I don't own Lotr.
Day One
When they eventually woke up they all went to Legolas' room. The last to wake was Gimli who when he walked into Legolas' room he heard the others joking around. Aragorn noticed that no matter what jokes were told, the most Legolas did was smile.
"Gimli," Aragorn greeted him.
"Now that you are all awake how about we get some food?" Legolas asked them. Nods of agreement came from everyone and Legolas rose from his seat and motioned for them to follow him.
They went down to the kitchens and once down there, the cook threw her arms around Legolas and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"My friends, this is the cook, Naomi, and Naomi this is Merry and Pippin, hobbits, Gimli, a dwarf, and you know Aragorn," Legolas said, when Naomi had let go of him.
She surveyed the dwarf, humming with disapproval.
"A dwarf. Your ada won't like that," she said, shooting Legolas a curious look.
"Then he will just have to learn too," Legolas said stiffly, "Anyways, we were wondering if you could make us some breakfast?"
"You know I will. How much shall I make?"
"Hobbits can eat more than dwarfs,"
"I shall start cooking straight away," she pulled away from Legolas and started to make a bunch of food.
"How long until ready?" Aragorn asked her.
"It will be ready when it's ready," She told them, shooing them out of her kitchen.
They went back to Legolas' room and Merry and Pippin went and sat on the bed, leaving the others to the chairs, problem was, there was only two chairs. Gimli took a chair and Aragorn took the other. Aragorn noticed his friend was swaying slightly and knew he would never admit to an injury, so just pulled Legolas into his lap. (No, there is no Legolas/Aragorn slash!)
They were silent for a while. Eventually, Pippin couldn't stand it and asked Aragorn, "When did you and Legolas become friends,"
They both looked thoughtful for a minute.
"I met him first when I was four, but there was no time we became friends," Aragorn finally answered.
"There must be a time," Pippin insisted.
"It's not a time, but more of a place. Or places, to be exact," Legolas amended.
"So, where did it happen?"
"Somewhere between easy banter, and good pranks. Between walks under the stars and rides to random places. Somewhere in getting to know each other, we became best friends," Legolas smiled at Aragorn who grinned back.
"You seem to have much wisdom, gwador-nin," Aragorn laughed.
"What does that mean? Don't speak languages I don't know about," said Gimli.
"It means my brother,"
"But you guys aren't brothers," Merry pointed out.
"We're not, but it feels like we are," the two smiled at each other.
"Legolas?" Came a voice from outside the door. Legolas got up and opened it. Two people were there. Eliza and Adrain.
As soon as the door was opened, they jumped on him, causing him to fall to the floor. Aragorn laughed at his friends misfortune. Legolas groaned and eventually managed to throw them off. He got up then stated, "I hate you two,"
"No, you love us," They said at the same time and Legolas cracked a smile at their antics.
"Legolas?" Came another voice outside the door. Legolas opened the door and there was a servant. He saw the strange ensemble around and on the bed and the two on the floor, one on top of another. He opened his mouth as if to ask then decided against it. "Legolas, Naomi is done with the food. The hobbits leaped up from the bed and shot out the door, the two elves at their feet. Gimli followed at a slower pace and Aragorn nodded his thanks to the man before leaving as well. The servant stared down the hall, never seeing a hobbits fierce hunger.
"Thank you and can you do a favor for me?" Legolas asked.
"Of course, milord," he bowed.
"Spread the word that I don't want to be called any titles for a week if you can. They don't know I'm a prince and I want them to treat me as normal as possible for as long as possible," Lefolas instructed him.
"Of course," the servant ran off, presumably to spread the word.
Line Break! Line Break! Line Break! Everybody Loves A Line Break!
After breakfast, they said goodbye to Eliza and Adrain and went outside because the sun was shining and it was so beautiful. On the way, they were joined by Naomi who didn't need to make any more food until lunch.
"What's that?" Merry asked, pointing towards a field. There was a little crowd focusing on three elves.
"What's that boy done now?" Naomi sighed as they walked over.
"Who are they?" Gimli asked.
"The one with the red hair is my friend, Nicholas. The brown-haired girl is Jane with her friend, the blond male, Theodore," Legolas pointed them out, "they most likely insulted one another's honour and is now going to have a contest. And it seems Darcy, the black-haired male with a ponytail, is to be the judge of who wins,"
"How would you win?" Pippin asked.
"Be the fastest and best shooter," he answered.
"Can we watch?" Merry and Pippin said together.
"If you'd like," they both nodded, and they all went to see the contest.
Jane was going to shoot first and Legolas noted things with a critical eye. She wasn't very fast at shooting. To the others she would look quite good, but she paused between each shot, as if to see where her arrow had gone. She was close to the bulls-eye, but she was about 2-3 inches from hitting it.
Theodore was next. He was quicker, and could hit the bulls-eye. Not exactly the center though. Two out of three shots he hit the bulls-eye and the other was far off.
Jane, although slower, was the better shot. Even though hers didn't touch the center at all, hers were close together. Whereas, Theodore's was far from each other.
Next was Nicholas. He was quicker than both and each arrow hit the center. He was the winner. The others bowed their heads as a show of respect and walked off.
"That was-" Pippins exclamation was cut off by Nicholas calling Legolas' name.
"Hello," Nicholas said to the others before stealing Legolas away to talk to him a few minutes.
"What is Nicholas talking about to Legolas?" Pippin, the curious one, asked.
"I don't know. Maybe asking help to learn to shoot quicker or closer to the center," Aragorn shrugged his shoulders.
"If you would like, you can continue wandering this place and Aragorn could show you around," Legolas said, going back to his friends.
"And you?" Gimli asked.
"Nicholas would like some help with his shooting,"
Everyone wanted to see the entire place so there was really no objections. The others set off while Legolas corrected Nicolas' stance a tiny bit and Naomi went back to the kitchens.
This is a line break! I repeat, this is a line break!
After Legolas had finished helping Nicholas as much as he could, he set off to his room. He was going to his room to grab his bow and go out to the forest when he literally ran into Aragorn.
"How does this happen?" Legolas groaned when Aragorn fell on top of him. Aragorn was quite heavy.
"I don't know. What are you doing here?" He asked pushing off of Legolas then pulling him to his feet.
"Grabbing my bow, then out to the forest to catch supper,"
"Mellon-nin, join us for lunch first," Aragorn took Legolas by his arm and dragged him towards the kitchen. They had already decided to eat there so they could chat with Naomi while she cooks for other people.
Yet Another Line Break! Sorry For Doing So Much!
They all headed up to Legolas' room for him to grab his bow. Merry and Pippin were exhausted and went back to their rooms to grab some extra sleep.
Legolas said goodbye to Aragorn and Gimli, but was stopped by Gimli asking to come along with him to the forest.
"I'm just hunting. You would need to be able to spring into the treetops and run fast to hunt these," Legolas told him and ran off knowing Gimli wouldn't object anymore.
Gimli turned to Aragorn to ask what to do now.
"Now? We wait for Legolas to come back," Aragorn said, going to the training fields, leaving Gimli all alone.
Gimli just went back to his room to do something. Perhaps draw or sleep.
I'm in love with line breaks! You're in love with line breaks! We're all in love with line breaks!
When Legolas was back, everyone was gathered in his room, and so found them spread all around, asleep. Adrain and Eliza were with them and had their limbs tangled together. He went around starting with Eliza, he shook her awake putting his finger to his lips to tell her to be quiet.
He let her do what she wanted with Adrain. She kicked him in the stomach and his eyes popped open surprised. She put a hand over his mouth.
They then all lined up ready to scream.
They screamed. As loud as they could. Merry and Pippin slept on. Gimli woke slowly. Aragorn woke instantly and leaped up swinging his knife around. He soon woke up enough to figure out what happened. They stared at the two hobbits still resting peacefully.
Adrain went up to them and screamed 'food' in their ears. They woke up clutching their chests. They saw Adrain standing over them laughing and jumped on him. They fell to the floor and the two hobbits tried tickling Adrain, but was pulled off by Eliza and Legolas.
"Time to eat," said Legolas, in his musical voice.
Some elves came in with food and set it on Legolas' table. The hobbits and dwarf were quickly sitting at the table and stuffing their faces with food. Eliza and Adrain left to their rooms, and the room was then filled with silence.
Silence, only broken with the sound of eating. After only a little bit of food, Legolas was done.
"What did you hunt?" Pippin managed to get out around the food in his mouth.
"Spiders," replied Legolas absently.
"Those are so tiny!"
"Not the ones I hunted. They are huge. More than half my size, that's why you can't go into the forest without someone with you," he stated.
"Are we eating spider?" Merry asked looking disgusted.
"No, I only recently got back and spider takes quite a while to prepare. No, we're having that tomorrow,"
One by one, they stopped eating. Legolas couldn't believe the hobbits were tired, yet again. Although they did need to catch up on their sleep.
They all retired to their respective rooms, leaving Legolas alone to grab a blank book and go outside to sketch something that caught his eye.