The next time I came completely into consciousness someone was carrying me, I felt bile go up my throat and fought my way out of the arms of my holder so I could throw up, needless to say in ended up on the ground in all fours expelling intestinal surplus, once I was done two hands lifted me up and offered me water which I took gladly.

"What a way to let us know that you are not dying anytime soon" said Gimli, I turned to face the guys.

"Can't let you have all the fun now, can't I?" I said, my voice cracking from disuse.

"How are you feeling?" asked Aragorn while he assessed me.

"Like a thousand horses ran over me" I admitted, he smiled, I looked down and noticed that I was wearing the same ripped off sweater, at least they had not tried to change my clothes "Any of you have my bag?" Legolas handed me my backpack and I couldn't be happier to see it.

"You have been out for three days now" he said.

"And you didn't left me in a ditch somewhere? Thanks guys, you are the best!" I said smiling at them.

"Boromir has carried you all the way while recounting how you valiantly saved his life" said Aragorn with a smirk; I looked at Boromir who looked flushed.

"Thank you Boromir, such a strong gondorian warrior" I teased.

"Tone it down Alex, or your balrog slayer will add gondorian slayer to his list of accomplishments" joked Aragorn; I glared at him.

They gave me a few minutes so I could change my sweater behind a big rock, Legolas helped me with my bracers and off we went again, Boromir and Aragorn asking me every few minutes if I was doing okay, honestly, they were worse than my mother. We ran until we found one of the hobbit's leafs, that gave Aragorn hope, we kept running until we reached Rohan and until Legolas and I could see where exactly the Orcs were headed.

"They're taking the hobbits to Isengard!" bellowed Legolas and I had to refrain myself from singing the song.

We then kept running all night, and all morning for that matters, with little breaks that I could tell that were for me to rest, I was very thankful, Legolas had also been tasked to monitor my feedings and so whenever he thought it would be acceptable he handed me a piece of lembas. We reached the riddlemark where we found the riders of rohan, which Aragorn called in a not so friendly way. The riders surrounded us pointing at us with their spears and Eomer spoke.

"What business does two elves, two men and dwarf have in this lands" Eomer looked imposing on his horse "Speak quickly!"

"Give me your name horsemaster and I shall give you mine" said Gimli.

"Gimli!" I whispered hastily as I kicked him. Eomer dismounted his horse and walked up to us.

"I would cut off your head, Dwarf, if it stood but a little higher from the ground" he said, I sighed and before Legolas could declare his undying love for Gimli I whistled capturing all the attention.

"Lets not get hasty, honestly you men and your alpha male attitude" I turned to Eomer "We mean no harm blondie, this is Aragorn son of Arathorn, Gimli son of Gloin, Legolas of the woodland realm and Boromir son of that dude in gondor, I am Alexandra daughter of Gil-Galad and so on, we are no spies of the dark lord or the white dude, we are tracking uruk looking for two hobbits, now, have you seen the uruk? If you have point us the direction you did and we'll be out of that pretty hair of yours, yes love?" I finished with my hand on my hips.

"The uruk were destroyed last night," Eomer said confusedly.

"Did you saw the hobbits, there were two hobbits" said Gimli panicked.

"They are small, no taller than children" explained Aragorn, Eomer shook his head.

"We left none alive" he said grimly, I looked down.

Eormer called forth four horses whose riders had perished, and warned us about the place, the king and the white wizard, we thanked him for the horses and he and his riders left, Legolas and I both chose white horses and we rode on towards the place that Eomer had pointed out. There we found the burnt carcasses of the Uruk. I also pointed out to Aragorn that Merry and Pippin could have escaped because they were smart, which led us into the Faragorn Forest, following a trail of orc blood, fully tested by Gimli, ew. We walked cautiously walked around, Legolas talking about old forest and speaking trees, I tried to stand still so I could feel it, and surprisingly I could, I could feel the wideness of this forest, every single tree, I could hear their conversations, I could feel its magic.

"I can feel it" I said inching closer to Legolas, he nodded at me, the he felt something else, he turned to Aragorn.

"The white wizard is approaching" said Legolas, I stood next to him. Boromir and Gimli were behind us.

"Do not let him speak, or he will put a spell on you" said Aragorn as he went for his sword, Legolas readied his bow, and I grabbed the handle of my sword. But I wasn't scared, because I was sure that it was Gandalf, and so the white wizard spoke of the hobbits and revealed himself to us, the guys were relieved and before we departed the forest I asked Gandalf to finish healing me, because even if Aragorn had done a wonderful job with my wound, it still bothered me.

We reached Edoras by the afternoon, I was completely healed, thanks to Gandalf, and mounted my horse easily, horse-riding being a pastime that I really had enjoyed in my previous universe. Edoras was beautiful in its own medieval kind of way, we entered the city and many of the inhabitants kept staring at us, I smiled at the few that met my eyes, we dismounted the horses at the entrance of the palace and were suddenly met by a guard who identified himself as Hama, I identified Hama because of all the fanfiction that I had read, and because he had a son that fought at Helm's Deep, and probably died… Happy Thoughts. Hama made us leave our weapons outside and opened the gates of the palace.

As we entered I stuck to Boromir, because there was no way I could take on one of the thugs that were circling us, nope, sword? Sometimes, hand to hand combat? No thanks. When I first gazed upon Theoden and Grimma I wanted to throw up like seriously, Theoden looked like something that came out of a Haunted House and Grimma looked like a very dirty, grey and malnourished version of Severus Snape, ew. As we walked I could see the thugs eyeing us, they were waiting for a signal. Grimma stood towards Gandalf after Theoden mumbled something about a crow, honestly.

"I told you to take the wizard's staff," whined Grimma and the thugs launched into action.

One of them made to grab me, and I spun rapidly kicking him in his crotch, it was a nasty but easy and effective move, the guy fell on the floor holding his 'jewels' and I just smirked, the guys finished the other thugs as easily, and Gandalf kept walking towards Theoden working on releasing him from Saruman's spell. I came to stand next to Legolas as we waited for Gandalf to release the rohirrim king. The first time obviously didn't work because Theoden laughed creepily, then Gandalf tried again and Eowyn tried to go reach Theoden, but Aragorn stopped her just in time. And as Gandalf tried harder Saruman just tried to, fly?

"AAAAAHHH" said the thing as it jumped towards Gandalf, I shuffled closer to Legolas and Gandalf threw him, Theoden, back releasing him from Saruman. Eowyn was the first to his side, and in a few seconds he seemed to regress in age, he no longer looked ninety-seven, he looked fifty at the most, doctors would've hated him.

Theoden kept looking at Eowyn as if surprised and murmured her name a few times before turning to Gandalf, his people regrouped behind us as their king stood tall once again, Hama stepped forward to return the sword to him, it was a very emotive moment, still it had been better with the dramatic music in the background, then we got to watch as Theoden had Grimma thrown out of the palace down the stairs, and he would have killed him, if not for Aragorn who stopped him at the last time, Grimma was banished.

Theodred's funeral could only be described as grim; it broke my heart to see such young man lying unresponsive, dead. He was dressed in armor and his sword laid innocently in his arms, while we awaited in the halls for the funeral to begin I approached the corpse placing my hand softly on his forehead.

"He was so full of life," said a female voice, I turned to see Eowyn all dressed in black behind me, she walked to my side.

"I can believe that" I said solemnly.

"Is it hard?" she asked, I turned to her raising an eyebrow "To live forever I mean"

"I do not know, for I am too young yet to answer your question" I said staring at the guys who were on the other side of the room, I could tell that Legolas was listening to me "But from what I have gathered since I began my journey, it will be extremely hard, the friends I have made along the way, the ones I'm still yet to meet and the ones I just have" I looked at her and smiled "It will be hard to see them pass one day, but at least I'll have the memories to keep with me forever, for memories are the only things that are ever truly ours"

"Do you think I'll see him again someday?"

"I believe you will and a wise Lady told me once that believing is one of the most powerful things, you know, it gives up hope and it keeps us going, it is after all why your brother keeps on fighting" I smiled kindly, she seemed surprised at the mention of Eomer.

"You know my brother?"

"We met briefly, but it is much what you can know from a man's action" I gave a small bow to her and winked before walking off to the guys.

When it came the moment to move the body to the tomb we stood on the sidelines silently watching the procession, it was really sad to watch the entire village weep for one of its own, Theoden looked broken, but I could see Gandalf there offering support, and honestly in moments like this usually the best support that one could need was the one of someone who understood what you were going through. Because loosing someone you held dear was never easy, be it family, friend or lover, it was never easy.

After the funeral I found myself walking around the village and ended up at the royal tombs were Gandalf was having a conversation with Theoden, the man looked even worse than before. I kept my distance from them not wanting to intrude in their moment. I started to head back when I saw a horse approaching with two children. Immediately I was running towards the horse as the boy had fallen from it, probably exhausted. Theoden's guards followed my lead and ten minutes later we had the children eating at a table in the house, I had left the children in Eowyn's care and sat with Legolas and Gimli.

Theoden ordered the guards to gather the people; we were to leave for Helm's Deep in the morning. Gandalf had left to search for Eomer and was to meet us in five days. When next morning dawned upon us I woke up early so I could see the sun coming up, Legolas joined me and then helped me tie my bracers; I thanked him as we made our way back to the palace, Aragorn and Boromir were waiting for while Gimly was sitting on a table having breakfast.

By midday we were walking towards Helm's Deep, Legolas and I had taken to see how Boromir tried to 'flirt' with Eowyn, keyword tried. Aragorn traveled next to Theoden and Gimli next to Legolas and me. We had been walking for three days when the Wargs attacked, Aragorn and Boromir had both gone into Papa Bear mode and sent me along with Eowyn to make sure that the people of Rohan made it to Helm's Deep, I went against my best judgment, but they were right, I had been hurt before and they wanted to keep me safe, besides a battle that they didn't knew about awaited for us in the deep and I was not going to miss that one.

"I thought that you were going to put up a fight against coming with me" said Eowyn as we walked; I smiled at her.

"Not today, they are just trying to keep me safe, and I did almost die on them a few days ago" I explained; she nodded.

"It is an odd group" she commented after a while.

"A little" I laughed, then I smiled deviously "Although I've seen a certain gondorian man interested in you" I winked at her and she blushed.

"I have been talking with Lord Boromir, he told me that you saved his life" she said, I rolled my eyes.

"It was nothing, any of them would've done the same for me" she smiled at me and nodded.

"Are you and lord Legolas…?" she asked, I laughed and shook my head.

"Oh no, he's a nice elf, but no, Aragorn might say that my heart belongs to another" I said, Eowyn tilted her head.

"Another elf?" she asked; I nodded.

"A blonde haired asshole" I muttered, Eowyn must've heard me because she smiled.

"He tried to keep you back?" she asked, and honestly was everyone here that intuitive.

"Could be" I said "Though he had no right to, he had just met me, and we did not start with a good foot, if I recall the first thing I told him was where to stuff it" I said crossing my arms and pouting, Eowyn's laugh resounded and many of the people turned, I had to refrain from glaring.

"Are all the elves like you?" she asked with wonder, I smiled.

"No, I'm strange to them too" I teased.

"I do not think you're strange, just strong willed," she said.

"Mmm, strong willed, I like that" I said with a smile.

The rest of our trip to the Deep passed between small talk, and I realized that I had been spending too much time in men's company because I felt too relieved talking to Eowyn about small things, if I survived this I was going to spend a day with her at a spa, even I had to build the goddamned thing by myself. When we reached the fortress many, started running as they recognized others, I smiled when I saw the mother of the children that had reached Theoden's hall embrace her kids.

Eowyn left me to see how most of her people had made it here, I sat on top of a rock, and from there I could see when the others came. And they did come, Legolas and Boromir sporting grim looks on their faces, Gimli I could not see, but that was probably because he was short. I climbed down and joined the guys in the entrance.

"What happened?" I asked; Boromir and Legolas shared a glance.

"Aragorn did not made it," said Boromir, I stood there silent, they probably mistook my silence for grief because Legolas hugged me, I awkwardly hugged him back.

"Let us go inside" I said guiding them.

"Will we stay here?" asked Boromir, I nodded.

"For the time being, yes, I have a feeling that this is where we should be" I said, the guys nodded, we walked into one of the less populated rooms, and we stayed there for a couple of hours until we heard murmurs about Aragorn returning, Gimli and Boromir were the first to dash out of the room while Legolas and I followed at a much sedated pace. We came face to face with Aragorn.

"Aragorn!" I squealed hugging him tightly, he hugged me back, I let go of him and took a step back "You look filthy" I said scrunching my nose, Legolas chuckled.

"Yes, you look terrible" he said, Aragorn just mock glared at us. Boromir and Gimli joined us and the four of us followed Aragorn as he went to tell Theoden about our impending doom, Theoden then started rambling about Rohan having no allies, honestly.

"Excuse me sir, but can you not, I mean, you here have the son of that dude of Gondor, the steward, yeah that, and Gondor's future king and Duneidan, what else could you ask from that place, besides those two are the best warriors that you could ask for, then there's Gimli son of Gloin, one of the dwarves that reclaimed Erebor from the dragon, if that doesn't scream badass, I don't know what does, and then Leggy boy here and me, an elven prince and an elven princess, he's the best archer and surfer of all Arda and me daughter of the last King of the Noldor and all time badass, so you have a pretty cool team" I said, and he was stunned, I wanted to laugh.

"You five are not enough to fight thousands of orcs" he said, I huffed.

"Then we will damn well try, oh and you might want to check your plumbing problem before the orcs decide to use that weakness in your fortress to kill us all" I said with a fake cheery voice.