Thankyou to Jedi Kay Kenobi and Mari who both suggested a chapter about the journey to Ravenhill and Legolas standing up to his father. Hope it meets your approval.

Legolas looked around as he urged the horse to run faster. Tauriel sat behind him, and the both of them sliced through the orcs as they rode through the streets. But, although they killed many orcs as they rode up the slopes of Dale, it did not even seem to help, there were many more still charging around the city.

As they rode in, they saw the elves had joined the battle, and Legolas felt relief rush into his body, his father had not abandoned the men as he had feared he might. Legolas looked around, looking for anyone, someone to inform of the extra army approaching. Finally, he found someone. "Gandalf," he shouted, pulling on the reigns of the horse.

"Legolas," Gandalf recognised him, "Legolas Greenleaf." Both Elves dismounted and Gandalf looked behind the Elf Prince to Tauriel, but this was no time for introductions.

"There is a second army." Legolas informed him. "Bolg leads a force of Gundabad Orcs, they are almost upon us."

"Gundabad." Gandalf murmured. "This was their plan all along."

Tauriel was looking around the open area in which they stood. Although she caught sight of fallen orcs, the body count of the humans was much higher, men and women and children. They barely stood a chance now, let alone with an extra army if they breached the city.

"Azog engages our forces then Bolg sweeps in from the north." Gandalf continued, quickly making sense of the plan.

"The north?" Bilbo spoke up. "Where is the north exactly?" Legolas looked down at him, surprised to see him in the midst of the battle, he was brave.

"Ravenhill," Gandalf replied, looking back towards the ruins of the fort.

"Ravenhill," Bilbo said. "Thorin is up there. And Fili and Kili, they're all up there."

Tauriel's eyes widened, they would be slaughtered. She had to do something, for although she did not love him, she knew she couldn't stand by or even just fight in the city, when Kili and his kin's lives were caught in a deadly trap.

She watched as Legolas followed Gandalf over to the edge of the city's walls, to discuss their next move. They didn't have time for this, she turned and ran through the city, she needed to get to Ravenhill.

"The elves joined the battle," Gandalf was explaining to Legolas. "Your father wanted his share of the treasure of the mountain. I will find him and ask him to send a force to Ravenhill"

Legolas nodded, "Tauriel and I will stay and fight." he told Gandalf. Gandalf nodded, and Legolas turned, drawing his daggers from behind his back. He expected Tauriel to be there, but once more, she was not with him. It only took him a moment to figure out where she would be going, they had been so close he knew her actions sometimes before she did, but recently, he had always seemed a step behind her.

He took off, running through the streets, cutting down any orc that came close to him, he had to reach her, she could not face Bolg's entire army by herself, or even with the help of four dwarves. He would accompany her. 'You are going to die chasing her one day." he told himself as he ran. But he knew deep down in his heart, he would never stop chasing her, no matter where she went.

Tauriel reached the main gate, then paused when she heard an elven horn. She gasped, the elves were withdrawing from battle. They couldn't do this. She stood at the gate, in her head debating whether to just go to Ravenhill or stay and convince whoever was here leading, to stay. Her choice was made for her, as she saw the elves round the corner, led by no other than the King. She didn't back down, she wouldn't let them leave. The King sliced through an orc and kept striding towards her.

She stood before the King, not caring about the consequences. He couldn't just abandon the people of Laketown, or the dwarves. "You will go no further. You will not turn away," she said. "Not this time," she added.

The look on Thranduil's face told her how furious he was. He glared at her, and hissed, "Get out of my way."

"The dwarves will be slaughtered," she said, surely he wouldn't just ignore that. But he did.

"Yes," he boomed. "They will die, today, tomorrow,one year hence, a hundred years from now." as he spoke he moved towards her. She searched his face for any sign of remorse, or pity for the dwarves, but found none. He was cold, and emotionless. "What does it matter? They are mortal." he finished.

A blinding rage ripped through her, she too, now was furious. She drew her bow, aiming it directly at her King. "You think your life is worth more than theirs?" she asked. "When there is no love in it. There is no love in you." She said it calmly and cooly, looking into his eyes, her face showing none of the fear she was starting to feel on the inside. He had the power to simply kill her, right here and now. It was her last option, to remind him of love, for his wife, for his son, for anyone. But it didn't work.

His sword seemed to come from nowhere, slicing through the air, but as her bow clattered to the ground, she realised the air wasn't the only thing he had sliced. She looked down at her hands, now devoid of a weapon, and she realised she now had nothing to defend herself with.

Legolas was nearing the gate when his keen ears picked up the sound of his father's voice above the clashing of swords and the screams and cries. He couldn't believe his father was forcing the elves to retreat. He was almost ashamed at this point. Although he knew his father had been getting worse and worse over the years, he still wasn't prepared for the sight that waited for him when he rounded the corner.

He rounded the corner just in time to see Thranduil slice through Tauriel's bow, his eyes only just picking up on the movement, it took less than a second. Tauriel's bow fell useless to the floor, and he watched as she looked up at the King who had looked after her for so many years, who now had a sword pointed at her chest.

"What do you know of love?" Thranduil hissed once more, the point of his sword still at her chest. Tauriel looked down at it, wondering if he would do it, if he would kill her and leave her at the entrance to the gate. Would anyone find her? Would Legolas find her body and think she was simply struck down by an orc? She wanted to scream, not out of fear, she was not afraid to die, but out of frustration, was nobody else going to stand up to their King, did he have such power over everyone else? Would she simply be remembered as the captain of the guard who committed treason?

"What you feel for that dwarf, is not real" Thranduil continued, and she slowly looked up at him. She knew it wasn't real, did Thranduil know as well? But Thranduil hadn't allowed her to love his son, and Kili was a breath of fresh air, a friend, someone to confide in. Who would Thranduil allow her to get close to?

"You think it is love?" Thranduil asked. No, she wanted to scream at him, I know what love is, but you didn't let me have it.

"Are you ready to die for it?" Thranduil hissed. So he would do it, Tauriel suddenly changed her mind, she didn't want to die, she wasn't ready to move on. Perhaps if it had been Legolas' life at risk she would have been prepared to forfeit her own, but right now, she wasn't ready. But she couldn't back down, not now. She stood, waiting for Thranduil's blade to pierce her skin.

Legolas moved. He wouldn't watch his love be struck down by his father. It didn't matter to him if Tauriel loved the dwarf, and if she was willing to die for the dwarf, because he had made up his mind. He was willing to die for her.

The sound of two blades hitting each other rang through the air as he forced his father's blade away from her chest. His father turned to him, a look of shock on his face.

"If you harm her," he said, "You will have to kill me." Thranduil's shock grew, but Legolas did not back down, and Thranduil saw no lie in his eyes. He really was willing to die for this elf. Legolas turned away, and walking towards the gates. He stopped by Tauriel's shoulder. "I will go with you." he told her, and she turned swiftly, not looking at him, before running in the direction of Ravenhill. The King simply stood there, now questioning what to do.

Tauriel didn't know what to say. He had just offered his life for hers. He had defied his father, and his King, to accompany her to fight of an army of orcs. He would give up life on this earth, among the trees, he would give up an eternity of life. She could barely believe it, and yet it shouldn't have surprised her, he had already done too much for her.

And so, they ran in complete silence, the only sound was the softness of their light footsteps on the gravel.

She knew she couldn't repay him. Except perhaps, she realised, by telling him the truth before they went to their quite likely death. But she didn't know where to begin. But it seemed she would not have to begin.

"Tauriel," Legolas said, as they approached the fortress. "Say something to me."

"You would truly give your life for mine?" she asked him.

"I would do anything for you." he replied.

They stopped running and she stood before him. "When your father had his sword pointed at me, I realised I didn't want to die for Kili." she said. "I realised there was only one person I would die for, Legolas and that is you." she told him.

Legolas looked down at her. "Why are you telling me this now?" he asked her.

"Because I realised something else then too. I realised I didn't want to die without you knowing the truth, and there's a very real chance that we could die up there." she said.

She went to run off, she realised they had little time. "Wait." Legolas grabbed her arm and spun her around. He kissed her, quickly but with passionatly.

"Please don't die." he whispered. "I need you in my life."

"You know I'm not that easy to kill." she said.

"You don't have a weapon." he told her. She reached behind her and realised it was true. She didn't have her daggers, and Thranduil had just cut her bow in half.

Legolas reached behind him and pulled out his daggers, handing them to her. "Make sure you use them well enough so you're alive to return them to me." he said.

"Make sure you're still alive so I can give them to you." she said. Legolas looked up, seeing the bats arive at the fortress. He kissed her, once more, only for a brief second, before jumping up into the air and catching one of the passing bats. Looking down, he saw her run into the fortress, and he prayed her would find her again when the battle was over, and then maybe finally, he wouldn't have to chase her anywhere anymore.

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