Authors Note: Oh dear!! I haven't added a chapter in some time!! VERY VERY
SORRY!! I'll try to post more regularly, forgive my powers of
procrastination!
Disclaimer: The usual! Don't own anything but my character, still wont get anything if you sue so save you're self the trouble and just don't.
It was after dinner. Thanks to Sam, Kat was full, since the hobbit had insisted on giving her portion after portion. *Oh well, it makes up for missing lunch I suppose.* Kat thought. Everyone was now sitting around the nicely blazing fire, talking or smoking, Kat sketching people every once and awhile. Legolas threw her a loathing glance at various intervals in conversations, usually when she asked a question. She always returned the look with one of her own equally unpleasant one's. "I think it is time for us to rest." Said Aragorn, taking a long lazy puff on his pipe. *Hard to imagine Aragorn doing anything lazily* Kat observed. "I'll take first watch, then Gimli, Legolas, Boromir and then the hobbits." Aragorn continued, getting up and going over to his pack. "I can take a watch!" Kat said, since she thought that she could and she didn't want to give Legolas something else to sneer at her about. Aragorn regarded her for a moment, as she put her pencil into her sketch book and put it into her pocket. "Very well then, you can have the watch after Boromir." He said. "If you think you can handle it, that is. A watch is something important and not to be taken lightly, in case you didn't know." Added Legolas insultingly. "Of course I can handle it, pointy ears! You're getting rather good at throwing insults, but you might want to stop before you're head starts to hurt." Kat said in mock sweetness. One of the hobbits chuckled. They were starting to like Legolas's and Kat's small insult bouts. "Alright, that's enough! Everyone get some rest." Aragorn said before Legolas could respond. "Aw, he stopped it before it got any good!" muttered Pippin to Merry, who nodded in agreement. They frowned, then went to their bed rolls and instantly fell asleep. They were soon followed by Sam and Frodo. When Gimli and Boromir fell asleep they snored loudly enough to wake the dead. When Kat dropped off, she vaguely heard Legolas snoring softly, which Kat took as a sign that he was, in fact, asleep, and that he apparently slept with his eyes open. Aragorn had taken up his watch on the trunk of a fallen log, facing away from the fire, so she assumed that would be where everyone else would be sitting as well. She finally dropped off to sleep after wrapping herself in another shirt and a sweat shirt, cursing the fact she had neglected to wear pants on the hike. *Oh well, I'll just have to deal with it. Lothlorien is bound to be warmer." She thought before she dropped off to sleep.
Boromir was on watch. Nothing had happened all night, which wasn't surprising, since nothing usually happens. So Boromir was pondering things, things like 'How will this quest end?', 'What will happen in Lothlorien?', and 'My face is very, very cold right now.' Sighing and rubbing his face to get some warmth back into it, Boromir turned to face the fire. He stared at it for awhile, but jerked around when a twig snapped a short distance away from him. He was expecting some orc to have followed them, but found only Kat turning in her sleep. He watched her amount, just to be sure there was nothing there he assured himself, and noticed she was shivering slightly. *Poor girl, she's not dressed properly for a journey such as this.* he thought. In a fleeting moment of caring, Boromir unclasped his cloak and walked over to Kat, draping it carefully over her. Coming to his senses once the cold hit him, he almost took the cloak back, but Kat had already wrapped it around her and was sleeping peacefully under it. A slight drowsy smile played about her lips. *Oh well, to late now. I'll get it back when I wake her for her watch.* He thought as he sat back down on the fallen tree, rubbing his arms to keep away the brisk weather.
Someone was shaking her Kat registered sleepily. "What? Who? Meh?" she groaned sleepily, blinking and rubbing sleep from her eyes. "Tis time for you're watch, Lady Kat." Said a voice somewhere above her. "It's just Kat, not Lady Kat." She replied as she pushed the cloak off her. That woke her up. *Cloak? Where did this come from?* Her weary, 'just woken up don't push it' brain wondered. She sat up, yawned and opened her eyes to see Boromir, looking rather cold, next to her. He was missing his cloak, she observed. "Would you like you're cloak back?" she asked, none to tack-fully. Boromir blushed and said something to the effect that he didn't want her to be cold on watch and she should wake the hobbits up when the fire's embers were almost out, and went back to where he had been sleeping before his watch. *Very odd guy.* Kat thought as she wrapped the warm cloak around her and sitting on the fallen tree, peering intently into the darkness. *Odd in a likable way though.* she observed, staring around the clearing, looking for unseen things behind tree's. The more she stared, the more tired she got, which she knew wasn't a good thing. The monotone snoring behind her didn't help either. Usually snoring would keep her awake, but for some reason, it was making her very sleepy. *That's odd.I thought I just saw..something...move.* thought Kat, right before her head drooped forward. She was awoken seconds later when something growled in front of her. Kats eye's snapped open and saw things moving around her. *oh crap!* she thought, seconds before she fell backwards off the log. "Ow!!!" she cried as she hit the ground, but decided to take advantage of this and half ran half crawled over to the nearest body, which thankfully happened to be Aragorn. She shook him hard and found herself at the end of a knife. *That's three times in one day! A new personal record for being held a knife point!* she thought sarcastically. "Uh, hi there, we have a slight problem at the moment." And that was all she got out before the arrow thudded into the tree between their heads. "Uh, yeah, that's the problem." She finished with a worried grin. Aragorn's eye's flashed at the arrow in the tree and then back at Kat. "Orcs, go wake the others, quickly!" He said before he scurried away. "Not a problem." Kat muttered as she went onto the next body. Soon everyone was up and the orcs were swarming the camp. Kat didn't know which end was up, only knew that she had her bag to unskillfully fend off orcs with. "What fun!" Kat said to herself as she tried to dodge orcs as much as possible, but mostly turning herself around in circles trying to stay out of the others ways. "I'm just so damn useful!!" she said to herself as her bag slammed into the stomach of some foul orc. Suddenly, from somewhere, someone shouted "Run!! This way!!" and Kat whirled around in three different directions, trying to find who had yelled. Then she was scooped over someone's shoulder. She was glad to see it wasn't an orcs shoulder, since they were all chasing whoever was carrying her. "This is no time to gawk, this is the time that you run." Said Boromir's voice coming from the head attached to the shoulder she was perched on. "As I can see from those who are chasing us!" Kat said, deciding she would rather not see if the orcs were gaining on the Fellowship or not and closing her eye's, clinging tightly to Boromir's shoulder. After some turn's and what felt like hop's Kat opened her eyes to the ground rushing below her. Then Boromir stopped and put her on the ground. "We have evaded the orcs for the moment, but not for long. Come quickly, before we lose the others." Said Boromir before he took off through the trees, Kat following as quickly as she could behind him. Morning was not yet near and the company slowed its pace as it entered a forest of unusually big tree's that seemed to give off a light of their own. Kat looked around her as she walked; bewildered by the wood they were in. When she stopped looking at the tree tops an arrow appeared in front of her, seemingly trained on her head. An elf was at the other end. "You are in the Golden Wood without leave. What are you doing here?" said the elf in front of Aragorn in a disgusted manner. *He and Legolas will get along wonderfully!* thought Kat as Aragorn held a brief conversation with him. "You will be taken to the Lady of the Wood, but you will rest in the trees for now. You will all have to be blindfolded before we take you though, for our own safety." The elf said. *He seems not too concerned with our safety though.* Kat thought again, as Gimli, Legolas and the elf held a very heated argument that Kat decided not to listen to. Soon they were in the trees, safe for the moment, as orcs passed below them. Despite that fact, Kat fell asleep, worn out despite her lack of physical effort to anything, Boromirs cloak still wrapped around her.
Disclaimer: The usual! Don't own anything but my character, still wont get anything if you sue so save you're self the trouble and just don't.
It was after dinner. Thanks to Sam, Kat was full, since the hobbit had insisted on giving her portion after portion. *Oh well, it makes up for missing lunch I suppose.* Kat thought. Everyone was now sitting around the nicely blazing fire, talking or smoking, Kat sketching people every once and awhile. Legolas threw her a loathing glance at various intervals in conversations, usually when she asked a question. She always returned the look with one of her own equally unpleasant one's. "I think it is time for us to rest." Said Aragorn, taking a long lazy puff on his pipe. *Hard to imagine Aragorn doing anything lazily* Kat observed. "I'll take first watch, then Gimli, Legolas, Boromir and then the hobbits." Aragorn continued, getting up and going over to his pack. "I can take a watch!" Kat said, since she thought that she could and she didn't want to give Legolas something else to sneer at her about. Aragorn regarded her for a moment, as she put her pencil into her sketch book and put it into her pocket. "Very well then, you can have the watch after Boromir." He said. "If you think you can handle it, that is. A watch is something important and not to be taken lightly, in case you didn't know." Added Legolas insultingly. "Of course I can handle it, pointy ears! You're getting rather good at throwing insults, but you might want to stop before you're head starts to hurt." Kat said in mock sweetness. One of the hobbits chuckled. They were starting to like Legolas's and Kat's small insult bouts. "Alright, that's enough! Everyone get some rest." Aragorn said before Legolas could respond. "Aw, he stopped it before it got any good!" muttered Pippin to Merry, who nodded in agreement. They frowned, then went to their bed rolls and instantly fell asleep. They were soon followed by Sam and Frodo. When Gimli and Boromir fell asleep they snored loudly enough to wake the dead. When Kat dropped off, she vaguely heard Legolas snoring softly, which Kat took as a sign that he was, in fact, asleep, and that he apparently slept with his eyes open. Aragorn had taken up his watch on the trunk of a fallen log, facing away from the fire, so she assumed that would be where everyone else would be sitting as well. She finally dropped off to sleep after wrapping herself in another shirt and a sweat shirt, cursing the fact she had neglected to wear pants on the hike. *Oh well, I'll just have to deal with it. Lothlorien is bound to be warmer." She thought before she dropped off to sleep.
Boromir was on watch. Nothing had happened all night, which wasn't surprising, since nothing usually happens. So Boromir was pondering things, things like 'How will this quest end?', 'What will happen in Lothlorien?', and 'My face is very, very cold right now.' Sighing and rubbing his face to get some warmth back into it, Boromir turned to face the fire. He stared at it for awhile, but jerked around when a twig snapped a short distance away from him. He was expecting some orc to have followed them, but found only Kat turning in her sleep. He watched her amount, just to be sure there was nothing there he assured himself, and noticed she was shivering slightly. *Poor girl, she's not dressed properly for a journey such as this.* he thought. In a fleeting moment of caring, Boromir unclasped his cloak and walked over to Kat, draping it carefully over her. Coming to his senses once the cold hit him, he almost took the cloak back, but Kat had already wrapped it around her and was sleeping peacefully under it. A slight drowsy smile played about her lips. *Oh well, to late now. I'll get it back when I wake her for her watch.* He thought as he sat back down on the fallen tree, rubbing his arms to keep away the brisk weather.
Someone was shaking her Kat registered sleepily. "What? Who? Meh?" she groaned sleepily, blinking and rubbing sleep from her eyes. "Tis time for you're watch, Lady Kat." Said a voice somewhere above her. "It's just Kat, not Lady Kat." She replied as she pushed the cloak off her. That woke her up. *Cloak? Where did this come from?* Her weary, 'just woken up don't push it' brain wondered. She sat up, yawned and opened her eyes to see Boromir, looking rather cold, next to her. He was missing his cloak, she observed. "Would you like you're cloak back?" she asked, none to tack-fully. Boromir blushed and said something to the effect that he didn't want her to be cold on watch and she should wake the hobbits up when the fire's embers were almost out, and went back to where he had been sleeping before his watch. *Very odd guy.* Kat thought as she wrapped the warm cloak around her and sitting on the fallen tree, peering intently into the darkness. *Odd in a likable way though.* she observed, staring around the clearing, looking for unseen things behind tree's. The more she stared, the more tired she got, which she knew wasn't a good thing. The monotone snoring behind her didn't help either. Usually snoring would keep her awake, but for some reason, it was making her very sleepy. *That's odd.I thought I just saw..something...move.* thought Kat, right before her head drooped forward. She was awoken seconds later when something growled in front of her. Kats eye's snapped open and saw things moving around her. *oh crap!* she thought, seconds before she fell backwards off the log. "Ow!!!" she cried as she hit the ground, but decided to take advantage of this and half ran half crawled over to the nearest body, which thankfully happened to be Aragorn. She shook him hard and found herself at the end of a knife. *That's three times in one day! A new personal record for being held a knife point!* she thought sarcastically. "Uh, hi there, we have a slight problem at the moment." And that was all she got out before the arrow thudded into the tree between their heads. "Uh, yeah, that's the problem." She finished with a worried grin. Aragorn's eye's flashed at the arrow in the tree and then back at Kat. "Orcs, go wake the others, quickly!" He said before he scurried away. "Not a problem." Kat muttered as she went onto the next body. Soon everyone was up and the orcs were swarming the camp. Kat didn't know which end was up, only knew that she had her bag to unskillfully fend off orcs with. "What fun!" Kat said to herself as she tried to dodge orcs as much as possible, but mostly turning herself around in circles trying to stay out of the others ways. "I'm just so damn useful!!" she said to herself as her bag slammed into the stomach of some foul orc. Suddenly, from somewhere, someone shouted "Run!! This way!!" and Kat whirled around in three different directions, trying to find who had yelled. Then she was scooped over someone's shoulder. She was glad to see it wasn't an orcs shoulder, since they were all chasing whoever was carrying her. "This is no time to gawk, this is the time that you run." Said Boromir's voice coming from the head attached to the shoulder she was perched on. "As I can see from those who are chasing us!" Kat said, deciding she would rather not see if the orcs were gaining on the Fellowship or not and closing her eye's, clinging tightly to Boromir's shoulder. After some turn's and what felt like hop's Kat opened her eyes to the ground rushing below her. Then Boromir stopped and put her on the ground. "We have evaded the orcs for the moment, but not for long. Come quickly, before we lose the others." Said Boromir before he took off through the trees, Kat following as quickly as she could behind him. Morning was not yet near and the company slowed its pace as it entered a forest of unusually big tree's that seemed to give off a light of their own. Kat looked around her as she walked; bewildered by the wood they were in. When she stopped looking at the tree tops an arrow appeared in front of her, seemingly trained on her head. An elf was at the other end. "You are in the Golden Wood without leave. What are you doing here?" said the elf in front of Aragorn in a disgusted manner. *He and Legolas will get along wonderfully!* thought Kat as Aragorn held a brief conversation with him. "You will be taken to the Lady of the Wood, but you will rest in the trees for now. You will all have to be blindfolded before we take you though, for our own safety." The elf said. *He seems not too concerned with our safety though.* Kat thought again, as Gimli, Legolas and the elf held a very heated argument that Kat decided not to listen to. Soon they were in the trees, safe for the moment, as orcs passed below them. Despite that fact, Kat fell asleep, worn out despite her lack of physical effort to anything, Boromirs cloak still wrapped around her.