Breaking The Barriers 9

Breaking The Barriers

Part 9

Posted: February 15, 2008
Title: Breaking the Barriers
Author: Balrog

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The next day, Legolas stirred in bed. Opening his eyes, he looked out the window to see a glorious morning. The sun was shining, the birds were chirping and a slight breeze blew the curtains. He sat up in bed and grabbed at his head. What had happened to him? He ached all over, both physically and mentally. He felt in his heart the greatest love in all of Middle earth. Then realization struck him: he'd had the ceremony to break his barrier. Feeling an urge inside, he jumped out of bed feeling as though he needed to find someone. He didn't know who it was but the call was of the greatest importance. Haldir had filled his head with so much information on how to make love to a man it was enough to make anyone's head throb. Seeing a glass of water on the nightstand he took a swallow, hoping to relieve the pain in his head. He shook his head to clear it and proceeded to get dressed, but his mind was on what had been said the night before by Haldir.

Haldir had told Legolas that that he was going to break the barrier around his prostate. Haldir told him a story about being the Captain of the Guard with Thranduil. It was at a time when Thranduil took over the kingdom of Greenwood and it had been a long road, though it had been worth it. When Legolas was born, Thranduil sent Haldir and his brothers to guard the Lord and Lady of Lothlórien. The Lord and Lady were of great importance and were to be guarded with the brothers' lives if need be. Then, when Legolas reached his majority, Legolas was sent to Lothlórien to train with the March wardens. When Haldir heard this, he had rejoiced that he would be seeing the son of his former King.

Shaking his head, he looked about the room to find his clothes. On a chair next to him he found the most beautiful clothes ever: they were sea blue. Somehow that color came back to him from a dream. 'I wore these in a dream!' he thought, 'I have to seek out the man that was there.' He washed in the bathroom and dressed in the clothes. They felt like silk. He braided his hair into warrior braids at the vanity table and left the room. He was excited about the person he had to find. 'But who is it?' He had no idea.

There was a tugging at his heart that he could not comprehend. Just as he closed the door, something exploded in his chest. He placed his hand over his heart as if in pain.

Haldir was walking toward Legolas with a tray of food. Seeing the look on his face made him drop the tray.

"Legolas, what's wrong?" he asked rushing to the side of the young elf.

"I don't know. It's like a pain here inside my chest. My skin feels like it's tingling all over. What does this mean?"

"I think we need to seek out Estel. I wonder if he is having the same pain?" Haldir wondered.

'Estel? Who is Estel?' Legolas thought to himself.

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Estel was sitting on a bench in a garden not far from his rooms. This was Elrond's private garden. He had a bunch of flowers in his hands. 'Why would I have picked these?' he thought to himself. 'They must be for someone else.' They were mostly sea blue colors. 'The elf in my dreams had on a sea blue tunic! Maybe they are for him - but why would I pick flowers for a male elf?'

Just then he got a sharp pain in his chest. His hand went to his heart as he bent over in pain. 'What is going on? Why is this happening to me? It's worse than the cramps that I had,' he thought, trying to catch his breath.

Glorfindel turned when he heard Estel moan and saw the young man double over. He rushed to him and fell to his knees, facing Estel.

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"I don't know. It's like a knife entering my chest and turning. Who's doing this to me?"

Glorfindel heard a noise at the gate to the garden and noticed Haldir and Legolas. He rose from the ground, giving the two young elves some room and to see their reactions to one another. He wanted to make sure that the connection between the two young lovers to be would create the link.

Exactly at that moment, Legolas entered the garden with Haldir. Seeing the man sitting on a bench, Legolas rushed to him and sat beside him. Legolas gathered him up in his arms and pressed his body close.

"It's you!" Legolas whispered in the man's ear. "I had hoped to see you again. I saw you in a dream but I didn't think you were real! Last night seemed like a blur," he exclaimed. The pain in his chest was starting to subside.

Estel pushed the elf away and looked into his eyes searching for some similarity to the elf in his dreams. Then he saw that Legolas was wearing the same sea blue tunic. Tears welled up in his eyes and overflowed onto his cheeks. He was the happiest man in all of Middle Earth to see that the elf in his dream was real. He gathered Legolas into his arms and gave him a chaste kiss. His pain also diminished.

Glorfindel cleared his throat. "I think we all need to talk now that the link has been confirmed. Let us go back to Estel's room."

They all left the garden. Estel took hold of Legolas' hand and both were happier than they had ever been. The man gave the disheveled flowers to the elf. The elf smiled at the gesture.

As they entered Estel's room, they all noticed that it had been cleaned and the bed redone. Both Estel and Legolas took the bed and sat beside one another, fingers entwined. Neither could take their eyes off the other.

Glorfindel sat on the chair next to the bed, facing them. He looked at both of them but they never looked at him. No one else in the room existed.

"Look at me," he requested. They both turned their heads and looked at Glorfindel. "What I need to say to both of you is crucial. You both made a connection the first time each of you suffered your pain. You each had a dream and this was the first step in the process. The second step was seeing each other in the garden and recognizing each other. This is now locked into your hearts. We have broken both your barriers. The love you had around your glands will now overflow so that the pain will not hurt you anymore." He stood and walked over to Haldir. "We have taught you two how to make love. It is now up to you to complete the spiritual union. Each of you have a feä. This is your soul, Estel. Making love will combine your feär so that your love will bond. If anything ever happens to either one of you, the other will feel it. Your feäs will now combine when you fulfill your love. You now have to teach each other what we have taught you. This will complete the process." Glorfindel looked at each of them while talking. "There is also something else that is crucial." Glorfindel watched as each of them took in all this information.

"This process has to be completed the night before Estel's age of majority. That will be in three weeks. You will have to spill your essence into each other by then. This will make your bond stronger when Lady Galadriel performs the bonding ceremony to bind your love. At the end of these three weeks you will have your coming-of- age ceremony, Estel. At the same time there will be a bonding ceremony."

Estel had a shocked look on his face. "I couldn't do to him what you taught me! And what do you mean 'bonding ceremony'? I can't marry him, he's an elf. I've been taught that a man must marry a woman, not a man." He looked at Legolas and then back at Glorfindel. "I'm sorry, Legolas. I can't marry you. It's not right!" Estel got off the bed and started to pace.

"Estel, this is not a marriage ceremony," Glorfindel calmly said. "It is to bind your feäs with each other. You can marry other people when the time comes to each of you. This is not a marriage. To the elves it means a marriage, but to Man it is a bonding of the souls. That's all it is." Glorfindel went to Estel and placed his hands on his shoulders. "Later on when you decide to get married, Estel, then you can. But Legolas and you must be together at all times. You should not be far from one another. I don't know how far you can stretch your feä before it breaks. But right now you have to keep close and get to know one another."

Glorfindel gathered Estel into his arms, trying to calm the distraught young man. He could feel the tension in his shoulders but it eased itself somewhat when he was in the Noldor's arms.

"That goes for you too, Legolas," Haldir stated. "I have been your mentor through all these years and I have taught you many things. This is something that you will have to learn with Estel in private now."

"Now, we will leave you to your, shall we say, teachings?" Glorfindel said with a smile on his face. Both teachers left the room.

Legolas turned to Estel and looked into his eyes.

Legolas got off the bed and walked to the balcony wringing his hands. He turned to look at Estel.

Estel didn't know what to say. He watched as Legolas went to the balcony, noticing that the elf was nervous. He took the initiative and sat down on the bed, making his way to the pillows to lie back. Patting the bed, Estel motioned with his head for the elf to lie down beside him.

Legolas' feelings had jumbled all up. He was not sure if he wanted to do this. He looked at the man on the bed, walked over and sat on the edge. He was nervous. A hand touched his shoulder and pulled him back. Legolas was reluctant to lay down with this man but somehow this felt right. The man pulled the elf's back against his chest and was now cradled in his arms. With his hand, he pushed the long blond hair out of the way and planted a kiss on the nape of the elf's neck to calm him.

"I think we need to talk before we do anything. I want to get to know you a little before…you know." Legolas hesitated. The pain that he experienced in the hallway was subsiding.

Estel was planting small kisses on his temple. He could not get enough of this elf. He wanted to touch him everywhere. The elf radiated a light that was bright enough for Estel to see. It brought on a calming effect to just hold Legolas in his arms. All that Glorfindel had taught him of elves was driving him crazy with pleasure. Legolas' skin was fair, mysterious to touch, and his hair was glorious.

Legolas pushed his body against Estel. This man was making his body do things he did not want to do. The pain he felt in the garden was gone. It was nice to feel completely safe in the man's arms. Estel planted a kiss on Legolas' shoulder. Legolas moaned when he felt the kiss and closed his eyes.

"I think it's too late to talk," Legolas said. "I can't seem to get this image of the two of us lying naked on a blanket in my dream."

Estel pulled the beautiful elf closer. He couldn't seem to get Legolas' face out of his mind either. "I agree, but we need to do this. We should get to know one another. I know much about you yet only from stories. I recall hearing all about your great deeds in fighting alongside Haldir for so many years, as well as fighting with your family. Exactly how old are you, Legolas?"

"I am equivilant to the age of a young man. I went through my majority at age 80. That makes me around the same age as you. I don't know anything about you. How old are you?" Legolas asked, and grabbed one of the hands on his chest and planted kisses on it. He ran his own fingers down the palm and on the back.

"I'm going to be 20 in three weeks. That is the age of majority for a man. I will then be old enough to go out into this world and help with ridding the land of evil." Estel was stroking the arm of the elf.

Somehow they had ceased to talk and relaxed in the afterglow of being in each others arms. Their feelings for each other and the day's events exhausted them both. Estel moved further down on the bed and they both curled up next to one another. He grabbed the blanket on the edge of the bed and pulled it over them. They didn't even bother getting out of their clothing.

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