Chapter 6: King and Queen and Bink
Legolas returned soon after with tiny Nenmir following behind him very obediently. Nenmir tugged at Haldir's tunic. Haldir had to smile at the elfling's eager face. Haldir scooped the child up and when Nenmir was settled on his lap, he poked Haldir's nose.
"Bink." Nenmir giggled, poking Haldir many more times saying Bink. Haldir had attempted to smack the hand at one point, but Cield stopped him from doing so.
"Did you teach him this?" Haldir asked with no humour. Legolas smirked.
"Come on Nenmir, don't bother Haldir, you have eight days to do so!" Cield smiled, gently patting his son on his head.
"I wish to go see my lady, then I may nap. Haldir, watch Nenmir for me, both of you, please. Behave now Nenmir." Cield kissed Nenmir on his brow as he walked towards his bedroom where Firelien, his wife, was relaxing.
Nenmir, as soon as his father was out of sight, poked Haldir again, saying "Bink". Haldir groaned.
"You just had to make sure everyone knew your famous word, eh?" Haldir frowned ar Legolas who giggled and nodded his head.
"Come on Nenmir, we can stop bothering Haldir now. Let's go play king and queen." Legolas grabbed Nenmir and run off.
"Yes, please go and play king and que- Wait! What are king and queen?" Haldir jumped up and ran down the halls that the two children had just passed through. Thranduil's bedroom door had been locked shut. It had been opened before. Haldir pulled the note from his pocket that Thranduil had given him and read a part of it.
"I have left the door to my quarters unlocked, but the children are not to enter without permission of Tonus or you. Please don't let them wreck my bedroom." Haldir gasped and tried to open the door.
"Go away! We're playing!" Legolas' voice could be heard from inside the locked room.
"Let me in Legolas, right now!" Haldir banged on the door, and Legolas ignored him.
Haldir grabbed keys from his pocket and tried each. The tenth key got the door to unlock.
Haldir shoved the door open and Nenmir screamed. Nenmir was in a dress, a dress far too large for him, and Legolas was in his father's fairest robes. Nenmir clearly was dressed in the deceased queen's dress. Haldir knew Thranduil would be in complete rage to find the children playing in his wife's clothes and his best outfits.
"Legolas, Nenmir, get out of that clothes, it's not yours!" Haldir fell to his knees beside Nenmir and started to pull Nenmir out of the dress. Nenmir hit Haldir across his face with a purse. Nenmir giggled.
"Don't touch my queen!" Legolas snapped. Haldir glared at Legolas, which made Legolas yelp and run under his father's bed. Nenmir just sat in the dress, amused with the purse he carried.
"Come on Nenmir, please let me get you out of the dress."
"No." Nenmir stated quite clearly.
"Please Nenmir?"
"N-O!" Nenmir threw the purse at Haldir.
"I'll have to tell your ada if you don't let me take off your dress." Haldir threatened. Grumbling, Nenmir raised his arms and let Haldir pull him out of the dress.
"And Legolas, you know your father will hear about this." Haldir crossed his arms across his chest. Legolas stuck out his tongue.
"I don't care." Legolas snorted.
"Legolas, come on, come out from under there and get out of your father's best outfits!" Haldir begged.
"Nah, I don't feel like it." Legolas said, screaming when Haldir's arms immediately went under the bed and tried to grab him. But all Legolas had to do to avoid being snatched was back away slowly.
"Ai Legolas…" Haldir began to pull the bed away from the wall, revealing Legolas who hid beneath it. Legolas screamed and was about to run away when Haldir seized the prince's little body and hoisted the prince up in the air. Legolas kicked around as Haldir took off Thranduil's robes from the little boy's body.
"Listen Legolas, do you need to cause trouble?" Haldir asked grumpily as he sat down, folding the king's robes and putting them away. After Haldir managed to restore the room to how it was before the two bothersome children came in, Haldir looked over to where Nenmir and Legolas had been sitting to discover that the two had disappeared.
"Oh great, just perfect! What other bedroom can they destroy? Wait! They can destroy my bedroom!" Haldir jumped to his feet and ran down the halls towards his guest room. The two elflings where very quick and did in fact get there. Again, the door was locked.
"Legolas open this door and do not touch my belongings!" Haldir said, knocking on the bedroom door, Cield, who could barely sleep from all the noise that the elflings where making in Haldir's room, walked up to Haldir.
"Look Haldir, that's my brother and my son in there. You cant just ask them to open, it wont work, I know, I've known them for as long as they've lived. Legolas, he won't open for anyone, but as for Nenmir, he will open the door to my voice." Cield said in a hushed tone to Haldir.
"Nenmir, sweetheart, open the door please." Cield said sweetly to the elfling. Clearly Legolas had said something to Nenmir.
"No ada, sorry." Nenmir gurgled.
"Nenmir, open this door right now." Cield said, not with any sweetness. Cield heard his son crawl towards the door, but then Legolas could be heard very softly following the crawling elfling and again whispering in the elfling's ear.
"No ada." Nenmir said.
"Nenmir, open the door right now or I will have you on my lap. I don't want to have to punish you Nenmir, please open the door." Cield said, still in a harsh voice. Nenmir gasped and quickly tried opening the door. He was too short, but he managed to jump up and grab the knob.
"No Nenmir!" Legolas' voice was heard from inside. A thud was heard, followed by Nenmir wailing.
"That's it!" Cield yelled, stepping back from the door before running into the door. Legolas was used to this, many doors in the palace where broken when Cield, Tonus or Thranduil had to use this technique to get Legolas or Nenmir.
"Nenmir, what happened?" Cield rubbed his son's back.
"Legolas... M-made me fall… From t-the doorknob…" Nenmir sobbed. Cield glared at Legolas. Cield grabbed his younger brother by the back of his tunic and raised him into the air, bringing him to a window and sticking him outside.
"Cield! Don't do this!" Legolas screamed.
"Don't you ever, ever, ever hurt my son again, do you here me? Are you listening Legolas? Don't you touch him! Stop being such a negative role model for him, stop hurting him and just… Just don't touch Nenmir!" Cield shook Legolas, who was crying, as he looked how far he was from the ground.
"Cield, Cield, bring him back in! If you drop him your father will never forgive you!" Haldir helped Cield bring Legolas back inside the palace. When Cield placed Legolas on the ground, Legolas began to shake and cry, horrified of Cield having him up so high.
"Oh stop being a baby Legolas, you are going to be eleven! When I was eleven, I was already training, dreaming of a great battle I would fight in! You wont even come near the archery field after you where accidentally shot!" Cield snapped, scooping Nenmir off the floor and storming off. Haldir bent down beside Legolas, who had stopped sobbing but still had tears rolling down his face.
"Do you want to yell at me and tell me how much of an elfling I am, too?" Legolas asked.
"No! Not at all, Legolas. I do think you could have acted more responsible before, but what Cield did and said was childish. What was it that Cield spoke of, when he said you had been accidentally shot?" Haldir asked. Legolas looked sadly at the march-warden.
"Well…" Legolas muttered, looking away shamefully.
"If you don't want to tell me, it's okay." Haldir said, putting an arm around the young child.
"I will tell you Haldir, it's not that hard for me to tell you…"
To be continued…
For a school project would you all tell me your favourite movie, unless you are over 85? I'm not certain but I know that all of you are teenagers. I may be wrong but usually you are, I can tell by the way some of you write.
OH! And SUGESTIONS ARE WELCOMED AND MOST APPRECIATED… PLEASE I NEED SUGGESTIONS!
A. NuEvil: Well, Haldir knows that Tavel can cause trouble, and even though Tavel is now handicapped, he might just start some mischief…
Bberry06: Bink is the greatest word…
Legolas' Girl 9: Veassen is an evil character in 'The King's Grandson'. He's a murderer of his own kin. He's half-elvish… I don't understand what you mean/the point of "Cield is turning into a father. NOT A GOOD THING! Thranduil is a nice guy but an alcoholic."
Melannen Amarie: It will not be sad for too, too long!
Haldir's Heart and Soul: Hm, fading of grief, good idea…
Mistopurr: I'm a quarter British… I live in Quebec, Canada… We have no queen head till money thingy… Plus we have dollars, not pounds; don't know if it makes much of a difference. You don't like the queen? I don't know enough about her to know if I like her or not. I liked princess Diana, but I was only like 6 when she died. Harry is hot…