[FIC] What Is and What Should Never Be (Tar-Míriel/Sauron, Mature content)

And now for something completely different! My first foray into Numenorian het dark!fic featuring Sauron! That's four fictional maidenheads I'm losing in one fell swoop.

Thank you to jaiden_s for the beta (and as I couldn't leave well enough alone, all remaining mistakes are mine!) and to pandemonium_213 for sage advice on the use of names and honorifics. I used the Silmarillion's interpretation of the relationship between Ar-Pharazôn and Tar-Míriel rather than HoME, fwiw.

Written for Curmudgeonly for the Tumblr 2015 Secret Santa exchange, hosted by TolkienSecretArtExchange.

What Is and What Should Never Be

When he returned victorious from Middle-earth with Sauron as his trophy, Ar-Pharazôn kept this hostage naked, in chains, and under guard in the most remote of his cells. She had been enjoined from looking upon him then because Ar-Pharazôn mistrusted him, feared him as an asp not yet defanged. Later, still guarded but no longer in bonds, Ar-Pharazôn moved Sauron from the dungeon to a suite of unembellished rooms where he might interrogate him more conveniently, and he barred her from looking upon him then because he believed her weak and easily guiled by Sauron’s lies. Now the prisoner had been exalted, called Mairon rather than Sauron, given a seat of honor in the king’s house, and she was the one kept under guard, forbidden to look upon him because she might offend him as one of the Elendili. Ar-Pharazôn had been right the first count: whether in shackles or in silks, Mairon was not to be trusted. He had been very wrong on the second: it was not she who had been easily guiled. On the third...well, she would soon know for herself.

Warning: Dark themes; canonical non-con referenced but not graphically described, graphic descriptions of canonical violence, and some sex for good measure.