Somewhere Over the Rainbow

Maladies and Remedies

Aisling hummed to herself as she made her way through the city of trees back towards her home from the market. It had been two months since the wedding and they had quickly settled into routine once their "honeymoon" had ended.

Though with the way things went just about every night when Haldir wasn't at the borders, she almost thought it had never actually ended.

But at the moment Haldir was on the borders, returning to his duty to protect the land and all that dwelled within it. This time he had taken both Rumil and Orophin with him, deeming Aisling more than capable of getting around and taking care of herself and the house on her own.

Her days were busy and full. Daella and Rumil had set their betrothal ceremony to take place shortly after they returned from this trip, so they needed to finish up Daella's dress and all the other arrangements. And well, keeping up a house without modern conveniences certainly took Aisling a lot longer without Haldir there to help. More than that, she found it harder to fall asleep without him next to her and was eager for him to get back home even though he had only been gone a few days.

And she was pretty sure she would have some big news for him when he returned.

Smiling to herself, Aisling glanced down at her belly and then back up at the city. She wasn't completely sure just how she was supposed to tell this early without a pregnancy test - which was why she hadn't even told Daella yet - but she was definitely late, and she was hardly ever late. There was a certain excitement that had come over her once she realized, making it hard to keep her suspicious to herself. She wasn't even sure if the healers would be able to tell this early or how they would tell at all until she started showing or exhibiting some of the more overt signs of pregnancy.

And well, she wanted Haldir to be the first person she told. He had just left when she started getting her suspicions.

"Two more weeks," she breathed to herself as she saw the tree that held their home come into sight. Two more weeks and then he would be back.

Her nights of late had been full of dreams about telling him. She had already gone through about 20 different scenarios at this point, and still wasn't sure just which she wanted to go with. Hell, she had even taken up knitting, working on a soft blanket at night before bed. Or just wandering around the second floor, wondering just which room would make a good nursery. Liam and Tiernan would be thrilled.

Aisling then came to a sudden stop, her smile falling away. Right, they couldn't know. They were back in her world and she had no way to get back to them or to tell them. Tears started pricking at her eyes, and she had just reached up to brush them away when she felt a jolt of something. Turning, she looked through the trees, trying to make out what was happening in the coming twilight.

Surely something wasn't wrong. She hadn't felt as though Haldir was in any sort of danger since he left, though she tried not to use their connection that often, worried she would pick it up at just the wrong time when he was in the middle of a fight or something.

She started walking, picking up her pace as she moved through the trees towards whatever was causing her to have a slight bit of anxiety.

Finally, just on the edges of the city, she came to a stop and breathed a sigh of relief when she saw Haldir walking with Orophin and Rumil at his sides, all three of them completely fine. He met her eyes and smiled softly, causing her to start running towards him.

"You're early," she said as she wrapped her arms around his neck and held onto him tightly. "Why are you back early?"

"What's this, not eager to see your husband?" Orophin joked. Aisling glared playfully at him as she stepped back from Haldir. She then turned her eyes to him.