Evil elves and hurt dwarf
TaurielPOV
I enjoyed talking to Kili. Most of the time we would speak of the beauties of the night sky, but some times we would talk about our families and childhood. I felt pleasantly venerable talking about my family.
My parents died when I was 100 and my brother had died only 50 years later. I felt needles in the back of my eyes and only when tears fell was the pressure relived. Kili would reach out his hand to touch me and comfort me. I loved the feeling of his touch.
I went to him that night late, we actually sat there for a long time before we started talking. "Do have heaven lights in Ered Luin?" I asked.
"It depends on what they are, you have different names of things," he responded.
"Lights. Green waves of light all throughout the sk-"
"Let me go! Please! Stop!" a scream interrupted me. I heard the sudden shuffle of the dwarves standing in alarm.
"What was that?" Kili asked.
Another scream. "Caldeon!" yelled Oakenshield. I left without another word.
I sprinted down the steps to the source of the wailing and struggling. I turned a corner to see Caldeon fighting against three guards. "Let me go!" she yelled,"Please!"
"Caldeon stop," I said trying to reason with her. She didn't stop. I noticed she wasn't struggling in any sort of direction. She was fighting to escape being restrained. "Let her go."
"She is trying to escape," said a guard.
"Let. Her. Go," I said. Caldeon gave one final tug with her arms and she was released. The guards eminently reached for their swords should she try to run again.
"The king would want to see her," said another guard, he wore a victorious grin that made me angry.
"He would," I said to him with cold eyes. "But I am the captain of the guard and I say I would want to see you at your posts." None of them moved,"Now." They dispersed.
I walked to Caldeon who hadn't moved and had her head down. I gently pushed her head up to look me in the eye,"I am going to take you back to your cell now," I explained.
"I know," she said miserably. I put my hand on her shoulder and stirred her to the tower.
When we returned she sat down on the cot and crossed her arms and out her head down. She looked terribly downhearted. "Are you ok?" I asked as I sat down next to her.
"Yeah," she said. We sat in relative silence. Wonder started to dart around my brain and curiosity sparked here and there.
"How did you get out?" I asked leaning in close.
Caldeon shank further into herself,"Don't make me say."
I leaned back out,"I won't, just curious."
I saw how tired she was, there were bags under her eyes and her posture was weak. She had been in the tower for a week now, the only person she would see would be the servant who came to bring her food and drink.
She suddenly crying, she gasped."I just wanted to see him," she said. "I didn't care if my hands had to be ripped off the bars when they came for me I just wanted to see my father."
I gathered her in my arms, I slowly felt her tears wet my tunic." I can stay here if you want, we could talk. You wouldn't need to be alone."
"I would like that," she whispered.
She calmed down but I still held her. It was late and she was exhausted, I laid her down and tucked her into bed.
I stood to go to the door, I stopped and looked at the lock. It was bashed in and damaged beyond any quick and easy repair. I turned around and saw the chair, it had nicks and chips on the legs and back. She broke the lock.
I turned the knob and took the lock with me to get it repaired. I took a lock from another cell and locked the cell door. It pained me to do this to her.
The next day I came to her at lunch and brought two bowls of soup. We talked and laugh for a while. We stopped though when the door opened, Legolas came in with a stern look on his face. "Caldeon, the king wishes to speak with you," he said. Caldeon tensed and stiffly strode to the door. Legolas took her shoulders and lead her out.
I picked up the bowls and left behind them.
ThranduilPOV
Caldeon's display of defiance couldn't be tolerated. I need her submissiveness to break Thorin.
She entered my chambers with her head high and proud, but I could see the fear in her soul. I dismissed Legolas so that we could be alone.
"That was a very foolish thing you did do you realize that," I said. She stayed still and silent. This girl refused to do anything I wanted, that was going to have to change. I touched the place where her braid used to be. I felt her tense under my hand. "Nothing to say?" I asked mockingly.
Her lack of reaction made me frustrated. I still had my hand on the place, suddenly I brought my hand down on her cheek. She yelped and stumbled. I hooked my fingers around her chin and made her look at me. "That was the first part of your punishment but I think you need to know that what you won't come back just to hurt you."
She yanked herself away from me,"Please don't, I'll do what ever you want just don't -"
"I told what would happen if you disobey me," I said. "I thought 'no escaping' as rule might be a given, but apparently you are foolish enough not to know that." She flinched at my insult.
"What are you going to do, will you at least give me that mercy?" she said in a defeated voice.
Her acceptance to reality sunk in and this made me smirk. "No, I will not give you that mercy. You will find out later tonight."
FiliPOV
I was jolted awake when several bloody guards came into my cell. I jumped to my feet To put up a fight if I needed to. "What do you want?" I said, drops of uneasiness fell into my stomach. The guards were as silent as ghosts as they bound my wrists behind my back with chains and shackled my feet.
I struggled the whole time. In doing this I awoke the company. "What's going on?" "Fili?" I heard them say. I was dragged out of my cell, down the steps to the center of the dungeons so that everyone could see. I was circled by a ring of elven guards.
I tried to stand, but my feet got tangled in the chains. The ring tightened around me. I was breathing faster now and fear filled my chest.
A yelp escaped my lips when I was yanked to my feet only to be shoved to another part of the circle. I fell into the arms of an elf and was pushed to the ground. The hard stone collided with my side and the breath was lost to me. The first kick came to my stomach.
CaldeonPOV
The long walk to the dungeons was torturous, Thranduil kept his nasty hand on my shoulder. We stopped at the top of thee stairs that lead to the cells. Here no one from the cells could see me but I could see the dozens upon dozens of cells.
The king leaned down to whisper in my ear,"Remember, you want to stay quiet at a performance, or else you disturb the performers."
The guards that joined us made their way to a single cell. I couldn't see who was in it. "What do you want?" I heard. Fili. No no no.
"Please stop this," I begged for the last time.
"The answer is still the same," said Thranduil.
I watched as Fili was dragged out of his cell in chains. My knees started to shake. The guards wrapped around him, pulled him to his feet, pushed him, and kicked him. A gasp fell from my lips as a grunt fell from his.
More kicks came from all around and the grunts became more pronounced. The dwarves yelled and called out for their kinsmen. I tried to lunge forward but Thranduil snaked an arm around my waist. "Whatever you do will fall on his shoulders," he hissed in my ear.
FiliPOV
I tried to curl into a ball to protect my self, but kicks on my back prevented me from doing so. The pain flooded everywhere, my stomach, my back, my ribs felt like they were bruised.
They pulled me up after a while. I couldn't stand up on my own. I barely had a moment of peace before a fist struck my cheek, I heard a yelp that didn't come from my mouth. Each guard had a turn and each did something different. Some hit my face, some punched my still sore stomach, one brought me down on his knee making me gasp and feel sick.
I only barely registered the company and their distress. It was hard to register anything except the pain.
CaldeonPOV
I shouldn't have cried. I wasn't the one being beaten within an once of my life. Yet I cried. I cried because I should be beaten for causing Fili's pain. "Shhh, little one," said Thranduil. "Now you what will happen if you disobey me so this won't have to happen again. Yes? I don't give away empty threats."
I could barely focus on his words, I knew that if I listened too close I would just hate my self even more.
They stopped kicking Fili and instead they punched him in the face. "Fi-!" the elf king's hand clamped over my mouth.
"You just have to watch, dear. No talking or will I have him whipped as well," ice-cold fear trickle down my spine, I knew what the burn of the whip feels like. I shook my head 'no' but Thranduil still kept his hand over my mouth.
FiliPOV
Somehow in the flood of pain that swirled in my head one thought was born,'why.' Why me? Why now? Why like this?
These guards were having too much fun then they should. They laughed and sneered and encourage each other. These elves were probably told from birth to hate dwarves. They started taunting me in their own smooth language, then in common tongue.
"I thought dwarves were made of stone, but you are just as weak as men."
"Yeah, weak-minded, and can't take a little pain."
"Or maybe it's just the males that are that tough. Are you female dwarfling?"
I didn't answer.
"Yeah tell us," one slapped me.
"I guess we have to find out for ourselves," I felt bile come up my throat at the thought.
"I bet if we get rind of all this hair we could see," he ran his hand over my cheek in a mocking caress. Now just pure cold fear spread throughout my body, I willed up my strength to get free.
They thought of my struggling like a fly, annoying but could be dealt with. It was when I heard a knife being drawn did my struggling became more violent. They pushed me down and one straddled my chest with a knife.
CaldeonPOV
They couldn't cut his hair. I twisted my body to try to get away from Thranduil.
It was when they pushed Fili to the floor did I become more desperate. I bit down on Thranduil's hand and stomped on his foot at the same time. He released me with am I unmanly and I ran to get to Fili.
"Fili!" I yelled. I was so close that I was sure that the whole company could see me. My eyes connected with the young durin's. His lip was split and his eyes were blackening.
I was so close, but a force came from behind me and pinned me to the ground. My wrists were pulled behind me. "Caldeon you shouldn't have done that," I heard Legolas whisper in my ear. I knew I shouldn't have.
Both Fili and I were thrown over the backs of guards and taken out of the dungeons. Fili had lost the strength to struggle again after his brief show of strength and fell into semi-unconsciousness. But I kept up my fight like my life depended on it.
The commotion the dwarves were making was deafening. I could Kili yelling and crying in vain for his brother. "Caldeon!" I heard. I looked up to see Throin banging like a wild animal on the bars.
"Father!" I yelled back. But by that time I was out of the dungeons. The guard threw me down at the king's feet. I felt suddenly small again, but I stood to banish the feeling away.
"Foolish child!" Thranduil yelled. He struck me and pain radiated of my cheek. When I stood back up again I saw his eyes trained on Fili, then to me. "I told you," he said as he pushed his face up to mine. "I don't give empty threats." His robes swished about him as he turned away and I was pushed to walk.
FiliPOV
I was waken up by a bucket of cold splashing over me. I was in a room lit up by candles and torches. My head was pounding, I brought my hand up to rub but found I couldn't. I arms were bound to either side of the wall. I looked I front of me, Caldeon was chained to the wall with a blindfold. Thranduil was next to her along with two other guards.
The elf king leaned down to Caldeon's ear a talked to her in his language, all the while he kept his beady eyes on me. He untied the dark cloth and she eminently struggled when she saw me. "I'm so sorry," she sobbed.
"Caldeon, what's going on?" I asked as calmly as I could.
"You are here to serve as an example," said Thranduil, I felt a sneer of disgust cross my face. "Caldeon needs to know what happens when she does things she's not suppose to."
He took a looped up whip from a hook off of the wall and handed it to a guard. "What? Don't have the balls to do it yourself?" I said.
He smirked and said,"No I would be delighted to use that whip and do it exactly as I want it. But I think it's more entertaining to watch both of your reactions at once."
Then he leaned against the wall,"Begin." The whip dragged between my shoulder blades, through my shirt, my skin, and into the muscle.
CaldeonPOV
I knew there was nothing I could do. But I cried out every time the whip came down. The first few Fili bit his lip and stifled grunts. But soon he was crying out with me. "I'm sorry! Please! Stop! Has it not been enough?! I'll do what you say! Just stop!" I kept crying. Blood was running down my wrists from my struggling.
"Stop," Thranduil finally said. Fili's knees gave out and he was supported only by the chains. Thranduil ordered for us to be unbound, I went to catch Fili but the guard held me back. "Take him to the healers." Fili was taken out, then I was in a different direction.
Thranduil took me all the way to my cell. He shut the door after saying,"It can or can not happen again, but that's for you to decide."
FiliPOV
I don't remember going to the healers, but they bandaged me up well. I was taken back to my cell an. I just wanted to sleep. The company though were curious and wanted to know what had happened that night.
I told them that the elf king was using us as hostages for Caldeon's behavior. And that her stunt yesterday am him angry.
"I just want to sleep," I told them.
"You'll need it,lad," I heard from Balin. I laid down on the cot and pulled the thin blanket. I told myself that when we get out I would make sure that Caldeon didn't blame herself for my pain, I hope she wouldn't rip herself apart about for the time being.
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