Author's Note: Thanks to mrsKnitewolf for the follow.

To thephoenixandthedragon4ever: Indeed, it was Legolas, Loki and Thor. Drunk Loki did briefly take his Asgardian-form again to try to attract Thor, but sober Loki's back to his Jotnar-form.

Recipe for love-bites ? Well, you take - a) one elf, b) one jotun, both of which should have feelings for an Asgardian, and mix with c) copious amounts of drink, as well as d) said Asgardian. Recipe note: Combination may result in varying degrees of forgetfulness and go surprisingly well in sandwichs.

Boat

Loki, as he and Legolas waved a last good-bye to Acharn and Air, couldn't help being glad that Thor had taken Mother and flown to the Falls to prepare the camp for the rest of them. 'Of course, only this morning did Mother decide to mention that she had picked some blom stiarna from near the space-ship. Thor is lucky he didn't get frost-bite anywhere last night.'

Flashback

It really was quite enjoyable to annoy Thor at the moment for himself and Legolas, at least. Legolas moaned into their kiss and pressed himself against Thor's stomach.

Thor panted, "Make up...your mind, Lo-ki." as he leaned back from Legolas to look down at Thor. If possible those eyes were even better darkened in desire.

His reply was a short, "Oh, I already have."

Slowly, he ran his hands through Thor's hair, to stroke broad shoulder-blades before moving closer and pressing his lips against the tanned neck. Almost silence, then a rough gasp followed a twitching shudder.

End Flashback

'Well, at the very least, it stopped Thor's calling me brother for once. I'm surprised and offended that he wasn't embarrassed after waking up with me. I mean, it is definitely not every morning that you wake up in bed with your formerly adopted-brother having fucked you.'

Flashback

The tent-flap rustled as Legolas pushed his way outside, Thor stirred and sleepily rumbled, "Time to go, b-Loki ?"

Unnerved by the calm he replied, as he rolled off the top of his bedroll, "Yes, it is."

Got dressed and pulled on his armour while wondering, 'Why is he acting so blasé about this ? Did he act so blasé when he called me a fucked cow behind my back ? Where is the anger that Thor showed when Fandral implied that he was a cow ? Right, it was nowhere to be seen because then it was a joke. Because I'm a joke and he's not in Asgard's eyes.'

The blond started to get dressed and then asked, "What happened to my tunic ?"

"You tore it to bits in a drunken rage about not needing tunics."

End Flashback

He shook himself from his memories, while the white-swan boat was pulled into the Anduin's current away from Lothlorien. Then looked down at Gimli who was sat in the middle, nervously eyeing the elf-boat's side like it was going to tip.

Just to be helpful, he made an illusion of the walls of Moria in Gimli's mind. Almost immediately the brown-red bearded dwarf relaxed and said, "You're quite the boon to have 'round, Master Jotun."

"I am just glad to have a use, Master Dwarf. Right, Legolas ?"

"Indeed, Loki. Gimli did you know that Loki befriended an orc once ?"

"An orc ? How exactly does one go about making friends with an orc ?" The should have been joke of, "Murdering trees and eating elves ?"

That got a shudder from him, unconsciously ending Gimli's illusion, as it reminded Legolas and himself about Valog's words concerning the eating of elves and horses. As the dwarf saw his reaction there was an incredulous, "You aren't serious, are you ?" Silence from him and Gimli's grey-eyes widened in shock, "They eat elves ?! It's obvious they're Sauron's creatures because no sane member of the Seven Races would eat elves, no matter how annoying they were."

'Gimli just included Jotnar and Asgardians with Elves, Hobbits, Dwarves, Men and those Ents that Lord Elrond mentioned. As if, as if we belong here in Arda too, I would love to stay here.'

There was a splash and an exclamation of, "Help ! Help me.", from Pippin.

Another splash as Boromir jumped from the first boat into the river after the red-haired hobbit. The light-brown haired man managed to catch Pippin by the arm, as their boat went past he and Gimli leaned over to pull the dripping duo in. Minutes later, they'd beached the boats in the white sand and fallen leaves of the Anduin's shore.

Gimli patted Pippin on the back, "Easy there, lad, breath, just breathe. You're fine, just fine !"

Pippin gasped and nodded, Boromir sat the pale-faced halfling down and wandered away to make firewood so they'd be able to start a fire. That while he dug out his black cloak from his pack to give it to Aragorn who then passed it to the hobbit.

What had just happened was so baffling, that he had to ask, "You don't know how to swim ?"

Everyone on Asgard knew how to swim, though he'd had a harder time keeping afloat because of his heritage.

Frodo answered, "We hobbits as a general rule don't like deep water and so don't know how to swim. The only exceptions it seems are myself, my uncle Bilbo, my father and mother and the Brandybuck's like Merry. It's not 'hobbit-like' to know how to swim and discouraged as strange."

'I couldn't imagine a place that discourages learning more than Asgard, but it seems the Shire is in second place. Especially, as it's quite lovely to go for a swim and get away from things. Someone needs to teach those hobbits how to swim so they don't drown themselves.'

He, Sam and Gimli started passing out little bits of Galadhirm elven lembas or way-bread. Pippin who had stopped mostly stopped shaking, accepted the lembas and started on it with gusto.

To him it tasted rather like the Mirkwood, purple-berry lembas that Legolas had given him months ago. The only real difference between the two was that the Lothlorien way-bread didn't have any color to it.

Boromir came back with firewood, then Legolas and Frodo started on the fire. Two hours later, they were back in the boats and off again.