Fic: stare death in the face (and never back down)

Title: stare death in the face (and never back down)
Fandom: The Silmarillion
Rating: M/R
Warnings: Torture, past child abuse, past marital rape/spousal abuse
Relationships: None
Characters: Maeglin, Sauron, Morgoth, Caranthir, Celegorm, the Sons of Feanor, original characters
Word Count: 14,088
Summary: Maeglin uses his mother's techniques to survive his torture at the hands of Sauron. He does not break. He survives, and pulls something impossible off as revenge.

Maeglin steals a Silmaril from Morgoth's crown, and gets away with it.

Lómion has been a guest in Gorthaur’s care for a while now. He's not sure how long. His cruelty is remarkable, and some vague part of Lómion admires that depth of cruelty for its own sake. He had been delivered into Gorthaur’s tender care in a desperate attempt to save his own life, and now he's not wholly certain it had been worth it. Maybe it might have been better to die after all. He could have seen Mother again…

He shivers, the chains he's bound in clattering. Manacles about his wrists connect to a hard iron band about his throat, and the chains between his hands and his neck are too short for his arms to relax down all the way. There's a chain linking his wrists as well, about a foot in length. His legs are also manacled, with a stiff iron bar between his ankles, keeping them uncomfortably apart. He's not allowed any clothing to warm him in the cold, hard cell he sleeps in. Even when his torturers are absent, their cruelty remains with him.( Read more... )