Life= Arwen
Birth is the sudden opening of a window, through which you look out upon a stupendous prospect. For what has happened? A miracle. You have exchanged nothing for the possibility of everything."
I ran up the steps of the courtyard in an anger I had seldom felt. You stood at the top, your hands resting gently on the fence. Your back was too me, but you knew I was nearing.
"Tell me what you have seen. " I ordered as I walked up the last step. You turned around slowly and looked sadly at me. I did not have it in my heart to care.
"Arwen." You say my name as though I have caused you pain. As though I am the one in the wrong. As though you haven't lied to me. As though you were not about to let me throw away what I have just seen.
"You have the gift of foresight. What did you see? " I demand striding up to you, I give you one last chance to save yourself. One last chance to tell me the truth. You know that I know you have seen what I saw.
You turn around and look back out over the fence. Your voice grows stern and unyielding. "I looked into your future, and I saw death."
Lie! You still do not tell me everything! You know I have seen my son, yet still you refuse to tell me! "But there is also life. You saw there was a child! You saw my son! " The anger in my voice is unhidable. A thousand years I have lived, yet never have I been so mad at you. You know I will have a child, that Aragorn will be my husband, yet you would have let me leave!
You lower yourself down on the couch, looking more depressed than I have ever seen. My heart constricts and I realize you fear to lose me. You fear to lose me the same way I fear to lose what I have seen. The way I fear to lose my son.
"That future is almost gone." You say gloomily, your hands folded in your lap. I take a bold step forward and speak with all the confidence I can find.
"But it is not lost."
You answer without pause, no doubt having already known my rebuttal. "Nothing is certain."
I kneel in front of you and reach up to touch your face. You know me better than all others, you know I shall not be able to leave my love, to leave my son. "Some things are certain. If I leave him now, I will regret it forever. It is time." Your eyes grow distant as I speak and I know you realize. I shall not leave. I will not leave Aragorn. That future, no matter how unsure it may be is what I shall fight for. I will not leave him, regardless of what it may cost me I will not leave him.
I will fight for that life. Valar help who ever thinks they can stand in my way.
A/N: Okay, this is more movie verse than book verse, but only because Tolkein never wrote about this part in the book. I really like the idea of Arwen seeing that she's going to be a mother and deciding to fight for that right. She doesn't know if she'll be alive to see him, or if it will kill her, but she stilll wants to have him-regardless of what her future will be because of him.
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