Of Sputtered Wine and figures in the night

"Yes, Mirkwood is a really splendid place and I'm sure you'd agree with me," said Legolas with a nod.

"Elmeraith!" called Aragorn, standing up from the table.

"Oh, I don't doubt it. It surely does sound marvelous!" Elmeraith agreed.

"Hello?" Aragorn asked.

"You appear to be more than Half-Elven," Legolas inspected her. "Your ears are pointed as much as mine are!"

"You two, could you please give a toast with us?" Asked Arwen, feeling rather frustrated. She waved a hand from across the table, but Legolas and Elmeraith's eyes were still locked together.

"Well, I do have my mother's ears, but I am Half-Elven," Elmeraith said, touching her ear.

"WE ARE MAKING A TOAST, YOU TWO!" shouted Elhenin.

Legolas and Elmeraith suddenly noticed that they had been babbling on together when the others were calling to them. They hadn't even noticed!

"Oh, I'm…I'm sorry," Elmeraith said.

Legolas's face was a little flushed with embarrassment.

"Let us have a toast!" announced Aragorn, for what must have been the third time. "To friends."

They all took a swig of their wine. "And to the forest," Legolas whispered to Elmeraith jokingly as if he were some kind of tree-hugger. He only said it because they had been talking about the forest earlier. Somehow she found it amusing and sputtered her wine on her empty plate. She gasped, because it had almost come out of her nose. She began choking out laughs.

He also began to laugh. "I'm…I'm sorry," he said between laughs. They began to burst out in giggles as the family looked on with queer looks on their faces. Eldarion was the only one with a straight face.

"What kids!" he exclaimed, shaking his head. This only made them laugh harder with embarrassment. This turned from giggles to laughter, laughter to cackles.

Elmeraith finally got a hold of herself and so did Legolas. They were gasping for air like idiots and Elhenin's face was still twisted in a scowl. 'How embarrassing,' she thought to herself.

A servant came and removed the plate from in front of Elmeraith and replaced it with a clean one. Elmeraith and Legolas ate their food in silence (mostly because they were too embarrassed to speak)

"Where are you staying tonight, Legolas?" Aragorn asked, breaking the awkward silence.

"I'm staying in an inn not far," he finally spoke.

"Nonsense! Why do you not stay with us for the night, since you will be tomorrow night?" Arwen asked.

"That would be wonderful. Thank you," Legolas answered. Legolas looked at Elmeraith and winked. She felt so bubbly inside. She was over everything she had had against him and now she liked being with him.



Elmeraith was about to open her door when around the corner of the hall came Legolas. "Oh, hi," he said and acted a little surprised to see her there. She smiled. "You know, your room is at the North side…?"

"I know," he said. He nervously began playing with his fingers. "I just wanted to tell you that I had fun talking to you. I don't actually talk to girls and have fun talking to them at the same time, but I had fun."

"Good, we should do it again. We can go on a walk if you'd like," she said. "Really?" he asked. He seemed to be excited, but she wasn't completely sure. "That would be nice. See you tomorrow!" So he trotted and disappeared around the corner.

Elmeraith went into her room and closed the door behind her. She felt around her small table for matches for her candle when she saw a black figure moving towards her in the dark. She gasped as the figure came closer to her…



Who is this figure in the dark? The rape-committer? An Orc? A thief? Friend? Foe? Find out…



Author's note:

Incase you cannot stand the suspense and must read another story by me, (lol) go and search for my name when you first get on fanfiction.net. You should know how to do it, but incase you don't, there will be a little thing on the top of about each page where you can search for an author. So search for 'Brilaglar' (Brilaglar is my elvish name. If you want to get your elvish, orc, hobbit, and dwarven names, go to www.geocities.com/elvesof2day/main and it's the page I created) and you can read my stories: so far, "Aloneness as Destiny" a finished Legolas fic which is personally my favorite. Then there is "Eternal", a really short Boromir romance. And then there is 'phone convos' which is kinda my humor.

Have fun! Till the next time me meet for a story…Mwhaa haa ha!!

-Brilaglar,

today, the scary half-elven