.....Chapter 8.....
Teralin chuckled softly as he watched the two, he hadn't been able to pick up on this silent language as fast as Legolas had and knew little, while the elf had studied it almost continuously for the last month, intent on learning the language so, in his words, he would know when the human was making fun of him. The Captain knew, though, that that wasn't the only reason, he could see how deep their friendship went and could tell already that they'd do anything for each other. In fact when he thought about it the twins and their father could be counted in there as well.
Legolas slung a handful of mud at his friend and hit him in the chest.
Aragorn blinked and wiped the muck off, glancing at the spot on his tunic then looking over at his mud-soaked friend and burst out in silent laughter.
"Oh quit your laughing human," Legolas grumbled, obviously amused.
'If only you could see yourself,' he grinned, 'you'd be laughing too... you look like a half drowned rat.'
Legolas slung another handful of mud at him, hitting him in the side of the head.
Aragorn jerked slightly and turned to glare at the elf, who was sitting in the middle of the puddle trying to look innocent... though as soon as he saw the mud dripping down his friends face he burst out laughing.
Aragorn rolled his eyes and waited for the elf to look at him again, 'Laugh it up elf.'
Legolas grinned, "Gladly!"
Aragorn rolled his eyes again and watched as the twins suddenly decided to copy them and pulled each other into the mud. He frowned slightly as he felt a wave of dizzyness sweep over him, he shook his head slightly but only found that to make it worse. He clenched his teeth as it only got worse and pressed his head back against the tree.
Teralin glanced over at him, looking amused at the twins' antics, until he realized the other was in pain.
"Thor are you okay?" he frowned.
Aragorn just held one hand up to stall any further comments and tried to calm himself. Unforetunetly it didn't work and he slid down the tree, one hand went to his throat as he suddenly found it hard to breathe. He forced himself to stay calm so he wouldn't suffocate.
Teralin and Legolas were the first to reach him since the twins were further though they reached his side soon after.
"Estel what's wrong?" Elladan frowned worriedly.
'Dizzy,' he gasped slightly, 'can't breathe.'
Elrohir immediately got back to his feet, "I'll go get ada."
Teralin jumped to his feet, "I'll come with you," he shot a worried glance at the ranger before going after the younger elven twin.
"Be fast!" Elladan shot after them, quickly turning back to his brother, "What happened?"
'Don't know,' he struggled slightly and his sign were becoming clumsy, "was fine moment ago, then dizzy, then no breath.'
The older twin pulled his brother against him, "Just keep calm Estel or you'll suffocate yourself."
'Know.'
Legolas was at a loss as to what to do so he sat next to him and gripped the human's hand simply to let him know he was there.
Aragorn quickly found he was able to breathe again and slumped back against his brother, breathing deeply.
The two elves breathed a sigh of relief and glanced up when they saw Elrond and Elrohir making their way towards them, Teralin a ways behind.
Elrond dropped next to his son, "What happened?"
Elrohir quickly spoke up, "We don't really know... he says he was suddenly dizzy and couldn't breathe..."
Aragorn forced a smile, 'Better.'
"Indeed," Elrond shook his head, "you've been fine since you woke up... you havn't felt anything until today?" he sent his son a stern look, clearly saying he wasn't going to appreciate the man being stubborn right now.
Aragon sighed, 'Have had slight headache.'
The elf nodded, frowning worriedly, "And this is the first time this has happened?"
Aragorn nodded.
"And you truly are fine now?"
Aragorn was about to nod before flinching and cursing inwardly as the feeling came back, 'back.'
Legolas flinched slightly, "The feeling?"
The human nodded, clenching his teeth as it flooded over him again, this time, though, it hit him twice as hard. He would have screamed, but he couldn't, instead it built up inside him until he wavered and nearly passed out. Just when he was on the brink of unconsciousness, it dissapeared. He slumped back against his brother again.
Elladan hugged him tightly, his worry shone clearly in his eyes.
Aragorn's breathing eased slowly, 'Ada...'
Elrond immediately came forward, "Aye?"
'Hurts...' he sqeezed his eyes shut, 'coming back.'
The elven lord took his hand and frowned, "We need to get him back," unbidden memories came to him and he flinched, this is what had happened to Silür and his family... in fact it was the reason his parents left for Valinor.
Aragorn flinched as his headache escalated again. This time becoming much worse than the one before. The human emmitted a slight squeak before falling unconscious.
Legolas's gaze shot over to Elrond's, not sure wheather to be hopeful or more worried that his friend had made a noise.
Elrond lifted his son swiftly but carefully, not even noticing the look Legolas had sent him, and immediately made his way towards the man's temporary room.
During the next few days the elven lord refused to leave the human's side as his condition slowly deteriorated. Everyone other than he, the twins and Legolas seemed to know he wouldn't last much longer.
Elrond would sit in silent greif and guilt, doing his best to keep the young man alive.
Galadriel didn't seem greived though, and her husband picked up on that. No one else seemed to notice though, so the thought that the human would die had spread through the Golden Wood.
Celeborn sighed and slowly entered the room. The elven lord of Imladris was hunched over, half laying on the bed. He sighed and decided to speak with him later, not wishing to wake him.
Aragorn's eyes flickered when he heard the light thud of the elven door and he moaned softly. He opened his eyes and gave a small sligh of relief when he realized the drapes were closed and it wasn't overly-bright in the room. He frowned when his mind registered the slight dip in the matress and he glanced over at his father and flinched, that didn't look to comfortable and he knew the elf's human counterpart wouldn't forgive him too easily for this position.
"It just had to be you didn't it ada?" he blinked when he suddenly realized he had his voice back and smiled.
Without another thought he reached over and gently pulled the elf up onto the matress.
Elrond frowned slightly and opened his eyes slowly and frowned at the man.
Aragorn smiled at the elf, "Sleep ada, you need it," his voice was incredibly soft from it's lack of use.
The elf simply sighed and fell asleep.
Aragorn grinned widely in amusement, then glanced up when he heard the door open.
Legolas opened the door slowly, not sure if he should bother the elf and human inside. But he had been nearly convinced the human wouldn't live so he decided he wanted to be with him and entered, then froze when he noticed the human staring straight at him, grinning his head off.
Aragorn smirked at the elf who suddenly reminded him of a fish, before faking a yawn.
Legolas was immediately beside him, "Are you okay?!"
Aragorn just stared at him blankly for a moment before rolling his eyes and yawning again.
Legolas sighed slightly, the relief in his eyes enourmous, "Sleep Estel, you look like you need it."
Aragorn smiled slightly and closed his eyes, mentally ticking off the moments in boredom, until he finally heard the elf doze off. He opened one eye slowly and grinned again, before sitting up grabbing the elf's shoulders and saying, "Boo," all in one swift movement.
Legolas jumped awake and yelped before falling off the chair.
Aragorn burst out laughing, and quickly grabbed his pillow to muffle the sounds so he wouldn't wake the sleeping elf beside him.
Legolas dragged himself off the floor and gaped at the man who sat in bed trying to keep as quiet as possible, "Strider!" he hissed and glared at him, though he couldn't hold it very long, he was simply too happy his friend was better.
"Aye Legolas?" he snickered slightly, "you should have seen the look on your face!"
The elf scowled, "Oh be quiet."
Aragorn raised an eyebrow, "You want me too?" he shrugged, 'Fine.'
Legolas rolled his eyes, grinning.
The door opened slightly and Aragorn grinned at the elven twins that shoved each other through the door. Teralin was following them, was their antics with obvious amusement.
Elladan grinned at his brother, "We heard you from outside! Ai you're loud!"
Aragorn smirked, 'Only for a moment. Legolas says I'm not aloud to speak.'
"I never said that Estel."
'Oh but didn't you?'
"You know I was joking."
"Okay then."
Elrohir blinked, "Well... that was interesting... I guess."
Teralin smiled, "You feel okay?"
The ranger nodded, "Aye, better than I have been in a while," he grinned, "but I have to admit I am tired... and no, Legolas, this time I mean it."
Said elf glared at him, "I will get you for that."
"Of course you will," he laughed.
The twins grinned, "We should go."
"Ada needs" Elladan started but was cut off by his twin.
"Rest and we don't"
"Want to wake"
"Him," Elrohir smiled.
Aragorn rolled his eyes, "I don't think he's the only one," he mumbled, eyeing the others in the room.
They just smiled innocently and left.
Aragorn sighed and turned, falling asleep almost immediately.
Elrond woke a while after he fell asleep and blinked, trying to figure out how he'd gotten there before he remembered, he smiled down at the human who had curled against him slightly before placing one hand on his son's head and falling back asleep himself.
The End
A/N
Elven Kitten: Yes, I decided to end it early... XP but, that is better than leaving it hanging right? I was going to make it longer, play with the plot line a bit but I was getting bored with it and so I figured it's better to end early than to just stop right? lol anywho, it wont be long for me to get up the sequel... that one I know I'm gonna enjoy :D lol I hope u do too! And sorry for this taking so long... wont let me upload yet...
sielge- Sorry for taking so long to update... but wouldn't let me post and then I had to go back to my dad's and I already had this written and I didn't really want to try to make that ebil thing work... XP lol
marbienl- Glad you liked! And about doing it to Legolas in my next story, that's not what I meant, nope, I wanna do it to Aragorn too. Oo... I just realized how bad that sounded........ Aaaaaaaaaaaanywho.... lol, I had meant Estel managing to get Thranduil wrapped around his little pinkey... just imagining said elvenkings face when he realized the child had 'power' over him... lol! 't would be quite amusing I think... but meh, we'll figure it out. Luv the idea about keeping Elrond away for a while. Thank you so much! I'm gonna get started on this one straight away! :)
DISCOMBOBULATEDCHEEZE- lol :P Glad you liked! Hope this one was good as well... didn't like the ending much... XP... lol
grumpy- Lol! Yes... poor Legolas... Grins Hope u liked! :)
Elven Kitten: Well! I hope you all enjoyed this one! I didn't like it so much... but meh. It was okay me guesses... Shrugs Aaaaaaaaanywho... I just have to relay this... 't is a very short conversation me and my sisters had...
Youngest: All animals are cute!
Middle: Not all of them are...
Y: Yes! They all are in their own way!
M: Not naked cats...
Y: Sure they are! They have cute eyes!
M: Yeah... but past that they're creepy.
Me: Not if you dip them in glue and roll them on a sheep.
Lol. I don't know what it was about that but I thought it was great... :P Well! I hope you enjoyed... again! :P I'll see you all (Hopefully... :S...) in my next story! :P
E.S.: Aye... we hope the next will turn out better than this... And a HUGE thank you to marbienl for giving me...
E.K.: Us...
E.S.: Yes... US the idea for it!!!!!!! We hope you'll be satisfied with what we manage to turn out. :) Namarie mellyn-nin!!!!!!!!
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