The two Mirkwood siblings were rolling around on the floor, their fists flying at each other. Legolas, angry as he was, was being mindful not to hit his sister in the abdomen area. Even though he was still slightly upset over the fact that she was carrying Elladan's child, he knew that hitting her there would be the same as her hitting him below the belt.

Soon, the rolling stopped and Legolas had his sister pinned to the ground and she was struggling underneath him. She was wondering how he was ignoring the pain in his ribs and his other injuries.

"Legolas, why can't you understand?" Nanaylia asked him as she tried to get out from underneath him.

"I already understand! You and Elladan were plotting against Elrohir and myself! I suppose the two of you thought of that truce during one of your conversations back in Mirkwood," Legolas replied as he held down his sister's arms.

Her legs were continuing to thrash about but Legolas soon moved into such a position above her that she could not hit him in any manner. She didn't know how much pain her brother was in from his injuries but she figured it was a lot from his ribs and other injuries.

"We talked about it yes, but it is not what you think! We talked about occuring for only a short time! Not permanantly! I don't want to act any differently because they never win!" Nanaylia cried out.

"I don't know if I can trust you anymore. First, you want a truce with the twins, then you don't bother to tell me about the child you're carrying! And it is Elladan's child on top of that!" Legolas angrily told her, continuing to ignore the immense pain he was in.

"I would have told you sooner if you hadn't left! Now let me go!" Nanaylia cried out at him. "What has gotten into you?"

"Nothing has gotten into me. If anything is the matter with me, I feel betrayed by my own sister," Legolas replied as he grasped both of her wrists with his one hand.

She still wriggled underneath him. She watched as he lifted his hand again and punched her in the face.

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Haldir and Aragorn were walking out in the hallway, talking to each other. The man was worried about his Elven friends

"So she saved your life? How?" Aragorn wanted to know, hoping that Haldir wouldn't mind talking about it.

"I was taken captive by Banside and several other gargoyles. Narcissis arrived at the camp and subsequently managed to get me out of there. But not before I was severely injured. So was she. Banside somehow knew that Narcissis had changed and turned away from them," explained Haldir as he glanced down the hall.

Aragorn sighed as he remembered whathappened the last time those three gargoyles were together.

'Haldir,' Galadriel's voice suddenly filled the elf's head. 'Go to Nanaylia's room! There is great turmoil within them! Go to them before someone gets hurts! I fear that they will turn on each other and something will happen.'

"Oh no," Haldir said before he turned and hurried down the halls towards the younger elf's room.

Aragorn watched him leave down the hall, wondering what was going on.

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Haldir hurried up to the door and listened in for a moment. He heard nothing at first but quiet voices talking to each other. He gasped as he listened in on the conversation. The voices soon escalated into a full scale argument. Soon after that, he was hearing something which sounded like punches connecting with skin and other noises sounding like bodies connecting with the floor.

He quickly opened the door to reveal Legolas hovering over his sister, whom he was still pinning against the floor.

"Legolas!" she cried out, still trying to get her brother off of her.

Haldir hurried over to them and pulled Legolas off of his sister. The brother was obviously angry as Haldir pulled him away from his sister.

"What is this all about?" Haldir demanded as he shoved Legolas against the door and held him there though being mindful of the elf's injuries.

"I cannot trust my sister. She does not tell me things that I need to know," replied Legolas as he gave his sister a glare.

Nanaylia never looked over at the two as she knelt on the ground, away from them. One hand was holding herself up as the other was up to her neck as she gasped for air.

"Nanaylia, are you alright?" Haldir asked her, not even turning around.

"I will be fine," she barely managed to say.

"No, you are not fine. Get yourself to one of the healers," Haldir replied.

She nodded as Haldir moved Legolas from the door and backed him up against a nearby wall. She looked at them as she stumbled out of the room. Haldir carefully watched her before returning his gaze to Legolas.

"Now Legolas, I still would like to know why you were beating up your sister," Haldir angrily told him.

"How can I know you will tell the truth? How do I know she hasn't told you yet?" Legolas demanded, his eyes staring out into space.

"Wha...? What would I know? Something about your sister? Besides finding out what your sister looks like as a gargoyle, I know nothing. She has not told me anything besides that," Haldir replied in a disbelieving voice.

"You mean you don't know anything about her being with Elladan's child?" Legolas retorted.

Haldir paled slightly at the news. His gripped slightly loosened on the Mirkwood elf.

"She is with Elladan's child?" Haldir wanted to confirm.

"Yes, she is so. I am surprised you haven't known before," Legolas said, still struggling.

Legolas managed to free himself from Haldir's grasp.

"So because your sister is having a child with the man she loves, you're turning against her? I don't believe you. I thought you were more accepting than that. I thought you would have been happy that you're going to be an uncle. I know the twins fairly well because my lord and lady are their grandparents. I can imagine how estactic Elladan is because he is going to be a father. He confided in me a long time ago about possibly having children someday. He told me about how happy he would be the day his child came into this world. Elrohir would also be happy: for both his brother and the fact he would have a niece or nephew to call his own," Haldir replied. "After all your sister went through, she deserves to have some happiness in her life. I think all she wants is for her family to be happy as well."

Legolas couldn't help but stare at the elf standing before him.

"What have I done?" Legolas asked as he leaned against the wall.

He slid down it, unable to stand on his own two feet anymore and unable to hide the terrble pain he was feeling. Haldir hurried over to his side and placed a comforting hand on the Mirkwood elf's arm. Legolas shook his head slightly before staring at Haldir with a confused look on his face.

"What are you doing here Haldir?" asked a slightly confused Legolas.

It was then that Haldir became confused as well. How come the elf didn't remember him being there?

"What do you mean by that?" wondered Haldir. "I've been in here for the past several minutes, talking to you."

Haldir knew that a bit of a lie since he was trying to knock some sense into the elf.

Legolas placed a hand on his face as he looked around the room to see various things scattered around it... and his sister was nowhere to be seen.

"Where's Nanaylia? What has happened to her?" Legolas demanded to know as he began to try and climb to his feet.

Yet Haldir kept him sitting in the position he was in and sternly looked at the younger elf.

"You honestly do not remember what happened in here?" Haldir wanted to make certain. "What is the last thing you remember?"

Legolas shook his head and Haldir could see the sincerity, and confusion, in the elf's eyes.

"Well, I remember talking to Aragorn not too long ago. You arrived and told me that my sister requested to see me. I came here and walked inside to see her by the bed. Soon after that, it begins to blur. The next thing I remember clearly is seeing you here next to me, the room like this," Leolas explained, his eyes gesturing to the room. "Where is she? What has happened to her?"

Hadir sighed, knowing he would have to find out what he had done sooner or later. For a moment, he pondered his answer.

"The same place I'm going to be taking you right now: the healers," Haldir replied. "I can't even start to imagine the pain you're in right now."

He received a very shocked and worried look from Legolas as he helped the elf to his feet. Haldir began to help him down the hall to where the healers were.

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Nanaylia stumbled down the hallway, looking for someone to help her. She glanced down to see that Aragorn was hurrying down the hall, towards her. He must have seen her, she figured. She stopped and had to lean against the wall, sliding down it, causing Aragorn to run even faster towards her.

"Nanaylia? What happened?" he asked her as soon as he got closer to her.

He looked over her and saw that bruises were beginning to appear on her face and arms.

"Who did this to you?" demanded Aragorn.

"You would not believe even if I told you many times," Nanaylia told him in a quiet voice.

"How can you be so certain about that?" wondered Aragorn as he began to help her back onto her feet.

As soon as she was and they were heading down towards the healers, she looked at him with a sigh.

"Because it was Legolas that did this to me," she replied.

That caused Aragorn to put on a look of shock as they came to a door. After a knock, they heard a 'come in' and he helped her inside. An elf hurried over to them and both he and Aragorn helped Nanaylia into a chair.

"We can take over from here," the elf told Aragorn.

The man nodded before heading out the door. He was very confused with what Nanaylia had told him.

'I have have known Legolas for some time now and Nanaylia for fifteen years. All the time I have been around them, he has always cared about his sister. He would never even think to harm her in the slightest,' Aragorn thought to himself. 'What is going on here? Ever since the mines, he hasn't been himself. He's been obsessing over the fact his sister followed him. He continues to say she should not have followed us. Why?'

He figured he wouldn't be getting an answer from Legolas for some time but he soon heard someone else coming down the hallway. He turned around to see Haldir helping an obviously confused Legolas down the hall. The Mirkwood elf had a hand up to his face and the look on his face had great worry as well as confusion.

"What happened?" Aragorn wanted to know.

"I will explain after a time," was Haldir said before heading into the room.

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Haldir walked out of the room moments later to find Aragorn still waiting for him. The man's arms were crossed and he obviously wanted some answers.

"What happened between them? I have never known them to fight," Aragorn wanted to know.

"At least no serious 'fights'. They've had their minor quarrels in the past before but I have never known them to get into a fist fight before or any other physical confrontation," Haldir explained. "I cannot explain it but something has happened to Legolas. I won't know until the elves in there finish with what they are doing."

"So what did you come upon in her room?" Aragorn asked as they continued to wait outside the room.

"They were arguing, apparently over Nanaylia following them or something like that. Then the fists began to fly. When I opened the door, Nanaylia was on the ground, being pinned down by her brother. She couldn't escape," Haldir explained. "What happened after that, disturbs me greatly still and probably will for a while."

Aragorn became worried at that last statement. He gulped once before deciding to open his mouth again.

"What happened after you intervened?" Aragorn finally managed to say.

"In short, he doesn't remember what he did after he found his sister on the floor next to the bed. He doesn't remember the ensuing argument or the subsuquent fight with his sister, something which he very worried about. He knows he doesn't literally fight with his sister in any condition. He would never think of hitting his sister. Never in his lifetime or hers," Haldir explained. "Something is wrong with him and I want to know what it is."

Aragorn nodded as he stared at the door which Legolas and Nanaylia were both behind. He wondered how this was going to change their relationship, if at all.

'What is going on here?' Aragorn wondered as he continued to stare at the door. 'I wonder if they can find what is the matter with him?'

TBC...