Title: Unsupervised

Author: Anáwiel

Rating: U

Summery: The "boys" have been messing around for a while now and Elrond's had enough. What happens when he takes a short break to Mirkwood and more important can it be undone? (humor)

Disclaimer: Oh How I WISH it was mine (well one elf in particular anyway), unfortunately all I own is a copy of the books and the DVD's and a few posters, that's it, anything recognisable is not mine and never will be (but I can still dream can't I ?)

Authors note: I'm not sure if Thranduil is really the way I wrote him to be but I don't care this is the way I like him to be, sorry if I'm wrong but oh well it's written now…

Chapter two

The next day Elrond made good on his statement and at dawn rode out to Mirkwood with a small band of five elves acting as guards leaving Glorfindel to look after Rivendell in his absence.

"So…what are we gonna do now?" Elrohir asked as he lounged in one of the chairs in Legolas' room, all four were trying to decide how to spend the two weeks that they had before they could start to expect Elrond's return.

"We could go hunting" Elladan suggested from his position on the floor next to the bed.

"Naa," Aragorn added, he was sat on the bed with his legs over the edge and both hands, palm down, stretched out behind him, "the stores are full and a hunting party left this morning, there's no point."

"We could go fishing" Legolas suggested. He was sat on the wide windowsill, one leg dangling down on the inside with the other knee pulled up to his chest and his hands wrapped around his knee.

"Na" the twins answered together, "we broke our rods"

"Why don't we go swimming, or at least get out, if we were outside we could at least run around. I'm BORED sitting inside on a day like this" Aragorn whined, sounding much like the youth he was when he was first brought to Rivendell.

"Yea Okay" the twins said together again. It was creepy when they did that. So they all rose from their various places in the room and through sheer force of habit (and the fact they were travelling with Aragorn) they al went to their rooms and packed their weapons and various herbs and bandages, just in case. Then they snuck into the kitchen and discreetly stole as much food as they could get away with before they were caught and ran away into the forest.

They arrived at the lake they used for swimming, dropped their packs and weapons on the shore, stripped off to the cut off leggings they used as swimming shorts and raced each other in. There was no clear winner as they were all splashing to much too see, so they began the age old tradition of dunking each other under the water as many times as possible while trying to avoid being dunked themselves.

Without their knowledge or consent while they had been out there the sun had crept further and further along the sky and the air and water had developed a chill that Aragorn had begun to notice. It was coming, he could feel it and there was nothing he could do to stop it.

ACHOO the three elves jumped at the sudden sound ACHOO "Damn it" Aragorn softly cursed, that one hurt.

"Aragorn, are you okay" Legolas asked as he approached his friend, concern etched into his voice.

"I'm fine ACHOO, just a little sniffle"

"You sound ill"

"I'm FINE ACHOO"

"Where have I heard that one before?" the twins said together from across the lake, it was really creepy when they did that.

"Shut up ACHOO I am Fine" Aragorn yelled back.

"Well if you are fine..." Legolas said as he approached, a mischievous smile on his face, "then you won't mind if I do THIS" with that the elven prince jumped and put his hands on the man's head and using his body weight combined with the force of gravity he shoved his friends head under the water and held it there for a second or two before releasing him and running back to the shore. Grabbing his shirt as he ran he managed to get a head start on the unhappy human who had just re-surfaced and was coughing and cursing Legolas between breathes. Legolas' laughter rang throughout the forest further enraging the human who ran after the prince, leaving his clothes, pack and weapons on the shore.

"I'll get you for that" he yelled as more laughter reached his ears, leaving the twins on their own standing in the lake

"I guess that means it's time to go." Elladan said

"and I suppose they want us to bring the rest of their stuff back." Elrohir commented

"Come on, lets see if we can get home in time for supper"

"Oh close Aragorn, you almost got me"

"Get back here and stop cheating" The two friends voices floated back to the twins followed by Legolas' musical laughter.

"Or before Estel catches Legolas" with that they got out, dried themselves off and then put on their shirts, they gathered up theirs and their friends packs and followed at a more leisurely pace.