Hey people. Thank you for all the lovely reviews I have gotten. Here's
the next chapter.
CHAPTER 9
That night when Legolas was asleep, the doorbell rang. Aragorn was surprised to see Gimli on the other side.
"Hey, could I talk to you?"
Aragorn stepped outside and closed the door.
"Yeah?"
"I probably shouldn't be asking, but have you seen anything wrong with Legolas' back?"
"No why?"
"Nothing. I shouldn't have said anything. I'll se you tomorrow." With that Gimli got in his car and drove off.
"What was that about?" Boromir asked when Aragorn came back in.
"I don't know. But I think Legolas does." He walked into the bedroom that Legolas was sleeping on his side in. Aragorn came behind the blonde and lifted his shirt, uncaring if Legolas woke or was in pain. He saw the crisscross welts and asked, barley controlled, what happened to him.
~~But holding on so beware I have secrets I won't share~~
"You are hurting me. And none of your damn business." Legolas was getting his shirt back down.
"You listen to me! It is my business. Through this entire thing you have only thought about you, never once thinking about what it is doing to me. So Legolas you better tell me where those welts came from or so help me god I'll-" Aragorn grabbed Legolas and started to shake and bruise his arms. Aragorn was cut off by Boromir throwing him off of the blonde. Legolas got up and after getting only his hoodie in the hurry walked to the front door. Aragorn and Boromir following, trying to stop him. Legolas turned around.
"Funny, I turned out to be right. You aren't any better than Thranduil. You might not use your fist; you use your words and threats." Legolas' tear-streaked face was the last Aragorn saw before he put his head in his hands.
"Where do you think he will go?" Boromir asked laying his hand on Aragorn's shoulder.
"I don't know." Aragorn said in between sobs.
"Well, then I guess we can only wait and see if he comes back later." Aragorn only cried harder.
*************************
Legolas walked to his street and stood in front of his house for a few minutes to gather up his courage. He knocked on the door. His father appeared a minute later.
"You... You wanted me to come back?" Legolas asked quietly. Thranduil opened the door the rest of the way.
Go to the living room. I'll be there in a few minutes so we can talk."
When Thranduil came back he had an apple in one hand and a bag of Oreo cookies in the other. Legolas took the apple and bit into it.
"So?" Thranduil sat next to Legolas, while he watched his father carefully to make sure he was safe.
"Aragorn turned out to be someone he wasn't"
Thranduil sighed. "I guess I won't get much more out of you until I tell you what I've been thinking."
Legolas rested his head back in the couch.
"A few days after the fight, I realized how badly I've been treating you. So I went to get help. I help patients who are kids now. I came to the school to explain that to you. I know you won't forgive me, hell, I wouldn't forgive me. But if you give me a chance and if anything happens you can leave and never have to come back. What do you say?"
Legolas thought for a while.
"Okay, But I'll leave if you try to hit me again."
"So you had a fight with you..." Thranduil stopped.
"Say it, dad. IT will only get better if you accept it."
"Boyfriend." Thranduil smiled at the smile that crossed Legolas' face.
"If only he was still my boyfriend. I broke up with him."
"Why?" Thranduil knew Aragorn was protective of Legolas. So why he would break up with him was very strange.
"Something happened to me the other day at school. I didn't want anyone to know. Aragorn found out and started threatening me if I didn't tell him. I left."
"What was it that you wanted nobody to know about?"
"This." Legolas got up and turned around after putting his apple down and lifted up his shirt,
"What the fuck happened? Who did this?" Thranduil asked.
"One of the teachers, who didn't believe in the school's punishments. She made her own."
"Who is she?"
"Walker."
"Are you in any pain?"
"No, I'm fine, though I'm tired."
"Go to sleep and I'll drive you to school in the morning and pick you up. Then we'll go get that car I promised."
"Thank you." Legolas walked to his room and lay down. He immediately fell asleep. The next morning Thranduil parked in a spot instead of just letting Legolas off up front.
"Dad?"
"I just need to talk to curry. You go on to your class." Thranduil got out of the car once Legolas was inside the school.
Legolas walked off to go to his locker before he had to get to science. But he ended up being late to his class anyway.
"Here. Is your tardy and try not to fall asleep while you stand up today, Greenleaf."
"Yes, Mr. Gandalf." Legolas said through clenched teeth thinking that he didn't need a reason for his dad to get mad at him all ready.
"Legolas? What happened to your back?" Boromir asked a little later.
"Nothing."
"That didn't look like nothing."
"Look Boromir, I don't have anything against you, so please stay out of it."
"Greenleaf go to the office." Gandalf yelled.
"Anything to get out of here." Legolas said as he walked out of the class.
As he was sitting in the office waiting for Curry, Thranduil walked out of the office he was supposed to go into.
"Legolas? What are you doing in here?"
"I got kicked out for telling Boromir to leave me alone."
"Who's Boromir?" The father asked confused.
"One of Aragorn's friends."
"Come on. I'll check you out and we'll go get something to eat. So you can explain to me better what's going on."
"Fine." Legolas walked to the class to get his stuff and as he was leaving Gandalf spoke. "Where do you think your going?"
"I'm leaving, bye bitch." Legolas closed the door while Gandalf and the students could only stare in shock.
"I'm ready.' He said, walking up to his father.
"Where do you want to eat?" Thranduil asked as they walked outside.
"How about 'Bahama Breeze'?"
"You always did have good taste." Thranduil laughed. "Want to drive?"
"Seriously?"
"Yeah."
"Alright." Thranduil tossed Legolas the keys and they went.
When they got there, Thranduil was surprised that Legolas could drive so well.
"Hell, I may as well pay a little extra and have you just take the driver's test instead of the permit test." Thranduil said as they were seated in a corner.
"Thanks. Dad, I think there is something else you should know." Legolas pulled out his pack of cigarettes and put them on the table.
"Damn." Thranduil breathed. "Well, would you rather have a table in smoking?"
Legolas sighed. He had been so afraid his father would start yelling at him.
"Yes, please."
Once they were reseated Thranduil told Legolas why he wasn't as pissed as he could have been.
"Your mother smoked all through her pregnancy with you. I guess I'm not as mad as I should be because I used to smoke also. Do you do drugs?"
"No." Legolas lit the cigarette. And watched his dad for a moment.
"Well, I did that too for a while but stopped when I met you mom."
"Drugs? You were always so strict that I never would have guessed." Legolas said after the shock of finding that out was over.
"I think you need to explain in great detail what is going on with everything." Thranduil said.
"Alright. After I left Aragorn and Boromir took me in. They wanted to help me get over what happened. Aragorn became my boyfriend. In November, Aragorn had gotten switched so he had no classes with me, thanks to some preps. And the first person I knew there turned out that he only liked to hang out with preps. He started getting me in trouble during class and no one not even Gimli could do anything.
After a few days, I started resenting everyone. Benny for hating me when we were friends. Aragorn and Boromir for trying to make me into something different. And Gimli for trying to always protect me and never letting me fight my battles.
Then a few days ago, Haldir, one of my friends, took a jar of lube that had been found a few months ago by Merry and Pippin, and stuck it on the overhead. It had been Walkers, they found it in her desk. Well anyway when Walker came in she asked who did it. Benny said I did. She told me to go to her office.
When we got there she said that we are ungrateful to her. I tried to leave and she hit me with something on my head. She stuffed some shit in my mouth and told me if I moved she would have Benny come in and watch. So I didn't move and she whipped me with some type of a belt or something. After it happened, someone must have seen or been told, because Aragorn came in last night demanding what was on my back. He scared me. I've never seen him like that. I thought he would hurt me. So I left." Legolas finished his second cigarette. Thranduil sighed. "I am so sorry, Legolas. I'm such an asshole. So caught up in the death of your Mother and sister. I never thought about you only when I needed something to vent my anger on."
"Dad, I have a question. The day you went to Aragorn's and demanded I come home with you, were you taking classes or anything then?"
"Yeah, but that day I found out the hospitable was investigating me because I had lost three patients that week. I snapped. I'm glad your friends were there to stop me from getting to you. I don't know what I would have done."
The waitress put their food down and as they ate, they talked about school the past and how Legolas had been doing the last few months.
"You do realize that the cat hadn't broken that lamp. Natalie and me knocked it over chasing that dog."
"We knew but your mom and me wanted to see how long you guys would last before you told the truth. Imaging our surprise when you never told." Thranduil laughed. "I hated that lamp. It was no skin off my back to be rid of it. I was actually kind of sorry no one broke it before."
Legolas snorted. "So you knew about the lamp. Did you know about the cabinet of glasses that all of a sudden fell?"
"Yep, you guys kept quiet about that also. In fact you kept quiet about most things. But things like Mom's make-up getting in the sink were kind of unbelievable."
"Oh, I remember that! 'It was a bird, mommy, I swear!' We were grounded for two weeks." Legolas laughed.
"Well you were eight, two weeks was years to you." Thranduil smiled he hadn't seen Legolas like this in years. Probably since his mother died.
"We should do something." Legolas said after their plates were taken.
"Like what?" Thranduil probably would have done anything to see his son like this. "I don't know, what time is it?"
"9:25. the car dealerships don't open until 2:00. WE never actually found out what was in this town. Want to drive around and if we find something then we go?"
"Sure." Legolas smiled the meetings or whatever was really helping his father and Legolas couldn't be happier. Thranduil looked at the cloths Legolas was wearing.
"But first we are getting you some new cloths." Legolas looked down. They were Aragorn's. They were also three times too big for him.
"Yes." Three hours and a Master Card maxed out; they walked out of their ninth store.
"That stuff will look a lot better on you." Legolas had been surprised at first. His dad was letting him get Goth sort of cloths. Well, it's 12:30. We got two hours to kill. What do you wan to do? Go exploring?" Thranduil asked.
"Mind if I ask you a question? What would you think about black streaks in my hair? I have been wanting to for awhile. But haven't had the nerve to ruin the Greenleaf hair yet." Legolas said.
"Let's take the cloths home. Then I have to show you something." His father smiled.
'Ok." A perplexed Legolas said.
When they got to the house, the older man told his son to go put up his cloths while he got something out. Five minutes later Legolas walked into the room. His father motioned him over to his side.
"This is what I wanted you to see." Legolas laughed so hard looking at the picture of Thranduil who looked to be sixteen with orange streaks in his hair.
"Wow, that's bad." Legolas finally handed the picture back.
"Orange streaks look bad. But black probably wouldn't least I don't think they would." Thranduil picked up a few strands of Legolas' hair and let them fall back when Legolas tensed up.
"I'm going to wait and make sure I want them first." Legolas decided.
"Smart boy." Thranduil smiled then put the picture back into the box.
"Come. Do we still have that birdbath in the backyard?" Legolas got up and asked.
"Yeah. Why?"
"Hold on." Legolas went to his room and dug around in his closet for a few minutes before finding a stack off papers.
"What are those?"
"They are about to be aches." Legolas walked outside and over to the bath and cleared the dead leaves from it.
"Why are you going to burn them? What are they?" Thranduil watched as Legolas started lighting one of the corners.
"Since I was 13 I wanted to kill myself. These are the suicide letters I wrote you. I never had the nerve to actually do it. I guess burning them is my way of saying that I don't feel like that anymore." Thranduil grabbed Legolas and hugged him. After a moment the boy relaxed and they stood there and watched the letters burn.
TBC...
CHAPTER 9
That night when Legolas was asleep, the doorbell rang. Aragorn was surprised to see Gimli on the other side.
"Hey, could I talk to you?"
Aragorn stepped outside and closed the door.
"Yeah?"
"I probably shouldn't be asking, but have you seen anything wrong with Legolas' back?"
"No why?"
"Nothing. I shouldn't have said anything. I'll se you tomorrow." With that Gimli got in his car and drove off.
"What was that about?" Boromir asked when Aragorn came back in.
"I don't know. But I think Legolas does." He walked into the bedroom that Legolas was sleeping on his side in. Aragorn came behind the blonde and lifted his shirt, uncaring if Legolas woke or was in pain. He saw the crisscross welts and asked, barley controlled, what happened to him.
~~But holding on so beware I have secrets I won't share~~
"You are hurting me. And none of your damn business." Legolas was getting his shirt back down.
"You listen to me! It is my business. Through this entire thing you have only thought about you, never once thinking about what it is doing to me. So Legolas you better tell me where those welts came from or so help me god I'll-" Aragorn grabbed Legolas and started to shake and bruise his arms. Aragorn was cut off by Boromir throwing him off of the blonde. Legolas got up and after getting only his hoodie in the hurry walked to the front door. Aragorn and Boromir following, trying to stop him. Legolas turned around.
"Funny, I turned out to be right. You aren't any better than Thranduil. You might not use your fist; you use your words and threats." Legolas' tear-streaked face was the last Aragorn saw before he put his head in his hands.
"Where do you think he will go?" Boromir asked laying his hand on Aragorn's shoulder.
"I don't know." Aragorn said in between sobs.
"Well, then I guess we can only wait and see if he comes back later." Aragorn only cried harder.
*************************
Legolas walked to his street and stood in front of his house for a few minutes to gather up his courage. He knocked on the door. His father appeared a minute later.
"You... You wanted me to come back?" Legolas asked quietly. Thranduil opened the door the rest of the way.
Go to the living room. I'll be there in a few minutes so we can talk."
When Thranduil came back he had an apple in one hand and a bag of Oreo cookies in the other. Legolas took the apple and bit into it.
"So?" Thranduil sat next to Legolas, while he watched his father carefully to make sure he was safe.
"Aragorn turned out to be someone he wasn't"
Thranduil sighed. "I guess I won't get much more out of you until I tell you what I've been thinking."
Legolas rested his head back in the couch.
"A few days after the fight, I realized how badly I've been treating you. So I went to get help. I help patients who are kids now. I came to the school to explain that to you. I know you won't forgive me, hell, I wouldn't forgive me. But if you give me a chance and if anything happens you can leave and never have to come back. What do you say?"
Legolas thought for a while.
"Okay, But I'll leave if you try to hit me again."
"So you had a fight with you..." Thranduil stopped.
"Say it, dad. IT will only get better if you accept it."
"Boyfriend." Thranduil smiled at the smile that crossed Legolas' face.
"If only he was still my boyfriend. I broke up with him."
"Why?" Thranduil knew Aragorn was protective of Legolas. So why he would break up with him was very strange.
"Something happened to me the other day at school. I didn't want anyone to know. Aragorn found out and started threatening me if I didn't tell him. I left."
"What was it that you wanted nobody to know about?"
"This." Legolas got up and turned around after putting his apple down and lifted up his shirt,
"What the fuck happened? Who did this?" Thranduil asked.
"One of the teachers, who didn't believe in the school's punishments. She made her own."
"Who is she?"
"Walker."
"Are you in any pain?"
"No, I'm fine, though I'm tired."
"Go to sleep and I'll drive you to school in the morning and pick you up. Then we'll go get that car I promised."
"Thank you." Legolas walked to his room and lay down. He immediately fell asleep. The next morning Thranduil parked in a spot instead of just letting Legolas off up front.
"Dad?"
"I just need to talk to curry. You go on to your class." Thranduil got out of the car once Legolas was inside the school.
Legolas walked off to go to his locker before he had to get to science. But he ended up being late to his class anyway.
"Here. Is your tardy and try not to fall asleep while you stand up today, Greenleaf."
"Yes, Mr. Gandalf." Legolas said through clenched teeth thinking that he didn't need a reason for his dad to get mad at him all ready.
"Legolas? What happened to your back?" Boromir asked a little later.
"Nothing."
"That didn't look like nothing."
"Look Boromir, I don't have anything against you, so please stay out of it."
"Greenleaf go to the office." Gandalf yelled.
"Anything to get out of here." Legolas said as he walked out of the class.
As he was sitting in the office waiting for Curry, Thranduil walked out of the office he was supposed to go into.
"Legolas? What are you doing in here?"
"I got kicked out for telling Boromir to leave me alone."
"Who's Boromir?" The father asked confused.
"One of Aragorn's friends."
"Come on. I'll check you out and we'll go get something to eat. So you can explain to me better what's going on."
"Fine." Legolas walked to the class to get his stuff and as he was leaving Gandalf spoke. "Where do you think your going?"
"I'm leaving, bye bitch." Legolas closed the door while Gandalf and the students could only stare in shock.
"I'm ready.' He said, walking up to his father.
"Where do you want to eat?" Thranduil asked as they walked outside.
"How about 'Bahama Breeze'?"
"You always did have good taste." Thranduil laughed. "Want to drive?"
"Seriously?"
"Yeah."
"Alright." Thranduil tossed Legolas the keys and they went.
When they got there, Thranduil was surprised that Legolas could drive so well.
"Hell, I may as well pay a little extra and have you just take the driver's test instead of the permit test." Thranduil said as they were seated in a corner.
"Thanks. Dad, I think there is something else you should know." Legolas pulled out his pack of cigarettes and put them on the table.
"Damn." Thranduil breathed. "Well, would you rather have a table in smoking?"
Legolas sighed. He had been so afraid his father would start yelling at him.
"Yes, please."
Once they were reseated Thranduil told Legolas why he wasn't as pissed as he could have been.
"Your mother smoked all through her pregnancy with you. I guess I'm not as mad as I should be because I used to smoke also. Do you do drugs?"
"No." Legolas lit the cigarette. And watched his dad for a moment.
"Well, I did that too for a while but stopped when I met you mom."
"Drugs? You were always so strict that I never would have guessed." Legolas said after the shock of finding that out was over.
"I think you need to explain in great detail what is going on with everything." Thranduil said.
"Alright. After I left Aragorn and Boromir took me in. They wanted to help me get over what happened. Aragorn became my boyfriend. In November, Aragorn had gotten switched so he had no classes with me, thanks to some preps. And the first person I knew there turned out that he only liked to hang out with preps. He started getting me in trouble during class and no one not even Gimli could do anything.
After a few days, I started resenting everyone. Benny for hating me when we were friends. Aragorn and Boromir for trying to make me into something different. And Gimli for trying to always protect me and never letting me fight my battles.
Then a few days ago, Haldir, one of my friends, took a jar of lube that had been found a few months ago by Merry and Pippin, and stuck it on the overhead. It had been Walkers, they found it in her desk. Well anyway when Walker came in she asked who did it. Benny said I did. She told me to go to her office.
When we got there she said that we are ungrateful to her. I tried to leave and she hit me with something on my head. She stuffed some shit in my mouth and told me if I moved she would have Benny come in and watch. So I didn't move and she whipped me with some type of a belt or something. After it happened, someone must have seen or been told, because Aragorn came in last night demanding what was on my back. He scared me. I've never seen him like that. I thought he would hurt me. So I left." Legolas finished his second cigarette. Thranduil sighed. "I am so sorry, Legolas. I'm such an asshole. So caught up in the death of your Mother and sister. I never thought about you only when I needed something to vent my anger on."
"Dad, I have a question. The day you went to Aragorn's and demanded I come home with you, were you taking classes or anything then?"
"Yeah, but that day I found out the hospitable was investigating me because I had lost three patients that week. I snapped. I'm glad your friends were there to stop me from getting to you. I don't know what I would have done."
The waitress put their food down and as they ate, they talked about school the past and how Legolas had been doing the last few months.
"You do realize that the cat hadn't broken that lamp. Natalie and me knocked it over chasing that dog."
"We knew but your mom and me wanted to see how long you guys would last before you told the truth. Imaging our surprise when you never told." Thranduil laughed. "I hated that lamp. It was no skin off my back to be rid of it. I was actually kind of sorry no one broke it before."
Legolas snorted. "So you knew about the lamp. Did you know about the cabinet of glasses that all of a sudden fell?"
"Yep, you guys kept quiet about that also. In fact you kept quiet about most things. But things like Mom's make-up getting in the sink were kind of unbelievable."
"Oh, I remember that! 'It was a bird, mommy, I swear!' We were grounded for two weeks." Legolas laughed.
"Well you were eight, two weeks was years to you." Thranduil smiled he hadn't seen Legolas like this in years. Probably since his mother died.
"We should do something." Legolas said after their plates were taken.
"Like what?" Thranduil probably would have done anything to see his son like this. "I don't know, what time is it?"
"9:25. the car dealerships don't open until 2:00. WE never actually found out what was in this town. Want to drive around and if we find something then we go?"
"Sure." Legolas smiled the meetings or whatever was really helping his father and Legolas couldn't be happier. Thranduil looked at the cloths Legolas was wearing.
"But first we are getting you some new cloths." Legolas looked down. They were Aragorn's. They were also three times too big for him.
"Yes." Three hours and a Master Card maxed out; they walked out of their ninth store.
"That stuff will look a lot better on you." Legolas had been surprised at first. His dad was letting him get Goth sort of cloths. Well, it's 12:30. We got two hours to kill. What do you wan to do? Go exploring?" Thranduil asked.
"Mind if I ask you a question? What would you think about black streaks in my hair? I have been wanting to for awhile. But haven't had the nerve to ruin the Greenleaf hair yet." Legolas said.
"Let's take the cloths home. Then I have to show you something." His father smiled.
'Ok." A perplexed Legolas said.
When they got to the house, the older man told his son to go put up his cloths while he got something out. Five minutes later Legolas walked into the room. His father motioned him over to his side.
"This is what I wanted you to see." Legolas laughed so hard looking at the picture of Thranduil who looked to be sixteen with orange streaks in his hair.
"Wow, that's bad." Legolas finally handed the picture back.
"Orange streaks look bad. But black probably wouldn't least I don't think they would." Thranduil picked up a few strands of Legolas' hair and let them fall back when Legolas tensed up.
"I'm going to wait and make sure I want them first." Legolas decided.
"Smart boy." Thranduil smiled then put the picture back into the box.
"Come. Do we still have that birdbath in the backyard?" Legolas got up and asked.
"Yeah. Why?"
"Hold on." Legolas went to his room and dug around in his closet for a few minutes before finding a stack off papers.
"What are those?"
"They are about to be aches." Legolas walked outside and over to the bath and cleared the dead leaves from it.
"Why are you going to burn them? What are they?" Thranduil watched as Legolas started lighting one of the corners.
"Since I was 13 I wanted to kill myself. These are the suicide letters I wrote you. I never had the nerve to actually do it. I guess burning them is my way of saying that I don't feel like that anymore." Thranduil grabbed Legolas and hugged him. After a moment the boy relaxed and they stood there and watched the letters burn.
TBC...