A/N: Whee!! Reviews!! I thrive on them. And waking up one morning to find a great bulk of 'em for my fics just made me float off the ground for a while… ^__________^

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A/N: This element is a little bit lengthy, so I decided to put it into two chapters, so I'm sorry this one's a little short… Gimme an F, Gimme an L, Gimme a U-F-F! :D Pairings: Aragorn/Arwen! ^.^

Summary: Aragorn is playing around with a precious belonging of Arwen's, and there's only one way for her to stop him from annoying her for good. Let's bring out the antagonist in Elrond's daughter…behold, Element 4- Seduction… :D fluff abound! Nyahahaha…

Disclaimer: Thank God Tolkien doesn't know I'm doing this…

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Element 4: Seduction

Aragorn fingered the intricately carved object, poring its fine workmanship and smoothing his fingers across the flawless surface. He smiled in guileful delight as he sees Arwen's crystalline blue orbs piercing at him, her blood-red lips pouting.

"Return it, please, dear Estel?"

"It's quite a pretty thing, isn't it? It's so unique yet so…"

"ESTEL!"

"wonderful; that's the word, wonderful." Aragorn smirked. He loved being impertinent sometimes. It's a childish thing to do for a king but hey, Aragorn realized, Arwen looks really cute when she's angry.

"Estel, I had it since I was a babe in my father's arms; do handle it with care," she warned. Surely enough it was a beautiful thing, and quite fragile on its own. It was a miniature figure of a great white stallion; presented to Arwen as a birthday gift from Lady Galadriel. It was the fourth summer since her birth; and Lord Elrond had noticed she had already a great fondness to horses and ponies and the like; and so Lady Galadriel carved it from one of the great mallorn tree barks in her land. The result was absolute and flawless, and under a moonlit sky the stallion carving would seem to glow a pallid, pearl-like shimmer.

Arwen kept the precious gift as dearly as her life; and seeing how Aragorn was meddling with it and tossing it into the air, she was not quite sure if she had married the right man back then. She sighed. "Maybe father was right."

Alright then. Arwen realized this would call for tactics and great planning of maneuvers, and so she laid out a little plan in her head. A similar situation had occurred before (and had actually involved a certain Pantene-ad blonde elf) and after great deliberation (which only took about 6-8 minutes tops) Arwen decided she had to use the most lethal weapon a female of her status could give: seduction.

A twisted smile curved her luscious lips, and slowly she creeped over to Aragorn's shoulder and whispered soft and beguilingly into his ear.

"Oh Estel…" 

~to be continued~

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post A/N: by the way, I think I broke a Lothlorien law… I don't think you're supposed to cut down the mallorn tree and use it for random purposes… but hey, god gave me the gift of zero liability…

ps: NeverSayDie, I'm gonna post up the ficlet for you after Element 4 kay ^.^