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Chap 14
Eden didn't know how long they'd been in Lothlorien. In all honestly she'd lost count of the days, because there wasn't much difference between day and night, it really screwed with her sleep schedule. But then, she noted, it was affecting everyone as well.
Boromir was restless. Aragorn, stoic. Sam was being fussier. Merry & Pippin, hungry. Frodo angstier. Fiorelle was still trying to crawl into Aragorn's leggings. Quiana was still looking for Legolas. And Legolas and Gimli hadn't been seen in days. Legolas was spends all of his time, days and nights, out amongst his kin. Eden figured that Legolas got real lucky this time – he had a place to hide. Poor Aragorn had no place to go.
Meanwhile, Eden and Destiny had divided their time between sneaking off to practice with their double edged staves and hanging out with the Hobbits. And, Eden reminisced, there was this one time, during their first couple days there, that the rude Elf guy from the border, finished bathing to find his clothes missing.
But the girls had NOTHING to do with THAT.
She snickered.
Also, much to Eden's joy, Aragorn had bathed. His hair moves now. In breezes and when he shakes his head. Boromir followed his lead. Eden snorted, mon. They had to compete for everything – who could refuse the ring, who could last the longest on watch, who could stink the most. If the last one didn't irate her nose so much she would have found the whole ordeal rather amusing.
After God knows how long, Destiny was finally helping pack up all of their supplies into some of those gray boats. She was passing random packs to Boromir when Celeborn found her out to talk to her again.
They stood by the edge of the forest. Destiny watched him curiously; he was watching Aragorn with narrowed eyes.
Ooh, that's right. He's Arwen's grandfather. I forgot about that.
Destiny was struggling to suppress the urge face palm when he turned to him and pressed two daggers into her hands. She studied them, they where light and plain, with a leather-bound hilts. She assumed one was for Eden
"I know my grandsons gave you others of this sort to defend yourself with."
Destiny didn't bother to ask how he figured it out. But she figured that all Elves had a kind of brain wave lengthy thing of sorts "Yes, my Lord."
Celeborn smiled at her. "It's always good to have a backup, Destiny." He pauses, and stares at her intently for a moment. "Be careful. 'Twould be a pity to lose a light such as yours and your companion, in this world or any other." He turned and left, making a beeline for Aragorn, pointedly ignoring the 'omgwtf?' expression plastered to Destiny's face.
Later that day, the fellowship stood before the Lady of the wood to receive their goodbye gifts, except for Destiny, Eden, Quiana, and Fiorelle. Destiny and Eden had already gotten theirs and the Mary Sues just didn't get anything.
The Lady approaches our heroines, and gently takes their hands in hers. Destiny and Eden bend their knees and heads before her in unison. She draws them back up, pressing a kiss to each forehead. "Have hope, children. Not all hope has deserted you." She smiles.
They bow again. "Thank you, my Lady." Destiny murmurs.
OK, is this Cryptic Day, or something? Is this some married-couple conspiracy to be as vague as possible?
Galadriel smiled at her, tilting Destiny's face up to hers. 'Patience, child. Patience.' She darts a glance at Legolas, out of the corner of her eye, where he's admiring his new bow, then she glances back at Destiny, one eyebrow raised. 'Tell me, child, what is it you wanted to do to him? Something involving –'
Destiny pressed a finger to her lips. "SHHH!"
She laughs, presses a kiss to her forehead, and moves on.
Eden watches her walk away before turning to destiny. "What did Celeborn give you earlier?" Destiny pressed a knife into Eden's hand
"That one's yours, don't cut yourself." Eden paused to slip the knife into her boot before pulling a thin wooden whistle out from under her shirt and holding it up for destiny to see.
"Look what Galadriel gave me! She said due to my innocent appearance and slightly vaccant expressions it would be necessary or something like that! Which, quite honestly is quite rude. my expressions are never. . ." Eden paused and looked at Destiny. Concerned, she asked, "Are you okay?"
". . . She gave you a rape whistle?"
"Well. . ." Eden looked down at her whistle, "Do rape whistles have tine little polka dotted ducks painted on them?"
As Destiny helped Eden help Gimli pack and tie off the last of the packs on the dock, Fiorelle and Quiana came up behind them.
"I think you should ride with US, handmaidens," Quiana said loudly. "You've neglected your duties long enough."
"OK, number one, we are not and never where and never will be your fucking handmaiden. Number two, my only 'duty' isn't to you. So piss off." Destiny snapped
The girls turned back to the packs. Quiana suck in a deep, angry breath.
"I think the lassies will be riding wi'h us," Gimli said firmly. Destiny looked up and really looked at Gimli for the first time. He was not very tall, but since she figured he was all muscle, and that he's as broad through the shoulders as he is tall. Yeah, she wouldn't mess with him either. That and the fact that he was leaning on an axe he spent an hour sharpening the night before.
Eden shot him a relieved smile. "Thank you, Gimli."
He leaned forward to whisper to them. "Tell ya the truth, lassies, I'm not real fond of them."
Destiny grinned at him. "That makes, what, ten of us?"
He laughed.
As Destiny sat in a boat, completely surrounded by water she wondered why she had never mentioned that she couldn't swim? SO as she practiced NOT looking over the edge of the boat, she listened to Gimli rhapsodize about Galadriel's hair to Legolas.
Destiny grinned at that fact, the look on Quiana's face made it worth anything coming her way. But then she realized what actually was coming her way
Amon Hen.
The place where are paths are going to change, where we're all going to go our separate ways. Merry and Pippin are going to be taken by Orcs, and Boromir was going to die.
She shivered, and felt a pang of guilt, she new instinctively that their duty here was to keep the story on track. Which meant no relationships or saving the doomed to die; she had tried so hard not to notice the growing bond between Eden and Boromir. She had to give the man credit, she supposed. He looked like nothing was different but Destiny noticed the lingering gazes and touches.
Destiny knew that Eden knew it to and was literally soaking it all up before the end. Destiny supposed that Eden would try to save Boromir anyway but Tolkien killed him for a reason, she guessed.
Eden on the other hand was throwing herself into these moments like Destiny had guessed. Placed in a canoe with Aragorn and Boromir she kept the peace by claiming all of Boromir's attention so that Aragorn could play leader. She watched as he laughed and showed her some of the fish swimming under the surface of the water, she wondered if he could feel their connection to and she decided then and there that she was going to change his fate. She was going to give everything she had and put it into saving him, because –to her at least- he was a life worth saving.
ninjawithasharpswordgirl: I actually have alot of red-headed friends so I don't actually hate them and No your OC isn't automatically deemed a Mary Sue just because she might have red hair. I just figured decided that Eden would have this weird thing against one trait on my Sues and red hair just worked.
Berianireth of Lorien: well here you go!
Fats AKA The Sue Killer: yeah. . .I swear grammar is going to come to life and strangle me some day, and they are leaving Lothlorien right now so. . .yeah. oh! I want to thank you for being one of my most re-reviewing reviewers! (say that 5 times fast!)
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