Dum-du-du-dum-du-du-dum, here's the next chapter! Sorry for the cliffy in the previous chapter.
Chapter 10: Bring Me to Life
Aragorn's knees almost collapsed underneath him when he didn't feel Pippin's heart beating. He quickly felt again...and again...and again...but nothing. On the brink of tears, Aragorn felt one more time...nothing...but wait, what was that? He felt again and sure enough, there it was: A very weak heartbeat. The tiny Hobbit was alive, if only just.
"Quickly, we have to get him back to the campsite." Aragorn said, taking Pippin into his arms.
He and Legolas ran over to their horses. Legolas had to ride with Galndalf because Gimli had rode off on his horse. Aragorn mounted his horse and wrapped his Elvish cloak around Pippin's cold, limp body. When Pippin felt the Ranger's warm body against his, he weakly moaned and peeped open his eyes.
"A-Aragorn?" he asked weakly.
"It's okay, little one, you're safe now." Aragorn said.
"Why is everything so dark? I can barely see." Pippin asked.
Aragorn shuddered to think of why Pippin couldn't see.
"Just hold on, you'll be safe and warm in no time." Aragorn said as he, Legolas, and Gandalf started out for the campsite.
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Aragorn carried Pippin into the clearing where they had their camp set up. He layed Pippin on his bedroll, which had been layed out for him. Pippin moaned as Aragorn layed him down, but he did not wake. Merry was by Pippin's side in an instant, holding his hand. Aragorn wet a rag and went to cleaning Pippin's numerous wounds. When he was done, Pippin looked better than he did because most of the blood was off him, but he still looked very bad. After cleaning and bandaging Pippin's wounds, Aragorn re-wet the rag and went to cleaning Pippin's eyes. He held the wet rag over Pippin's right eye, gently squeezing the cool water over it as he applied gentle pressure to the bruised, swollen eye. Pippin moaned and whimpered.
"Merry...no...Merry, help..." he muttered.
"I'm right here, Pip." he said, fear for his little cousin in his voice.
Eyes still closed, Pippin said, "My eyes...who's hurting me?"
"No one's trying to hurt you, but Aragorn's cleaning your eyes." Merry said.
After carefully cleaning both eyes, Aragorn said, "Open your eyes."
Pippin open his eyes and looked around,
"Can you see?" Aragorn asked.
"Yes, but everything's so blurry. I can make out shapes and colors, but not much more than that." Pippin answered.
After carefully examining Pippin's eyes and testing his vision, Aragorn concluded that Pippin's vision would go back to normal in a couple weeks, but he wasn't too sure about Pippin's other injuries, though...