Angel of the Forest

I know it's been forever and I'm really sorry but I finally got by butt moving thanx in part to all you nice people who had a lot of encouraging things to say about my story, and also because of two flamers who had some not-so-nice things to say about my other 2 stories.

Now remember, Legolas is very OOC and has some serious identity issues. And, I had a hard time trying to write him as a strong character instead of falling into the same pattern as most ppl do and making him a sissy.

"Lurtz," Legolas said. "Please……., I said I was sorry. Just talk to me."

He might as well have said nothing for all the Uruk took notice of him. He had been like this ever since they had stopped. He didn't yell, didn't threaten, he didn't do anything, and it was beginning to wear on the elf's nerves. "Look, I said I didn't mean for anything to happen, I was just having a bit of fun."

Lurtz's gaze slowly turned towards Legolas. "……..When we get back I'm going to turn your training over to someone else."

"What!!! No, you can't do that."

Lurtz marched over and grabbed Legolas by the hair, yanking his head back so the elf was looking at him.

"Can't I?! You're a fool, Legolas, and I cannot afford to have fools fighting beside me! You nearly got us both killed tonight for a childish prank!" He roared, tossing him to the ground where the elf silently glared daggers at him.

"You are obviously not capable of following orders or even using your head so I'm turning you over to someone else. And if you don't show any improvement with them than I will have no choice but to do away with you." He looked Legolas straight in the eye. "Don't you understand, after 500 years? This is not a game we are playing! This is war, and if you can't obey me then I have no use for you."

"Than I'll do better, damn it!" The elf growled, standing up to look Lurtz dead on. "You can't just toss me aside like this, not after all this time, and not after all we've been through together. I'll be damned if I'll let that happen!"

"Than be damned, because your not staying with me. I've taught you all I know but you still are, and always will be, a stupid, arrogant, and weak elf! There is no place among the Uruk-Hai for you --" Lurtz barely had time to blink before Legolas was on top of him with one of his shining mythril daggers at his throat.

"How dare you say that!!!" He screamed. "The elves are a filthy race of cowards and you would compare me to them?! I would slit your throat before hearing another word of your lies, now take it back, before I am tempted to do just that!"

Had anyone else said those words, Lurtz would have believed them, but not with Legolas. Never with Legolas. Strong as he was, the Uruk could see the tremble in his hands that betrayed his hesitation, the same hesitation that would one day get him killed on the battlefield or at the hands of another Uruk-Hai.

"I will not." He ground out. "You are an elf. A true Uruk-Hai would have cut my throat long ago and yet you hesitate because of your stupid sentimental attachment to me, whereas I would not if I were in your position."

It was a true surprise to Lurtz when Legolas, rather than screaming like a child, gave a humorless chuckle that raised the hairs on the back of his neck. "Wouldn't you? Don't think that I am ignorant of your feelings for me, Lurtz. I have spoken to the others and they see it to. Saruman sees it! Why can't you?" He demanded, letting the dagger fall to the ground and putting his face close to the Uruks. "Why is it that you have never taken a woman in all the time I have been under your care? Why do you insist on sharing the same bed as me, even in the protective walls of Isengard? And why do you keep me alive when all others would have done away with me years ago? Why do you do these things if you don't want me? You have never been one to deny yourself, so why now?"

"I do not take children to bed, Legolas, and that's what you are to me, nothing more than a child."

"Child am I?" He said, smiling dangerously. "Murtag didn't seem to think so."

Before Lurtz knew what had come over him, their positions had been switched and the sweet laughter of the elves echoed through the forest. Legolas was laughing at him as though this were a game. And perhaps it was…..

"Don't toy with me, elf, or I promise to make the rest of your life both short and painful."

"No, it is you that needs to stop lying to yourself. Nothing is stopping us from being together, Lurtz. I know you want me, just as I want you. One does not wait 500 years for someone who means nothing to them."

"And of Murtag?" Lurtz questioned.

"Nothing. It meant nothing to either of us. You are the only one I have even given any thought to. You must know this. Even when I was a child and you stole me away from my home, I didn't fight to go back because I knew, even at such a young age, I knew you were all that mattered to me." He slowly reached up to touch the Uruks tangled, black hair. "Saruman doesn't care and the others approve of it. There is no reason not to."

Lurtz didn't respond for a long while, choosing instead to study Legolas' face.

He knew what Legolas said was true, every word of it, for he had felt it to. It wasn't love, it could never be that, there is no word for love in the language of the Uruk-Hai, but there was no need. Uruks didn't love, and it was very rare for them to care deeply about anything, but it wasn't uncommon for some of them to have a companion, sometimes just a sparring partner, other times a lover, and never stray from them, even after their death. It was as close as the Uruks came to love but it was far more binding than that simple word that all other races used.

"…..Very well, Legolas. 500 years is to long to wait. You are mine now."

He nodded seriously. "I always have been, just as you are mine."

Ever so slowly, he closed the distance between them…….and the rest is history.

Had you been walking through the forest that night you would have come across a beautiful sight, two of the most ruthless killers in the whole of Middle Earth expressing their love for each other, in the only way they knew how……

Okay, you may have noticed that I didn't add a sex scene. Well, I decided that adding one here might have taken away from the whole "love" scene. I've seen so many good love scenes be ruined by having a crude and totally out of place sex scene right in the middle of it and I didn't want that to happen here. Sorry to disappoint anybody but that's just the way it's gonna be. For now any way's. wink wink