When Diena woke up she was looking into a pair of cold, black eyes.

"AAAAAH!" She screamed and tried to move but found she was tied to a tree.

The thing in front of her laughed and spit on her cheek. It started to burn. She struggled and tried to kick and was met with a hard smack to the side of her face. The cut she had from hitting her head on her table started to bleed again.

"Poor little girl!" the Orc (because that's what it was, even though she didn't know it because she hadn't read the LorT before) laughed in her face. "Are you hurt?" It rubbed its finger in her blood and brought it to its mouth. It licked its fingers and brought its hand up for another taste.

Behind the orc there were many more, all sitting around eating what looked to be a bird.

Diena wanted to cry but wouldn't let these things see her do it. She always felt alone but now she realized just how alone she was. There was no one around to help her. No one that would, had she asked for it.

"Help me, somebody!"

"Make it stop yelling Urgai, it's going to attract attention," a different Orc said to the one closest to Diena.

Urgai smacked her again. But Diena kept screaming.

"Help! Anybody! Please!"

"Stop it, stupid human." Urgai took out his knife. "Stop, or I will make you stop."

Diena took one look at the knife and started to laugh. Then she realized what a serious situation she was in and started shrieking again. Urgai obviously wasn't in the mood for this because he put his knife right up against her throat.

"Don't make me cut out that voice of yours."

She spit at him and said, "Shove it, asshole."

Well, that was enough for Urgai. He put his knife up her stomach this time and slowly started to press. Diena could feel the metal go through her thin night shirt quickly. It broke the skin just as quickly.

She bit her lip as it went into her skin and she could feel a heat. Her face showed no emotion so Urgai dug his knife in deeper and gave it a twist.

Diena started to cough and it seemed to satisfy Urgai when there was blood in her mouth. She could feel it running down her face and saw it drip onto the ground.

Urgai left her and joined the other Orcs around the fire. They left Diena there to bleed for a while. She was doubled over in pain and kept groaning.

All of a sudden, an arrow hit the tree right above Diena's head. If she hadn't been bent over it would have hit her neck. She looked up and saw orcs running around shrieking and drawing knives. Arrows kept flying out of the bushes. She couldn't see who was shooting them but they had good aim.

An Orc came running towards Diena, knife drawn, and was about to cut her bindings and run but he was shot from behind. His body fell onto her and his blood smeared onto her clothes and face.

Legolas stepped out of the bushes. He was soon joined by Elladan and Elrohir, Elrond's twin sons.

"Estel, it is safe for you to come out!" Elladan called.

Aragorn walked out of the trees followed by four other elves.

Diena looked up at them all. She saw their pointed ears but still had no clue what they were.

"What the fuck are you?" she asked.

Legolas walked up to her. He saw how she had spit in an Orc's face. He would not have had the guts to do it. But he wouldn't have been caught by orcs in the first place.

His eyes took in her pale face with blood dripping down from her mouth, and a cut beside her right eye, dripping blood also. She looked almost elf-like. The only thing she was missing was pointed ears. Legolas then looked at her clothes. Green pants and a green shirt. Both silk-like in appearance.

He could see a hole in the side of her shirt and he reached out. Diena flinched.

"I will not hurt you, do not worry." Legolas moved her shirt up and saw a cut on her stomach. It looked deep and he guessed that's why there was blood coming from her mouth.

"What the fuck are you?" asked Diena again.

Elrohir stepped up beside Legolas with a confused look on his face. "We are elves. With the exception of Legolas, we all come from Rivendell."

Aragorn coughed. "Oh, and Aragorn is human, like yourself."

Diena's eyes wandered around, taking in the elves and the human. She did not trust them any more than she trusted those other things. At least that had not tried to hurt her yet. All of a sudden she felt herself grow dizzy. Her head fell forwards and she looked at the ground.

She started to cough again and more blood came from her mouth. She could smell the blood and it had an almost metallic taste. It was like sucking on a coin.

"Look to the lady!" Aragorn cried and he grabbed her. "Untie her at once, Elladan."

Elladan nodded and obeyed Aragorn. Diena fell forwards as soon as she was untied and was glad when she was caught by Aragorn.

"Can you stand?" an unknown elf asked.

Can I stand? Diena thought sarcastically. Yes, I can stand and I can run too. In fact, I think I'll go run a marathon right now I'm feeling so fine! Look at me, do you think I can stand, stupid bastard?

Instead of saying all this out loud, she just shook her head.

"She will have to be carried." Legolas said.

No shit! thought Diena.

Legolas whistled and a horse came walking out of the bush. He patted it and then took Diena from Aragorn's arms. The next thing Diena knew, she was sitting on top of the horse and Legolas had swung up behind her.

"Go Legolas," said Aragorn, "We will meet you in Rivendell."

Nodding, Legolas took off on the horse. Every time the horse took a step it hurt Diena. She cried out in pain. Legolas stopped the horse.

"What is wrong? Have I hurt you?"

"No," she replied, "The horse. When it runs. It hurts my side." She started to cough again. Not wanting her to cough up any more blood, Legolas kept the horse to a walk.

"Does this still hurt?" She shook her head. "Good. We will get to Rivendell by morning if travelling is good. I hope you will like it there."

She mumbled something and leaned back onto Legolas. Almost losing his balance and falling off, he was going to grab her around the waist, then remembered her cut. He grabbed the reins with his other hand and supported her weight and his own.

After riding for a little while longer he looked down into her face. Her eyes were closed and she was sleeping but there was a look of pain on her face. Only then, did Legolas realize that he didn't even know her name.

"Sleep peacefully, with no pain." He whispered into her ear in elvish.