Thanks to everybody who reviewed. It's pretty much everybody that I mentioned in the heading of the last chapter. You encouraged me to no end and because of that legolas will hurry now and we'll see if he can keep haldir from biting the dust .! =)

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"Everybody wants and everybody needs

Everybody asks for one more piece (of me!)

Everybody wants to hear someone say please (me in this case.)

Everybody takes and everybody steals (my time!)

Everybody cries when something feels

Everybody's looking for the drug that heals"

You probably already noticed that I'm singing on the way to haldir's place. The anticipation ! No, really. I don't know why I suddenly need to see him.

Maybe because glorfindel was real mean to me today. He said he was fine with me being like a teenager and that he would wait for me to grow up. Mentally, that is. But now ? He wants to send me to that dumb course that is a thing that the world doesn't need. And neither do I.

When I get to haldir's door this time it doesn't seem like he's home. He neither opens nor do I hear a sound from inside. Instead there is a message taped to the door, for anyone to read. It says :

"Legolas! Now I know what it is because it happened ! So don't go looking for me and stay with glorfindel, right ? Love you. H."

Ahh, right.

What has happened ? He got his early midlife-crisis ? Obviously he's talking about something I should know but I don't. Darn it. But anyway, he says I shouldn't go look for him, so I guess that means : legolas greenleaf I really need your attention right now and more than anything' and I better go looking for him.

The halls of rivendell are deserted when I look around for haldir. Amazing how it comes that right in the moment that I need somebody to ask there's gonna be nobody around. Well, I suppose I have to find him on my own then.

Let's think (try to think) logically. Haldir seems to be sad or upset or just in a teen-elf fit, so where would he go to calm down ? What do I know ? Probably he would walk around in the woods or eat until he pukes up again. People have strange habits when dealing with sadness. As for me, I would hide in my bed under the blankets for a long time to come.

So, let's make a point, I'm completely clueless. I don't know where haldir would go and neither do I know where he would never go to exclude those places from my search.

While I amble through the place, looking around but not really expecting to find him, I suddenly knock into someone. That is also starting to be a habit of mine. Knocking people over at night and in bright daylight.

'Legolas Greenleaf !' a female voice yells. 'Can't you watch your step !'

'Oh, I'm terribly sorry, lady Galadriel .' The hell I am, not sorry at all for knocking her nose out of the air.

'You had better be ,' she says indignantly and raises back to her feet without the help of a gentleman. I wouldn't dream about helping her up, ever. I'm not one of her slaves.

'Galadriel .'

'Lady Galadriel to you ,' she cuts into my sentence.

Whatever. 'Lady Galadriel, do you know where haldir is ?'

'Why ?', she asks huffily.

Because I just wanted to see if you know. 'Because I'm looking for him. He's not in his rooms and neither in any of the halls.'

'Why ?'

Why what ? 'Well, I'm just worried about him.'

'Yes, I saw him sometime ago.'

I get the feeling I have to beg for every next answer. Why can't she just f*cking tell me ?

'Where ?', I ask hastily.

'Don't you be so impatient. You want me to tell you something, you wait until I'm in the mood.' She flexes her fingers for a while and looks at each nail intently.

'Now ?'

'Fine ,' she snaps. 'But I really don't understand what you want with that sappy guy. Just imagine, he was coming to ask some advice in the morning, was all upset and on the verge of tears. I bet he had a bad dream or something. What waste of time.'

'And where is he !now! ?'

'Oh, he said he's going to one of the springs in the forest.'

'Thank you, Galadriel.'

'Lady Galadriel to you !!!'

'Yes, lady Galadriel, I wish you a very nice remaining day.'

She frowns darkly and turns to leave. I set off towards the stables at a run. Who knows how many little springs there are in the forests that never turn to rivers but only to little lakes ? A whole lot anyway. How am I supposed to find haldir in time to keep him from whatever he's up to.

I didn't give it a lot of thought what he could actually be up to do but I suddenly remember that awful picture I saw in galadriel's mirror. All the blood and the slashed wrists. Ooog ! I run even harder, I don't want to see haldir ending up like that so something has to be done about it. Why? Because I l.l.like him. That's why.

The stables are not all that crowded today but, of course, glorfindel is hanging around there.

'Legolas ! You didn't find haldir ?'

'No, I didn't.'

'He went out with his horse. But it came back without its rider.'

'I'm going out to look for him.'

'No, you're not. There are already some skilled people out to look for him.'

'Well, glorfindel, if you don't want me to go than try and stop me.' I pass into the stables, grab the horse that the stable boy gave me the last time when I went looking for haldir.

'¨Stop, legolas, you'll regret that, do you hear me ? - Oh, I meant, I love you, I don't want to put you in danger !'

Yeah, right. 'Love you, too, glorfindel ,' I answer sarcastically and set of into the forest. What a moron.

'Fetch my horse ,' I hear glorfindel yell at one of his stable-slaves. 'No, fetch the fastest one we have.'

Pity, really, that I already took the fastest horse that was left in the stable.

'Fly, unelman, we have to find haldir before it's to late.'

The horse understands and passes like the wind between the close-standing trees.

What if haldir really tries to die ? He said what makes him to think of suicide had not yet happened. And then there was the note on his door asking for my attention like a huge red arrow pointing towards him.

It takes me the longest time to find haldir at one of the little lakes. The sun is big and red behind the trees and makes haldir's silver hair shine violet. Actually he is IN the lake on a huge rock, wet, shaking and pale with a dagger clutched in his left hand.

He sees me when I'm still far away and has his eyes on me until I reach the banks.

'Go away ,' he sobs as soon as I'm close enough to hear him, his eyes all red from weeping.

'What are you doing there ? I can't leave you like this !' I stop the horse and jump of to run the remaining steps to the lake.

'Yes, you can and you know it. Go and be with glorfindel now that he knows how faithful you are.' The dagger is shaking in his hand, so violently is his grasp.

'But . haldir .'

'There is nothing you can do about this.' He turns away from me and sobs again. 'I didn't know it would be you.'

'I'm sorry. Haldir, really. I didn't mean to upset you so badly when I went out with glorfindel this morning.'

'Than you shouldn't have been so arrogant and edgy.'

'I promise, I won't be like that again.'

Haldir looks at me with huge darkened eyes. 'I guess, you won't have another chance to prove that to me.'

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Is this a cliff hanger ? I'm not sure but if somebody complains, I'll know. I guess. Stole the lyrics that legolas sings from 'Everybody' - Stabilo Boss