AN: Sorry about the delay in getting this next chapter out, I got caught up in college work.  Well enough excuses and on with the next chapter! 

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Legolas quickly crossed the room and opened the door to reveal a slightly annoyed Arwen.

"Whatever took you so long Aragorn?"  She slipped past him, walked to the middle of the room and turned to face him, waiting for his answer.

Legolas squirmed "I wasn't decent Melamin (My love)." He lowered his head hoping she would stop interrogating him.

She smiled softly and took a step towards him.  "Come now Aragorn don't act like such a child, we are to be wed."

"Maybe so Arwen but we are not wed yet" Legolas quickly to changed the subject.  "So what would you suggest I wear tonight?"

Arwen turned and walked towards the cupboard.  "Well let's see if there is anything suitable to wear in here first before we summon a tailor"

Legolas' eyes widened as she began to open it and he saw a flash of blonde hair.  He rushed past her and put his hand against the door to stop her. "No!"

Arwen was startled.  "Aragorn what are you doing?"

Legolas quickly searched for an answer while looking around franticly.  "Maybe you should just summon a tailor as I have nothing at all to wear tonight…all my clothes are rugged and worn out."

"What about that robe I gave you for your birthday?"

Legolas remembered Aragorn telling him about this robe at his birthday feast last year.  It was a red so light it looked pink in certain lighting and was covered in gold and silver embroidery, not something the king of Gondor would be seen dead in if he remembered correctly.   Arwen didn't know that Aragorn had 'accidentally' spilt wine on it and was now using some of it as a cloth to clean Anduril.  Legolas had no idea where the rest of it had disappeared to although he did have suspicions as to what the remains had been used for while Aragorn was out in the wilderness.

"Oh err it is too beautiful to wear tonight, I'm saving it for a special occasion."

Arwen looked at Legolas then back at the cupboard.

"What do you have in there that you don't want me to see?" she pulled Legolas' arm away and began to open it again.

Legolas made a quick decision.  He grabbed Arwen's arm and pulled her around into a deep kiss.

Aragorn decided to risk a peek out of the half opened door and was greeted with the sight of Legolas and Arwen kissing passionately, it took a great amount of self-control not to burst out of the cupboard and separate the two.  Instead he crept out of the cupboard silently.

Legolas opened his eyes and pointed to the balcony and watched as Aragorn began to make his way silently over.  He felt Arwen begin to pull away from him so he quickly pulled her closer and deepened the kiss.

He looked at Aragorn trying to apologise with his eyes and saw him mouth "We'll talk about this later Legolas."  With that he jumped onto the railing then up onto the roof to hide.

Legolas finally pulled away leaving Arwen standing with her mouth slightly open and her eyes closed.  It took a moment for her to recover.  "You've never kissed me like that before Aragorn."  She touched her lips and looked up at him, emotion showed clearly in her eyes that Legolas couldn't quite read with human eyes but from what he could tell she had enjoyed it immensely. 

He cleared his throat.  "Well umm yes, let us get back to the matter at hand now shall we?"  He went back to the cupboard, opened it and picked out a silver robe.  "This one will do fine."    

Arwen gave him a confused look.  She still looked quite shaken from the kiss.  "But I thought you said you had nothing to wear."

"I did…its amazing what you can find if you just look hard enough, now, Mela en' coiamin (Love of my life) I think its time you went and picked out a beautiful dress for tonight.  He carefully guided her to the door and said farewell. 

Over his many years of knowing Arwen Legolas knew of the vast wardrobe Arwen had.  Elves had been known to get lost for days in the cavern she has for a walk in wardrobe. (Which for an Elf is usually quite hard to do)

The second he closed to door Aragorn dropped down onto the balcony.

"Just what was that!"

"What was what Aragorn?"

"That...that KISS!"

Legolas crossed his arms and gave Aragorn a stern look.  "You've just answered your own question Aragorn, yes it was a kiss but nothing more."

Aragorn's eyes narrowed.  "You cannot kiss someone like that and have it mean nothing." 

"What was I supposed to do, let her discover you?  How would you have explained that one to her?  I have known Arwen for thousands of years; I would never get involved with her romantically.  She is only my friend, nothing more."

He paused for a moment.  "Anyway I did not kiss her you did."

Aragorn thought about this.  "That's right but even I don't kiss Arwen like that."

"Really? I thought you men were all about passion and living for the moment and so on."

"Well yes we are but with Arwen things are different, it's romantic."

Aragorn smiled thinking about all the romantic nights he had shared with Arwen.

Seeing Aragorn happy in his thoughts Legolas decided against telling him that Arwen might have enjoyed the kiss a bit too much.  "Well good now that that matter is sorted I would like to get changed out of these clothes, I assume that if we're still going to the banquet tonight we are still going to attend the hunt this afternoon am I right?"

"Yes we're still going but we will have to make excuses as to why we are not using our preferred choice of weaponry."

"I will just say to anyone who asks that it was the result of a bet we made with the twins last night, it's believable because almost everyone in Rivendell knows we have made far more outrageous ones in our time."

"That should work, well I probably should leave you to get changed and prepared for the hunt."  Aragorn began to leave.

"Aragorn what are you doing, the door is the other way."

Aragorn realised he was standing on the ledge of the balcony again looking down over the gardens 30 feet below.

"Not that my body wouldn't suffer damage from a jump that high but I would prefer you to use the door, we don't want to draw unwanted attention to ourselves now would we?"

Aragorn jumped down with the grace of a cat.  Legolas watched thinking about how much he missed being able to do things like that which he took for granted before.

He watched Aragorn leave then waited a few moments.  When he was sure Aragorn wasn't coming back he ran into the bathing room.

"Aaaahhh I kissed Arwen!!" 

Passers by could hear the sounds of gargling for many minutes later.

Tbc…

A/N:  I'm not entirely happy with this chapter.  I wanted Arwen to find 'Legolas' in the cupboard but it just wouldn't let itself be written!  Hopefully I'll be able to get them into some similar situations later in the story though.

Namaarie!

As you might be able to tell I'm trying to get some Elfish into this story. :o)