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Guard Legolas.

"Thranduil!" Elrond called again but Thranduil did not move. Elrond walked over to where Thranduil lay, and kneeled besides him. Sure Thranduil was playing his game, knowing him, the moment he would touch him, he would jump up, trying to give him a scare. Elrond very carefully reached out to Thranduil's shoulder, but nothing happened, Thranduil did not move.

"Hîr Elrond?" A soft voice spoke up from behind him.

"What is it, penneth?" Elrond asked as he turned his attention to Legolas who stood behind him. Both wins were too caught up in their game to notice that Legolas had managed to get away and see what was going on. Elrond was about to correct Legolas that he did not need to call him lord when Legolas himself spoke.

"Why does ada not get up?"

"I think he is merely trying give us a scare." Elrond said with a little smile. Elrond placed his hand now firmly on Thranduil's shoulder, determent to show the elfling his father was more than all right. Elrond shook the shoulder, yet Thranduil did not responce at all. Thranduil was a real good actor if he managed to play this. Elrond thought worringly, as it might not has been a joke at all. Elrond took the other shoulder and gently turned Thranduil on his back. Legolas pulled on Elrond's sleeve.

"Why does ada not get up?" Legolas asked again. Elrond's heart broke a little when he saw tears forming in his eyes.

"I am sure your ada will get up in a moment, but you must help me." Elrond said and saw his sons approach, finally missing their friend. Both Elladan and Elrohir more looked like the snowelves they just built than regular elflings. Legolas nodded eagerly.

"What do I do?" Legolas asked, determent to help.

"Go and sit by your ada's head and gently take it in your lap." Elrond instructed and helped him. Thranduil's eyes were half closed, that meant that something was not right. Thranduil had to do a lot of explaining when he awoke again. Legolas gently brushed away the snow soaked locks, and tried to wipe away the snow as best as he could. A moment later Elrond sat kneeled next to them, after he talked to his sons for a moment. He craddled Thranduil's face in his broad warm hands and gently flicked his cheek.

"Ada! Wake us, saes." Legolas softly pleaded, and was awared when Thranduil slowly blinked. "Ada? Are you awake now?" It was one of the first things Thranduil heard, and strangely enough he saw his son's face, upside down.

"Legolas?" Thranduil questioned and he moved a litte, but he stopped when a spitting pain fired through his head.

"Neag?" Legolas whispered when a grimas married his father's fair features.

"Aye, ion-nin." Thranduil closed his eyes for a moment and brought up is hand, when it struck something.

"Thranduil?" Elrond gently interrupted them. Thranduil looked at the healer and long time friend. "Is it your head that hurts."

"Aye." Thranduil replied and closed his eyes when Legolas places a kiss on his brow.

"All better now?" Legolas whispered, looking at his father with curious eyes.

"I wish I could say so." Thranduil said with a chuckle that turned into a grimas. "But I think that Elrond here will bury me under a few feet of snow." Legolas Look up alarmed at Elrond.

"No worries, Legolas." Elrond chuckled. "I think it is better if we bury your ada under a pile of blankets when he is in bed?"

"Not better then?" Legolas asked rather confused.

"Not yet." Elrond replied. "Let's sit up, before we go and try to stand." Elrond gently helped Thranduil in a sitting position. So far so well. Thranduil was about to protest that he could do so himself when Elrond silenced him. "I will let go of you once, and only when you are steady." Elrond hauled Thranduil on his feet, and kept his right hand firmly around Thranduil's upper arm when he started to sway.

"Ada is not going to fall, is he?" Legolas worringly asked.

"Nay he will not fall as long as he is with me." Elrond gave the elfling a little smile. "You may again help if you like. Go and walk on the other side of your ada, and keep his hand on your shoulder so he can lean onto you." Legolas nodded and walked on the other side of his father as they made it inside and slowly up to the private quarters of the royal family.

"I can do that for my self, thank you very much." Thranduil swatted away Elrond's hands who were about to help him out of his outer robes and cloak. Elrond stepped aside, but still held his arm.

"Can I help you ada?" Legolas quietly asked when Thranduil had finally managed to free himself from his robes. Thranduil was now only wearing his leggings and boots.

"I think it would be a good idea if you would help him with his boots." Elrond supplied, not wanting Thranduil to bend over, for obviously that could hurt his head even more. Elrond let Thranduil sit on his bed as he and Legolas undid the laces and freed his feet from the boots.

"Hannon-le, ion-nin." Thranduil softly smiled.

"What can I do now?" Legolas beamed at the praise.

"Well…" Elrond chuckled. "You can make your ada lay down on his bed and make sure he stays there, while I go and make him him some tea."

"Using my own son against me." Thranduil huffed, making Elrond laugh.

"I will be right back." Elrond said before he left the room.

"Ah! There you are." Elrond turned around to find the Balrog slayer behind him.

"What can I do for you, Glorfindel." Elrond greeted.

"Those troublemakers you call sons though to be funny, while they tried to use me as climbing object while wearing wet garments."

"Where are they now?" Elrond asked with a chuckle.

"Find it funny all you want." Glorfindel huffed. "Celebrían took them for a bath, and hopefully a good scolding." Elrond gave him a firm pat on his back.

"Your time to have fun with them will come. Just let them have fun while they still can. I am sure Erestor will not be much better off than you." Elrond smiled as he continued his way to the halls of healing. Glorfindel simply huffed again before a small smile graced his fair features again.

"Poor Erestor." He said with a chuckle before he continued his way.

Once Elrond had arrived in the hall of healing, the headhealer Cervus looked up from here he was reading.

"Mae Govannen, hîr Elrond." Cervus greeted. "How may I be of service?"

"Suilad, Cervus. How are you?" Elrond greeted.

"I am well." Cervus smiled. It had been too long since he had last visited Imladris.

"That is good to hear. Has it been busy since the last time I visited?"

"Nay, sometimes a wounded warrior or one of the trainees that got hurt while exercising, but over all I have very little to do."

"That is good to hear. Then you surely have time to make some numbing tea."

"Wherefore do you need a numbing tea?" Cervus asked as he gathered the ingredients and started to boil some water.

"Thranduil seemed to have a headache so I though he could use some."

"Thranduil? I am not supposed to say such things over out aran, but the elf is so studborn that he is going to hurt himself some day." Cervus chopped the ingredients and added them to the almost bioling water.

"I think I have to agree. Legolas is making sure he will stay in bed." Elrond said with a chuckle before he added a mild sleeping herb.

"Is it such a bad ache?" Cervus frowned.

"I am not sure, but an extra nap for a hard working elf could not hurt." Elrond nodded. "Save the rest of the tea, I have such a feeling we might need it later."

"I will set it aside in an earthen pitcher when it has cooled." Cervus nodded and helped Elrond sift the tea before he filled a goblet.

"Hannon-le." Elrond called over his shoulder before he walked back to the royal quarters.

"Now lie down ada." Legolas gently placed his hand against his father's chest, making him lie down. Legolas pulled up the blankets and tucked his father in. "You want another pillow?"

"Saes." Legolas scrambled from the bed and fetched another pillow and fluffed it. Thranduil leant on his elbows and watched Legolas. When Legolas put the second pillow under him, he obeyently lie down again. "Legolas? What are you doing?" Thranduil cautiously asked when Legolas started to climb all over him.

"Now you cannot go anywhere." Legolas said with a little grin when he sat on Thranduil's abdomen.

"Oh no! I have been trapped." Thranduil sighed, knowing very well he could easily lift Legolas with one arm. "Now I must stay here till Elrond returns."

"Aye." Legolas grinned. "And you are going to drink his tea."

"Nay, saes. Not the tea."

"Aye, yucky tea." Legolas grinned before he lay down, sprawled over Thranduil's torso. Thranduil and Legolas cuddled for a little while. Legolas sat up when there was a small knock at the door and it opened afterwards.

"Here I am." Elrond quietly announced himself as he closed the door behind him. Legolas scrambled from his father and sat down next to him on the bed.

"I see you did a great job keeping your adar in bed." Elrond smiled.

"Hannon-le." Legolas grinned.

"There you go." Elrond handed the goblet with the steaming herbal tea over to Thranduil.

"Now be a good elfling and drink your tea for me." Legolas said with a little smile, making Thranduil almost choke on his tea while Elrond burst into laughter. There was this one time at Imladris that Legolas had been hurt and Elrond made him drink the same foul tasting tea, and his father had said the exact same thing to him. When the laughter died down, Thranduil drank his tea, trying to ignore the foul taste.

"Satisfied?" Thranduil asked as he showed the empty goblet, before he handed it back to Elrond.

"Good job." Legolas gave his father a little kiss.

"Well, since you are so well at playing my ada, why dont you go and play king for me?"

Legolas eyes grew big as he looked from Thranduil to Elrond. "Nay!"

"Then how about you are going to tell Anameleth that you going to move to Imladris so you can learn from Elrond?"

Legolas thought for a moment. Going to Rivendell was good, because he would see 'Dan and 'Ro all the time. But, if he had to learn that would say he could not go and play with 'Dan and 'Ro, right? Besides, ada would not come with him? "Only if you come too."

"How about we let your ada go and take a nap, then you can go and play with Elladan and Elrohir." Elrond offered with a little smile when he noticed that the herbal tea started to kick in.

"Okay." Legolas said after a moment of thinking. "Sleep well." Legolas whispered in his ear before he kissed his brow and scrambled of the bed.

"Behave yourself, ion-nin." Thranduil smiled.

"I will be back to check upon you later, so do not think you can get back to work the moment you awaken." Elrond sternly said, but you might never know with a subborn elf. Together with Legolas they walked over to Legolas' room where he quickly helped Legolas in some dry cothes, that also were suited for playing. Soon enough they were back at the guestrooms.

Dictionary:

Goheno nin - Forgive me

Saes - Please

Penneth - Little one

Ion-nin - My Son

Ada/adar - Father

Nana/naneth - Mother