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I know that this is short, and I will try to get another chapter or so up sometime this week.

Live or Swim

Chapter 26

Shiaris watched as Aragorn led his army into battle against Mordor, "You should be with them, Haldir."

"My job is to protect you," Haldir replied.

"Please go with them. We'll be safe here," Shiaris whispered.

"I must insist that I remain."

"Very well," Shiaris sighed tiredly.

"Mum? What are you and Uncle Hally talking about?" Toleth asked.

"How Uncle Hally is being a silly arse," Shiaris teased the young boy as she tapped his nose with her finger.

"Oh. Like Bagat and Peter Pan?" Toleth smiled hopefully.

"Exactly like," Shiaris smiled, knowing exactly what her new son was after. "Would you like to hear about when Bagat decided to make a raincoat out of a bug-eating plant or how Peter rescued TJ and Jay from the mermaids?"

"Bagat! Bagat!" Toleth clapped his hands happily.

"Very well. Now it all started…"

"Ari?"

"Yes, Haleth?" Shiaris asked worriedly at his serious tone.

"When are we going to see the others?" Haleth frowned.

"As soon as the coronation is over. And don't you shake your head at me, Haldir, he will be crowned. It even said so in the…" Shiaris blinked as she remembered. "Baggy, could you tell them the story? Haldir, please watch them. I think I need to go for a bit of air."

"Of course," Haldir nodded in worry.

"Ari okay?" Bagat enquired.

"I'll be fine, Baggy," Shiaris kissed Toleth on his forehead, and ruffled Haleth's hair as she passed him, heading directly to the stables. She found her mount and took off through the gates, letting the horse choose it's way, not noting that it was headed to Mordor.

She had been riding a while, when a voice called out to her, "Lady Shiaris?"

"Legolas?" Shiaris spun around in surprise, before she also noticed the twins at his sides. "Nephews."

"Aunt, why are you here?" Elrohir frowned.

"I don't know. I didn't plan to ride this way," Shiaris blinked in confusion.

"Elladan, Elrohir, take her to Aragorn," Legolas frowned unhappily at Shiaris.

"What? The eye!" Shiaris hissed out and slipped out of the saddle. Elladan, luckily, caught her. "He sees, but he doesn't. He can't see them for what he sees the King to be and the army of Middle Earth."

"Shiaris!" Legolas, Elladan, and Elrohir gasped out in shock.

"I can't go home. I'm sorry, Peter," Shiaris whispered out in before she slumped tiredly into Elladan's arms.

"Get her to Aragorn!" Legolas growled.

Elladan nodded and ran with Shiaris in his arms to the healer-king to-be, while Elrohir stayed with Legolas a second longer, before taking after his brother and Aunt, "When did you turn into your ada?"

Legolas watched in surprise as he watched the twin race away, "Since…"