Blue Skies Prompt 27: AiW
Title: Cleaving Chains
Author: Ranguvar42
Prompt: Blue Skies Prompt 27: Freedom
Fandom: Alice in Wonderland 2010.
Characters: Ilosovic/Alannah
Genre: Romance/Drama
Ratings/Warnings: K, nothing bad.
Word Count: 195
Summary: 'He watched as she moved the dagger around in the lock.' Alannah frees Ilosovic from his chains.
He watched as she moved the dagger around in the lock, her face steady with concentration. This close, he could see that her hair was as red as fire. He looked over at the sleeping Queen, wrinkling his nose in disgust at her. She was filthy, but he supposed that he was no better.
Alannah gave a quiet shout of triumph as she felt the lock give, and grinned at Ilosovic. "You're free."
Ilosovic flexed his wrist, gasping in joyous disbelief as the cuff that had been around his wrist fell to the dirt with a soft clang. He gave Alannah a smile of pure gratitude. "I can never repay you enough, Milady. Thank you, from the bottom of my heart."
He followed her home, thinking that it was not just his physical chains that she had cleaved through. For the first time in many years, he felt his heart beat again.