Saving Middle Earth

The Palantir Stone

Legolas POV
I went outside just watching the sky. Aragorn came to join me. The sky was dark and the stars where covered. I felt a deep evil stirring. A feeling I can't describe other than my soul felt cold.

We rushed in and heard a great commotion in the room we were sleeping in. Pippin was holding the palantir stone and was obviously fighting whatever he was seeing in there. Aragorn grabbed a hold of it and he too seemed to be having the same fight. He dropped it and just as Gandalf was covering it with a blanket we heard a scream coming from the room down the hall. Lily.

I ran from the room and rushed to find her sitting up in bed clutching at her blankets. She had a wild look in her eyes and was breathing heavily. I rush to her and pulled her into my arms. She hugged me back with all she had, her tiny arms around my neck trying to regain her composure.

"Lily are you alright what was it that frightened you so badly." I knew the answer but still had to be sure.

"Legolas something spoke to me, it told me that we shall meet soon. That his grandson was going to be so pleased to see me. We were to be married. He said that together we will rule this world and all shall bow to us. I saw it, I had black hair and royal blue eyes my skin was grey and the light in it was gone. I was hurting all of you here. I was trying to kill you."

"Lily that will not happen if you do not let it, please trust me on this."

"Is this what you were hiding from me? I can understand why. How can you care about me when I am to become such a monster? I do not want to know anymore at least not about this."

"You will not become a monster. Believe me it is not in you. I know you will never hurt us, will never hurt me."

Lily's POV
I look over and see them, the hobbits, Aragorn and Eomer looking shocked. Gandalf just appears sad he too must know what it is I saw. I do not believe the others do.

I hang onto Legolas as if he is the only thing anchoring me to this earth, and to be truthful right now he is probably the only thing keeping me from going crazy.

I look towards the others, "I am ok just a bad dream you can all go."

Slowly they leave the room, Eomer hesitates before he does.

Legolas gets up to leave with the others. "Please you need to stay, do not go."

"Alright I shall stay as long as you want me to."

Eomer shuts the door and I am left alone with Legolas. I begin to cry. I do not like what I saw; I appeared to be enjoying hurting everyone. How could I do this? I decided I needed a diversion.

"Legolas can we talk for a while."

"Yes of course, but please don't ask me questions about what you saw here tonight."

"Trust me I don't think I even want to know." I realize we are still holding each other.

"Tell me Legolas about us. What we were to each other."

He smiled and let go of me enough to look me in the eyes.

"Well that is an easy question to answer. I told you already we have known each other all our lives. I think you know that I love you, always have and always will."

I looked down feeling guilty I did not remember him. "Are we married?"

He seemed to get a little uncomfortable. "No, not in the formal sense."

I raised a curios eyebrow at him. "What like an arraigned marriage?"

He laughed, "No not like that."
It took me a minute to think about what he had said. I remembered nothing about my life but I did remember about being an elf.

"Oh, you mean we ohm." I couldn't finish the sentence.

He looked at me rather sheepishly and his cheeks turned as red as I have ever seen them. I needed no answer.

"Oh, alright, wow. Really more than once." I asked

He nodded his head but continued to look down. I giggled a little, and then felt terrible.

"I must have loved you enough to choose to bond with you. I am so sorry I don't remember. I wish I did. Just so you know I feel it. When I am with you I feel like I loved you more than my own life. I think I do even now, which is strange since for me I have only just met you."

He looked up at me then and his eyes where damp with tears. They did not flow only sat at the corners. I put my hand on his cheek and he leaned into it and sighed.

I sat up onto my knees and kissed him lightly on the lips. Softly at first and felt him smile as a light moan escaped his lips. I pulled away and looked at him. He looked back into my eyes. His arms still around my waist tighten and he pulls me closer to him. He kisses me eagerly now and I feel I am losing all sense of control. I am in a place that I know I have felt before, passion, love. It was almost too much to take. I pull away just so I can get some sanity back.

"Lily I am sorry. I didn't mean to upset you."

"Legolas you did not upset for the first time since I can remember, I feel, well I am really not sure how to describe it, but I can sense we have a really deep connection. I feel safe when I am with you."

He just smiles at me and I know he must care deeply about me. For reasons I don't really understand I believe what he is saying. That we were at one time in love and had bonded. I have no real reason to trust him I just know I do.

"Legolas," I ask him. "Can you stay with me tonight I do not wish to be alone? Those images in my dream have really scared me."

"I would not even think of leaving."

I pull away from him and lay down he lies down beside me and wraps his arms around me and I rest my heads in his chest listening to his steady heartbeat. The rhythm brings me a great sense of peace. It seems calms and even, if he is not worried about this then maybe I should not be either. Maybe everything will be okay. I feel in the deepest part of my being that we have laid like this before; I can almost remember the feeling of falling asleep to his heartbeat, so familiar, like when he kisses the top of my head. Legolas did not seem upset for the first time since I  met him again. How lucky I am to have found him again. I hear him sigh as he rubs my back and runs his fingers through my hair. We don't say anything just lay like that until we both fall into a restful sleep.

Legolas POV
Whatever Lily saw in her dreams tonight sure did frighten her. I know what it was, she saw herself with black hair and dark blue eyes. She saw that she and Maliki where together and that the two of them where destroying lands and kingdoms and above all else those she cared about. She had this dream many times, as well as several others. I really did not think she could ever do this. She has never been mean to anyone in her life. Excluding maybe her grandmother, but there are reasons behind that and whether or not I agree with that I can see her side.

It kills me to see her so upset; I hear the others leave even though Eomer hesitates at the door. I know he cares about her as more than a friend but I think he has realized that Lily and I are meant to be together. Suddenly she is asking me how we know each other and I cannot lie to her. I want nothing more than to be with her. Then she tells me that she feels like she knows she did love me and places her hand on my face. It was almost too much to handle and my eyes begin to water. Now it is me that is embarrassed. What happened next was enough to bring me to my knees. She kissed me and I could not help but kiss her back. All of a sudden, here she is in my arms, looking for me to protect her and chase away her nightmares as I have done many times before. Really she is the reason I am here. If I help destroy the ring maybe Lily will have a chance at a normal life not always being in fear of Maliki finding her. Hopefully the destruction of the ring will destroy him as well.

I cannot believe that I told her we had bonded, poor girl must have been so confused and embarrassed. When she asked me to stay with her a deep feeling of peace came over me and I felt my heartbeat steady. Laying here with her in my arms I can't help but think all might be alright in the end.