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Chapter 5 The Song Inside

Faith sat in the library contemplating what she was going to do; she had only ever sung for two people her mother and her best friend Allison O'Connor. Now she had sung for her new friends and she was to sing in front of who knows how many elves. Suddenly an eerie silence fell over the room and shivers ran up Faiths spine. She has been alone in the large room but now she felt another presence, she jumped as a hand touched her shoulder.

She turned around to be face to face with the kind face of an old man with many years of wisdom in his eyes.

"Y… you sc… scared me!" she said putting her hand over her chest breathing slowly in relief.

"I am sorry. I did not mean to surprise you." The old man said his eyes gleaming.

"Its al… alright you must be Gandalf, Lord Elrond told me you would be arriving today."

"Yes I am."

"I'm Fai… Faith Jen… Jensen." She stuttered, boy did she hate meeting new people.

"Yes I know; Lord Elrond had told me much about you."

"He has?" she questioned noticeably surprised and embarrassed.

"Yes he has, and I hear you are quite the interesting young girl." He answered amused by her reaction.

"Um… I have to g… go Lord Elrond asked m…me to meet him." She answered back glade she had an honest excuse for leaving.

She walked to Lord Elrond's study chamber as she was thrown into a time that seemed so long ago, a period of time she wanted to forget.

Flashback

A 10-year-old Faith sat in her closet of a room writing a song for the person she loved more than anybody but that was now gone from her life forever, her mother. The door to her room opened quietly as a dark figure crept up behind her, the figure put a hand on her shoulder. She looked up to meet he cold grey eyes of her father. He suddenly pulled out a dog chain from behind his back and started whipping his own daughter with out any remorse at all.

End of Flashback

She was snapped back into reality when the impact of the wall she had just walked into hit her. She shook off the surprised feeling and continued walking, not letting her mind wander anymore as she reached Elrond's study chambers. She knocked on the door and waited for a command to enter, when she got one she slowly turned the door knob and slowly entered.

"Faith please take a seat." Said Elrond kindly and Faith obeyed.

"You said you wished to speak with me Lord Elrond." She said evenly she had become every comfortable around Elrond and almost completely let down her barriers around him.

"Yes I have sensed a lot of emotional distress within you Faith, and I know the other elves do to; as well as Estel." He started carefully; he didn't want to scare the poor girl into not talking to him.

"If you wish to speak about it with me you may, I will not speak about it with anyone. This I can promise you." Faith seemed to be searching his eyes trying to find any signs of lie in them, but she found none.

"Lord Elrond I want to talk to someone about it; it's like it's destroying me from the inside, but I don't know what to say about it." She finally confessed

"Why not tell me what is bothering you now, and we will work on it from there." He said as he gently smiled, encouraging her to speak what was on her mind.

"My father seemed to hate me. It was as if he blamed me for my mother's death and I believe him it was fault my fault, it was all my fault." She finally let out letting the tears fall for the first time in years.

"Would you like to tell me how it happened?" he asked as Faith nodded and told her tale. When she was finished Elrond had rage in his eyes to how her father could be so cruel and make this child believe that that death of her mother was caused because of her. Faith noticed how his eyes changed color and she could tell he was angry, only she misjudged who his anger was directed to.

"You agree with him don't you?" she asked sadly

"No I do not! What happened was not your fault." He told her looking straight into her eyes and she nodded though anyone looking at her could tell she did not believe the Elven Lord. Elrond sighed knowing that it would be hard to repair this girl's broken soul. But he had to save her from herself; his sons, daughter, Legolas, and even he himself had become too attached to her to lose her from the grief the abuse had left her with.

"Faith I wish for you to come and see me once a day, to talk about this. Whether you admit or not you need to speak of it and realize what a terrible thing your father has done. Now if you wish not to speak with me, you can speak with another elf."

"No it's fine I rather it be you, if that's alright."

"Of course it is. Now I think it is time for dinner and I hear that you will be singing after in the Hall of Fire."

"How'd you find out?" she was very surprised that the elf lord knew this information but she was pretty sure she knew how he attained it.

"My sons told me, I hope it is alright if I come to hear you."

"It's fine I just can't believe they squealed on me!" she stated as she started out of the room followed by a very confused Elrond with raised eyebrows.

Dinner ended quickly and they all headed to the Hall of Fire afterwards. Turns out Elrond had also invited Gandalf to hear her singing, great just what she needed another reason to be nervous.

She knew the song she would sing, it was the song closest to her heart the one she wrote for her mother.

"Faith are you alright?" asked Estek sensing her discomfort.

"I'm kind of scared, I've never really sang in front of this many people." She said oddly "What if the laugh at me?"

"No one will laugh at you, you have a beautiful voice and you need not worry what others think because you will always have friends behind you."

"Thanks Estel I think I can do it now." She said smiling her bright blue eyes gleaming in the candle light.

"If you are sure I will introduce you."

"Go ahead, I'm ready." With that Estel stood and began to introduction for Faith.

"Ladies and gentlemen I am sure by now you have all heard of the young elf that has arrived her only two weeks ago. Now this young one would like to share with us a song from the world she was living in before. So please give Faith Jensen the respect you would give any elf of this kingdom." Estel finished saying then nudged Faith to the stage.

Faith climbed the steps of the stage painfully and sat on the stool set out for her. She looked out into the crowd; they were all staring at her with awkward eyes most likely because of her crutch or her unnatural choice of clothing for this world. She closed her eyes and took a deep breath then finally began to speak.

"Um th… the song that I… I'm gonna sing is one that I wro… wrote when I was ten so I ho… hope you like it." With that she took another deep breath and began to sing.

She sang the song the best she could, her voice fade at the end of If only tears could bring you back to me. She looked up, everyone in the audience looked at her shocked but then someone started clapping and pretty soon everyone was. She gave out a small laugh and wiped a tear that had somehow escaped her eye. She limped slowly back over to her table and sat between Arwen and Gandalf.

"That was wonderful Faith, you have an amazing voice."

"Thanks Lord Elrond." She said wiping another tear from her eye.

"Why do you cry at such beautiful song young one." Gandalf asked in curiosity.

"I… don't know." She stuttered leading Gandalf to believe that there was more to this young elfling that meets the eye.

A/N- That's the end of this chapter hope ya'll liked it. The song 'If you tears could bring you back to me' is by Midnight sons. Also I should have mentioned this in the beginning but I forgot to. This is not a romance of any sort it's more like an older brother, younger sister relationship mostly between Legolas and Faith, just wanted to clear that up. Till next chapter Namarie.