Authors note: Sorry for the delay, couldn't help it, every time I tried to work on this I ended up writing something else. Anyway, I sat down and wrote this so I hope you like!

Disclaimer: I don't own anything Lord of the Rings except my hobbit army!

Chapter 7: Baths

Glorfindel looked at the destruction in dismay, how could anyone do that to nature? He and a small army of elves (small being about 20) had been following the trail off destruction for a while now and were close to the orcs who had caused it. However all the destruction had started to get the elves down. Elves as a species loved nature about as much as orcs hated it. Glorfindel was thinking about how great it would be to destroy the orcs who had caused this, when he reached the top off the hill they were climing. Down below only a few miles off he could see orcs! Without having to say anything he urged his horse into a gallop, and the others quickly followed suit.

"BUT I DON'T WANT ONE!" screamed Aragorn at the top off his voice, surprisingly loud for someone so small.

"But you're dirty!" Elrond exclaimed, not understanding how anyone could get so dirty and still not want a bath!

"So?" asked Aragorn suddenly calm.

"So you need a bath to get clean" said Elrond as if it was obvious. Oh wait it was obvious.

"No I don't!" said Aragorn "I'll just get dirty again!"

"Then you'll have another bath" said Elrond. "now hurry up and get in!" Aragorn looked at Elrond, knowing he had lost the argument he tried one more tactic!

"YOU CAN'T MAKE ME!" he cried sitting on the bathroom floor with his arms crossed. Elrond considered arguing but decided there was no point. Instead he picked up a now screaming Aragorn and put him in the bath, fully clothed.

Aragorn looked like he'd just been betrayed. "I thought you liked me…" he said in a small and very miserable voice.

"Off course I do" said Elrond "which is why I'm making you have a bath"

There was silence as Aragorn tried to work out what this meant. Elrond seeing that Aragorn was now calm stood up.

"I'll leave you to your bath." He said, "If I hear you've behaved I may just tell you a story" with that he left the room. Leaving the child in the hands of one of the maids.

The twins were on there way home from The Shire, after getting Aragorn's pony. However Elrohir was getting worried that what once seemed like a great plan, now in hind sight might not have been such a good idea.

"What if Elrond recognises that the pony is not from Bree?" Elrohir asked, now worried about their plan.

"We'll tell him they'd run out of ponies in Bree!" Elladan said then realising that would never work, "or just be glad that being grounded, which is what will happen, is a lot better than going to Bree!"

Elrohir agreed with his twin. There was nothing he hated more than Bree!

Glorfindel let fly an hour towards the orcs. There had only been around a hundred or so, and most had already been killed. These orcs, whether they came from, were not the brightest orcs that Glrofindel had met. In fact they may just be the stupidest. They stood in 3 lines and ran towards the elves, which were shooting arrows at them. Which is why by the time they reached the elves, most had been shot. They stopped about twenty metres away from the elves, saw that they were now almost outnumbered, and stood there just waiting to be shot! The battle was over before it ever really began. Secretly Glorfindel was disappointed, he had been looking forward to the battle!

Back in Rivendell Aragorn was now out of the bath and in his bed. Elrond sat on a chair beside him to tell him a story. Just like he had promised.

"Tell me about the twins!" Aragorn pleaded. Elrond paused for a moment, most of his stories about the twins involved them doing stupid things he did not want Aragorn to copy.

"Alright" Elrond said finally, just as Aragorn was about to ask again. "This story began back when the twin were only 20 years old"

"That's ancient!" cried Aragorn interrupting the story. Elrond just laughed, if only Aragorn knew!

"Anyway" Elrond said continuing the story "the twins were out in the woods practising their archery skills. However they must have decided that was boring so they went to find something more interesting to do. They soon came to a stream and Elrohir decided that it would be a good idea to try and jump over it. It was about two metres across. He took a run up and jumped across the river landing safety on the other side. However he now needed to get back across the river and there wasn't any room for a run up. So he decided to just jump it anyway. Off course he landed right in the middle of the river!" Aragorn found this story incredibly funny and couldn't stop laughing. Elrond waited for him to calm down before continuing.

"Elladan helped his brother out of the stream and they started walking home. Elrohir wasn't very happy at this point because Elladan had been teasing him about the river insistent and decided to get revenge. So when they came to a pile of mud he pushed his brother into it!" This led to more laughter from Aragorn and once again Elrond had to wait for him to calm down.

"Well Elladan wasn't happy about this, unlike you Aragron he hates being dirty. However dirty he most definitely was, so he pulled his brother into the mud with him!" Elrond paused at this point for more laughter from Aragorn. "When they finally got home, both covered in mud, they decided that it would be a good idea not to tell me the truth. As I would have punished them for skipping archery practise. So they made up a story about some birds coming and throwing mud at there heads! They were young after all. Obviously I didn't believe it and eventually got the truth out of them!" Aragorn was not in fits of laughter at the thought of birds throwing mud at peoples heads! After awhile he calmed down enough to be put back into bed.

"Goodnight" said Elrond leaving the child to fall asleep and walking quietly out of the door. Aragorn waited a full five minutes before getting out of bed…….

To be continued with more Aragorn!