Double Drabble: Lily of the Water
Author: surreysmum
Length: 200 words exactly
Pairing: Legolas/Aragorn
Rating: PG
Disclaimer: The characters belong to the Professor. I merely play in a corner of his garden.
A/N: Written for my friend FloatingLeaf.

The warmth of the night was unusual, even for high summer. The beasts who inhabited the darkness were all going about their business with cheerful rustle in the undergrowth. The trees swayed, holding conversation with a wind that brought news of calm seas and exotic foreign places.

Ithil hung as a lamp in the sky, oversize and slightly orange, shedding his rays bounteously on the small pool below, and the water was a shimmer of silver tribute.

Legolas floated on his back in the middle of the pool, eyes closed, hair spreading atop the water in every direction. He was paler than the moon and more beautiful. "You look," said Aragorn, who sat naked upon a still warm rock at the edge - "you look like a plant I once saw in Harad, spread upon and claiming the surface as you do now. Lily of the water, they called it."

Legolas smiled, not opening his eyes. "No lily am I, just your Leaf," he said invitingly.

That was an invitation Aragorn would never refuse. He strode into the water, disturbing the beauty of the picture as rude men often will, and claimed a warm, deep kiss from his floating Leaf.

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