Love Can Fight Any Battle (Legolas/Hermione Love Story

Chapter 5: Counsel Meeting Part 1

The next morning Autheil dressed in a velvet red dress with long white sleeves to cover her arms. She liked to hid the scars only very few knew she had them. For her she was ashamed of them they made her skin look ugly. They reminded her of what she sacrificed and what she had done in the other world. She braided two strands of her hair, one on each side and then joined them in the back and left the rest down. She grabbed her silver yet simple headdress  which her father told her to wear and placed it on her head. She slipped her wand into a invisible pocket of her dress and headed off to the meeting

Most of the members were already there, aside from her father, Frodo, Gandalf and her brothers. The members stopped talking as she walked up onto the platform. Aragorn smiled slightly and motioned to the empty seat next to him.

"Can we provide you with some help My Lady?" asked one of the men as he eyed her.

"There's nothing I think that you can provide me with that I'll need." she replied and moved over to sit next to Aragorn.

"Lady Autheil? Is that you?" a dwarf asked from behind her.

Autheil turned to the dwarf and recognized it as Glión, a dwarf that had traveled to Rivendell with Bilbo. It was the last time she was home before her sixth year at Hogwarts.

Although most of the elves didn't associate with the dwarfs when they had arrived Autheil found them slightly amusing and offered to aid them in anyway. She spent time with them telling them about her adventures at Hogwarts which they didn't believe until she showed them her magic. She had helped give them food and water before they went back out on their journey along with warnings of different paths. Their dwarf prince was to stubborn to accept her advice but Balin and Glión were not.

"It is good to see you alive and well, My Lady." Glión said as he nodded his head in respect.

"It is good to see you as well. Althought I must say you have aged." She joked.

"Time does do that to you My Lady. Although it seems time has not affected the Lady Autheil."Glión replied. "It has in certain ways." she said. They then noticed the several blank looks they were getting from everyone. "Glion." she said. "Lady Autheil." he said and she turned and took her seat next to Aragorn who wore a smirk.

"Do you get along with everyone?" he asked.

"I don't think everyone." she said motioning to the group of men staring at them.

"A woman on the Council?" one said.

"You have no place here." Boromir said.

"I think I do if not I would not have been able to come here." Autheil replied.

"And what would a woman be able to offer in such a matter?" Boromir sneered.

Aragorn was about to argue on her behalf but the voice of her brothers cut him off.

"I would watch what you say about our sister." Elladan said. "For she has a lot to offer."

"Like the fact that she could kill you in easily five different ways if she wished is one." Ellrohir said as they walked onto the platform with Gandalf, Frodo and Elrond in tow.

Things settled down immediately and everyone took their seats. Introductions were made and Frodo brought the Ring forward. Gimli and Legolas glared at the Ring but Boromir looked fantasized with it. "So it's true?" he muttered breaking the silence and drawing everyone's attention. Boromir stood up and continued. "I dream, I saw the eastern sky grow dark but in the west a pale light lingered. Voices crying 'Doom's near at hand.' So Ilsaedur's bane is found. Ilsaedur's bane." he whispered at the end.