Chapter Six: Crime and Punishment

The ice cream track song....good one...Alexis thought. They were all back safely at the palace with some rather angry Lords looking down at them.

"What, precisely, just happened?" a full-grown Galadriel said in a treating voice. It would have worked better if she hadn't been wearing an extremely too-small cheerleading uniform. And the Elf-King who had noticed and was currently cracking up silently...Thranduil always did have a peculiar sense of humor.

Alexis was starting to crack up silently as well.  She did have her father's sense of humor. "Perhaps My lady if I may sagest that you change into something less..." Alexis trailed off thinking of a word.

"…Flashing-the-room-ish?" Thranduil said innocently. Galadriel blushed and the other Elf-Lords tried not to laugh. Thranduil turned to his children. "However, I am not wearing anything unusual, and I want to know precisely WHAT has been going on." He thought of something. "And where you've been hiding those Pixie Sticks."

"I'll tell you only if you don't ground me" Alexis said innocently. She was good at this she just had a crash course in it..." And the Pixie Sticks are to remain Hidden."

"Let me think….What about no." Thranduil said.

"Tell us, or you'll get your throat rung. How's that?" Haldir said.

"Then I won't tell you were they are" She said in reply to her father. "Oh you won't do that, I know too much now"

"OK, then." Thranduil shrugged. "You're still telling us what happened, or you're grounded for the next 100 centuries. And I'll eat sugar every day and come down to brother you. How's that?" He smiled. Legolas and Alexis, remembering the kid-Thranduil and sugar incidents, cowered.

Elrond tilted his head to the side. "I recall something about Truth and Dare, vaguely. Subject them to that too."

Alexis looked at Elrond. "Now that was all Fathers idea. You can't blame it on me!" Alexis sighed. "I may have wondered into the study..."

She explained. At the end, they were all alternating between rolling on the floor laughing and becoming very angry. Okay, only Thranduil was laughing.

Legolas knew what he was going to say. "It was all her fault. I just tried to salvage the situation..." Thranduil sat up. "Why didn't you feed us tranquilizers?" Legolas stared at him. Then he started banging his head against the wall. "Stupid, stupid, stupid, stupid..."

"Salvage the situation? You wanted to get blackmail!" she said while silently laughing.

"Same thing." Legolas replied.

She turned to her father. "He took pictures...they're very flattering"

Thranduil raised an eyebrow. "Did you get Galadriel's 'Mirror Song'...Galadriel, please stop whacking me!"

Alexis shock her head yes. "Yep and Elrond picked her nice flowers she planted last year too"

Now Galadriel was bearing down on Elrond who was edging away, looking rather afraid. Celeborn cleared his throat. "Perhaps we could concentrate on the guilty party?" All the adults nodded, and, as one, looked at Legolas and Alexis.

"I wouldn't be talking My Lord..."

The Elf-Lords and Lady ignored her and advanced on the cowering two.

Alexis looked at her brother. They were now in a situation that was equal or even more dangerous then the spiders.

Legolas looked at his sister. They were now in a situation that made him want to go back to the spiders. No one messed with ONE of these people...much less all of them.

In the end Legolas and Alexis ended up doing not only their chores but the chores of all the servants. But their father wasn't with out a sense of humor. He made them do it all in pink tutu's to further increases the level of embarrassment.