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Hide and seek?

"Nana! Ada!" Elladan and Elrohir shouted as they started to jump on their parents bed. Elrond quickly awoke from his elvish sleep and grabbed Elladan's ankle, preventing him from jumping again.

"Hush! You will wake your gwathel with your shouting." Elrond hissed as he managed to stop Elrohir from jumping and glanced over to the crib. Celebrían frowned as she looked up at the twins.

"By the valar! What time is it?" She asked casting a look outside, seeing it was only just after dawn.

"Can we go and play with Legolas?" Elladan asked as he now sat crossed-legged at the foot end of the bed.

"Nay, it is still too early to be running around. Why don't you come here and snuggle with us?" Elrond said and opened the blankets for the twins to crawl in. Celebrían checked the crib, seeing that Arwen was still peacefully asleep. Elladan and Elrohir snuggled down in their parents embrace as soon enough Celebrían and Elrond had fallen asleep again.

It had not been very long, maybe an hour or two when the door of their room swung open, crashing into the wall. Legolas stood in the doorpost with his eyes wide and with his hand over his mouth. He had not meant to bang the door into the wall. The Peredhel family sat up in bed, wide awake after a loud noise that had interrupted their sleep. Poor little Arwen started to cry at the sudden noise that had awakened her, while Elladan and Elrohir almost tackled their friend to the ground when they came out of their shock and saw who was there. Celebrían rushed to her daughter's side, trying in vain to calm the distressed child.

" 'Dan 'Ro!" Legolas squealed as he tried to push away his friends so he could get off the floor. When he finally managed to find his footing, he found two stern faces glaring at him. "Goheno-nin." Legolas said as he hung his head. "I did not know it would made such a loud noise." He explained himself in a whisper.

"Your adar will not be pleased when he hears from this." Elrond gently said when he managed to settle the twins on their bed, without them moving.

"Iston, goheno-nin." Legolas replied again.

"All is well. Have you already eaten?" Elrond gently put two fingers underneath Legolas' chin so he could look him in the eye before he gently spoke.

"Nay. I must go back and dress before Ana finds me gone."

"We will also dress. We will come to your room so you can play with 'Dan and 'Ro." Legolas gave a small nod before he ran off and Elrond got on his feet again. He walked over to Celebrían and checked over their little daughter. Her tears were now not more than an occasional hiccup.

"So far for a quiet morning." Celebrían said, looking from her daughter to the twins two by miracle still sat on the bed where Elrond had put them.

"I had expected nothing more and nothing less." Elrond said with a chuckle and kissed his wife's cheek. "Shall we get dressed?"

The Peredhel family was already seated when Legolas and Anameleth arrived.

"Good morning. I trust you had a good night's sleep?" Anameleth greeted with a little bow before she joined the table, helping Legolas on his chair.

"Of course." Elrond said with a small smile while he shot a glare to his twins and gave Legolas a look. Soon the refreshments were brought to the table and everyone started eating. It was not often that Anameleth joined the table, but Thranduil had asked her to do so, since he could not do so himself.

"Can we go and play now?" Elladan whined after he very quickly devoured his breakfast.

"You may leave the table when we are all done." Celebrían gently scolded. "All the rules will still apply when we are here." She continued to eat her breakfast.

"Can we now?" Elrohir asked as soon as Celebrían had her last bite in her mouth. Celebrían slowly chewed and swallowed before she could reply.

"Do not run, and listen to Anameleth. Do not get in any kind of trouble." Celebrían said as Elladan and Elrohir jumped from their chairs doing their best not to run, but still trying to race back to Legolas' room.

"Well, go then." Anameleth said with a smile when Legolas threw her a questioning look. Legolas grinned before he bolted from his seat.

"Legolas?" Elrohir questioned when they stood in a quite quiet hallway.

"Told you we took the wrong turn." Elladan said while he slowly continued walking.

"That was the way we came." Elrohir argued while he turned around and started to walked back.

"Then we would get back out our room, not Legolas' room."

"Did we come from the left or the right?" Elrohir questioned after they passed a few other hallways.

"We came from the left." Elladan said, and he would have been right if they did not walk the other way.

"We could have waited for Legolas to come, he knows the way." Elrohir complained as they went into the left hallway.

"Oh…" Elladan huffed as they hallway ended with a large, heavy oak door. "I do not think we came this way."

"Want to go and see what's behind."

"I do not think we should. I think nana would already be angry at us for getting lost, let alone snooping around."

"Ssshhhhh." Elrohir hissed as he clasped his hand over his brother's mouth and listened. "The sound comes from there." Both of the twins walked back a door and put their ears to the door to listen what was going on.

"Can we have a peek?" Elladan asked his brother.

"I think we can." Elrohir replied. They both had to work quite hard to open the heavy wooden door. "Ohh, look." He whispered while his eyes grew as big as saucers. They had found a training room where several warriors were training. The warriors were too busy to notice the two elflings who sat down next to the door against the wall, watching the warriors in awe.

At the other side of the Mirkwood palace;

"Anameleth?" Legolas quietly asked as he encountered his nanny on his way back to the dining hall.

"Caun Legolas? Where are hîr Elladan and hîr Elrohir?" She asked quite confused when she ran into the little prince alone.

"I came to ask you. They were not in my room after I got there."

"And on the way here?"

"Nay, I cannot even hear them." Legolas sadly said. "Maybe they hid from me and I need to find them."

"Would you like me to help you?" Anameleth gently asked, she was after all responsible for the three elflings this morning.

"Aye, but you must not really find them, otherwise they knew I cheated." Legolas said with a mischievous twinkle in his eye.

"I will come and get you when I know where they are, but then you must stay near. Otherwise I would need to spend a lot of time trying to find you again." Anameleth gently smiled as they both started to seek for the Peredhel twins. If they only had known that they should have started at the other side.

"Oh see what we have here…" Deawin said when his eye fell upon two elflings watching the warriors practise. He put his sword in its shed before he approached the Peredhel twins. As all the warriors stopped their practise to see what their captain was doing, both Elladan and Elrohir knew they had been caught. "May I ask you what you are doing here?" He asked as he kneeled in front of the elflings.

"We got lost…" Elladan admitted as he shyly looked at the warrior, he recognised it as one that had protected them in the great woods.

"And we heard some sounds from behind the door and wanted to see what it was." Elrohir finished his brother's sentence.

"Do you need help getting back?" Deawin asked, having several things on the tip of his tongue, but he was in no position to scold the two.

"I think we need to." Elrohir said looking at his brother.

"Continue the exercise." Deawin said after he stood and had turned to his warriors.

"Aye hest!" They replied in unison and continued the exercise.

"Let's go and find your parents." Deawin opened the door and mentioned the twins to step through. "Just out of curiosity, how did you end up here?"

"Ehm, we thought we could surprise Legolas to be first at his room…"

"But we probably took a wrong turn and at some point ended up here."

"Then we shall go and see if I manage to find caun Legolas for you." Deawin lead the twins though half the palace, taking the main routes, lest the twins would remember the uncommon passages that of course would take way less time.

"Did we ran off that far?" Elladan quietly whispered to his twin.

"I do not think the warrior would joke us." Elrohir whispered back with a frown on his fair, small face.

"Oh, there you are." Anameleth sighed as she saw two identical faces, just behind the Mirkwood captain. "Hannon-le, Deawin." She said with a small curtsey.

"You are welcome. These two managed to find my training room and sat there watching us with great interest for quite some time. After a while I decided they had watched long enough and realised someone surely would be missing them." Deawin said with a little smile, happy to be graced with the presence of the elleth, and not an angry scholar or something like that.

"I am sure your parents would like you to explain yourselves." Anameleth smiled and ushered the two elflings up the hallway she came from.

"Elladan? Elrohir?" Celebrían softly said when she recognised the two small blobs of raven hair.

"Nana!" Both elflings called before they rushed over her and the three of them hugged.

"What happened?" She softly asked and watched Anameleth quietly leave.

"We wanted to be at Legolas' room first, but we got lost." Elrohir supplied after they had freed themselves from the hug.

"Then we found a room full with warriors and we watched them train."

"One of the warriors that rode with us through the forest brought us back to Legolas' nanny." Celebrían nodded and gave them a little smile.

"Now sit, and we wait for your ada to return. Then we will see if this will be a onetime thing, and you will not get punished, or that your ada still thinks we need to..." Elladan and Elrohir looked at their mother and back when she mentioned a punishment. Not that they ever been harshly punished or something like that. They had never been punished when they were somewhere else than home.

"Thank the valar that you both have returned." Elrond said with a sigh when he entered the room. "Are you hurt?"

"Nay, ada." Both twins said.

"Well, I am listening..." Elrond said when he sat down next to his wife. Elladan and Elrohir once again told them what happened.

"What do you think, Elrond?" Celebrían quietly asked.

"Well, I think an early bedtime would be in order."

"But what about dinner then?" Celebrían asked, wanting to know the full plan before she agreed or not.

"We shall eat early. I shall sent word to Thranduil that we are not attending dinner together."

"But then we won't see Legolas!" Elladan protested as he wanted to get up.

"Stay seated, ion." Elrond gently warned. "I know, that is also why I chose to do so. That you got lost is not so much your fault, that is also why it stays this, and I think this will also be a onetime thing. However, that you did not ask someone to help you get back, and kept watching the warriors instead of just asking if someone could help you. Tomorrow after breakfast you may go and play with Legolas again. So awakening us early would not earn you anything."

"Goheno nin." Both of the elflings whispered.

"You are forgiven." Elrond softly said and when a servant came, he informed him with the message for their king.

"I will bring your dinner shortly." He said with a bow and disappeared. After they quietly ate their dinner, Elrond made sure the two young Peredhels were washed and readied for bed.

"Would you still read us a story?" Elladan quietly asked as his father tucked him in.

"One small story I think I could spare." Elrond told a short story before he wished his elfling a good night and retreated to the other room where Celebrían with a small Arwen were waiting for him.

A/N; Do you have anything you would like to read? Please let me know, I need some fresh ideas!-

Dictionary:

Hest - Captain

Gwathel - Sister

Iston - I know

Goheno nin - Forgive me

Caun - Prince

Hannon-le - Thank you

Hîr - Lord

Ion - Son

Ada/adar - Father

Nana/naneth - Mother