A/N: Hiya! I'm back! Likin' the story? If you are, there's a nice button down there that says REVIEW. Press it and write something. Something NICE! Yes, and if you don't like it, DON'T READ IT! There, problem solved! Anyways, on with the fluff! And I'm reeeeaaaally sorry if I've been making mistakes, don't get mad at me for them!
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Diena was staring at her ceiling. Her leg was killing her. It didn't take a genius to guess who had shot her. She had been on the verge of telling Legolas about Malechnian. If she did that they would both be killed, there was no doubt in her head about that. Elrond entered the room.
"Adar!"
He sat down on the edge of her bed. Leaning forward, he embraced her and kissed her forehead lightly. Her face had a huge smile on it and had regained some of the life and sparkle it held before the fatal hunting trip.
"Hello pen neth, how are you feeling?"
When he asked how she felt some of the smile left her face. Quickly she pasted it back on but not before he saw. Her eyes almost turned a shade darker.
Instead of telling Elrond what was on her mind, Diena just took his hand in her own and squeezed it.
"I'm all right. My leg is sore but I can walk if I try." She stood up and demonstrated for him.
Approvingly, Elrond clapped a couple of times. There was a very quiet knock on the door. So quiet that Diena barely heard it.
"Come in," she called. A beautiful blonde elf entered. When she saw Elrond sitting with Diena she lowered her bright green eyes to the ground.
"Selÿna! You are here. Diena, this is Selÿna. She is going to be helping you until you are well..." He put up his hand when he saw her about to protest that she didn't need help. "It won't be for long. Three or four days at the most. Should I leave you to get acquainted?"
Diena didn't move. She was in awe of this beautiful elf. Finally Selÿna made eye contact with Diena. Her beautiful face broke out in a smile.
Instead of staying, Selÿna said, "Nay, my Lord. I came only to give Lady Diena her lunch. I will leave you alone to talk."
After talking about everything, Diena finally brought up something that was troubling her. Her dream about Arwen. Elrond's beautiful elven features darkened when Arwen's name was said. The grief was still too fresh. He didn't know what the dream meant any more than Diena had.
There was another knock at the door. Legolas' head popped in.
"Lord Elrond, there is a call for you. I can stay here with Diena if you would like." They all knew that he would stay whether Elrond wanted him to or not so Elrond left Diena alone with Legolas.
He joined her on the bed and tenderly kissed her. Things progressed (A/N: Oh, God. We know where this is going!) from there. Legolas' shirt was off when there was a knock on the door.
"Ignore it," Diena mumbled into Legolas' lips. But he broke the kiss off. Slowly he started to pull his shirt on. Diena took that as her cue to get the door.
She limped over to the door and was greeted with heaps of flowers in her face. Behind them she could vaguely see Elladan and Elrohir and someone else unrecognizable.
"Trying to turn my room into a jungle?" Diena asked jokingly.
Elladan laughed and entered the room with the flowers. Elrohir had his eyes Legolas. He had just finished tying his shirt up and looked up.
"Tsk, tsk, Diena. Hurt leg and all?" Elrohir asked. Diena blushed furiously.
The last person stepped into the room. Diena almost fainted.
Malechnian.
Legolas noticed this and gently helped her back to her bed. A smirk was on Malechnian's face. Legolas didn't know why but Diena did. It almost said: You almost fooled me but I know you're still with him.
A few comments were thrown around about Legolas being found in Diena's room (mostly by Elladan and Elrohir) but Diena was almost completely silent.
The sun was setting outside Diena's window and when Elladan noticed this he stood up.
"We're late! We must go. Good-bye pen neth! Sleep well." He gave her a knowing wink and a brotherly kiss. Elrohir kissed her on the cheek as well and they both exited the room.
Legolas also stood up. "I'll see you later melamin." He reached out to touch her face but she moved away slightly. There was something unnerving her, he could tell. He couldn't tell what it was but he wasn't going to touch her if she didn't want him to.
He did the last thing she wanted him to do. She was left alone with Malechnian. Diena watched her last bit of protection leave the room.
As soon as Legolas had left, Malechnian smiled coldly at her. Then he said almost what she had been thinking when he first smirked at her.
"Well, Diena, you almost made me believe you didn't have anything to do with him. But now I see it was an act and you were only trying to protect him. That makes me think you're more attached to him than you know." He leaned in closer to her and she almost cried out. "I'm sorry about the arrow." There was no sincerity in his voice. "It was either you or him. But I thought it would be more fun to keep him alive and leave you wriggling like a worm on a hook for a while longer."
Diena let out a breath as he walked towards the door. Right before he left he wrecked what little sense of security she had left.
"I will see you later, Diena."
Diena fell into a fitful sleep full of dark eyes and a feeling of danger and being exposed. When she woke, she sat straight up in her bed. It was night, the moon was shining in her window.
There was a rose lying on her other pillow. It told her Legolas had come back as he had promised. There was no sign of Malechnian and for this she said a silent prayer of thanks.
Suddenly her arms were grabbed and roughly bound. This happened so fast Diena had no time to scream. A rough hand clamped over her mouth. There was a brief struggle.
Outside Diena's room, Selÿna was walking down the hall. She heard some noises coming from Diena's room but presumed it was just a night time visitor (*COUGH COUGH* Legolas) until she heard a man's voice say:
"One sound out of you Diena, and you will be joining your whore of a sister, Lady Arwen."
Realizing that Diena probably wasn't welcoming this person, Selÿna rightfully ran off.
Inside the dark room, Diena looked up into Malechnian's eyes. His had was over her mouth and the other was holding the bindings on her hands. He forcefully pressed his mouth onto hers so he could take his hand off. His free hand went to the ties on the front of her nightgown.
He was trying to untie it! Diena struggled even more. It was almost untied when there was a noise outside Diena's door. Voices. A man and woman's.
Quickly, Malechnian ripped the ties off of Diena's wrists and rushed to the window. He alighted onto a tree and soon there was no trace of him.
The door opened slowly. Elrohir entered. Selÿna was timidly following him.
Elrohir thought that Selÿna had made the whole story up about someone being in Diena's room. It wasn't her half-tied nightgown or the ruffled sheets that clued him in that Selÿna had told the truth. It was Diena's eyes.
They were open wide and full of fear. Her breathing was coming in gasps and she looked shaken.
"Diena! What happened? Who was here? Does Legolas know about this?!" Elrohir asked all these questions so fast Diena barely understood them.
Her eyes opened wider, if that was possible. Legolas! She rushed out of the room so fast that Elrohir and Selÿna barely had time to follow her. When she got to Legolas' room, she quietly opened the door.
Malechnian stood over Legolas with his knife out. He thought he heard the door squeak open so he turned his head to look at the door. There was no one there. He turned back to Legolas who was sleeping with his eyes open like all elves do. He thought he saw him blink.
But sleeping elves don't blink, he thought, and neither do dead ones...
He raised his knife higher, preparing to strike a death blow when Legolas' foot shot up and kicked the knife from his had. Diena took this chance and came charging at Malechnian.
"Leave my boyfriend alone you bastard!" she screamed as she ran into him. He toppled over and she started to hit him as hard she could.
"This is for frightening me! And this is for attempting to rape me! And this, this is what you said about Arwen!"
Out of no where, Malechnian's hand came up and hit Diena so hard she was pushed back several feet. Her hand came up to her head to feel the damage. There was no cut but she could tell there was going to be a bruise.
Malechnian started to close in on Diena but he had forgotten about Legolas. Until he was hit in the back of the head by him, that is. Turning quickly, Malechnian went to hit Legolas, but when he turned his own knife in Legolas' hand. Knowing he was cornered, he again went for the window.
(A/N: I think he likes windows!!! And just to tell you, I do not think that rape is okay in ANY way. I saw the saddest thing on TV about it a while ago and I thought I would make it known that just because I am using it briefly doesn't mean I think it's all right!)
Right before he jumped from the window, the door was thrown open and now Selÿna and Elrohir were accompanied by Elrond himself. He saw Malechnian jump out the window and then his eyes took in everything else.
Diena on the floor with her hand to her cheek. He could see it was faintly red. Legolas standing there with a knife in his hand, and shocked expression on his features.
Legolas dropped the knife and rushed to Diena who grabbed him suddenly and buried her face in his shoulder.
"You're alive. Oh, my God, you're alive." Diena repeated this over and over until Elrond finally asked what had happened.
The whole story rushed out.
How Malechnian had threatened her and how she had tried to protect Legolas from him by pushing him away. How the arrow had most likely come from him when she was about to tell Legolas everything. How he had confronted her tonight and was only stopped by Elrohir and Selÿna walking in. How she had run here as soon as she could, to try and stop Malechnian from hurting Legolas.
Suddenly, it all fell into place for Legolas. Her cold words. The arrow. It was all Malechnian's fault.
How could I have done this to Diena? Mentally he kicked himself for leaving her alone with him.
Elrond sighed. "Tomorrow, you will go to Lothlorien (I know there's an accent in there but I'm not 100% where it is so I'm not gonna put it in. FORGIVE ME!) and you will be safe there."
No one questioned Legolas or Diena as the both crawled into Legolas' bed. Diena no longer felt safe in her own.
A/N: Wow! Long enough? I had to write it all and now I'm tired... Don't forget to REVIEW okay? I live for them! Mwahaha… Aw, I'm such a loser!