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Chapter Two

Legolas laughed heartily as he bantered back and forth with his friends. The prince had finally been set free, as long as he took it easy. The four were currently making their way to dinner in Elrond's private dining room.

"Elladan, you really should have expected Elrohir to call you that" he called to the oldest twin, upon hearing the Elrohir insult him. Elladan squawked, slightly, turning to face the prince.

"Your majesty, forgive me for saying that I have no idea what is going to come out of my half insane twin's mouth."

"Me ― half insane ― no it is you dear brother who is half insane." Elrohir chortled, pushing open the door to the dining room and sitting down at his usually spot. The other's followed suit.

They never noticed the dark shape of man watching them from a connecting chamber. They were too at ease, feeling too safe to heed the warning signs.

Yes…yes…the man thought, watching as they sat down to eat. His victim, the only blonde haired elf there, sat down and even taking a sip form his cup of wine. The cup of wine that had been lanced with a dangerous poison. The poor fool never thought to have a servant check it, not that it mattered. The poison was somewhat of a slow acting one with the first symptoms showing not long after the composition on the wine, but the actually death depended on the person.

He didn't doubt that it would take long to finish off that thin, weak, elf but one never knew. He would have to watch carefully for the last stages of the poison, after that there was an almost equal amount of time left to die. And he had a plan that involved the prince being alive…barely.

Back at the table, Legolas and his friends began to laugh loudly over something.

BYYOURSIDE

Later that evening, after everyone else had gone to bed, Legolas lay wide awake. With one hand the elven prince rubbed at his head, a headache forming behind his eyes. He could not get to sleep no matter how hard he tried, which was odd considering how tired he was.

After an hour or so of trying to fall asleep, Legolas gave up on it.

I need some fresh air Legolas thought wearily, flinging back the bed covers and sitting up. The headache he was experiencing was making him slightly dizzy and the prince shook his head, trying to clear it. That did nothing to help, in fact making it worse, yet he still tried to get to his feet.

Swinging his legs over the side of the bed, he stood. No sooner had he done that then he found himself flat on his back, staring up a whirling mass of colors that was supposedly his ceiling. Moaning softly, he closed his eyes, bringing his hands up to clutch at his head as his pain spiked. The prince bit his lip, trying hard to keep a whimper inside but his pain suddenly spiked again sending a white hot flash of pain through his skull. Rolling over, he curled into himself struggling to remain calm.

As suddenly as it had all started, it stopped. Struggling to sit up, Legolas's eyes abrubtly rolled back into his head and he crashed to the floor, completely out.

Legolas had no idea how long he had been unconsciousness. When he next pried his heavy eyelids open, the sky outside was growing lighter, telling him that most of the night had past. The elf prince moaned softly, pushing his aching body up so he was sitting against the bed. His head was still pounding and the cool wind that blew in through the doors of his balcony caused him to shiver.

After resting for a second, Legolas pulled himself painstaking up and onto his bed, clasping down onto the pillow. Pulling the blankets up weakly over himself, the elf curled up into a ball and huddled under them, shivering violently. The sky had a diffent rosy tint to it when Legolas finally drifted off into an exhausted slumber.

What seemed to the prince like a second later, the covers were being ripped off him and a voice was shouting "Hey wakeup, sleepy head!" directly into his ear, causing him to sit bolt upright. Legolas glared at all three brothers who were keeled over in laughter.

"And just what do I owe this…fine…pleasure ?" he asked sarcastically, successfully stilling a small shiver. The small amount of sleep he had gotten had helped a great deal and he didn't feel quite as bad as before.

"We let you sleep the day away!" Elrohir explained, gesturing to the window. Legolas sighed, rolling his eyes though he could not deny that it was rather late in the morning.

"Fine, I slept in some. That gives you no right to come pounding down the door!"

"We didn't." Aragorn stated an innocent expression on his face as he pointed to the still fully intact door.

"Whatever," the prince said, not really feeling up to picking a fight.

"Come on your highness! You're late!" Elladan expressed throwing a bundle of Legolas's clothes at the prince. "Get dressed and met us outside…more snow feel last night." he added mischievously as he ushered his brother's out the door.

Legolas sighed heavily, feeling like he could sleep for a week, but still did as he was commanded.

Minutes later he stepped outside and looked out into the expanse of white stretching around him, before being immediately clobbered with a ball of snow. Staggering back against the door he held up his hands for protection.

"Don't come late again!" Elrohir called threatened, holding up another ball.

All too soon, all four were raining snow down on each other shouting and laughing. If any of the brothers noticed that Legolas's aim was off, or that he was moving slower than usually they didn't mention it, for which the elf was gratefully.

That was until two direct hits smashed into his face and he went down, landing on his backside. No one though anything about it for a few seconds as they had all ended up on the ground more than once that day. Aragorn was the first to notice that Legolas did not get right back up again, staying unmoving on the ground.

Holding up his hands for the brothers to stop he walked over to where Legolas was sitting.

"Come on, are you really going to let the human get the better of you?" He asked teasingly, holding out his hand. Legolas sat in the snow, one leg under him and the other raised so that his elbow could rest on his knee. His hand rested protectively over his face. The elf made no movement to take Aragorn's out stretched hand, not removing his own hand. Aragorn knelt down in the snow next to his friend and was quickly joined by the twins.

"Are you ok?" Aragorn asked, reaching forward to take the elf's hand away from his face.

"I'm fine!" Legolas said in exasperation, his voice slightly muffled as Aragorn pulled his hand away. All three brothers gasped as they caught sight of blood gushing forth from their friend's nose, not having expected that.

"Pinch it." Aragorn ordered, digging in his pocket for a handkerchief. Legolas did as commanded, accepting the square piece of material when the human handed it over.

"Hannon le…" Legolas said in a thick voice, pressing it against his nose with blood stained fingers.

"You just can't keep out of trouble can you…." Elladan teased gently. After a moment, Aragorn gently took his friend's hand away so he could check the bleeding. He hurried pressed it back again when Legolas's nose contained to gush blood.

"Valar, can't you get anything right." The human joked as he swatted the prince's hands away and took over. Pinching the elf's nose with his thumb and index finger, they all waited patiently for the bleeding to stop, ignoring the way Legolas was pushing at his hands in protest.

"Let's not tell your father about this, shall we." Legolas finally spoke up, his voice muffled.

"Why not?" Elrohir asked, surprised. Aragorn chuckled lightly, knowing what his friend was going to say while gently peeling back the cloth slightly to see if the bleeding had at least slowed.

"Because he'll banish me to my room for the next week! " Legolas said sourly, only half joking.

"No, he won't." Aragorn said, rolling his eyes.

"Oh, don't worry Legolas….we won't let that happened even if he did try!" Elladan said jovially, throwing one arm around the elf's shoulders. "That would mean that you would lose out on all the fun we have planned for you." Legolas froze glancing warily at the twin.

"Maybe I do want to be locked away." the prince muttered knowing exactly what king of 'fun' they would have together. Aragorn snickered, easing the blood stained cloth away again.

"Well, the bleeding as finally stopped." the man announced. Reaching up, Legolas was just about to wipe away some of the blood from his face when Aragorn's hand shot out, catching his wrist and holding him back.

"I wouldn't mess up there quite yet, the bleeding could easily restart." the man cautioned.

"I'm covered in blood though!" Legolas protested, gesturing to himself. The life giving substance was indeed smeared across his face and had dripped down onto his tunic.

"We'll wash it off." Elladan said rolling his eyes. Glancing up at his twin, Elrohir read his mind and simultaneously they each took on of Legolas's elbows, hauling him to feet.

"Stop it, I'm fine!" the elf complained, jerking out of their hands, only to stumbling slightly. The three brothers eyed Legolas warily, suddenly not believing his words. The prince was a few shades paler than usual and was not completely steady on his feet.

Glancing at each, the brothers knew instinctively that they would be escorting the prince safely to his room. Starting off, Aragorn and the twins purposely kept the pace slow, hovering a little, ready to catch the elf should he lose his balance and fall.

They reached his rooms without incident, however, and Legolas quickly downed a fresh tunic and cleaned up some.

"I think that we should spend the rest of the day in the Hall of Fire…" Aragorn suggested lightly, as the prince closed the door behind him. He and the twins had talked it over while Legolas was changing, and had decided that that it would be best for Legolas to spend the rest of the day easy.

Legolas shook his head, but it was too late. Elladan and Aragorn had already grabbed him by the arms and were pulling off down the hall.

"But I am fine…" he began, trailing off as the twins and the human ignoring his words and continuing on, determined to make him rest.

BYOURSIDE

The four friends spent the rest of the day quietly taking, just relaxing. To tell the truth, Legolas was rather glad for the rest. His head was spinning and the prince was finding it sometimes hard to follow the conversation. More than once, Legolas would be caught dozing off, his head in his hands.

To say that the twins and Aragorn were scared was nothing. It frightened them when Legolas would actually have to ask them to repeat something, or fall asleep as soon as their backs were turned, even if he did try to hide his weakness from them. Only after Legolas retired early were they free to discuss their fears.

"He should not be this way." Aragorn voiced first. "We need to talk to ada about this." he finished standing.

"Most assuredly agreed, brother," Elladan stated, getting to his feet also. "You don't think that one of us should have followed him to make sure he made it to his room safely, do you?" he asked, the thought striking him.

"Maybe one of should had." Elrohir said worriedly,. "I will go cheek on him, you two go find ada." Hastily leaving the room, the younger twin hurried to Legolas room.

When the dark haired elf reached the door, he heisted, biting his lower lip. If Legolas was asleep, he didn't want to awaken him by knocking. Pushing the door open, Elrohir slipped into the room. He found Legolas sound asleep, still fully clothes.

Rolling his eyes, the young elf slipped the prince's boots off, placing them near the foot of the bed. He also removed Legolas's outer tunic before shifted Legolas more fully onto the bed. The elf could sleep in the rest of his clothes, it would be too much of a hassle to try and get them off.

Slipping out again, Elrohir made his way down to his father's study. Once again entering without knocking, he walked in just as Aragorn was explaining how tried the elf had been the whole day long.

"Is he asleep?" Elrond asked in his deep voice, turning to face his son.

"Yes, sleeping like a baby. In fact, he didn't even wake when I took his boots off." Elrohir stated sinking down to sit next to his twin.

"This is not natural…" Elrond mussed. "He might have just pushed himself to far, but somehow….where there any other symptoms?"

All three shook their heads.

"His eyes were open at least.." Elrohir offered, "So it can't be that bad, can it."

"Alright, just watch him closely" their father warned. "If Legolas shows any signs of having a relapse, come and get me immediately! Be gentle with him." Elrond ordered, clasping his hands behind his back and staring into the night sky. The prince's condition still worried him.

Taking this as their dismissal, all of his children filled out each going to his own room.

TBC…

Oh no! Legolas is being naughty and hiding something yetagain! Will he ever learn? Probably not.

Just a sad/happy note. I am going to be here next Friday *sobs at the fact that I have to wait to update* because I am VACTION! *Grins like a manic* I am sorely in need of one (so are our elf and ranger!)

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