No, unfortunately neither lilygirl7707 nor I own anything to do with Lord of the Rings... Cause if we did, then we'd be rolling in money... But we're not.
Legolas was roughly pushed back down the corridor he had just come from and into yet another room. The men pushed him hard through the door, making him stumble. There were four blankets roughly laid on the ground separated from each other and three people in the room mingling in rags. They looked up to see who had entered and Legolas watched as fear met their eyes and they straightened their backs. Each person in the room rushed in front of each of the blankets. It reminded Legolas of a human army, except they did this out of fear not respect. They pushed Legolas to the other side of the room where Lanna stood at attention next to her blanket and an empty one. The guard looked at her.
"Girl, help the elf here learn the rules and regulations." Then he whispered into Legolas's ear "Do what we say and we don't hurt the girl... unless she deserves it that is" then they left. Legolas stood there with every occupant of the room staring at him. Lanna sighed and Legolas's eyes moved to hers. She gave him some advice that if it didn't make Legolas slightly angry would have been wise.
"Follow the orders given, keep your head low, and don't show them a weakness. They'll exploit it. However since you've already given them one... they'll use it, Legolas. They know now that the only way to get to you is to hurt others and well ... thank you. For stopping them, but you shouldn't have. Every slave for themselves, Legolas. That how it works here."
"We don't have to be alone" Legolas argued.
"But we do... this is life, Legolas. Get used to it." And with that she lay down on the blanket and faced her back to him. I'm getting these people out of here, Legolas vowed as he lay down on his blanket. He stared at the dull brick wall and wondered for the first time since he woke up here what his family was doing. Were they worrying about him? Probably not, he wasn't supposed to be back for months. He wondered if the trees would tell them, but then there's the small problem just like in the human game, telephone.
He woke up the next day to see Lanna leaning against the wall that he had stared at before going to sleep.
"You sleep with your eyes open. Is that an elf thing?" She asked.
"Yeah it is" Legolas said as he moved into a sitting position. Legolas looked around the room for any sign of a small window to tell the time. The other captives were sitting on their blanket with their arms wrapped around their legs. One was male looking no more than 10 at the most and a female in her late 30s.
"There isn't a window." Lanna said as if she had read his mind. "But since the guards haven't come yet it's before 6 am." Legolas nodded wondering slightly how she knew that's what he was doing.
"Legolas mean green leaf correct" Legolas nodded again.
"What does Lanna mean?" he asked.
"I'm not surprised you don't know. It means 'little love' in a language my parents made up when they were kids. My mother died in child birth and my father named me that because I looked so much like mum. Now back to your name. Why do you have such a long name? Do you even have a nickname?"
"No I don't have a nickname and I was give-" he was cut off by Lanna.
"Well you need a nickname. Your name is just too long... leggy... yeah that could work"
"Am I to assume then I have no say in the matter?" Legolas said with humor in his voice.
"Yes" was her only answer. There was silence. "What cha thinkin, leggy?" She asked.
"You seem absolutely resolved to this life. Have you forgotten what it's like to be free?" He asked. Lanna sighed.
"I've been here three years Legolas and everyone else longer than me. When all you see is brick wall and all you hear are screams from being punished and orders and threats memories of other things fade. I was like you when I first got here. Trying to find a way, anyway to get out, but let me save you some time. There isn't one. Master pays the steward of Gondor to overlook this establishment. It just goes to show you what human nature can do." Legolas knew why she was saying all these things even now Legolas was forgetting that there were some good humans like Aragorn out there. The guards came in then and ordered everyone to their post other than Lanna and Legolas. They made the pair follow them to the room they had been in the day before. They forced Lanna to her knees in front of Legolas and thrust a whip into Legolas's hands.
"I didn't cooperate with this yesterday, who's to say today is going to be different" Legolas said to Regulus. Regulus smiled.
"I was hoping you would say that, elf. It seems you need an example. Stand up, girl," Regulus said. Lanna stood slowly confusion on her face. The guards pushed Legolas into the stone wall and had him brace his hands against it. Then took the whip and put in Lanna's delicate hands. "Whip him" Lanna nodded and uncoiled the whip. Legolas looked over his shoulder at her.
"It's like I told you, leggy. Here it's every slave for themselves." She whispered as the first lash fell. Legolas clenched his fist but otherwise didn't acknowledge the leather breaking his flesh. In a way he was happy that Lanna was following orders. It was better for him, who was stronger and more capable of handling pain, than her right? But still when Legolas had the same command he refused. Legolas reminded himself with that thought that he SHOULD just feel bad for her because she believed, truly believed that the 'masters' way was the only way and so the blonde elf gritted his teeth and just took the whipping.
Voice: did you write this while watching Shutter Island?
Lily: no honestly I hate that movie. This was the evil that I had stored up by writing nice chapters... I'm still disappointed in myself. Voice, you've mad me nice! Ah well... Review! It helps me be evil... or nice... maybe.