***Disclaimed, as always, I'm not so crazy yet as to think that I created
this whole fantastical world and the characters inhabiting it.though be
warned I have created quite a few of my own***
Legolas sat on the edge of his brother's bed, shaking his head as his brother busied himself with the finishing touches of his dinner attire. It was amusing enough to see the nervous energy, as well as the over bounding joy that one could witness in him plainly. And though Legolas was happy for his brother, the whole idea of it kind of made him sick; Kaimelar said that was simply because he was not mature enough to understand, and now Legolas sat silent watching his brother, trying to solve the enigma of his brother's actions. Yes, it was natural, and it seemed that everyone eventually fell into the trap but still, Legolas couldn't help but wonder about the sense of the whole thing: what would you do the rest of your immortal life with one other person? Don't you get bored?
"What do you think adar will say?" He finally asked, finding the silence along with his thoughts unbearable. Kaimelar continued to stare into the mirror adjusting one of his braids; Legolas rolled his eyes at his brother's vanity. For all of Kaimelar's bumbling with words he could certainly prim himself up to look like a prince; Legolas unconsciously fidgeted in his clothes.
"I think adar will approve, I mean, he's always wanted to see me and Helyanwe married, he's often mentioned it. So, why should he not approve, have you heard something, did he hint at something?" Kaimelar asked suddenly worried as to why his brother would ask such a question without an impulse to do so, did his little brother know something that he did not know.
"Actually, ada likes her and all, but, the thing is," Legolas lowered his voice, Kaimelar pulled himself from the mirror and leaned into his brother intently, "ada doesn't approve of you for her." After he had breathed out his tension, he shoved his brother, who fell back into bed, laughing. "It was funny Kai, admit it! Besides it's not so far from the truth."
"You know, you become harder to live with every year that passes." Kaimelar teased, giving himself one last glance in the mirror. He watched his brother shrug his shoulders nonchalantly, giving his brother a huge grin, knowing full well he was playing the annoying little brother; he was entitled to it ever so often, especially after such events had occurred.
"Well, Hely thinks I'm the sweetest thing to ever exist." Legolas retorted jumping of the bed, Kaimelar went to his brother draping his arm around the other's shoulders as they exited the room to dinner.
"Yes, but she doesn't live with you baby Greenleaf." Rather than comment to the reference, which Legolas deemed the most uncouth of nicknames, he merely looked out his brother and stuck out his tongue. "Yes, little Las, you certainly do give the most amazing displays of maturity."
"I know." The two made their way own the hallway, to the stairs, but Kaimelar hesitated in going down, it took Legolas around five stairs before he realized that his brother did not follow him. He turned, noticing his brother had turned a strange color of green, it was as if he was being asked to make a public speech in front of the whole kingdom and then some; that sickened frightened look.
"Kai? You do remember how to make your way down right?" His brother made no response of hearing him, this wasn't good, Legolas decided, he ran back in front of his brother and sat him down on the top stair. It seemed like a good move, for Kaimelar made some type of strange low wailing sound; it wasn't a pleasant sound but it proved to Legolas his brother wasn't in some trance, it wasn't too far off for someone in their family to go into long time trances, Legolas thought amused and frightened in the hindsight of the memory. He gave his brother a shrug, to completely bring him back to Middle Earth.
"What? Why are we sitting?" Kaimelar asked, looking suspiciously at his brother, assuming it was his fault somehow. Legolas ignored the incriminating look.
"We're sitting here because you looked like you were going to take a dive down the stairs. You don't remember that?" Legolas asked.
"I remember thinking about telling ada about the." he trailed off the distant sick look once again chiseling itself on his face, Legolas rolled his eyes, at this rate they would never get to dinner. Sitting was not helping, apparently his brother could go into a state both standing as well as sitting, so he pulled him back up to his feet; if he had to throw his brother down the stairs, he was willing to make that sacrifice for a nice warm dinner. "Wait!" Kaimelar suddenly yelled, so shocking Legolas that he lost his balance and tumbled down the stairs till he hit the bottom with a loud, not too pleasant thud. Kaimelar took a breath, before he ran down the stairs after his little brother, this was not going to help in breaking the news to his father.
***
Sildulin sat in front of the window with the easel in front of her, she was disappointed she would soon have to stop, it was turning out to be a nice painting for something starting out as a whim; it was the way the light shattered when it hit the little window and respectively competed for the attention of the spectator.
"I do not understand why Kai is getting so nervous about this, it isn't that huge a deal, is it?" Helyanwe asked, pacing back and forth; though not originally nervous, Kai's worrying had built her into a panicked state. Sildulin smiled, though her attention remained on the painting at hand.
"It isn't, adar will be more than excited over the news, I think in fact it will ease some worrying for him. He has been waiting for the day of this announcement." She noticed Helyanwe had stopped pacing and had thrown herself into an over sized armchair to the right of Sildulin.
"That is what I thought, but Kai, he just kept going on and on," she sighed, beginning to feel relief once again, but also a bit foolish, she was very close to the King, of course he would welcome her to the family; and he knew how much they loved each other. This would be a very good thing she decided.
"Anwe, how long have you known Kai? Has he not always been quite the worrier?" She finished one last brush stroke before calling it quits for the day; turning to her friend, more than her friend now, she was going to be her sister; it made her feel giddier than she had felt in years. It was as if they had returned to little elflings, laughing over some silly story, a small trifling treasure they had discovered; but this time it was not a trifle, it was huge.
"Imagine if we have children." Helyanwe remarked with a laugh at the sight of the overprotective father figure of Kai keeping nervously busy everytime his children went out as to avoid going crazy with worry. Sildulin got up and squeezed into the armchair with her friend; life was going to be great when her brother and Helyanwe got married, it would bring such a new life to the family. Imagine if they did have children, another little elfling running about, she would love to see Legolas with his little nephew or niece, or both. He had been the last child of that household, she doubted he had ever seen a baby, much less held one. And with Kai looming over him to make sure the baby was not dropped, the thought made her join with in with her friend's laughter.
"I do think only good things will come of this union," Sildulin said, hugging her friend, continuing to laugh as the action proved quite cumbersome in the confines of the chair. But their good time was brought to a premature halt, as a crashing sound from the hallway drew their attention, and then the sound of running down the stairs, drew them from their chairs and to the sight.
By the time they got to the foot of the stairs, Kaimelar was kneeling over the limp form of Legolas, grimacing guiltily as the two girls approached. They both dropped to their own knees to look over the youngest of them.
"What happened?" Sildulin asked, almost scolding her brother, she assumed Legolas was a little too immature to bother not to play around near the stairs, but Kaimelar? Her anger lessened as it looked like Legolas hadn't sustained any serious injuries.
"He fell, I didn't shove him, it's a long story." Kaimelar stuttered, trying to recall exactly how this had happened. He was thinking about, no, he stopped himself, no use going down that road again, he knew full well what he had been thinking about, but then he said something, and Legolas fell. That was it. "How are you, my love?" He asked, noticing Helyanwe kneeling before him, he leaned in as she smiled, and the two kissed, but stopped as they heard a moan.
"Please, no more torture, you have caused me enough pain already," Legolas whined, not wanting to open his eyes to that sight; was this how it was going to be when they were married? Constantly being sweet, and romantic all the time; he would move out, plain and simple, he was certain Lord Elrond would welcome him in the Rivendell household. Helyanwe looked down at her future brother.
"How do you feel?" she asked. Legolas gave a half grin, then looked to his brother with malice, his brother made him fall down the steps, and now not only did he feel like someone had given him a good kicking, he felt stupid; he was going to hear the jokes about his inability to descend steps for a while.
"Well, I'm not dead." Legolas groaned, beginning to pick himself up, trying to figure out if any pain stuck out more than any of the general soreness taking over his body; the bruise to his ego was pretty rough.
"You know what I mean, maybe I should take you to one of the healing rooms?" Legolas shook his head, once you entered there you never came back, they seemed to continually to find things wrong with you, to the very smallest cut or scrape and the since he was one of the royal children, they treated him like spun glass until he was utterly healed. It was a nightmare to go there, it was good his brother was to wed one of the healers, this way he would never have to go to that evil place again, he could just call upon Helyanwe.
"No, my head aches a bit, and my ankle feels slightly off, but I think I am absolutely fine." Helyanwe probed the area around his ankle, feeling for any bones out of place, she smiled once more at her patient.
"It seems nothing is broken from you graceful flight from the stairs, but it looks like a pretty bad sprain, I'll that wrapped up for Prince Legolas." She turned then to the other prince, "Kai, dear, could you please run down to the Healing Wing and grab some bandages to wrap his ankle in. Thank you." Before he ran off he leaned down and kissed her once more, much to Legolas' disgust, then ran off, leaving his brother alone with the girls.
"It's not like you to be so clumsy Las, what happened?" Sildulin asked, sitting herself at the foot of the stairs, while Legolas rested himself on his elbows, Helyanwe still focusing on his ankle, then checked his head for any contusions.
"We were talking and he just stopped, so I tried to get him to continue, but he remained in this daze and I am looking at him and suddenly he just yells, throws me off, and I go flying." Legolas answered in one breath, swatting away Helyanwe's hands, as he knew he was basically fine. "Don't worry Hely, I just fell down the stairs, not off the roof or from the top of a tree." She gave him a playful shove at the allusion to past misadventures.
"I suppose we can't leave you two unsupervised." Sildulin teased, as now Legolas was stranded helpless against the teasing banter of his sister and future sister, this was the downfall to being the youngest brother, Sildulin teasingly ruffling his hair.
"You know if I was Kai, that would force me to go back up to pretty my hair again. You're in for quite a handful, I grant you that much Hely."
"What are you saying about me, baby brother?" Legolas heard his brother's voice echo through the hall, as his footsteps approached them, they all began to laugh; what a spectacle they must be, Legolas thought.
"Nothing prince." He returned as Kai appeared before them, carrying more than enough bandages, in fact, one might think he was preparing for battle with all the medical supplies he had. They all gave him a questioning glance; did he really think they would require all that?
"When I asked for the supplies, they asked why, and I told them; it took some swift talking to stop them from rushing upon this very sight." Legolas rolled his eyes.
"Swift talking, who was there with you?" Kaimelar lightly threw the cloth at his brother's face as his form of retort; Legolas gave a fake look of injury. It took Helyanwe a moment to wrap up Legolas ankle; she and Kaimelar pulled him up; Legolas using Kai as a means of support as they made their way to the dining hall.
"Well it's all good and well that I'm okay, but how are we going to explain this to ada?" Legolas asked intently, not sure how his father would take the sight of his youngest roughed up again; he had just eased up on his overprotective attitude of late since the incident that had occurred nearly ten years ago, Legolas did not want to see the hovering become resurrected.
"The truth, you fell down the stairs." Helyanwe relied, it seeming simple enough, none of them had done anything wrong, there was no trouble, it was an accident. The children of Thranduil looked to each other, knowing better than to think that the truth would work, especially since the truth seemed like some concocted lie to get out of trouble, especially since Legolas had tried to explain past scrapes on a tumble down the stairs rather than the truth. That was something he was regretting now; perhaps if he told the truth all the time then it might be more believable.
"Maybe it will sound better coming from me, adar does not doubt my word in manners such as these as he does yours." Sildulin offered, that being the truth, Sildulin was the good one of the children. All along she had been the one to berate them for their poor behavior and try to keep some order; but everyone knew, their father included, that Legolas was Sildulin's weak spot, she was always soft when it came to her precious baby brother. That weak spot occasionally led to the break down of her own morals, as she often covered up for him and his actions.
Legolas rubbed his head, as he began to feel a little dizzy, but kept it subtly to himself. The others so worried about Thranduil's reaction that the movement went unheeded by them.
"We can pretend it never happened, my ankle will be better soon enough and he's been so busy, we only see him while seated at meals. And with the announcement all attention will be diverted to the lovebirds. We'll be fine." Legolas said to the six people surrounding him, when he thought about though, he was certain there was only three before.
***Well, it's a new story. I hope you like it so far, I was tossing around the idea of going back and writing another young Legolas piece but this one came out instead so please tell me if you think I made the right choice, and just be warned I feel like this might be a longer one. So please read and review, it would be appreciated for those concerned, I think that would just be me though. Be updated soon.***
Legolas sat on the edge of his brother's bed, shaking his head as his brother busied himself with the finishing touches of his dinner attire. It was amusing enough to see the nervous energy, as well as the over bounding joy that one could witness in him plainly. And though Legolas was happy for his brother, the whole idea of it kind of made him sick; Kaimelar said that was simply because he was not mature enough to understand, and now Legolas sat silent watching his brother, trying to solve the enigma of his brother's actions. Yes, it was natural, and it seemed that everyone eventually fell into the trap but still, Legolas couldn't help but wonder about the sense of the whole thing: what would you do the rest of your immortal life with one other person? Don't you get bored?
"What do you think adar will say?" He finally asked, finding the silence along with his thoughts unbearable. Kaimelar continued to stare into the mirror adjusting one of his braids; Legolas rolled his eyes at his brother's vanity. For all of Kaimelar's bumbling with words he could certainly prim himself up to look like a prince; Legolas unconsciously fidgeted in his clothes.
"I think adar will approve, I mean, he's always wanted to see me and Helyanwe married, he's often mentioned it. So, why should he not approve, have you heard something, did he hint at something?" Kaimelar asked suddenly worried as to why his brother would ask such a question without an impulse to do so, did his little brother know something that he did not know.
"Actually, ada likes her and all, but, the thing is," Legolas lowered his voice, Kaimelar pulled himself from the mirror and leaned into his brother intently, "ada doesn't approve of you for her." After he had breathed out his tension, he shoved his brother, who fell back into bed, laughing. "It was funny Kai, admit it! Besides it's not so far from the truth."
"You know, you become harder to live with every year that passes." Kaimelar teased, giving himself one last glance in the mirror. He watched his brother shrug his shoulders nonchalantly, giving his brother a huge grin, knowing full well he was playing the annoying little brother; he was entitled to it ever so often, especially after such events had occurred.
"Well, Hely thinks I'm the sweetest thing to ever exist." Legolas retorted jumping of the bed, Kaimelar went to his brother draping his arm around the other's shoulders as they exited the room to dinner.
"Yes, but she doesn't live with you baby Greenleaf." Rather than comment to the reference, which Legolas deemed the most uncouth of nicknames, he merely looked out his brother and stuck out his tongue. "Yes, little Las, you certainly do give the most amazing displays of maturity."
"I know." The two made their way own the hallway, to the stairs, but Kaimelar hesitated in going down, it took Legolas around five stairs before he realized that his brother did not follow him. He turned, noticing his brother had turned a strange color of green, it was as if he was being asked to make a public speech in front of the whole kingdom and then some; that sickened frightened look.
"Kai? You do remember how to make your way down right?" His brother made no response of hearing him, this wasn't good, Legolas decided, he ran back in front of his brother and sat him down on the top stair. It seemed like a good move, for Kaimelar made some type of strange low wailing sound; it wasn't a pleasant sound but it proved to Legolas his brother wasn't in some trance, it wasn't too far off for someone in their family to go into long time trances, Legolas thought amused and frightened in the hindsight of the memory. He gave his brother a shrug, to completely bring him back to Middle Earth.
"What? Why are we sitting?" Kaimelar asked, looking suspiciously at his brother, assuming it was his fault somehow. Legolas ignored the incriminating look.
"We're sitting here because you looked like you were going to take a dive down the stairs. You don't remember that?" Legolas asked.
"I remember thinking about telling ada about the." he trailed off the distant sick look once again chiseling itself on his face, Legolas rolled his eyes, at this rate they would never get to dinner. Sitting was not helping, apparently his brother could go into a state both standing as well as sitting, so he pulled him back up to his feet; if he had to throw his brother down the stairs, he was willing to make that sacrifice for a nice warm dinner. "Wait!" Kaimelar suddenly yelled, so shocking Legolas that he lost his balance and tumbled down the stairs till he hit the bottom with a loud, not too pleasant thud. Kaimelar took a breath, before he ran down the stairs after his little brother, this was not going to help in breaking the news to his father.
***
Sildulin sat in front of the window with the easel in front of her, she was disappointed she would soon have to stop, it was turning out to be a nice painting for something starting out as a whim; it was the way the light shattered when it hit the little window and respectively competed for the attention of the spectator.
"I do not understand why Kai is getting so nervous about this, it isn't that huge a deal, is it?" Helyanwe asked, pacing back and forth; though not originally nervous, Kai's worrying had built her into a panicked state. Sildulin smiled, though her attention remained on the painting at hand.
"It isn't, adar will be more than excited over the news, I think in fact it will ease some worrying for him. He has been waiting for the day of this announcement." She noticed Helyanwe had stopped pacing and had thrown herself into an over sized armchair to the right of Sildulin.
"That is what I thought, but Kai, he just kept going on and on," she sighed, beginning to feel relief once again, but also a bit foolish, she was very close to the King, of course he would welcome her to the family; and he knew how much they loved each other. This would be a very good thing she decided.
"Anwe, how long have you known Kai? Has he not always been quite the worrier?" She finished one last brush stroke before calling it quits for the day; turning to her friend, more than her friend now, she was going to be her sister; it made her feel giddier than she had felt in years. It was as if they had returned to little elflings, laughing over some silly story, a small trifling treasure they had discovered; but this time it was not a trifle, it was huge.
"Imagine if we have children." Helyanwe remarked with a laugh at the sight of the overprotective father figure of Kai keeping nervously busy everytime his children went out as to avoid going crazy with worry. Sildulin got up and squeezed into the armchair with her friend; life was going to be great when her brother and Helyanwe got married, it would bring such a new life to the family. Imagine if they did have children, another little elfling running about, she would love to see Legolas with his little nephew or niece, or both. He had been the last child of that household, she doubted he had ever seen a baby, much less held one. And with Kai looming over him to make sure the baby was not dropped, the thought made her join with in with her friend's laughter.
"I do think only good things will come of this union," Sildulin said, hugging her friend, continuing to laugh as the action proved quite cumbersome in the confines of the chair. But their good time was brought to a premature halt, as a crashing sound from the hallway drew their attention, and then the sound of running down the stairs, drew them from their chairs and to the sight.
By the time they got to the foot of the stairs, Kaimelar was kneeling over the limp form of Legolas, grimacing guiltily as the two girls approached. They both dropped to their own knees to look over the youngest of them.
"What happened?" Sildulin asked, almost scolding her brother, she assumed Legolas was a little too immature to bother not to play around near the stairs, but Kaimelar? Her anger lessened as it looked like Legolas hadn't sustained any serious injuries.
"He fell, I didn't shove him, it's a long story." Kaimelar stuttered, trying to recall exactly how this had happened. He was thinking about, no, he stopped himself, no use going down that road again, he knew full well what he had been thinking about, but then he said something, and Legolas fell. That was it. "How are you, my love?" He asked, noticing Helyanwe kneeling before him, he leaned in as she smiled, and the two kissed, but stopped as they heard a moan.
"Please, no more torture, you have caused me enough pain already," Legolas whined, not wanting to open his eyes to that sight; was this how it was going to be when they were married? Constantly being sweet, and romantic all the time; he would move out, plain and simple, he was certain Lord Elrond would welcome him in the Rivendell household. Helyanwe looked down at her future brother.
"How do you feel?" she asked. Legolas gave a half grin, then looked to his brother with malice, his brother made him fall down the steps, and now not only did he feel like someone had given him a good kicking, he felt stupid; he was going to hear the jokes about his inability to descend steps for a while.
"Well, I'm not dead." Legolas groaned, beginning to pick himself up, trying to figure out if any pain stuck out more than any of the general soreness taking over his body; the bruise to his ego was pretty rough.
"You know what I mean, maybe I should take you to one of the healing rooms?" Legolas shook his head, once you entered there you never came back, they seemed to continually to find things wrong with you, to the very smallest cut or scrape and the since he was one of the royal children, they treated him like spun glass until he was utterly healed. It was a nightmare to go there, it was good his brother was to wed one of the healers, this way he would never have to go to that evil place again, he could just call upon Helyanwe.
"No, my head aches a bit, and my ankle feels slightly off, but I think I am absolutely fine." Helyanwe probed the area around his ankle, feeling for any bones out of place, she smiled once more at her patient.
"It seems nothing is broken from you graceful flight from the stairs, but it looks like a pretty bad sprain, I'll that wrapped up for Prince Legolas." She turned then to the other prince, "Kai, dear, could you please run down to the Healing Wing and grab some bandages to wrap his ankle in. Thank you." Before he ran off he leaned down and kissed her once more, much to Legolas' disgust, then ran off, leaving his brother alone with the girls.
"It's not like you to be so clumsy Las, what happened?" Sildulin asked, sitting herself at the foot of the stairs, while Legolas rested himself on his elbows, Helyanwe still focusing on his ankle, then checked his head for any contusions.
"We were talking and he just stopped, so I tried to get him to continue, but he remained in this daze and I am looking at him and suddenly he just yells, throws me off, and I go flying." Legolas answered in one breath, swatting away Helyanwe's hands, as he knew he was basically fine. "Don't worry Hely, I just fell down the stairs, not off the roof or from the top of a tree." She gave him a playful shove at the allusion to past misadventures.
"I suppose we can't leave you two unsupervised." Sildulin teased, as now Legolas was stranded helpless against the teasing banter of his sister and future sister, this was the downfall to being the youngest brother, Sildulin teasingly ruffling his hair.
"You know if I was Kai, that would force me to go back up to pretty my hair again. You're in for quite a handful, I grant you that much Hely."
"What are you saying about me, baby brother?" Legolas heard his brother's voice echo through the hall, as his footsteps approached them, they all began to laugh; what a spectacle they must be, Legolas thought.
"Nothing prince." He returned as Kai appeared before them, carrying more than enough bandages, in fact, one might think he was preparing for battle with all the medical supplies he had. They all gave him a questioning glance; did he really think they would require all that?
"When I asked for the supplies, they asked why, and I told them; it took some swift talking to stop them from rushing upon this very sight." Legolas rolled his eyes.
"Swift talking, who was there with you?" Kaimelar lightly threw the cloth at his brother's face as his form of retort; Legolas gave a fake look of injury. It took Helyanwe a moment to wrap up Legolas ankle; she and Kaimelar pulled him up; Legolas using Kai as a means of support as they made their way to the dining hall.
"Well it's all good and well that I'm okay, but how are we going to explain this to ada?" Legolas asked intently, not sure how his father would take the sight of his youngest roughed up again; he had just eased up on his overprotective attitude of late since the incident that had occurred nearly ten years ago, Legolas did not want to see the hovering become resurrected.
"The truth, you fell down the stairs." Helyanwe relied, it seeming simple enough, none of them had done anything wrong, there was no trouble, it was an accident. The children of Thranduil looked to each other, knowing better than to think that the truth would work, especially since the truth seemed like some concocted lie to get out of trouble, especially since Legolas had tried to explain past scrapes on a tumble down the stairs rather than the truth. That was something he was regretting now; perhaps if he told the truth all the time then it might be more believable.
"Maybe it will sound better coming from me, adar does not doubt my word in manners such as these as he does yours." Sildulin offered, that being the truth, Sildulin was the good one of the children. All along she had been the one to berate them for their poor behavior and try to keep some order; but everyone knew, their father included, that Legolas was Sildulin's weak spot, she was always soft when it came to her precious baby brother. That weak spot occasionally led to the break down of her own morals, as she often covered up for him and his actions.
Legolas rubbed his head, as he began to feel a little dizzy, but kept it subtly to himself. The others so worried about Thranduil's reaction that the movement went unheeded by them.
"We can pretend it never happened, my ankle will be better soon enough and he's been so busy, we only see him while seated at meals. And with the announcement all attention will be diverted to the lovebirds. We'll be fine." Legolas said to the six people surrounding him, when he thought about though, he was certain there was only three before.
***Well, it's a new story. I hope you like it so far, I was tossing around the idea of going back and writing another young Legolas piece but this one came out instead so please tell me if you think I made the right choice, and just be warned I feel like this might be a longer one. So please read and review, it would be appreciated for those concerned, I think that would just be me though. Be updated soon.***