~ Okay, more elf news… actually I think I'll leave more info on them in the next chapter :o) Enjoy!
I woke up feeling very groggy. Looking around I saw that I was in a room with barred windows and a locked door. A bed, that I woke up on sat to one side with a chair next to it. Draped over the chair was a robe. I picked up the material finding it light but warm. Feeling chilled it slipped it on and realized it was because I was only wearing a dressing gown. My clothes were gone. Sitting on the bed I looked up when I heard the door open. Aldanor walked in looking more regal than the first time I saw him. He still made my breath come short but I was angry being taken against my will. He locked the door behind him and walked up to me.
"Hello Jodi, I had a dressing maid take those nasty clothes off you and burn them," Aldanor said. I sat there not believing what he said. "Tomorrow you will have clothes more fitting of your statue to wear."
"What do you mean my stature?" I asked.
"What else can I give the woman who will bear my child anything but the finest…"
"Your what!" I shouted. "No way, I'm not having anyone's baby not now, and after this maybe not ever." Unaffected by my outburst Aldanor sat on the bed. I got up and walked away from him.
"You came through here, through a tunnel, did you not?" I turned amazed that he knew that. Aldanor continued. "But now you cannot find the tunnel and cannot return home."
"How do you know that?" I asked. Aldanor smiled at me.
"You talk in your sleep," Aldanor said. With a huff I turned away crossing my arms. "I also found that your companions came through the same tunnel and all wish to return." Aldanor walked up to me lightly touching my arms. He leaned in close to my ear as he spoke. "I can tell you where the tunnel is. Just bear me a child and I'll send you home." Any thought of physical actions with him actually made my heart go faster, but a child? There was no way I would have a child just to give it to him, like luggage. Shaking my head I stepped away from his arms and walked back to the bed.
"Why me?" I asked. "Why not choose another girl, or elf, or whatever to have your kid?"
"Because you possess a spirit, so rich, no one around here can match that," Aldanor walked to me as he spoke. My arms were still crossed.
"I don't have spirit, I'm just different from anyone else you ever met," I insisted. "I come from a different world…"
"Which is what makes you so perfect," Aldanor smiled at me thinking he had won me over. Ignoring the wanting growing in me, I scowled at him and turned away. I never thought it possible to want someone and to be disgusted at them at the same time. Aldanor sighed and went to the door.
"You'll change your mind," He said. "Either that or you'll remain my prisoner forever." The door clanged behind him as if he was sealing my fate. I shook my head as I sat there, not knowing what to do.
The next few days, Aldanor would come around noon every day. I was thinking that I was mentally sick because I found that I actually looked forward to his visits, although I would never tell him so. As he said, I have dozens of gowns, each very beautiful. One day when he came to visit I was looking outside the window. I looked at him then turned back. Aldanor was everything of a gentleman, besides holding me prisoner to have a baby for him.
"What are you looking at," Aldanor asked me.
"The sky, the tree's, the rain when it comes," I said. Aldanor walked up next to me and set his hand on my shoulder. I was so used to the action that I didn't notice at first. I sighed and looked at his hand. Lowering my shoulder, it slid off and I sat down on the bed.
"So, Jodi, will you…"
"Please stop asking me the same question over and over," I said. "You already know what my answer is. Aldanor stopped and nodded his head.
"Yes, but I was actually going to ask if I could sit and talk with you." Aldanor said. I nodded staring at the floor. Aldanor sat next to me but he didn't touch me this time.
"What is it like in your world?" I looked at him to see if he was just trying to win me over. He seemed sincere, so I told him about how I grew up in Texas, and what school was like. After I started talking I couldn't stop. I realized that I look forward to his visits because he's the only other living being that I have seen since I've been here, in this cell.
I told him about the music I liked TV shows I used to watch and my favorite foods. He spent the whole evening there and just talked about me. When the door opened and some one else came in, I was surprised to find it was another elf. A girl, very young.
"Sir Aldanor, would you like to come down to dinner?" Aldanor and I looked outside the window, and found that the sun was nearly set.
"I'll eat in here tonight, with Miss Jodi," He told the elf girl. She nodded and left the cell. I was surprised but please that Aldanor was going to have dinner with me. After talking so long I decided to ask him about the attack.
"You told me that you attacked the camp because my friends killed your army. What makes you believe that?" I asked.
"Half of our army," Aldanor said. "And it hasn't been done yet. We learned this through our stones of sight. They show the future and how they attack us. So we were going after them first. We don't know what they look like, but we were able to see their location."
"Aldanor, the reason you will be attacked is because I am here," I was feeling lighthearted hearing this. "So if you let me go…"
"No, not until you bear the child." Aldanor stated standing up.
"Why me?" I asked.
"Because when an heir is born the mother is never to be known and the present king will step down and hand the thrown over to his son."
"What if a girl is born?" I asked.
"Then she is killed along with the mother," Aldanor stated calmly. My mouth drops open.
"And you want me to risk this," I stormed up to him and hit Aldanor on the chest. "You expect me to have a boy for you or die?" I kept hitting him in the chest until Aldanor grabbed both my arms. I shook my head, getting my hair out of my face.
"This whole war thing can be avoided," I said, my voice rising. "No one has to die." Aldanor looked down at me. My chest heaved with each breath, adrenaline running through my veins. As his eyes stared into mine, I felt my arms start to relax, my breathing slow a little. Before I knew what was happening, Aldanor lowered his head until our lips almost touched.
A knock on the door startled him and shook me out of my reverie. Remembering my anger, I pulled my arms away from him and went over to a corner. Sliding against the wall, I sat there with my knee's drawn up. Aldanor looked at then shook his head, walking over to the door.
"Maybe I should eat downstairs tonight," Aldanor said. I ignored him and waited until Aldanor shut the door. Looking over to make sure he was gone, I slid off the bed and walked back to the window. This was the only thing that I had to do, was to sit here and hope that, like when my aunt would get herself in trouble all the time and get rescued by the turtles, that they would do the same for me.
~ More update's on the turtles status, next chapter. Sorry about the mix-up on when I first posted chapter five. If you don't know what it was, no worried, just means you didn't see it :o)