Chapter 33: Lice
"Alright students, it seems we have already had the script written! We have makeup artists here today, so we will all be getting into nice comfy chairs for two hours straight to have our make up put on." Thranduil announced and shortly after, he was helping all the little actors and actresses into seats. Once all the children where seated, many elves that looked very nice came in almost like an army would and they all took a child and began to wash their hair as to apply a wig on afterwards.
Legolas and Estel had been seated next to each other, so while their make-up artist elves scrubbed their hair, the two talked. Well at least Estel talked.
"Ew! Ah! It burns! It burns my scalp! Get it off me! Ah!" Estel screaming and tossed from side to side as shampoo was rubbed on his head.
"Child please, it's only soap!" The elf that washed his hair said, hoping to soothe Estel. It only worsened Estel.
"SOAP! OH LORD!" Estel began to cry. Once Estel and Legolas' hair was washed, the two make-up artist elves looked at each other and back in their client's hair. They both then checked Legolas' hair, and then they both looked into Estel's hair. Then one of them went to Thranduil, who looked like he was going to throw a fit at the words.
"It's not possible! He has beautiful hair. That would never happen!" Thranduil said. The two elves that had washed Estel and Legolas' hair came back to the elflings with Thranduil.
"Legolas, have you and Estel shared any hats or anything that goes on your head recently?" Thranduil asked. Legolas thought about that and nodded his head.
"Estel was cold so I let him use my fuzzy hat, then he gave me it back." Legolas said. Thranduil sighed and helped Legolas and Estel out of their chairs and brought them out of the room.
"Ada, where are we going?" Legolas asked. Estel was too glad to not have shampoo in his hair anymore to even care that Thranduil had taken them away, all that mattered right now was where Elrond had hidden the bottle of bacon fat and grease.
"Boys, I have to talk to you both. You see, the two nice elves that just washed your hair-
"They where NOT nice!" Estel exclaimed.
"Yes, well anyways, they found out that you both have… Lice. Head lice." Thranduil said. Both children gave Thranduil strange looks.
"…Lice is a little bug that goes in your hair and is hard to get out and they multiply very fast." Thranduil said. Legolas clapped his hands.
"I have pets in my hair! I will name one Hurly, and one Jack, and one Kate, and one Charlie, and one Claire, and one Shannon, and one Boone, and one John, and one Michael, and one Walt, and one Sawyer, and one Scott, and one Steve…"
"Legolas, this is no joke! Now since I must be with this class and there's no way to change that, you both will be sent to Lord Elrond's house, your house Estel, to try and rid your hair of the lice. I will pick you up, Legolas, as soon as I may." Thranduil kissed Legolas on his cheek as Cield approached.
"I will be your driver to Imladris. My name is Cield. We pronounce that Ke-eld. Let's say that together, shall we? Ke-eld. And you are Legolas. Lets say that! Leg-o-las. And Estel. S-Tell… Oh, and this is Thranduil. Th-ran-doo-ill…"
"Cield, they know how to speak. Just bring them to Imladris. I'm sorry about Cield's behaviour, he's mad that tomorrow we will be trying to get him a job as a security guard." Thranduil apologized for his son before leaving to break a fight between Gimli and the Snow White Dress.
"Come on, in the car. No feet on the seats, I will have to return this rental tomorrow if I get the job. My lady Firelien is sure I will because I am strapping so she has already informed the rental car company I will be returning this car early…" Cield buckled the two elflings in, keeping his hair a distance. Cield had such long, lengthy hair he would kill himself before he cut it off because of lice.
Cield drove carelessly which got his three tickets and a lot of other elves honking at him. When they arrived at Imladris Cield was even angrier than when he left the school so decided to get therapy from Elrond whilst he was there.
Elrond greeted the three of them, and brought Estel and Legolas straight to the tub when he heard of what happened. He poured them a nice warm bath, stripped the two children and stuck them in the bath to soak whilst he made some good shampoo for getting rid of the lice as fast as possible.
The two children played games in the bath like 'Splash' and 'Kill Estel with the Soap Bar' until Elrond arrived with a bowl of soap. Estel cowered into the corner of the tub when he smelt the evil soap.
"Come closer Estel. It's not going to hurt you. Look, Legolas is being a good lad. Legolas is letting me wash his hair like he should." Elrond pulled Legolas up to the edge of the tub and put the soap in the elfling's hair.
Legolas liked it very much when his ada washed his hair since it felt so nice. But it was not as nice when Elrond did it, maybe it was because he was not his ada, but Legolas found that Elrond was scrubbing far too harshly. Legolas did not like it, and when Estel figured out why Legolas was making such a funny face he became even more afraid.
Once Elrond was done scrubbing he left the shampoo in the elfling's hair and went for Estel, forcing him closer and forcing the shampoo. Elrond scrubbed, trying to be as gentle as he could since Estel had a very big fear of shampoo. But Elrond could only be so gentle with head lice.
"Legolas don't rinse yet. Estel could you stop screaming? There, I'm done scrubbing. Leave it in your hair whilst I rinse Legolas." Elrond said, pulling Legolas closer this time and poured water over the elfling's head. Legolas blinked when the water got in his eyes but was very glad to have the shampoo, which smelt quite awful, out of his pretty blonde hair.
Estel however started to panic when the water got into his eyes, which had been quite wide open when the water was poured. The young boy began to splash and kick, which made Legolas scream and jump out of the bath, trampling Elrond who fell onto the floor. While his father was down on the ground with a panicked elfling, Estel, wet and nude, ran out of the room.
"Estel no!" Elrond ran after the little boy, leaving Legolas alone. Legolas wandered aimlessly out of the bathroom and walked into a random room, screaming when he saw whose bedroom he was in…
To be continued…
Chapters might become shorter; I have very big writer's block for this so I really love suggestions!
Romen: That's great… Thanks for the inspiration for this chapter!
Mesozoic Flower: Yes… I have to read/watch Snow White again though, to make sure the play makes sense.
Manwathiel: If you love it as much as you say you do, you would make a suggestion… The more suggestions, the longer the story will be.
Mistopurr: Me neither. It was like that in Haldir's here.
Here comes the hockey puck: I love doing drama in groups!
Haldir's Heart and Soul: You must have liked the chapter in Haldir's Here then, that I posted recently.
Bberry06: I'm really running out of people to cast as teachers…