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Chapter 15: Captured

"Eamon! I may have done a terrible thing."

Leliana glares at her. "'May have'? How can there be any doubt?!"

Alistair nods while Halia looks at Anora. "That's putting it mildly."

Eamon looks at the four. "What in Andraste's name has happened? Are you alright?"

Anora puts her hands together in front of her. "Lord Cousland has been captured."

Leliana holds up Malcolm sword, the edge close to her throat. "By Ser Cauthrien. To whom our lady here handed us all on a platter. He willingly went with her to save us."

Anora looks at her. "Put that sword down."

Eamon looks at them in disbelief. "What? Is this true?"

Anora looks at him, trying to hide her guilt. "I would prefer it if she lowers the sword."

Leliana sneers a bit. "I would rather run you through for what you did. He thought you would help us get past her without bloodshed and you decided to lie!"

Anora looks at her, straightening her back. "I am your Queen. I could take that as treasonous threat."

"What you did was treasonous. We risked our lives to save you from Howe and this is how you repay us?!"

Eamon looks taken aback by Leliana's anger before he shakes his head and looks at Alistair and Halia, and Alistair looks scared of her. "Is this true?"

Halia nods. "It is."

Anora shakes her head. "Never mind that. The question is how to free him."

Leliana moves the edge to barely touching her throat. "Don't you dare talk!" Even Halia is looking a little scared. "This is your fault! You don't get a say!"

Eamon slowly grabs her wrist. "Listen to me, please." Leliana looks at him and allows him to lower her arm. "You have my word that she will not leave her guest room and any plans to free Malcolm will not include her."

Leliana nods slowly while Anora looks at Eamon. "You can't be serious. You're taking her side?"

"She helped my life from an attempted assassination from your father. And after saving it, the least I can do is trust them with it. Alistair and Halia did confirm that what she is saying is true." He looks at one of his guards and Erlina. "Kindly show the queen to her quarters." They nod and lead Anora away as Eamon looks at Leliana. "Now, my dear, we will come up with a way to free Malcolm. You have my word. And as soon as we can agree on a plan, you will be the first to know. Now, I think it would do you some good if you went and got some rest."

She nods slowly before walking away, lightly dragging the tip of the Cousland blade behind her as she walks into the room her and Malcolm are using. She opens the door and walks in, and next to the fireplace is Goliath, who lifts his head up and looks for his master. Leliana drops the sword before sitting on the bed, and apparently Goliath could tell something is troubling her as he jumps onto the bed and gently lays his head on her lap. She looks down at the mabari before wrapping her arms around his neck and holds him. "I'm sorry."

Fort Drakon

Malcolm lands in his cell on all fours before rubbing the back of his head while the guards walk away laughing. He glares at the for a while before standing up and looks around. His cell is a bit small but has enough room for quite a few more people. There is a window, but it is too far away to see anything but sky through the bars. The sounds of marching soldiers cause him to turn around and he sneers a little as he crosses his arms and leans against the bars. "Loghain. Why am I not surprised to see you here?"

Loghain does not look amused. "So, Warden. You have added murder and kidnapping to your list of charges. What are you planning to do with you queen?"

"Keep her safe from you. You allowed the bastard Howe to imprison her and he was planning to kill her and frame Eamon."

"Rendon mentioned doing that, but I shut it down quickly. I would never let my daughter come to harm."

"But you let the man who felt like a son die. I don't think I believe you."

"Cailan died to his own foolishness. You heard me tell him that his fascination with glory and legends would be his undoing."

"You can say that all you want. You refused to go along with your own plan. And instead, you fled like a coward, leaving Cailan and Duncan to die while you stole the throne."

"Enough. I have no time to waste arguing with a traitor."

Malcolm scoffs. "I would avoid mirrors then if I were you."

Loghain shakes his head. "Admit to the charges against you and you will get a quick death. Refuse, and you'll be begging for death."

"I've suffered far worse. Go ahead."

"Very well." Loghain turns and walks off as Malcolm sits down and closes his eyes as he listens to dripping water nearby.

Few days later

Malcolm groans as he is thrown into his cell and lays there for a while as his back slowly bleeds from the torturer's whip. After taking a few minutes to collect himself, he slowly stands up while slightly using one of the cell's bars to help him. He looks at his hand before closing it and his eyes before he produces a small blue flame and uses it to slowly and somewhat close the wounds he can reach. "Maker…. the only good thing that comes from these trips is that I'm slowly getting better with healing magic," he mumbles to himself as his wounds close only to stop the bleeding. After getting most of them closed, the flame goes out and he sighs. "Better than a few days ago, at least."

He sits down with a small groan as he carefully rests his back against the bars. As his eyes slowly close, he hears footsteps and he sees a guard carrying a tray. "Wake up, scum. You need your energy for tomorrow." He tosses the bread at Malcolm's feet then sets a cup of water outside the cell before walking away.

Malcolm sighs as he grabs the bread and slowly eats it watching the sun set through that far window. And as he eats, his mind wonders to happier times. He smiles as he goes over and grabs the cup and drinks it before closing his eyes. As he falls asleep, he dreams of the little moments where he wasn't the lord of Highever, or a Grey Warden. The moments where there was no thoughts of the Blight, or the civil war, the moments where his thoughts were only on the one person who can make him feel like he is just 'Mal'.

Arl Eamon's estate

Leliana looks into the fire, watching the flames as her mind races. 'What am we going to do if we can't free him in time for the Landsmeet? What am I going to do if… if we find his dead body?' Her mind switches to what he said to her when they had their first session of love making and as the memory plays, she whispers it to herself without knowing. "'Because the one thing of mine that I would not give you, is my tainted blood.'" Tears start falling as she imagines herself finding his dead and broken body and she questions herself that if this happens, would she find the strength to continue on or would she not want to live without him. A light knock at the door brings her out of her thoughts and Goliath raised his head to take a sniff before lowering it back down with a sad huff. "Who is it?"

"If I didn't respect your privacy, I would be in your room already as a snake."

She looks at the door, surprised that Morrigan is visiting her. She gets up and opens the door. "Morrigan?"

She nods. "'Tis I. I don't quite know how to do small talk and I'm sure you don't want that so I'll get to the point. I have been talking with Halia and Eamon. As the only one who can shapeshift, I will be going to look around both the outside and inside of the fort. We are coming up with a plan to get Malcolm out. We just need to know more. I…. I can talk to him and see if there's anything he wishes for you to hear, if you want."

Leliana looks at her. "You would do that? For me?"

"I would be visiting him anyway to know what he can tell me about the fort."

She nods. "Just let him know if he can think of anything I can do to help."

Morrigan nods and starts to walk away before she stops. "I… I envy you. Only the love aspect. Having someone to love seems…. nice. I did not truly know love myself. I was raised by a mother, yes. But only to eventually replace her own body."

She starts to walk away again before turning back as Leliana says her name. "Morrigan. Thank you." Morrigan nods a little before walking off. Leliana closes the door before grabbing the tray of food she's been avoiding then starts to eat as she watches the flames.

The next day

A rat watches with curiosity as two guards drag Malcolm back to his cell and throws him in. The rat runs over at the two guards walk away but Malcolm is still on the ground, bleeding. He slowly looks over at the rat as it joins him in his cell and looks around with unusual intelligence and he groans as he tries to speak. "M-Morrigan?"

One of the ears perked up at the name before it gave him some room as Morrigan returned to her own form. "You do not look well, my friend." She kneels down and began to use magic to close his wounds. "I admit, I am not as well versed in the healing magics as Wynne is."

He chuckles and grunts a little with pain. "You must… must be better with it than me… can barely close all of my wounds unless I focus on one." Soon he can feel her magic receding as his wounds close before he slowly stands up with her help. "Thanks. Bastard used metal barbs on the whip this time."

"'Tis no problem. We are currently working on a plan to free you. Leliana is not taking it well…"

"How badly?"

"Locked in her room and barely eating, I hear."

He sighs. "You… you can directly tell her to stop with that. I made my choice to come here to save them. Hurting herself over what happened with myself will not change it."

She nods before walking away and looks around. "Would be wise to look around, wouldn't it?"

He nods. "Careful. There's mabari here. Any idea on a plan so far?"

"Not at the moment. Frontal assault would not work, that window will only let birds due to the bars."

Malcolm looks at the window for a bit. "But…. if the bars were removed…. I can manage to slip out." He looks at her. "Try to find a key for this cell and hold onto it then change into something that will allow you to chip away at the mortar for the bars. I'll think of something as to how to get me away from the fort later." She nods before changing back to a rat and scurries away leaving him alone as he sits down and thinks.

Later that day at Eamon's estate.

Leliana looks into her hands at the locket that Malcolm gave her. Malcolm stands behind Leliana holding up a locket in front of her. "You deserve something physical of mine. This locket I got from… well… from my parents before I had to flee Highever, it contains small portraits of me and my family. This is special to me and now…" Malcolm fastens the locket around her neck before gently holding her. "it is yours just like my heart." She turns her head to look at him and they both smile before he slowly kisses her.

She smiles as a tear falls into her hands. "Et mon coeur est à toi." (and my heart is yours) A light knock at her door causes her to look up. "Yes? Come in."

Morrigan opens the door. "He is fine, for the most part. He'll have some new scars from being tortured but he has already come up with part of a plan to get out. He also says to get over what happened that it was his choice."

Leliana nods. "Thank you. Truly." Morrigan nods and closes the door.

Fort Drakon

It has been about a week after Malcolm came up with part of the plan. Malcolm sighs as he looks out the window and at the blue sky, worried if Leliana is still punishing herself. Morrigan has been busy with the window and so he has been unable to have the chance to talk with a friend. He looks at his piece of bread before taking a bite then as he chews looks at the door out of this room. He finishes his bread and looks at the window again and soon Morrigan returns to her form and walks over. "'Tis done. You'll have to work at it, but you'll be able to remove the bars." She pulls out a key and he takes it. "You'll know the rest when we get there. Your gear is safe." He nods as she shapeshifts into a bird and flies out the window.

Malcolm looks around before heading to the cell door and unlocks it with a click. He holds his breath to see if guards heard that before opening the door and runs over to the window, he then checks the bars. "She wasn't kidding." He uses his strength and slowly pulls a bar out before throwing it through the window and grabs the next. It takes him a while before he gets two more bars out and while he works on the last one, he hears guards talking and approaching. "Shit." He rushes with the last one and manages to pull it out with noise which causes the voices to stop.

He clambers through the window just as the door opens and guards run in with their maces out. "Hey, stop!"

Malcolm holds on to the window as he looks around for a way to safety. "Morrigan… what now?" He grunts as he holds on and adjusts his hands, his fingers and arms starting to get tired, before spotting a bird that slowly grows in size. He smiles before pushing off the tower just as the guards run up to the window. He watches the window getting further, listening to the wind howling in his ears and he smiles. 'This feels nice, actually.' He grunts as he lands on the back of Morrigan, who lets out a small shrill cry at the impact, but she continues to fly away and towards Eamon's estate. Malcolm adjusts himself on the back of Morrigan and sighs happily.

Eamon's estate sometime later

Malcolm waits until he is close enough before jumping off onto the ground. He waits for Morrigan as she shrinks a bit before returning to her form. "Thank you. I envy you in that aspect. It must be wonderful being the bird and flying."

She nods. "It certainly has its perks. But I suggest hurrying. I don't know how much longer that girl can just sit and do nothing."

He chuckles and starts heading in before stopping as he watches Goliath run up to him. He kneels down and starts loving on the mabari, chuckling as he licks Malcolm's face. "It's good to see you too, boy. Okay, down please." Goliath gets off then Malcolm stands up and walks inside and straight to his room, being welcomed back by everyone except the woman he is heading for. As he approaches the door, he looks at Goliath. "Go on. Give Alistair and Halia some company." Goliath huffs a bit before walking away. He smiles before slowly and quietly opening the door, before seeing Leliana sitting on the bed facing the window messing with her lute.

He smiles as he quietly walks in and closes the door without making a sound before gently and carefully getting on the bed, the mattress not making any noise or movement. He sits behind Leliana and smiles before wrapping his arms around her waist and gently kisses her neck. She gasps before looking over her shoulder, her eyes watering up with joy. "Malcolm?" He smiles and nods before she gasps and starts crying as she turns her body and holds him close. "Oh, Mal."

He smiles and holds her as she cries into his chest and holds him close. "I'm here, Leli. I am truly here." He quietly and lovingly shushes her as she continues to cry. "I'm okay. You're okay." After a while she slowly collects herself and looks up at him, her eyes red with tears but she smiles. He brings a hand up to her head and slowly strokes her cheek. "I am here now, Leli."

She smiles more and rests her head on his shoulder. "I love you, Mal."

He smiles and gently kisses her. "I love you too, Leli. I had several things that were pushing me to escape, but everything else didn't matter as much as you." She smiles and looks at him before slowly kissing him, putting her love for him into it as she closes her eyes. He hums as he returns her love, his eyes closing as a hand gently cups the back of her head. They keep the kiss going as she gently uses her body to push him onto his back and her tongue gently prods his mouth, asking for entrance. He hums as he opens his mouth and meets her tongue with his as they start a slow and loving dance.

She pulls her head back after a while and smiles. "I want you… no… I need you…" He nods before kissing her neck around the side, her gasping and moaning when he kisses a certain spot. He smiles before focusing on that spot, causing her to moan more. "C'est tout… juste là…" (that's it… right there) Both their hands move as one to undo her clothing, he pulls his head back to pull her shirt off before his hands go to take her bra off and tosses it away. She sits up before getting off the bed. "Give me a second." She walks over to the door, her hips swaying for Malcolm's pleasure, before locking the door. "Just in case…" He smiles and holds his hand out for her. "Hang on, not finished yet." She smirks before slowly undoing the bottom and bends over as she slowly guides the clothing down her legs. She turns around, only in her panties, before she slowly and seductively walks back to him. He chuckles before she takes his hand and he slowly, gently and lovingly pulls her back on top of him. She smiles and kisses him before she rolls them over and gently forces him to a breast. He smiles and gently kisses it, causing her to hum, then she moans as his tongue licks her nipple. He chuckles before gently sucking on the nipple, causing her to gasp and moan loudly. "Oh… Maker…" He hums as he continues to suck her nipple while his hand slowly massages her other breast. After a while, he switches breasts and gives them the same attention the others got. He hums as her moans causes a bulge starts growing in his pants. He lets go of her nipple before trailing his kisses down her belly and to her waist. He smiles as he lifts her hips and slowly pulls her damp panties off before kissing above her womanhood, causing her to moan some more.

He smirks as he looks up at her. "I was thinking of using my tongue to make it easier, but you did that already yourself."

She chuckles lightly. "Well… what's stopping you from adding to it?" She gasps and moans loudly as his tongue slides into her and licks around. "M-Maker!" He hums as he tastes the inside of her, making sure to go slow and feel every inch with his tongue. "O-Oh, Mal!" He slowly pulls his head back and smiles before taking his pants and his own underwear off. She smiles as he crawls back up to her. "I love you…"

He crawls up to her and gently kisses her. "I love you too…" He rolls the two over and kisses her before she pulls back and slides down to his own crotch. "My turn, huh?" She nods before gently kissing his length. He hums and smiles as she slowly licks his shaft before he groans as she slowly takes it into her mouth. She keeps her head bobbing slow as she closes her eyes and hums. He groans as her tongue circles around his length before she slowly pulls off and smiles. He smiles at her. "You're so good at that…" She chuckles before crawling up to him. "Ready, baby?" She nods before sitting up and grabs his length, rubbing the tip on her womanhood. She moans as he groans while she slowly sits down onto his waist. "Oh Maker…."

She nods before she starts to ride him. "I love… this feeling… you…" He nods as he grabs her hips and helps her get into a nice, slow rhythm. They both continue like this for minutes, just enjoying the feeling of being connected and themselves. Soon they both slowly start panting as Leliana speeds up her riding. Malcolm's hands move up to her back and he gently pulls her body close to his, her hips not slowing down at all while they both hold each other.

He groans and pants. "I'm getting close…" She moans and pants as she speeds up her hips and slams down with force. Soon they both yell out each other's names as they release together, Leliana slowing her hips down as they ride through it together. He sighs as his release continues and he smiles at her. "I love you… so very much, Leli…"

She smiles as she looks into his eyes. "I love you too… just as much, Mal…" Soon their release ends and they cuddle with each other as they slowly fall asleep.

Hey guys. Thank you for your patience. We are slowly getting close to the end of Origins. After we finish with Origins, I'll probably do a few chapters that will happen before Awakening, with Golems of Amgarrak being one of those, two at the most.