Chapter six
After her training session Natalie decided to go up to her Talan and change into a dress instead of what she had brought with her when she came to Middle-Earth; besides the elvish dresses make her feel as if she is going to a ball everyday. The dress that she wore was a deep blue color, like midnight blue kind of color with a scoop neck that had a thick gold piece of material going all the way around the neck line, it had very long bell arms that started at the elbow that were in a lighter shade of blue. After that she went to go and find her friends and cousin wherever it is that they might be, so maybe they can amuse her for a while.
For the last twenty minutes Natalie has been searching around the surrounding area's for Ella or Becky but she can't find them and she really didn't want to see Katie because she knows that she is still pissed at her thinking it is her fault for landing them there and Chris well wherever Katie is he is otherwise she would want to be looking for him. Just as she was going to start to go towards the waterfall garden she bumped right into someone and nearly fell if they hadn't of caught her, looking up she saw two dark haired twins.
"Sorry wasn't looking where I was going." Natalie said to them once they had let her go.
The one on the right smiled at her, "It is fine My Lady you must have been in a great hurry to not have seen or noticed someone in front of you?" he told her.
"I suppose I'm just looking for my friends is all, I've lost 'em and now they are no where to be found they are very good at hiding." she said and shrugged. "Oh I'm Natalie if you want to know."
"I am Elladan and this is my brother Elrohir, we are Galadriel's grandson's." Elladan said to her smiling.
Natalie smirked at them, "Ah, so you two are the troublesome twins that I have heard so much about from your grandfather?"
"Yes of course and we are well known to many people I see," Elrohir said to her smirking.
Natalie rolled her eyes at him, "Whatever you say dearie, keep telling yourself that and maybe you'll believe it soon."
"I see you have met my grandson's," Galadriel said coming into view. "I hope they haven't done anything as of yet to you." she said smirking a bit at her.
Elrohir looked at his grandmother, "We are not that bad at all."
Both Natalie and Galadriel just ignored his outburst, "No nothing as of yet, though I am sure anything they do I can handle; believe me I've dealt with troublesome twins before and they don't scare me none."
Elrohir looked at his grandmother, "We are not that bad at all."
"You've had much more practice than some, I know my granddaughter would envy that, she has had much trouble with these two." Galadriel said to her. "But that is not the reason I have come here I have come to realize that you and your friends know little to nothing of this world and to survive in it that will not due well. Three days a week you will be taught of the history of Middle-Earth, Monday, Wednesday and Thursday that is after all of you are done doing your work for the day; the paper work and training with Rúmil and Orophin."
Natalie looked at her wide eyed, "You saw that?"
"Yes," She said smiling at her. "Myself and Celeborn both did and it is well that you are learning for what must be done from you requires skills such as that." she said to her and held her hand up when she noticed Natalie was about to say something. "Nothing more on the subject. Now come today will be the first day of lessons for you and your friends and Elladan, Elrohir you are coming as well to help."
After walking throughout the city for a bit and going down various stairways and whatnot they finally ended up in the room they were to use which was a study/library, it had plenty of room for the five who were supposed to learn and the few who were supposed to be teaching them about middle-earth. Natalie, Ella, Becky, Katie and Chris were seated on one side of the table and Elladan, Elrohir and Celeborn who was helping were seated on another.
"To start, originally all of Middle-Earth was symmetrical mountains on each side but it was soon marred by Melkor, the mishaps with Melkor resulted in the forming of the lands-" Elrohir started and for the next hour in a half they were taught about the beginning of Middle-Earth and how it was formed and made into what they know it as.
At first Natalie tried to be interested in the history of Middle-earth she really did but it didn't work so well she was hoping it would be more interesting than her own countries was but she was wrong; when she doesn't like nor interested in something she gets bored and her mind starts to drift in a different direction like what she would like to do later or what she wanted to eat that night. While Celeborn wasn't watching or asking Elladan or Elrohir to explain something all of them made faces at each other or mouthed things to one and another saying they were bored or wanted to go and sleep for a bit.
"We're free yes," Katie said as she exited the room.
"Yeah I don't think I could stand much more of the history of just the beginning of the world, I could barely take the supposed beginning of our own world." Natalie said and walked besides her and Chris. "I've never liked study and it doesn't change that now I like hands on sort of things."
Ella came up to her, "Well we all can suffer together I suppose, though I thought you would like this kind of stuff." she said to Natalie.
"Yeah weren't you the one who liked every other country's history except your own?" Becky asked her.
"Yeah I still do just not the beginning of everything it's just so blah." Natalie told them. "Oh well I'll get over it or hopefully it wont be too long of having to do this."
They walked down to the main grounds and just began to walk up to where their Talan's were, "Well I'm hungrier than anything else so I'm going ot do the cooking thing. Still am not used to these weird stove/oven things it's hard to tell what the temp on these things are." she said ot them.
"Yeah no kidding and I don't even cook that well to start with," Katie said to them. "I'm not meant for the domestic sort of thing."
Natalie laughed at that, "Yeah I remember a project you and I had and I did all of the cooking and you read the directions good times those were, very good times."
"So I figure we've been here for about two in a half months and I think we need a girls night," Becky said to them. "So anyone up for it? It'll be lots of fun Natalie will be cooking?"
At that Natalie scoffed at her friend, "Sure put my services of cooking up to lure people to come and eat and hang out; please don't ask if I would mind cooking." she said to her a tad bit sarcastic
The others ignored her and readily agreed excited mostly about Natalie's cooking, they've all experienced it and have loved hers more than their owns and back when they were in high school used to come over to her house as much as possible to just have some of her cooking. "Alright I guess I'll be expecting you all at my Talan then?" Natalie asked them and they nodded happily. "Great I can't wait but someone other than me is so doing the dishes okay."
"Yeah, yeah whatever Nat but seriously I'll be over in a bit I have to do somethings," Becky said before heading off.
"Okay then, um apparently I have some food to prepare so I have to go down to the cooks and get a few supplies, Katie well you can help me and Ella um well can you see if there is something to drink that is not water or alcohol?" she said and then looked at her cousin. "Sorry Chris your alone this time."
"Eh it's okay I'm just gonna be walking around and maybe go and see if there's someone to practice some swordplay with." he said and walked away from the babbling girls.
After gathering some supplies from the cooks Natalie and Katie began to talk about the conflict they had when they had first arrived in Middle-Earth. "So do you still hate me Katie?" Natalie asked.
"No," she said shaking her head. "I never hated you I can't you and I are basically sisters and well I was just pissed and needed someone to blame and you were one of the only ones who knew about this place so I blamed you."
It was understandable that Katie would freak and need to blame someone but she wasn't the only one who knew a lot about Middle-Earth, Natalie's cousin Chris did too so she shouldn't have been the only one being blamed and getting the angry looks. "Well its passed now so we can now have fun instead of grr at each other for what was or was not our fault."
Once inside of her Talan Natalie immediately started to work on some sort of fancy pansy chicken vegetable meal, they all like chicken so that was one meal they could agree on. Natalie even had Katie doing some things with the veggie's so it wouldn't take as long as it would with just her, pretty soon everyone was over at her place hanging out and talking waiting for the food to be done.
"Mommy! Is it done yet?" Ella said in a kid voice.
"No love it's not done yet and I'm not your mommy or at least the last time I checked I wasn't which would be really weird and grossly freaky if I was." Natalie told her. "Anyways there's only ten minutes to wait."
Looking out the window Ella sighed, "You know I don't even know what the time frame is of this whole war. Is the fellowship supposed to be arriving soon, did they already come. What am I supposed to be doing here?" she asked. "Am I supposed to fight in the war or am I supposed to help in some other way."
"Well I have to fight in a war and save someone and I have no idea who it is that I am supposed to be saving, so I kind of have the downside to the situation." Natalie told her and went back to finishing the meal for all of them, which by the way looked extremely delicious.
While eating they all began to do the girl thing and gossip, talk about boys and well what it is that they hope for. "So Katie I've been seeing you hanging out with Chris quite a lot lately." Becky said and smirked.
"So, its nothing we're just hanging out." she said t o them.
Natalie gave her a non-believing look, "Yes and I nearly believe that lie love, almost." she said to her. "I think your fallin' and screamin' just for him yes?"
"Shut up Nat," Katie said threatening to throw a piece of her vegetables at her. "Why is it always me who gets made fun of hmm?"
Ella smirked at that, "You're not the only one is she Nat?" she said.
"Possibly but at least the two of them can speak the same language unlike me and Rúmil." Natalie said and sighed sadly. "besides it's not like he'll like me anyways."
"Ah don't be so negative," Becky said. "Why don't you just learn elvish so that you could talk to him?"
Natalie gave her a look, "Did you not remember high school; me and German totally sucked ass in the way that I had to drop out and whatnot."
"Well that was German not Elvish," Katie said to her.
That made Natalie scoff, "Yes because Elvish is so much easier than German right." she said a bit sarcastically.
"Well you seriously should try to at least learn a bit of elvish so that you could do a basic conversation with him," Katie told her.
"I've had conversation's with him but they more so consisted of hand gestures," Natalie told them and flopped onto her back on the floor of her Talan. "Why do I even try, I suck at relationships."
Pretty soon they decided that it was time for all of them to go to bed and sleep since a few of them had to get up and go to work the next morning, Natalie included but she doesn't have a specific time to come she usually goes to do it around mid-morning. Sadly Natalie couldn't get to sleep that night, when she tried she kept having nightmares. On one side of her is her family and on the other is Rúmil, Haldir and Orophin but Rúmil being the one who was looking at her in the deepest sort of way. Natalie looked at both sides and kept on looking between them unsure of who to go to, she wanted to go and see her family but she wanted to stay with Rúmil as well and she felt as if she was being torn between the two; she didn't know who to go towards and which side to choose to stay with. With that she decided to go and get some peace or at least try to find someone to talk to about her dreams, maybe her cousin Chris.
