A/N I am so sorry for the long wait! I just had a horrible case of writer's block. Ugh. I would like to thank Certh and MySuperAwesomePenName for reviewing! Thanks for giving me pointers! I'd also like to thank everyone who favorited Bittersweet! This chapter is going to be slightly sad, but not angsty, I'll be saving the angst for later in Middle Earth! Also, please check out the A/N on the bottom of the page. It contains some VERY important information about Alexandra!

Disclaimer- However hard I wish, lotr still doesn't belong to me.

Chapter Two- Battlefield

Gunfire echoed in the white hallways. Alexandra's heart pounded, and her breathing came in hard gasps. She looked around at the fallen member of C-Unit. She felt a sharp pang of remorse, she was a good friend with him, and she hated what she about to do to him. Grabbing his blood smeared body, she propped him up, and threw him with all her might at the gunmen. As they were distracted, she sprinted out towards the prison cells. With one fluid motion, she took out the guard, and shot off the lock.

What she saw made her eyes widen with amazement. This "prisoner" that she was sent to break out was only an eighteen year-old kid! He had brown hair and warm chocolate eyes. What used to be an athletic body was bloodied and smeared with blood. When he saw her, his eyes widened in fear. Slowly, she walked towards him, showing him her palms.

"It's okay, I'm here to rescue you." she said soothingly. Her cool façade slipped for a moment when she saw how terrified he was. No one should have gone through the torture that was given to him.

"Who are you?" he whispered in a hoarse voice filled with pain and suspicion.

"I'm trying to help you escape from this place" she offered her hand to him, symbolizing that she was the good guy, not the bad guy.

He hesitantly stretched his bruised hand. Once she was sure that he had a good enough grip, she helped him to his feet.

"Can you run?" she asked. Before he answered, she already knew that he couldn't.

He shook his head. She kneeled before him; a clear indication for him to climb on. She felt a surge of anger to his captors, he barely weighed anything on her back! After he wrapped his thin arms around her neck, she sprinted toward the door where reinforcements where waiting.

At last, after what felt like hours, they burst out into the gunfire free air. Instantly, medics rushed forward to take him off Alexandra's back. Other medics forcefully sat her down(she was thinking of going in to help her unit), and took care of her wounds.

After waving them off, she looked anxiously at the door, hoping that all of her unit was safe. You would think that she would get used to this, but she never did, no one did. She couldn't stand the wait, so she headed off into the woods . Promising that she would return in an hour.

Sighing, she leaned against a tree. In this one moment of peace and quiet, she let her mind wander. Not surprisingly, her thoughts fell on reading. Her hands itched to find a book and bury her nose in it. She wanted to read the Lord of the Rings series. She had heard that it was really good. But there never seemed to be enough time.

Sighing, she started heading back, they'll be needing her soon.

The sound of gun fire stopped Alexandra in her tracks. The guns were too close, too loud to be still contained inside the building. As silent as a lynx(hence the name "Lynx") she crept towards the boy.

Adrian huddled behind a tent, fully aware that it would not do any good against bullets. Normally, he would've just grabbed a gun, and started fighting. But he couldn't. Not while his body was weak from torture. Silently, he cursed MI6 for throwing him into this. And only preparing him with two weeks of training! It was intense, but still, it was ONLY two weeks.

He tensed, he felt, more than heard, someone approaching. Slowly, he turned around. To his intense relief, he only saw the girl that had rescued him. She lifted a finger to her mouth, and motioned toward the forest.

A/N Sorry for the short chapter!

Ok, so first of all, you might have noticed that my summary was changed to U.S Marine Alexandra…etc. I did this because Neshomeh brought it to my attention that woman aren't allowed in the Navy Seals. And I don't really want Alex to be a very obvious Mary-Sue, so yeah. So from now on, Alex will just be a Marine. Also, from now on, I'll be replying to my reviews down here, so make sure to check it out!

And don't get too attached to Adrian, because he isn't playing a big part in this fanfic. He'll probably disappear in the fourth chapter, I'm trying to decide whether the third or fourth? Also, don't think that he's all pathetic and all, because he isn't. Think about it, he went through about three weeks of physical and mental torture, having no hope that anyone will save him, and all of a sudden, someone does! Obviously, he'd be suspicious. Don't forget to check out my profile, that's where I'll be posting my times for updating!