Aragorn X Legolas (Aralas) Eternal Love

Opening Up

.....................................(Aragorns P.O.V.)..............................................

My eyes were closed and my head hurt, I felt dizzy and heard talking, I could make out only a bit of it,

"It's my fault," I heard a voice that I recognized, it sounded cracked and pained,

"Laddie, you couldn't have done anything, the storm was a shock for all of us, and anyway, I think he's stirring, look," said a different, gruffer voice, Gimli, there was and gasp and the sound of grit and stones slipping and a loud thud,

"Argh," yelped the first voice which I now realized was Legolas. There was now laughter, lots of it,

"Oh shut up Dwarf," Legolas groaned. I opened my eyes and saw Legolas stumbling as he stood up and running at Gimli,

"Don't kill Gimli please," I croaked, Legolas' head snapped around to face me, his beautiful blue eyes piercing through my dazed mind,

"Aragorn!" he exclaimed and walked, rather quickly, towards me. I tried to stand up but Legolas objected and said,

"Aragorn, at least remain seated, you have sustained a head injury," he seemed brisk; he started mixing herbs together, the liquid turned a pale blue and Legolas seemed satisfied with it, "here," he handed the herb water/ liquid/ juice (take your pick) and I drank it, my head stopped pounding and everything came into focus. I turned my head to see the rest of the fellowship seeming, not overall that worried, I was glad, I found it embarrassing how much Legolas cared. 

When he looked at me I felt my heart flutter, more then it ever had with Arwen, I was not stupid, I knew what was going on with me but I could not allow myself to love Legolas, I could list hundreds of reasons why it wouldn't work, 1. He's an Elf and I am a Man /human (take your pick) 2. We are both men 3. He is immortal and I am not. 

Suddenly Legolas knelt down beside me, I felt my cheeks heat up and hoped that he wouldn't notice or assume it was to do with the herbs,

"Why did you fall when the thunder struck?" he asked, it was not a demanding tone but a soft and understanding one, I shook me head to his question. The truth was that I am terrified of storms, thunder and lightning namely; I did not need Legolas to know,

"Aragorn, mellon, please?" he asked, I shook my head, he sighed, "if you answer my question I will let you ask me any three questions of your choice, he knew I wasn't able to resist that,

"I am afraid of thunder and lightning, please do not think any the worse of me, I can usually bare it but that storm took me off my guard," I said hurriedly, Legolas chuckled, 

"Indeed it did mellon nin, indeed it did," He smiled,

"Why did you call me melamin? When we were in the trees," I asked, his cheeks tinged pink,

"I meant mellonin but I said the wrong thing, I meant nothing by that, it's just," he sighed and I could've sworn that I saw tears in his eyes, "when we were in the tree, messing around, you reminded me of my friend Tauriel, I loved her; she loved a Dwarf, we used to call each other 'mela' or 'melamin' as a joke,"

"Where is Tauriel now?" I asked, two questions asked now, one more to go,

"In truth, I haven't the slightest idea, for all I know she could be dead of heartbreak, she has made no effort to commune with me; I just hope that she is okay,"

I thought he was reading my mind for a moment, he smiled and said,

"I do not love her anymore, that was 60 years ago. Anyway, one more question to ask," 

"What are you afraid of?" I asked, I saw him tense up,

"Enclosed and tight spaces," he said shortly,

"Why?" I couldn't stop myself from asking,

"You have already asked me three questions have you not?" he smirked, I frowned at him and he laughed,

"I guess it goes back to the whole 'woodland Elves love having huge forests to roam' stereotype, I grew up in a huge forest with much to run free in, however, there were also the spiders, I am not afraid of the spiders in the slighted, killing them gives me pleasure, anyway, the spiders would hide in the more enclosed spaces," I thought I could tell where this was going and mentally begged that I was wrong, "when I was only a child I was running around like some sort of madman and somehow wound up against a wall with one of the biggest spiders I have seen to this day approaching me with its pincers ready to kill (please correct me if my spider facts are incorrect and you know real facts, this is snippets of what I remember from a class around 2 years ago, if I knew that that information would have value later I would have payed more attention) me, if one of the Mirkwood guard had not been on his shift and killed the creature I would not be here to tell the story,"

I was right,

"Legolas," I did not know what to say, "I-" I tried to talk but for some reason as he placed his hand on my shoulder I couldn't function, I had to stop this. He turned to watch the Hobbits antics and smiled, his smile almost made me feel sick, but not in a bad way, I believe some call it butterflies, whatever it was, I wasn't sure whether I liked it or not.

I saw a single tear run down his face, I did not know what or what to or indeed, how to say anything, so I hugged him, he seemed take aback and even the Hobbits stopped mucking about for a split second to watch us before they then turned back to their dancing. Legolas and I drew back and he asked,

"What was that for?" he seemed slightly happier then before, he was smiling, I wiped the tear from his cheek,

"You seemed as though you needed it," I smiled.

.......................(Legolas' P.O.V.)(yes again)..................

My heart fluttered as Aragorn hugged me, we both drew back and I could feel myself beaming,

"What was that for?" I asked, Aragorn wiped the tear that had been running down my face away,

"You seemed as though you needed it," He said smiling. Even though the setting suns glow was strong, Aragorn's smile was the brightest thing I could see. I gave up on trying to stop myself from loving him and just hoped that one day, things would work out between us.

A/N: This is quite a short one at 1100 and I do really like it, I hope you (yes you) liked it too, I will write more and I'm trying to make a posting routine but I can't promise anything at the time being because of online school and how all over the place it is and I will post more next week because there is no online school and then the next week there MIGHT be normal school so then I might be able to make a schedule and what story when.

Thank you for reading!

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