Chapter 140: Real injuries
Thranduil had found Galion, but not the bottle. Sadly, Thranduil had such a bad hangover he forgot the way to where Galion kept the barrels full of wine, so instead ended up falling asleep in Cield's bed, and Cield happened to have been napping there so was trapped under his father's heavy body.
"Elladan! Help! Pull me out from under my father, please." Cield hissed as Elladan walked past Cield's bedroom, Illiendal following just so that if Elrohir happened to come she could pretend to be helping Elladan walk.
"No, I cant." Elladan smiled.
"Why not?" Cield was not very fond of Elladan or his twin, and this did not help their relationship.
"Because, I have chores to do, and I injured myself whilst doing them!" Elladan smirked at the trapped prince.
"You look fine. Now come here!"
Elladan suddenly fell backwards to be caught by Illiendal.
"Not fine." Elladan smiled.
"If you come, you wont have to do any of the things I told you to do."
Elladan sighed and walked over to the bed where Cield lay trapped.
"My father is too heavy for me to roll under, I'd be crushed. Can you push him?" Cield asked.
Elladan smiled and lay on the bed, now Cield trapped under both his father and Elrond's son.
"Illiendal, come join me! It's very warm and you get used to the feeling of Cield moving around beneath you."
"No... Elladan, get off him and help him up."
"Yes, listen to my sister. You know you want to make her happy." Cield said, though it was hard to understand since Cield's face was right up against Elladan's back.
Elladan looked sadly at Illiendal, as he had been having fun tormenting Cield. But Elladan got up and carefully moved Thranduil, freeing Cield.
"There, was that so hard? Now go do what I told you to do, you're not hurt at all."
"I am hurt. I fell down the palace stairs." Elladan folded his arms across his chest.
"Perhaps you did, but I have too, and I was not able to walk or talk for a week. My jaw was broken, and I was only a little elfling. You seemed to have had a light fall, or perhaps you landed on your brother since he is really only good enough to break someone's fall."
"Are you insulting my brother?"
"No, I would never do that! Never! Why would I insult a perfectly stupid young elf like your brother, Elladan?" Cield asked, smiling as the younger elf's smile disappeared.
"Take that back RIGHT now!" Elladan clenched his fists.
"Why?"
"Because! He is my brother, and... I'll... I'll... Attack you if you don't take back what you just said about him!"
Cield smiled.
"Fine, I take back that your brother is an idiot, and that all he's good for is breaking someone's fall," Cield said as the smile appeared on Elladan's face again, "But, then I'll just say that you both are mad half-breeds." Cield smiled as Elladan raised a fist, and punched him in his chest.
"Elladan, you are years younger than me. Don't bother trying to fight me."
Elladan continued to throw punches at Cield, and Cield blocked them until finally Cield decided he had enough and threw a punch back at Elladan.
The two continued to fight until Cield had Elladan on the floor.
"Stop!" Elladan lay on the floor and looked up at Cield, who simply looked down at him smiling.
"Please..." Elladan shut his eyes until he could tell that Cield was no longer beside him.
"Get up Elladan, and go do what I told you to do. After seeing you try and fight me, it proves that you are in good enough conditions to do some chores." Cield sat on his bed, beside his sister who was very concerned for Elladan, who seemed to be having difficulties getting up.
"Get up!" Cield snapped, and was poked by his sister.
"Stop yelling at him! He's smaller than you Cield! You're hurting him!" Illiendal said as Elladan sank back down to the floor on his tenth attempt to stand.
Cield walked over to the dark haired elf and grabbed him under his arms and harshly lifted him up, but Elladan fell back down and pulled his leg up to his chest and moaned.
"What's your problem?" Cield asked, kicking Elladan's leg, and Elladan shrieked in pain.
"Cield! Stop hurting him!" Illiendal tried her best to shove him away from Elladan, but Cield was far too heavy and she was far too small. Instead, she fell to the floor beside Elladan.
"Where are you hurt?" She asked him. Elladan shook his head.
"I'm fine."
"No your not, you cannot walk. I can tell the difference between you truly injured and you faking your injury to get out of work. You are truly hurt. Tell me where."
"I am hurt in many places, thanks to your brother but... I cannot stand." Elladan raised his leggings on the leg that was throbbing.
"It looks broken Elladan. What did Cield do to your leg?"
"He... tripped me and then... I... I fell and hit my head on the wall... He... He stood over me and... I remember hearing a cracking noise... I think he crushed my leg."
"That is ridiculous. I am not heavy enough to crush his leg." Cield crossed his arms.
"Yes you are!" Illiendal snapped, holding Elladan's arm tightly.
"I cannot lift you, but I can go get Elrohir to help me. Stay here and do not try to walk, else you will injure yourself... again."
Elladan sighed as she left and he was alone with Cield, who immediately bent down and raised Elladan's leggings so he could see the leg.
"Don't touch!" Elladan whispered sharply.
"It is broken..." Cield muttered quietly, then suddenly noticed a deep gash on Elladan's leg.
"How did you get that?" Cield asked sharply.
"You keep a knife in your boot. When I kicked you, it came out and cut me." Elladan said angrily.
Cield reached under his bed and pulled out a bottle.
"That's your father's! You stole it from him!"
Cield nodded and pulled the cork out from the bottle.
"What are you doing with that?"
"When I was younger than you Tonus would secretly bring me with him to the archery fields since I was not allowed to go, and I would always get hurt. Tonus did not want my father to know that I had been taken to the archery fields or to know that I had been hurt, so Tonus always brought a very small amount of alcohol with him, and he would put it on my wounds. The wounds would heal fast and my father never found out. If this works, I will be in less trouble." Cield said, pouring the alcohol on Elladan's cut and sighed as Elladan screamed in pain.
"It will only sting for a little bit. Stop screaming!"
Elladan shut his eyes and tilted his head back.
"I want my brother... and Illiendal..." Elladan sighed.
"They will be coming..." Cield said, quickly throwing the now empty bottle of what used to be alcohol under his bed, and at that moment Elrohir, Illiendal and Tonus entered the room. Tonus shoved Cield out of the way and knelt beside Elladan. Pulling up his legging, Tonus saw the gash and the alcohol dripping down Elladan's leg.
"You tried to make his wound close faster with alcohol, didn't you?" Tonus asked, using his sleeve to wipe the alcohol away.
"Yes..." Cield whispered.
"You should have known that it would not heal in time," Tonus shook his head. "You made him go threw that pain for no reason."
"I thought I heard a girly scream come from this room. That was only a few minutes ago, it must have been when Cield poured the alcohol on Elladan." Elrohir said, looking down at his truly injured twin.
"It's broken, you where right about that Illiendal. There's not much I can do about this but bandage it and wait for him to heal. It could take a week." Tonus sighed and he began to bandage Elladan's leg.
"I cant believe you Cield. I thought you had changed since you knew your child was coming." Illiendal looked at her brother.
"When adar wakes I am going to tell him Cield, I have too. I am sorry but you cannot expect to get away with that." Tonus sighed as he finished bandaging Elladan.
"No! No, you cant tell him! I'll stop you from telling him!"
Cield sprang to his feet and grabbed Tonus around his neck.
To be continued...
Hey, for those of you who watch lost (the best show ever), do you know why Charlie (Dom... 'You all, everybody') wrote L, A, T, E on each of the bandages on his fingers? Oh and do you know if the tattoo on his arm that says 'Life is easy with eyes closed' is real or not?