HEY Y'ALL. Here is the long awaited next chapter. Romania, please tell me if anything contained in this chapter doesn't make any sense to you. I made sense to me when writing and re-reading it.

Now please enjoy and I'm once again sorry for being so slack in getting this out.
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Chapter 22

Harry stumbled as they arrived at their destination, if not for Severus' quick reflexes he would have been on his ass faster than they arrived. Harry brought a hand up to his mouth and fought the urge to be sick.

"Are you alright Harry?" Legolas asked.

"Yes, I'm fine, I don't much like Port keys." Harry responded smiling at the elf.

"Have a moment then Harry, we're not in any rush. Let us know when you're ready to go." Charlie told him.

"Thanks Charlie." Harry said sitting down on the grass to catch his breath before they headed to the reserve. After a few minutes Harry stood up again and brushed off his bum.

"Alright, I'm ready. Sorry everyone for delaying us."

"That's fine Harry. Our first priority is your well being." Aragorn spoke up waving off the apology.

"Alright everyone, if you're all ready to go the entrance to the reserve is just over that hill there." Charlie explained and pointed out said hill and headed toward it, not looking back to see if the others were following him.

The group let out a breath in awe as they came over the hill; down below why could see the hoards of dragons that paraded around in their pens, mothers watching their young as they chased their siblings tails and then their own.

"Look at all the dragons." Merry said in awe, the others just as amazed as they were since in Middle Earth the dragons were an extinct race.

"We hold all 10 breeds of dragons here, over there is the Antipodean Opaleye, Chinese Fireball, Common Welsh Green, Hebridean Black, Hungarian Horntail, Norwegian Ridgeback, Peruvian Vipertooth, Romanian Longhorn, Swedish Short-Snout and the Ukrainian Ironbelly." He told them as he pointed each of them out.

"It doesn't look like Norbert is out with the other Ridgeback's." Harry pointed out.

Charlie shook his head, "He isn't, Norbert doesn't like coming out and roaming about with the other dragons. He's a little home sick with out his mommy." He said looking up at Hagrid. "Come on, lets get you all through the gate and into your tents and we can visit Norbert." He said and led the party down the hill to the gate.

"Ullo C'arlie, welcome 'ome." The wizard at the gate greeted.

"Hey Simon. How have things been while I've been away?" he asked as he walked though the wards.

"They 'ave been fine, Norbert, 'e 'as been lonely." Simon explained, "Who is your company?"

"This is Harry Potter, Severus Snape, Salazar Slytherin, Godric Gryffindor, Legolas, Aragorn, Gimli, Merry, Pippin, Gimli and Hagrid. He is Norberts' mummy." Charlie introduced.

"'Arry Potter, it is a pleasure to meet you. I am Simon." He greeted extending his hand.

"It's nice to meet you Simon." Harry responded shaking the mans hand.

"Please come in everyone an' welcome to Romania."

Harry and the group followed Charlie around to where the housing units were for the handlers, even though they were only just tents on the outside they were large and spacious on the inside.

"Ok it is going to have to be two to a tent with Hagrid on his own if that is alright by everyone." Charlie explained as he pointed out what tents they would be using during their time at the reserve.

"That is fine by us, would you like us to choose who we wish to pair with?" Godric asked.

"Sure not a problem, choose who you will and shove your things in the tents and well head over to the pens and holding barns. I'll just head over to my tent and put away my things. I'll be back in about 15 minutes, that should give you all enough time." Charlie said and walked down a few more tents and entered his tent.

"Alright who wants to be paired up with who?" Severus asked.

"Godric and I shall share if that is alright with everyone." Salazar spoke up, getting the ball rolling.

"I shall share with Harry if it is alright with him." Legolas said looking to Harry.

Harry nodded, "Sure that's fine by me."

"Merry, Pippin, I'm sure that the pair of you would wish to share?" Severus asked the Hobbits, Merry and Pippin, "Then that leaves Aragorn and I." He said looking over at Aragorn.

"That is fine by me, we can continue our talks." Aragorn agreed with the arrangement.

"I shall grab a bunk with Hagrid. I think that there will be enough room for both of us." Gimli spoke up and moved off with Hagrid toward one of the large tents set up for them.

"Now that is settled, everyone grab a tent, they are all the same, and unpack what you need to and stand back here in less then 15 minutes." Severus ordered and walked into one of the tents.

Harry and Legolas walked into the tent that they were standing near and moved off to where the bedroom section was created. Sitting in the room was two double beds divided by a curtain.

"These tents are very comfortable, wish we had something like this when we were travelling." Legolas spoke up.

"They are great aren't they, the tents are also light weight once bundled up as well I believe so they would weigh hardly anything and not take up much room." Harry explained.

"Wonderful. I wonder if I could get one of these or a few to take home." Legolas mumbled as he drifted through the tent, checking out each room.

Harry looked down sadly at his comforter at Legolas' admission about going home, he didn't know why, but hearing that hurt him. He didn't want Legolas to leave, or any of the others, they had all became so close to each other.

"Is everything alright Harry?" Legolas questioned as he stood at the entrance to their room.

Harry snapped out of it and looked up at Legolas and gave him a reassuring smile, "Yea Legolas, everything is fine. I was just thinking about something is all." He explained.

"Well come along then if you're all done. The others will be waiting by now I think." Legolas said and pulled the teen after him and out of the tent to see that everyone was waiting outside, all but the two Hobbits that is.

Aragorn looked around the group, "Perhaps it would be best if I went and got the Hobbits." He said and started for the tent when the Hobbits came out followed by Gimli with his axe at their backs.

"They wanted to go to bed instead of coming with the rest of us." Gimli explained at the questioning looks he was receiving from the others.

Charlie walked up behind the group and cleared his throat to gather their attention, "If you're all ready we can head on out to the first location."

"Where are we going first Charlie?" Harry asked moving up to walk next to the 2nd eldest Weasley.

"I thought that for the beginning of today we could head over to Norberts so you can all see him." Charlie explained as they walked down a steep embankment, Harry grabbing on to his arm as he slid on a loose rock.

"Oh that'll be good, Hagrid may spend the rest of the day with him if we do it that way, since it is Norbert that he primarily came to see." Harry agreed standing up straighter once they reached even ground. Harry looked behind him to see the progress of the others and watched as Legolas seemed to float down with no problems what so ever.

"Are you alright Harry?" Severus asked the teen once he made it to the bottom.

"Yea I'm ok, just slipped on a loose rock is all." Harry explained.

"As long as you didn't hurt yourself in the process."

The group continued to follow Charlie to one of the holding barns, by passing all of the pens where the dragons were out exercising. The Hobbits, Gimli, Legolas and Aragorn looked at each of the dragons in awe.

"They are nothing like those that are depicted in my fathers books." Legolas mentioned as they passed by the Vipertooth yard.

"They do not look as ferocious as those that inhabited Middle Earth." Aragorn agreed as they stopped out the front of a very large stable.

Charlie turned to them as they halted out the front, "Alright, I think at this moment in time I should just take Harry and Hagrid in so that Norbert will have time to calm down some before I bring the rest of you in."

"That will be alright Charlie, we will look around at the other dragons. They are suitably enclosed are they not?" Severus asked.

"Sure are, you can't get in without a handler letting you in and there are wards to prevent stray flames from the dragons." Charlie responded.

"Then we shall not be far." Severus nodded and led the others off to one of the surrounding fields.

Charlie turned his attention back to Harry and Hagrid, "So are you ready to met Norbert again?" he asked with a smile, he could see the excitement in Hagrids trembling body.

Charlie led Harry and Hagrid into the stable, it was completely pitch black in the stable, the smell of fresh raw meat was lingering on the air as well as the smell of burnt wood and fresh dung. Charlie let out a sigh, "Come on Norbert, you know that your not supposed to block out the light or blow out the torches." He admonished the young dragon. "Now come away from the windows or you don't get to see Harry and Hagrid."

Upon the mention of Harry and Hagrid, a large black shape moved from the large window at the back of the barn, letting the light in and outlining the large scaled form of Norbert. Only to soon knock over Harry and Hagrid as he came at them in delight and crooned at them.

"Nice to see you too Norbert." Harry laughed as he scratched at the broad nose that was running against him and Hagrid.

"Oh Norby." Hagrid cried out and hugged the dragon around the neck with all his strength with no fear of hurting the other as he would have to be hugging a human.

Norbert jumped up and down the best he could without hurting Harry and Charlie, Norbert then crouched down and wagged his tail as he was petted behind his bronze horns.

"You have grown so much Norbert, I hope Charlie and the other handlers have been taking good care of you." Harry said moving over and rubbing along Noberts' snout.

Norbert huffed and shook his head, "Stupid humans don't know of the proper way to feed us." He grumbled.

Harry let out a squeak of shock and landed on his ass. Charlie hurried over and helped the teen up from the floor.

"Are you alright Harry?" Charlie asked.

"Yea Charlie I'm fine, I just didn't expect Norbert to respond to me." Harry responded. Charlie looked at Harry in shock.

"You're kidding. You could understand him?"

"Yea, but it sounded a little different from Parseltongue." He explained.

"I think that maybe we should get Professor Snape back and talk to him about it." Charlie said a little unnerved about the sudden situation.

"I think it would be best if you get Salazar and Godric here as well, if there is something more about it they would know best, especially Salazar." Harry grumbled and walked back over to where Norbert was with Hagrid.

"Sorry about that Norbert, you surprised me answering back is all." Harry explained to the dragon.

"That's ok Harry bror." Norbert responded, "I didn't mean to startle you, I was grumbling and didn't know that you would be able to understand me."

"No problem Norbert. Is there anything that you would like me to tell Hagrid?"

"Please tell Mor that I miss him a lot and wish I could have stayed at home with him, and with you. I want to go home." Large pearl tears dripped from the dragons yellow eyes, it also seemed that his horns turned down with the sadness that he felt.

"Wot is it 'Arry, wots wrong with Norby?" Hagrid asked sensing that change in the dragon.

Harry looked up from where he was hugging Norbert's snout, since it was the only thing that he could really reach, "He is upset because he couldn't stay with us at Hogwarts and that he misses you a lot and wants to come home." He explained to the half giant, "I'll be right back Hagrid, I'm just going to go and speak with professor Snape."

Harry walked out of Norberts shed and headed over to where Charlie was talking with Snape and Salazar. Harry hurried over to them and heard the tail end of their conversation, it sounded like a really boring conversation to him.

"Did you ask them Charlie?" Harry asked as he joined the semi-circle.

Charlie blushed and rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "Ah, no sorry bout that Harry, we go to talking about the scales and teeth of the dragons that fall out and off. Professor Snape and Founder Slytherin were asking if they could have them for their potions." Charlie explained.

Harry rolled his eyes, it was always something about potions with his guardians, they never took time out to think about anything else.

"What seems to be the problem Harry?" Severus asked.

"Well I asked Norbert a question you know, about how Charlie and the others Handlers were treating him and I was shocked to get a response from Norbert. Is this the Parseltongue or is it some other freaky think that I don't know about?" he asked, directing it mainly at Salazar than Severus.

"It is the Parseltongue Harry, the Parseltongue is a reptile language, though it changes slightly when speaking to the different species, like for dragons it is more, human, I suppose you could say, though it is another language entirely, they have mannerisms closest to human speech. Where as snakes are more primitive as well as lizards." Salazar explained, "Dragons are an evolved species, the top of the food chain so to speak."

"So when you think about it, Snakes and lizards are like half bloods and dragons like purebloods and all other reptiles are in between or below them." Harry said trying to separate them a little bit easier.

"Well if you want to put it that way, then yes that is exactly it." Salazar agreed with a roll of his eyes.

"Ok, cool. Well then I am going to go back and have a chat with Norbert and see how we can improve things for him cause I'm pretty sure that he wouldn't be able to come home with us." Harry said and turned back to join Hagrid and Norbert.

Salazar and Severus shook their heads at the teens change in attitude, that had been happening a lot lately and if they didn't know any better they would say that the teen was pregnant and going though mood swings, either that or he had PMS.

"If what you say is true Salazar, would you, and when I ask, Harry mind going around to all of the enclosures and talking with the dragons that we have here. Ask them if they like how things are, what we can do for them, how we can improve looking after them, that sort of thing?" Charlie asked.

"I believe that it can be arranged, I will ask Harry tonight after dinner and give you our answer tomorrow if that suits you." Salazar agreed.
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Harry looked down at the parchment that had the questions he was to ask written on it, big black lines through most of the questions only leaving a few basic ones. Both Norbert and Hagrid were going to go with Harry on his journey to the different species, Salazar could look after himself well enough with the dragons.

"They'd roast us alive if we asked them these questions. Some things should not be shared, about any species." Salazar said disgusted as he stalked off and headed to the crossroads where it split to the reservations, Harry following behind him with Hagrid and Norbert following behind him.

"So I just ask the questions that you left on the scroll and hope they don't flay me?" Harry asked, his voice squeaking at the end.

"You'll have Hagrid and Norbert with you and you speak Parseltongue. You will be fine. Just remember to show no fear and ask, don't demand, to see the clan leader and bow to them." He reminded.

Harry nodded, "I know. But it's kinda hard not to be afraid of something so much bigger and fiercer than you are. I'll try and suck it up though." He laughed.

Salazar brought the teen into a side hug and ruffled his hair, "You will do fine Harry. We will meet up in two hours back at your tent alright."

Harry nodded, "Alright. I'll see you then." He said and headed off with Hagrid and Norbert in tow.

"Buck up 'Arry, you can do this. I know ya can." Hagrid told the teen.

"I know Hagrid, but that doesn't make it seem less daunting." Harry laughed and came to a stop at the Antipodean Opaleye reservation and Hagrid picked him up and placed him over the other side of the enclosure and walked further into the area.

Harry tensed as they all turned to look at him, the young being kept back from approaching him with their wings, though multicoloured eyes watched him curiously as he came closer to them.

'Good morning, I would like to speak with your clan head please.'He asked.

One of the larger females stomped toward him with a deadly hiss, 'Why would we want to take you to our clan leader?'she asked.

'I would like to ask him a few questions is all.'

'About what?' asked an aged, wise, male voice.

Harry looked away from the female that had approached him when he entered, his green eyes taking in the dragon that had spoken to him. Harry could tell that he was old, just by looking at him. Horns and spikes were long and crooked and had something akin to a goatee on his chin that went down his chest along with numerous scars scattered about his scales.

Harry quickly went into a bow, his eyes never leaving those of the dragons, 'I am Harry Potter sir, pleased to meet you.'He said with respect and awe.

The elder dragon chortled, 'Not since the days of old has man bowed to us. Nor since the day of Slytherin have they spoken to us. Rise young one.'

Harry stood up straight and looked at the dragon once again, 'Thank you sir. Formally I am Harry James Evans-Potter-Snape-Dumbledore-Gryffindor-Slytherin. Heir formal to Godric Gryffindor and blood heir of the House of Potter and Salazar Slytherin.' He got out in a rush knowing that it was a bit of a mouthful.

'Well met young one, I am Upala. What is it you wish to speak with me about?' He asked lying himself down.

'The people that head the reservation would like me to ask you some questions about how you and your clan feel about being here and what not.' Harry explained, 'Some of the questions have been crossed out because Salazar considered them to be too impolite to be ask.'

Upala's head jerked up in surprise, 'Salazar? Salazar Slytherin is here?'

'Yes sir. He's over at the Welsh Green paddock.'

'Come along young man, we must go and see him.' Upala rumbled and picked Harry up gently by the scruff of his shirt and placed him on his back and clung onto the ridges of Upala.

'I should tell my friend that we're going to meet up with Salazar.' Harry explained and looked over to where Norbert was already pulling Hagrid away from the enclosure, "I'll be okay Hagrid. You go on ahead and spend some time with Norbert." He told the giant and watched as he trudged off uneasily behind Norbert.

After watching the giant walk off they were in the air and heading over the reservation and let out a thunderous roar as he flew through each area on the way to the Welsh Green area.
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Salazar let out a sigh, he was getting nowhere fast with the Welsh Greens. They claimed that their leader was sleeping and did not want to be disturbed. The dragon that he was talking to was obviously young compared to other dragons and didn't know about Salazar or how it was that he could speak with them.

'Go and get me a dragon that is more then 500 years old.' Salazar ordered, having had enough of the ignorant dragon. The young dragon let out a huff and walked off. Salazar sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose to starve off the on coming headache.

'Who are you and why do you come to speak with the Old One?' Questioned a much older dragon.

'I am Salazar Slytherin and I have come for an audience with Verde.'

The dragon nodded, 'We know of you man of Snakes, follow me and I will escort you to the Old One.' He said turning and walking further in to the field.

Salazar followed the dragon toward the hills and the end of the encampment and was led into a large cavern in the side of the hill, going into the darkness until they came up to a much smaller entrance, big enough for a human to get through but not a dragon. Salazar looked to the dragon with confusion.

'Old One, the man of Snakes, Salazar Slytherin has come for an audience with you.' He explained.

The whole hill shook at the obvious movement that was being made within the hillside by the moving Verde. Once all movement had finished all that was revealed of Verde was an eye looking out through the entrance at him.

'Greetings Salazar thought you were dead.' Verde greeted.

Salazar let out a laugh and entered the cavern Verde resided and ran his hand over the snout, 'I was but you should know me well enough to realise that I would have found a way around such trivialities.' He explained, 'You are looking rather uncomfortable and stuck.'Salazar commented casually.

Verde seemed to pout, if a dragon could pout, 'I am. Those damn wizards that look after us, decided that they didn't like the fact that I like it in here and went and shrunk the hill thinking that it would make me come out. Didn't work though.'Verde explained, his voice smug, 'Though my wings sure do hurt something awful.'

Salazar laughed, 'Well then my friend, I will go and gather the collection of wizards with me, Godric Gryffindor included, and we will get you out of this hill for a fly. How does that sound?' he asked.

'Oh that sounds lovely. Could you please go now?' Verde asked eagerly.

Salazar laughed once again, 'Of course my friend. I will be back shortly.'He said and walked out of the enclosure and was met with the clan leaders of the other 9 species and Harry climbing clumsily off of Upala.

"What are you doing here Harry?" Salazar asked, slightly confused at seeing the teen.

"Ah well, once I told Upala that you were here he demanded that we come and meet you." Harry explained, "And he gathered the rest of the clan leaders on the way here."

Salazar laughed, "Well done Harry. Most of our job is done for us now thanks to you bringing them here."

"Well I think that we should have had Norbert announce it and out job would have been done for us and they would have all come to see if it was true that you were back." Harry grumbled.

"But where is the fun in that dear Harry. Now we need to head back to camp and gather Severus, Godric and Charlie, Verde has been enclosed in the hill behind me and I'm going to need our combined magic to get him out." Salazar explained and headed out of the enclosure.

'I shall be back in a moment my friends. Verde has been enclosed in the hill, he cannot get out and I am going to get my comrades so that we can pull our magic to get him out so that he can stretch his wings.' Salazar explained to the dragon leaders and hurried off with Harry behind him.
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Severus stood up and stretched his limbs from being in a crouched position for so long gathering all of the scales, teeth and claws that were littering the ground of the enclosures, Charlie and Godric feet away from him doing the same thing.

"Do you think you have enough?" Godric whined to Severus.

Severus nodded, "Yes I think so. For now at least, Salazar may wish to collect some more at a later date." He responded and headed for the gate and saw that both Harry and Salazar stood there waiting for them, "Have you two finished already?" he asked.

Salazar shook his head, "No, we have come to ask for your assistance over at the Welsh Green enclosure."

"Nothing wrong is there?" Charlie asked, "If there's something wrong then I'd have to go and get the Council."

Salazar sneered at the thought of gathering the Council, "They are the problem. Did you know that they have enclosed a hill around Verde, the Welsh Green clan leader? All because he didn't want to come out when they wanted him too?" he questioned the red head.

Charlie seemed to pale, freckles becoming much more prominent, "I had no idea Salazar. Believe me, if I have of known I would have reported it to the Guild." He explained.

"Well come along now, we need to get him out and then we will talk with the clan leaders. Once we have spoken to them, then we will report the Council to the Guild." Salazar growled and stormed off to the Welsh Green enclosure, the others moving swiftly after the upset Founder.
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Legolas, Aragorn, Merry, Pippin and Gimli came to the crossroads once again and looked to the sign, thinking on where to head next and which of the dragons to see, Aragorn had a large book about dragons in his hands, flicking through the pages.

"Why don't we head toward the Welsh Green enclosure and head back around to see the others dragons? This route will also take us back to camp." Aragorn offered.

"Alright sounds good lad, let's head off." Gimli said and headed off toward the Welsh Greens.

"How do you suppose Harry and Salazar are doing?" Legolas questioned as they walked.

"Well Harry told Severus and I that they were going to do two each today and the last 8 over the next two days." Aragorn explained. "Why do you worry so needlessly about Harry being around the dragons? They are nothing like the ones that we killed off back home."

Legolas sighed, "I know that Aragorn, but I am still weary about them and Harry is still a developing wizard. He wouldn't be able to do anything against them if they decided to attack him."

"All will be well Legolas, you'll see." Aragorn smiled at the elf, "Or is there something more behind your worrying?" he teased.

Legolas blushed lightly, "There is nothing else behind my worry." He responded, "But what of you and Severus? You have been spending a lot of time with him yourself. And it can't be just about books."

It was Aragorns' turn to blush, "I just wish to get a better understanding of the Wizarding world and the herbs here."

Legolas laughed, "Of course my friend, of course."

"Hey, look there' Harry and the others." Pippin called out gathering the Princes and Kings attention, "What do you suppose they are all doing here?"

"No one's hurt are they?" Aragorn asked, knowing that his Elven friend was watching the wizards.

"No, they are unharmed. They are casting a spell on the hill in front of them." Legolas explained, "They are making it grow." He said in awe as he watched as the hill slowly got larger, now the others could see the hill grow.

"Wow." Merry said in awe, "Why do you suppose they're doing that?" he questioned and ran off to where they were all standing, Pippin close behind him which meant that Gimli, Aragorn and Legolas had to chase after them so they wouldn't get themselves into any mischief.

Once they got to the enclosure, they watched as the wizards fell to their knees, each one breathing heavily with exhaustion. They all rushed over to the wizards and helped them stand.

"Are you alright?" Aragon asked, talking to all of them.

"Yes, yes. We're fine." Salazar responded, not getting up off the ground, "One of the clan leaders was secured in the hill. The wizards on the Council shrunk the hill around him." He explained as he stood and righted himself.

All attention turned to the hill in front of them as chunks of dirt and rock fell and a green scaled dragon emerged with a deafening roar, wings fully unfurled and beating, gradually lifting him in to the sky, the other clan leaders following after him to talk with their missing brother.

"Now we will take care of the Council." Salazar snarled and headed back to the main area of the reservation.

"Why is Salazar so upset?" Legolas questioned Harry as they followed the steaming Founder.

"The Council for each reservation is supposed to care for the dragons, not trap them inside to stop them from coming and going as they pleased. The dragon that we freed, had been trapped inside the hill because he was more partial to spending most of his time in there then out in the field with the others." Harry explained, "So Salazar is none too pleased with them and is going to rip them a new one and then head to the Guild."

"That is if Salazar doesn't kill them." Legolas laughed.

Harry laughed, "You're probably right about that." He said and let out a large sigh.

"Are you alright Harry?" Legolas asked concerned, he could see a light sheen of sweat on the teens forehead.

"Yeah, I'm okay."

Legolas frowned, "Severus." He called and waited for the man to turn and acknowledge him, "I am going to take Harry back to our tent, he doesn't look to good."

Severus nodded, "He's expanded a lot of energy with that spell, we all have. Though because Harry is still so young and his magic still growing it has exhausted him faster. Make sure that he has something to eat and give him a hot chocolate, he'll get some of his energy back."

"Of course, we'll see you later then." Legolas said and led Harry in the opposite direction.

"I don't wanna go." Harry pouted but continued to let Legolas lead him back to their tent, happy with the warmth and pleasant weight in his hand as Legolas led him back to their tent.

"What were you and the others doing today?" Harry asked.

"Well we could have gone with Severus, Godric and Charlie to collect scales and claws but we decided against it and just walked around looking at each of the species with Aragorn explaining the qualities of each one."

"Let me guess, he got the book off of Severus?"

"Of course, who else would give it to him." Legolas laughed.

Harry chuckled, "That's true. But I also think that there is something more between Sev and Aragorn, they're getting a little cosy wouldn't you agree."

"I do agree. I also think that they are in a tentative relationship."

Harry looked up at Legolas thoughtfully, "Do you think so?"

Legolas nodded, "I have known Aragorn for many, many years and I know his mannerisms as well as I know my own. The relationship between the two is definitely more than friendship." He explained and held back the tent flap for Harry to enter their tent.

"That's good for Sev then. I don't think he's been in a relationship since his husband died during childbirth. He needs someone to care for him as well as care about another. Caring about me is different, he needs someone to love him."

Legolas smiled at the teen, "You truly are a selfless young man aren't you." He mused, "If there were more people like you in this world and mine then they would both be so much better off."

Harry blushed brightly at the praise he was being given by Legolas and sat down at the dining table, "I don't think I'm selfless at all." He mumbled.

Legolas sat down next to the teen and brushed a pale hand against the pink cheek, "Well I think that you are selfless, kind, caring, passionate and beautiful." He said running a finger tip over Harry's lips, "You are perfect just as you are." He whispered as he brought his lips to Harry's pale pink ones.

Harry was shocked for a second before he began to respond, melting into the kiss and wrapping his arms around Legolas' neck. One of Legolas' arms was around Harry's waist and the other hand cupped his face as their lips moved together.

Harry moaned as Legolas began to nibble on his lower lip and eagerly opened up for Legolas to explore. He moaned again as the arm around his waist pulled him flush against the side of Legolas' body and Legolas' velvety smooth tongue delved deep into his mouth. Harry's world narrowed down to feelings, to the sensuous slide of his lips against Legolas', to that strong, yet delicate, hand cupping his face softly. Finally they broke the kiss, Legolas leaning his forehead against Harry's as they panted for breath.

Harry took in a large gulp of air; his emerald eyes never leaving the crystal blue, "Wow!" he panted.

"Wow's right." Legolas responded as he traced a finger over the plump lips.

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So what do you think? I finally gave y'all what you wanted. Kisses.