Btw, I do not own Elrond, as much as I wish I do, and now Glorfindel is added to my list. They of course belong to the wonderful Tolkien. Cheers – Arien.

Chapter 5 - Everyone has a defiant spark in them at some point in their lives.

Elrond awoke and panicking, looked around before realizing that Lilly was exactly where he left her, asleep in his arms. I'm going to get you out of here, he thought to himself whilst gazing down at here. How long had he been away, a couple of weeks at least. Someone had to be looking for him by now, Glorfindel must have noticed that he was missing, that he did not come back with the rest of the survivors... there had to be some survivors left, after all it was prophesized that they would win.

Lilly stirred in his arms, making a small noise and alerting Elrond to her awakening, he looked down at her again and brushed a few stray strands of hair off of her face. She opened her eyes and looked up and him. The first words out of Elrond's mouth to her was "I'm so sorry little one."

Lilly just stood up, albeit somewhat unsteadily and walked away from him, placing herself in a corner at the furthest point away from him that she could. She burned with pain, not just the pain of her injuries but the pain of hurt and betrayal. Even this one had not been able to save her, but he had been so kind to her. She could not trust this Elf.

.... So its back to square one thought Elrond, looking at Lilly in a perplexed fashion, before attempting to walk over to her to try and amend the situation. When she showed signs of tensing up, Elrond gave up trying to get closer to her and sat on the hard ground where he was. "My Lady" he started, "Please, I know you are hurt and angry, but please, we need to work together, I believe I can get us out of here, if you would please just hear me."

Lilly did not look up but tensed even more. Elrond took this as a sign that she was at least taking into account what he was saying.

"Look, My Lady, they bring the meal in here everyday at exactly three hours past sunrise (which is about 9 o clock in the summer if you are interested (), usually there are only three or four of them with the meal. All we would need to do is to get up and take them out, that's all it would take, they do not even bother to place guards outside in the hallway..." he paused, waiting for her reaction, and her reaction was swift.

Her head snapped up at the thought of freedom and all of a sudden, the scared look was replaced by the defiant look of hope. This Elven Lord can rescue me from here, she thought to herself. She certainly did not really trust him just yet, he had been a source of body heat for a while and had show her kindness so there was no reason to fear him, but she still did not trust him, but what she did trust in was freedom, and if he was going to help her gain this, then she was going to have to work with him. She stood up again, her body screaming with pain, trying to level with him although he was a good few inches taller, ignoring the pain, she raised her head high, and gave him a smile. The first true smile she had given in ages, it was bold and slightly off to one side, more of a kind of grin, and she nodded to Elrond.

Elrond nodded back in approval. So this was it, he had finally gotten through to her, and they were going to escape.

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Ok guys, bit of a short chapter, but I've got to get back into the flow of things again, after all have not written on this story for a year. Only god knows what my password for fanficiton.net is lol.

Right then, enough of my rambling, hope you like it, and will put the next chapter up over the next couple of days or I will stop writing again.

Brightest Blessings Arien.