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Everybody else (again, too) : Folks, I !like! you if you review! It doesn't even take much time and makes the author happy. So please do. (Always like constructive criticism, too.) And because I got a lot of reviews in real short time I'm feeling up to writing another chapter real fast. :-) Leggo's world turns upside because he doesn't really know what he wants. So here we go:
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Waking is not all that easy in the morning, not mentioning getting up. There is something heavy laying draped across my chest. And it's breathing, too. Eew.
It takes me some time until I realize where I am and what the thing on my chest is. I'm still on the carpet in front of the grate and haldir is sleeping on top of me. I never knew that he was that heavy.
I'm sighing and just going to fall asleep again when I actually discover the reason why I woke so darn early. Something next to my head is tapping. It's tapping unpleasantly and urging me to let my eyes come out of the dream-world in my head.
Tap.tap.tap.tap.tap.tap.
No, I'm not going to look at whatever it is.
Tap.tap.tap.tap.tap.tap.
Okay, okay, I'm trying.
Tap.tap.tap.tap.tap.tap.
I'm opening my eyes. There is something huge and red towering above me and it produces a tapping sound. That's weird, really.
* * * "But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you- here I opened wide the door;-
Darkness there, and nothing more." * * *
'Legolas ?'
'Haldir ?'
I look at him lying all over me bit he is still asleep.
Tap.tap.tap.tap.tap.tap.
'Legolas, don't pretend that you don't see me.'
'Glorfindel ?'
The big red thing above me shifts and it hits me with the force of a club swung by a cave-troll. The red something is glorfindel in his best working- robes. Damn it. He is tapping his foot impatiently. Damn it again.
Excuse me, am I just lying on the ground at glorfindel's feet, haldir sleeping on my chest ? I must be still dreaming.
'Would you please pinch me, glorfindel ?', I mumble.
'Gladly. More than that .' He grabs my arm and squeezes it.
'Ouch ! What did you do that for ? I asked for a pinch not for you to break my arm.'
'I did it because this is the second time I find you sleeping in the company of haldir.'
'And ? We didn't do anything .'
'We'll see. Let's go and you'll let me look into it since I bet you 'asked' haldir about it last night, didn't you ?' I really don't know why he pronounces the 'asked' so sarcastically. What else could I have done ?
'Yes, I did. I looked into it, too.'
'You did ???', glorfindel sounds shocked. 'And . and what you see . ?' He's very nervous all of a sudden and I see him fidgeting around with the sleeves of his robes from below.
'Some things about you ,' I say evasively. 'Strange things .'
'Those have not yet happened. The mirror was lying, I didn't .'
'I know they didn't.'
'You know? How ?'
'Well, I was with you in those pictures.'
'Oh, you were ?'
'What were you talking about ,' I ask suspiciously.
'About that exactly. Well, I thought I'd better tell you.'
'Hm.' I think a while about this incident. Glorfindel has something to hide that's for sure. But what it is . I'll find out.
'So, let me see that mirror,' he demands.
'Okay. I just have to dress. Would you wait outside ?' I flutter my lashes at him to keep his mood up.
'Sure. What about haldir ?'
'He's asleep ,' I say innocently. 'He won't peek.'
'Okay. But hurry, I haven't got all day.'
One would think I'd force him to find out the truth. If he wasn't so darn suspicious about me and haldir I wouldn't have had to go to all the trouble and steal that huge bowl of mirror.
At least he leaves the room and I nudge haldir gently in the ribs.
'Hmm. What's the matter ?' Haldir shifts on me and rearranges my position as if I was his pillow.
'Wake up. You got to help me !'
'Hmm.' His eyes slide into focus and looks at me. 'What can I do for you, leggo ?'
'Glorfindel has something to hide .'
'No really? What ? I really need to know. A big hideous mole, his blue movies or hairy legs ? A piercing ?'
'I don't know. You have to help me find out .'
'Watcha giving me for that favor ?' He smiles wickedly.
'If I'd pay you it wouldn't be a favor.' Some people just have greedy minds. Nobody wants to help you out for free. Give me the good old days when anybody was happy to lend you hand.
'I don't want you to pay me. Money's nothing to me.'
'Then, what do you want ?'
'How about a 'good-morning'-kiss ?'
I feel a smile spreading over my face. 'You were hoping I'd ask you for something else all along so you could charge me with a kiss, hm ?'
'And if ?'
'I'd think this is your lucky day.'
'Well it is. What about my kiss ?'
'Glorfindel is waiting outside .'
'You think he can see through doors ? That would make him even scarier.' Haldir shivers ironically.
'He's not scary. He's cute ,' I explain. 'You just don't have an eye for beautiful things.'
'Yes, I have. For you.'
I'm blushing. 'Don't flatter me.'
'Shut me up.'
Oh, well, I do. I place some playful kisses on haldir's lips before finally getting up.
'I got to go and make him look into that mirror.'
'Do you have to ? Can't you just come back to me ? It's so cold here without you .'
'Would love to but can't, sorry . Got a relationship to rescue.'
Haldir is looking at me and I can see the jealousy burning in him, enlightening his chocolate eyes until they are cold amber. 'Well, I guess I'll better be leaving, too. Galadriel certainly wants to see me to plan our leave carefully,' he says.
'Don't let me stop you. Glorfindel and I are probably going to go for a walk after the mirror-thingie, you know.'
'Good that you tell me.'
I rush in and out the bathroom and put my clothes on. 'I'll be off,' I announce and haldir glares at me.
'Don't let me stop you.'
'I won't.' And I'm blasting through the door into the corridor where glorfindel is waiting.
The mirror is still untouched in the clearing and there is a lot of rain- water in it. Glorfindel seems to have changed his mind all of a sudden.
'Well, go, look in it,' I say and glorfindel slowly circles around the mirror, looking unwilling, until he finally looks into it.
It's cool to watch somebody gazing in the mirror. Glorfindel's face changes the color like a set of traffic-lights. Oh, excuse me, like saruman's cloak, I forgot that we don't have any traffic lights in middle-earth. My mistake.
At first he seems relieved, then he turns green with the urge to puke, then red with embarrassment and finally blue because he's forgetting that he keeps his breath. I really wanna know what embarrasses him like that. Some nasty things he did ? Probably yes. I'll see to that.
Haldir is going to help me even though he would refuse now. I know how to flatter guys. (As long as it's not lord Elrond. - Silly me . how did I come to think about him?)
Suddenly Glorfindel pulls back so violently that he falls over backwards. I giggle at his shocked expression. I bet he saw lord Elrond in fishnet stockings. I would imagine my expression to be like that if I had.
'Everything okay, glorfindel ?' I lean over to him, smiling. 'You got an electric shock ?'
Glorfindel grimaces angrily. 'No. I saw that you were just playing around with that guardian of lorien. And stop that dumb joking around.'
'His name is haldir. And I can't be serious all the time.'
'Then how come you NEVER are just close to serious. Close to respectable ?'
I don't pout. This is no matter for pouting. It's a matter to be hurt inside and don't show it.
'It must be because I'm not yet as mature as you ,' I say, the irony biting but glorfindel either doesn't get it or doesn't budge.
'That's right. That's why I signed you in for a behavior-training-course.'
'WHAT ?'
'You heard right. It's in everybody's interest that you finally grow up.'
Yeah, right, in everybody's except mine. 'I'm not going anywhere .'
'Do you love me ?'
'I guess so.'
'Then do it for me.' It sounds like a command.
'I'll think about it.'
'Fine. Want to go for a walk ?' He holds his hand out to me and I take it.
'Sure, why not. I don't have anything to do today.'
'I didn't expect anything else .'
'Excuse me ?' I turn to him furiously, not believing what I think I've heard.
'I said that's good for you, I'd like to have such a lot of free-time.'
That's not what he said. I just know it. He said something mean about me. I look at him and he returns my look with as huge, innocent sapphire eyes as he is can manage. Could I really think that he's lying to me ? Why should he ? He likes me, doesn't he ? And haldir likes me, too and I like everybody except lord Elrond. What should I do ?
Glorfindel wants me to go to that blessed course that I don't need at all and haldir loves what glorfindel thinks is annoying and embarrassing. But Glorfindel is so cute. Isn't Haldir, too. I don't know. I don't know anything anymore. What I want ? I can't tell. Glorfindel is beautiful, haldir is gorgeous and I'm caught in the middle without being able to make up my mind.
Just in the middle of the forest I suddenly feel the urge to see haldir again. 'I have to go see haldir,' I tell glorfindel and let go of his hand.
'Hey, wait ! You're just leaving ?'
'That's right. As I'm not mature I don't know that that's not polite. But once I was on that course I will always finish the walks with you, you'll see.'
I turn to leave.
'You like him more than me, don't you ?'
'No, I wouldn't dream of it. I really really like you. Don't worry. It's just important right now.'
'You are ironic about it. You had something with him, I know it !', glorfindel shrieks. 'Why don't you like me? I'm too old, right ?'
'No, you're not. I'm fine with you're age.'
'I'm not as good-looking as he is .'
'Yes, you are. You are even more beautiful.' Just not in my eyes.
'What is it then ? I know there is something. You are with him all the time and never with me !'
'You are at work. You can't expect me to be alone all day and waiting for you !'
'No, I can't. But why don't you choose someone .'
'Ugly ?,' I add. 'Somebody who could never ever put up to you ?'
'And if. I just don't like you being with haldir. So don't be with him, right ?'
'You can't tell me to do anything. If I want to be with him, I'll be. I have to go now.'
'But . I . why are you doing this to me. ! I ! want to be with you !'
'I didn't say I wouldn't wanna be with you ! But right now I have to leave !'
I stumble away through the forest even more confused than I was before.
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* * * Great quote : E. A. Poe "The Raven"
Everybody else (again, too) : Folks, I !like! you if you review! It doesn't even take much time and makes the author happy. So please do. (Always like constructive criticism, too.) And because I got a lot of reviews in real short time I'm feeling up to writing another chapter real fast. :-) Leggo's world turns upside because he doesn't really know what he wants. So here we go:
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Waking is not all that easy in the morning, not mentioning getting up. There is something heavy laying draped across my chest. And it's breathing, too. Eew.
It takes me some time until I realize where I am and what the thing on my chest is. I'm still on the carpet in front of the grate and haldir is sleeping on top of me. I never knew that he was that heavy.
I'm sighing and just going to fall asleep again when I actually discover the reason why I woke so darn early. Something next to my head is tapping. It's tapping unpleasantly and urging me to let my eyes come out of the dream-world in my head.
Tap.tap.tap.tap.tap.tap.
No, I'm not going to look at whatever it is.
Tap.tap.tap.tap.tap.tap.
Okay, okay, I'm trying.
Tap.tap.tap.tap.tap.tap.
I'm opening my eyes. There is something huge and red towering above me and it produces a tapping sound. That's weird, really.
* * * "But the fact is I was napping, and so gently you came rapping,
And so faintly you came tapping, tapping at my chamber door,
That I scarce was sure I heard you- here I opened wide the door;-
Darkness there, and nothing more." * * *
'Legolas ?'
'Haldir ?'
I look at him lying all over me bit he is still asleep.
Tap.tap.tap.tap.tap.tap.
'Legolas, don't pretend that you don't see me.'
'Glorfindel ?'
The big red thing above me shifts and it hits me with the force of a club swung by a cave-troll. The red something is glorfindel in his best working- robes. Damn it. He is tapping his foot impatiently. Damn it again.
Excuse me, am I just lying on the ground at glorfindel's feet, haldir sleeping on my chest ? I must be still dreaming.
'Would you please pinch me, glorfindel ?', I mumble.
'Gladly. More than that .' He grabs my arm and squeezes it.
'Ouch ! What did you do that for ? I asked for a pinch not for you to break my arm.'
'I did it because this is the second time I find you sleeping in the company of haldir.'
'And ? We didn't do anything .'
'We'll see. Let's go and you'll let me look into it since I bet you 'asked' haldir about it last night, didn't you ?' I really don't know why he pronounces the 'asked' so sarcastically. What else could I have done ?
'Yes, I did. I looked into it, too.'
'You did ???', glorfindel sounds shocked. 'And . and what you see . ?' He's very nervous all of a sudden and I see him fidgeting around with the sleeves of his robes from below.
'Some things about you ,' I say evasively. 'Strange things .'
'Those have not yet happened. The mirror was lying, I didn't .'
'I know they didn't.'
'You know? How ?'
'Well, I was with you in those pictures.'
'Oh, you were ?'
'What were you talking about ,' I ask suspiciously.
'About that exactly. Well, I thought I'd better tell you.'
'Hm.' I think a while about this incident. Glorfindel has something to hide that's for sure. But what it is . I'll find out.
'So, let me see that mirror,' he demands.
'Okay. I just have to dress. Would you wait outside ?' I flutter my lashes at him to keep his mood up.
'Sure. What about haldir ?'
'He's asleep ,' I say innocently. 'He won't peek.'
'Okay. But hurry, I haven't got all day.'
One would think I'd force him to find out the truth. If he wasn't so darn suspicious about me and haldir I wouldn't have had to go to all the trouble and steal that huge bowl of mirror.
At least he leaves the room and I nudge haldir gently in the ribs.
'Hmm. What's the matter ?' Haldir shifts on me and rearranges my position as if I was his pillow.
'Wake up. You got to help me !'
'Hmm.' His eyes slide into focus and looks at me. 'What can I do for you, leggo ?'
'Glorfindel has something to hide .'
'No really? What ? I really need to know. A big hideous mole, his blue movies or hairy legs ? A piercing ?'
'I don't know. You have to help me find out .'
'Watcha giving me for that favor ?' He smiles wickedly.
'If I'd pay you it wouldn't be a favor.' Some people just have greedy minds. Nobody wants to help you out for free. Give me the good old days when anybody was happy to lend you hand.
'I don't want you to pay me. Money's nothing to me.'
'Then, what do you want ?'
'How about a 'good-morning'-kiss ?'
I feel a smile spreading over my face. 'You were hoping I'd ask you for something else all along so you could charge me with a kiss, hm ?'
'And if ?'
'I'd think this is your lucky day.'
'Well it is. What about my kiss ?'
'Glorfindel is waiting outside .'
'You think he can see through doors ? That would make him even scarier.' Haldir shivers ironically.
'He's not scary. He's cute ,' I explain. 'You just don't have an eye for beautiful things.'
'Yes, I have. For you.'
I'm blushing. 'Don't flatter me.'
'Shut me up.'
Oh, well, I do. I place some playful kisses on haldir's lips before finally getting up.
'I got to go and make him look into that mirror.'
'Do you have to ? Can't you just come back to me ? It's so cold here without you .'
'Would love to but can't, sorry . Got a relationship to rescue.'
Haldir is looking at me and I can see the jealousy burning in him, enlightening his chocolate eyes until they are cold amber. 'Well, I guess I'll better be leaving, too. Galadriel certainly wants to see me to plan our leave carefully,' he says.
'Don't let me stop you. Glorfindel and I are probably going to go for a walk after the mirror-thingie, you know.'
'Good that you tell me.'
I rush in and out the bathroom and put my clothes on. 'I'll be off,' I announce and haldir glares at me.
'Don't let me stop you.'
'I won't.' And I'm blasting through the door into the corridor where glorfindel is waiting.
The mirror is still untouched in the clearing and there is a lot of rain- water in it. Glorfindel seems to have changed his mind all of a sudden.
'Well, go, look in it,' I say and glorfindel slowly circles around the mirror, looking unwilling, until he finally looks into it.
It's cool to watch somebody gazing in the mirror. Glorfindel's face changes the color like a set of traffic-lights. Oh, excuse me, like saruman's cloak, I forgot that we don't have any traffic lights in middle-earth. My mistake.
At first he seems relieved, then he turns green with the urge to puke, then red with embarrassment and finally blue because he's forgetting that he keeps his breath. I really wanna know what embarrasses him like that. Some nasty things he did ? Probably yes. I'll see to that.
Haldir is going to help me even though he would refuse now. I know how to flatter guys. (As long as it's not lord Elrond. - Silly me . how did I come to think about him?)
Suddenly Glorfindel pulls back so violently that he falls over backwards. I giggle at his shocked expression. I bet he saw lord Elrond in fishnet stockings. I would imagine my expression to be like that if I had.
'Everything okay, glorfindel ?' I lean over to him, smiling. 'You got an electric shock ?'
Glorfindel grimaces angrily. 'No. I saw that you were just playing around with that guardian of lorien. And stop that dumb joking around.'
'His name is haldir. And I can't be serious all the time.'
'Then how come you NEVER are just close to serious. Close to respectable ?'
I don't pout. This is no matter for pouting. It's a matter to be hurt inside and don't show it.
'It must be because I'm not yet as mature as you ,' I say, the irony biting but glorfindel either doesn't get it or doesn't budge.
'That's right. That's why I signed you in for a behavior-training-course.'
'WHAT ?'
'You heard right. It's in everybody's interest that you finally grow up.'
Yeah, right, in everybody's except mine. 'I'm not going anywhere .'
'Do you love me ?'
'I guess so.'
'Then do it for me.' It sounds like a command.
'I'll think about it.'
'Fine. Want to go for a walk ?' He holds his hand out to me and I take it.
'Sure, why not. I don't have anything to do today.'
'I didn't expect anything else .'
'Excuse me ?' I turn to him furiously, not believing what I think I've heard.
'I said that's good for you, I'd like to have such a lot of free-time.'
That's not what he said. I just know it. He said something mean about me. I look at him and he returns my look with as huge, innocent sapphire eyes as he is can manage. Could I really think that he's lying to me ? Why should he ? He likes me, doesn't he ? And haldir likes me, too and I like everybody except lord Elrond. What should I do ?
Glorfindel wants me to go to that blessed course that I don't need at all and haldir loves what glorfindel thinks is annoying and embarrassing. But Glorfindel is so cute. Isn't Haldir, too. I don't know. I don't know anything anymore. What I want ? I can't tell. Glorfindel is beautiful, haldir is gorgeous and I'm caught in the middle without being able to make up my mind.
Just in the middle of the forest I suddenly feel the urge to see haldir again. 'I have to go see haldir,' I tell glorfindel and let go of his hand.
'Hey, wait ! You're just leaving ?'
'That's right. As I'm not mature I don't know that that's not polite. But once I was on that course I will always finish the walks with you, you'll see.'
I turn to leave.
'You like him more than me, don't you ?'
'No, I wouldn't dream of it. I really really like you. Don't worry. It's just important right now.'
'You are ironic about it. You had something with him, I know it !', glorfindel shrieks. 'Why don't you like me? I'm too old, right ?'
'No, you're not. I'm fine with you're age.'
'I'm not as good-looking as he is .'
'Yes, you are. You are even more beautiful.' Just not in my eyes.
'What is it then ? I know there is something. You are with him all the time and never with me !'
'You are at work. You can't expect me to be alone all day and waiting for you !'
'No, I can't. But why don't you choose someone .'
'Ugly ?,' I add. 'Somebody who could never ever put up to you ?'
'And if. I just don't like you being with haldir. So don't be with him, right ?'
'You can't tell me to do anything. If I want to be with him, I'll be. I have to go now.'
'But . I . why are you doing this to me. ! I ! want to be with you !'
'I didn't say I wouldn't wanna be with you ! But right now I have to leave !'
I stumble away through the forest even more confused than I was before.
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* * * Great quote : E. A. Poe "The Raven"
