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Beauty Therapy: Body Modifications assignment: Task 10 - Write about someone dressing up as a magical creature.
Insane Prompt List: 353. (character) Andromeda Black Tonks
Gift Tag: For Gab (pairing) Andromeda/Ted and (food) cheap beer
Warning for fluff to the extreme. Word count is 541 words. I hope you enjoy What's Legolas?
"What are you supposed to be?" Andromeda asked as she took in Ted's costume for the Halloween party. She giggled as her eyes traveled down from the long flowing blonde wig he'd worn, to the pointed ears, and the green get up he was wearing.
"I'm supposed to be an elf," Ted told Andromeda, a sigh leaving his lips. "It's not believable?" He seemed almost disappointed as he handed her one of the cheap beers his friends had bought for the occasion.
"Elves don't look like that really. Where would you get the idea that they did look like that?" Andromeda had never in all her life seen an elf that looked human like. Let alone one with pointy ears like that. In fact, their last house elf, a morbid thing called Dumpling, had ears that hung down past her knees.
"It's kind of a Muggle or Muggleborn sort of thing," Ted said, his cheeks beginning to pink up a bit. "What do elves really look like?"
"You've never visited the Hogwarts kitchens?"
Ted shook his head.
"With as close to them as the Hufflepuff common room is, I'm surprised."
"We aren't all stoner," Ted said with a huff, "like everyone else seems to think we are. There are a few, mind you. But not all of us are."
"My mind didn't go there." Andromeda laughed gently. "I only meant that growing boys tend to eat a lot more than girls do."
"Oh," Ted gapped, the pink turning a darker shade. "I...I feel like an idiot."
"Don't." Andromeda put a soft hand on his shoulder. "You aren't an idiot and even if you were you would still be my idiot."
Ted chuckled, a sound that sent the butterflies into a frenzy in Andromeda's stomach yet again. She took another sip of the cheap beer he'd brought her.
"Tell me more about your costume," Andromeda said, mirth shining in her eye. "Who are you supposed to be?"
"I thought it was obvious." He gave her a look that said she should know what he was talking about. "It's from a Muggle story called the Lord of the Rings."
"The Lord of the Rings," Andromeda said, testing out the name of the book on her tongue. "I've never read that one. What is it about?"
Ted's eyes widened in shock as he took off his blond wig almost knocking off the pointy ears. "That would explain it," he said. "Of course you wouldn't know who this is if you haven't read the Lord of the Rings. It's one of the many elves in the story, Legolas."
Downing the rest of the cheap beer in her hand, Andromeda turned to Ted with a slight smile. "I guess that means you would be willing to read me this Lord of the Rings story?" she asked. "I would really enjoy that."
Ted downed the rest of his own cheap beer. "I would love that," he said, slipping his hand into her own and leading her towards the door. "Where do I start?"
"The beginning, of course," Andromeda laughed.
"But that's a totally different story," Ted laughed as they headed back to his flat and the beginning of Andromeda's study of the Lord of the Rings.
I hope you all enjoyed What's Legolas as much as I enjoyed writing it.