Disclaimer: I don't own Haldir or Legolas…I suppose I don't own my friend the Lady of Imladris either…I'm still so poor…
Emily, this is, of course, for you. *Rolls eyes* It's rehab for you one of these days…well, technically me too…oh yeah…WORK ON CHAPTER 13 FOR GOD'S SAKE! I WANT IT OUT BEFORE FINALS!!!! (I love caps lock. ^_^ )
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Hawk happily whistled to herself in the kitchen. Legolas was sitting in the living room, drumming his fingers on the arm of the chair. He was desperately trying to tune something out and obviously from the look on his face, he was unsuccessful. Shadow and Haldir were nowhere to be seen.
Hawk walked into the living room and sat next to him. "What's the matter?"
"You can't hear them can you?"
"Ah…no…" Hawk looked at him confused. "Who's 'them'?"
"Who do you think?" He covered his ears with his hands. "There are only 4 people who live in this apartment…" He looked so miserable.
"Oh…ewwwww…" Hawk shuddered when she realized what he was talking about.
"Why me?" Legolas moaned as he tried to get the sounds of the elven male and human female making out in the bedroom out of his head.
"Oh poor baby…" Hawk cuddled her elf. "Maybe this will help." She gave him a package of something. "I found them while shopping yesterday."
Legolas looked at the package. "Industrial strength ear plugs." He smiled, put the earplugs in, and let out a sigh of relief. "I love you." He wrapped his arms around her and they proceeded to make out as well.
After a few minutes, Haldir emerged from the bedroom with thoroughly messed up hair. "Legolas, what is that noise? …Oh…oh my dear sweet Elbereth…why?" He covered his eyes.
"What is it? Oh…" Shadow came out with messy hair as well. "Oh dear…"
Legolas and Hawk were tangled up together on the couch, oblivious to the others in the room.
"And here I thought we'd distract them, Legolas at least…" Shadow sighed. Hawk grabbed the earplug package and tossed it across the room. Shadow caught it. "Oh jeez…"
"What?" He took the package and read it. "Only they would think of this…"
"It's not really a bad idea." Haldir took out the other pair from the package. "Shall we continue?"
"Yay!" Shadow hopped into his arms and he carried her back into the bedroom.
Hawk and Legolas were still happily making out while Haldir and Shadow continued their previous moment's Make Out Fest 2003.
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A few hours after Make Out Fest 2003, the group sat down together to eat dinner. Their hair was combed and neat again, the girls' in ponytails and the guys' in their usual braids.
Hawk twirled her fork around in her spaghetti. "How are we supposed to find him? We didn't get much done at the mall."
"And who's fault was that?" Shadow looked up from her drink.
Hawk kicked her from under the table. "Meanie…"
"Ow…" Shadow rubbed her shin. "That hurt…"
"Could you two please get through one meal without any bruises?" Haldir sighed.
"No." The girls answered giggling.
"It's going to be another long dinner…" Legolas put in his earplugs again. With them in, he could hear at about the level of a normal human, though it seemed like he was deaf.
"As always…" The older elf sighed again and put his own earplugs in.
The girls kept kicking at each other from under the table, only saying something when one kick connected.
"You know, this isn't helping out situation." Haldir pulled Shadow's chair away from the table.
She squeaked loudly. "Hey! Don't be mean!"
Legolas went so far and to turn Hawk's chair around. "No more bruises. The ones from last week still haven't healed."
She frowned and stuck out her tongue. "They're just bruises…"
"If you keep doing that, no more making out."
"Hey!" Hawk put her head down and folded her hands in her lap. "No fair…"
Shadow laughed loudly at her friend. Haldir cast a glance at her. "What makes you think you're not getting the same threat?"
Her jaw dropped. "But…but…"
"But nothing. You two fight too much during meals."
"Hah!" Hawk turned around. "You're in the same boat as me."
"Oh you!" Shadow fumed.
"Anyway!" Legolas raised his voice. "We need to work on our little problem here." He tossed the four pictures into the middle of the table.
"I still think it's a pretty dress." Hawk grabbed the first princess picture.
The other 3 sighed. Shadow gave Haldir a pleading look. He bit his lip then nodded. Shadow grinned and kicked Hawk really hard under the table.
She yelped. "HEY! I thought you said no more fighting!" She rubbed her leg. "You and your damn black boots…"
"Then, please, no more comments about that stupid picture of me." Legolas pleaded with her.
"Oh…fine…" Hawk hopped over to the freezer and got an ice pack. "I will destroy those boots of yours…"
"You can't touch my boots!" Shadow happily proclaimed.
"Pictures please!?!?!?" Haldir was just as annoyed as Legolas now.
"Oh, right…" Both girls grinned sheepishly.
"We need to find out how to find him." Legolas was so close to ripping the princess pictures to shreds.
"Is there any real way to follow a picture or two?" Shadow asked.
"The art is kinda familiar…" Hawk turned the picture upside down in her hands.
"This isn't going to turn into a pretty dress comment is it?" Legolas asked worried.
"Do I get to kick her again?" Shadow asked, excited.
Hawk quickly pushed herself away from the table. "NO! No more boots!" She cowered. "I'm serious though. I really think I've seen someone draw faces like this before."
"Let me see." Shadow grabbed another picture. She snapped her fingers. "You know, for once you're right!" She kept snapping. "I know the face but not the name…what was it now? You remember him right?"
"Yeah, it's that guy!" They kept waving their hands around and snapping, trying to remember the name. "The one! Oh, why can't we remember his name? Grr!"
Haldir looked at Legolas. "Does the flailing help them think?"
"It must…"
They let out a simultaneous 'Ow!' when the girls whacked them in the head.
Haldir's elven eyesight caught something on the paper. "What's this?"
Hawk and Shadow looked at the paper then at each other. They rolled their eyes. "We don't see most of what you guys see…"
"Right here, can you see it?" Haldir pointed to a corner of the paper.
"I see an ink blot. What do you see, Hawk?"
"The same." She picked up the other pictures. "That little dot is in all the left hand corners though. But I still don't see a point…"
"Perhaps he's accurately messy?"
"It's more than an ink blot…" Legolas grabbed the picture. "It's a little bird." He studied it closely.
"Gimme." Hawk took his picture and looked at it closely. "I still say it's an ink blot."
"I see the same." Shadow put the picture back on the table.
"But it's a bird! Are you both blind?!?!" Legolas asked loudly.
Hawk yanked on his hair, hard. "Compared to you, the whole world's blind."
"OW!" He pulled his hair out of her grasp. "That hurt…"
"I'm perfectly aware of that." Hawk crossed her arms. "You should know better by now to not make eyesight or hearing comments."
"Grr…" Legolas growled at her.
"Lemme get a magnifying glass." Shadow got up from the table and went to the tool drawer.
She sat back down and looked at all the blotches. "Wow. It is a bird. There's writing there too, but it's too small."
"Gimme." Hawk reached across the table and grabbed it. She studied the writing. "Oh jeez…"
"What?" They all looked at her.
"It says 'Look at the pretty birdie'…" She shook her head. "That is so like him…"
"Him who?" The two elves were confused.
"The guy…the one who drew these." Shadow waved her hand in circles. "If only we could remember him…"
"It would really be helpful if you could…" Haldir muttered. Shadow kicked him in the shin too. He yelped. "Alright, now I'm gonna have to help Hawk take your boots. That stings."
"I like my boots and none of you can get them." She folded her legs under her while sitting there.
"I swear, I'll make it my life's quest to get your boots!" Hawk huffed.
"I thought you life's quest was to get an elf…Legolas specifically." Shadow smirked.
Hawk wrapped her arms around Legolas. "I already finished that one. Besides, you make it seem stupid. Who was the one who wanted Haldir for her birthday last year?"
"Oh right…" Shadow lowered her head when Haldir's eye's widened.
"That's right, you're just as guilty as me, Rehab Girl."
"PICTURES PLEASE!" Haldir and Legolas yelled at them.
"Eep!" Hawk and Shadow jumped. "Right, right, the guy…"
"Is there anywhere you guys could find out who this guy was that you're so sure is the artist?" Legolas sighed.
"Well, he did go to school with us, but we lost our yearbooks when the basement of our old apartment flooded…so…no…" She grinned and shrugged.
Haldir held his head in his hands as if he had a killer headache. "Please tell me you're joking."
"I wish she was, but she's actually telling the truth this time…" Shadow sighed.
"Is there someone else who would have one of these yearbook things you're talking about?" Legolas asked.
"No one we could easily get in touch with. It could take some time to find someone worth talking to." Hawk shrugged again.
"Can't you go to the school? Couldn't they do something?" Haldir huffed.
"They might have more copies…" Shadow thought for a moment.
"Do we have to drive out to the suburbs? It's so boring!" Hawk whined.
"I'll kick you again!" Shadow glared at her.
"NO! No more boots!" Hawk cowered behind Legolas.
"That's right. Fear my boots!" She laughed.
"PICTURES!" Haldir elbowed Shadow.
"Ack! Fear angry elves!" Hawk grimaced as Shadow yelped again.
"Okay! Okay! We'll go to the high school we went to." Shadow cowered from the fuming Haldir. "I'm sorry okay? I'll make it up to you later."
"Ooo! Yay!" Haldir's anger immediately subsided.
"It's already late today. The school's probably closed." Hawk dumped her dishes in the sink. "We'll go in the morning."
"Finally. We have a plan." Legolas got up from the table.
"Alright, we'll leave at 9 tomorrow and get good time going out of the city." Shadow nodded.
"OH OH!" Hawk scurried out of the room and into the living room.
"What's with her?" Haldir asked.
Shadow looked at a clock. "Buffy: the Vampire Slayer is on." She shook her head. "If there's not thing she'll never miss, it's that."
"SHUT UP! IT'S ON NOW!!!" Hawk hollered from the TV room. Shadow shook her head again.
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Who is drawing the pictures? When will he strike again? Will Hawk ever get Shadow's boots?
~*~Shadow Hawk~*~
6/2/03