Chapter 3
The next morning after Boromir went to get his stuff. Aragorn asked a question that Legolas would probably never be ready to answer.
"Would you like to go to a different place this afternoon?"
"Will the others be there?" He asked back trying to keep his cool.
"No, I would rather talk to you alone without five other people saying something else at the same time." Aragorn said hopefully.
"Um... I guess....Yeah, sure." Legolas nodded.
The day went by as any other and at 2:30 school was out.
Aragorn and Legolas walked to the truck.
"Where are we going?" Legolas asked while buckling up.
"How about Chilies?" He suggested.
"Sure."
When they sat down and ordered Aragorn knew the time was now.
"Legolas, I have a couple of Questions." Legolas attention was drawn away by the nervousness in his voice.
"Well, first I think that I might like you more than just a friend and I was wondering if yo like me the same way?" Aragorn waited for the 'you disgusting fag' to come out of Legolas mouth, but nothing came. He just stared at him. After thirty seconds of that Aragorn said
"Look. I'm sorry I shouldn't have said that. If you want I can take you to your house and I won't bother you again."
"Aragorn, shut up." Legolas said when the dark-haired man started to swear himself. Boromir would have been awestruck on how fast Aragorn stopped talking.
"I don't know if I could go out with you or be your boyfriend. Even though I do feel the same way." Legolas said after a while.
"But you felt the same!" He said not understanding why Legolas wouldn't go out with him.
"Look, there's a reason but I won't Okay? Please understand I like you. I just can't." Legolas said looking at his hands.
The ride home was silent when Legolas got out of the truck, he muttered bye quickly and shut the door.
A few days later Legolas and his dad were getting ready to go see if anything in town was open. That morning a storm had come in out of nowhere and knocked all power out al over town. It made trees fall and rain and mud was everywhere. His father had decided to take the back roads to get to the city as they were driving Legolas noticed something.
"Dad, could you please slow down." The father was going 60mph in a 30 zone.
"Why the fuck should I slow down? I am going perfectly fine, you asshole. So shut up." He said as he grabbed Legolas' hair.
"DAD!" The car was spinning around as Thranduil tried in vain, to control the car. When he saw trees rushing to meet the car, Legolas squeezed his eyes shut. A few seconds later he felt glass hit him on the back, neck, and head, somewhere he heard a low 'OW'. Then everything was still. Legolas opened his eyes and saw that the sir bags didn't open, there was glass everywhere, they were now facing the other way on the other side of the road and he still had a death grip on the 'oh shit' handle. His father had been trying to take a dangerous curve going 50mph when the speed limit for that area was 15mph. The car spun out on the mud and water from the storm.
"Oh my god. Legolas are you OK? I'm so sorry. I- Oh God." Thranduil then for the first time since Legolas ' mother and sister died, started to cry.
"Dad come on, it okay, let's get out and check the car."
There wasn't much to see. All the damage was done to Legolas' side of the car which was right next to trees and signs. Thranduil called a tow truck and waited. When the tow truck got it out, the passager side of the car was all bashed in, but the car was still driveable. They took it back to their house because they would have to wait a few days for the city to get power again.
Over the next few days Legolas had nothing to do. His home didn't have power so he didn't try to go to school. And all he could really do at the house was read. So he decided to call Aragorn. It would be the first time in a week that he talked to him but he found that anything would be better than staring at a wall.
"Hello?" Answered a woman.
"Yes, is Aragorn there?" Legolas nervously asked.
"Hold on." Legolas heard her call Aragorn and a few minutes later he came on the phone.
"Yes?"
"Hey, it's me, Legolas. I was bored and I wanted to know if you wanted to do something."
"Well, the others are meeting at a near by lake in a hour. Want to go?" Aragorn said while wondering the reason why Legolas was talking to him.
"Sure. Um... I don't have a ride. I guess never mind." Legolas realized that Aragorn might not want to go get him.
"Legolas, you know I would take you." "You will do that even with what happened before?"
"Of course."
"Oh, and Aragorn, don't be surprised when you see me, Okay?" He asked looking in the mirror and seeing the bruises and cuts from the car crash.
"Alright see you in a hour." Aragorn said not understanding.
When Legolas hung up the phone, he breathed a sigh of relief. Aragorn was still speaking to him.
*I just wish I could love him and not worry about anything else.* Though Legolas as he got ready to go to the lake. 50 minutes later there was a knock on the door.
"You ready?" Aragorn stood at the door.
"Yeah." On the way there Aragorn was flipping through the stations and stopped on one.
"I love this song." He then started singing.
~~Always, known in, all my time, A little left of center now Reflect as I realize That all I need is to find the middle pillar path to sit like the sun by a star in the sky and just be. Sinners, casting stones at me.
I...I stand, not crawling, not falling down I...I bleed the demons that drag me down
Come play kill refuse my body , refuse my shadow stone cold will Refuse to lead this, refuse to follow bitter pills refuse to feed this, refuse to swallow I'm fueled godless~~
While he was singing the blonde boy was flinching. Aragorn had a terrible voice. When they pulled up Aragorn stopped Legolas before he could jump out of the truck.
"What happened to your face and arms?"
"My dad and me got into a car crash yesterday."
"Because of the storm?" Aragorn asked.
"Yeah, we spun out on mud and leaves."
"Are you Okay?"
"I'm here aren't I? Now that the third degree is over, can we go?"
"Sorry."
When they walked up everyone was there and some were in the lake.
"Come, take a seat if you ain't swimming. We have drinks sandwiches and BEER! " The last part was screamed by a very drunk Boromir.
"Damn Legolas what happened to you?" He asked.
"Car wreak." Legolas said quietly when he said that because everyone had turned to look at him.
With a few inquires asking if he was OK, everyone went back to what they were doing: swimming or getting drunk.
"Legolas, you want to go swimming?" Aragorn asked while giving him a beer.
"What would I swim in? Don't worry about it I hate swimming anyway." He said when Aragorn looked confused about what they were going to wear. When everyone in the lake was nude, including Arwen and Eowyn although their brothers were trying to get them to cover up.
"Well, I'm going in. I do believe last time everyone went swimming, I told Elladan that payback was a bitch." Aragorn stripped and he walked into the lake.
After getting over the shock of seeing a nude Aragorn, Legolas went to go sit by Gimli. When school had first started he had found Gimli is be too hard tempered , which caused many fights in-between the two. But after the fights stopped Legolas saw that Gimli wasn't so bad.
"So why aren't you swimming?" Legolas asked after minutes of nothing being said.
"Can't swim." Normally Gimli would never say that he couldn't do something but he didn't want the boy next to him to try to get him the water. But it wasn't him Gimli had to worry about.
"We can teach you." A voice said behind him. "We're going to teach Sam, we can teach you, too."
'No, thank you. Pippin. I think I would like to stay on solid ground." Gimli said praying that the four would leave him be.
When they left and it was quiet again between Legolas and Gimli. Legolas finished off his beer, looking down at the bottle he said.
"You lie." He then got up and got another beer and sat at the edge of the lake. Gimli could only sit and wonder how Legolas knew he was lying.
"Music!" Eomer yelled out while going to get one of the cars started so they could hear some music.
~~No sleep, no sex for you from your ex-girlfriend I was too deep can't let you call me just jump in At times I would push my feelings aside to let you feel I'm novocaine I'm numb and nothing's real
like the coldest winter I am frozen from you I was weak before now you've made me So numb I don't feel much for you anymore I gave you my all my baby
But the tears were silent inside you see
I laid there quiet and watched you have your way with me I might have cried but the tears were silent inside you see you called me names made me feel like I dumb I didn't feel a thing and now I'm gone, gone, gone.~~
At that point Eowyn and Faramir started dancing.
In the middle of the song Gimli came up to Legolas.
"I want to talk to you, somewhere no one will try to listen in. Now."
They walked half way around the lake where they could see the others but they couldn't hear them.
"What?" Legolas asked.
"What did you mean by that?"
"Nothing. I just think you can swim."
"Don't ever think you know me, because you don't."
"Fine! Sorry for thinking I might know you. I just find it a little hard to believe that you can't swim." With that Legolas started running farther away from the group into the woods that surrounded the lake. After about ten minutes of running, he stopped. *why do I fight with everyone.* He asked himself. As he looked around he noticed that nothing looked familiar to him.
The next morning after Boromir went to get his stuff. Aragorn asked a question that Legolas would probably never be ready to answer.
"Would you like to go to a different place this afternoon?"
"Will the others be there?" He asked back trying to keep his cool.
"No, I would rather talk to you alone without five other people saying something else at the same time." Aragorn said hopefully.
"Um... I guess....Yeah, sure." Legolas nodded.
The day went by as any other and at 2:30 school was out.
Aragorn and Legolas walked to the truck.
"Where are we going?" Legolas asked while buckling up.
"How about Chilies?" He suggested.
"Sure."
When they sat down and ordered Aragorn knew the time was now.
"Legolas, I have a couple of Questions." Legolas attention was drawn away by the nervousness in his voice.
"Well, first I think that I might like you more than just a friend and I was wondering if yo like me the same way?" Aragorn waited for the 'you disgusting fag' to come out of Legolas mouth, but nothing came. He just stared at him. After thirty seconds of that Aragorn said
"Look. I'm sorry I shouldn't have said that. If you want I can take you to your house and I won't bother you again."
"Aragorn, shut up." Legolas said when the dark-haired man started to swear himself. Boromir would have been awestruck on how fast Aragorn stopped talking.
"I don't know if I could go out with you or be your boyfriend. Even though I do feel the same way." Legolas said after a while.
"But you felt the same!" He said not understanding why Legolas wouldn't go out with him.
"Look, there's a reason but I won't Okay? Please understand I like you. I just can't." Legolas said looking at his hands.
The ride home was silent when Legolas got out of the truck, he muttered bye quickly and shut the door.
A few days later Legolas and his dad were getting ready to go see if anything in town was open. That morning a storm had come in out of nowhere and knocked all power out al over town. It made trees fall and rain and mud was everywhere. His father had decided to take the back roads to get to the city as they were driving Legolas noticed something.
"Dad, could you please slow down." The father was going 60mph in a 30 zone.
"Why the fuck should I slow down? I am going perfectly fine, you asshole. So shut up." He said as he grabbed Legolas' hair.
"DAD!" The car was spinning around as Thranduil tried in vain, to control the car. When he saw trees rushing to meet the car, Legolas squeezed his eyes shut. A few seconds later he felt glass hit him on the back, neck, and head, somewhere he heard a low 'OW'. Then everything was still. Legolas opened his eyes and saw that the sir bags didn't open, there was glass everywhere, they were now facing the other way on the other side of the road and he still had a death grip on the 'oh shit' handle. His father had been trying to take a dangerous curve going 50mph when the speed limit for that area was 15mph. The car spun out on the mud and water from the storm.
"Oh my god. Legolas are you OK? I'm so sorry. I- Oh God." Thranduil then for the first time since Legolas ' mother and sister died, started to cry.
"Dad come on, it okay, let's get out and check the car."
There wasn't much to see. All the damage was done to Legolas' side of the car which was right next to trees and signs. Thranduil called a tow truck and waited. When the tow truck got it out, the passager side of the car was all bashed in, but the car was still driveable. They took it back to their house because they would have to wait a few days for the city to get power again.
Over the next few days Legolas had nothing to do. His home didn't have power so he didn't try to go to school. And all he could really do at the house was read. So he decided to call Aragorn. It would be the first time in a week that he talked to him but he found that anything would be better than staring at a wall.
"Hello?" Answered a woman.
"Yes, is Aragorn there?" Legolas nervously asked.
"Hold on." Legolas heard her call Aragorn and a few minutes later he came on the phone.
"Yes?"
"Hey, it's me, Legolas. I was bored and I wanted to know if you wanted to do something."
"Well, the others are meeting at a near by lake in a hour. Want to go?" Aragorn said while wondering the reason why Legolas was talking to him.
"Sure. Um... I don't have a ride. I guess never mind." Legolas realized that Aragorn might not want to go get him.
"Legolas, you know I would take you." "You will do that even with what happened before?"
"Of course."
"Oh, and Aragorn, don't be surprised when you see me, Okay?" He asked looking in the mirror and seeing the bruises and cuts from the car crash.
"Alright see you in a hour." Aragorn said not understanding.
When Legolas hung up the phone, he breathed a sigh of relief. Aragorn was still speaking to him.
*I just wish I could love him and not worry about anything else.* Though Legolas as he got ready to go to the lake. 50 minutes later there was a knock on the door.
"You ready?" Aragorn stood at the door.
"Yeah." On the way there Aragorn was flipping through the stations and stopped on one.
"I love this song." He then started singing.
~~Always, known in, all my time, A little left of center now Reflect as I realize That all I need is to find the middle pillar path to sit like the sun by a star in the sky and just be. Sinners, casting stones at me.
I...I stand, not crawling, not falling down I...I bleed the demons that drag me down
Come play kill refuse my body , refuse my shadow stone cold will Refuse to lead this, refuse to follow bitter pills refuse to feed this, refuse to swallow I'm fueled godless~~
While he was singing the blonde boy was flinching. Aragorn had a terrible voice. When they pulled up Aragorn stopped Legolas before he could jump out of the truck.
"What happened to your face and arms?"
"My dad and me got into a car crash yesterday."
"Because of the storm?" Aragorn asked.
"Yeah, we spun out on mud and leaves."
"Are you Okay?"
"I'm here aren't I? Now that the third degree is over, can we go?"
"Sorry."
When they walked up everyone was there and some were in the lake.
"Come, take a seat if you ain't swimming. We have drinks sandwiches and BEER! " The last part was screamed by a very drunk Boromir.
"Damn Legolas what happened to you?" He asked.
"Car wreak." Legolas said quietly when he said that because everyone had turned to look at him.
With a few inquires asking if he was OK, everyone went back to what they were doing: swimming or getting drunk.
"Legolas, you want to go swimming?" Aragorn asked while giving him a beer.
"What would I swim in? Don't worry about it I hate swimming anyway." He said when Aragorn looked confused about what they were going to wear. When everyone in the lake was nude, including Arwen and Eowyn although their brothers were trying to get them to cover up.
"Well, I'm going in. I do believe last time everyone went swimming, I told Elladan that payback was a bitch." Aragorn stripped and he walked into the lake.
After getting over the shock of seeing a nude Aragorn, Legolas went to go sit by Gimli. When school had first started he had found Gimli is be too hard tempered , which caused many fights in-between the two. But after the fights stopped Legolas saw that Gimli wasn't so bad.
"So why aren't you swimming?" Legolas asked after minutes of nothing being said.
"Can't swim." Normally Gimli would never say that he couldn't do something but he didn't want the boy next to him to try to get him the water. But it wasn't him Gimli had to worry about.
"We can teach you." A voice said behind him. "We're going to teach Sam, we can teach you, too."
'No, thank you. Pippin. I think I would like to stay on solid ground." Gimli said praying that the four would leave him be.
When they left and it was quiet again between Legolas and Gimli. Legolas finished off his beer, looking down at the bottle he said.
"You lie." He then got up and got another beer and sat at the edge of the lake. Gimli could only sit and wonder how Legolas knew he was lying.
"Music!" Eomer yelled out while going to get one of the cars started so they could hear some music.
~~No sleep, no sex for you from your ex-girlfriend I was too deep can't let you call me just jump in At times I would push my feelings aside to let you feel I'm novocaine I'm numb and nothing's real
like the coldest winter I am frozen from you I was weak before now you've made me So numb I don't feel much for you anymore I gave you my all my baby
But the tears were silent inside you see
I laid there quiet and watched you have your way with me I might have cried but the tears were silent inside you see you called me names made me feel like I dumb I didn't feel a thing and now I'm gone, gone, gone.~~
At that point Eowyn and Faramir started dancing.
In the middle of the song Gimli came up to Legolas.
"I want to talk to you, somewhere no one will try to listen in. Now."
They walked half way around the lake where they could see the others but they couldn't hear them.
"What?" Legolas asked.
"What did you mean by that?"
"Nothing. I just think you can swim."
"Don't ever think you know me, because you don't."
"Fine! Sorry for thinking I might know you. I just find it a little hard to believe that you can't swim." With that Legolas started running farther away from the group into the woods that surrounded the lake. After about ten minutes of running, he stopped. *why do I fight with everyone.* He asked himself. As he looked around he noticed that nothing looked familiar to him.