So, new chapter! Yeah! I'm gonna do a poll in my profile with two options for when Lessien should meet the Fellowship, so if you can go there, I would really appreciate it. Enjoy the chapter!
Disclaimer: I do not own Lord of The Rings. Just my characters.
Six months had passed since the Fellowship had left Rivendell. At the same time things at Rivendell were starting to fall apart.
Elrond had become more grey and serious and barely left his chambers, Arwen was always reading in her room also never leaving and when she did, she looked really pale and sad and the twins wondered around the city not knowing what to do. So Lessien hating what was going on at her own house spent her days remembering the night before the Fellowship left. She hanged to that with all her strengths.
Elrond had organized a feast and everyone was laughing, singing and dancing. It was one of the happiest nights in Lessien life so far. She sang with Pippin and Merry, talked with Frodo, Sam and Bilbo about the Shire, danced with her brothers and laughed with Gimli when he had already drank a few mugs of ale.
"By the end of this journey you Master Dwarf will be friends with an elf."
"No way lassie, no way. Only dead will I be friends with one of you." and then he passed out which made everyone laugh even harder.
It was a clear night. The stars shined bright and it was a full moon. The feast was over and Lessien was sitting in a balcony stargazing when he arrived.
"Vanimle sila tiri (Your beauty shines bright)". She turned around surprised.
"Legolas! How long are you standing there?"
"For just a few minutes. Mankoi naa lle sinome? (Why are you here?)" he asked as he sat with her.
" Mankoi lle irma sint? (Why do you want to know?)" Lessien said with a warm smile.
He laughed.
"I don't know. Since I was little that I have this habit. Back in Isengard, my room was in the top of the tower, so I could see them very well." she said pointing at the stars.
Legolas didn't said a word. He was just looking at her and when she looked back, into those blue eyes, she swore in that moment that she was seeing her soul and his, together in the deeps of his beautiful eyes. Then he looked at the stars again.
"Lle desiel? (Are you ready?)" she asked, her voice trembling.
"For what?"
"This journey. It's dangers."
"It is a honor to protect the Ring Bearer." He looked very serious.
"Uma. I know that. But are you ready to leave home? To miss family and friends?" For some odd reason, Lessien really wanted to ask him if was ready to miss her.
'What? I only met him two days ago.'
"When you are a warrior you have to be ready to miss all the important things because you know that when you are fighting, you are fighting for them." he smiled while he said it.
"Will you miss me Legolas?"
'What? No. No. No. Why can't you keep yourself quiet?'
He laughed at this.
'Oh well done Lessien. He is going to laugh at your face.'
But to her surprise, Legolas came closer to her and put an arm over her shoulders.
"Of course I will miss you mellonamin (my friend). You have become a good friend of mine."
'A friend. That is all I can count on for now.' she shocked herself. Why this thoughts?
"Thank you Legolas." and she leaned into to his hug.
"You're welcome Lessien."
They stayed like that watching the stars until he released himself and turned to her again. He searched under his tunic and took a necklace. A silver necklace with a single silver leaf on the end.
"For you. It is a prove that I will miss you. Two days seems so little time for us to spent together but I feel with all my heart that we were meant to be discovered by each other."
Lessien felt tears streaming down her cheeks.
"Amin harmuva onalle e' cormamin (I shall treasure your gift in my heart)." and she turned around for him to clasp it in her neck.
"It looks lovely on you." Lessien felt herself blushing.
"Diola lle (Thank you)."
In an unexpected movement by the both of them, Lessien hugged him with all her strengths. Legolas hugged her back.
"We will meet again Lessien. At a more happy time. It's a promise."
She nodded not finding anything to say.
"Now it's time we rest. We both have a big day tomorrow."
He helped her stood and both started walking to Lessien's room. When she was at the entrance she turned to him.
The look on his face scared her. He was looking at her with such intensity and some strange emotion that Lessien didn't knew.
He raised his hand and stroke her cheek. She closed her eyes.
"Quel kaima (Sleep well)." He turned and left.
When she entered her room she could feel like crying and laughing at the same time.
Putting on her night gown she took a glimpse to the window and saw Arwen and Aragorn.
Oh how she missed Legolas! She didn't took the necklace since that night and sometimes she thought she could feel that Legolas missed her too.
Thinking of him was, what most of the times, made her stand in her place during the dinners at the Last Homely House. Every single night Lord Elrond talked about leaving Middle- Earth or made a sad comment on Arwen's relationship with Aragorn.
That night he had chose both.
"That's why we need to leave." he was saying to the twins. "The life of Eldar is leaving us. Our time is over."
Lessien as usual was trying hard not to listen to her father.
'Leave Middle-Earth? There's still so much I want to see. The Shire, the Lonely Mountain, the forests of Mirkwood...'
She took a glance at Arwen who apparently was doing the same thing as her sister. Trying not to listen.
"But of course, there are a few that prefer death and suffer to living normally and happily." Elrond said looking at his oldest daughter. At this Arwen raised her eyes to her father but did not spoke. They didn't show fury. Just disappointment.
Lessien had enough.
"Ada, why do we keep talking about sad things? Or things that make us angry? I think is not correct to discuss Arwen's business or any other business of that matter here."
They all looked at her as she was some monster.
'I think I was very polite.'
"I did not asked for you opinion Lessien. If I want it, you will be the first to know. Until then be quiet. Lle rangwa amin (Do you understand me)?"
"Uma." she looked down ashamed.
"Good. You may go now."
She stood up, bowed and went to her room.
Inside she drooped herself on the bed and cried.
'I know Ada isn't like this. He is worried. We all are. We haven't had any news of the Fellowship in months. Ada's visions are not as clear as before.'
And Lessien went to her balcony and remembered of Legolas. Where was he? Was he looking at the stars and thinking of her, like she was doing? Was he hurt?
'Oh for the Valar please don't let him be hurt.'
Lessien fell asleep in the balcony with Legolas leaf in her hands, wishing she had went with the Fellowship and that the next day her father and the rest of the family would have gain more hope.
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