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Together Forever

By: Lady Starlight 2

Ch. 9

Legolas wanted to go after her, but a rough hand placed upon his shoulder stopped him. Turning he saw Gimli's face, Ellena's arrow in his hand. "Let me go after the she-elf." Legolas nodded his consent and watched as the stout dwarf jogged off to the forest that Ellena now occupied.

Gimli soon came upon a small clearing with a stream flowing through. The trees surrounded this place making a small alcove of stained glass with all of the deep colored flowers there, and in the middle of them, kneeling by the stream sat Ellena. Approaching softly he knelt beside her hearing her repeatedly mumble to herself over and over. Placing a hand on her shoulder, much like what he did with Legolas, he spoke. "It is alright, lass. I am not hurt, no one is angry. It's alright."

Ellena pulled away from him and faced him, tears sparkling in her eyes looking like crystal clear beads. "Everything is not alright, Gimli, you could have been killed!"

"But I wasn't, I'm still alive." Gimli replied trying to alleviate her fears.

A few tears trickled down her cheeks even as her stormy blue eyes, currently clouded in internal pain, blazed in fury. "This isn't a game, Gimli; this is war! If you get hit you'll die, you can't come back! We need to get serious, we can't play around. What happened back there could have killed you, and then it would have been all my fault! We can't keep doing this…" she choked out the last of her tirade as her sorrow overwhelmed her. Gimli comforted her until she calmed down and composed herself again.

"Are you ready to go, lass?" Gimli asked. Ellena nodded and got up, and together they left the forest.

It was just about dawn when they reached the others. Looking around Ellena grabbed her bow, "Since dawn is here and everyone is up we should go." She announced as she walked forward leading everybody back to their path.

Legolas walked next to Gimli and questioned him about Ellena. "She seems fine but there is a great deal of sadness around her." He remarked.

"Aye, she's a great warrior, she'd carry the weight of the world on her shoulders if she could, or she'd die trying."

"She should let us carry the burden with her." The elf-prince replied.

"Aah, she doesn't want to trouble anyone with the burden."

"She wouldn't be troubling anyone." Legolas stated, confused as to why the elf that had caught his eye was thinking that way.

"You and I know that, but she doesn't. Ellena needs you to help her, Legolas, whether she likes it or not." Legolas nodded in agreement before he caught up to the elven-maiden.

"Aragorn, do you think Ellena will be alright?" Angel asked.

"I'm not sure, why don't you talk to her." Aragorn replied. Angel nodded and ran up to her sister; Aragorn walked up to Legolas, tapped him on the shoulder and pulled him away whispering to him. Every once in a while, Legolas would nod and whisper back or shake his head negatively while Angel talked to Ellena.

The sun had reached midday and the company had stopped for a while. Gimli looked around and noticed something was off. "Where is Aragorn and Legolas?"

Llianna replied, "They went off somewhere and took Angel and Ellena with them."

Somewhere, specifically the woods (hehe)

The two males dragged their loves along by the hand to a clearing, much like the one Ellena went to after she shot Gimli except the stream was missing as was the abundance of misery in the air. "What's going on?" Angel asked, trying to keep up with the long strides of Aragorn. (LS: There, I said strides when talking about Aragorn. For the less intelligent people Strider…strides….get it?)

The foursome stopped and Legolas answered. (LS: Sorry about this but WARNING MAJOR SAP AHEAD) "We just wanted to tell you,"

"That you two are the most beautiful people in body and soul," Aragorn added.

"That we could ever hope for." Legolas finished, and then the two started singing an elfish song of true love. (LS: I was going to put a real one up here, but I couldn't find one and was too lazy to make one up.) Legolas and Aragorn went up to their respective loves and gave them a quick kiss and an "I love you" before the girls pulled away.

Glancing at each other, a knowing look passed and the girls began to sing the accompanying couplet. Silence reined, the two men speechless for a few minutes, before a broad smile broke out on each of their faces.

"The angels of the heavens could not have sung more beautifully." Aragorn said, Legolas nodding in agreement. The two girls blushed in embarrassment at the praise.

"We better go, Haley will be very angry if we do not return soon." Ellena said as they all shuddered at the thought. They soon left but something troubled her, the fact that she couldn't get herself to call Haley, Llianna.

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