Legolas opened his eyes and wondered where he was. He wasn't in the room he and Adela had been given in Rivendell, so where was he? He shifted about a bit and heard someone give a groan. That someone was Elladan, who he was sprawled on top of. Legolas sat up so that Elladan could. Elladan then proceed to sit up and he pulled Legolas into his lap and wrapped both of the covers they had brought down around him. Legolas giggled slightly and lay his head on Elladan's chest whilst looking up at him and smiling slightly. Elladan smiled back down at him. "I see the storm's over then," he commented.

"Yes, but it's not very warm," Legolas said. Elladan held the young elfling tighter.

"It'll get colder, but it'll also snow and that's always fun. Do you have snow in Mirkwood?" Elladan, curious to know what it was like in Mirkwood. Elladan and Elrohir had started off on the wrong foot with Legolas and Adela but now the four were fast on their way to becoming firm friends.

"Of course we have snow in Mirkwood!" Legolas told him. "I love it when it snows, snowball fights with our older brothers are always fun!"

"I thought you weren't allowed to play?" Elladan questioned quietly, so as not to wake Elrohir and Adela and also so that no one would hear if they were standing outside the door. He remembered hearing from the twins about Thranduil's rules and he thought that they were crazy.

"Snowball fights only ever happen when we're alone with our family and we don't have to keep up appearances. It's during times with just our family that we play and muck about," Legolas explained patiently. "Don't worry, you'll get used to all the rules."

"I wont have to," Elladan told him with a grin. "I'm not the one living in Mirkwood, you're the one living in Rivendell and you and Adela with have to get used to breaking some rules! Rules were made to be broken," Elladan stated and began to tickle Legolas who squirmed in an attempt to get off Elladan's lap and began to laugh. This woke Elrohir and Adela who sat up and watched, laughing when Legolas couldn't escape Elladan's grip.

When he finally fell breathless against Elladan and Elladan stopped tickling him, Legolas shot a mock glare at Adela. "Thanks for all the support there, sis," he said sarcastically.

"Your welcome," Adela told him sweetly and Elladan and Elrohir couldn't help but laugh at Legolas and Adela's antics.

None of them heard the door open or see Elrond enter with a tray of food for them until he announced his presence. "I see the four of you are finally awake," he told them. Elladan, Elrohir, Adela and Legolas jumped.

"Ada! Don't do that!" Elrohir told him.

Elrond just chuckled. "Well, what were you four doing sleeping down here anyway? I'm pretty certain that you were all in your rooms when I checked on you when I went up to bed."

"You checked up on us?" Elladan asked.

"Indeed I did and that hasn't answered my question, Elladan," Elrond said.

Elladan and Elrohir shared a look. They were trying to work out of their father was mad or not. He sounded pretty stern. "Well?" Elrond probed.

Neither Elladan nor Elrohir answered, so Legolas did. "We were scared of the storm," he answered quietly, to his hands.

Elladan and Elrohir smiled at each other across Legolas' head, the young one was a friend all right. Elrond knelt in front of Legolas and lifted his chin with his hand. "You must learn to look at people when you talk to them, little one," Elrond said, remembering the incident in the school room two days ago when he had also had to lift Legolas' chin to get him to look him in the eye.

"Yes sir," Legolas answered in a whisper. Elrond still held his chin.

Elrond grinned at Legolas kindly. "And as for being scared by storms, don't worry about it. I can remember two twins who would run into my room at the first sign of a storm when they were a lot older than you are now!"

Elladan and Elrohir went red. "Ada!" they both protested together, weakly. Legolas and Adela giggled and Elrond gave his sons both a kiss on the forehead.

"Well, I brought you breakfast, so no complaining you two!" Elrond said teasingly. "And Seraphina has done what she always used to do for you two after a storm!"

"Who's Seraphina?" Adela asked.

"Our head cook," Elrond answered.

"She's brilliant!" Elladan said. "Because if Ada's talking about what I think he's talking about it means chocolate chip pancakes for breakfast."

Elrond laughed and left the room. "Enjoy it while you can. You two are cleaning out the stables today," Elrond told them.

"Ouch," Elrohir commented. "And on a Saturday!"

"Oh come on!" Elladan told him. "Chocolate chip pancakes! Come on you two, these are great!"

"I can't say we've ever tried them before," Legolas said as he sat down and took the plate Elladan handed him.

"You don't know what you're missing!" he was told and the four began to eat.

After breakfast they all went upstairs to get changed. They guessed that they must have presented a funny sight to Elrond, considering that their clothes were creased and their hair was a mess. Legolas and Adela found themselves not minding though.

Once in their room they changed into their winter work clothes, which consisted of dark blue cord trousers, a beige shirt and light blue braces. Then they put of their boots, grabbed their dark blue jackets and headed for the door. The play clothes that Arwen had had them measured for had arrived, but Legolas and Adela hadn't so much as thought about wearing them.

They found the stables without too much trouble and heard Elladan and Elrohir talking inside. "Those two horses are new. I've never seen them before," Elladan said.

Legolas and Adela looked around the door and saw Elladan looking at their horses. "They're ours," Legolas said and both Elladan and Elrohir spun round to face them.

Once he had got over the shock Elrohir commented, "Well, that makes sense."

"Yeah, the black one's mine and is called Nightshade, the white one is Adela's and is called Aurora," Legolas told them.

"Good names," Elladan told them. "What are you two doing here?" he then asked.

"We have today off until our study hour. Need any help?" Adela offered.

"You don't have to do that," Elrohir protested weakly.

"We know. But the sooner you're finished in here the sooner you can show us what there is to do in Rivendell!" Legolas informed them and the four laughed and got down to work.