"I don't know why you came here before me when I didn't ask for you, Elvenprince of the Woodland Realm of Mirkwood."
The woman on the throne leaned forward. "What are you after?"
Legolas confidently entered into the cold empty throne room. "Your heart."
Bonnie Bennett shook her head. "Never."
"Then what do you want me to do? Do you want me to pretend? " Legolas takes a step closer to the woman before him. The woman that stole his soul since the first time he watched her swing her sword. Roaring to the sky like the proud lioness she was. "Pretend as if nothing happened?" He stopped in front of her, towering over her tiny frame. "Pretend as if my heart wasn't already yours." He then reached out to tuck her hair behind her ear. "As if yours wasn't already mine."
Bonnie stood from her throne to carefully take a step back. He was getting too close. "I never asked for it."
"Does that make you feel better?" Legolas questioned in a steely tone. "To lie in the face of someone you love?"
Bonnie shook her head smiling weakly. "I don't love you."
Heat blossomed in the sword woman's chest. "Go home, Legolas. "
With swiftness Bonnie took out her sword and placed it under the stubborn elf's neck. Her green eyes shined like the silver of her blade. Crooked chin raised high and cheeks blushed red over her brown skin. "Don't tempt me."
Legolas remained within the clutches of the lone lioness. Trapped in her gaze. Trapped in her atmosphere. He missed this. He missed her.
"I love you." He admitted.
"I love you." Legolas said once again as he presses his neck towards his love's cold blade. "And you love me too."
Bonnie licked her lips nervously. Her fingers burned from clutching the hilt of her sword too tightly. Her heart began to beat faster and faster, daring to break through her ribs and bleed in the hands of its owner. "Your father would never let me be with you."
"I don't care." Legolas admitted honestly.
She was right of course. Thranduil would never let his son be with a human. His distrust of many and his hatred of some was ingrained in the Elvenking as the tree roots in the darkenes soil of Greenwood. However, Legolas couldn't lie to himself. No matter how many times he tried to push Bonnie out of his mind, even go as far to hate her, but it was for naught.
Through their month journey together was unlikely at first, it became the best moment of the Elf Prince's life. He cherished those moments with Bonnie. Though they were fighting for their lives against the orcs and the darkness, he couldn't deny that through those horrid days, sleepless nights, and all changing weather that being with Bonnie made everything worth it. She was worth it. No matter the consequences.
Bonnie closed her eyes feeling the familiar chill over her body whenever Legolas said her name.
Tears stung the lioness eyes. Her resolve was crumbling to her feet before her.
"Please." She heard him beg softly.
Bonnie then felt a warmth of a caress on her cheek. She dared not to open her eyes. She knew it be true if she did. The true-ness of Legolas love. She refused to see it. Bonnie denied it. She denied herself of such emotions long ago. A promise that could not be broken. However, the fool of an Elf came barging into her life with his horse, almost running her over. Then to find that they had to be stuck together for a long gruesome month.
He annoyed her. Him and his stupid handsome face. She hated him and she hated how he wormed into her black heart uninvited. The silver headed devil tongue snake. The lioness hated him for making her be comfortable and safe around him. She hated that he made her laugh. She hated how he made her heart melt with a whisper of his voice. She hated how her skin vibrated when he touched her. She hated how this Elf had grasped a hold of her heart without her consent. How dare he. Just the thought of it made her wroth with rage.
Bonnie opened her eyes facing Legolas with her blade still at his neck.
"You're a fool." She spat harshly. "Do you only think of only yourself?" Legolas remained quiet, so she continued. "Have you ever thought what could happen between the realms? The calamity? The deaths?"
Bonnie humorlessly laughed at the notion. "You're naivety was very amusing with our first meeting. Dare I say almost cute." Her smile turned into a deep frown. "However, now I find it quite tiresome."
"Enough!" Bonnie shouted making her voice echo through the empty throne room. "I grow tired of your flowery words and promises." She drop her sword from Legolas neck and tucked it in her sheath on her hip. "Go home. "
"I will not." Legolas refused.
"What do you want from me?" Bonnie asked, denying that she almost sounded defeated.
"I want to go back to our meadow." The Elf prince grabbed Bonnie's hand. "I want to watch the wind catch in your hair." He touched the dark tendrils that refused to stay tucked behind Bonnie's dark mane. "I want to see the flowers kiss your beautiful face." He then placed both hands on each side of her face. His thumb caught the tear falling from her eye. There were like diamonds, he thought. Shining through the tall glass window beside them. "I want to smell the sun on your skin." Legolas then placed his forehead against hers taking a deep calming breath. She still smelled of the sun, jamine, and wet earth. A weird combination to some but it comforted him. Calmed him even. "I want to sleep beside you and wake up knowing that in the morning you will still be there."
Bonnie was trembling at his words. This was not supposed to happen.
"You're so stubborn." She said weakly.
Legolas smiled humming contently. "You have to thank my father for that."
Hearing about the Elvenking shook Bonnie to her core. She gently pushed away from her lover's embrace. "You have to go."
"Do you actually think we can be together?"
"Really?" Bonnie arched her brow. "The dark queen in love with an Elf? An Elf prince at that?" She sneered. "Such foolery."
"Our lives are already written in the heavens!" Bonnie shouted hysterically. "The dark queen takes her rightful place upon her thorny throne. Raven covering the sky. Darkness plaguing the realms. The world barren under her feet. The darkness will claim me." She shakes her head. "I thought I could fight it. Change my fate going against the evils that cursed me in the first place. But we came up with nothing Legolas. Nothing but dust and bones. The ones responsible are dead and gone." This was was tiring. "I can't change this from happening."
"I do know!" Bonnie unclasped her blood red coat showing her neck covered with inky black veins that spread throughout the left of her torso. "It has already started."
The one known as the future dark queen sat back on her thrown. Her body was worn out from her conflicting emotions. "Please...Legolas. Go home. Rule beside your father. Become king."
"And then what? Place my bow through your heart as the Fates foretold?"
"I will kill you...Legolas. The fates showed me the possibilities. " Those three words stabbed at her heart. The truth was a vile thing. Poisonous to her tongue. "One of us will kill each other in the end. My sword goes straight through you or your arrow to my heart." She shrugged her shoulder. "I can't bring myself to even think I could do that to you."
"Then let's not do this." Bonnie begged. "We both know that we will become enemies in the end. We both lose in the end."
Legolas took a deep breath and slowly released it. He knew what he must do next and if he was being honest with himself, he was terrified of what he was about to do. However, he knew walking out this room without Bonnie was eventhemore horrifying.
His blood was rushing through his veins. Sparks crackled over his skin. His fingertips felt of prickly needles pressing against them. His heart slamming against his ribs with excitement. This was a new chapter.
"Bonnie Bennett of Elden Winge. The future dark queen of all the realms." Legolas kneels before her.
Bonnie stands seeing the fool before her. "What are you doing?"
"I Legolas, prince of the Woodland Realm of Mirkwood plead my fealty to you and only you."
"I will serve you. Protect you. Cherish you. Fight for you -"
"Get up, you daft fool!" Tears began to fall from the lioness eyes.
"Love you..." Legolas place his hand over his heart and bowed his head. "For the rest of my days."
Bonnie stood before the kneeling senseless Elf. The lioness just couldn’t believe what she was seeing. Fealty? Did he even know what he was saying, she thought.
"Is that an order, my queen?"
She could hear the smile in those words. It infuriated her more. "Stop this, Legolas!" She rushed off the dias to kneel in front of him and lift his head ."Do you not see how this pains me? Do you not see how this tortures me?"
Legolas swallowed thickly. He just noticed the dark line under her eyes from the lack sleep. The fear in her verdant eyes that he adores. Forhead glossed with perspiration. Her hands shaking and her long nails bit his face. She was petrified.
He brought his hand over hers and kissed both of her inner wrists. In a instant her trembling stopped and breath eased.
"If this about my father -"
"This about more than your father, Legolas." Bonnie licked her dried lips. "This about every realm. High and low. I. Am. The. Calamity." Another tear escaped down her cheek. "I am death." Her heart began to break with every word. "I will ruin every part of this world. There is absolutely nothing you can do about it."
"Do nothing." Bonnie retorted firmly. " You can't do anything I already tried myself. " She stood and she felt the ache in her knees and limbs weigh heavily. She was tired. "For twenty-four years I have searched throughout every nook, every inch of this world. I crossed every realm to try to stop...this." She addressed the black veins on her neck. "I searched through books, asked witches and witches, visited kings and queens. Made unspeakable deals for any sort of information to stop this darkness from coming out of me!"
"I've stolen things, held children hostage from their mothers." The tears continued to run faster. "I killed people, Legolas." She was truly ashamed. "There is nothing. Finding the witches who cursed me was my last hope. They're dead. There's no cure. No spell to turn this around. I lost that option by three years Three years late. This was my only chance."
Legolas nodded. "I understand. "
"You understand nothing!" Blackness bled through her sclera and green irises burned brighter that it almost looked gold. "You don't know nothing of my suffering. To be boxed and shipped away because I was cursed! By my own father! I was a child and knew nothing." Bonnie sobbed openly. Her old hurts and pains breaking through her pores ripping at her skin, peeling and burning her insides. "Turned away and forgotten. I had no one but myself. There was no kindness or warmth shown to me. Not when they find out who I was. I had no home. I had to leave whenever the find out I was the future dark queen."
"You know nothing. Whatever thought you knew about me. Whatever colorful life you thought you could have with me, release them. Be free of such folly notions and emotions." Bonnie sighed heavily. "Go home, Legolas. There is nothing for you here. There is nothing I can give you. I have nothing I can grant you. Only anguish and death awaits you and the rest of the world."
Legolas remained silent. As she said there was nothing he could say or do to quell her wounds and worries. Nothing to calm her. Nothing of any helpfulness. He knew that now and it was insensitive to show up before her and try to cover her hurt with grandiloquent words and meaningless promises. She heard and seen all before. What more could an elvenprince do for her that she already tried to do for herself. However knowing this, Legolas remained kneeling before her.
"I'm not leaving you." He finally confessed after the still silence. "There's nothing I can make up for all the years that you've been through. There's no healing of past memories that I can vanquish." He clutched at his leather garb. "But for the rest of your days or however long we have in this world before this darkness is brought forth...I will be here...with you."
Bonnie's body shook. This feeling...this heat she felt in her chest...she dare speak of it. She dare not dream of it. "Please...don't."
"Whatever time we have left...I don't want to waste any of it. Not a single moment." Legolas continued to surge on. "And this darkness," he shook his head. "I know nothing of it as you said and I couldn't even begin to imagine of the unkindness and impairment you've gone through out your life. I will not make light of it nor will I pacify the wrong doings you've done."
"I only want to stay by your side, Bonnie. That is all I want and need." Legolas bowed his head once again. "Even I have to swear my allegiance to you. Even if I have to -"
"Betray your father. " Bonnie said evenly. "Because that is what you're saying...doing. You're betraying your father. Betraying your people. Can you live with that being by my side."
"You will be casted out. Your home. Your land."
"Forgotten. Family and friends will never smile at you or mourn you when you're gone."
"I will betray you in the end." Bonnie was now kneeling in front of him. Her head rests on his. "I will kill you or you would have to kill me to save yourself."
Legolas looked up seeing Bonnie’s green eyes staring back at him. "My arrows will never harm you." He placed his hands on either side of her face wiping the last of her tears. "Neither I have the heart to kill the woman I love at the end."
Bonnie leaned forward to kiss his lips. She felt life breath within her. For only a moment...she thought she felt the darkness brewing inside her clench at her insides as if at any moment it would be ripped away from its host. However that was childish thoughts. No, she would only think of what was before her. The love of her life.
Bonnie was the first to break away from the kiss only to kiss his cheeks then nose then eyes and finally his lips once more.
"You are a fool." Bonnie whispered.
"So you've been telling me from out first meeting."
"Well," The lioness stood from her kneeling position and straightened herself putting on the air of a true queen. "I don't have need for a fool with a bow and arrow. It'll bring me nothing but trouble."
Legolas' lips stretched into a grin hearing the words that was spoken of their first meeting. The words that captured his ever beating heart. This was why he was here. This was why he would remain by her side. His love. His heart. His friend. His queen.
"I am ready to serve you, my queen."
Bonnie for the first time of that day smiled brightly and hoped. Something bloomed inside the lioness. Something growing inside of her. Warm and loving. She welcomed it and her now lover that kneel before her.
"I love you." She admitted.
"And I love you, my queen."
Bonnie laughed happily and it made the bowman heart burst. "Good."
I simply remembered I would write a Legolas x Bonnie drabble for @irresistible-revolution birthday. That was like eons ago 🤣🤣
Better late than never 🤷🏾♀️😁👍🏾
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