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It was with a high head and a blank face that Legolas entered the Great Hall hand firmly held by Aragorn's.

"You look good enough to eat." Was Aragorn's whispered comment as they moved further into the room. How Legolas stopped the laughter that wanted to bubble out of him he would never know. As it was he just shared a look of utter love with the Man beside him.

While they had been in their chamber the room had been cleaned and the last three tiers of the cake were sat on a silver platter in the middle of the table. Legolas had to admit if he had not worn some of the cake he would never have believed there had been any problem. The chef stood to one side, clean once again and they shared a wry smile as the festivities began once more.

This time everything went off with out a hitch and towards the end of the evening Legolas found him self really relaxing. He was sharing a joke with Gimli when he felt Aragorn moving to stand beside him. "Here you are, Melleth, every one has had a piece apart from you. So I brought some over before they took the remnants away."

Legolas forced himself to smile brightly as he winced at the amount of cake on the platter covered with rich cream. There was no way he could eat all of that.

Some Legolas managed to force himself to eat a few forkfuls before he moved away to speak to other parties. No one noticed when he sat down and began to mash and mix the cake and chocolate without any of it making its way to his mouth. Before too long not much was left on the plate to say he had not eaten it and as he laid the plate to one side he noticed Aragorn's approving smile, it made him feel slightly guilty.

It was late when they finally settled into bed, content despite the cake incidence. The twins had settled with no problems, seemingly worn out by all the fuss they had received. Legolas lay content in Aragorn's arm, happy as his husband nuzzled his neck causing him to shiver in delight.

"Sleep, Melleth-nin, you are tired. I am here." Aragorn watched as Legolas' eyes closed and he swiftly settled to sleep Aragorn kissed him once more before closing his own eyes and joining Legolas in sleep.

It was some time just after the night watch had called one o'clock that Laireloth began crying. A sluggish Legolas managed to drag him self from the warmth of the bed and staggered to the crib side. He delicately wrinkled his nose at the state of her clout, obviously Sam had thought it a good idea to give his daughter some cake, not realising just how rich it was, too rich for a baby. It took him quite some time to settle her back down, he shot daggers at Aragorn who had just grunted and rolled over.

Finally just as the bell rang for three o'clock, Legolas sat on the side of the bed. He had jus pulled up the covers when Estalado began crying. This time Aragorn did not even stir and with a sigh Legolas climbed out of bed once more.

When the servant came to draw the curtains just after dawn Legolas had not been back to bed, every time he tried one of the twins would cry. He exchanged an exhausted smile with her.

He was just laying Laireloth back into the crib when Aragorn woke with a stretch. "Good morning." The greeting was bright and Aragorn was answered with a tired scowl.

"Did you sleep?" The smile left Aragorn's face to be replaced by a frown.

"No, neither of them would settle long enough, I promise you that if Sam ever feeds them chocolate again, I will feed him their clouts."

Aragorn winced at the tone of Legolas' voice, it promised dire retribution. "Go back to bed, I'll take care of the twins until breakfast, I will get you up then."

His answer was a sleepy. "Thank you" as Legolas sloped off to bed.

Estalado crying woke Legolas up a little while later and he looked around in confusion. Apart from the Twins only Legolas was in the room. Looking out of the French windows he realised the morning was still very early. It took minutes for him to realise that Aragorn was not anywhere in the chambers.

He had changed and fed him by the time the door opened and a harassed Aragorn rushed into the room. He stopped a guilty look on his face. "I am sorry, Legolas, there was…"

"Forget it Aragorn, I do not want to know." Legolas turned away cradling their son.

"But, Legolas, I tried to get…"

"Aragorn, I do not want to talk about this now."

"Alright, why do I not go and sort out some food for us." Aragorn was puzzled at his husband's reactions.

"If you must." Legolas' back was now to him. He said no more and left the room.

When he returned Legolas was feeding Laireloth. The maid set the food down on the table and left. Legolas ignored him.

"I brought you some of your favourites." Aragorn plied a platter with fruit and placed it next to Legolas.

"I am not hungry, thank you." Legolas was just too tired to really be bothered.

"Legolas, you need to eat…."

"I also need to get some sleep but that is not happening either." Legolas saw the worried frown on his husbands face. "I will eat later, I promise. You need to get ready for the morning in court. I will be fine here, I promise."

Aragorn looked rather dubious when he heard those words from his husband, he knew from past experience that when the elf said he was fine he was in fact far from it, and taking Legolas far to pale face and the dark rings under his eyes he had a feeling he was right.

"Honestly, Aragorn, I have nothing to do today, the three of us can just relax. I will be here at mid day when you take your break." Legolas gave a bright smile he really did not feel like giving and sighed with relief when Aragorn seemed to accept it. When Aragorn left to hold Court an hour later he gave a sigh of relief and pushed the plate of food away. Time to 'being' today.

The morning was long and boring for Aragorn, after the excitement of the early morning messenger arriving with an urgent message, nothing more seemed to have happened apart from paper work after tedious paper work. All Aragorn really wanted was to go and make certain Legolas really was alright.

Mid way through the morning, he spoke quietly with Faramir and then left the chamber. His feet were heading in the opposite direction of where he really wanted to go, but he needed some advice first.

Opening the chamber door he found his foster father talking with his brothers. Upon seeing Aragorn, the two rose and met him.

"Estel, we want to apologise for yesterday. It was only meant to be a little joke, it went a little too far though." Elladan looked sincere.

"I will not pretend I was not angry and I thank you for the apology, but it is not me you should really be apologising to. It should be Legolas, he worked so hard to make yesterday special and I am afraid you ruined it for him in one go." Aragorn ran his hands through his hair.

"We will go and apologise and take the others with us. We will also try and make it up to Legolas, in some way." Elrohir turned to his Adar. "We will see you later, Ada."

The two left the room.

Elrond took in Aragorn's worried stance. "Is there something wrong, Aragorn? Come sit down."

"I do not really know, Ada, I am worried about Legolas. He just seems so…. Tired and upset all the time. I can not seem to do any thing right."

"Give him time, Aragorn, this is all new to him, he is still adjusting to being a new mother. It all takes time to get used to. I remember when the twins were born. I did not think things would ever return to normal, but it did. He will find a routine and the twins will settle into it. Just support him. Tell him how good he looks maybe surprise him."

"Thank you, Ada, I will. I am seeing him for the midday meal. We can talk then."

"You are welcome, Ion-nin."

Aragorn passed the twins as they walked back to the chamber, to his surprise Elladan was covered in chocolate. He could not help but laugh.

"What happened to you?"

"Legolas. You could have warned us he was that upset with us. How were we to know he was talking to the chef about the remnants of the cake." Elladan was upset.

"Legolas was not sure we were all really sincere with our apology and made good use of some of the cake." Elrohir could not help but laugh to.

"It is not funny, 'Ro!" Elladan sounded outraged at his brother's comment.

"Oh, but it was, 'Dan, your face was such a picture!"

"Tell me, did Legolas decide what to do with the cake?" Aragorn was a bit worried about going back to their chamber if Legolas was still in such a volatile mood.

"Yes, it is going to go to the children of the Citadel. Legolas asked the cook to make another one so that they will all get some. Why?" Elrohir sounded just a little suspicious.

"Let me just say it would not do for the King to be seen wearing cake." With that Aragorn left them to it.

When he gingerly opened the chamber door later he was relieved that all seemed to be peaceful.

"Legolas, where are you?"

"We are on the balcony."

Aragorn crossed the floor and made his way through the French windows. Legolas sat in the sun, the twins asleep on one side. He turned and gave Aragorn a bright smile.

"Aragorn, I wanted to apologise for this morning, I should not have taken my tiredness out on you. Forgive me?" He stood and crossed to Aragorn's side.

"There is nothing to forgive, Legolas. I promised to look after the twins while you slept and I let you down."

"Let us just forget it, Aragorn." Legolas snaked his hands around his husband's waist and pulled him into a deep kiss.

When they broke away a while later, they were both breathless. Aragorn led Legolas over to the chairs once more.

"I must congratulate your aim, once again. I came across Elladan in the corridors earlier." To his relief, Legolas laughed.

"You should have seen the looks on all of their faces! Even the Chef laughed. He congratulated me on being such a fine shot after they had gone, too. It felt good to get back at them." He gave a sigh content to be in Aragorn's arms. "Are you hungry? Should I get the kitchen to send you…." He was stopped by another kiss.

"Later. For know I need a different kind of feeding."

All that could be heard a while later was a happy giggle, followed by a contented sigh.

To be continued.

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Knight Kenobi of Eryn LasgalenJust could not resist writing about chocolate covered Legolas.

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MoroTheWolfGod Short and sweet and keep it coming.

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Triptych He notices but he thinks that it is usual he ahs properly never dealt with a male pregnancy.

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