WILLPOWER
King Thranduil was in the royal library his steel-blue eyes were skimming through text of some old book until one of his guards interrupted:
"My king, Legolas and Tauriel have returned and they are not alone."
With that said Thranduil looked at the guard and furrowed with his left brow, slightly irritated he stood up leaving the book on a desk.
"Where are they now?"
"Legolas is waiting for you in the halls, Tauriel is in the healing rooms with the third company, but will be shortly back to the halls." The guard responded.
"You are free to go." Thranduil said dismissively. He hurried towards the halls, his mind was busy thinking of that company and other consequences that came along with it
"Who dares to cross a foot in my kingdom? It has been long ago since we have had any intruders. It seems that I will have to put extra forces in order to keep my boundaries well watched. It is as if we do not have enough of those ghastly orcs and horrendous spiders roaming around. Whoever it turns out to be it shall have a lot of explaining to do and if I find it unsatisfactory than the dungeons will do!"
At once he composed himself putting on his mask of coldness he was swiftly rushing through passages until he entered the hall seeing Legolas waiting for him. Legolas turned.
"My king!" he said. Now Thranduil was in front of him, he didn't bother to sit on the throne he found it unnecessary at the moment. He looked into his son's eyes and a moment later said:
"Legolas, explain everything!"
"As you already know Tauriel and I were in the woods, south-westerly of the river, searching for spiders when we came upon a pack of orcs. There were sixteen of them, we started to shoot arrows and some of them we killed while some tried to escape by running away. As the forest grew thicker we left our horses and ran to catch and kill them. When we came to where the last three orcs were, we were surprised to see an elleth fighting with her bare arms, we did not see her until then, and she killed one of them in one swift move, but another orc was behind her and hit her in the head with a hammer. Then Tauriel finished him off and I ran to see how much damage was done to the elleth. We mounted on our horses and came here as fast as we could."Legolas could see the startled expression on his father's face.
"What was an unarmed elleth doing on our land in the first place? Wandering around for mere purpose of finishing herself off? Thranduil grew agitated.
"Adar, I do not think it was her attention to do so, also I do not know why she had chosen to come here. I assume that she is far away from her home." Legolas said with a somehow distant look in his eyes. Thranduil glanced at Legolas seeing his expression and knew there was more to this, he felt inquisitive now.
"Do not speak to me in riddles! What is it you wanted to say with her being far away from her home? They were interrupted by Tauriel who entered the hall. She heard king's words and wished she wasn't there, yet she greeted the king.
"Majesty, I am back from the healing rooms, the elleth Legolas and I brought will be fine. It looks like a minor injury, she has a scratch and the area which was hit is swollen and the healer Aethriel tended to her, she says that the elleth will probably wake up in about few hours."
"Tauriel thank you for bringing the news, I want you to go back to the healing rooms and watch over the elleth, when she awakes come directly to me," he commanded.
"I will your majesty." She answered and quietly left the two of them alone. Thranduil once again turned to Legolas.
"So Legolas please continue!"
"Ada, she looks so strange, like she is from totally unknown distant and undiscovered world! His lips curled into a small smile and his eyes twinkled.
"Legolas bring yourself together, you are not a child anymore and yet you speak to me as if you were one. He felt more and more impatient as each second flew by.
"She has the streak of blue hair that is , turquoise to be more exact."
"WHAT?"Thranduil almost lost it. He stared at his son with a bewildered look on his face. He had enough of it. He looked daggers at Legolas.
"Not only that you cannot speak properly but you take pleasure by mocking me as well!"
"I feel sorry that you think I would mock you about such things. Come, let us go to the healing rooms and you will see it for yourself." Thranduil nodded and they headed to the healing rooms.
When Tauriel reached the healing rooms she ordered Aethriel to leave. She took a sit near the bed and tried to calm herself. It seemed to her that the king always knew what to do or say just to piss her off momentarily. She could have been practicing now but no, why would she be when there is a more important task to do according to the king. "He is such an ass!"She turned and studied Diana.
She too found her hair strange but on the other hand it looked good because the blue brought out her fair features. Then she remembered how the elleth had killed that orc. It impressed her and she could not help herself thinking that this elleth and she had something in common. She smiled and stood up in order to get a cup of water.
Tauriel was soon back, she put the glass on a table and lowered herself over Diana and rested her palm on Diana's forehead. She didn't have fever which was a good sign. Then Tauriel took one of her blue locks between her fingers and felt a bit disappointed because it felt the same as all normal hair did. She expected that since it was different it had to feel different too, but in the end she was wrong. Right in that moment Thranduil and Legolas came in, Tauriel jumped back because they scared the shit out of her.
"King, captain." She managed to articulate and sat down on a chair.
Thranduil rushed over to the bed and stared down on the elleth, his hand automatically reached for locks.
"So it is true! She really does have a streak of blue hair!." He managed to say.
"I told you so ada, but you would not believe me. Now you see it clearly. Do you believe me now?"
"I do, and I apologize for not believing you the first time you said it."
"Apology accepted." Legolas said and smiled to his father. Thranduil looked at both of them skimming from one to another.
"You will excuse me now. I have some urgent business to attend to at once and I am afraid that it cannot be delayed." He rushed through the doors before Tauriel and Legolas could even react.
So since I haven't told you anything about this fic let me begin... this is my 1st fic and I am sort of still trying to find the right combination of my so to say writing style. I also hope that you don't mind possible errors in grammar since English isn't my mother tongue. I can't believe that I am posting the second chapter so soon, actually it is less than 30 hours since I posted the first one and the only reason why I am posting it is because I already got one follower; SparklesJustReads, and one rewiev by the little vampire lover and I thought that it would pass some time till I would get either but now I am grateful cause there are actually some people who like it . I am grateful to both of you and I feel you deserve to see this chapter and hope that you will enjoy it. Also if there is anobody who would like to reccomend me with any info whether it be grammar or the plot or sth else feel free to pm me! =D
