CHAPTER EIGHT - Going separate ways
The sun filtered through the window in Legolas' quarters. He hadn't slept a lot that night he had been thinking about Aragorn all night. He woke with a start and sat upright his naked chest reflecting the light off his pale skin. He instantly started crying again his hands in his face to muffle his whimpering. "Oh Aragorn.. Why can't we be." He whined to himself.
Aragorn woke slowly the sun stinging his dark brown eyes. He instantly thought of Legolas and dressed in a hurry to get to him.
Legolas dressed quickly and packed up his things to leave. He saw Aragorn hurrying to his room but Legolas kept going until he got to the stables. He saddled his horse and told Gandalf goodbye as he passed him in the courtyard. "Can you tell the others goodbye please Gandalf? I have to get home quickly, I've been gone again too long." Gandalf nodded and said he would and gave a wink, and a smile, and a wave to the elf.
Aragorn ran out of the castle moments after Legolas left the city gates. He ran to Gandalf. "Legolas says goodbye Aragorn." Gandalf says without looking up from the ground, his pipe in his mouth. Aragorn's face looked pained as he walked back to the castle to ready himself for the journey home.