Hello all, here's an update of Elf at Hogwarts… thanks to its new author Moonfairy2000… Well… we can say it's a really good chapter… so without further ado, let's get the ball rolling!
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Hello all! I'm Moonfairy2000, the new author of "Elf at Hogwarts".
After Aish and Angelica lost the time to work on this story, I took it
up.
I must confess that this is my first Harry Potter/Lord of the Rings
fics, and I'm guilty of not reading the LoTR books and going by the movies
and by more experienced LoTR writers. I have read all five Harry
Potter books though.
Aish and Angelica originally started "Elf at Hogwarts", and I hope that
I can live up to the great work they did!
This is… PG-13ish…
Small note: Legolas and Aragorn are about three months into their stay
at Hogwarts. No spoilers for those who haven't read "Order of the
Phoenix". This is taking place in Harry's Sixth year.
I don't own Lord of the Rings or Harry Potter. I can only pay homage
to their authors by claiming that I never wrote them.
Chapter Nine of "Elf at Hogwarts"
"Forgiveness"
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Aragorn was not happy. That was an understatement. His beloved
Legolas was on the other side of the portrait crying, and he couldn't do a
thing about it. Legolas had changed the password to get into the room
and neglected to tell Aragorn. Whether it was on purpose or not, Aragorn
wasn't sure.
"Please let me in!" Aragorn said.
The lady shook her head. "Not without the password, and you might want
to get it honey. Your husband is a bit distraught."
Aragorn almost screamed in frustration. "I know he's distraught!
Please, let me in so I can make him happy."
The lady in the portrait looked almost persuaded to let Aragorn in, but
she shook her head. "I can't do that."
Aragorn felt like beating his head off the wall.
~~
Legolas was unhappy. Once again, an understatement. He sat on the
bed, their bed, sobbing. He could hear Aragorn outside, talking to the
portrait, but he couldn't bring himself to care. His heart was hurting.
Aragorn, the father of their children, didn't trust him. A ghost of a
smile crossed his face at the fact he was once again pregnant. Aragorn
didn't know that, and it looked like he wouldn't know.
Legolas smiled, his crying stopping for a moment, at his still flat
stomach and laid a hand on it. "Don't worry little one, I'll take care of
you. Even if your father won't. Even if your father doesn't trust me,
I'll always take care of you."
The tears began to fall again.
A small, rational part of Legolas wondered how much of this was
hormones and how much was actual bothering him. The tears soon drowned the
rational part.
~~
Draco watched as Ron, Hermione, and Seamus comforted Harry. Wait a
minute… When did the Irish boy become so interested in Harry? He was
patting Harry's shoulder in an overly comfortable way. Ron threw Seamus a
dirty look, and the Irish boy looked a little sheepish. Draco took
three steps towards Harry and the little group. Ron looked at Draco, and
then at Hermione and Seamus. He and Hermione exchanged glances and the
girl nodded. She grabbed Harry by the arm. With a meaningful look at
Ron, and a downright nasty glare at Draco, Hermione led Harry, and in
turn Seamus, back towards the castle.
Ron glared at Draco. "You hurt him." Draco opened his mouth to defend
himself and then closed it with a snap. Ron was angry, and Draco
wasn't going to get a word in edgewise until the red head was done. The
notorious Weasley temper was about to make an appearance, and Draco
realized he was doomed. "Hermione and I stayed quiet when you first began to
date Harry. You made him happier than we had ever saw him. You could
make him smile and laugh in ways that we couldn't. He offered you his
heart on a silver platter, and you took it. We were fine with you
dating him, but we warned you not to hurt him. Hermione and I wondered how
many times Harry would come back to the common room with that wide
smile on his face, his entire face glowing in happiness. As it happened
more and more, we let our guard down. We shouldn't have. You hurt him
Draco, you hurt him. I swear, you aren't going to be living much
longer. Did you even have a reason for doing this to him?!"
Draco had the grace to let himself blush. "I was jealous."
Ron's eyes narrowed dangerously, and Draco actually felt threatened at
the waves of anger coming from the red head. "You were jealous. YOU
WERE JEALOUS?! So, you put Harry through hell, all because you were
jealous. What a bloody good reason."
Ron launched himself at Draco, and Dean and Neville grabbed hold of
Ron's arms. Draco realized, by the expressions on Dean and Neville's
faces they had done that to make sure Ron didn't get a detention or lose
their house points. They could care less what happened to Draco. Ron
shrugged off their arms and the trio glared at Draco. Said boy realized
that he was outnumbered. All three of them were Gryffindors, and they
all looked ready to defend Harry to the end. Draco looked around for
one of his housemates, and wasn't surprised to not see any of them.
None of them had been very pleased when Draco had told them he and Harry
were lovers, so it was no surprise that they wouldn't help him out here.
"It's just…" Draco trailed off. After reviewing every that happened in
the past month, he realized how blind and stupid he had been. All he
wanted to right now was go and apologize repeatedly to Harry.
Looking at Neville, Dean, and Ron, Draco realized that wasn't going to
happen anytime soon.
~~
Hermione led Harry into the Gryffindor common room and sat the boy on
the couch. She then sat down and threw her arm around Harry. Harry
leaned into the embrace, and even though his tears had ended while
Hermione dragged him through the castle, he sniffled in her ear. Seamus sat
on the other side of Harry and comfortingly, at least to Harry's
disheveled mind, patted his back.
"Harry, dear, do you know what's gotten into Draco?" Hermione asked, as
gently as she could.
The seeker shook his head. "Nuh-uh. He refused to talk to me, so I
didn't push it… What did I do, 'Mione?"
Hermione sighed. It was a nice break for her and for Ron seeing Harry
so happy day after day. It was such a huge change after seeing Harry
so despondent, alone, and aloof. She should have known that Draco would
have done something to ruin it. It was only a matter of time. "Don't
worry, Harry. I'm sure it was nothing you did. Malfoy is just Malfoy,
Harry. He isn't capable of loving anybody but himself."
Hermione didn't realize how wrong she was.
~~
Aragorn had decided to camp outside the portrait until Legolas came out
or the lady in the portrait, who told him that she had a name and to
call him that (it was Charlotte), took pity on him and let him in. He
had spent the first ten minutes guessing password after password, but
nothing worked.
Charlotte had decided that she didn't want Aragorn camped out in front
of her anymore. It was nice the first twenty minutes, to have such a
handsome man sitting in front of her, but after that she couldn't bare
to stare at the man any more. He just sat there. She sighed and swung
open. "Go in. The password, by the way, is now 'Greenleaf'."
Aragorn almost beat his head off the wall. That was probably the only
thing he hadn't tried. He stood up and entered the room, braced for
anything.
He was met with a sight that broke his heart. His elf was sound to
sleep. Legolas' pale skin was paler than normal, which immediately
worried Aragorn. He watched Legolas breathe for a minute, reassuring himself
that the elf was still alive. Legolas' arms were covering his stomach,
as if to protect something. That gesture puzzled Aragorn. Aragorn let
his eyes rest on Legolas' face. Two silver trails caught Aragorn's
eye, and he frowned. The elf had obviously shed many tears over what the
man had done. Aragorn felt like kicking himself, repeatedly.
Aragorn sat down in a nearby chair and watched Legolas sleep. He felt
that if he sat on the bed he would disturb Legolas and the beautiful,
if not sad, picture he made. Aragorn was content to sit and watch the
elf sleep.
~~
In the past ten minutes, Draco had not been able to make any headway
with Ron. Dean and Neville were getting more and more amused with the
situation: seeing the infamous Draco Malfoy all but beg (begging was
below a Malfoy) for Ron to let him see Harry. Ron refused every time.
Draco was getting fed up. Another understatement. He was downright
unhappy. "Look, Weasley, I swear if you let me go and see Harry, I'll
never call you Weasel again or call Granger a Mudblood again."
Dean and Neville had to once again stop Ron from beating up Draco.
Draco winced; that had definitely not helped his argument. He opened his
mouth to apologize, but he caught the look in Ron's eyes and new it
wouldn't be worth it.
~~
Legolas woke up with the feeling that someone was watching him. He
rolled over and found out that the feeling was correct. Aragorn was
sitting there, staring at him with a pleading expression in his eyes.
Legolas blinked and feigned indifference. "Aragorn, what are you doing
here?"
Aragorn looked at Legolas. "I came to apologize. Legolas, you don't
know how much I missed you while you were here and I was in Mirkwood. I
finally got to see you, and you seemed to enjoy spending more time with
Harry than with me. I was jealous."
Legolas' eyes softened for a moment. "I missed Elroy…"
Aragorn looked up. "I know that now, but at the time I was to blind to
see it…"
Legolas' eyes softened even more. Aragorn had always loved the look on
his face when he was about to concede in an argument. It was always
soft and a little defeated. His eyes where always glowing. A gentle
smile would start to spread over his face… and there it came. "Aragorn,
you know I could never cheat on you. I would never want to. I missed
you and Elroy when I came here. You came here and suddenly seemed more
attracted to Draco than me… It hurt."
Aragorn winced. He knew all to well that the grief of an elf could
kill them. "If it makes any sense, the entire scheme to make you and
Harry jealous was his idea…"
Legolas shook his head, the smile still in place. "Aragorn, enough is
enough. We've both made one another jealous, intentionally or not…"
Aragorn had the grace to blush and look at the floor. "So, let's just put
this behind us."
Aragorn nodded. He sat down on the bed and took Legolas into his arms.
The elf sighed softly and leaned into the embrace. "Legolas?"
"Hmm?"
"When I walked in here, you seemed to be protecting your stomach.
Why?"
A light pink color flooded Legolas' cheeks. "I'm pregnant, Aragorn."
Aragorn's eyes widened, and he suddenly hugged his elf as tightly as he
could. Legolas sighed again, completely content.
~~
Hermione watched as Harry and Seamus played Exploding Snap. Harry's
depression over what Draco had done seemed to taper off a little, and he
was obviously enjoying the game.
Ron came into the common room. Neville and Dean were two steps behind
him and Draco was being hauled between the two of them. The Slytherin
looked resigned to his fate, as if realizing this would be the only way
to see Harry. Harry had looked up when Ron entered, but quickly looked
down again when he saw Draco. Evidently, the depression over what
Draco had done was coming back in full force. Draco, Ron, and Hermione
caught the look of depression on the younger Gryffindor. Ron sneered at
Draco, Hermione sighed, and Draco felt like kicking himself.
Ron glared at Draco. "You've got five minutes to talk to him. If he
doesn't accept your apology, I'm ripping your heart out of your chest
with my bare hands."
Hermione wondered how Draco had managed to get Ron to allow him to get
to the Gryffindor common room, but Ron was (not that he'd admit it) a
sucker for trying to keep Harry happy.
Seamus glared at the platinum blond as he approached Harry, but he
stood up and moved and stood next to Ron and Hermione. Dean and Neville
had decided to make themselves scarce.
"Harry, you realize why I did that didn't you?" Draco asked softly, but
his tone was a bit clipped. He heard Ron clear his throat, and Draco
mentally winced.
Harry nodded. "You were jealous, weren't you? But I don't understand
why! Professor Greenleaf just missed his son! He was just being a
paternal figure to me!"
Draco sighed and ran a hand through his hair. "I know that now, but I
was just too… blonde, if you will… to recognize it before."
Harry didn't look any happier. "Then why did you kiss Professor
Strider?"
Draco grimaced. "It was impulsive. I'll be washing my mouth out soap
for years to come."
A slight smile came onto Harry's face. "You promise never to do
anything like that again?"
Draco nodded. He heard Ron snort.
Harry's smile didn't get any bigger, but it didn't disappear either.
"I forgive you this time, but if you ever do anything like that again,
I'll sic Ron and Hermione on you. Don't think I wouldn't, either."
Draco could almost see Ron's malicious grin, and he heard him cracking
his hands, almost eagerly.
Harry smiled a little at his best friend's antics. "Come on, guys,
it's time for lunch."
Hermione nodded and she and Harry headed towards the door. Ron said
that he and Draco would be along in a minute.
Draco decided that if looks could kill, he'd be ten feet under and
still going down. "What do you want, Weasley?"
Ron glared. "You're lucky Harry is so forgiving and that he hates to
lose someone he cares about. Let me make this clear: you hurt him one
more time, and whether or not he forgives you, you'll be losing some
limbs."
Draco nodded.
~~
Well? I know it's nothing good, but what do you guys think?
By the way, I didn't mean to insult blondes with my comment. I'm a
blonde too!
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Peace, Love, and the Moon!
Moonfairy2000
