Title: I Am Not In Love 1-3/3+

Pairing: Legolas/Gollum, Thranduil/Aragorn

Rating: R

Warning: Not a pretty reading. Weird fic.

Disclaimer: Characters belong to Tolkien, I just borrowed them

Spoiler: Total AU.

Summary: Love can be shown in different ways, not only by beauty, but by the heart as well.

Note: I’ve got inspired of Enrique Iglesias – “I’m Not In Love”

1.

Mirkwood 3017

King Thranduil watched his son as he shot at the target.

The arrows never hit the center. Legolas had something on his mind, something that was disturbing him, and he wasn’t concentrating.

Thranduil came closer to his son; he had a dreamy expression on his face, and his eyes were staring into the distance. The king knew what it was; he knew what his son was feeling.

“Greenleaf?” Thranduil asked.

It seemed as if Legolas was in another world, as he did not hear his father’s words. He was thinking of the one who had captured his heart.

“Legolas?”

Legolas jumped at his father’s voice, interrupting his thoughts.

“What is it adar?” Legolas asked, as he noticed the worried look on his father’s face.

“Legolas, is there something you want to tell me?” Thranduil asked.

Legolas watched his father; his mind telling him he should say something to his father, but his heart was saying otherwise. He did not know what to do.

“Legolas?” Thranduil asked again. “Has your heart really been captured by this man?”

Legolas thought if he did not tell his father the truth, the king would get angry, so he nodded.

“So he is yours,” Thranduil whispered in defeat as he felt how his heart sank.

“Adar?” Legolas asked, worried about his father.

“Get Gandalf!” Thranduil ordered to one of the guards before he fainted.

“Noooooooooo!” Legolas yelled as he thought he had lost his father.

End of Chapter 1.

2.

Legolas knelt close to his father, and asked the guards: “Where is Gandalf?”

The guards replied with the sad answer that Gandalf had already left with the human and that they were beyond Mirkwood’s borders.

‘No! What have I done?’ he thought and rose.

“My prince?” one of the guards asked.

Prince Legolas walked fast at first, and then his pace increased as he started to run through the woods towards the border. He ran without looking back.

He did not hear the guards that rode to catch him; they wanted to help him.

“Prince Legolas?” one of the guards asked, when they finally caught him. All the guards cast worried looks at the prince. But the prince ignored them and continued to run, only stopping when he saw the arrow in the sky.

“I sent the arrow, my prince, so the guards on the border know to stop them,” the guard explained.

Legolas looked at them, then looked in the direction where the border lay, and seemed lost.

“Use my horse, my lord,” the guard suggested and added: “you need to gather your strength for your father.”

Legolas nodded in agreement, realising the guard spoke the truth with his words.

He already had lost enough time, and he just hoped his father’s health would not worsen.

Legolas mounted the horse given to him, and rode quickly, the other guards following him.

In the meantime in practice area…

King Thranduil saw in his mind the one he loved.

He could feel his heart aching as the picture of his love cracked in his mind.

It made him cry.

The guards who remained looked at their king and one of them said: “Moved him to the healer’s house.”

The guards took their king to the healer, hoping for a miracle.

Outside Mirkwood’s borders…

Legolas did not see them straight away and began to panic, losing any hope as he thought they were well and truly gone.

Gandalf and Aragorn came out from the shadows of the trees and saw how Legolas sat on the horse, looking sad.

“What happened to him, Gandalf?” Aragorn asked.

“I do not know, my friend,” Gandalf said.

“Prince?” Gandalf asked and saw in how quickly the elf came to him and embraced him, making the Maia almost fall off Shadowfax.

“Prince Legolas?” Aragorn called.

When Legolas controlled his tears, wiping them away from his cheeks, he said: “My father, I think my father is… is… dead!”

“What?” they called together. They saw as Legolas got off the horse and sat down on the grass, his eyes staring at the flowers.

Gandalf and Aragorn dismounted from their horses and walked towards the prince. They knelt next to him, and gently gripped the prince’s shoulders.

“How did this happen, Legolas?” Gandalf asked him softly.

“It happened because of me!” Legolas stated.

Gandalf came closer to the elf and hugged him. He could feel the wetness on the prince’s cheeks as the tears fell again.

“Where is he?” Aragorn asked.

“Over… over at the practicing area,” Legolas sobbed.

“Aragorn, take my horse, he will bring you there quickly,” Gandalf said as he sat with the prince.

Aragorn mounted Shadowfax and rode quickly. He only had one thought in his mind: ‘To save a king.’

Aragorn’s heart was pounding hard, and he did not know why.

Gandalf did his best to comfort the prince, but Legolas grieved, blaming himself for what happened.

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At the healer’s house…

Aragorn rode towards the practice area, and saw no-one there. He realised they must have gone to the healer’s house and went there. The man noticed of group of guards standing outside the house with worried looks on their faces. He stopped his horse and dismounted, before walking to the guards and asking them what happened. But the guards did not know how to answer him as they did not know.

Aragorn walked to the healer’s house and stepped in. He saw the king lying on the bed; his eyes were closed, his skin was pale as the clouds on a calm day.

“From what does your lord suffer?”

“I suppose from a broken heart. It has happened before,” the healer said.

“What cured him before?”

“The love that he shares with his son, I guess, but I heard rumors the king had a lover since his wife was killed.”

“Oh… I will stay here,” Aragorn said, as he understood the words that had been said.

Over the border…

Legolas got up and walked away from Gandalf, who tried to hold him back, afraid the prince was going to do something stupid.

“Prince Legolas, where in the name of the Valar are you going?” Gandalf asked.

“Where I am supposed to be…” Legolas said, and gave Gandalf one last look before he fled.

End of Chapter 2.

3.

Gandalf tried to follow after the elf, but he did not catch him, instead he walks over the healer’s room, where he thought that Greenleaf might be there.

Gandalf slammed the door open, as he was worried of Legolas, and was surprised that Legolas was not even there.

“Where is Legolas?” Gandalf asked at once.

“What happen my friend?” Aragorn asked.

“I lost him, he blamed himself by killing his father, and I thought that he shall be here,” Gandlaf explained in one deep breath.

“Oh… we did not see him here,” Aragorn said, then turned over the king with sadly eyes.

“Gandalf?” he asked.

“Yes?”

“Is there any hope for the king?” Aragorn asked as he was concerned about the king’s life.

“You are his only hope, Estel,” Gandalf said, then added “You gave him a lot by keeping him alive, pay him back and kissed him,” Gandalf suggested.

Aragorn looked over the king, and hesitated before he kissed him.

After the kiss, the color suddenly began to regain in king’s body.

“He will be fine from now and on,” Gandalf cheered him.

“Thank you!” Aragorn said and hugged the Maia tight.

“Now… do you have any idea where Legolas could be?” Gandalf asked.

Aragorn had no idea and nodded as ‘No’.

“I did not see him…” Aragorn said.

“I think that I will try the garden…” Gandalf mused loudly and left the room.

Aragorn’ eyes were back over the king

“I did not know… that I was your only hope…” Aragorn whispered to the king, and stroke his face.

In the dungeons…

Legolas walked over the last cell underground, and knelt by the door.

“I killed my father,” he whispered.

“Precious?” a cunning voice was heard from the other side.

“I was ashamed of our love…” Legolas continued, as he seemed not paying attention of what had happened around him.

“Legolas?” Gollum called, as he got no answers from his love.

“My last words to him were that I fell in love in Aragorn…” Legolas continued.