I am sooo sorry! I thought I had published this last week, as that was when I wrote it! Apologies everyone!

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Chapter 7: The Prank

They stayed up most of the night plotting. A few hours before dawn, after having agreed on all the little details, they finally went to sleep, their plan complete and ready to go. To avoid suspicion, Fili and Kili crept into a room near the rest of the dwarves and Elladan and Elrohir went back to their rooms.

The next morning, Fili wandered down to where he assumed breakfast was, accompanied by a rather bleary-eyed Kili. Both looked very sleep deprived and as they passed Thorin he gave them an odd look.
"Is there a reason you are this tired?" Kili stared at him, but before he could even open his mouth to speak, another thought occurred to Thorin. "And where were you at dinner last night?" Luckily, Fili had an answer for that one.
"We were exploring. We now know our way round this place a bit better. It's mostly much of the same." Fili brushed it off, like it wasn't a big deal. "They don't have superior rooms where they sleep or anything. It's about the same." Luckily, Thorin accepted their story, which was true, and continued eating.

The dwarves had planned to stay in Rivendell for a few days, partly because they needed the food, but mainly because Elrond still had the map and was studying it. This gave Fili, Kili and the twins plenty of time to tweak the finer detail of the prank and set it up. It was planned for the penultimate day of the dwarves' stay, leaving plenty of time to clean up mess or sort anything else out.

The prank was set up and ready to go, all finer details having been worked out days ago. All that was needed now was the chance to use it.

The opportunity came just as lunch was about to begin. Elrond had just come out to speak with Thorin, when it started to rain. Everyone moved into part of Rivendell that had a roof, as lots of the main areas didn't. It was then that the plan was unleashed.

"Ah, there… What has happened to my voice?" Dwalin, the big warrior exclaimed. His voice had gone very high pitched and squeaky. Everyone assembled just stared. Balin, his brother, spoke up.
"I don't – oh no, it's happened to me as well." His voice was high and squeaky too. This lead to a lot of squeaky arguments, both elves and dwarves arguing. Soon, no-one could hear themselves think amid all the chaos.
"SHUT UP!" It is hard to sound authoritative with a stupid sounding voice, but somehow Thorin managed it. Silence fell. "Right, now that everyone can think, will someone please explain what is going on?" He glared at Elrond, his mistrust of elves surfacing.

"I do not know what is going on. However, I presume that my sons will have something to do with this. Last time we had diplomats from Mirkwood here, they dyed someone's hair pink." Elrond was calm as it took quite a lot to faze him. Well, as calm as one can be with a ridiculous voice. "Elladan! Elrohir!" He barked, secretly peeved that it was his sons that were causing trouble and that it had to be now, with Thorin Oakenshield here, a famous elf hater.

The twins appeared from round a corner, with straight faces on. That meant nothing, they had mastered poker faces long ago. "Yes Ada?" Elrohir answered. Elrond sighed. They weren't going to be spilling their secrets soon.
"Have you organised this?" He asked wearily. The grinned at each other before answering.
"It wasn't just us." They were telling the truth. Which meant that there really was some other poor soul they had roped into joining them.
"Who is helping you?" Two more heads peered round the door frame, two dwarves, a blond and a brunette. Thorin smacked his palm to his head.
"Fili, Kili, you both are adults now, you should behave like ones-" Thorin had chosen a very stupid argument to start off with.
"So are they." Fili said, pointing at the twins.
"Older by a couple of millennia." Kili added.

Thorin sighed, knowing when he was defeated. One of the elvish twins ducked away from sight. When they returned, they gave a thumbs up. "Crisis over." They said, in a normal voice.
"Right, now everything is back to normal, everyone can go back to their normal lives and lunch. Goodbye." The other twin said. Kili waved at everyone, before all four of them disappeared away from the door and legged it.
"Come back-" Thorin began, before realising it was pointless. He and Elrond exchanged glances, both internally sighing about their relatives. On the topic of relatives, most of the company were related to Thorin somehow, and they were all looking at him for guidance. He smiled indicating that it was fine before going back to internally scowling. Elrond was internally scowling also, but had an amused smile on his face.

As soon as they were all out of earshot, Fili and Kili burst out laughing, unable to contain themselves any longer. The twin joined in, their laughter infectious. Soon they were all rolling around on the floor in hysterics. As soon as they were about to stop, someone started laughing again, which set them all off again.

It took nearly ten whole minutes for them to stop laughing, remembering how stupid they all sounded.
"That…was…awesome!" Kili panted, clutching his side, tears streaming down his face.
"I know!" Elrohir replied, also crying with laughter.
"Thorin…"
"Yes!"

When they had calmed down fully (which took a further half hour), they walked back to the twins' rooms. They had two rooms next to each other with a door between them so they talk to each other without having to move. They sat down around a fire and talked. They had many things in common, not just pranks.

It wasn't their intention to pull another prank, it just happened by accident. Kili stood up on Elladan's bed to have a look at something, when he knocked over a small bottle onto himself and Elrohir. Fili and Elladan stared in shock. It was the pink hair dye.

In the morning, the Company assembled early in the morning, to depart before most people were awake. They were all ready to go, when Bilbo realised something.
"Where are Fili and Kili?" Everyone looked round. The brothers were nowhere to be seen. At that moment, they came rushing out of a doorway, a moment later followed by the elf twins. All four had pink hair. Thorin face-palmed. They were all grinning, so it couldn't be too bad. Well, if they get ridiculed by anyone, it is their own stupid fault. Thorin thought to himself.

"Right, we are going, before anyone does anything even more stupid." Thorin commanded. The twins and Fili and Kili said their farewells, promising to return someday. As they walked off, Thorin hoped that they would get to keep their promise, and was reminded of another promise that they all had to keep.

They are adorable!

Thanks to the-dwarf-on-asgard for the idea for the pink hair dye having a re-appearance!

There should be roughly one more chapter left.

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