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House of Healing:
Eomer sat by his sister's side as he watched Aragorn try to save her. He had thought her dead when he discovered her next to the body of his uncle, but was astonished when someone next to him, he's not quite sure who, noticed that she had a shallow breathing pattern. Her injuries were quite severe but nothing that she could not bounce back from. Her left fore arm was shattered from a hit she took from the Witch Kings mace, and when she had stabbed the Witch King some of his dark energy was transferred to her and it weakened her severely, causing her to fall into shadow. This is what Aragorn was trying to bring her back from right now.
"I have done all that I can. You must call to her Eomer; she will recognize and respond to your voice"
"Leaning forward from his seat Eomer called to his sister. "Éowyn, Éowyn come back to me, you cannot leave me too, not like uncle. Éowyn I need you to come back" Eomer pleaded with his sister. For a few minutes nothing happened, but then Éowyn began to stir, moaning and attempting to open her eyes. When she had open her eyes she focused on her brother.
"Eomer, is it you, or are you a dream"
With a joyous cry Eomer took Éowyn's good hand in his. "No dear sister I am no dream, you are not asleep and you no longer walk in shadow thanksto Aragorn"
Moving her head Éowyn turned and looked over to where Aragorn sat. "Thank you" she whispered her voice softer as her strength left her and sleep called.
"Sleep shield maiden of Rohan, you have done your part, now rest" Aragorn said as he placed his hand on her head.
"Wait" Éowyn said "Alexandra, Merry where are they? Are they ok, were they hurt?"
"Merry rests in another part of the healing house, and I know not where Alexandra is, but I will look for her and make sure that she is fine" Aragorn said
"Yes when you find her let me know, I wish to speak to her about dragging my sister into a battle that neither of them had any business being in" Eomer said to Aragorn.
"No" Éowyn whispered "She did not drag me I came on my own, it was my choice to come, she did not drag me here, in fact I was going to leave her behind and ride into battle alone, but she came with me instead"
"Sister you are a fool to have done such a thing" Eomer said
"I know" Éowyn replied softly as she let sleep claim her.
Getting up Aragorn placed his hand on Eomer's shoulder. "Go and rest my friend, there is nothing more you can do here, right now the best thing for your sister is rest. And for you also, we will need you at your best when we take on the Dark Lord"
Nodding his head Eomer agreed, if not a little reluctantly "Yes you are right, but first I will help you find Alexandra and make sure that she is ok. I admit that I am worried about her, some of my men found her horse, and I know that she would only leave that horse if she had no other choice"
"Alright my friend let us search" Aragorn said as the two men left the healing house.
During that men's time at the house of healing Alexandra was walking around the halls of citadel trying to find the house of healing. She was feeling weak and she knew that she had to get her wound taken care before she bled to death. The makeshift bandages that she wrapped around the wound herself were starting to bleed through.
Wondering down another hall way Alexandra spotted Eomer in the distance at the other end. Leaning against the wall Alexandra tried to catch her breath that was now coming in quick, short pants. Clutching at her side Alexandra's vision began to blur and the world started to tilt around her. She looked down to the other end of the hall and it seemed as if Eomer had gotten farther away, finding herself not able to move, Alexandra tried to call out to Eomer but she could make her voice rise above a breathless whisper. Not knowing what else to do Alexandra tried to will her legs to move, but when she went to step her legs gave out from underneath her and she collapsed into a table that was sat against the wall. The noise from her crash meeting with the table alerted Eomer to her presence. The last thing she remembered was the pounding of feet against the stone floor, then all went black and she knew nothing else of the world outside the darkness.
Eomer had been wondering around the halls of Minas Tirith for what seemed like hours, when in reality it had only been a few minutes. Sighing he stopped and glanced around the hall that he was standing in and tried to figure out where he should look next, the first place he thought to look was the stables, but they were to far to walk to at the moment so Aragorn had sent some men to look instead, while they stayed and searched inside. Not knowing where to go next he was just going to go in a random direction when a loud crashing noise from behind him caught his attention.
When Eomer turned around he saw a heap of clothing lying in the form of a person. Knowing that something was wrong he went to investigate. When he came upon the person his heart stopped and his blood ran cold. This heap of clothing was Alexandra.
"By Béma! Alexandra can you hear me? Alexandra please speak to me" he cried out as he turned her over onto her back.
Feeling a warm sticky substance on his hand Eomer pulled it away to look and see what it was. Seeing the blood he began to curse in his native tongue Eomer carefully pick up Alexandra's limp form and ran to find Aragorn.
As Eomer was making his way back down the hall from which he came he had the good fortune to run in to the elf Legolas and the dwarf Gimli.
"Legolas, I need your help. Alexandra has been hurt. She is bleeding heavily from a wound on her side, she runs a high fever, and I fear the work of poison"
Legolas seeing the lifeless form of Alexandra in Eomer's arms Legolashesitated for just a mere moment before leaping into action. "We must get her into bed as quickly as we can; if poison is involved she needs to be treated now! There is no telling how long she has been walking around with that wound." Legolas said
"We can use my room it is just down the hallway over there" Eomer replied
"Good, now quickly come, we must hurry"turning to Gimli he spoke once more,"Gimli quick as fast as your dwarf legs can carry you go and get Aragorn tell him all that is happening, and tell him to come to Eomer's room quickly." With a nod Gimli took off like a bat out of hell down the hallway on his quest to find Aragorn.
Once Legolas and Eomer reached his room, Legolas began giving orders.
"Quickly Eomer lay her on the bed, then I will need you to boil some water on the fire that I have started"
"Right" Eomer said moving to place Alexandra on the bed and then over to the fire.
Once Legolas had the fire stoked high enough, he moved over toward Alexandra and began to peel away the layers of clothing, so he could properly attend her wound. But to protect her modesty he left the light undershirt that she was wearing on and instead just lifted it as high as he could. Once he had done this he began to assess the wound.
"The wound is long and fairly deep. The discoloration and swelling proves your thoughts true Eomer, the blade that cut her was poison." Legolas said and just as he finished speaking Aragorn, Gandalf and Gimli burst into the room.
"Aragorn I am glad you are here my friend I will need your assistance, and I am glad to see you also Mithrandir, I just hope that we will not need your assistance, I hope that we will be able to administer the treatments in time"
Aragorn made his way over to the young woman lying on the bed and examine the wound for himself. "Eomer is the water ready?" he asked
"Yes"
"Quickly bring it over here and give it to Legolas".
Eomer did as he was told and once he handed it off to Legolas he stepped back to stand next to Gandalf to watch and pray that they were not too late.
Aragorn and Legolas worked quickly and efficiently. Aragorn had had Legolas boil some Athelas while he cleaned the wound. Once the Athelas was boiled Aragorn cleaned the wound once more with the water that the plant was boiled in and then as gently as possible he took the boiled plant leaves placed them in the wound.
"The Athelas should help counter act the poison and slow any additional bleeding, Gimli do you have the serum that I asked you to collect from the healers?"
"Right here Aragorn" Gimli replied handing the bottle to Aragorn
"Legolas help me, we need to make her swallow this"
As Legolas lifted up Alexandra Aragorn moved to open her mouth and began to poor the serum into her mouth. She began to choke as her mouth became to full, so carefully Aragorn began to message her throat, helping her swallow. Once she had taken in enough of the serum, Legolas gently laid her back down onto the bed.
"There is nothing more we can do. It is up to Alexandra now to over come this" Aragorn spoke, "But she is strong she will not give up easily"
"Yes you are quite right Aragorn, the girl is remarkably strong, especially to have walked around for as long as she did with a wound such as that and being poisoned at the same time. It is remarkable that she has lasted this long"
"Aye Gandalf, the lass is as stubborn one too, I suspect that a little knick on the side is not going to keep her down for very long" Gimli spoke up
"Just as well though, I will send someone to clean her up and prepare her better for resting, now come everyone we have things that must be discussed." Aragorn said as he left the room, followed by Gimli, then Gandalf, Legolas and Eomer were the last to leave the room.
"Do not worry my friend, Aragorn is a skilled healer, and Alexandra is strong, she will survive this" Legolas said as he placed a hand on Eomer's shoulder and then left the room.
Now that he was alone in the room with Alexandra, Eomer walked over to her bedside. Once he had sat down Eomer took Alexandra's hand in his own, then he gently reached up and brushed some stray hair off of her face and tucked it behind her ears before speaking.
"I do not know what to say. You must live Alexandra, fight the poison that runs in your veins, fight with everything you have, you must get well. We still have much that we must talk about, much that we must still do" stopping Eomer took a deep breath and sighed before continuing. "My father once told me that everything that lives will eventually die when the time is right, but he said there is one thing that cannot die; one thing that no man or beast can kill and that one thing he said is 'Love'. Love I asked him, and he said 'yes son' Love is the strongest thing that a person or animal could feel. Love is what makes us whole when we feel as if we are only halves. Love he said is everlasting, Love he said will still be here when all the rest of us are gone. I was too young to understand him fully then, but now I understand him completely. You must live Alexandra, because I love you and now that I realize just how much I love you, you can not leave me. Father said love can not die, so you can not die, do hear me?" Eomer said, emotion and tears chocking his voice towards the end. Picking up her hand he kissed it and held it to his cheek, rubbing his face against, letting her know that he was here. Then setting down her hand, Eomer leaned over Alexandra until is mouth was scant inches from hers and with one last word whispered to her 'Live' he closed the gap and placed a loving kiss upon her lips.
When he broke the kiss, Eomer once again tucked some hair behind her ears, and with one final glance he rose from the bed and strode from the room, heading to meeting in the throne room, that he knew he was surely late for. What Eomer did not see though as he walked away was the small smile the formed on the unconscious Alexandra's lips.
AN: Alrighty… here is another chapter, yes this is one is a bit shorter then others in the past, but for fear of pain and death by evil blue bunnies with flamethrowers, I have taken time out of my packing to give you this little ditty to tie you guys over for a while. I hope you like it. I just finished writing it and it is about 10 after 2 in the morning so if it's a little choppy don't worry about it and if you are worried about let me know via review. Once again I would like to thank all of my lovely reviewers, you guys are the GREATEST and BESTEST EVER! I love you all. Please keep the views coming and as always feel free to tell me what you think isn't working with the story and what you think would, and what you would like to see. I am always happy to hear your suggestions. But now I must go, it is late and I have a lot more packing to do.
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