A/N: Bad plot bunnies, bad!
Freya swiped frantically at the tears streaming from her eyes, looking back at the dense forest just beyond the gravel beach and letting out a pained sob.
Borimir was dead, and it was all her fault, she thought as a new wave of tears went careening down her cheeks.
She looked at one of the three elvish boats that had taken them here, and looked across the river to the eastern shore.
Without another thought, she piled the supplies in her pack into one of the waiting boats, jumping inside and pushing off from the shore with the single oar.
She had drifted no more than ten feet from the shore when she heard the fast pounding of feet on the gravel, and a frantic, "Hey! Wait!"
She turned around and saw Sam running towards her, not even hesistating to run straight into the water.
His thick clothes slowed his movements, but he trudged in deeper after her.
In an attempt to make him see reason, she yelled back to him, "I've got to go alone!"
Sam merely nodded, and kept trudging deeper as he said, "Yeah, I'm coming with you!"
She would have laughed, but she saw the water had started to get too high for him, and that he was struggling to swim with his heavy cloak and pack in tow.
Her hands clasped to the side of the boat, and she cried, "Sam! You can't swim!"
She watched as the water finally closed in over the top of his head, and she nearly tipped the boat over with an anguished "Sam!"
After a few seconds, she paddled the boat over him, and stuck her hand deep into the water for him to grab onto.
She waited, the cold water almost stinging her bare forearm, until a strong hand grasped hers, and she pulled upward, hard.
Sam emerged, sputtering and choking, but wearing the same ridiculous smile as always.
Freya smiled in relief, and said, "Sam, why did you do that? You know you can't swim!"
Then, with tears in his eyes, he replied, "Gandalf told me, 'Don't you leave her.'"
She finally, simply, flung her arms around his neck, pulling him into a chest-crushing hug, sobbing into his shoulder.
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