Chapter 7

.....Flashback.....

Estel sighed as he made his way towards the edge of the forest, though he did enjoy his classes with Erestor they were horrible when the elf was annoyed with something. He was most definately annoyed today, therefore, he didn't want to be in the way.

The 17-year-old frowned when he heard a slight moan come from nearby. His curiosity spiked, he turned to find what was making the noise. His eyes widened when he found a family of five elves, all of them looking terribly sick.

"Aye! Come!" he immediately knew they needed help, "we must get back, can you stand?"

The two adults stood slowly, the three younger ones were unconscious, one of their parents lifted their daughter, and the other lifted their youngest. Without a word Estel careful pulled the other into his arms and turned back towards home.

The five elves had been unconscious for days before they woke up. The two adults, whose names turned out to be Eliniell and Silithnen, Elrond had recognized them. The three younger ones he found were Nenimrath, Rhossnaur and Silür.

Estel had not found out who they were though, for he had a lesson to attend to. The first thing he did when he finished his lesson was head straight for the healing ward and meet with the elves.

When he reached their room he quickly found that only one of the elves were awake, the one he had ended up carrying back. The elf glanced over when he heard the human in the doorway and cocked his head to the side slightly.

Estel shifted slightly, "Do you mind if I come in?" he was quite unsure of his place here but his curiosity overwhelmed the feeling.

The elfling shook his head and smiled.

Estel had already heard that they could not speak because of the effects of the herbs and the poison together, "If I start bothering you just tell me," he grinned, "I've been told I can be annoying."

The young elf grinned and shook his head.

"My brothers tell me they're going to teach you sign language..." he said slowly.

The elf nodded.

"Do you mind if I sat in on some of your lessons? It seems interesting... and I wouldn't mind knowing it... he shrugged, "I get the feeling it's going to come in handy one day."

The elf simply smiled. After a moment he frowned slightly and glanced over to the small table and pointed at the paper, pen and ink that sat on it.

The young human quickly got the message and handed them to the elf, he held the ink for him so it wouldn't spill and watched as he quickly scribbled something onto the parchment.

The elf glanced up at the human and cocked his head to the side in question.

Estel smiled at the question he'd written out, "My brothers are Elladan and Elrohir... I live here."

The elf's eyes suddenly grew and he hastily scribbled out the humans name in the form of a question.

Estel frowned and nodded, "Aye... how did you know?" he blinked at the elf.

Silür quickly turned back to the paper, 'We met when you were a child! 15 years ago.'

Estel frowned slightly and thought for a moment before his eyes grew as well. He nearly fell off the bed when he heard his brothers start laughing behind him.

"Ai Estel! You looked about ready to fall over!" Elrohir grinned.

"No thanks to you!" the human shot back, hiding his smile.

"Oh yes, always you blame us," Elladan smirked.

"Because it's usually your fault."

"You are such a brat," Elladan laughed, "Oh, and by the way, Erestor is looking for you."

"Uh oh..."

"Why uh oh?" Elladan froze, "ai... what did you do to that poor elf this time?"

"Nothing! You put ice in his bed last night remember?! He thinks it was me and kept giving me evil looks during my lessons..." Estel shuddered, "the only looks worse than his are ada's and Glor's."

"Trust me little brother," Elrohir put in with an amused look, "we know."

The two of them just grinned, "Shall we tell him you're here?"

"If you do I'll be able to tell him all the sooner who really did it. Who's he going to believe? Me, or the ones who have been pulling things on him all week?"

They glanced at each other.

"I told you we've been overdoing it," Elrohir nodded.

"Oh be quiet."

The two fled the room.

Estel snickered.

The young elf grinned, 'You've changed much.'

Estel grinned, "And you very little."

Silür stuck his tongue out at him.

Estel froze when he heard footsteps just outside the door, "Ai, 't is Erestor."

The elf was knocking on the door.

Estel winced, knowing full well the elf had heard him, "I've already told him it was the twins, he doesn't believe me... they aren't usually brave enough to go into his room," the human grinned, "if you need me try this," he held his hands up to his mouth and made a bird call, knowing this certain one didn't need you to use any sound, "you just blow."

The elf tried it in amusment a couple times before successfully making the sound.

Estel grinned, "I'll be back later," with that he jumped out the window and turned to the gardens.

.....End Flashback.....

Elladan groaned slightly, "Never teach a mute elfling how to make noise.

Aragorn grinned wickedly.

Elrond shook his head, "If you're going to start what I think you are, please wait until I'm out of earshot."

Aragorn smiled innocently at his father.

"I'm not falling for that again..."

Aragorn grinned, 'Sad... it worked so well last time. I think you were bordering on insanity.'

Elrond gave his son a withering glare.

Legolas looked confused, "I know I'm missing something here."

Aragorn just grinned at his friend and turned to the twins in amusement, 'It may not work on ada... but what do you say we try Legolas this time?'

The twins grinned.

Elrond groaned, "I'll come back when you're finished," he left the room shaking his head.

For the next two days the three brothers spent their time using that same bird call... Legolas was able to stand it for only one of those 42 hours... it wasn't pretty.

A month later found Aragorn leaning against a tree by a small, clean pond, watching his brothers try to push each other into it. He shook his head in amusement, knowing it wouldn't be too much longer before the two pulled each other in. He edged a bit closer and listened to them, being quite tempted to just walk over and shove them both in and be done with it.

Elladan finally got a good grip on his brothers arms and shoved him off the rock they were standing on.

Elrohir grabbed his brothers arms and dragged him off with him.

Legolas rolled his eyes in amusement, looking over the edge of the rock, "You two are going to kill each other one of these days."

Teralin looked highly amused.

Aragorn grinned, watching his friend lean over the edge of the rock, he knew he couldn't sneak up on him so instead he simply ran straight up to him and shoved him off the edge.

Legolas surfaced, sputtering, "ESTEL!"

The man smiled at him and cocked his head to the side.

The elf glared at him and made his way out of the water to join the twins in ringing out his clothes as best he could, "What was that for?!"

'It was just too tempting my friend,' he smirked.

Legolas scowled, he and Teralin had decided to take a few lessons from Elrond and the twins in sign language. Though they didn't really trust the twins to tell them the truth so they made sure with Elrond after the first incident where the twins decided to tell them that the sign 'friend' had actually meant... something slightly less friendly. Aragorn was confused when his friend had flung a handful of mud at him every time he used that particular word to say the least. The two men and the elven prince were now secretly plotting against the two. Teralin had to admit that this was a nice change from his usual duties, and that his friend seemed so much more happy with the elves than he did in Gondor.

Aragorn grinned at his friend and edged away from the elf.

Legoals growled good-naturedly before leaping at his friend and shoving him backwards into the pond, being dragged back into it as well by his friend.

Aragorn resurfaced only a moment after the elf and immediately took a deep breath before the elf shoved him under again and swam to the edge before making his way back out of the water. He stuck his tongue out at the elf, grinned and threw a handful of muck at him.

Legolas yelped, dropped to the ground instinctively... and ended up in a puddle of the muck.

'Good move Legolas,' the man snickered silently.

"Oh be quiet you dirty human," he grumbled.

'Ah! But I'm not the dirty one this time... you are! I'm just wet.'

Legolas just glared at him.

A/N

Elven Kitten: There! :D So happy! I got some done! Unfortunetly I'm now a little behind as well! lol, I'm gonna be writing AAAAAAAAAALL night! :P

sielge- Glad you like it! Hope it lived up to your expectations! :)

DISCOMBOBULATEDCHEEZE- lol, having fun? :P YAY COOKIE! stashes dem lol :P caffein is fun... never be sorry for caffein... lol :P Thanks 4 yer review! It made me laugh lol. And yes, I do like hurting Aragorn... it's fun innocent smile

grumpy- Nope! It wont be that easy for him! lol, and Silur showed up in my last story, 't was Aragorn's only real childhood friend. Hope u enjoyed! :)

marbienl- Hey yeah! Really? OO... kewl... know what... that would be fun to write! :D Is already coming up with ideas! lol OH! Or the other way around!! lol! Now that could be amusing... :P And glad you like the chapter! :)

Elf Side: Well! That was fun... we ended up sitting here trying to think of something to do there... hit a very tiny block, but it is gone now, so no excuses for us.

E.K.: SHHH!!!! Don't tell them that!!! I need that excuse!!!!!! OO

E.S.: ...

Gollum Side: I jussst comesss back, precioussss, and I isssh already borededssss...

E.K.: Oh shush...

G.S.: NEBERSSSS!

E.K.: Erm... okay... don't then. But then I'll have to put you in the WELL!!!!! With the talking bread! I was seriously hoping that thing would have shut up by now...

Bread: I WILL NEVER SHUT UP!!!!!!!! NEVER DO YOU HEAR ME???? NEVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

E.K.: Whoa-kay then... can you say slightly over-dramatic? -.-

B.: ... be nice... it's my first try... cries

E.S.: Ooooooookay then... this is getting weird already...

E.K.: :D Hope you all enjoyed this chapter! Namarie! :)

Elenmeoi