Disclaimer: Thx for the reviews and keep them coming. I will try to post some more chapters soon, but this was all for now. Chapter VIII: Prison

"It is good to see you again, your majesty!"

Legolas turned around and was stunned to see both Horizt and David in the cell next to them. Rory, who also spotted them, jumped to her feet and ran over to the bars separating the two rooms.

"David what are you doing here!" she asked shocked. David shook his head and pointed to the dwarf. "Him, strip bar" he said, feeling that that was enough explanation, and somehow Rory imagined what had happened.

"What about you?" David asked. "A fight!" she said and rubbed the soar spot on her arm. Legolas also walked over to the bars and wrapped his fingers around the cold iron. "The worst part is, Gustav is still missing" he sighed and Horizt shook his head.

"No he's not" he said and pointed to a small fat man, sleeping in the corner. "Gustav!" Legolas exclaimed in both surprise and a hint of anger. The small man snored slightly, and Horizt walked over and nudged him with his foot. He opened his eyes, looked around and when he saw the dwarf and elf he jumped to his feet.

"Your majesty, my good dwarf" he said happily, not sure who to hug first. "Where have you been?" Legolas asked, and Gustav explained that men in dark clothes and dragged him here when he tried to exchange his knife for some food at the market.

"What about you?" Gustav asked a looking from the man to the young woman in the cell with Legolas. "Luckily, we meet some friends" Legolas smiled and Horizt grumbled. "Yes and we found were the Dark Lord is hiding" Horizt said.

David sighed and ignored the looks Rory were sending him. "Let us not talk about this now, I am sure we are in to much trouble already" he muttered. Rory nodded and filled her lungs, she could feel that the walls were starting to close in on her, and she gripped the iron bars tight with her fingers, feeling her muscles tense.

"What we need to worry about is getting out!" David said, trying to be the voice of reason in this nut house. Legolas and Gustav nodded slowly, while Horizt grumbled again. "And were is my brother and Alfred the elf!"

"An elf, in this stone world?" Gustav said. "He is not an elf" David sighed, wondering exactly how far this would go, had they not reached the edge of insanity already.  "But why did you…?"  He asked, but nobody answered. Rory let go of the bars and ran a hand nervously trough her hair and started to pace.

David was the only one obvious to her behavior, but then again he had know her since they were kids. "Rory" he said calmly when she started to move back and front. She turned her head sharply in his direction and he could see that her eyes were larger already.

"What!" she snapped, and he knew that she was close to loosing it. "Calm down, try not to think about the walls" he said calmly and she nodded and rubbed her eyes trying to control her breathing. Now Legolas also noticed that the young woman was acting differently.

"What is wrong?" he asked and looked at David. "Claustrophobia" he explained and furrowed his eyebrow in concern, he knew Rory had an extreme case of claustrophobia; sometimes she couldn't even drive in a car.

"What is that?" Legolas asked and turned his head in her direction; he could hear that she had started to mutter to her self, telling her mind to be calm. "She freaks out in small places, she hates being locket up" David said and wanted nothing more then to bend the bars between them so that he could be the one to comfort her.

"Is there nothing we can do?" the elf asked concerned and David thought for a moment. The best thing was to get her to think about something else. "Hey, remember the summer we went to your grandmothers" she turned and looked at him sharply, her eyes cold as ice.

`Auch` he thought, `wrong topic` she had been especially emotional to anything that had with family since she discovered she was adopted. Legolas knew what David was trying to do; he was trying to get her to think about something else.

"My lady…the people in the tavern, called me Robin Hood, who was he?" he asked. Rory stopped pacing and sighed.

"A fiction man, a character from books and movies?"

"A character?"

"Yeah, a make believe person"

"What was he famous for?"

"Running around in a green dress, taking money from the rich and giving to the poor"

Suddenly they heard steps coming in the their direction, they could also hear other prisoners shout and call the officer names. They all turned their attention to the door, and Rory sighed when she saw who was with the police.

"Here they are sir, lunatics from the carnival if you ask me" the officer said and removed the cigarette from his mouth. "Nobody asked you," the person next to him grumbled.  Rory walked over to the bars, ready to face the person on the other side.

"Hi, Steve" she muttered and the man gasped. "Rory, so it really is you!" he said almost panicked. He turned to the officer and told him to unlock the door immediately. Legolas made room for the tall and dark haired man in the snappy suite to walk inn.

"What were you thinking, what do you think will happen if the press gets hold of this!" he bellowed and waived his finger in front of Rory's face. Rory swallowed and took a steep back.

"It is not Rory's fault" David said, trying to help Rory escape from Steve her manager.

"Shut up" Steve snapped and turned to the officer. "What are her charges?"

"Destruction of properties, assault" he said dryly and Steve shook his head slowly. "Rory, the show opens in one week and what do you do, end up in jail" Rory opened her mouth, ready to defend her situation, but then knew that there was nothing she could say to satisfy Steve.

"Show?" Legolas and Horizt asked and Rory nodded. "I sing in a musical," she explained and Steve grumbled. "You have the lead roll in a  Broadway musical, we were going to leave tomorrow. And what do you think will happen now!" he boomed. Legolas was about ready to stand up and defend Rory from this man, when Steve calmed down.  He straightened up, dusted some dirt from his dress and fixed his tie.

"Rory, darling we have been talking about this…. you need to think of your image, think about the record contract…waiting" he said and grabbed her arms, and turned her around so that she had her focus fully on him.

"Your image…. need to be clean" he said and wiped some hair away from her face. "Why don`t you let our people fix these" he asked calmly touching her ears. Rory just stood still, suddenly not having the strength to move.

"It is just a simple plastic operation"

David felt the need to punch the managers guts, he didn`t care how much the man had helped Rory on her way to success. Suddenly Legolas took a steep back and gasped in shock, the same did Gustav and Horizt.

"Your ears!" Horizt said in shock and Rory quickly hid them behind her hair again. It was the one thing she was ashamed of, her ears were long a pointed, her parents and doctors had said it was something in the genes, nothing that couldn't be fixed with today's technology.

"My lady…your ears!" Legolas said slowly and took a step in her direction again. They were the ears of an elf.