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" Milord?" Nefiath called as she opened Thranduil's office door " you wished to see me?"
" Oh uh, yes I did" Thranduil said as he pulled himself out of his daydream about Legolas.
" What's wrong?" Nefiath asked, " Have you heard from the kidnappers?"
" Yes I did, but you cant tell anyone. Valandil doesn't even know yet. These people know things that they shouldn't"
" Like what?" Nefiath asked as she sat down in own of the overstuffed chairs in Thranduil office.
" Like what we do everyday. They must have spies everywhere. They know our every move and I can't do anything to stop it." Thranduil said.
" What do they want?" Nefiath asked. " Is Legolas alright? "
" I don't know what they want yet but I can guess that it problem involves money or something along those lines."
Nefiath nodded her head " but what if they want a price that you aren't willing to pay?"
" Like what?" Thranduil
" Like giving up your kingdom? They might ask for something like that." Nefiath said as tears started to spring up in her eyes.
Thranduil was silent as he thought carefully about what Nefiath had said
" I'm sorry" Nefiath said
" Don't be. It is a good question. No price is to large for my son but… what will our people do?"
" I don't know?" Nefiath said quietly " I can't think of anyone to take your place."
Thranduil nodded his head. " I can't think of anyone but Elrond to take my place."
" Elrond? Are we thinking of the same Elrond? You two can't get along for nothing!" Nefiath said
" I know but… I don't know, maybe he isn't such a bad guy. I mean… oh I don't know!" Thranduil said.
" Did the kidnappers leave a note?" Nefiath asked changing the subject before Thranduil got worked up.
" Uh yes… here it is. The twins gave it to me when they were done writing to their nanneth." Thranduil said as he handed Nefiath the letter.
Nefiath read the note and gasped
" What? What's wrong?" Thranduil asked
Nefiath motioned for him to come closer.
" Mani? Mani naa ta?" Thranduil asked as he walked over to his son's nanny.
" That is the same handwriting as the note that was with Alasse when she died.
" What!" Thranduil said as he grabbed the note from Nefiath and looked hard at it
" Your right. I was so worried about Legolas and all the others that I didn't realize that." Thranduil said as he thought back to his wife's death.
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Thranduil rubbed his stiff neck as he walked down the hall towards his chambers. He was looking forward to a kiss from his wife and to play with his almost a year old son. Thranduil smiled as he thought about his new family. He never thought he could be so proud and happy about a little baby that couldn't even walk yet. Legolas had been a blessing to him and Alasse. After months of trying to convince they were about to give up. But a week later Alasse had announced that she was pregnant. Thranduil's smile widened as he thought about his wonderful wife. He doubted that anyone could have a better one then he did. Alasse was kind, and always seemed to know what to do and say. Even when she was aggravated. Nothing seemed to dampen her sprits. Even with a screaming baby alasse could kept a smile on her face. Well almost a smile.
Thranduil stopped as he heard a baby start to scream. He quickly realized that it wasn't a 'I'm hungry' or a 'play with me scream' it was a 'something is wrong come now scream'
/ That is Legolas! What's wrong with him? Alasse would never let him scream like that! /
Thranduil started to run down the hall.
/ what's wrong? What's wrong with my family?/
Thranduil slowed down as he reached his and Alasse's room. Legolas was still screaming at the top of his lungs. He tried to open the door but it wouldn't open. Something was propped up on the other side. Thranduil pounded on the door with his fists.
" let me in! what's worng!?" Thranduil yelled
No response came expect for Legolas to scream even louder if that was possible.
" I'm coming baby!" Thranduil tried to yell over his baby's screams.
Thranduil charged at the door with all his strength. He managed to break though what ever was blocking the doorway. He stepped into the dark room. Thranduil quickly crossed the room and lit a couple candles. He turned around and saw his wife laying on the floor in front of the crib…dead
" N'uma, n'uma! You can't leave!" Thranduil said as he rushed over to his wife side ignoring Legolas's screams for a moment. He reached down and gripped his wife's hand and found it slightly warm. He felt for a pulse and found a faint one. Thranduil quickly looked over alasse and found a black handled knife in her stomach and several stab marks over her body.
" TUA! TAU AMIN! TAU AMIN LLE! SAES! SAES, TAU!" Thranduil yelled over his son. {Help! Help me! Help me somebody please! Please help}
" Milord…." a guard said as he skidded into the kings room " what happened?"
" I dont know! Just go get a healer! Make hast!" Thranduil said as he stood up and reached over alasse and grabbed his screaming son. He sat back down next to alasse. He gently laid the still screaming baby next to him. He gently pulled out the knife and untied his sash. He pressed the cloth against Alasse's wounds. " Can you hear me celeb elen? You are going to be alright. You have to pull through. We have a son, you can't leave us. He needs you. I need you. Saes, Saes, don't leave us. I can't go on with out you." Thranduil said as tears fell off his face and onto his beloved. {Silver Star}
Legolas started to twitch as he screamed.
Thranduil didn't notice.
" Thranduil, what wrong!" Beraid said as he rushed into the room with three other healers at his heels. " What happened?"
" I don't know! I just walked in and saw this." Thranduil said between sobs " help her. Save her!"
" Here take Legolas," Beraid said as he handed the screaming baby to the distressed father. " Calm him down. I'll take care of alasse," he said
Thranduil nodded and retreated to the balcony.
" Shush Legolas, nanna will be okay" Thranduil said as he gently rocked his son.
" King Thranduil! Give me the prince quick!" a healer said as she reached out and took Legolas out of his father's arms.
" Why, what's wrong?" Thranduil asked worried. "What's wrong with my baby?"
" We found a cloth in his crib. However attacked your wife tried to drug Legolas," she said as she examined the baby prince.
" Is he going to die?" Thranduil asked dreading the answer.
" No I don't think so milord. I think it was just a sleeping drug. See how he moves really clumsily? "
" Yes" Thranduil said
" Classical sign of sunneth" {a/n- I just made the drug up}
" And what's?" Thranduil asked
" A powerful sleeping drug. Too much and it'll put you in a 6 week coma. I don't think prince Legolas got a lot of it though," the healer said as she handed Legolas back to Thranduil and rummaged though her medic bag.
" How do you know that it is sunneth?" Thranduil asked as he cradled the still screaming baby " and why is he screaming so?"
" Sunneth has a certain smell. He is screaming like that because it was way too much for his tiny system. His body is tingling and won't move right. That's way he can't move right. This will help." she said. She opened a bottle of red liquid. She took a eyedropper and filled it. She squirted it into Legolas's mouth. When he tried to spit it back out she put her hand on his mouth and blew on his face until he swolow it. {a/n- that really works on babys}
" that should help him. But, when you feed him you need to burp him cause it kinda of meses up his stomach a little. He should be fine sometime tomorrow night." she said as she put the medicene back into her bag.
" diola lle" was all Thranduil said as he held his baby close to him.
Beraid came out on the balcony. He whispered something to the healer. She noded and left quickly.
" mani? Mani naa ta?" Thranduil said dreading the answer. " alasse… she… shes okay right?"
" sit down Thranduil" Beraid said " I have some bad news."
Thranduil shook his head. " n'uma… alasse cant have died! She couldn't! She. I need her.. Legolas needs her!" Thranduil said as he dropped to his knees. And tears rolled down his face accompanied by sobs. " No, that cant be true. Alasse cant ….. No…. she cant be…"
" We found this on your bed. Let me take Legolas" Beraid said as he gently pried Thranduil's son out of his arms and gave him a bright green envelope
Thranduil slowly let go of his drugged son and took the envelope from his long time friend.
It read-
Dear king Thranduil,
How ever said that revenge was sweet was right. It is sweet. Very sweet. I have waited for years to do this. I have watched your every move. Your every minute. Everyday. Every single day I have watched you and your family grow. I know your every secret with your wife. I know everything about you and you can't stop me. None can. Because you don't know who I am. For all you know I'm the guard outside your door. I'm the servant that cleans your room. I'm your councilor, your stable boy, your nanny. I am every one and yet no one to you. Well I guess I'm someone in your eyes now.
Sincerely, ah, you want to know how I am don't you, guess!
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" So that same bastard that killed Alasse took Legolas?" Thranduil said tears welling up in his eyes.
" I guess so milord." Nefiath said
Thranduil said nothing he just walked back to his desk and put his head in his hands. Nefiath got up and followed him.
" We will find him this time." Nefiath said.
" I hope so. I can't stand to lose Legolas too," Thranduil said through his hands.
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" Milord?" Nefiath called as she opened Thranduil's office door " you wished to see me?"
" Oh uh, yes I did" Thranduil said as he pulled himself out of his daydream about Legolas.
" What's wrong?" Nefiath asked, " Have you heard from the kidnappers?"
" Yes I did, but you cant tell anyone. Valandil doesn't even know yet. These people know things that they shouldn't"
" Like what?" Nefiath asked as she sat down in own of the overstuffed chairs in Thranduil office.
" Like what we do everyday. They must have spies everywhere. They know our every move and I can't do anything to stop it." Thranduil said.
" What do they want?" Nefiath asked. " Is Legolas alright? "
" I don't know what they want yet but I can guess that it problem involves money or something along those lines."
Nefiath nodded her head " but what if they want a price that you aren't willing to pay?"
" Like what?" Thranduil
" Like giving up your kingdom? They might ask for something like that." Nefiath said as tears started to spring up in her eyes.
Thranduil was silent as he thought carefully about what Nefiath had said
" I'm sorry" Nefiath said
" Don't be. It is a good question. No price is to large for my son but… what will our people do?"
" I don't know?" Nefiath said quietly " I can't think of anyone to take your place."
Thranduil nodded his head. " I can't think of anyone but Elrond to take my place."
" Elrond? Are we thinking of the same Elrond? You two can't get along for nothing!" Nefiath said
" I know but… I don't know, maybe he isn't such a bad guy. I mean… oh I don't know!" Thranduil said.
" Did the kidnappers leave a note?" Nefiath asked changing the subject before Thranduil got worked up.
" Uh yes… here it is. The twins gave it to me when they were done writing to their nanneth." Thranduil said as he handed Nefiath the letter.
Nefiath read the note and gasped
" What? What's wrong?" Thranduil asked
Nefiath motioned for him to come closer.
" Mani? Mani naa ta?" Thranduil asked as he walked over to his son's nanny.
" That is the same handwriting as the note that was with Alasse when she died.
" What!" Thranduil said as he grabbed the note from Nefiath and looked hard at it
" Your right. I was so worried about Legolas and all the others that I didn't realize that." Thranduil said as he thought back to his wife's death.
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Thranduil rubbed his stiff neck as he walked down the hall towards his chambers. He was looking forward to a kiss from his wife and to play with his almost a year old son. Thranduil smiled as he thought about his new family. He never thought he could be so proud and happy about a little baby that couldn't even walk yet. Legolas had been a blessing to him and Alasse. After months of trying to convince they were about to give up. But a week later Alasse had announced that she was pregnant. Thranduil's smile widened as he thought about his wonderful wife. He doubted that anyone could have a better one then he did. Alasse was kind, and always seemed to know what to do and say. Even when she was aggravated. Nothing seemed to dampen her sprits. Even with a screaming baby alasse could kept a smile on her face. Well almost a smile.
Thranduil stopped as he heard a baby start to scream. He quickly realized that it wasn't a 'I'm hungry' or a 'play with me scream' it was a 'something is wrong come now scream'
/ That is Legolas! What's wrong with him? Alasse would never let him scream like that! /
Thranduil started to run down the hall.
/ what's wrong? What's wrong with my family?/
Thranduil slowed down as he reached his and Alasse's room. Legolas was still screaming at the top of his lungs. He tried to open the door but it wouldn't open. Something was propped up on the other side. Thranduil pounded on the door with his fists.
" let me in! what's worng!?" Thranduil yelled
No response came expect for Legolas to scream even louder if that was possible.
" I'm coming baby!" Thranduil tried to yell over his baby's screams.
Thranduil charged at the door with all his strength. He managed to break though what ever was blocking the doorway. He stepped into the dark room. Thranduil quickly crossed the room and lit a couple candles. He turned around and saw his wife laying on the floor in front of the crib…dead
" N'uma, n'uma! You can't leave!" Thranduil said as he rushed over to his wife side ignoring Legolas's screams for a moment. He reached down and gripped his wife's hand and found it slightly warm. He felt for a pulse and found a faint one. Thranduil quickly looked over alasse and found a black handled knife in her stomach and several stab marks over her body.
" TUA! TAU AMIN! TAU AMIN LLE! SAES! SAES, TAU!" Thranduil yelled over his son. {Help! Help me! Help me somebody please! Please help}
" Milord…." a guard said as he skidded into the kings room " what happened?"
" I dont know! Just go get a healer! Make hast!" Thranduil said as he stood up and reached over alasse and grabbed his screaming son. He sat back down next to alasse. He gently laid the still screaming baby next to him. He gently pulled out the knife and untied his sash. He pressed the cloth against Alasse's wounds. " Can you hear me celeb elen? You are going to be alright. You have to pull through. We have a son, you can't leave us. He needs you. I need you. Saes, Saes, don't leave us. I can't go on with out you." Thranduil said as tears fell off his face and onto his beloved. {Silver Star}
Legolas started to twitch as he screamed.
Thranduil didn't notice.
" Thranduil, what wrong!" Beraid said as he rushed into the room with three other healers at his heels. " What happened?"
" I don't know! I just walked in and saw this." Thranduil said between sobs " help her. Save her!"
" Here take Legolas," Beraid said as he handed the screaming baby to the distressed father. " Calm him down. I'll take care of alasse," he said
Thranduil nodded and retreated to the balcony.
" Shush Legolas, nanna will be okay" Thranduil said as he gently rocked his son.
" King Thranduil! Give me the prince quick!" a healer said as she reached out and took Legolas out of his father's arms.
" Why, what's wrong?" Thranduil asked worried. "What's wrong with my baby?"
" We found a cloth in his crib. However attacked your wife tried to drug Legolas," she said as she examined the baby prince.
" Is he going to die?" Thranduil asked dreading the answer.
" No I don't think so milord. I think it was just a sleeping drug. See how he moves really clumsily? "
" Yes" Thranduil said
" Classical sign of sunneth" {a/n- I just made the drug up}
" And what's?" Thranduil asked
" A powerful sleeping drug. Too much and it'll put you in a 6 week coma. I don't think prince Legolas got a lot of it though," the healer said as she handed Legolas back to Thranduil and rummaged though her medic bag.
" How do you know that it is sunneth?" Thranduil asked as he cradled the still screaming baby " and why is he screaming so?"
" Sunneth has a certain smell. He is screaming like that because it was way too much for his tiny system. His body is tingling and won't move right. That's way he can't move right. This will help." she said. She opened a bottle of red liquid. She took a eyedropper and filled it. She squirted it into Legolas's mouth. When he tried to spit it back out she put her hand on his mouth and blew on his face until he swolow it. {a/n- that really works on babys}
" that should help him. But, when you feed him you need to burp him cause it kinda of meses up his stomach a little. He should be fine sometime tomorrow night." she said as she put the medicene back into her bag.
" diola lle" was all Thranduil said as he held his baby close to him.
Beraid came out on the balcony. He whispered something to the healer. She noded and left quickly.
" mani? Mani naa ta?" Thranduil said dreading the answer. " alasse… she… shes okay right?"
" sit down Thranduil" Beraid said " I have some bad news."
Thranduil shook his head. " n'uma… alasse cant have died! She couldn't! She. I need her.. Legolas needs her!" Thranduil said as he dropped to his knees. And tears rolled down his face accompanied by sobs. " No, that cant be true. Alasse cant ….. No…. she cant be…"
" We found this on your bed. Let me take Legolas" Beraid said as he gently pried Thranduil's son out of his arms and gave him a bright green envelope
Thranduil slowly let go of his drugged son and took the envelope from his long time friend.
It read-
Dear king Thranduil,
How ever said that revenge was sweet was right. It is sweet. Very sweet. I have waited for years to do this. I have watched your every move. Your every minute. Everyday. Every single day I have watched you and your family grow. I know your every secret with your wife. I know everything about you and you can't stop me. None can. Because you don't know who I am. For all you know I'm the guard outside your door. I'm the servant that cleans your room. I'm your councilor, your stable boy, your nanny. I am every one and yet no one to you. Well I guess I'm someone in your eyes now.
Sincerely, ah, you want to know how I am don't you, guess!
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" So that same bastard that killed Alasse took Legolas?" Thranduil said tears welling up in his eyes.
" I guess so milord." Nefiath said
Thranduil said nothing he just walked back to his desk and put his head in his hands. Nefiath got up and followed him.
" We will find him this time." Nefiath said.
" I hope so. I can't stand to lose Legolas too," Thranduil said through his hands.