Chapter 34: Baking Cookies
Haldir sighed. He knew it would be hard to cook with the excitable elfling, but would never have expected it to be as hard as it was.
He had successfully managed to get the ingredients into the bowl with only a few minor problems:
Flour coated elfling
Flour coated Haldir
Flour coated Galion
Flour coated Cield (he walked in when Legolas was playing with the bag of flour)
Flour coated Tonus (he tripped over the small elfling who sat of the floor and landed in a pile of flour)
Eggs on floor and ceiling (don't ask how it got on the ceiling)
Butter in the littlest prince's hair
But then, the dough was ready and round, raw cookie shapes where formed on the tray. There had been forty cookies at the start and when the tray was about to be placed over the fire, Haldir realized he was left with thirty. He searched all over the kitchen and found
Two under the table
One on the ceiling
One in Cield's hair
One in Legolas' now cold pot of water his feet once soaked in
One beneath Tonus' boot
One in the garbage, cleaned off the floor by Galion
Two in Legolas' hands, victims about to be eaten, one in the waiting line the other half eaten
The last one, no one ever found. But Haldir was certain that last raw cookie was the late raw butter cookie, former victim of the youngest Thranduilion.
Haldir had no choice but to scold the elfling for running off with the two cookies he was caught with, and that made Legolas confess to stealing nine cookies, saying that "The tenth one slipped off da tray".
Haldir passed Legolas to Cield, asking him to put the elfling's leggings on. Cield took the elfling, and Haldir made sure Cield held Legolas properly before going to put his own leggings on, but as soon as he heard a wail of "You're holding me too tight Key! Stop – DARO!" from the elfling, he turned around to see he elfling being held extremely tight by his brother. Haldir snatched the elfling away and passed him to Tonus, who he knew he could trust, and then left with his leggings to go to his bedroom to change into some winter clothes, leaving Tonus under the care of Legolas to change him, never once thinking of how the elfling could easily get hurt by Cield if Tonus took one eye off him...
To Be Continued...
To all of Mistopurr's Reviews: You filled my e-mail inbox thing! Well, yes, I have been considering a Thranduil and Legolas elfling story, but I have not had the time. Thranduil is my favorite character (well, elf, anyways, Pippin Took took over the rest of my heart)... And good job at the prequel to Captured by the Past... You helped me get 100 reviews! Yay! I am sorry of the lack of baby-talk though... But, if you visit my website you can (soon) download the original chapters!
I now have like, 30 movies to watch before labour day weekend, when my uncle comes to take them back... I might be busy.