Narhel makes a reappearance. If you want, he's from chapters: 11 (Nemesis) and 60 (Brawl)
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Aragorn watched with a hawks eye as Narhel walked down the steps from the tree's to the ground. He knew Legolas was on edge enough already here in the Golden Wood, regardless of his heartache of Gandalf death, which only made everything worse.
He hadn't been old enough to see the fight in Imladris, but he had heard about it. Everytime Legolas came to visit he heard it again, and everytime Legolas didn't show a shade of remorse.
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Gimli took his cue from Aragorn that something unfavorable was about to happen and prepared himself to stand and get involved the second the other elf entered the clearing. A second later he realised he wouldn't even have needed to take the cue anyways.
Because Legolas barked a strangely humorless laugh, "Back again?"
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He had seen Legolas angry. He had seen Legolas absolutely furious. But he had never seen his friends face slip into a mask of absolute cold hatred before.
It was a uniquely unsettling experience, that he deeply hoped to never experience again.
Ever.
Aragorn stood up and made to get between the two, "I think you should leave."
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He glanced at Boromir who had moved from the fireside to near the hobbits, as if expecting to need to protect them. After a glance at Legolas' face, Gimli decided that was probably a fair assumption.
Unsurprisingly the Aragorn had spoken to completely ignored him and continued to glare at Legolas, surprisingly he spoke in the common tongue. "I knew you were a coward, Legolas, but I didn't think even you would abandon your own people."
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He glanced away from Narhel briefly to look at Legolas, who thankfully hadn't roused himself from the low hanging branch that had been cradling him all night.
"I knew you were a pathetic excuse on Eru's behalf of making what I assume was supposed to be a creature of intelligence and substance, Narhel, but you continue to stun even me."
Aragorn choked, it looked as if Narhel nearly did as well.
If ever there was a time for you, Lady Galadriel, to conveniently notice and interfere, it would be now.
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"How much longer do you think they will last, hmm? Clearly not long, since you've left them to die."
Gimli got the urge to stand and interfere again, but realised how foolish that would probably be. At the very least this new elf seemed determined to fight, and Legolas seemed welcome enough to the challenge.
He had seen enough practice sparring on Legolas' behalf and combat with Orcs or Goblins that even he was certain he wanted absolutely no part in this.
Legolas' steel eyes continued to nearly glow with hate, "Go be an embarrassment elsewhere, your face nauseates me."
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To Aragorn's great surprise Narhel turned to leave. He should have guessed he had one more trick up his sleeve, or comment, as the case may be.
"I wonder what Avaliena will think when she goes to the halls, knowing that even you could not keep up the charade of hope for your people." He huffed a laugh and nearly began to ascend the stairs, "At least she has the dignity to die with your King."
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Gimli had no idea who Avaliena was, but given the name and the reaction it cause he could take a good guess. Faster than he liked to believe any creature was capable of, Legolas had launched from himself from the branch, past Aragorn and met the attack of Narhel.
At least Aragorn had the good sense to scuttle back with all haste, just in time for Legolas to go stumbling back at high velocities where the man had just been standing.
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Aragorn knew that move. Legolas, Ava and Farlen had spent two days straight teaching it to him. He tried not to smile in anticipation of what was to come.
At first he had just wanted Narhel to go away, but after his last comment, he couldn't begrudge Legolas the satisfaction of breaking his nose for a third time.
Encouraged by the 'stumble' Narhel advanced with vicious velocity. So fast that Aragorn didn't see which body part he had tried to use to attack Legoals with, all he managed to see was his friend duck fack enough the swing missed and Narhel was thrown off balance.
Legolas kicked out the only leg Narhel had on the ground and used the remaining momentum of the original attack to slam his body into the unforgiving stone walkway.
It went worse quickly for Narhel after that.
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Gimli couldn't stop himself from laughing, even as Aragorn struggled to finish the last story Especially because Legolas looked almost proud of himself for all three, and Merry and Pippin had been cackling like mad for a near two minutes.
Gimli wiped a tear from his eye and patted Legolas on the arm, "You did good Lad, you did good."
"Don't encourage him." Aragorn managed, still struggling against his own laughter, "I can still remember the horror in Ada's eyes when Glorfindel brought it up last time, I don't think the bystanders would survive a fourth fight."
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Thranduil scanned down the letter, drinking in every drop of information about his son that he could. Its arrival had been a great surprise, since he hadn't heard anything from Celeborn directly in long enough he would have to ask Galion for the actual years.
He had started from the top four separate times before he reached the bottom of the letter so that it wouldn't be over. That it wouldn't stop that feeling that Legolas was back at home, even just for a few more seconds.
Eventually he had to finish the letter, eventually it had to be over. And then he couldn't help but laugh, because scrawled at the bottom was a small tally sheet .
Legolas | Narhel
III | 0
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