Oh, I forgot the disclaimer.. I do not own Tolkien works at all or any of Tolkien characters. I'm not making any money off of this and I truly apologize for not mentioning this in the first chapter.

Thanks to Elise. The person, not the character in this story.

After the meeting with his daughters, Aragorn met his wife for lunch and to get more help on the matter with Legolas.

"I spoke with our daughters. It did not go very well."

Arwen laughed. "Let me guess. Arden was inflamed. Gilraen said she's do whatever you asked, and Elise. Well, she must have been thrilled. Unless you told her that her chances of becoming queen of Mirkwood were virtually impossible."

"I did not mention that the prince in question was Legolas."

"My love, you need more help than I first imagined. Why don't you go and speak with Legolas. Ask him how he would feel about a mortal wife, but do not mention you have one of our daughters in mind. Tomorrow, I will become a spy."

"A spy? How do you mean?"

"I mean that I will observe our friend with our daughters to get a better idea of how they would match up."

"Very well then. Thank you."

It wasn't until the second day after the conversation that Arwen was able to begin her spying. The first day was spent trying to arrange situations that would put Legolas in the path of only one daughter at a time. Legolas had told Aragorn that a mortal wife would be fine and he was looking forward to possibly having children that would live on in Middle Earth after he was gone.

Arwen was in the palace looking out a window facing the training fields of Gondor's soldiers. Arden was the easiest of the meetings to arrange. Legolas often spent time training the soldiers and Arden was one of them. The only thing Arwen had to do was make sure with the captain that he'd pair off Legolas with Arden as sparring partners. Her keen Elven hearing allowed her to listen in to their conversations.

"Good morning, Legolas. Let me remind you not to make this easy for me simply because I am a mortal woman," Arden said.

"Have I ever given you that impression?" he said, humoring her.

"I know you do. How am I ever going to defeat an Elf in battle if I don't know what I'm fully up against?"

"I doubt you will ever face an Elf in battle, save perhaps a battle of wit, which you would lose also," he said and laughed.

Arden responded by drawing her sword and Legolas quickly responded. They went on for a few minutes neither winning util he made a move, which caused her to drop her sword. Quickly he had her retreating into the palace wall. He put the blade against her throat and moved his body closer to hers.

"You're going to have to do better than that to beat an Elf," he said.

"You may be an Elf but you are still a male Elf," and with that remark she lifted her hand where she had produced a knife and held it to his groin and smiled. "I think you would kill me and I'd still have long enough to forsake you any children."

Legolas took his sword down and smiled back at her.

"Let's go again."

Arwen watched them for a couple of hours. Legolas occasionally letting Arden win though no one in the army could defeat Legolas with one on one combat. Then the captain let everybody go in for lunch and the two walked off together.

Arwen quickly ran after them. There was no way she would manage to be inconspicuous in the dining halls of the soldiers so she made a decision to have lunch with them directly instead.

"May I dine with you?" she asked them.

"Of course Arwen, please sit,' Legolas responded.

"So how is Arden's swordfighting moving along?"

"Well, she needs a lot of work if she is going to live up to her Elven roots. But she is good. For a mortal," Legolas teased her as he often did.

"I will remove that smile from you face Legolas. One day." She smiled.

"You could learn a lot from Legolas, Arden," Arwen said.

"I'm sorry, mother," then she raised her drink to him, "all hail Legolas, Prince of.," but she trailed off as if something was trying to click in her head but wouldn't quite make it. She noticed they were waiting for her to finish. ".Mirkwood. I'm sorry I lost my train of thought."

The rest of the meal went by without incident. Arwen kept mostly quiet. Instead she watched the two of them. They were constantly throwing verbal punches at each other and smiling in response.

When they went back to training Arwen returned to her post at the window. The two were very close friends. It was obvious. And they kept trading remarks and doing more horseplay than actual serious spars. They sent each other to the floor numerous times.

"Had enough?" Legolas asked her.

"Of you? Never."

Legolas catching her double meaning paused for a moment and distracted himself long enough to allow her to drop him to the floor with a sweeping kick.

"Legolas," she said standing over him. "If all I have to do is flirt with you to win our fights then I would say you have never faced a female foe."

Legolas used his legs to drop her to the ground also then flipped himself so he was straddling her hips.

"You have not won yet, Arden."

Then he got up and held his hand out to help her stand.

Arwen walked back to her own chambers. Tomorrow she had arranged a meeting with Legolas and Elise.