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Chapter Ten
Elrohir shook his head, as he turned to make his way once more into the Halls of Healing. Who had heard of an Elf running into another in a completely empty square? Still, Faren had always been a little strange, especially after….
The long corridor was empty apart from the two guards at the door of Legolas' room. The one on the left opened the door for him. It was then he heard the raised voice. It was Glorfindel.
"How can you stand there and defend them, Elrond? They drugged me?!" The ire in the normally even voice was amazing. It was so seldom heard from the normally placid Elda.
"Mellon-nin, did you sleep?"
"Well, yes." The voice sounded slightly calmer.
"Do you feel better?" The amusement in his Ada's voice was comical.
"Yes." There was open resentment in Glorfindel's voice now.
"Do you still have a headache?" There was smugness in Elrond's voice now.
"No."
"Then what is the problem? They probably helped you more than you realized. You slept and you feel better, do you really expect me to punish them for helping heal you?" His Adar's voice sounded stern now and Elrohir wished he could see their faces. He would have to speak to Elladan later; this could work to their advantage….
Glorfindel mumbled something and Elrohir found he was leaning forward to try and hear what he was saying.
"I beg your pardon, Glorfindel; I did not quite catch that." There was open amusement in Elrond's voice now.
"It was the underhanded way that they went about it. Did they have to hide it that way?" Indignation burst forth and Elrohir had to stop himself from laughing.
"Mellon-nin, if I did not know better I would say you are embarrassed at being caught out. Besides I remember some one doing just that a few years ago against as cert…"
"Enough! Alright, they get away with it this time…" Glorfindel glowered at his old friend unable to believe he had almost broken their agreement not to mention…
"What, Ada?" Elladan was as eager as his twin not to find out hat Elrond was going to say.
"It was nothing, Elladan. It was a slip of the tongue. Elrohir, it might be nice to have our tea hot. Stop hovering in the door way." Elrohir sighed; his Adar always knew when he was up to something.
He moved into the room and began to serve the tea. He grinned at Glorfindel as he reached for Legolas' porridge.
The Balrog Slayer glowered at him. "I will feed Legolas." And he turned to the Prince, trying to hide his own smile, knowing how hard the twins would dig to find out what Elrond was hinting at.
"Here is some tea for you." Glorfindel looked up to see an earnest Elrohir holding a goblet out to him.
"No, thank you. I ate and drank before I arrived." He smiled at Elrohir's look of disappointment. "Did you really think I would accept something from you, Penneth? After last night? I think not." His smile widened at the slight grin on Elrohir's face.
Elrohir turned away to join his family and friend in eating their own food as Glorfindel fed Legolas and gentle talked to him through out.
Break fast passed in a whirl of laughter. Even Glorfindel joined in trying his best to include Legolas into the conversation as best he could.
Once the bowl was clean he left to use the bathroom, and wash his hands prior to heading back into the room to ready the herbs. It might be his imagination but Legolas seemed a little more settled.
He was stopped by Erestor in the corridor, wanting to see how Legolas was, then the conversation turned to other matters and before Glorfindel knew it thirty minutes had passed. He hurried on his way, eager to get back to the room.
A room that was strangely silent. Too silent. Way, way, way to silent.
All of the Elves and the human were slumped in their seats. All unconscious. Hackles raised Glorfindel turned to look in Legolas direction. To find exactly what he feared he would. Legolas was not alone.
Bent over him was a cloaked figure, the hood raised it cover all features. In his right hand he held a pillow in his left a knife. It almost looked as if he did not quite know which to use.
"What are you doing?" Glorfindel roared as he raced across the room.
The figure turned, throwing the pillow at Glorfindel before bringing the knife up to threaten him.
"You can not get away. The guards are already on the way." In deed the door was already open and the guards on their way. "Why are you after the Prince?" He inched his way nearer to the intruder, if he could get him away from Legolas…
The assailant lashed out at him, almost, almost catching his arm. Before racing for the window and disappearing. Glorfindel raced after him, he needed to catch this… who ever. This made at least three; he stopped thinking of the pillow from when he had been attacked, no make that four attempts on Legolas' life. They had to find out who he was.
He found the area around the House of Healing completely empty. There was no sign that any one had been there. Where could he have gone? This was troubling for it almost certainly meant that their theory of a traitor was correct.
He made his way back into the room. He had to make sure the people he considered to be family were unharmed. More guards entered the room. "Get some healers, we need to make sure Lord Elrond and his sons are alright." The two guards from the corridor were moving between the fallen. Checking to see if they were breathing. They sat back in relief. Grateful to find a steady pulse.
Within minutes Deanol and more healers flooded into the room, each taking a patient to concentrate on while Glorfindel concentrated once more on Legolas, having to fight all his instincts to rush at all of the fallen friends to check them himself. He was too deeply involved. Far too deeply involved…
They began waking up within the hour. All seemed okay but were left with a massive headache that Elladan complained was too much like the hangover without the fun. Glorfindel was just relieved they were recovering.
The morning past slowly, all recovering at different rates depending on how much of the drug they had consumed. Glorfindel felt a little smug that he was not the only one to have been duped into imbibing something that did not wish to….
Every one of them was a little wary of eating at the noon day meal, but the head cook sent a junior cook with orders not to let any one near the food on the way, word had spread through the Last Homely House of what had happened. It was just as they were finishing that Legolas had a small fit. It was no where near as powerful or as long as the previous seizures had been. Once he was settled again, Elrond and Estel changed his dressings all were eager to see how the antidote was working.
The wounds were much better. The thigh wound did not smell or have as much puss in it as it had previously and the colour was almost back to a normal red, even if it was dark. Elrond was pleased, things were definitely picking up….
Sometime later, he and Glorfindel were talking quietly in a corner, the twins and Haldir were dozing in the chair, still trying to clear up their left over headaches, and all of them had been reluctant to take any herbs without knowing what had been given to them.
They were alerted that something was different when Estel broke off from reading to Legolas. He had been reading one of Legolas' favourite tales. His quiet:
"Legolas?" Was followed by a more forceful. "Legolas?!"
Elrond moved to the pallet to find those blue eyes wide open….
To be continued….
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