrupted by Gandalf rising and speaking the black speech. Everything grew dark and for some strange reason I had the worst headache since ever. And obviously I wasn't the only one, seeing that all the elves had their eyes closed and a pained expression on their face. I must've not been as bothered by the pain, since I was only half-elf.

Once it was over with and Gandalf apoligized for it, everyone was quiet for some strange reason Boromir had attempted to grab the ring and that had been Gandalf's response. Boromir soon regained his composure and rambled on a whole speech, that basically meant 'my father could use this ring against the bad guys, let me have it,' but I didn't understand why he couldn't have just said that, men.

At least my headache went away, yay. And obivously I was the only one thinking about my sudden headache and then relief, since all the other elves were paying close atttention to the current discussion.

"You cannot weild it, none of us can. The one ring answers to Sauron alone. It has no other master." Aragorn said.

"And what would a ranger know of this matter?" Boromir questioned?

Legolas jumped to his feet and said, "He is no mere ranger, he is Aragorn, son of Arathorn, you owe him your allegiance."

Boromir returned his stare to my brother, "Aragorn...so this is Isildur's heir?"

"And heir to the throne of Gondor." Legolas finshed.

Aragorn then told Legolas to sit down in elvish. I guess he hadn't wanted it to seem like he was arrogant about being a future king.

"Gondor has no king," Boromir sat down and finshed, "Gondor needs no king."

Well this is about the time I decided to put my two cents in, whether anyone asked for it or not. I stood up, flung my hood back and said, "Excuse me, Boromir, is it?" He nodded his head. "Let me tell you something-"

Legolas interrupted me, "Amaris don't." I looked at him, smirked, and turned my glare back to Boromir.

"You better hope to never catch me by myself, cause you just insulted not only my brother, but my husband, and hell hath no fury like a woman scorned." I finished and sat down.

Boromir didn't reply, he only put on a front of, 'You can't scare me little girl,' but I could tell he had been a little disturbed by the fact that a woman was man enough to talk to him like that. Especially after her husband had said to stop.

To put an end to the bickering, Gandalf said, "Aragorn is right we cannot use it."

And after Elrond started talking about destorying the ring, everyone seemingly forgot about what had happened. Except of course for Boromir, Legolas, and me. Boromir still had his front on, Legolas was looking at me strangly, and I still had my smirk.

None of this changed until Gimli ran up and broke his ax over the ring. And that little attention grabber had everyone's attention.

"The ring cannot be destroyed, Gimli son of Gloin, by any craft that we here posses. The ring was made in the fires of Mount Doom, only there can it be unmade," Elrond stated.

Following this useful information, Boromir said something that we all knew and so was unimportant. And as everyone stood up to try and convince everyone else that they should take the ring, I thought to myself, Thank you Bormir, for starting yet another argument. This one I chose not to be in, seeing how I already knew who was going to take it, and remained setting. Frodo slowly stood up and said, "I will take the ring to Mordor." Everyone stopped fighting and listened, "I will take the ring to Mordor," He repeated. "But I do not know the way."

Soon everyone of the Fellowship members joined and just as Elrond started saying, "The Fellowship of the Ring," I jumped up from my seat and said, "Wait just a cotton-pickin' minute."

"Yes Amaris?" Elrond asked. Legolas closed his eyes and I could almost hear him say to himself, 'Please don't want to go, please don't want to go," over and over. Aragorn just grinned at me.

"I'm going too!" I said and walked over to step beside Pippin. All the council gasped, except for those who knew me.

"No Amaris, it is too dangerous for a woman." Elrond replied.

My only answer was, "Well when I see one wanting to join I'll tell her that, cause I know you aren't telling a half-elf they can't go," I smiled.

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Author's Note: Excuse me, but why did I only get 3 review last chapter? I thought you loved me. cries to herself in a corner

By the way, yes the dream in this chapter is the one in Chapter One. Maybe Amaris will find out it's interpretation later in the story? Or is it a vision?

Like I said above, this is the LAST chapter of this PART. The next PART will probably not be up until AUGUST. Do not worry I will continue, of couse only with your support, (Hint, Hint)!

Have a great summer!

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