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Aragorn Tells a Tale

The group at the table sat in silence eating with their eyes on their plates as the King also left the room though not half as loudly. Galadriel also stood up. "I am so sorry, if you'll excuse me." She said softly as she too quietly left the room. Aragorn and Legolas exchanged glances.

Legolas nudged him. "Shouldn't you go and find her. Try and talk to her."

He looked as though the very idea were ludicrous. "Why should I? You know her much better then I do."

Legolas considered this but then replied. "True but she said your name. That one word makes this entire thing you business, therefore you have leverage for her to tell you everything."

"And if she doesn't?" he asked skeptically. Legolas gave him a look as though to say 'are you kidding me?'

Sighing Aragorn got up and left the room as a conversation finally started between Gimli and Boramir. He wondered the halls for almost ten minutes before he found Aradel pacing in the gardens. He walked up behind her quiet enough to be respectful but loud enough so that he wouldn't scare her.

She spotted him, stopped pacing, and sat down on a stone bench eyes strait on him approaching cautiously. "Do you want to talk about it?" he asked taking a seat beside her.

"No." she replied bluntly. He paused then said. "I think you should. It's always better to talk about things. That way when the problem's solved you have someone to look back on it with and laugh."

She chuckled then sighed. "Would you talk to me about something that you have never told anyone in the whole of Middle-Earth, not even so much as a rock. Something that you would die to keep secret. I would rather die then tell a soul." She said standing up and pacing again.

He stood up as well. "If I told you something I've kept secret then would you reveal, at least the part concerning me?" he asked inquisitively raising an eyebrow.

Aradel considered this for a moment. "Fine but just the part concerning you. Nothing more."

Aragorn sighed and got ready to reveal the biggest secret of his life. "Once I was in a bar having a pint and I look over to the corner and, from behind I see this beautiful woman. I can only see the back of her head but I can tell she's beautiful. Long, shiny black hair, flowing elegantly down a shapely back. I contemplate going over to talk to her, mind you I'm half way drunk. Eventually I get the courage to go up to her so I do and I say 'Excuse me miss?' She turns around and it turns out it wasn't exactly a miss."

Aradel raised an eyebrow. "You mean she was married. A Mrs.?"

Aragorn sighed. "No, no. I think it would have been a better situation if she had been. It turns out his name was Bill and he beat me up out back that very night. He caught me off guard and out numbered me by three."

Aradel burst out laughing. She held her side because it felt like it was going to spilt open and she pointed at Aragorn who was looking quite embarrassed by now. "You hit on a man! A ha ha ha! You … he…A ha ha ha!" she managed to say between fits of sidesplitting laughter.

"Yes, yes very funny." Aragorn tried to stop her laughing but he was at no prevail. She did eventually stop laughing and she straitened up, looking him strait in the eye.

"All right that story's worth mine." She sniggered a little bit. "So here's the deal. My father died Celeborn adopted me. He's been trying to get me to get married for the longest time imaginable and now he's gone and found me a husband. An arranged marriage kind of thing but for me? No thank you. So the only way to get him off my back is to tell him I'm already married." She concluded.

Aragorn looked slightly confused. "What does that have to do with me?" Aradel looked at him as if to say 'Are you kidding me, if you haven't figured it out by now then you don't deserve to know'

"Oh…" he said realization dawning on his face. "Why me, I'm engaged?"

"Well Legolas is only a prince and Thranduil's got a lot more years ahead of him. Your very close to being King so I thought that the more power the better but he's still not happy because he tells me he still thinks your just a ranger which is completely not true. He may be a jerk but he's not stupid. And because he knows of you and Arwen." She replied.

"What was the language you two were speaking in? It sounded like Elvish but it wasn't," he asked curiously.

"I don't have a name for it but I made it up when I was little. I taught it to Celeborn and Galadriel. He didn't want anyone to know what we were fighting about." She replied dully.

They both talked about it for a few more minutes then feeling a lot better they went back inside where the whole fellowship was being seen off by Galadriel who was giving them gifts to help them along the way. Legolas had been given a brand new bow, the Hobbits new swords, and Gimli had bashfully requested a strand of her golden hair. Aradel had requested that she be given nothing. Everyone else was quite confused by this but got over it and continued admiring their gifts.

Haldir saw them to the edge of the forest. They were given three complimentary paddleboats, which they took and paddled, down the river that ran through Lothlorien and past the Argonath. The two enormous statues put them all speechless with awe. They paddled to the foot of Amon Hen, the Hill of sight. They stopped and set up camp on the beach of Parth Galen. There was a line of dirt, the grass, and then thick forest turning brown in the Fall with many leaves falling. Everything was covered with fallen leaves, crunching under their feet with each step. It gave the place a nice rural kind of look but it felt nothing more then a place to sleep and eat before returning to their dreary journey.

A/N: The Aragorn/Bill story was inspired by my friend Alysha and her antics while watching ROTK and is not meant to be in any way offensive to Aragorn fans. It was just one of those random things i have to write because i'm a very random person. I tend to do that you know. And now on to reviewer responses(that's right i finally got some!)

flaming-amber: Lol, I don't think I even know what going on yet. I don't know if the 'Leggomance' is ever going to hit in but if it does it won't be for a very, very long time. :D

Lucky: Glad you liked it, I'll update as soon as i can!:D