Alasia's Notes: Oi vay! All I really needed was a kick in the butt from Jennzah to write the rescue! Hazzah! The hard part is over with (for now anyway).

of Silver Dreams and Golden Shadows
EIGHT:- Of Rescues and Heartaches

(Author: Jennzah)

Legolas could only look at him. "Let us hope. For i fear she may be lost forever."

Frodo shook his head. "You mustn't think like that, my friend. Doubt will only ensure a failure." He tried to smile as the elf looked at him, pain stricken on his face.

Legolas turned and motioned for the hobbits to follow him. "I am headed back to her side, until it is time for me to perform this task. I feel stronger in her presence."

The hobbits followed him as he went back to their room. Jairah's body had been laid out on the bed, her hair combed sleek down her shoulders. Frodo came up to the bed and stroked her forehead.

"It is good to see you, Lady Jairah." He whispered as he placed a kiss on her forehead. "Even though we meet again under such circumstances."

Legolas closed his eyes as he took her hand. Frodo looked at him, it pained him to see such agony on his friends face.

"How unfortunate that this had to happen now," Sam said quietly from behind Frodo. He did not touch Jairah, only looked. "In only a few days time you were to be married."

Frodo turned and gave Sam a look. "Hush, Sam! They will be married still. They will succeed in bringing her back." He looked back at Legolas, who had tears in his eyes, something that Frodo had never seen before.

"I can only imagine what torment she might be facing, in the Dark Lord's presence." He looked over her body tearfully, and stroked her hair. "It was my wish to take her away from everything after we were married, perhaps to hide for a little while only, to have some time for ourselves, to catch up on all the time we'd lost. I realized, while she was journeying with you towards Mordor, that forever may not be long enough for us. So I wanted to take her and hide us away, just for a time. What if I never see that time?"

Frodo stopped him. "You will. Please. No more doubt, Legolas. It will not help you. Now, where is this Reighn woman?"

The tears that had come into Legolas' eyes dissipated. "I believe she is taking rest, that is what she had said she would do. I have no doubt that she is taking that rest with Boromir, who will slumber for many days."

Legolas was correct. As he and the hobbits stood in the room with Jairah's body, Reighn was on the other side of Elrond's house, clinging closely to Boromir as he slept, recharging her power as fast as she could.

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One of the Orcs that served Sauron was dangerously close to Jairah's foot. She wanted to kick it, but she felt weak, tired. She did not know why she could not fight for herself physically, and this troubled her.

Mentally she was exhausted. She felt the presence, whom she assumed to be Sauron, trying to enter her mind from time to time, but she resisted. And everytime she resisted, she was hit with a colossal force, sending her body backward, hitting the wall behind her, and sometimes flipping her body completely around the chains, her arms aching with every spin.

She longed to know what had happened, why she was encased in this prison. She longed to be free of these chains, to be free period. She wanted Legolas, she wanted to be in his arms and safe.

She thought of Reighn, and cursed her name. The sorceress had asked to borrow her power so she could bring Boromir through some mystickal portal. And now Jairah was here and Boromir had been taken to Rivendell. Something must have gone wrong.

Jairah closed her eyes and thought hard about what had happened. When Boromir had fallen through the portal with Reighn, Jairah had seen him. Then it had felt like something had grabbed her body, hurling it through the same portal, right as it closed. And then she'd fallen into the black water. It must be Sauron, she reasoned.

"yesss." She heard the voice echo in her brain.

"leave me be!" she replied, as much in voice as in mind. She felt the energy rush around her body again, weaving around her. It whooshed past her ear, then tried to push its way into her mind again. She repelled it, pushing it back, and was immediately treated to a blow to her face, hitting her so hard it drew blood. She spat it out defiantly.

"You wont get my power! I will never let you!" she screamed, struggling in vain to get free of the bonds that held her.

"That is where you are sorely mistaken." She heard the voice again. "You will give it to me, willingly. I will break you down untill you cannot take it anymore, or I will kill you. There are ways of killing the mind and the spirit, without the body present."

She closed her eyes again. 'so I am not in my body' she thought. 'that is why I cannot fight for myself. It is only a matter of time untill he breaks my barriers down.'

"in that you are correct" she heard the voice say. "so you may either give me your power willingly, and join my side, pretty elf, or you can wait, and resist, and I will break you slowly, and you will die."

The words lingered in her ears as she felt the presence slide back from her.

She hoped that Reighn had realized her error, and was working on finding her. She worried for the mind of Legolas, who must be sick with worry and fear. She did not have time for another thought as Sauron struck her again, sending her into unconsciousness.

*****

Frodo had been sitting with Jairah's body, while Sam had gone to find Aragorn, and Legolas paced the hallway outside. He was restless, and wished for nothing more than to begin the process to retrieve Jairah.

Frodo took his eyes off of Legolas for a moment, and cast them onto Jairah. He noticed that a small trickle of blood was coming from the corner of her mouth, and he called for Legolas frantically.

"Legolas!" he called. The elf returned to the room. Frodo pointed to Jairah's mouth, and Legolas leaned over her and gently wiped the blood from her mouth.

"What is happening?" Frodo asked urgently. Legolas stared at the blood on his fingers for a long moment before he looked at Frodo in fear.

"He is torturing her," he said. "There is no doubt in my mind, that if the Dark Lord wants to take Jairah's powers, and she is resisting, that he would have Orcs to torture her or maybe it is he himself. We must find Reighn. It has been almost three hours. It is time to rescue Jairah, for I do not believe we have much more time.

*****

(Author: Alasia & Jennzah)

Reighn awoke with a start. Her head was pounding and her body screamed with fatigue. She sat up a little and stretched, then stood and leaned over Boromir, kissing his forehead softly. It was time.

She exited the healing hall and began to walk across the grounds to Jairah's room, where she knew that Legolas would be. He stride was long and sure, yet slow. She could feel the exhaustion more now than she had before she'd gone to sleep - mainly because that had not been a restful sleep. She had been regenerating her power as fast as possible, and she still did not have nearly enough as she would like to have. She stopped outside Jairah's door for a moment, taking a deep breath, then entering. She pulled the door open and strode into the room. Two small Hobbits looked up at her, eyes wide, and Legolas gave her a death glare.
"It's time," she said, examining Jairah, seeing the blood and realizing that they didn't have much time,
"Come, we haven't much time."
The trio followed Reighn down to the council room and took seats as she sat crosslegged on the floor. She looked up at Legolas and spoke, "Focus your thought on Jairah, that is all you need to do. I will not tap directly into your power. But I will use it to bring you along with me, to help, for I am not strong enough to take on the Dark Lord myself."

"You must close your eyes, and think of her," Reighn said again. "We will be pulled into the web, and from there you must follow me"

Legolas nodded, and Reighn closed her green eyes. She heard the others enter the room and she took a deep breath. She felt her feet drop out from under her spiritually and suddenly, she was at the core of the Web. She turned immediately and searched for the key line that Jairah was connected to. She found in, and noticed how seemingly fragile it seemed. She walked down its length cautiously, Legolas following her , testing the area for traps. She found none on her way, and she soon found herself within the castle of Sauron. Only this time, she could feel the dark lord's presence.
They made it to the tower in which Jairah was being kept, and it was all Reighn could to to keep Legolas from running to her immediately. She was hung by her wrists, by chains suspended from the tall ceiling of the tower. They watched in horror as Sauron, circling her like a harpy, whispering in her ear, rained a blow on the top of Jairah's skull. The elf was out cold, and at any minute, Sauron would be able to enter her mind and steal her power.

Legolas went to pull out his bow, so that he might shoot Sauron, but found he was not wearing it. "No." Reighn said. "Only Althair can be used in the web. No conventional weapons. You will not be able to harm him."

"Do something, then! He is going to kill her!" Legolas whispered back frantically.

Reighn could feel that Jairah was about to break, and her shields were disappearing

"Listen to me," she said to Legolas. "You must do exactly as I say. When I say, run forward and release her from the chains. I will keep Sauron occupied so that you may do this."

Legolas nodded.

Reighn closed her eyes and mustered just over half her strength and threw the raw power out at Sauron just as she felt Jairah's shields broke. The power hit Sauron and made him fly across the room and into the wall. He growled at her and stood, and the charged her.
Reighn had not been expecting the physical attack and was slammed into the wall.

She looked at Legolas "NOW!" she yelled, and he sprinted forward towards Jairah, pulling the clasps on the chains. She fell into his arms, broken and bloody. He had barely time to catch her before he heard Reighn battling with the Dark Lord, he turned, and watched with wide eyes as the red haired woman fought with the huge dark shadow.

"I will not let you ruin my plans," Sauron growled out.
She grinned slightly and perforned an uppercut to his jaw, "You messed with the wrong Celt ugly."
She back kicked him in the head, pushing power into the blow. The force of it threw him across the room and through the heavy oaken door. the red haired woman looked up as Sauron stood, and prepared a magical attack. She mustered all that was left of her power and threw the raw power at him. Blinding light seared through the room and the dark lord screamed. Reighn fell to one knee and reached out mentally for her link with Legolas. She had yet to use his power, so she grabbed the cord and pulled.
They flew back towards Rivendell on a wing of fresh power that Reighn could not feel. They landed with a hard thud in the Center, Jairah landing next to her. Reighn stood and drew a little more of Legolas' power, and pushed Jairah's mind back into her body before she forced herself back into her own, and Legolas back into his. She gasped for air as soon as she reached it and collapsed onto her forearms. She breathed heavily for a long while before she managed to muster enough strength to look up. Legolas was also breathing heavily, but he had sat up and was looking at Reighn with wide eyes. Reighn looked like hell - frozen over. She gazed around the circle with bloodshot eyes before getting wobbily to her feet. She gestured to the door and Legolas streaked out of the room. She turned to the other people in the room, "It is finished."

Her eyes rolled back in their sockets and she collapsed. Aragorn walked over to her and picked her up, moving toward the healing hall. When he reached the room he placed her on the bed next to Boromir and left, for the room that held Jairah