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Author Notes: Thanks to all the reviewers, blessed be! Please keep doing it. I have been having reviews telling me that if I will continue: Of course I will, I will finish every story I have started, I swear by my star, it can take a little because I have more tha one _ but It's a fact that I will keep writing, just little patient here.
This have some slash, I don't mean to write it, but some actions that I consider just friendship somebody has taken it by slash, when I write slash I will tell you. What I'm very sure is that I'm not writing any explicit sex. And for me, Legolas is the only son of Thranduil.
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Chapter III
Legolas woke up several times in the night because of the horrible nightmares that hunted him. Every time, he saw the twins next to him ready to offer their comfort, and every time he went to sleep again in their arms, breathing peacefully in their embrace.
In the morning, when Elrond and Glorfindel went to the prince's rooms to check on Legolas they found the three elven princes laying in the bed asleep, very close to each other. The elder elves smiled and went out the room noiseless.
Few hours passed when the twins woke up. Finding Legolas still asleep they smiled at each other and moved slowly for not wake the blond prince.
"Do you think he will be alright? I have a very bad feeling about this nightmares" Elrohir whispered to his brother when they went out of the balcony
"Me too, I think that he will have them for a long time" Elladan said turning his head inside the room "Another thing that worries me are those dwarves, they are determinate to get revenge on him"
"We will not allow it!"
"Shhh. You will wake him" Elladan sighed "No will not allow them to harm our friend, even if that means to get involved in a war with the dwarves"
"What are you plotting?" Legolas asked approaching them. The twins jumped and turned to him smiling
"I think you are the only creature in all Middle Earth, including the elves, that is able to startle us like that. How do you always manage do it?" Elladan said, Legolas laughed
"Oh, very funny young prince" Elrohir said crossing his arms and pretending to be angry
"Excuse me, young? You are not even half millennia older than I"
"Oh, yes. I always forget it. You look so childish"
"What!" The twins laughed
"How are you feeling, anyway?" Elladan said when he was able to breathe again
"Fine, thanks to you... again. I don't know what I would do without you two. Thanks"
"You don't have to thank us, Legolas. After all, we are friends, right?" Elrohir smiled impishly, his brother and Legolas returned the same smile
"And your wound? How is your arm?"
"Healing. It doesn't hurt so much like yesterday"
"Better not push it too hard" Elladan said with a meaningful glare, Legolas nodded
"Well, well. You three are already awake" The three princes turned to look at Elrond "How are you feeling this morning child?"
"Much better" Elrond nodded smiling
"Then, you shall come and eat something, I don't want you to collapse for hungry"
"Thank you my lord, but I still can't eat nothing"
"You will eat or..." Elladan said, Legolas raised an eyebrow
"Or?" Elrohir whispered something to him, and Elrond chuckled when Legolas' eyes opened very big with surprise
"Very well, let's have breakfast" and they went to the dinning room. When they were walking through the corridors, Elrond whispered to his elder son
"What did you and your brother mean by *or...*" Elladan laughed
"I will tell you father, but believe me, this is one of those things that you *just don't want to know*" Elrond shacked his head, he must have thought that
*****
Legolas was walking enjoying the wonderful sight Rivendell was. He had always liked Elrond's realm, because it gave him a kind of peace that he could feel only in Mirkwood itself. He hadn't eat much, just enough to be sure that Elladan and Elrohir weren't going to do what they had told him. He smiled remembering the twins. Sighing he kept walking, he still could heard the shouts of his people, and every time he closed his eyes he saw the Nazgul killing savagely every elf. He stopped when he glanced a short form sitting on a bench under one of the trees. He grabbed one of his eleven knifes, although he knew that the twins weren't very far, but if it was a dwarf it was better to be alert. He slowly went far away, as quiet as the dust.
Bilbo sat on the same bench he had been sitting since he arrived at Rivendell. It was under one of the bigger trees, and was close enough to listen the elven songs. He sighed deeply, the book he was writing rested on his lap.
"I can't continue today. All my inspiration is over for this day" And closing it, he headed to where the dwarves were supposed to be, he liked to talk to Gloin again, remembering the old times.
When he was turning on a corner, he saw a tall and slim form looking at the sky with sad eyes, "an elf" he though, the elf was completely still, the wind playing with his long blond hair "blond? I'm pretty sure that he is not Glorfindel, then who?..." he frizzed when he noticed that the blond hair had also silver locks "it can't be..." he tried to go away as quiet as possible (not very quiet for an old hobbit) but the prince noticed him. Bilbo felt that someone was looking at his back and he slowly turned around finding the intense eyes of Legolas, those gray-blue eyes that he feared almost thirty-five years ago.
"Um.. hi, w...we see again, y... your majesty" although he was babbling, he couldn't stop looking at the prince, his ethereal beauty had always taken his breath off
"It seems so, master Baggins"
"Y..you recognized me... I...I" Legolas raised an elegant eyebrow, then started laughing
"Of course I did! It's hard to forget a person when he was the responsible of my father's bad mood for a complete year. We were considering looking at you and your friends
"I...I" Bilbo wasn't confused by the prince's behavior, he knew by own experience the quickly change of moods of the royal family; but he was truly scared for he didn't know what to expect of the Mirkwood prince, after all, the last time he saw him he was his father's prisoner and he had escaped. Legolas seemed to noticed the hobbit worries and laughed deeply
"Don't worry master Baggins, I want no harm to you"
"Really?" Bilbo knew that Legolas was a cheerful elf and the hobbit didn't see him angry, but he was also Thranduil's son...
"Of course! I'm not interested in keeping rancor"
"Oh! Then am I able to return to Mirkwood?"
"Don't push your luck, master hobbit" Legolas said grinning "Now, if you excuse me... I have some matters I have to attend to"
Bilbo kept watching Legolas until he couldn't see him anymore. He had always had a fascination with the young prince, since the first time he saw him: sat at his father's right in the throne hall so serious, elegant and graceful; and later when he saw him laughing with another elves merrily; and at last, when he was chasing him in the woods and he and his warriors were surrounded by the spiders, the perfect concentration, and the perfect moves... the hobbit could swear that the prince was able to see him despite he had put *his* ring (1), how he was able to get out Mirkwood was something that he didn't understand yet. But now the prince didn't look too well, he seemed tired and very sad, and he was being very careful with his arm. " well, he had always seem kind of fragile..." He sighed and started walking
"What I was going to do? Oh! Yes, yes. I was going to see Gloin and the dwarves..." he fell silent when he realized... "Gloin!" certainly the dwarf wouldn't act so timidly or intimidate as he, after all, when they got out Mirkwood thirty-five years ago, he remembered hear all the dwarves swear revenge. The dwarves were aggressive by nature and if Gloin knew that the prince was in Rivendell something very bad was going to happen to him, he couldn't attack an elf in an elven realm, but the dwarf certainly wasn't going to think that, in fact he wouldn't think nothing, just to harm the blond prince.
*****
"What?" Legolas asked at two identical raised eyebrows
"You know, the old hobbit" Elladan said
"The one who had being living here" Elrohir added
"Bilbo Baggins" the twins finished at the same time.
"After he escaped from your realm, you seemed very annoyed"
"Yes, King Thranduil wasn't the only one in a VERY bad mood"
"Well, yes. I admit that I was upset, but you know that I don't see the point of been rancorous"
"Because you are sure that Bilbo was help by some power, right?"
"I felt it when I was chasing him on the woods" Legolas nodded "I'm sure that if the hobbit and the dwarves were alone we have trapped them"
"Imagine our surprise when he arrived here not long ago" Elrohir laughed
"Father scowled us for not being... polite" Elladan grinned "But we just couldn't, and we think that the hobbit knew the reason. It's well known that we are very good friends"
"That explains why he acted so afraid to me. He though that I seek revenge" Legolas said closing his eyes, he still felt weak, kind of dizzy. Of course the twins noticed it
"Come, you need to rest, the council is taking place tomorrow" Elladan said grabbing him from the shoulders, Legolas just nodded.
*****
"Bilbo?" Frodo saw the older hobbit walking very fast and approached him concerned "What is it? You seem to be in a hurry" Bilbo jumped, but when he realize that it was Frodo along with Sam he relaxed
"It's you, my dear boy. Nothing, nothing is wrong. Do you know were are the dwarves?"
"No, I haven't seen them since yesterday. I heard that they almost started a fight with an elf prince and get in troubles with Lord Elrond. At least that was what Merry and Pippin told us, right Sam?" Sam just nodded. Bilbo looked at them pale
"I must find them" The younger hobbits looked at him puzzled "It's a long story... Do you remember when I told you that when I went with the dwarves and Gandalf we didn't have a very friendly welcome in Mirkwood?" Frodo and Sam nodded "Well..." and he told them about Legolas
*****
"I feared that. The dwarves aren't going to leave the young prince alone" Gandalf said to Elrond, the elf lord nodded
"Legolas is in no condition to bear their attacks, he is hurt physical and emotionally"
"At least your sons are with him. But the thing that worries me more is that the Nazgul actually attacked them. It's really a miracle that he manage to escape, no doubt that his people love their rulers"
"The council is starting tomorrow, I really want to tell him why his warriors had to died, even if he doesn't admit to us, I know that he is feeling guilty"
"That is not going to change. In what he concerns those elves died for him" Gandalf said sighing "Ah, Miranthir, I just hope that the dwarves stay in peace until tomorrow"
*****
"We are ready" Batrol said
"Then, I will challenge him. He will pay and all the elves will learn to respect us, specially the Silvan elves" Gloin said grabbing his axe and exiting his room, follow by the other dwarves.
TBC...
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(1) The Hobbit: Bilbo helped to escape the dwarves from Mirkwood with the One Ring (remember that it makes invisible to anyone who put it on?)
