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This one is another personal experience…kind of a scary one…enjoy.
It was dark and late when Estel and Legolas finally arrived home from another one of their long 'adventures'. Estel greeted his family and quickly headed up to his room to sleep; Legolas stayed to fill in the rest of the family with what had happened. He struggled to ignore their many comments on how this was one of the first times they had both returned unharmed, until Elrond forced the twins to their respective rooms so that he could finish his story.
X LEGOLAS POV X
It had taken longer to explain the nothing that happened than I had originally thought and I felt the fatigue falling heavily on my mind. Thankfully, Lord Elrond understood and sent me off to bed with a warning to avoid the twins and their questions until morning or I would get no sleep.
The room I had here in Imladris came with a connecting door to Estel's room that had been arranged about a year or so after I had met him seeing as when we were hurt they needed to know the other was nearby. I slipped out of my clothing and stepped into the warm water that was waiting for me, sighing as all troubles fled my mind. Undoing my braids and letting the pale locks fall into place around my face, he relaxed into the water and reveled in the feeling of being clean again.
My hair and body now clean; I slid into his sleep wear and pulled the warm blankets away from a welcoming bed. Just before I leaned over to blow out the candle I heard the a tired voice call to me,
"Legolas?" my eyes widened slightly,
"Estel? Why are you still awake?" I stood from my bed and gently opened the connecting door, my dim candle barely illuminating the dark room enough for even me to be able to see clearly.
"I can't sleep." He sounded very awake considering the time and how tired he was earlier,
"Why not mellon nin?" there was a pause, suddenly something felt very off about this situation and I was nervous for his answer,
"My brothers are here." The tone seemed…neutral but what he had said was…not impossible,
"Your brothers are not here Estel, you need to go-"
"They are in this room." I looked around before stepping into the room slowly, no one was here but Estel and I…so what was he talking about,
"Estel…are you awake?" it wasn't unheard of, his brothers mentioned him doing it before*,
"Yes mellon, I am awake, why?" he sure sounded awake and we were having a conversation,
"Then where are your brothers?" I shuddered at the feeling of being watched, "I don't see them mellon."
"They're hiding, I think Elladan is under the bed and Elrohir is in the wardrobe." I looked carefully towards the bed before cautiously turning towards the wardrobe and pulling on of the doors open. Something dark shifted near the back and my thrummed to a faster beat,
"Elrohi-" the rest was lost in a small yelp as something leapt out of the wardrobe and collided with my chest. I struggled under it for just a moment until I realized what it was: one of Estel's old training swords that had been wrapped in what looked like a large mass of old rags. It took me another moment to let embarrassment catch up with me and how Estel will never let me live this down.
"He wasn't there mellon nin." I ground out, even though he was laughing…suspicious, I now thought he may have planned that.
"He must be hiding elsewhere…" he trailed off and with the silence that followed I looked beneath the bed: nothing.
"Elladan isn't under your bed either," I studied the shadowed figure on the bed carefully, "Estel?"
"Yes Legolas?" he didn't move when a muscle,
"Are you sure that-"
"LEGOLAS! BEHIND YOU!" I snapped around at his cry and was ready to snap the neck of whatever or whoever was there. My heart pounding against my chest, my eyes wide and searching…nothing; there was nothing there except for the door which I had come through. The adrenaline was still thrumming through my veins and I turned back around when Estel's sheets rustled; he was sitting up with his hair obscuring most of his face. I shuddered again at how foreign he looked,
"Estel?" he raised his head slowly and I nearly slapped my face: his eyes were closed.
"They are gone Legolas?" I sighed,
"Yes mellon, they are gone, you have nothing to worry about." He fell back into the pillows,
"Estel?" I had to know,
"Yes?"His tone was as if he really were awake and speaking to me,
"Are you sure that you're awake?"
"Yes, I am sure."
"Okay…" humans are freaky, I headed back into my room and started to close the door,
"Maybe they snuck into your room," I froze for a split second before realizing how stupid that was, "Goodnight Legolas."
"Goodnight Estel." I closed the door completely and stood there for a moment. My heart was still beating as though I had just been running and I couldn't help myself as my eyes flickered to the darker areas of my room. Chiding myself internally, I set the candle down and breathed deeply; however, just before climbing into bed, I looked underneath it and also searched the wardrobe.
I found nothing at all.
X THE NEXT MORNING X
When I arrived in the dining room this morning, the twins and Estel were already there with their father, we now were waiting for Glorfindel and Erestor now. They all smiled and greeted me when I stepped through the doors and took my usual seat next to Estel and across from Elrohir. I glanced over at my human friend before looking to Elrond to answer his question if I had slept well,
"Of course hir nin (my lord), Imladris is always better than sleeping in trees or on the ground." He smiled and turned to Elladan and Elrohir to question them about some chore that they surely sneaked out of doing the other day. I turned my gaze back to Estel, he looked refreshed and healthy, his silver eyes looked at me and I quickly looked away,
"Are you alright mellon nin?" he whispered so that only I would hear…impressive with us being at a table of elves, I nodded slightly and immediately greeted Glorfindel and Erestor when they entered.
A few minutes passed of just everyone eating their meals and I think I was the only one who found it somewhat uncomfortable. I looked at Estel a few more times, searching his face for any signs that he was aware of my discomfort and secretly laughing about it. I thought I was being rather discreet in my glances but I was proven wrong when he sighed deeply, garnering the attention of the others, set down his utensils and turned to look at me.
"What is wrong Legolas?" his tone was gentle but stern…he sounded like his father who was now watching with one eyebrow raised, the twins were looking between us: internally debating whether they should smile and laugh or appear worried, the other two elves looked on with neutral expressions.
"What do you mean mellon nin?" I was striving for innocence and ignorance but I should have known he would see right through me.
"You are quiet and keep looking at me as though I have wronged you in some way." He narrowed his eyes when I glanced away for a second, "Legolas." The warning was in the tone and I knew he would nag me to no end, probably go as far as to get the twins involved, until I told him exactly what was bothering me.
"How much of last night do you remember?" instantly his stern expression was gone and replaced with one of thought and confusion,
"We came home and I went to bed…why?" I sighed again,
"You don't remember anything of the conversation we had?" his eyes widened, "Anything that you said?"
"We had a conversation? About what?" his brothers and Glorfindel were snickering, Erestor and Elrond just smiled,
"You had called me into your room and told me you couldn't sleep." He chuckled,
"Why couldn't I sleep?" his smile grew when I looked at him warily, "I don't care if they hear," he gestured towards his brothers, "They've heard many things that I have said in my sleep."
"You told me that you couldn't sleep because those two were hiding in your room." The laughter grew to the point where Elrond and Erestor now chuckled, "Elladan was supposedly under your bed and Elrohir was in the wardrobe; neither of them was there of course but…" I shook my head and looked at him, "You seriously sounded like you were awake mellon nin." He laughed and nodded, "When you sat up I could see your eyes were closed but when I asked if you were sleeping you said no." I couldn't help myself now and joined in with the laughter.
When all the humor had died down to an appropriate level everyone resumed eating; I was fine until I caught Estel staring at me. I glanced over in time to see that devious smirk I had feared earlier making its way across his lips.
"What?" I was almost too afraid to ask seeing as the attention was, yet again, on us,
"When I woke this morning my old training sword that is normally in the wardrobe was one that ground." The smirk grew when I felt my cheeks get warm and understanding flash cruelly in his eyes, "Did you get attacked by "Elrohir" mellon nin?" he laughed with his brothers.
I would never live this down.
A.N. – ah reliving some memories… Poor Legolas! I made him play my part in the memory…the more freaky part! Please, please, please review! (I'm not above begging!)
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