My Fault:If I Had Been Quicker

A/N: I didn't plan to do another chapter, but someone in their review mentioned it would be a good idea. So here it is!! I might try to get through the whole fellowship...depends on my muse!!

Disclaimer:of course I don't own this. Do I look that smart to you?

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It was the orc that was second to the left. While we were fighting the cave troll. It took Aragorn's attention for just a moment, and in that moment he should have turned and fired upon the troll. Instead he paid attention that orc, the one that I should have killed, and was knocked unconscious by the cave troll in his attempt to save Frodo.

Had I slew that orc, Aragorn would have gotten to Frodo. We would not have wasted time worrying over him. We would have escaped the mines of Moria without the loss of Gandalf, and without the grief that would cause our company. With Gandalf, Boromir may not have fallen to the Ring, he may have lived, and the hobbits would be with us now.

But no, instead the hobbits are divided, Merry and Pippin with the orcs, Frodo and Sam off to a much dangerous task. And there is nothing my Elven eyes and ears can help them in their battle against the Ring. We must only wait.

But perhaps if I had been quicker-yes, perhaps then this would not all be my fault, and we would all be together now, as we should be.