Truth or Dare

"Gimli," Pippin continued. "Truth or Dare?"

"Dare," the dwarf said immediately. "And make it good."

"Fine," Pippin gave him an innocent smile. "I dare you to kiss…Legolas."

"Nooooo!" Gimli and Legolas yelled at the top of their voices. "Never!"

"Have you ever noticed?" Elladan whispered in Elrohir's ear. "That Legolas screams like a girl?"

"So does Glorfindel" Elrohir smirked. Glorfindel scowled.

"Anyway," Merry continued. "You have to do it, Gimli. You picked dare and you can't change it now."

"Oh all right." Gimli grumbled. "Legolas, try to bear in mind that I do not want to do this, even though you are my friend."

Legolas nodded and moved over so that he was sitting by Gimli. The dwarf leant forward and gave the elf a small kiss…which gradually turned into a very long kiss. Merry and Pippin began giggling, while everyone else looked away in disgust

"Get them off each other," Arwen said finally. "It's just too horrible."

"I agree with you completely," Aragorn looked traumatised. "Somebody do something."

"I will," Frodo reached over and tapped Legolas on the shoulder. "Hey you two," he said politely. "Maybe you could, you know, get a room later or something, but in the meantime, Gimli we are waiting for you to pick someone to go next."

"Oh…sorry." Gimli gave an embarrassed laugh. Pippin nudged Merry.

"Look at Legolas." he whispered to his cousin. "He's gone a funny shade of pink. He must have enjoyed that."

"I did not enjoy that one little bit," Legolas informed them, overhearing Pippin's comment. "Not at all."

"And neither did I," Gimli agreed, crossing his fingers behind his back. "It was just a dare, nothing more. Sam, truth or dare?"

"I think I shall go with truth," Sam said quickly. "I do not want to kiss anyone except Mr Frodo."

"Um…okay," Gimli thought for a moment. "Tell us your most recent fantasy about Frodo."

"Oh no." Merry muttered. "Believe me, you do not want to hear this."

"I agree with you completely," Aragorn nodded. "But at least hearing about Frodo and Sam isn't as bad as hearing about…say Gimli and Legolas." The elves all murmured their agreement.

"Well," Sam glanced at Frodo and blushed. "I go to visit Mr. Frodo and he is lying on the kitchen table covered in chocolate body paint and strawberries…" he trails off, a dreamy look on his face. Merry and Pippin make gagging noises.

"Shut up," Frodo told them. "Just because you are jealous because you aren't getting any."

"Actually…" Gandalf said quietly, and then changed his mind, "Sam, if you could come back to reality for a moment, I believe it is your turn to pick someone."

"Okay then," Sam looked around the circle, and then his eyes fell on Gandalf again. "Gandalf, truth or dare?"

"Dare" Gandalf said after a moment's hesitation. "There is no bad dare you could possibly give me."

"Here we go," Sam reached into his pocket and pulled out some pipeweed. "Here is some real pipeweed," he continued. "I dare you to smoke it. All of it."

"No problem," Gandalf took the pipeweed and lit his pipe. "This is too easy."

"Great," Elrond groaned, to no one in particular. "Now my house is going to stink of pipeweed too."

"Don't worry father," Elladan called over. "Since Merry and Pippin wanted this party, I am sure that they will be more than happy to clean up tomorrow."

The elves smiled as Pippin looked at Merry in horror.

"Don't worry Pippin," Merry whispered reassuringly. "Hopefully they would have forgotten about it by tomorrow."

Pippin looked at Glorfindel, who gave him an evil smile. "Elrond may forget," he whispered to Merry, with a shiver. "But I don't think that the other elves will let us get away with it."

Gandalf had finished the pipeweed and was lying on the floor, completely doped up. Elrond nudged him with his foot.

"Wake up Gandalf," he said. "It's your turn to pick someone."

"Then I choose you," Gandalf looked up at the elf lord, his eyes unfocused. "Truth or dare."

"Truth," Elrond said uneasily. Gandalf smiled.

"Is it true that you like to wear Arwen's clothes when she isn't around?" the wizard asked. Elrond went red and mumbled something under his breath.

"What was that?" Elladan asked. "Louder father. So we can all hear you."

"Yes," Elrond muttered, his face burning. "Yes I do."

"Oh yuck," Arwen looked ready to throw up. Everyone else, including Aragorn was rolling around on the floor, crying with laughter. "Father, that is disgusting! I can't believe you of all people…"

"Well I didn't want to say anything," Elrond protested. "Oh what the hell. It's my turn now, and I'm going to make sure that person really gets humiliated. I chose…"