Tauriel was walking along the old forest road by Mirkwood Mountains, her bow gripped loosely in her right hand, arrows all in her quiver. She knew today was the day she needed to be out of Mirkwood and that the king must be looking for her, but at that point, the king looking for her was the least of Tauriel's worries. There was rustling in the bushes behind Tauriel. Fast as lightning she had the point of an arrow on Legolas's throat.
"You've seriously got to relax," he gasped, hands up.
"Sorry!" Tauriel replied hastily, lowering her bow and arrow. "What are you doing here?"
"I-I came looking for you...I found your note and figured I'd find you somewhere along this road."Legolas responded.
"I-I'm really glad your here," Tauriel began.
Legolas nodded, "I'm glad I found you." Suddenly, there was a mighty WHACK, and Legolas fell to the ground.
"Legolas? What happened?" Tauriel began to panic, her eyes searching all over the place. Another big WHACK and she lay beside Legolas. As Tauriel and Legolas lay unmoving, out of nowhere, the bushes rustled, and out came two orcs, probably from Mirkwood Mountains. They muttered something inaudible, then each picked up an elf, as they walked towards the mountains. Little did they know of the young elf that had observed the whole scene. Yes that's right, Florescat had witnessed the whole thing with her big, indigo eyes. As soon as the orcs were out of sight, she scurried off like a mouse, back to Thranduil's relem.
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"The orcs did what!?" Thranduil roared.
"Please, my king, we need to hurry, there is little time left before your son and Tauriel become orc stew." Florescat began.
"I would love to help, but I cannot," Thranduil sighed, before sitting down again.
"What? But he's your son! You can't just abandon him!"
Thranduil sighed once more. "Mistakes were made, mostly by me, and words were said, mostly by Legolas. Believe me Florescat, he'd rather be eaten by orcs then saved by me." Florescat sighed, putting her hand on her forehead. This was going to take more convincing then she thought!
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Tauriel groaned and opened her eyes. Where was she? And why was her head throbbing? She gasped and looked down. Her eyes were met with darkness.
"Legolas!? Where are you?" Tauriel asked, panicked.
Something beside her stirred, "I'm right here," Legolas replied flatly.
"Oh good, um, do me a favor:don't look down," Tauriel told him, breathless. Of course everyone knows once you tell someone not to do something they do it anyway. As you probably guessed, this is what Legolas did, and immediately regretted doing.
"Where are we?" Tauriel breathed.
"Looks like we're in some sort of orc camp," Legolas told her motioning towards some orcs a ways away, some of whom were observing their tied up prisoners who dangled above a huge hole that was at least 5 feet deep. Tauriel gasped as part of the rope that held her and Legolas back to back above the hole, snapped. Next thing she knew, the two were leaning at an awkward angle, with Tauriel facing the ceiling and Legolas facing the darkness.
"Tauriel?" Legolas began.
"Yes?"
"If we really are going to well...you know...die from rope and orcs, I just want you to know I never stopped loving you...even when you said all those things about me to Thranduil."
"I-I love you too, Legolas...and I'm sorry for all those things I said about you...Thranduil tricked me and I fell for it."
"I got tricked too, I guess I never really knew how sneaky my father could be. My only regret is...not telling you about my feelings sooner."
"Trust me, I regret that too, but maybe we'll make it out of here," Tauriel tried to reassure him, "there's still your father."
Legolas's eyes flickered to her doubtfully. "Yeah...um...about that...don't forget my dad hates you."
"There's something else isn't there?"
"We had some words, yes."
"So he won't come?"
"I doubt it."
"Great," Tauriel sighed, closing her eyes, "we're screwed."
"Don't worry, at least we'll die together."
"Yeah, slowly, just the way I want to die."
"Just...try not to think about it. Just think about you and me, training together." And Tauriel did, it was the best dream ever.