A/N: Okay, peoples, here it is.Chapter 4! I spent a good while writing this
longhand this morning, 9 ½ pages of lined paper! Hope u like.this is my
favorite chapter so far, SO MUCH FLAFF!!!!! ^_^ NO SLASH! And if any of
these Elvish lines sound familiar, I got some from the LOTR movies.Lots of
Aragorn/Legolas interaction and friendship fluff in here.I couldn't resist,
it's my favorite thing to write! ^_^ Enjoy! Oh, and there is ' Elf Torture
' in here.or at least Elf Violence.hehe.
Chapter 4
Two days had passed since the fellowship had been driven from Amon Hen, two days of non-stop running. There had not yet been any further abuse, but the captives knew the Uruk Hai grew restless and impatient. The little Hobbits, at least, did not have to run, which surely would have been beyond them. They were carried by the beasts, looking ever fearful.Gimli struggled to keep up, yet somehow managed. Aragorn was at the rear behind Boromir, who grew more and more weary with each passing hour.The arrowhead's poison coursed through him and was taking hold. He had lost much blood, and still bled. Aragorn was wary as he watched the man stumble and listened to his heavy breathing. Boromir needed to be tended too properly or his life would be forfeit. Legolas was kept at the head of the group, under contemptuous watch.
The Elf peered back over his shoulder to look upon each of his comrades. When his eyes fell upon the Men, he grew concerned for Boromir and then angry that these beasts drove him on without letting Aragorn tend to him.
" Stop, you foul beasts ", he shouted, causing Aragorn and Boromir's heads to snap up and their eyes widen. Everyone had indeed stopped, Legolas overlooking the horde of Uruks with hateful scrutiny.
" What do you want, Elf? " Ugluk questioned sharply.
" Boromir is wounded. Aragorn must tend him, lest he die ", Legolas informed.
Ugluk leaned nearer to the Elf and spoke in a sarcastic murmur, " I'll let you in on a
little secret. I'm going to kill ye all anyway. So I don't really care." This earned laughter from the other Uruks, and a death glare from the blonde.
Suddenly, Legolas snapped the ropes that bound him, which had been weakened and thin after two days of working on them, and drew a dagger from his boot. He lashed out at one Uruk, slashing its throat. He whipped around and drove the knife in Ugluk's shoulder. The fellowship watched in shocked disbelief. Ugluk cried out in surprise and annoyance, a he starred into the blazing, frigid blue eyes of the murderous Elf. What Legolas did not see was the Uruk behind him. One hard blow to the head, and Legolas slumped to the ground. Aragorn started for his best friend with wide eyes, but Boromir stopped the ranger.
" Pick him up and keep moving ", Ugluk ordered the Uruks. He drew out the dagger from his tough flesh. " You will regret that later, Elf."
The Uruk who had struck Legolas picked him up and slung him over one shoulder. They began to continue on, Aragorn and Boromir eyeing the limp figure with golden hair and flailing arms.
Darkness descended at last, and finally they rested. The Uruks grunted and groaned as they sat themselves down in a clearing in the wood. The Hobbits were let down and huddled together fearfully.The Dwarf sat as well and caught his breath, eyeing the Uruks distastefully. Boromir collapsed to the ground in exhaustion. Aragorn dropped down beside him.
" I must tend to your wound ", he murmured. " The poison takes you."
Boromir shook his head as he panted. " Legolas ", he began, " Go and see to Legolas
first."
Aragorn grimaced with hesitation, and looked to see the Uruk who had been carrying his best friend simply tip to one side so that the unconscious Elf rolled off and hit the ground. The ranger frowned. Damn these beasts. He looked back to Boromir and gave a nod, indicating he would see to the Elf.
Aragorn crawled over to the prince, unnoticed but the Uruks who now feasted on one of their own who they had just killed. He sat at the Elf's side and turned him to lie on his back instead of his side. The Elf's eyes flickered open as his face was turned to Aragorn after his hair was brushed out of it.
" Aragorn ", he said weakly as he looked up into the man's face.
" Hush ", the ranger said quietly. He took Legolas' face gently in his hands, one of them atop the Elf's head and the other cupping his chin, and tipped it back. He peered into his best friend's pale blue eyes for a silent moment. " I don't think you have a concussion."
" No, just a pounding headache ", the Elf replied, as Aragorn helped him sit up with a supportive hand upon the Elf's back. Legolas rubbed his head with his palm and winced.
" That was a very rash and bold thing to do ", the ranger said.
" Indeed. Pity I didn't kill him ", the Elf remarked, referring to Ugluk.
" Elf ", Ugluk barked in the same moment. " Come here. "
Legolas and Aragorn exchanged looks, before the Elf stood tall and held his head high as he strode over to the Uruk. Aragorn crept back to Boromir and began dressing the Man's wound.
" You think you're clever, Elf, don't you? " Ugluk said as he began circling the Elf. " Trying to kill me this afternoon."
" I would have if I had been given the chance ", the prince replied.
" It was foolish of you ", Ugluk hissed. " Now you will pay for that stupidity."
" I shall pay ", Legolas said firmly, " but I will not be broken."
He stared with fearless eyes into those of his enemy.
" I'm not going to break you, Elf. I'm going to cut your heart out."
The other Uruks jeered whilst the Men and Dwarf gritted their teeth. Ugluk shoved the Elf back hard and two pairs of pressing hands grasped his upped arms. He still glared at Ugluk, unfazed.
" Do you think you're clever, Elf? " the Uruk questioned again.
" I'm a genius compared to you ", Legolas replied, earning a punch in the face from Ugluk.
" Do you like being a pretty, Elf? " the beast queried.
" Well it sure beats the hell out of looking like you ", the prince said. Ugluk's fist connected with his jaw, snapping his head to one side.
" To appear fierce is better than to look a prissy, weak, push over ", he spat.
Legolas clenched his fists. " Really? I wouldn't enjoy being that hideous, personally."
Ugluk delivered a blow to the archer's stomach, causing Legolas to double over and slowly sink to his knees with little more than a small gasp. Aragorn, Boromir, and Gimli had to restrain themselves from shooting forward and attacking the Uruk.
" For so long have I wanted to beat one of the damned Elves."
The beast moved behind the Elf's crumpled form and kicked him in the back, causing Legolas to arch at the blow before crumpling to the ground again. Ugluk kicked him over and over again, everywhere. Yet Legolas did not protest nor make a sound, only remained curled up in a ball. His comrades were outraged at this brutal treatment of an Elf. Ugluk ceased and the other two Uruks pulled the Elf to his feet again.
" Bind his hands ", Ugluk commanded. The Uruks did so, only this time his wrists were bound in front of him instead of behind him.
" What's this? " Ugluk questioned as he noticed a small, slit-like scar in the center of the Elf's palm. Another matched it upon the opposite palm as well, thin and faint.Legolas did not answer, only looked to Aragorn, their eyes locking as they both remembered.
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// " I come to bid thee farewell, mellonin", the young mortal said.
" Do not speak of it ", the Elf replied mournfully.
" I must, for I go now and know not when I shall return."
The Elf grimaced and stared at the floor.
" I think it best if this were a final farewell ", the man said quietly.
The Elf's head snapped up and his blue eyes were wide.
" What are you saying? " he queried in a hushed voice.
" I am mortal, you are Elf-kind. It was a dream, Legolas. Just a dream ", the gray-eyed man said bitterly.
" How can you say that? " the Elf asked as he rose to his feet and strode to stand before the man. " How can you say that our friendship was only a dream? You know the truth of who you are now, but that does not change the past. You are still Elrond's son. You are still the brother of Elladan and Elrohir, the love of Arwen Undomiel. You are still my best friend ", the fair Elf said softly and desperately.
The man gave him a sympathetic look. " I will die one day. Perhaps even in these coming years as a ranger. But you, Laden Edhel, will live on with no comfort for your grief. I do not wish that upon you ", he said.
" If you were to leave here today having ended our friendship and break away from me, I would have no comfort then, either. I cannot lose you now, Estel ", the golden-haired one said.
Their eyes locked, blue and gray. The Elf reached back and drew one of his Elven blades. He cut his dipped the knife into his palm and made a small slit, repeating himself with his other palm, before doing the same to the Man's hands. He clasped his hands with the mortal's, lacing his slender fingers with his friend's, and held them up between the two. Their blood mingled and trickled down their wrists.
" Since the hour I looked upon thee, have I loved thee as my brother ", said the Elf with all of his heart. " That love will not fade as long as I draw breath. I would forsake all things if you were to ask it of me. I would forsake my immortality to perish and join your soul in Mandos ", the Elf said with a quavering voice. The man's eyes glimmered, expressing the way he was so deeply touched by the Elf's words. " I bind myself to you ", said the fair Elf, conveying it in his eyes as well as in his words.
" I love thee will all my heart, Greenleaf. Before you were my brother in all but blood. Now there is nothing that stands between us, my brother. My love will not die as long as my heart beats within my chest. Always shall it be yours, for bonded and kindred are our two spirits, by ties that cannot be broken by time, distance, or death ", the Man pledged.
They exchanged these vows as they pressed their palms together and gazed into the other's eyes with fierce intensity. Then, after a moment, they parted their hands and embraced.
" Navaer, gwadornin ", the Man whispered.**Farewell, my brother.**
" Navaer, meltha mellon ", the Elf answered almost inaudibly. ** Farewell, beloved friend.**
They held onto the other for one more moment, tears glistening on their faces. //
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" None of your damn business ", Legolas said coldly to Ugluk.
Ugluk narrowed his wicked eyes at the Elf. " You may keep your secrets, Elf. But after tonight, you will have many scars to accompany those."
" Elves only scar when the wound is self-inflicted, you imbecile ", Legolas answered, earning another bruising strike to the face. The Uruks who grasped his arms pushed him to lie over a boulder.
" No ", Gimli cried as Ugluk drew a whip from his belt. Aragorn and Boromir's eyes widened, along with the Hobbits'. There was a cracking sound as the whip came down upon the Elf's back. He only winced slightly, but then the whip struck him again and again. It hissed as snake and bit at his skin. Red welts criss-crossed on his back. The whip curled around his flesh and burned like dancing flame. Yet no sound was made by the prince, which only annoyed Ugluk further. The rest of the fellowship watched in horror as the fair Elf was whipped mercilessly. Ugluk stopped for a moment, moving to stand in front of his victim. Legolas' form was soundlessly heaving.
" Why don't you cry out and beg for mercy? " Ugluk questioned. Legolas lifted his head, now covered with a sheen of sweat.
" I am a warrior Elf. I will die before begging ", he said vehemently.
" I want to hear you cry out for mercy, Elf. Beg ", Ugluk barked.
" I will not beg ", Legolas screamed as he stood and lunged at the Uruk, his face inches from the beast's. Ugluk glared at him. The rest of the fellowship looked horrified. Damn Elf pride, Aragorn thought.
" We'll see about that ", Ugluk said. He returned to his place behind the Elf, kicking Legolas so that he sank back to his knees. The Uruk began to whip the prince again, harder and quicker than before. Blood seeped through the fair being's clothing, and sweat beaded his furrowed brow. The lashes were innumerable now. The other Uruks jeered as they watched in amusement. Legolas was panting and his body heaved, yet he bit his lip until it bled and surpressed all noise.
Finally, Aragorn could stand it no longer. Legolas would die if this continued. He sprang up and dashed before the Uruk tormenting his best friend.
"Stop ", he cried. " Stop it."
" Shut up, human ", Ugluk snarled. The beast raised his hand again to bring down the whip. Aragorn bound forward and fell to his knees, flinging himself over Legolas' battered body and shielding it with his own. He wrapped his arms around the Elf, laying his head over the archer's.
" Don't do this ", Legolas pleaded with him.
" I must, mellonin." //my friend//
The whip cracked, and the ranger winced. The blows started coming down heavily and his body tensed with contained pain. Legolas trembled in tears beneath him.
" Stop ", he whimpered. " Stop hurting him ", he pleaded in a voice laced with pain and sorrow. Every blow to Aragorn was wound in his heart.
The warrior Elf prince of Mirkwood would have undergone the torture of Isengard without ever succumbing to asking for mercy, for begging. But for Aragorn, he would beg.
" Hush ", Aragorn murmured soothingly. He slightly rocked from side to side with Legolas in his embrace.
" Im sinome ni le ", he murmured. // I am here for you.// " Lasto beth nin, Legolas. Renich i lu erui govennem? " he spoke, trying to soothe and distract his best friend whilst biting back the burning pain that cut into his flesh. //Listen to my voice, Legolas. Do you remember the time when we first met?//
Legolas shuddered with tears but nodded. " Gwennin in enninath ", the Elf said shakily. // Long years have passed.//
" And all these long years have I loved thee, gwadornin ", Aragorn whispered gently into the Elf's pointed ear. Legolas choked as tears flowed from his closed eyes, emotional pain wrought upon his fair face.
Finally, the whip fell away, and both Man and Elf panted, their backs heaving and bloodied.
" That'll teach you ", the beast said and left them there, still being watched by their fellow captives with pity and horror. Aragorn did not let go of the Elf, only hushed him with eyes closed.
A/N: Oooo, I loved that.hehe.by the " Laden Edhel " means Fair Elf. Review please! ^_^
Chapter 4
Two days had passed since the fellowship had been driven from Amon Hen, two days of non-stop running. There had not yet been any further abuse, but the captives knew the Uruk Hai grew restless and impatient. The little Hobbits, at least, did not have to run, which surely would have been beyond them. They were carried by the beasts, looking ever fearful.Gimli struggled to keep up, yet somehow managed. Aragorn was at the rear behind Boromir, who grew more and more weary with each passing hour.The arrowhead's poison coursed through him and was taking hold. He had lost much blood, and still bled. Aragorn was wary as he watched the man stumble and listened to his heavy breathing. Boromir needed to be tended too properly or his life would be forfeit. Legolas was kept at the head of the group, under contemptuous watch.
The Elf peered back over his shoulder to look upon each of his comrades. When his eyes fell upon the Men, he grew concerned for Boromir and then angry that these beasts drove him on without letting Aragorn tend to him.
" Stop, you foul beasts ", he shouted, causing Aragorn and Boromir's heads to snap up and their eyes widen. Everyone had indeed stopped, Legolas overlooking the horde of Uruks with hateful scrutiny.
" What do you want, Elf? " Ugluk questioned sharply.
" Boromir is wounded. Aragorn must tend him, lest he die ", Legolas informed.
Ugluk leaned nearer to the Elf and spoke in a sarcastic murmur, " I'll let you in on a
little secret. I'm going to kill ye all anyway. So I don't really care." This earned laughter from the other Uruks, and a death glare from the blonde.
Suddenly, Legolas snapped the ropes that bound him, which had been weakened and thin after two days of working on them, and drew a dagger from his boot. He lashed out at one Uruk, slashing its throat. He whipped around and drove the knife in Ugluk's shoulder. The fellowship watched in shocked disbelief. Ugluk cried out in surprise and annoyance, a he starred into the blazing, frigid blue eyes of the murderous Elf. What Legolas did not see was the Uruk behind him. One hard blow to the head, and Legolas slumped to the ground. Aragorn started for his best friend with wide eyes, but Boromir stopped the ranger.
" Pick him up and keep moving ", Ugluk ordered the Uruks. He drew out the dagger from his tough flesh. " You will regret that later, Elf."
The Uruk who had struck Legolas picked him up and slung him over one shoulder. They began to continue on, Aragorn and Boromir eyeing the limp figure with golden hair and flailing arms.
Darkness descended at last, and finally they rested. The Uruks grunted and groaned as they sat themselves down in a clearing in the wood. The Hobbits were let down and huddled together fearfully.The Dwarf sat as well and caught his breath, eyeing the Uruks distastefully. Boromir collapsed to the ground in exhaustion. Aragorn dropped down beside him.
" I must tend to your wound ", he murmured. " The poison takes you."
Boromir shook his head as he panted. " Legolas ", he began, " Go and see to Legolas
first."
Aragorn grimaced with hesitation, and looked to see the Uruk who had been carrying his best friend simply tip to one side so that the unconscious Elf rolled off and hit the ground. The ranger frowned. Damn these beasts. He looked back to Boromir and gave a nod, indicating he would see to the Elf.
Aragorn crawled over to the prince, unnoticed but the Uruks who now feasted on one of their own who they had just killed. He sat at the Elf's side and turned him to lie on his back instead of his side. The Elf's eyes flickered open as his face was turned to Aragorn after his hair was brushed out of it.
" Aragorn ", he said weakly as he looked up into the man's face.
" Hush ", the ranger said quietly. He took Legolas' face gently in his hands, one of them atop the Elf's head and the other cupping his chin, and tipped it back. He peered into his best friend's pale blue eyes for a silent moment. " I don't think you have a concussion."
" No, just a pounding headache ", the Elf replied, as Aragorn helped him sit up with a supportive hand upon the Elf's back. Legolas rubbed his head with his palm and winced.
" That was a very rash and bold thing to do ", the ranger said.
" Indeed. Pity I didn't kill him ", the Elf remarked, referring to Ugluk.
" Elf ", Ugluk barked in the same moment. " Come here. "
Legolas and Aragorn exchanged looks, before the Elf stood tall and held his head high as he strode over to the Uruk. Aragorn crept back to Boromir and began dressing the Man's wound.
" You think you're clever, Elf, don't you? " Ugluk said as he began circling the Elf. " Trying to kill me this afternoon."
" I would have if I had been given the chance ", the prince replied.
" It was foolish of you ", Ugluk hissed. " Now you will pay for that stupidity."
" I shall pay ", Legolas said firmly, " but I will not be broken."
He stared with fearless eyes into those of his enemy.
" I'm not going to break you, Elf. I'm going to cut your heart out."
The other Uruks jeered whilst the Men and Dwarf gritted their teeth. Ugluk shoved the Elf back hard and two pairs of pressing hands grasped his upped arms. He still glared at Ugluk, unfazed.
" Do you think you're clever, Elf? " the Uruk questioned again.
" I'm a genius compared to you ", Legolas replied, earning a punch in the face from Ugluk.
" Do you like being a pretty, Elf? " the beast queried.
" Well it sure beats the hell out of looking like you ", the prince said. Ugluk's fist connected with his jaw, snapping his head to one side.
" To appear fierce is better than to look a prissy, weak, push over ", he spat.
Legolas clenched his fists. " Really? I wouldn't enjoy being that hideous, personally."
Ugluk delivered a blow to the archer's stomach, causing Legolas to double over and slowly sink to his knees with little more than a small gasp. Aragorn, Boromir, and Gimli had to restrain themselves from shooting forward and attacking the Uruk.
" For so long have I wanted to beat one of the damned Elves."
The beast moved behind the Elf's crumpled form and kicked him in the back, causing Legolas to arch at the blow before crumpling to the ground again. Ugluk kicked him over and over again, everywhere. Yet Legolas did not protest nor make a sound, only remained curled up in a ball. His comrades were outraged at this brutal treatment of an Elf. Ugluk ceased and the other two Uruks pulled the Elf to his feet again.
" Bind his hands ", Ugluk commanded. The Uruks did so, only this time his wrists were bound in front of him instead of behind him.
" What's this? " Ugluk questioned as he noticed a small, slit-like scar in the center of the Elf's palm. Another matched it upon the opposite palm as well, thin and faint.Legolas did not answer, only looked to Aragorn, their eyes locking as they both remembered.
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// " I come to bid thee farewell, mellonin", the young mortal said.
" Do not speak of it ", the Elf replied mournfully.
" I must, for I go now and know not when I shall return."
The Elf grimaced and stared at the floor.
" I think it best if this were a final farewell ", the man said quietly.
The Elf's head snapped up and his blue eyes were wide.
" What are you saying? " he queried in a hushed voice.
" I am mortal, you are Elf-kind. It was a dream, Legolas. Just a dream ", the gray-eyed man said bitterly.
" How can you say that? " the Elf asked as he rose to his feet and strode to stand before the man. " How can you say that our friendship was only a dream? You know the truth of who you are now, but that does not change the past. You are still Elrond's son. You are still the brother of Elladan and Elrohir, the love of Arwen Undomiel. You are still my best friend ", the fair Elf said softly and desperately.
The man gave him a sympathetic look. " I will die one day. Perhaps even in these coming years as a ranger. But you, Laden Edhel, will live on with no comfort for your grief. I do not wish that upon you ", he said.
" If you were to leave here today having ended our friendship and break away from me, I would have no comfort then, either. I cannot lose you now, Estel ", the golden-haired one said.
Their eyes locked, blue and gray. The Elf reached back and drew one of his Elven blades. He cut his dipped the knife into his palm and made a small slit, repeating himself with his other palm, before doing the same to the Man's hands. He clasped his hands with the mortal's, lacing his slender fingers with his friend's, and held them up between the two. Their blood mingled and trickled down their wrists.
" Since the hour I looked upon thee, have I loved thee as my brother ", said the Elf with all of his heart. " That love will not fade as long as I draw breath. I would forsake all things if you were to ask it of me. I would forsake my immortality to perish and join your soul in Mandos ", the Elf said with a quavering voice. The man's eyes glimmered, expressing the way he was so deeply touched by the Elf's words. " I bind myself to you ", said the fair Elf, conveying it in his eyes as well as in his words.
" I love thee will all my heart, Greenleaf. Before you were my brother in all but blood. Now there is nothing that stands between us, my brother. My love will not die as long as my heart beats within my chest. Always shall it be yours, for bonded and kindred are our two spirits, by ties that cannot be broken by time, distance, or death ", the Man pledged.
They exchanged these vows as they pressed their palms together and gazed into the other's eyes with fierce intensity. Then, after a moment, they parted their hands and embraced.
" Navaer, gwadornin ", the Man whispered.**Farewell, my brother.**
" Navaer, meltha mellon ", the Elf answered almost inaudibly. ** Farewell, beloved friend.**
They held onto the other for one more moment, tears glistening on their faces. //
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" None of your damn business ", Legolas said coldly to Ugluk.
Ugluk narrowed his wicked eyes at the Elf. " You may keep your secrets, Elf. But after tonight, you will have many scars to accompany those."
" Elves only scar when the wound is self-inflicted, you imbecile ", Legolas answered, earning another bruising strike to the face. The Uruks who grasped his arms pushed him to lie over a boulder.
" No ", Gimli cried as Ugluk drew a whip from his belt. Aragorn and Boromir's eyes widened, along with the Hobbits'. There was a cracking sound as the whip came down upon the Elf's back. He only winced slightly, but then the whip struck him again and again. It hissed as snake and bit at his skin. Red welts criss-crossed on his back. The whip curled around his flesh and burned like dancing flame. Yet no sound was made by the prince, which only annoyed Ugluk further. The rest of the fellowship watched in horror as the fair Elf was whipped mercilessly. Ugluk stopped for a moment, moving to stand in front of his victim. Legolas' form was soundlessly heaving.
" Why don't you cry out and beg for mercy? " Ugluk questioned. Legolas lifted his head, now covered with a sheen of sweat.
" I am a warrior Elf. I will die before begging ", he said vehemently.
" I want to hear you cry out for mercy, Elf. Beg ", Ugluk barked.
" I will not beg ", Legolas screamed as he stood and lunged at the Uruk, his face inches from the beast's. Ugluk glared at him. The rest of the fellowship looked horrified. Damn Elf pride, Aragorn thought.
" We'll see about that ", Ugluk said. He returned to his place behind the Elf, kicking Legolas so that he sank back to his knees. The Uruk began to whip the prince again, harder and quicker than before. Blood seeped through the fair being's clothing, and sweat beaded his furrowed brow. The lashes were innumerable now. The other Uruks jeered as they watched in amusement. Legolas was panting and his body heaved, yet he bit his lip until it bled and surpressed all noise.
Finally, Aragorn could stand it no longer. Legolas would die if this continued. He sprang up and dashed before the Uruk tormenting his best friend.
"Stop ", he cried. " Stop it."
" Shut up, human ", Ugluk snarled. The beast raised his hand again to bring down the whip. Aragorn bound forward and fell to his knees, flinging himself over Legolas' battered body and shielding it with his own. He wrapped his arms around the Elf, laying his head over the archer's.
" Don't do this ", Legolas pleaded with him.
" I must, mellonin." //my friend//
The whip cracked, and the ranger winced. The blows started coming down heavily and his body tensed with contained pain. Legolas trembled in tears beneath him.
" Stop ", he whimpered. " Stop hurting him ", he pleaded in a voice laced with pain and sorrow. Every blow to Aragorn was wound in his heart.
The warrior Elf prince of Mirkwood would have undergone the torture of Isengard without ever succumbing to asking for mercy, for begging. But for Aragorn, he would beg.
" Hush ", Aragorn murmured soothingly. He slightly rocked from side to side with Legolas in his embrace.
" Im sinome ni le ", he murmured. // I am here for you.// " Lasto beth nin, Legolas. Renich i lu erui govennem? " he spoke, trying to soothe and distract his best friend whilst biting back the burning pain that cut into his flesh. //Listen to my voice, Legolas. Do you remember the time when we first met?//
Legolas shuddered with tears but nodded. " Gwennin in enninath ", the Elf said shakily. // Long years have passed.//
" And all these long years have I loved thee, gwadornin ", Aragorn whispered gently into the Elf's pointed ear. Legolas choked as tears flowed from his closed eyes, emotional pain wrought upon his fair face.
Finally, the whip fell away, and both Man and Elf panted, their backs heaving and bloodied.
" That'll teach you ", the beast said and left them there, still being watched by their fellow captives with pity and horror. Aragorn did not let go of the Elf, only hushed him with eyes closed.
A/N: Oooo, I loved that.hehe.by the " Laden Edhel " means Fair Elf. Review please! ^_^
