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"Ah, this is the life." Aragorn leaned back with the content sign escaping his lips that Legolas had come to associate with the human. He found the man seeking out his eyes, like he wished to hold him in his line of vision forever, something that Legolas did not object to. Aragorn placed his hands behind his head and crossed them, his legs doing the same thing while he stretched with groan, a smile gracing his lips.
"Meleth?" The question was soft and Aragorn tilted his head backwards to look at the elf sitting behind him. "Could you perhaps scratch my back? I cannot quite reach that itch." Aragorn nodded and stood, straightening his clothing before he knelt down behind Legolas and asked. "Where is the itch?"
"Right there." The elf gave a sign of content while Aragorn scratched his back for him. The man moved his hands to the elf's shoulders and started massaging while the elf leaned back against him. Legolas's head touched Aragorn's shoulder and Aragorn grinned when he heard the soft sounds that Legolas could not help but escaped his mouth. "Say, what do you say when we shall go to our room?" Legolas nearly purred the answer, saying. "And leave us to walk back, I think not."
"Oh, look at that brother, if we would have tarried just a bit longer, they would have been further along." Elrohir's amused voice caught through the silence. Aragorn looked up, blinking in the strong sunlight while Legolas sprang to his feet to greet the twins.
The former Mirkwood prince clasped each of their forearms before he embraced them, words saying in their native tongue that Legolas had not spoken for over a century. "Ah, Elladan, 'tis so good to see you once again. And you as well, Elrohir. By the Valar, how I have missed you both. I suppose I should thank you for bringing Estel back to me"
"Do not worry about it. If we did not bring him back, we would have heard your complaining for the remainder of our immortal lives about how you missed him." Elladan easily stepped aside the blow Legolas aimed at his head. "Enough jesting for now. It was our duty to return him to you and we are glad to see that the time appointed to you is made of good use." Elrohir finished, smiling as Legolas had the good grace to blush while Aragorn only shook his head and shrugged his shoulders in responds.
"You always seem to walk in on the good moments." The human eventually replied, laying back down on the grass. The musical laughter that followed had him shoot again for he did not know the source of the sound and his eyes widen when he beheld Celebrian, wife of Elrond and mother of the very elves he called brothers.
She seemed to float instead of walk and her grace was more then entrancing. He felt emotions and desires stir up in him that he never knew he had. To bury his head in her lap and be comforted be him, to know that she would make anything better. It was no wonder Elladan and Elrohir always became sad when somebody mentioned their mother, she was not there to share the painful memories with them but now they seemed at peace, through Elladan hurried to her side and helped her sit down.
She shook her head, still laughing and instead mentioned for Aragorn to rise, which he did. "Lord Aragorn, all night I have listened to my sons telling me about their gwador (brother), whom they had taken with to the Undying Lands to reunite him with Legolas here. I have heard stories about your childhood, the honourable things that you have done in the War of the Ring and your reign as one of the wisest Kings that Middle Earth had seen since the fall of Numenor. I have also watched my husband's eyes grew dark with regret and shine with pride at the mentioning of your name, being unconsciously done or not. Hence my coming, I wish to meet the person who had capture all of my family member's heart."
Aragorn could not find words to return and she smiled once again while she said. "My sons have also told me that your name is Estel, and that you have managed to turn the day I left for the Havens into an occasion which laughter flowed through the house of Elrond once again, as it has been a day of weeping for far to long, and I thank you for that. You have given my family new hope, given my daughter a change for love with somebody who respects her and would even make her return to her people for herself to be happy. You have given her the joy of creating a child, although I am sad to say that she never seen him grow up. But as is the way of a heart, it cannot change who we love and it rarely leads us astray and I am glad that you have the courage to listen to yours, while some of the Firstborn I know do not share that."
"I wish to apologize for Elrond's actions against you in Middle Earth. He is too stubborn sometimes when it comes to matters of the heart because his own has known many losses and he wishes to hold on to things, such as his daughter. Yet I also know that he is very proud to call you his son, being it without the blood that combines me and my sons."
Aragorn was moved by her words and he replied in a hoarse voice. "As I am still proud to call him Ada, would he allow me once again to do so…."
"A right I should never have took from you, have I been given another change." Elrond's voice was filled with emotions as well and he stepped forward, taking Aragorn's hands in his own and he continued. "By doing so, I have caused you and many people I care for more heartaches then I could have done if I just accepted. I know I have already asked for your forgiveness but I wish to do so once again, after you and Legolas had time to I hope talk to one another, as I also know you have spoken to Arwen, she told me such. Also speaking of the blessing she has given you and you have returned in kind. Too long I have been mad at you and once again I ask for you forgiveness, it is time for this old Elf to learn some new things, including the wonderful concept of forgiveness."
His dark eyes sought out Aragorn's grey ones and the man answered. "I do not have the gift of the elves to replied with so many fair words and dance around the subject. For as fair as the words were, that is what you have been doing and I am quite certain that you know how I feel about that, so I am not going to do so. Yes, Elrond I forgive you, as I have said before. Furthermore I also wish to ask something off all of you. You have been the family I have never had and I would ask you to attend the wedding as I would have one of you stand by my side as my best elf, I would ask Legolas but seeing as I am going to marry him, this might look odd."
He grinned and watched as Elrond's eyes sparkled with joy while the elf lord answered. "Wise you are indeed, Estel. I think I would answer for all if I said yes. We would be honoured, ion nin." He kissed the man on top of the head before releasing his hands for Celebrian to take and she answered. "As you have, meleth nin. But every son needs a mother, perhaps I can fill that role, though I do not know nearly enough about you, Aragorn, as much as my boys here do."
"Boys, we are not boys anymore, mother. We had our coming off age a long time ago." Elrohir demanded, appearing flustered. "You will always be boys to your parents." Aragorn answered, he blushed when everybody's gaze settled on his face and he quickly explained. "'Twas so with Eldarion, by the end of my reign he was near 110 years old, yet no matter how heard I tried, he was still the little boy I tended to, it is strange."
The twins looked at him before with a sign Elrohir crossed his arms over his chest and he answered with a huff. "I am not a boy." Aragorn felt laughter well up inside of him and soon it escaped, he doubled over and holding his sides while still roaring and tears running unbidden down his cheeks.
"Are you making fun of us, Estel?" Elladan's voice sounded dangerously and Aragorn quickly shook his head, knowing he could not trust his voice. Legolas came to his beloved defenses and answered. "No, he would never dare. You can make fun of yourselves when you see each other and laugh."
The twins looked at each other and they gasped while Elrohir answered. "Are we going to allow them to get away with this insult, brother?"
"No, brother, we are not. Let us get them." With a cry resembling their father's they chased the two lovers into the horizon while Celebrian hooked her arm through Elrond's and said. "So, meleth nin, shall we follow their example and make love?" A smiling Elrond could only reply happily when her mouth sought his.
Hope you liked it. It is a lighter chapter and sorry it took me such a long time to update, I hope people are still reading. Leave a review.