Author's Note: Alright the long awaited part two of Lothlorien the final night the group will remain in the Golden Woods before they must depart and continue on their journey. Votes are in for the pairing let's see what will happen :)
Chapter Thirteen
Lothlorien Part Two
Jessica lay on her bed, near the trees close to the rest of the fellowship, her sister and Indi in actual rooms in the tree above, Jessica chose to return to her tunic and trousers finding everyone treated her more like herself than when she wore the dresses. This included Boromir but excluded Legolas who continued to find weird topic of conversations with her whenever he could manage to find time for just them.
Kristy and Indi, however, had found more of a reason than ever to torment their elder with her unveiling. Tonight they decided to allow the girl no sleep until she agreed they could go with the fellowship as intended.
They crept out of their room and down to the fellowship below, with wicked grins upon their faces. Indi carrying a small pouch with a small insect within, they had found in their room earlier that day. Unaware of what said insect was or what it could do, they really did not care as long as it scared Jessica.
"This is going to teach her," Indi whispered.
"She will have to agree once we get her to scream like a girl," Kristy laughed.
"We are such geniuses," Indi replied as they grew silent approaching the sleeping Jessica while Legolas sat close by watching the girls intently. Raising an eyebrow they motioned for him to stay silent.
"What ever you are doing...I will beat the shit out of you if you are still here when I open my eyes," Jessica warned the now stunned girls. They looked to Legolas who was staring at the human just as stunned.
"One..."
"No way," Indi whispered.
"She has to be sleep talking," Kristy said looking to Legolas for any confirmation only to see he too was creeping closer to examine the girl who appeared asleep. The girls began to twitch from foot to foot unsure of what they should do.
"Two..."
"What do we do?" Indi whispered stepping back.
"I can't tell if she is bluffing or not," Kristy replied almost in a panic, taking a larger step back than Indi completely focused on sacrificing her friend to her sister if she so needed.
"I am not asleep," Jessica said her eyes moving under her lids.
"Fuck," the girls muttered in unison turning toward their rooms and running.
"Three..." Jessica groaned pulling her arm back and swinging only to have Legolas catch her wrist pulling her into a sitting position as the girl's eyes flew open. Upon seeing the elf she narrowed her eyes.
"I thought you were Indi," she said her eyes looking at him as if he were Indi. Legolas was unable to tell from her hazy eyes if she were awake or simply dreaming.
"I am not," Legolas replied looking at the girl who seemed to be plotting still in her head.
"Let me go," Jessica whispered not wishing to wake any of the others up, though Legolas seemed to have no problem with. Narrowing her eyes even smaller she moved closer to him, Legolas leaning in.
"Do you not sleep?" she asked causing the elf to laugh.
"Of course I do, just not like you do. I have dreams much like humans, my sleep pattern is different, I do not require it like you," Legolas replied.
"You're weird," Jessica said rising up from her bed and stretching. She turned to the stairwell to see Kristy and Indi peeking around the corner.
"Here now," Jessica hissed. Pointing her finger to the ground in front of her, the girls looked at one another as if they were consulting one another before emerging.
"Fuck..." they muttered coming down the last few stairs as if children caught stealing cookies from the cookie jar.
"What is going on?" Jessica whispered walking away from the fellowship toward the near by lake. She could hear whispers but she couldn't figure the location so she focused back on the girls before her.
"It was all Kristy's idea," Indi immediately accused.
"Do you even know what I am asking?" Jessica questioned quirking her eyebrow, watching as Frodo seemed to walk by her in a zombie like fashion.
"No but it's Kristy's fault," Indi answered once more.
"You know Indi is the brains between us," Kristy tried only to earn a forced laugh from Jessica a silent offer for the younger sibling to try again.
"Why can't you two ever put your two brains together and come out with something intelligent," Jessica asked.
"Hey to be fair we managed to travel all the way here in ample amount of time. We suffered no injury unlike someone we know-" Indi stopped short as Jessica's finger found its way in her face.
"I went on this stupid mission for you two. For your sakes! Do not try to justify your stupidity to me! Sit down," She ordered pointing to the ground, for the first time in a long time Kristy could see the misery in her sister's eyes.
"What's wrong?" Kristy asked as Jessica fell to her knees looking at the girls before her.
"What am I to do if we can not get home? I have no money? No knowledge of this land, this world, this hell? I can not fight, I can not help, feed or protect you two," she whispered her eyes lost in her own thoughts.
"Thats why you quit trying to leave us behind. Together we are strong but apart we are screwed," Kristy replied.
"You know we will get by whatever barriers you put in our way. Like you said when we put our heads together we do something intelligent," Indi said noticing Frodo suddenly walking back to his bed rapidly.
"You are not coming. Now go to bed," Jessica said rising to her feet turning to leave when Kristy rose up with a stomp of her foot.
"You can not say no without be a liar! You are seen as a girl now too!" she yelled rushing at Jessica tackling her to the ground. Jessica fell instantly knowing she could not fight until her stitching was healed,the healing process was no where close.
"Kristy don't start," Jessica warned as her sister rose her fist.
"Say we can go," Kristy whispered as Indi too jumped on the older girl. Jessica quickly squirmed her away from the two girls rising to her feet, glaring at them.
"Over my dead body," she yelled before turning on her heels and running away. The two girls quickly took the upper hand on the injured girl chasing her down, Legolas who had become concerned went in search of the girls when he had noticed Frodo.
"Frodo?" he asked, the hobbit stopped and looked at the elf a few times before blinking himself out of his daze.
"What are you doing here Legolas?" Frodo asked.
"I was-" he was cut short but Jessica quickly passing through them followed by the two girls, Frodo looked at Legolas who in turn looked at him curiously.
"Ladies?" Haldir questioned as the girls darted by him as well, Indi jumped toward Jessica gripping hold of her feet sending the girl flying into Aragorn's bed. Landing on the ranger who instantly had his arm around her neck he froze.
"It's me," Jessica whispered gasping for the oxygen that the ranger was slowly cutting off from her desperate lungs. Kristy was rushing to help Indi when her friend chose now of all times to rise to her feet as well, tripping Kristy. Kristy stumbled over her friend landing on Boromir's lap as he was awoken to Jessica's gasping for air as Aragorn released her.
"What is going on?" Boromir asked watching Frodo, Legolas and Haldir approach. Indi jumped to her feet extending her arm to Kristy who took it gladly, together the girls looked at Jessica who pushed herself off Aragorn.
"If you make me bleed to death I will haunt your asses," Jessica threatened as everyone watched in interest the insanity taking place.
"Like you don't already?" Indi laughed as She lunged at Jessica her shoulder connecting with her stomach as Kristy grabbed her feet, the girls sent Jessica back into Aragorn who was trying to get out of his bed.
"Ladies," Legolas tried to soothe.
"Stay out of this fairy!" all three girls yelled as Jessica shoved Indi off her and then looked at her sister with an evil glare.
"Don't make me do it. I am warning you. You may be stronger but I am gross," Jessica said as silence fell over the group. Sibling versus sibling was taking place and none knew how it would end.
"That's cheating," Indi whispered.
"What?" Haldir asked.
"She's going to be nasty!" Indi yelled as Jessica began to hock back some spit in the back of her throat. Kristy instantly was off her sister but in the process accidentally elbowed her wound causing the girl to double over in pain and fall to the floor.
"Victory is ours! We join the fellowship!" Indi said seeing the blood start back up.
"I did not admit defeat," Jessica breathed into the dirt.
"Perhaps you should?" Aragorn suggested looking down at the girl who seemed to be more stubborn than Arwen.
"Then you are going to bleed to death," Kristy said crossing her arms, making sure to stand in Boromir's way knowing he would be the only one who would attempt to help her sister. However neither girl anticipated an elf to jump to the rescue.
"Enough," Legolas said bending down picking Jessica up in his arms.
"No!" the girls cried.
"Tell them they will come," Legolas ordered making sure to squeeze Jessica's side hard enough to cause the world around her to spin and darken.
"N-YES FINE!" Jessica yelled before her focus blurred. Her head swinging back before Legolas adjusted her so it was resting upon his shoulder.
"Is she ok?" Kristy asked suddenly concerned.
"She has had no time to heal," Aragorn said as Legolas carried her to the healer followed behind by Haldir and Frodo.
"She hasn't done anything since she got here this morning," Kristy said.
"You two have been torturing her since you found her," Boromir laughed earning a yeah right from the girls.
"It's true," Pippin chimed.
"Oh now your on her side?" Indi asked the hobbit feigning hurt, she held a hand over her chest which caused the hobbits to soften and change their answers quickly so that Indi was right and Jessica was wrong.
"Sorry we woke you," Kristy whispered bowing the the men who were obviously exhausted. They all gave a nod before laying back down, Merry excluded. He slid from his bed and came to sit next to the girls.
"You know she only cares," he whispered.
"I know but it's better for us to be together," Kristy said.
"Well from the looks of it...not really. This is the second time she has ripped her stitching because of you girls," Merry replied causing the girls to hang their heads in shame.
"You know for a small person you know how to make us feel like shit," Indi replied looking at the three hobbits that had become like family to her.
"Let's go to bed so they can sleep," Kristy said before looking over at Boromir who was now wide awake.
"Meet you in the room?" Indi said with a very wide mischievous smile.
"Not like that! Go!" Kristy exclaimed before walking over to Boromir who watched her carefully. She sat next to him and continued to think about how to word it so he would be on her side.
"You know...if you do not allow us to come. We are still going to follow you guys. Jessica trusts you of all people for some reason so...if we don't get to come along willingly..." she rose from her spot. "It's gonna be your fault if anything happens to us when we follow."
"You do not intimidate me," Boromir whispered to not wake anyone. Kristy glanced over her shoulder at the human who looked back toward the healer's room as if expecting Jessica to lean out and argue with the sentence.
"Wake us when we need to prepare for the journey," Kristy whispered in a pleading tone hoping this would help secure their spot back on the fellowship. She turned back to the stairwell glancing back over her shoulder at Boromir who continued to watch her. Her focus still on the man she tripped attempting to step up on the first step and fell on her face.
"Real smooth," Indi whispered from the top of the stairs looking at her friend shaking her head sympathetically.
"I wasn't trying to flirt," Kristy hissed as Boromir offered his hand, his eyes filled with humor, a smile upon his face saying he wanted to laugh.
"Would you like an escort to your room?" Boromir asked suddenly becoming serious. Kristy looked up the stairwell to find that Indi was gone, probably already back in their room with her ear pressed against the door to listen.
"Sure," Kristy replied knowing he was only going to lecture her about blackmailing or something about honor.
"You are the younger one so you do not have to carry the worries that the older does. I have a younger brother, if I could I would not have him fight. He does it to impress our father so he only fights with my company. I give him full credit though father ignores it, ignores him..." Boromir began looking at the girl.
"That's so mean," Kristy whispered.
"I am the shiny gem in my father's eyes. I can not change that but my feelings for my brother never have and never will change. I would die for him. You sister lied about being a man because she was in a place she didn't know with many men who could have killed or raped her..." he continued.
"So?" Kristy asked.
"She came to Rivendell with saddened eyes, I could tell she wanted to tell me something but I never would listen. I saw her as a younger brother as well but one that was strong enough to hold her own because she is not blood I did not worry to much. I do look out for her whenever we are in battle. She chose to not expose herself solely because you two girls wants to go on the Fellowship for Frodo. She wanted to take you home..." he said glancing down to see if the words were connecting in her head.
"She has told me about your family. How she has only you and Indi. Though she is your sibling she is more of a parent now," Boromir said.
"Thats he choice not ours," Kristy said.
"Would you be who you are if she hadn't taken the paternal role in your lives? If she still wasn't, if she was a sibling who allowed you to do what you want and go where you want without her?" Boromir asked causing Kristy to truly think about the memories of Jessica.
"If we are together though," Kristy tried.
"What? She will only injury herself trying to protect not only Frodo but you girls? You and Indi would take her focus from battle," Boromir replied.
"We know how to fight," Kristy said.
"Maybe where you are from. Jessica said she could, she knows only to block and when someone has their back turned to kill out of instinct. Sword fighting is not something you can simply do by picking up a sword," Boromir said.
"It's her own fault she got shot," Kristy complained.
"She got shot doing what you girls wanted to join along in. If you were there I think she would be in worse shape trying to watch over you. You being her sister she would not survive in our world," Boromir whispered.
"Why?" Kristy asked.
"If you were hit she would drop everything she was doing maybe even Frodo if she were protecting him and come to your side. Sibling know no boundaries as you both have shown. But older siblings...have a stronger urge to protect younger ones," Boromir answered as they came to stop before her room.
"She can not be my mother all the time," Kristy said as Boromir moved closer to her.
"No, she will one day stop watching over you. Let you make your own choices, and when that happens will you know how to make the right ones?" Boromir asked, the door behind Kristy creaking slightly. Kristy grinned knowing Indi was pressed flat against the wood.
"Of course I will," Kristy said.
"How?" Boromir asked leaning his head down to Kristy's his lips touching her nose as his eyes never left her.
"Because I'm not stupid," Kristy said.
"But who taught you to make the right choices?" Boromir asked as Kristy opened her mouth to answer but quickly shut it when she realized she was going to say Jessica.
"Just kiss him," Indi hissed through the door causing both Boromir and Kristy to smile and chuckle.
"Shut up," Kristy hissed back.
"You barely know me," Boromir said his lips lowering to Kristy's.
"You know Jessica," Kristy replied.
"Does not mean you know me. You would kiss a stranger?" he asked causing Kristy to back away quickly as the word sunk into her head. Boromir have a weak smile before nodding his head.
"Goodnight," he whispered kissing her knuckles and leaving. Kristy stood in shock as his words rang loud and clear, Indi however threw the door open causing the girl to trip and fall.
"What the hell was that about? He is super cute! Smart and actually likes you!" Indi yelled jumping on her friend.
"I don't know him," Kristy whispered.
"So go get to know him!" Indi yelled.
"I can't...Jessica would kill me," Kristy said thinking about how odd today has turned out to be. She slowly crawled to the bed followed by Indi who was intent on interrogating her.
Jessica lay in the bed her vision blurred the world around her dim, she could feel people rushing around her, as her body convulsed causing her to cough.
"Her body has gone into shock," the healer said to Frodo who was holding onto Jessica's hand as they quickly tore her tunic on the side to help keep the woman's modesty.
"Why shock?" Frodo asked.
"She has lost so much blood. She has had no time to heal to create more," the healer said as Jessica's head turned to look at the shadowed being that was coming at her with something glowing.
"What is he doing?" Jessica asked.
"The stitches will not work," the healer said taking a knife and cutting the thread lose from her as Frodo tightened his hold on Jessica's hand.
"It'll be fine," Legolas said to Frodo.
"What will be fine?" Jessica asked as she tried to focus on the glowing object in the man's hand. He quickly pushed it into her wound to seal it close causing Jessica to scream in pain, Legolas falling to his knees pushing cloth into the girls mouth to keep her from biting her tongue.
"There should be no more blood loss. Allow her time to sleep now," the healer said leaving the room with the still hot metal stick.
"What is that?" Frodo asked seeing the end of the vine on Jessica's back.
"I do not know," Legolas said moving the cloth to look over the skin to find the ink marking her skin.
"Is it from her people?" Frodo asked.
"Perhaps," Legolas whispered to find Jessica glaring at them.
"I am awake you assholes," Jessica whispered spitting the cloth out of her mouth.
"Where are you from?" Frodo asked looking back to see Legolas moved toward the wardrobe to gather her a night shirt.
"Not from here," Jessica said breathing heavily from the pain.
"You have more markings?" Legolas asked as he crawled onto the bed to help her change.
"I have tons," Jessica said feeling herself lifted up to quickly causing her to turn shoving Frodo out of the way and releasing the contents of her stomach upon the floor.
"I'll come back in the morning," Frodo whispered patting Jessica's hand feeling bad for the woman who was willing to die for him in a world she did not know.
"You need to change," Legolas said coming around the bed to find that the liquids and foods from her stomach had indeed found their way onto her shirt. A knock came from the door, Aragorn's head soon followed.
"Is she well?" he asked.
"Body is in shock," Legolas replied as he pulled Jessica up into a sitting position. Pulling her shirt half way up before she pushed him away.
"I'm fine. I can do it," she grumbled before hanging back over the bed to release the insides of her stomach.
"I can completely see that," Legolas laughed before sitting in front of Jessica. Pulling her into a sitting position, he quickly pulled her tunic off only to have Jessica collapse back onto the bed.
"What strange markings," Aragorn said looking at the girls tattoo's. His fingers tracing the kanji on her side, before looking at her hips.
"I know not where she is from but these must mean something," Legolas said as he lifted the girl back up pulling the sleeping shirt back on.
"Legolas..." Aragorn whispered as the girl went into a coma like sleep.
"Aye?" Legolas asked looking to his friend as he covered the girl in the bed. He could not help his curiosity.
"Watch yourself," Aragorn finally said.
"Why?" Legolas asked turning his gaze serious as they two moved to exit the room. Aragorn glanced back at the sleeping girl who remained unmoving.
"She will have to return from where she came from. I do not think she will stay if she had a choice," Aragorn replied once more looking toward the door. Opening it quickly Kristy and Indi tumbled inside.
"God dammit," Indi groaned.
"We are possibly the worst spies in all of existence," Kristy grumbled as the two men gave them questioning gazes.
"Soooo..." Indi said moving toward Aragorn in an almost seductive manner, which Aragorn could not help but chuckle at.
"You are but a child, seduction will not help you to go further than here on the journey," he answered causing Indi to get annoyed.
"Someone has to watch out for Jessica," Kristy said her eyes turning to Legolas accusingly.
"Why?" Legolas asked.
"Well you seem to be stalking my sister. At first I thought you were gay but now I know you are just a weird pervy stalker," Kristy replied.
"I am no perverted stalker," Legolas said.
"Ok," Jessica yelled waking from her sleep. Tossing her legs out of the bed shaking slightly she forced herself up.
"I want every one to understand two major things," Jessica said moving toward them.
"What?" the girls asked.
"You two are coming out of default. If you irritate anyone I am sending you to Gondor. Legolas and me are never going to happen so stop harassing him. Kristy you and the elf are never going to happen because you are not going to be here that long. Indi just keep making everyone hate you," Jessica said turning to go back to bed.
"Why?" everyone asked.
"Excuse me?" Jessica inquired.
"Why Gondor and not Rivendell?" Kristy asked.
"Why can't she be with Elrohir?" Legolas asked.
"Will you stay here if your sister found love?" Aragorn asked.
"What's wrong with the fairy?" Indi asked motioning to toward Legolas. Everyone seemed more intrigued by this question than anything else, all eyes were on Jessica.
"No offense Legolas, but I don't date or court or whatever you call it," Jessica said.
"You will never find happiness," Legolas asked.
"I have no time," Jessica said noticing that no one would leave she moved through the group and took her chances on leaving. She would find some sleep before she would have to wake and begin the life threatening journey.
Author's Note:
Alright to all my wonderful reviewers the poll is still open for the romance but do keep in mind the story is drawing to a close. There will be two other stories I will post so it will be like the Lord of the Ring trilogy.
To My Reviewers:
Erokh: I hope this is the answer to your question about the girl's being left behind though I thought it was needed to have a good chapter of torture and humor.
Metoochocolate: Jessica and Legolas romance coming right up though it will be slow because I don't want my characters or story to turn into a Mary Sue! I still am not fully sure if I am doing a good job at avoiding it or not but no complaints yet so yay!