Legolas gets legless part 5

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This chapter is out later than I intended because I lost the chapter when saving it onto a floppy disk. (I have no idea how that happened but I was not happy!) and I had to re-type the whole chapter again.

Anyway here it is (finally) and happy New Year!!

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When Aragorn awoke the next morning he noticed two things.

The first was the pressure on his chest.  He looked down to find Legolas snuggled up against him drooling slightly on his coat in the process.

The second was that pain in his back and neck from sleeping propped up against a tree all night.

He groaned and shifted slightly while trying not to wake the sleeping elf.

He wasn't successful.

Legolas awoke with a start causing the top of his head to quite effectively and quite forcefully connect with the bottom of Aragorn's chin.

Two things then happened.  The ranger yelped in pain as he bit his tongue and Legolas screamed like a young maiden and scrambled up into the tree they had spent the night under.

Legolas' screams attracted the attentions of the rest of the company and they had come running over swords, axes and in the case of the hobbits a string of sausages, a roll of bread, a frying pan and a burnt stick at the ready to face any foes they found at the source of the screams.

What they found was a very tired looking ranger with drool on his coat holding a hand over his mouth and groaning in pain and Legolas dangling from a low branch of the tree by his legs talking to himself about how pretty the sky looked now it was "Green and grassy."

They lowered their weapons or in the case of Pippin began to eat their weapons.

"Trying to get a bit too frisky with the elf were you?"  Snorted Boromir

The hobbits giggled.  Frodo was the first one to recover.

"What happened Strider? Are you alright?"

Aragorn nodded

"It wathh an acthident he-" Aragorn's eyes widened in shock and he quickly covered his mouth again.

Pippin would have choked on his bread roll if it hadn't been for the quick thinking of Merry.

Trying very hard and failing miserably to hold back his laughter Boromir asked him to repeat what he just said pretending not to have heard him properly.

Aragorn shot him a look and then very slowly tried to repeat himself.

"It wathh an acth…acth…an…acth-"

He gave up when the laughter of the company grew too loud and lowered his head in frustration.

His tongue felt swollen and he knew it would take a few hours for the swelling to go down without ice. Maybe I have something in my pack I can use he mused.

All of a sudden the laughter stopped and there was a collective gasp from the others.

Legolas had dropped down from the tree headfirst and had landed gracefully on his hands and had immediately turned it into an impressive headstand finally halting in a standing position.

Sam was the first to speak "I think he's back to normal!"

No sooner had he said that Legolas had tripped over his own foot and landed flat on his face with a thud on the grass and shouted "ooooh! Who put this grass here?"  Then collapsed into another fit of giggles.

"Never mind"

Aragorn stood up and straitened out his coat.  "Well now that were all awake I think ith time we thet of again don't you?"

He ignored the giggles as he set off back towards the original camp only stopping to pick Legolas up off the ground.

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When he reached the camp he set Legolas down next to his pack and went to pack up the elf's things.  While he was doing that he didn't notice that Legolas was rummaging through his medicine pack.

When the elf had found the plant he was looking for he hugged it to his chest and quietly giggled to himself.

He looked over to the ranger and saw he was still busy.  Legolas' grin grew wider and he quickly put some of the plant in his mouth and began to chew it carefully, putting the rest away in his boot for later.  When he had chewed it long enough he carefully took it out of is mouth and gently squeezed it into Aragorn's drinking cup.  The clear liquid from the plant mixed in with the water and Legolas grinned even more. (If that was possible)  He was looking forward to this.  Now all he had to do was make sure Aragorn drinks it then wait for it to take effect.

Just as he picked up the cup the rest of the fellowship returned still laughing at Aragorn's speech problem.

Aragorn returned to his own pack and looked at Legolas wondering why he was holding his cup so closely.  He slowly put a hand on Legolas' shoulder so as not to startle the elf who was now shaking with suppressed giggles and said in a calm soothing voice  "Legolas…what are you doing with my cup?"

Legolas just grinned at him and shoved the cup under his nose with lightening speed.

"Drink!Drink!Drink!Drink!Drink!" grinned the elf

Aragorn looked suspiciously at the elf who was still grinning and then at the contents of the cup.

It looked like water, it smelled like water, he took a small sip, it tasted like water.  He realised how thirsty he was and drank down the rest of the cups contents in one.     

Legolas was now biting his lip and had turned a light shade of red.

Aragorn dismissed this thinking that the elf had found some random object amusing again and began to pack his own things. 

He reached for his medicine pack and found it wasn't in the place he had left it the night before.  One of the hobbits must have moved it.  He retrieved it and began to look through it for the leaves that would help reduce the swelling of his tongue and he noticed another strange thing.  The contents had been mixed up like someone had rummaged through it.  He couldn't tell if something was missing but he was relieved he kept any dangerous plants and poisons in the pouch on his belt.  Maybe Merry and Pippin ate some bad mushrooms again.  The last time they had he had shown them which plant would settle their sore stomachs and put some away in his pack just in case it happened again.  That's what will have happened last night. 

Pleased with his theory he found the leaf he was looking for and proceeded to chew on it. 

Seeing the rest of the fellowship was ready he helped Legolas (who was still grinning) up off the ground and lead the way.

"If we keep a good, quick pathe by nightfall we thould be in Lothlorien."  he said

He hoped he was right.

AN: I hope lithpy err I mean Lispy Aragorn wasn't too hard to understand!