Disclaimer: I don't own LotR or anything!! I don't even own my own car!!
***********Chapter 14**************
Legolas was trying to fall asleep as the sun set in the distance. It shone through his tiny window and painted a small red-orange picture on the wall. His slash-wounds were giving him trouble, for they ached terribly. Legolas had tried putting some of the Athelas mixture on them, but the ones on his back he couldn't reach himself, and it was there that they that hurt the most.
Suddenly, there was the sound of footsteps in the corridor outside his door. They were multiple, and he sat up to distinguish them. His sensitive elven ears heard three pairs of feet approaching, two large and loud and clumsy and one soft and small.
Legolas shrugged his shoulders carelessly, but then winced as the skin on his back was stretched from the movement. It was probably just the guards checking the doors. They had a tendency to do that. Carefully as not to further cause pain to his back, Legolas laid back down on his bed. Sure enough, when he had returned to his cell after eating, he had found a thin blanket lying, waiting for him. His reward. It was now curled around his body, warming him. It was a blessing.
Suddenly, the door of his cell slammed open. Legolas jumped abruptly, for he had been concentrating so hard on getting some rest that he had failed to hear the footsteps approach his door.
The door did not stay open for long. Two large men stood outside in the hallway, and they shoved something into the room, and slammed the door shut again, locking it.
Legolas gasped and covered his exposed chest with his blanket. Eredor had been right.
Valar help me…he pleaded. He received no answer.
A young woman stared at the door as it was locked. She didn't move her gaze until Legolas shifted his weight on the bed, making one of the planks creak loudly. Upon hearing the noise, she spun around. When she saw the shirtless elf hiding under his blanket, she blushed and covered her mouth with her hands.
Legolas felt his cheeks become hot and realized he was blushing as well. He briefly observed the girl. She was young, no older than 20, he guessed. She was dressed in servant's clothing, just a plain shirt and a skirt. Her long, dark blonde hair hung over her shoulders in waves and through her extreme blushing Legolas could barely make out something he had rarely seen, as elves did not have them—freckles.
The two stared at each other blushing for quite some time. Legolas didn't know exactly how long, but it didn't matter much. Finally he took a deep breath and felt the hotness leave his face, and then opened his mouth.
"What are you doing here?" He asked softly.
The girl uncovered her mouth and tried her hardest to look at the elf without blushing even more. She looked at Legolas strangely in response to his question.
"I…I'm your reward." She said shyly.
Legolas raised an eyebrow. "My reward?" He glanced at his blanket, confused.
The girl nodded. "Yes."
"What…can you do…for me?" Legolas asked carefully.
More confusion and embarrassment flooded the girl's face. "Well…what else…could a women…give to a man?"
Legolas knew what she was hinting at. He had known since Eredor had told him, he had just not wanted to believe it. Women were nothing new to him, for he had had a few in his lifetime…but none were human. And certainly none had been given to him against their will.
Legolas sighed and wrapped the blanket further around his body. "How old are you?"
The girl's face showed surprise, and her blush faded a little. "I…I'm seventeen. I'll be turning 18 in a month." She gave this stranger more information than he needed, but right now she was too petrified to care.
Legolas looked up sharply at her. Seventeen? She was still so young!
Legolas shook his head. "I don't think that I would…"
"Am I not pretty enough?" The girl asked quickly. "If you don't want me, they said I could just call through the door and they would bring you another…" She began to turn to the door.
"No!" Legolas said, a little to loudly. "Don't let them bring another. You are fine."
The girl turned back to him, becoming submissive. "Oh. Alright." She lowered her head, her eyes going to the floor, waiting to be giving orders, whatever they may be.
Legolas looked long and hard at the girl. There was something unmistakably familiar about her, but he was at a loss to place what it was.
"Come here." He said, gesturing for her to sit next to him on the bed. The girl looked at him and obeyed. Legolas could sense she was afraid. She had probably never done this before.
The girl sat next to him, though as far away from Legolas on the wooden planks as she could. She remained staring at the floor when her hands reluctantly began to remove her shirt.
Legolas panicked. "Stop!" He cried. His cry caused his body to jolt, and he nearly catapulted himself off the bed.
The girl stopped, lowered her shirt and looked at him strangely again. "Are you sure you don't want them to get you another?" She asked hopefully.
"Yes." Legolas said certainly. "But you…you obviously do, don't you?"
The girl's eyes went wide. "It's just…I just…I don't know…" She began to stammer, before collecting herself. "I've never done this before."
"And you are frightened." Legolas finished for her.
The girl stared at him. "They said you are an elf. Can you read my mind?"
Legolas chuckled at the question. "No, but anyone, elf or human, could see that."
"Oh." The girl replied simply. Her hand nervously fiddled with the fabric of her skirt. "So you don't want to…" She stopped speaking and nervously bit her lip, but Legolas had known what she had meant.
Legolas shook his head. "No offense, but no, I don't."
"Then what I am I supposed to do that will please you?" The girl asked.
"You could tell me your name." Legolas replied.
The girl made another 'oh' sound and her eyes darted from her nervous hands to Legolas's eyes as she spoke.
"My name is….Eressa."
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AN: Bit of a cliff-hanger here…I don't know if you guys remember who this girl is, but I mentioned her before in the story. Just a clue. You'll figure it out. = ) If it's too short I'm sorry! Next one will be longer! Reviews please?
Anolinde: Thanksies! I wrote that to be a bit funny too. This fic is a bit dark so I tried to put some humor where it's needed. Glad you liked it, for I'm unsure of him comic abilities. *gives you cookie*
The Noble Platypus: Cool name! Thank you! Well, it's not really based on "Gladiator," it's based on an older movie about a particular gladiator called "Spartacus." My dad used to watch it a lot and so I got this idea for this fic. I have seen "Gladiator" though and I have to admit that it did inspire me. But that was after I started writing the story so the original inspiration was "Spartucus." Sorry my last chapter was too short! I always want to end them in just the right way…and sometimes that comes earlier or later. Thank you again! *gives you cookie*
Shaan Lien: Interesting…interesting is good! Thanks. Legolas didn't exactly cave in easily. Really he fought until he realized that he couldn't get out of this situation alone. Also, his brother just died, and his emotions have been greatly affected, making him less strong than usual. I also referred a tiny bit about his reluctance to even escape because now that his brother (the heir to Mirkwood) is dead he knows that he would have to take the thrown someday, and he wasn't prepared for that and sees it only as a different sort of prison. Thanks for your comments, they are always appreciated! *gives you cookie*
Nikki: Ok, so don't skip the fight scenes. Yes, that was a gross description, but it was what I was aiming for. More Lego strutting and stripping! Yay! You wait until my next chapters…I think you'll like those. Hehe. *gives you cookie*
Samwise the Strong: Um…actually…I haven't exactly said that he's a virgin yet. Um…you saw in this chapter. "Women were nothing new to him, for he had had a few in his lifetime…etc." He just asked Eredor "What would you do with a girl?" Cuz he was stunned, and because he didn't want to believe it. I guess I should have made that more clear, sorry. So now all the Leggy Lovers are gonna come and try and kill me. *goes and hides* So you do like Orli. Good. Anyone who likes Orli is my friend. Hey! I saw Ghost Ship! I saw Carl Urban! I saw him and I was like "Why is he so freakin' familiar?" And then I'm like "Oh, my god, Eomer!" It was really funny. At least I thought so. Is he in 28 Days? I haven't seen that, and I can't because it's rated R, ain't? You have to have someone over 17 with you to get you into a R-rated movie where I live, and my parents definitely won't do it, and my one older friend just graduated, so I'm stuck in the word of PG-13 until it comes out on video. I like it better then, though, cuz I watch scary movies at night with the lights out when no one else is home and scare the crap out of myself and I love it! Alright, I've bored you enough with this long response, I bet your waiting for your cookie…*gives you cookie* Thanks again!
XxDarkgoddessxX: Hey girl! *huggles you* Hmm…lithe…sexy…enticing…whew! *fans self* That describes him perfectly! Ooh, I wanna touch him!
Partly Egyptian and Scotish/Irish? Cool! I don't think I know anyone with a background that interesting! I'm German, with a little Polish in me. Like one sixteenth of me is Polish. So, yeah. I'm boring, and my relatives like to drink a lot of beer and go to Octoberfest and all that.
You study ancient languages? Cool!! I have wanted to learn Elvish ever since I read Tolkien's books, but there aren't any complete dictionaries I found so I gave up, and now I would love to learn Latin. It's such a pretty language and you can learn a lot about other languages from it cuz it's like their basis. Other than that I'm stuggling at inventing my own and taking Spanish in school.
Yeah…maybe I am sadistic…*waggles eyebrows*…no, just kidding. I'm in no way turned on by writing this story…except maybe by the Legolas taking off his shirt bit…yeah, that one I added for my own pleasure! LOL. No, it was for humor in this chapter and stuff.
OMG! Your right! I did bring Legolas and Haldir and Will and Jack in a bag with me on vacation! I forgot to let them out! Ah!
*runs and finds bag and opens it*
Legolas: *falling out and gasping* Air! Air! Sweet air!
Haldir: *climbing out as fast as he can* Get Jack off of me!
Jack: *grinning evilly* Thought you liked that, mate?
Haldir: *barf*
Will: *runs off to bedroom with me*
LOL. My lordy I'm weird.
Oh, god, yes! TangoNova is like the BEST writer I've ever seen (or better put read)! That is currently at the top of my list, and apparently almost everyone elses too. Man, she's got to be pushing a 1000 reviews soon. That is an excellent story! And the last chapter was really sad, even though I didn't take a liking to Rowden in the first place. I wanted more Legolas/Robyn interactions though, there weren't very much of them. Bad grammer, I know.
Your thirteen? Wow, I thought you were older. Well, actually I visited your bio page like a while ago and found that out before, but now I'll mention it. You are definitely more mature than the average 13 year old. I myself have just turned 16. I think I'm a little immature for my age cus a) I don't have and don't want a job, b) I still watch Disney movies, and c) I can't drive a car. Oh, well I guess I can, but I hate it, it's terrible, and scary, and I'm gonna kill someone someday. But I have a good excuse for being immature! I grew up in a neighborhood with no people my age and ended up playing with my little (by 4 years) sister and her friends, and now I have friends my age or older at school and stuff, but I still get along well with Freshmen and stuff. Oh, my big fat weird life.
Yeah, rape, sex and violence doesn't bother me either! But I try to stay away from most of them cuz if I read them then my 11-year-old sister will want to read them and then she'll see that and go tell my parents and you know the drill…
Yeah, I did think she died! I'm a worry-wart like that! Pathetic, I know. But I kept thinking about how I'd never know the end of the story and I'd go nuts cuz it's such a good story!
Yes! Dance Legolas dance! *dances really wildly* This reminds me of American Pie…who cares! Dance Legolas dance!
What's "Pass the Strawberry?" You pass it between your mouths or something? I don't know! I've never been to a party or anything where we've done games…well, our school musical cast party was like that, we played Paper Bag, which is like where you take a paper grocery bag and you set it on the floor and you have to pick it up with your teeth without using your hands or getting down on both knees. And after each round, you cut off an inch to make it harder and pretty soon its just the very bottom of the paper bag, no sides at all, and people are licking it and falling over trying to pick it up and all and usually we have a tie between like five peeps at the end (myself included, cuz I did it!) so we all have a vote who reigns supreme by the shape of the persons @ss! I didn't win, this year, but I lost to the most popular guy in school, who also happens to be very very very hot, so I didn't mind, cuz I got to look at his butt a lot. Hehe. Well, I'd better shut up. My responses to you just keep getting longer and longer and longer….*gives you cookie*
~Roseblade22
the counter: Well, I don't think so. You decide. Thanks for reviewing! *gives you cookie*
Truffles: Hey! Thank you! Glad to know my plot's developing good…I'll update again as soon as I can! I LOVE THAT LINE!!! "Wedding? I love weddings! Drinks all around!" I'm gonna see Pirates again tonight, I'm so excited! Thanks again! *gives you cookie*
Andmetwen: Yeh, he was a jerk. Every one of my friends thought so too, cuz he wasn't speaking to me. But in a way…I did get my revenge…get ready for a story:
Kay, it was like the third performance of this musical, and my crush's character was singing a song all by himself, but before that, when we was getting dragged around the floor by some other character (weird musical) he somehow picked up this big ball of string in his *black* hair and it was totally visible to everyone in the audience and he had no idea it was up there, so he's singing this sad, serious song and the audience was just giggling uncontrollably because he had his white blob in his hair! And then my character had to go on and cheer his character up and be lovey-dovey and all, and the second I walked backstage from my costume change *everyone* from the backstage crew comes up to me and is like "You have to get this thing out of his hair! He has a string in his hair!" And I'm like "how do I get it out without being obvious?" And then they're all like "Just do this sexy little hand sweep in his hair," or "Just do a loving caress in his hair and get it out!" And they were making such a fuss about it. I just thought that it was like a little thread or something, but then I went out onstage and I see this big white blob in my crush's hair! (Note: I had glasses at the time and hadn't learned how to use contacts so I just went and sang half-blind, so when I got out there and immediately saw the "string" I knew it was a big deal!) So I sang to him, and there was this part where I was supposed to go behind him and put my hands on his shoulders, so then I did the "sexy little hand sweep" and got the thing out of his hair and dropped it on the floor. When I got offstage again everyone was giving me high-fives like I had just scored or something….and later I heard that my crush was freaking out because he didn't know why I had touched his hair! It was so incredibly funny, I can't even tell you! He should have thanked me for that, but being the jerk he is, he didn't. (Grrr…) But the weirdest thing about it is when the musical was over and all the cast members came back one last time to help clean up the stage…I FOUND THE BALL OF STRING. Seriously, it was the same one. Same size, same material…I know it was the one. And I kept it! I was going to frame it and give it to my crush as a birthday present but then I decided I wanted it. Quite a funny old world, ain't it?
ANYWAY….I wish I could talk to people like you. I like clam up unless someone comes and talks to me first…stupid me. Oh well.
Legolas is having a bit of an emotional crisis…mostly because this is all so sudden, he doesn't understand this and so doesn't quite grasp this, plus his brother died, and that's haunting him…he's not going nuts or anything…but later he'll have to deal with a lot more…so watch him then! Your welcome for the cookie! Here's another! *gives you cookie* Thanks for reviewing again! Cheerio!
Ankhesanamun - Chandra: Well, my dictionary is a…regular Webster's dictionary, but that's what it said. Sorry for the misunderstanding! But no, I don't get enjoyment by causing pain to others (not even sexual enjoyment, ew.), I just make the fight scenes/pain-causing scenes more more violent and stuff hence more realistic, hence more believable. Ok, you didn't mean it, it's ok. LOL. Was pretty funny though. Sarcasm is good, when used the right way. But it funny when used the wrong way, so whatever.
Changing your penname? Okay. Chandra's easier to spell anyways…you have a bird? Oh, I love bird, and I have one too! Cept he's more of the green with yellow and black strips and some purplish blue inbetween…
Thanks, and thanks again! *gives you cookie*
Starknight: LOL! Darth Vadar explaining that to Luke's kids…that's a fic? I might have to read that! Hey, has your friend you wanted me to review his new Star Wars fic uploaded it yet? Cuz everytime I check his bio page there's no sign of Star Wars…it's all anime fics. I'll keep checking though. Yes, I have my schedule. But bad news: I don't have a study hall this semester. I couldn't if I wanted to get it all my credits. Sorry. Maybe I'll see you in the halls or before or after school. Next semester I have a study hall, so maybe we have it then! *crosses fingers* I hope! Thanks for reviewing! How was your vacation? Tell me! *gives you cookie*
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breeNbloom: Hi! I'm glad you're happy! Congrats on getting your braces off! I got mine off later this year, and boy, I can tell you, it was a relief! Do your teeth feel all slippery without all the metal on them? Doesn't it feel cool? And your back on the computer! That's always good. I love my computer…my friend Dawn and I joke around that it's my boyfriend. Too much info, right? Kay, I'll move on…
Yeah, I don't wanna go back to school either, but mine doesn't start until the 3rd of September! Where do you live that makes you go back so early? Poor you! In that big school! 3 floors, huh? Does sound big! But my school is like a maze! Cuz it used to be an elementary school, middle school, and high school combined, but then the population grew, and they added on and added on and added on…until finally they got a clue and built separate buildings for elementary, middle, and high school. So my high school is so big, and such a huge maze…it's incredible that I can find my way around it!
Blondes rule! I'm a blonde, and I often use that as an excuse for some stupid things I do too. And don't you worry a bit about being off the subject…go on and on about anything if you want, I LOVE long babbling reviews, and I write them all the time. They're great! So don't worry about off the subject stuff! Thanks! And I will keep up the good writing, as long as you think it's good! *gives you cookie*