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Vicious Relations

Aradel made her way back to the room where they were all sleep in a much better mood. She looked forward to climbing into bed and letting herself fall asleep for the first time in almost three days.

But instead of finding a warm bed she found Legolas standing in front of her warm bed, with his hands on his hips, and a look of mock motherly concern on his face. "So what is this about your back. You didn't tell anyone of an injury that could be seriously damaging to your health."

She smiled, and that smile turned into a smirk. "It's nothing, just a sprained muscle or something. After a good night's sleep I'll be fine and ready to kill whatever may attack me."

"I doubt it. Where does it hurt? Come on turn around, please." He asked in a doctor like tone.

Reluctantly she did as he requested and pointed to her middle-lower back. "And just what are you going to do about anything? Your not a healer, and I doubt you have ever healed anything more then a broken nail." She exclaimed grumpily.

"I'm going to ignore that because I know you're tired and because I know I will get you back later once I've fixed this. Now, just relax and try not to think about the sudden pain I'm about to put you in." he replied placing his thumbs, one slightly above the other, on two of the vertebrae of her back where she had indicated the pain was coming from.

Her head jerked up suddenly. "What? Why? What are you going to-Hey!" she cried suddenly as he shifted the vertebrae with his thumbs. She straitened up rubbing her back which now felt much better. She looked ready to kill him but her expression changed to thankfulness just to avoid an argument so she could get some sleep. "Thanks. Where did you learn that?"

"Your welcome. I know more then you think I know." He started to walk away. "I do know how to treat more then broken nails after all."

She ignored him and turned around to collapse on her bed falling asleep immediately into dreams of wondering through the forest and climbing trees.

Begin Flashback

"Why won't you tell me!" Legolas yelled at Aradel from across the room.

"Because it's none of your business and you have no right to know! There's nothing to know anyway!" she screamed back over the bed that was dividing them and probably stopping them from tackling each other.

"You are always so stuck up and secretive! Do you have to be so inhibited all the time?! It gets really old really fast!" he screamed in reply.

She threw her hands up in the air. "Yes! Yes, I do, is that what you want?! For me to just give up?! Well fine, I give up, you win! Are you happy now?!" she yelled.

"No! If you are going to get this upset every time I mention your father or family or anything then why did you mention it in the first place?!" he yelled back.

"I wouldn't have told you anything if I knew you were going to react like this! Why don't you just drop it and leave it alone! There's nothing to talk about so just go back downstairs and tell on me to your daddy!" She shrieked maliciously.

He face changed from distressed and a tiny bit angry to just complete anger in a flash. He picked up an ornament from the desk behind it and hurled it across the room with all his might. It would have hit Aradel right in the forehead, had she not ducked. It shattered into a million pieces on the wall behind her. She slowly straitened up a look of complete shock on her face. They just stood for a moment both shocked, especially Legolas, at what he had just done. Then after what seemed like eternity they both broke out laughing.

They laughed hysterically and stumbled towards each other holding their sides and collapsed on the bed that stood in the middle. Rolling on their backs they looked at each other. Aradel said, "You could have killed me." As though it were something that happened on a daily basis.

He looked amazed, "I know. I don't know what came over me, I just really hate it when people assume I'm a suck up towards my father just because I'm a prince."

A thoughtful expression dawned on Aradel's face. "I always thought you were, to be honest. I guess I was wrong. A suck up wouldn't have tried to kill me." She laughed again. "Assassination!" she yelled jokingly.

"Stop it! I didn't want to kill you. Just fatally injure you that's all." He replied.

She smirked at him, hopped off the bed and ran down the halls yelling, "Assassination! Help, Legolas is a mass murderer coming after me! Help! Assassination!"

He ran after her thanking god his father wasn't home, for he would have truly killed them. They ran about the house dodging servants and maids all day and when Thranduil did come home they were exhausted and had already fallen asleep on the floor, under the dinner table, in the dinning room. It had been a fun and exciting day.

End Flashback

When they woke up the next morning they found Haldir waiting for them just outside their bedroom. He informed them that they had been invited to a formal breakfast with the King and Queen. He led them into the royal dining quarters. As they entered the magnificently decorated hall Celeborn motioned for them to sit down. Aradel sat directly across form the King with Legolas at her left and Aragorn at her right.

"Welcome, fellowship. How was your sleep?" Galadriel asked as several servants entered with silver platters and set them down on the table. They bore sausages, eggs, bacon, toast, hashbrowns, pancakes and every other breakfast food you can think of. Pippin and Merry's mouths dropped at the site of this great feast.

Aragorn, ignoring the food for the most part, answered, "We slept wonderfully, thank you."

"Good you shall need the energy for the remainder of your journey." Celeborn replied. Aradel glared at him. Legolas looked at her with interest. Celeborn noticed her glaring and simply looked at her in disgust turning away as though he wouldn't look at her unless he were forced.

With out warning Celeborn spoke in an Elvish form not known to anyone at the table except, apparently, for him, Aradel and Galadriel.

Aradel replied in the same tongue, though anger laced her voice. They continued to speak and argue while Galadriel looked as though she had expected this but not wanted it to happen. Celeborn stood up with outrage and soon after so did Aradel. All of a sudden there was a pause where she looked back. First to her left, at Legolas, then to her right, at Aragorn.

"Aragorn" she told him. He replied in throwing his arms in the air in pure anger. Aradel said something, which definitely had an effect on Celeborn whom, stood looking stunned as she turned and stormed out of the room slamming the door behind her.

A/N: Well it seems as though Aradel and Celeborn have met before, and it wasn't happy if i do say so myself. And I do. Nehoo, bye-bye!:D