Disclaimer: This is a work of fanfiction. I do not own any of the character, places, names, or anything associated with the works of J.R.R Tolkien or the Lord of the Rings (books or movie, whatever). My characters are Anita, Leila, and Arlandria and that is all.
Chapter 14: Dirty Little Secret
Anita felt like an escaped convict the way they were up here hiding in a cave where Legolas had brought them to discuss their little 'problem'. She understood that he wanted to be able to talk to her openly away from prying ears, but this seemed like a bit much. It had taken nearly the whole morning to climb their way up to the cave, far past where Rivendell's guards patrolled, before Legolas felt they truly had any privacy. Now that they had come all the way up here though, the elf wasn't overly enthused to broach the awkward subject .
"Okay I really just don't understand what the big deal is." Ani sat on a large cascading pile of smooth flowstone which ran along one wall the entire length of the cave. The built up mineral deposit made quite a comfortable bench for her to sit on while she waited for Legolas to say something that was worth the time it had taken to climb up here. She had already heard the story of the conversation between her father and Legolas; that in an attempt to avoid further complications to their friendship he tried to get himself unassigned as her guide. When he recounted about his father's approval, she understood why he had been reluctant to follow through with his plan. If there was one thing that Anita knew about Legolas' father, Thandruil, it was that his approval was hard earned and easily lost.
"It is because you do not understand the social mores of our world yet." The Elf prince had been pacing back and forth in front of where Anita had been sitting since they entered the secluded cave, too fidgety to sit for even a moment.
"Well why don't you explain them to me instead of pointing out what I don't know." His antsy-ness and his pacing were putting Ani in an uneasy state.
"It is complicated."
"That's what you keep saying but I don't see what is so complicated about it. We find each other attractive, we had sex, and we have to keep it a secret. Seems real simple to me." Her hands found their way to her temples and she began to rub circles on the soft flesh in hopes of releasing the mounting tension there. Honestly she didn't believe it was a simple situation either, but for heaven sake who talks about it this much? In all those rom-com movies Leila had forced her to watch growing up no one talked about sex, they just did it and everyone walked away happy.
"I find it hard to believe that such a relationship is truly tolerated even where you are from."
It tweaked her nerve a bit, but Ani chose to skip right over the part where Legolas insinuated that Tucson was some haven of sin and immorality. "I wouldn't say its commonplace but people do it, they have a happy ,healthy, strictly sexual relationship with someone and then they move on with life."
"And you find this acceptable?"
"Duh."
"Is that the manner in which you…you're maidenhood…" Legolas struggled to find a way to ask the question delicately. Conversations this frank and to the point were a rare thing to have with a woman. Of course Anita wasn't quite like the other woman that Legolas knew.
"How I lost my virginity?" Her bluntness caused Legolas' ears to turn a shade of red in embarrassment. Ani though didn't mind the question and had no qualms with being perfectly honest about her past. " Yeah it was. My buddy Kevin and I were the best of friends growing up, so summer of sophomore year we figured there was no point in getting a boyfriend or girlfriend for sex. I mean we trusted each other completely so it felt less weird for us that way. We only intended for it to happen the one time but then it happened like a hundred time again after that sooooo….we just went with it. And don't act all innocent, you weren't a rookie between the sheets either. So what's the difference now?" She had him there. Legolas knew he had to choose his next words carefully or he risked angering Ani beyond repair.
"I have never…revisited….the bed of a woman." It took her a minute to figure out his vague description.
"So one night stands are perfectly acceptable by societal rules but a fuck buddy isn't?"
"It's compli…"
"THEN EXPLAIN IT!" Anita finally snapped. In Tucson she may have been viewed as entering her adult years, but here in Rivendell she was still seen as a child, and the fact that people viewed her that way hadn't escaped her notice. "And stop pacing you are making me anxious."
Legolas stop in his tracks. Anita exasperatedly gestured to the open spot next to her, a silent indicator that he needed to take a seat. With a huff he took a seat next to her before he attempted to explain.
"Elves mate for life. That is the way of our people. However, remaining celibate for several hundred years can leave one feeling very alone in the world, so it is not terribly uncommon for us to seek another's company even if it is only for a night. Privacy is a difficult thing to attain in our realm, there is no sound that goes unheard, and very little that our eyes do not see…our culture accounts for this. Unless the more is publicly trampled upon, the act is ignored."
"What do you mean trampled upon?"
"If one's actions and intentions are too marked to be mistaken as friendship."
"Like a PDA?"
"Pardon?" Ani often forgot that acronyms and labels were lost on Legolas. It was silly but Anita never thought she took common knowledge of things like PDAs or fuck buddies for granted until she was in a place where they needed explaining.
"A Public Display of Affection. You know; kissing, hugging, holding hands, acting all couple-y."
"Yes that would be one way of making intentions clear. So you understand now why we must put this aside and not allow the opportunity for temptation?"
"No, actually, not at all. Based on the rules you just described we have a golden ticket of opportunity to get away with this while playing inside the rules. We have Elladan's blessing to travel outside the walls of Rivendell pretty much whenever we want, far away from prying eyes and ears. And as a bonus you don't live here, so if things were to go badly between the two of us you could leave and go back to Mirkwood, neither of our fathers would have to know. No harm no foul. I mean…we've already had sex so what more damage could we do?"
Legolas couldn't argue with her line of thinking. Putting aside the moral question of right or wrong, her logic was infallible. Leaning heavily against the rough cave wall he rested his head back as he thought. He knew what point Ani was trying to make, at least he assumed he knew what point she was trying to make, and despite wracking his brain to point of exhaustion; he couldn't come up with a good counter-argument. Truthfully the young prince was weary of this game they had been clinging to, pretending that the sexual energy between them wasn't there, struggling to continue the façade of being just friends. Was he honestly prepared to spite in the face of everything he had been taught about relationships? Then again maybe he was getting ahead of himself.
"So what is it you are suggesting then?" His heart was heavy with indecision. Part of him wanted her to deny any desire for this kind of relationship, to follow the rules of propriety. And the other part of him grew excited at the idea of such a risky and wicked endeavor.
Anita didn't answer him right away, rather, she turned and moved herself over him to adjust her sitting position. Now she no longer sat next to him, but straddled his lap to face him. The girl had every intention of pushing the prince's resolve to its very limits.
"I want this, you want this, I don't really see any reason why we can't pursue a totally physical relationship disguised as a platonic friendship until we work this out of our systems. But in the interest of fairness; I am going to give you three opportunities to give me just one good reason why we shouldn't do this." She sat there looking expectant with that impish little smirk on her face that Legolas had come to know only too well. They were playing with fire here; he knew it, she knew it, and neither of them had the ability to care anymore.
"It would not be proper."
Anita made a sound that mimicked a buzzer. "It wasn't proper the first time we fucked, that certainly didn't stop either of us from having fun. Try again." As she spoke, Ani unzipped the front of her hoodie and removed the article of clothing, revealing a skin tight white tank top underneath that offered Legolas quite a view. His hands found their way to her thighs which rested propped next to either of his legs, and slowly he began to rub back and forth.
"You could conceive a child."
"Wrong again. I'm on birth control, there is literally no chance of me getting pregnant. You are 'O' for two. Last chance." Ani didn't even give him time to respond before she was undoing the clasps on the front of his tunic, working swiftly to expose the flawless body underneath. This was a battle he was going to lose, Legolas already knew that, and he couldn't say with any amount of conviction that he minded. There was however one final point that very well could change the young girl's mind.
"If your father were ever to discover us, he would kill us both."
Anita's little smirk turned into a full blown wicked smile. "Well then we better be damn sure not to get caught." Leaning forward, she closed the gap between their lips.
Any remaining resistance Legolas may have had disappeared as their kiss deepened. His tongue ravenously explored her mouth as she pressed her body closer to his, rocking her hips against his growing erection. She broke the kiss momentarily, raising both her arms in a silent invitation which Legolas gladly accepted, tugging the tank top up and over her head and tossing it aside. Before Anita could remove his open tunic from the already exposed skin, Legolas took her left breast in his mouth and laved the rosy little peak with his tongue. Ani gave a soft moan of encouragement as she leaned back, resting her hands behind her on Legolas' knees, giving the elf complete access to her chest. He switched breasts, causing her breathing to become uneven as he continued the assault on her sensitive mounds.
A sinful idea crossed his mind as his thoughts drifted back to the first time they had been together, remembering how she responded to his rough and somewhat calloused lovemaking, leaving her own marks on him with her nails and teeth. Perhaps he should return the favor. Ever so gently he ran his teeth over the taut pink tip, earning him a throaty gasp from the woman on his lap and her nails to dig into his legs. Her fingers released their grip on his legs only to push back on his shoulders, freeing herself from sensory overload of his mouth on her skin, and giving her the opportunity to yank the tunic from his frame. Sliding her hand between their bodies, Ani found the hard mound of his throbbing manhood and began rubbing the length of it. Her actions drew groans of yearning from the elf she was teasing.
This couldn't last much longer for either of them. After yesterday's prelude in the orchard, horny was a severe understatement for their current condition. Undoing the front of her jeans, Ani stood up and in one smooth motion slid the dark denim fabric from her legs. Legolas watched as the girl seductively shimmied her panties down her legs and then stepped out of the clothing pooled at her feet. His eyes had gotten darker, just like that day at the lake, it was a feature that Ani found strangely sexy.
Legolas stood up quite suddenly and reached for Anita, resting his hands on her hips and pulling her naked form up against his body. His hands traveled down from her hips to her legs, and with no trouble he hoisted her up and wrapped her legs around his mid-section. He took a few steps forward so her smooth back rested against the opposing jagged stone wall of the cave. Returning to their earlier spot between both bodies, Anita's slim fingers started to undo the knot at the top of his pants. Freeing his erection from its cloth prison, Ani guided him to her center. With no more encouragement necessary, Legolas thrust inside her opening, a small grunt escaping from deep in his throat.
The coarse cave walls cut into her sensitive skin with every deep thrust of Legolas' fast rhythm, blurring pain and pleasure into one overwhelming sensation. Their position allowed for the elf to push inside her deeper than before, and every time his hips rocked forward he was rewarded with a punctuated cry of excitement. He continued to plunge his hard organ in and out of Anita's willing body, her cries and moans only furthering his excitement and his own need. It was those sounds, her sounds, that he longed for, that he ached to hear, that drove his own arousal.
"Oh yes, oh god yes…." Anita's desperate nonsensical rambling mixed with short gasps of ecstasy were all the indicator Legolas needed that she was drawing near her climax. Gripping her hips harshly, he began to drive into her as fast and hard as he thought the girl could handle. His mouth returned to the soft flesh of her breast and he bit down on her mound. Ani's scream of release echoed off the cave walls around them, amplified and distorted but unmistakably a sound of pleasure. Her legs tightened around his middle and her nails dug trails down his back and her hidden inner walls coaxed Legolas to his own release, casting him over the edge.
Unwrapping her legs from around Legolas, Anita tried to anchor herself back to reality by placing her feet firmly on the hard stone floor. With the cold wall at her back and Legolas' firm body pressed against her front, she stood there shaking in the aftermath of her orgasm.
"Do you think it's out of our system?" Ani asked him between gasps of air. The elf's only response was to shake his head as he tried to regain his own composure.
"Then maybe we should do that again."
Dirty Little Secret- The All-American Rejects