JesicaDittrich
Legolas × OC × Faramir
Slow Burn • Canon Divergent • LOTR
Emma grew up in Rivendell, silently in love with Legolas.
He looked at her all his life, yet never crossed the boundary his own immortality imposed.
Until the war changed everything.
When Emma leaves with the Fellowship of the Ring, Legolas begins to see her as he never had before: too close, too late. But Ithilien breaks what little balance remained.
Because Faramir does not look at her like an impossible dream.
He looks at her like a woman.
He touches her as if she were real.
He desires her.
And Legolas, for the first time in centuries, feels something worse than fear: jealousy.
As Middle-earth collapses between battles, Mordor, and farewells that may be final, Emma finds herself caught between two kinds of love:
the man who dared to be there,
and the elf who loved her too much in silence.
One let her go without a kiss.
Another gave her his nights.
And when Legolas finally understands what Emma has always been to him, it is already too late to pretend it does not burn.
Because some wars are fought with swords.
And others-with the body, desire,
and everything that arrives too late.