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Chapter 11 Lectures and a Council

Faith made her way down the long twisting halls to Lord Elronds study chambers. Finally she made it to the door and knocked softly.

"Enter!" the voice from behind the door called as Faith turned the knob and quietly made her way inside. Lord Elrond looked at her with gentle but annoyed eyes.

"Faith this is the first time you have come to talk to me in three weeks." He said in a firm voice as Faith coward a little.

"I'm sorry Lord Elrond, I just don't think I need to talk anymore." She answered knowing she was lying and that Elrond would most likely see past her mask like he had done every time before.

"Faith, you and I both know you still need to talk. You have more emotional pain then you're letting your self believe and with your recent injury, you just might be trying to deny just how much pain it brought back." Elrond explained to her slowly and carefully. Faith moved uncomfortably in the chair, in a way she knew he was right but she just did want to believe him. Tension between the two clotted in the air as minutes passed by feeling like hours.

"Lord Elrond I appreciate the concern, but really I'm fine. I can handle this, I've dealt with this for years and I'm not going to let win the fight not now when I've finally gotten away from him." She smiled as she turned to leave but Elrond called her back.

"Faith!"

"Yea?"

"I can not force you to talk, but if you ever have to remember my door is always open." Faith smiled at Elrond and nodded.

"I know!" with that she turned and stepped out the door, leaving the lord of Rivendell to his own privet thoughts.

Faith made her way to the secret river, knowing that it was the only place she had any possibility to be alone. She watched the sparkling water fall down the waterfall as her eyes began to make waterfalls of their own. Until that moment she truly did believe she had moved on, but the ghosts of the past don't seem to be put to rest easily. After an hour of just sitting there thinking, she finally made her way back.

"Faith where have you been?" asked Elrohir seeming to be out of breath.

"I was at the river thinking. Why are you so out of breath?"

"We have been looking everywhere for you, we were worried."

"Sorry but I'm 13 years old anyway I was still in Rivendell. What could have happened to me?"

"We were only concerned Faith; you have never been away for that long before." Elrohir said as he began to hear the anger rising in her voice.

"Look I'm fine now will everyone just leave me alone!" Faith said as she stormed off. Her sudden outburst scared her; she had no idea where it had come from. She knew Elrohir was only cared about her. She had to learn to control her hide her emotion and she had to learn fast.

3 weeks went by and Faith hid her feelings well from her friends. But Elrond was a different story, he could easily see past those youth filled eyes. He finally decided it was time for her to learn the truth. Arwen had arrived with an injured hobbit, a hobbit caring great evil. Estel had also returned with three hobbits also, apparently friends of the injured one. Gandalf made his own appearance, and the two discussed many things. There was to be a council, so they could decide the fate of the evil ring the hobbit named Frodo carried. It would also be the council where Faith will learn she must travel to Lothlorein.

Faith wondered the halls once again her mind becoming consumed with happy memories of her past. She remembered the days when her mother was alive, and how she would always take her and her best friend Allison to the park. They would spend hours just playing on the swing, trying to beat each other by going higher then the other. A sudden impact brought her back to reality.

"Oh I'm terribly sorry miss." Said a tiny voice and Faith looked down to find she had bumped into a small man.

"No, I'm sorry I wasn't paying attention to where I was going." She replied taking a better look at the blonde curly had man.

"I'm Faith, what's your name?"

"Samwise Gamgee, but I prefer Sam if that's alright." The small name said as they shook hands.

"It's a pleasure to meet you Sam." Sam now seemed to be looking at something, but what Faith could not tell. She assumed it must be her crutch and looked down.

"You're an elf aren't you?" Sam said suddenly sounding excited. Faith's head shot back up in surprise, only to laugh at the man's amazed face.

"Well yes this is an Elven realm; you will see many elves here."

"I know that, it's just you seem to be much younger then the other elves I have meant."

"That's because I am, I'm only an elfling."

"I have never meant an elfling before; I thought there were none left." Again Faith laughed and patted him on the back.

"Of course there is, you just have to look hard to find them." She brought a figure up to her lip to single him to remain silent. She went over to one of the pillars and dragged an elfling out by his pointed ear.

"Culgaer hasn't Lord Elrond spoken to you about eavesdropping." She asked placing her free hand on her hip.

"Yes but I was curious of the hobbits and I wanted to be sure they were friendly." The every young Elfling stated, he was younger then Faith and very energetic. Faith made friends with him her first week here.

"Run along Culgaer, and spread the news that the hobbits are friendly." With that the younger Elfling ran off soundlessly in the other direction.

"Now do you see what I mean?" Sam nodded and laughed as they walked along together and continued to talk. He introduced her to the other hobbits. Merry, Pippen, and Frodo and they all quickly became friends. Merry and Pippen seemed as amazed as Sam at the Elven child, but Frodo did not he seemed more happy to see a young child's face.

The council happened later that day; Faith listened intently as Elrond spoke. Somehow this all seemed familiar, but again she couldn't remember anything. Faith learned a great deal about the one ring in that meeting and she was scared. Why did Elrond wish her to present at a meeting such as this? Little did she know the answer was soon to come.

A/N- thought this was a good place to stop. I know Glorfindel was the one that took Frodo but I'm going by the movie because it's easier to follow. Sorry it's taking me so long to update. Blame it all on writers block and real life. Well till next time Namarie.