That does not mean you have to allow him to own you. Fight it--if there has been no bond like this before, then perhaps there is a way to break it.
You are the Elven King, who stared up at a dwarven king and thought to wait him out. You have fought evil greater than I could ever fully understand, and managed to protect your people through all of it.
To be undone by something as simple is this is not in your nature.
It is not simple, and I am not undone. I feel no different.
[He sure did right after he had the blood, though. That was unpleasant.
He releases a breath. Legolas' desperate worry over a father who would not stop doesn't so much come to mind as it comes from the back burner to the front burner again. He speaks again, slower and a little softer.]
There are many who belong to me, no small number even aboard this ship. You and your brother are among them. Mine to protect, and in two cases, my true vassals. My son. I cannot leave any of you. Even if this were an orchestration, why could it not be advantageous to me as well?
That is the belonging he meant, Fili. Perhaps he also meant the other kind, but that is immaterial. [A dismissive wave of his hand.] That sort of belonging is an illusion.
Still, perhaps you are right. I will use caution regardless.
[Something about it still bothers Fili. As if he's losing something. Thranduil was his brother, his. To add someone else--some foreigner who did not earn a right--]
Please do, Thranduil. I would not like to see you harmed.
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Date: 2013-12-06 12:44 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-06 12:47 am (UTC)[Fili shakes his head, frowning even harder.]
Do not trust him.
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Date: 2013-12-06 12:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-08 02:30 am (UTC)You are the Elven King, who stared up at a dwarven king and thought to wait him out. You have fought evil greater than I could ever fully understand, and managed to protect your people through all of it.
To be undone by something as simple is this is not in your nature.
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Date: 2013-12-08 02:55 am (UTC)[He sure did right after he had the blood, though. That was unpleasant.
He releases a breath. Legolas' desperate worry over a father who would not stop doesn't so much come to mind as it comes from the back burner to the front burner again. He speaks again, slower and a little softer.]
There are many who belong to me, no small number even aboard this ship. You and your brother are among them. Mine to protect, and in two cases, my true vassals. My son. I cannot leave any of you. Even if this were an orchestration, why could it not be advantageous to me as well?
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Date: 2013-12-08 07:30 pm (UTC)[Fili shakes his head.]
The sort of belonging that you believe in, is different than what you speak of.
Perhaps you could make it work towards your favor, but...
[He frowns.]
I am still young, and do not have wisdom that you do. But I would caution against it.
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Date: 2013-12-08 08:11 pm (UTC)Still, perhaps you are right. I will use caution regardless.
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Date: 2013-12-11 04:28 am (UTC)Please do, Thranduil. I would not like to see you harmed.
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Date: 2013-12-15 08:19 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-17 05:45 am (UTC)Can you harm one you are so bonded to?
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Date: 2013-12-20 10:00 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2013-12-23 03:48 am (UTC)Even if I hope it does not come to that.