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Extremely Unexpected Circumstances

Skeptical she turned around to tell him to let go in an intimidating voice but couldn't as his lips were pressed against hers before she could. The kiss was brief but not without passion and lasted only a second. He drew back and watched her reaction with growing amusement.

She stood there dumbfounded for several moments, then lifted a finger and opened her mouth as if to say something but closed it again when the words didn't come. Finally all she could manage was "I…um…you…er…wha…uh…" she stammered swaying on the spot slightly. Her expressions changed frequently as if not sure what to do. Her mind was very much the same, buzzing with questions and unbelievable confusion. It was not every day that your best friend kissed you and it was certainly the last thing she had wanted at the moment.

He laughed again and walked away into the darkness towards camp leaving her still at a loss of words and mind turned temporary to mush by this stunning act. After a while of thinking on the spot she lowered her finger and sat down on the fallen tree, this time a lot more cheerful then the last.

She laughed at herself, and at him, and at the whole situation. It had not been what she wanted, although it wasn't as though she regretted it. All in all, the whole thing had been strange. That was the only word to sum it up strange.

Tired and cold she decided to go back to camp and see who was still awake this late after dark. Legolas and Aragorn no doubt. For all the time she had known Legolas she had never seen him on a date or dealing with women in a romantic sense. Therefor she didn't know whether he would be shy, blushing and reserved but willing to talk or whether he would be ostentatious, telling Aragorn and the others, silly and giving her that strange look that stupid guys get and winking all the time which was just plain strange. Or maybe he would be up front and blunt about it and take her off to the side to talk about it quietly, perhaps he would just deny anything she accused or asked him of and be rude.

While traveling trying in vain to follow the thin path through the forest she went off track and tripped over an upturned root sending her flying to the ground to land flat on her face.

"Gotcha! We totally got you! We knew you would come this way instead of the path, didn't we?" Pippin's voice rang out from the dark veil of trees. He stepped out from behind a tree; his foot still outstretched and a little bruised where Aradel had tripped. The mischievous Hobbit was now doubled over with laughter.

"Indeed we did, Pip." Merry replied smugly also doubled over clutching his ribs fearing they would split open from all his hearty laughter.

They grins were quickly wiped off of their faces when she didn't get up but just remained on the ground propped up on her shoulders a hand somewhere on her face. Of course it was pitch black so all they could see was her lying on the ground.

"Aradel? Why are you lying on the ground like that? Please get up." Pippin pleaded nervously stepping beside her and nudging her gently in the side with his boot.

Slowly and wearily she pushed herself up with a scraped palm, the other still on her face. The slightly swaying woman took her hand off her face and wiped it on the loose material of her pants. Pippin and Merry gasped in union as their eyes saw what was on her face even through the blackness.

Gimli had gone to sleep already and Merry and Pippin had gone off to play some trick on Aradel, which left Legolas and Aragorn sitting on opposite sides of the fire.

"Legolas?" Aragorn addressed him curtly. The elf continued to stare into the fire and seemingly ignored him. He repeated himself but still no reply or reaction of any kind for that matter.

"Legolas!" he half yelled into Legolas' sensitive ears. He jumped five feet in the air and brought his hand up to clutch his heart as though fearing it would leap out of his chest if he didn't.

"Don't do that! I'm going to kill you if you do that once more, you know how sensitive my ears are!" he scolded Aragorn angrily. He took a deep breath and started to calm down oblivious to Aragorn holding a hand over his face to hide his laughing.

"Alright, sorry but you were not listening. I had to do something to get your attention." He smiled kindly and went to join him at the other side of the blazing fire. "You seem preoccupied, mellon nin. What's on your mind?"

"I'm not even sure. I guess its Aradel; I've never seen her so upset. She acts fine but I know she's just crying or something inside. We've been friends for so long you just know these things." He replied sadly gazing absent-mindedly into the fire again.

"Why don't you talk to her about it. I see the way you look at her sometimes. That's how I used to look at Arwen when I first started dating her." He said gently, half-teasing half-completely serious. More on the serious side though.

Legolas shuddered in slight disgust then turned his stare to Aragorn grubby face and stared indignantly "I don't look at her any differently then I look at you or Gimli or Pippin or anyone else in the fellowship."

The ranger blinked and shot him a disturbed look "Well I hope to all the Valar that I am misinterpreting that look then because if I'm not then we're all in for a big surprise. And not a happy one."

A/N: Well that was very unexpected. Ahem. Just to let you know that kiss was out of spite not whatever feelings or Legomance you think is coming up. It's not. Believe me i have 125 pages of this thing already written(in fourteen font) so trust me. I think he just wanted to scare her and that was the only, ONLY way he was going to do it. So that's straightened out. Ahem. Short one but still, tell me what you think. Nehoo, bye-bye!:D