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Oh, yeah I am sorry if I skip words sometimes, I get an idea in my head and I start typing really fast and I don't notice my mistakes. I will try to take out as many errors as possible, but forgive anything that slips past me, please.

Chapter 9

Elwin wiggled away from Legolas' grasp. She knew what his next move would be, and she didn't want to go that far. His hands had been slipping slowly down her body, towards her core of arousal, and she felt really uncomfortable. After all, she had only been friends with this man for three days, and in her opinion, that was not enough to get truly intimate. If she gave herself to him, she wanted it to be in love, not lust.

"What is the matter Elwin?" Legolas asked, disappointed that she had slipped from his arms. He looked at her searchingly, but her eyes did not give him any clues.

"I just think," she began, tentative. Legolas nodded for her to continue, "I just think that we are going to fast, that we are going to do something we regret." She hoped that Legolas would understand, although she did not think he would. His eyes looked very disappointed, and she hated how guilty she felt.

"I understand how you feel, but you must know that I would not regret any time that I spend with you." Legolas answered with honesty, something he did not take lightly.

"You didn't think that when you first had me as your slave, you would have done anything to get rid of me!" She spat, suddenly angry, with herself as much as with him.

"You were never my slave, and any position you were in was because of your own actions, it had nothing to do with me!" He shouted back, the air of romance rapidly decreasing. "You were a little bitch, to me and to everybody. Remember, they banished you for a reason! I thought you had changed, but I see you now, and that is obviously not the case. My father was right, you would have made a very good whore!" Legolas regretted the words as soon as they left his mouth, and he wished that he could take them back. Elwin looked at him with utter hatred. She quickly dressed, and stormed off into the woods. Legolas dressed slowly, with a bad taste in his mouth.
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Gimli listened to the distraught Elwin, who was sitting sobbing on the couch in his room. He felt sorry for her, and a bit upset with her at the same time.

"I never should have trusted him, he is an evil bastard!" She cried, turning to face Gimli, who was sitting beside her. He had never seen an elf show so much emotion ,and he wasn't exactly sure how to comfort her. And he still hadn't decided whether he really wanted to.

"You knew that he had a bad side, you brought it out in him, and yet you trusted him within three days. That wasn't to smart on your part." Gimli tried to be gentle, but he definitely wasn't feeling gentle. He should have known the peace would never last.

"I brought it out!" She screeched, "I just do horrible things don't I? I make everyone's life horrible! I bring out the bad side in Legolas, and then I trust him and he gets mad at me. Well I guess everything is all my fault. Did you ever think that it might be him?!" She looked beside her and saw an outraged dwarf, a frightening sight.

"Never insult my friend without basis. In the beginning he was a bit cruel, but you did try to kill him, don't you think that was equally as cruel? And you trusted him, that was smart wasn't it, after the was he treated you. You think that you would be wary of people, after all your years on your own. Legolas has never acted this way before you came, I think that you are taunting him, and that's what is causing this!" Gimli looked menacing, and Elwin stood, unafraid.

"Your right, and I shouldn't have trusted you either!" Elwin left the room quickly, and made her way towards her own rooms. She had trusted Gimli, thought of him as a good friend, and from the way he looked after her, almost as a father. Well, that was over, so Elwin decided that she best leave Mirkwood, for good this time. She was slightly saddened to be leaving her home land forever, but glad at the thought of freedom.

Elwin grabbed her travel bag and stuffed her meager belongings inside, and the bread rolls she had been collecting from dinner, in case of emergencies. She still had some of the dried fish and salted pork that she had for the journey to Mirkwood as well. As soon as she was packed, she walked casually to the stables. The stable boy saw her and walked over.

"Master Legolas needs me to take a message to the town of Abalone, I will need a horse that will carry me far, and fast." The stable boy nodded and hurried off. Thank goodness I know how to lie without showing it, she thought to her self, it was a skill that did come in use full. The stable boy returned with a fiery black stallion, bridled with saddle bags on its flanks. It wore no saddle, for that was the preferred style of riding with the elves.

As soon as Elwin mounted the beast she knew that they were meant for each other. He was impatient, and slightly hard to handle, but Elwin knew how to keep him in check.

"His name is Rimini, and he will be very swift, Lady." The stable boy bowed, and left to continue his duties. Elwin whispered to the horse and they cantered off in to the forest.

Legolas had joined Gimli on the terrace of Gimli's rooms. They had apologized to one another about their harsh word, and they agreed not to let Elwin come between them any longer. They were on the subject of what to do about the girl when a guard knocked, then walked in.

"I am sorry to report that the girl, Elwin Fairhunter, is no longer in the woodland realm. Our scouts saw her riding towards the southern borders, but they were not fast enough, they couldn't stop her."

"What do you mean riding?" Asked Gimli, wondering how she obtained a horse.

"She told the boy in the stables that she was under your instruction to go to Abalone with a message, and she needed a fast horse. The boy gave her Rimini, the stallion." As the guard finished, Legolas groaned. Gimli looked curiously at his friend.

"Now we have no hope of catching her," Legolas elaborated, "She got the swiftest horse." Legolas nodded to the guard, who left the room, quietly shutting the door after him. "Well I suppose its for the better that she is gone." Gimli and Legolas relaxed, enjoying the afternoon.
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