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I don't own LotR, made for fun.

Legolas gently opened the door to his father's study.

"You shouldn't be there," a voice said from behind him. The startled prince turned quickly and saw Arwen standing there with crossed arms. He scowled.

"It's my home. I can go wherever I want," he said. How would she feel if it was him being bossy in her home? Arwen's cheeks colored slightly, whether it was in anger or shame he could not tell.

"But even I can't be in my Ada's study. There are lots of important things in there. And your ada looks frightening, I wouldn't disobey him if I were you," she said much more gently than she had before. After a moment of just staring at each other, Legolas sighed.

"I will tell you something, if you promise me to keep it a secret."

"I promise." When blonde prince still looked at her expectantly, Arwen frowned. "You can't be possibly as stupid as my brothers and think that girls have to promise twice!" When no answer came, she gave up." Fine, I promise on my favorite doll, satisfied?" Legolas shrugged innocently.

"I am just being careful. You girls are very talkative. Come on in here." He took her arm and pushed her inside the study.

"So?" Arwen asked, once they were inside. "What is it?"

"Well, every time when your ada or daerada Celeborn come here, my ada is busy and behaves just plainly strange. He doesn't smile, he doesn't play with me and sometimes doesn't even talk to me besides 'good morning, ion nin' or 'bye, ion nin." Legolas then reached to his pocket and pulled out a crumpled paper.

"I know the feeling. It is so frustrating. They are in home and yet you feel like they are very far," admitted Arwen. "But what are you going to do with that?"

"Nana and I always send letters to Ada when he is away. And I thought that I can leave him one now too." Legolas blushed.

"That's some idea but... Why didn't you just tell him yesterday at the dinner?" she asked confused.

"Because your ada was talking to him."

"And?" She felt that it wasn't the real reason. The prince's face was now deep red. "You were too shy to talk about your feelings in front of others."

"I am not shy." The protest was all she needed to know that she was right. She shrugged and looked on as Legolas climbed at a very big armchair and placed small letter on the desk. She frowned once more.

"What's wrong?" asked Legolas, seeing her expression.

"Well, look at this pile of documents on your ada's desk. It's very big."

"That's why ada doesn't have time for me. Oh..." His eyes widened in understanding. "You think we should hide them so that he wouldn't find them?"

"Actually, I thought that your ada won't find the letter in that pile."

"OH. So... do you have any idea?" Legolas asked hopefully.

"You should write your letter on something larger so that it would look more important. Large things are always important, everyone knows that. See that paper? It is important." She pointed to sheets of paper with golden ornaments on their sides.

Thranduil rubbed his eyes tiredly. He didn't sleep much last night and he was plainly bored. After discussing with Elrond matter of orcs becoming bolder every year, terms of eventual aide from Greenwood to Rivendell and vice versa, the time had come for courtesies. In other words a few hours sitting by the table and talking without any purpose. He was glad that Mirnis was doing most talking.

"Keladan would you bring the documents, now?" He tried to hide his relief. It was almost the end. His second adviser handed him a pen, ink and the document. He opened it on the page he had to sign and stared, his heart skipping a beat.

"My lord?" Mirnis looked at him concerned.

"Do you have any copies?" he asked calmly, regaining his straight face.

"No, my lord. What's wrong with tha-" Kaladen glanced at the page and corners of his mouth twitched. "Oh."

"Thranduil?" Elrond straightened worried. In the same moment doors to the conference hall opened and two elflings walked in. Seeing what his father is reading, Legolas smiled.

"You got my message?"

"Message?" Cadanir, the scribe, stood up quickly and looked at his work. "My beautiful page! I worked on it for three hours," his whisper was faint and caused Kaladen to cover his smile with his hand.

Cadanir's black letters on the paper indeed were arts in themselves. Unfortunately, they were mostly covered by big red heart with the green text on it: I LOVE YOU ADA.

Lower on the page was one more sentence. It was written neater than the previous green text but could not be mistaken for Cadanir's: Could you come and tell me a story tonight, saes?

"Thranduil?" repeated Elrond.

"Someone helped you with writing your message," Kaladen observed, glancing at Legolas.

Arwen took the prince's hand proudly. Mirnis, who also saw 'the message' burst out laughing.

"I really appreciate your effort, mellon nin and I'm sorry," Thranduil comforted Cadanir, seeing his poor scribe's expression.

Confused by the laughing Mirnis, the despairing Cadanir and the two smiling elflings, Erestor took the document and passed it to Elrond, before the Elvenking or his advisers could react.

Elrond stared at the red heart.

"Arwen? You've done this?" he asked.

"Yes, ada. I helped Legolas because he didn't know how to write some of the words. You've said that helping others is very good."

Cadanir sat down again and started to rub his temples.

"How had you gotten into my office, Legolas? And don't lie to me," demanded Thranduil. Arwen backed up behind Legolas.

"Um, I sort of took the key from guards' room when they were helping Lord Elrohir persuade Lady Arwen to come down from the tree?" stated the unsure elfling. "Ouch!" Legolas rubbed his arm. He had to admit, Arwen was stronger than he had thought she was.

"Arwen! You can't just punch other children!" scolded Elrohir.

"But in that room are always at least three guards. They were all needed to help Elrohir?"

"Um, no..." Legolas said glancing at Elladan uncertainly. He didn't want to be punched by him.

"What have you done to them?" Thranduil missed his son's glance and was visibly worried about his guards' fate. His son, while adorably innocent, has proven to unknowingly cause much trouble than any elfling should at his age.

"Nothing... Daeron was chasing Lord Elladan at that time."

"Elladan? Explain." Elrond sighed. What his son could have done to enrage the guard enough to go after him?

"Um..." Elladan blushed furiously and Elrohir gasped in understanding.

"You mean that that muscular ellon that chased you was Demyana's adar? Oh my, I wish you luck with him, gwanur nin." Elrohir smirked. He haven't yet forgotten about incident with the books and Elladan's infatuation with Demyana was a perfect occasion to get back.

"It's getting ridiculous. Let's just sign this page as it is. Not like it would see the day's light ever again after your leaving." The hidden meaning of Mirnis' words didn't go unnoticed by Erestor. Documents like that were usually revived only when one side didn't want to fulfill the obligations.

"We will talk about it later, Legolas."

"Same for you, Elladan, Elrohir, Arwen."

The document indeed never saw the light of day again, both Greenwood and Rivendel elves living in peace and harmony. Well, besides Legolas, Arwen and the twins, of course who always were up to causing incredible havoc in the name of love and fun.

Reviews, please?

gwanur nin - my brother/twin
ellon - male elf
daerada - grandfather
saes - please
ion nin - my son
ada/adar - dad/father