--Thanks to all of those who reviewed! I really like having people tell me what they think. Makes for good changes!! ^-^ And thanks, Icingdeath, for correcting me on that. I hadn't been able to remember where Colson had been born, so I just made little underline thingies. Thx!! And I'm sorry I haven't uploaded sooner but my laptop wouldn't cooperate and download the chapter. **grrrrrr** p
Any way, on with the story !!
Chapter Two
Her screams pressed through to her as he struggled violantly against his chains, trying to get to her. He knew what was happening to his beloved Catti-brie, and yet he was completely powerless to stop it. The poisoned whip bit into his skin again and again, already the still raw and painful welts that were already across his skin. He fought not to cry out form pain as he listened to his enemies, long forgotten, rape the woman he loved. He fought back tears as he felt the fire burn his skin and the maniacal laughter of those holding him captive with Catti-brie.
"You will never see her again, Second Boy Do'Urden." He cackled in his captive's ear. "After all the years that I spent looking for you, you are not getting away from me. I will kill you, destroyer of my house, but not before I have watched you suffer watching your pretty human die."
"NO!" The drow ranger screamed, angry tears falling down his stained cheeks. His body felt like it was on fire and his wrists burned where he had struggled against them. He knew that she was suffering right now and had every right to blame him. His lavender eyes widened as he watched her being brought into the same cell that he was in. "CATTI-BRIE!!!!"
His lavender eyes widened as they chained her next to him with her back outward to the cold stone room. He knew what they were going to do to her now. The drow male next to him pulled out his whip, snapping it taut as he smiled maliciously. She made a small sound of pain as the metal pionts on the whip dug into her skin. He flinched when he saw the red welt across her back. Slowly, hoping that their captors wouldn't notice, he moved one of his hands to wrap it around the one closest to him, to tell her that he was there.
Through all of this, the older, red-haired man watched, with a satisfaction in his eyes from what was happening to the drow he had been hunting for years.
The ranger closed his eyes, his other wrist struggling against the chains holding him, against the spikes set on the inside of them, no matter what pain it caused. All he wanted was to get free and help her, to fight against the people in the room long enough for her to runaway before they killed him slowly. He could no longer hold back the tears that flowed down his face from his lavender eyes.
After how long they stopped, he didn't know, all he knew was that Catti-brie sagged in her chains, unable to stand on her own. To him it said that he had failed to keep her out of danger, to keep anything from happening to her, and that he had only utterly failed. Slowly, he turned his head to meet her eyes, as she spoke quietly, for only him to hear.
Her voice was weak as she looked up at him through pain-filled eyes, tears shimmering within their sapphire depths. She looked into his eyes with a look of resignation. Her voice was barely audible to his sensative hearing.
"I love ye Drizzt Do'Urden." She closed her eyes in pain, her life blood flowing from a deep wound on her back. "I always have. Don't ye be forgettin' it either, don't ye ever be forgettin' it."
"No!! Catti-brie!!" Drizzt threw himself forward in his bed, eyes wide, breaths hard and uneven. He was drenched in a cold sweat, images and pain from the night terrors lingering upon his mind and body.
When the door opened, the drow had stood up, going over to his dresser to fetch a tunic for wartmth. Regis stepped into the room, still slightly bleary from being wakened moments before. He watched as Drizzt let out a frustrated sigh and walked back to his bed, wrapping his arms around himself and shivering.
"Is something bothering you??" The halfling was surprised when the ranger jumped at his voice. "You cried out for Catti-brie. Did something wrong??"
Drizzt turned towards the halfling, a rueful smile on his face. "You can say that, Regis. I didn't know I called out for her," his melodic voice softened, to where he could barely heard. "At least, not outside of the terrors plaguing me."
"Have you been having night terrors?" The halfling asked curiously, going to stand where the ranger had sat down in the edge of the bed. When the drow placed his face in his face and nodded almost imperceptibly, Regis walked over and hopped onto the side of the bed, next to his friend. "Do you want to talk about it at all??"
Drizzt slowly began to tell Regis the halfling what he had seen in his nightmare, almost reluctant to tell the halfling about the details. By the end, the drow was looking at the halfling with an almost desperate look one his face, as if he was asking his friend what all of it meant.
"If only I knew what it all meant, Regis, I would be able to know what to do about it." He buried his face in his hands, his long white hair falling forward to hide his face. "I know that this is trying to tell me something, but I need to know what."
"Well, when we go to Silverymoon for that banquet, you can ask the Lady Alustriel, she'll know what's going on." The halfling smiled softly. "But now you can go to bed, and peaceful sleep to you Drizzt!"
With that, the smaller than average halfling walked out the door and down the hall, back to his room.
* * * * *
He hung in chains in front of her, his lavender eyes filled with pain, curled up on himself from the poison running through his body. She had seen this image many time before in her dreams, but never so clearly, but it had also changed from what had really happened on that fateful day in the Underdark.
They were back in Menzoberranzan, below the Baenre Complex. Here was where she and Entreri had found Drizzt after he had been taken. But this time, the chains were magically locked, and neither she nor Entreri could open them, neither could get the pure-hearted ranger of Mielikke out of his chains. Tears poured down her face as she tried to get through the chains using Taulmaril to destroy the chains, but to no avail. They were somehow enchanted against it.
"Come on Drizzt," She said softly as she tried watched Entreri try to unlock them once again. "Stay with us ye durned ranger. Come on, we'll get ye out of here. I promise ye. Just don't leave me here with that damned asassin. We're goin' to get back to Mithril Hall, just don't ye dare leave us here."
His voice was hoarse as he spoke quietly, swallowing hard as he looked into her sapphire eyes. "Cat, Entreri, you both need to get out of here, the drow are already on their way down here. They'll find you and kill you. Just get yourselves out of here. Leave me here. I'll be fine - "
"No ye won't Drizzt." She placed a hand on either side of his face, looking down into those ever unique eyes. "I'm not goin' to lose ye again. Not after I almost lost ye the first time. Don't ye be going now."
A rueful smile played across his split and swollen lips. "I don't want to, but I have to. I'll see you again Cat." He whispered. "Just leave, you can't afford to take me with you anyway. Just go, both of you."
With a reluctance in his eye that the drow had never before seen, Entreri pulled her away from him and began to pull her up the passageway leading to the outside of the Baenre Complex, and away from their slowly dying companion.
Sitting up in her bed, Catti-brie looked out the window towards where's Bruenor's Climb was in the mountains. She couldn't believe what her dreams had just shown her. It had been so long since she had seen those images in her dreams that they surprised, and scared her. The memory had changed this time also, but she didn't know why. Shaking her head, the auburn-haired woman laid back down on her bed and went back to sleep with and unremembered dream.
--I know, kind of pathetic that they both have a similar dream, but, ho hum, couldn't come up with anything else. Don't know what it is with me and dream sequences. I'm going to be updating as soon as I can though, but I don't know exactly when that is going to be though .... R/R Though !!!!
Any way, on with the story !!
Chapter Two
Her screams pressed through to her as he struggled violantly against his chains, trying to get to her. He knew what was happening to his beloved Catti-brie, and yet he was completely powerless to stop it. The poisoned whip bit into his skin again and again, already the still raw and painful welts that were already across his skin. He fought not to cry out form pain as he listened to his enemies, long forgotten, rape the woman he loved. He fought back tears as he felt the fire burn his skin and the maniacal laughter of those holding him captive with Catti-brie.
"You will never see her again, Second Boy Do'Urden." He cackled in his captive's ear. "After all the years that I spent looking for you, you are not getting away from me. I will kill you, destroyer of my house, but not before I have watched you suffer watching your pretty human die."
"NO!" The drow ranger screamed, angry tears falling down his stained cheeks. His body felt like it was on fire and his wrists burned where he had struggled against them. He knew that she was suffering right now and had every right to blame him. His lavender eyes widened as he watched her being brought into the same cell that he was in. "CATTI-BRIE!!!!"
His lavender eyes widened as they chained her next to him with her back outward to the cold stone room. He knew what they were going to do to her now. The drow male next to him pulled out his whip, snapping it taut as he smiled maliciously. She made a small sound of pain as the metal pionts on the whip dug into her skin. He flinched when he saw the red welt across her back. Slowly, hoping that their captors wouldn't notice, he moved one of his hands to wrap it around the one closest to him, to tell her that he was there.
Through all of this, the older, red-haired man watched, with a satisfaction in his eyes from what was happening to the drow he had been hunting for years.
The ranger closed his eyes, his other wrist struggling against the chains holding him, against the spikes set on the inside of them, no matter what pain it caused. All he wanted was to get free and help her, to fight against the people in the room long enough for her to runaway before they killed him slowly. He could no longer hold back the tears that flowed down his face from his lavender eyes.
After how long they stopped, he didn't know, all he knew was that Catti-brie sagged in her chains, unable to stand on her own. To him it said that he had failed to keep her out of danger, to keep anything from happening to her, and that he had only utterly failed. Slowly, he turned his head to meet her eyes, as she spoke quietly, for only him to hear.
Her voice was weak as she looked up at him through pain-filled eyes, tears shimmering within their sapphire depths. She looked into his eyes with a look of resignation. Her voice was barely audible to his sensative hearing.
"I love ye Drizzt Do'Urden." She closed her eyes in pain, her life blood flowing from a deep wound on her back. "I always have. Don't ye be forgettin' it either, don't ye ever be forgettin' it."
"No!! Catti-brie!!" Drizzt threw himself forward in his bed, eyes wide, breaths hard and uneven. He was drenched in a cold sweat, images and pain from the night terrors lingering upon his mind and body.
When the door opened, the drow had stood up, going over to his dresser to fetch a tunic for wartmth. Regis stepped into the room, still slightly bleary from being wakened moments before. He watched as Drizzt let out a frustrated sigh and walked back to his bed, wrapping his arms around himself and shivering.
"Is something bothering you??" The halfling was surprised when the ranger jumped at his voice. "You cried out for Catti-brie. Did something wrong??"
Drizzt turned towards the halfling, a rueful smile on his face. "You can say that, Regis. I didn't know I called out for her," his melodic voice softened, to where he could barely heard. "At least, not outside of the terrors plaguing me."
"Have you been having night terrors?" The halfling asked curiously, going to stand where the ranger had sat down in the edge of the bed. When the drow placed his face in his face and nodded almost imperceptibly, Regis walked over and hopped onto the side of the bed, next to his friend. "Do you want to talk about it at all??"
Drizzt slowly began to tell Regis the halfling what he had seen in his nightmare, almost reluctant to tell the halfling about the details. By the end, the drow was looking at the halfling with an almost desperate look one his face, as if he was asking his friend what all of it meant.
"If only I knew what it all meant, Regis, I would be able to know what to do about it." He buried his face in his hands, his long white hair falling forward to hide his face. "I know that this is trying to tell me something, but I need to know what."
"Well, when we go to Silverymoon for that banquet, you can ask the Lady Alustriel, she'll know what's going on." The halfling smiled softly. "But now you can go to bed, and peaceful sleep to you Drizzt!"
With that, the smaller than average halfling walked out the door and down the hall, back to his room.
* * * * *
He hung in chains in front of her, his lavender eyes filled with pain, curled up on himself from the poison running through his body. She had seen this image many time before in her dreams, but never so clearly, but it had also changed from what had really happened on that fateful day in the Underdark.
They were back in Menzoberranzan, below the Baenre Complex. Here was where she and Entreri had found Drizzt after he had been taken. But this time, the chains were magically locked, and neither she nor Entreri could open them, neither could get the pure-hearted ranger of Mielikke out of his chains. Tears poured down her face as she tried to get through the chains using Taulmaril to destroy the chains, but to no avail. They were somehow enchanted against it.
"Come on Drizzt," She said softly as she tried watched Entreri try to unlock them once again. "Stay with us ye durned ranger. Come on, we'll get ye out of here. I promise ye. Just don't leave me here with that damned asassin. We're goin' to get back to Mithril Hall, just don't ye dare leave us here."
His voice was hoarse as he spoke quietly, swallowing hard as he looked into her sapphire eyes. "Cat, Entreri, you both need to get out of here, the drow are already on their way down here. They'll find you and kill you. Just get yourselves out of here. Leave me here. I'll be fine - "
"No ye won't Drizzt." She placed a hand on either side of his face, looking down into those ever unique eyes. "I'm not goin' to lose ye again. Not after I almost lost ye the first time. Don't ye be going now."
A rueful smile played across his split and swollen lips. "I don't want to, but I have to. I'll see you again Cat." He whispered. "Just leave, you can't afford to take me with you anyway. Just go, both of you."
With a reluctance in his eye that the drow had never before seen, Entreri pulled her away from him and began to pull her up the passageway leading to the outside of the Baenre Complex, and away from their slowly dying companion.
Sitting up in her bed, Catti-brie looked out the window towards where's Bruenor's Climb was in the mountains. She couldn't believe what her dreams had just shown her. It had been so long since she had seen those images in her dreams that they surprised, and scared her. The memory had changed this time also, but she didn't know why. Shaking her head, the auburn-haired woman laid back down on her bed and went back to sleep with and unremembered dream.
--I know, kind of pathetic that they both have a similar dream, but, ho hum, couldn't come up with anything else. Don't know what it is with me and dream sequences. I'm going to be updating as soon as I can though, but I don't know exactly when that is going to be though .... R/R Though !!!!