A/N: **faints and falls back and lands flat on her arse in mist ungraceful
and unlady-like possible**
Cannot believe that I have passed the 100 reviews mark on this fic already. I never thought I'd get a hundred by the time I had finished, let alone just over halfway through!!!! Am I a severe state of shock! As for the reviews, awwwwwww! Thankies so much for them all!!! They were wonderful and made me feel all happy and gooey for several hours after reading them all! You have all really lifted my spirits for this week and made me feel so much better than I did before. I can categorically say that I am much chirpier now!
I had lost the plot a little bit last week, both figuratively and literately, and I couldn't write this chapter because I was SO stuck on where to go, but I had a bout of inspiration today at lunch and have been able to get this one out for today as promised. Am V.pleased and highly proud of myself. Will be very brave and say that the next update will be done and posted by Friday night or Saturday morning. I apologise in advance that this update is rather on the short side, but it is Aragorns PoV and I need to go back to Legolas' for what I've got planned next - a sure sign that he'll stay awake for a little while longer =)
Once again thank you too all those who have reviewed and all those who continue to come back and review chapter after chapter. If it weren't for all the reviews for the last chapter then I don't know if this one would have come into existence. An extra big thanks to my Baby Moo (aka Little Moo and Mini Moo) who has been so very kind to me in her words and has repeatedly nagged me to get this posted. Wouldn't be here with out you hun! Och!
Ithildin - Thankies for the review and the chocolate Legolas', they will be put to very good use. The only thing that I would like better would be a chocolate covered Legolas, the chances of me getting one are low, but I can hope ;)
Elentari - Yes, this will very much be turning into a slash story, as the summary says, if it wasn't slash before, it is after this chapter. I hope that this is a good thing for you, and if it's not, please do continue to read and give this a chance as I think there is more to it that just slash, as you said there is a lot of emotion in this, and I've worked had to get it there. Thank you for the review, hope to see you at the next chapter.
Alynna - LOL. I think you sum up the way most people feel. We feel so sorry for poor old Legolas getting hurt and beaten up all the time, but we love it!!! Purely for the fact that we can then get to see him being comforted. Preferably by Aragorn!!!!
Skywise - I am so evil to poor little Legolas, I just put him through so much pain, and I'm not even done yet, but I think we can all agree that it is worth it just to see him get comforted and cared for by Aragorn, especially when he gets all mushy! =) I am really honoured that you think that this is well written and that it was the best chapter so far. I wasn't so sure about it personally, but it seems to have gone down really well so I am pleased. I would like to think that I am getting better with each chapter, as apart from my Pippin story this is my first LotR fic so I guess each chapter is just more practise at the characters. Hopefully I can keep on getting better! Your crappy day sounds ten times than mine had been, I SO feel for you, it must have been awful, and annoying! Makes my crappy day seem like heaven! Thank you so much for the kind review, it made me feel so much better and brightened up my day! See you at the next chapter. Love and huggles. Botticelli Angel
Arwyn - Thank you muchlies for the chocolates, they were much needed and gave me a nice little boost of the happy hormone to add to the one I got from your kind review. I'm very flattered that you like this despite not being a big fan of slash! Huggles.
Baby Moo - I really don't know what to say to you other than thank you for keeping me going. I also feel the over whelming need to say Liverrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Och! Huggles, mummy moo!
S_star - Reviews are just as good as chocolate! Thank you for feeding me one! I am very glad that I have now been bumped down to being demi-evil! I will read your fic asap and give you a nice review like you have done for me! Thankies!
Alona - When I'm depressed I become dangerous when writing, I get even more evil than normal, so its probably best for Legolas' health that I am feeling better now. Thanks for the review.
Erin - Thank you for the review. I am really honoured that you like this work and thin so highly of it despite not being a big fan of slash. I like to know I am making conversions, they really make me feel good about what I am doing =) thank you so much!
Vana - Wow, some one nearly as insane as I am on a good day! Was most impressed by your muses, and I was much complimented by you and them! Here is more - please don't come and hurt me with your muses, I am v.scared!
Shadow Dreamer - I am so nasty to the elf I know, but its all for a good reason! Am most honoured by the praising of the fic, I am SO glad that you like it, it's always wonderful to always to make such a good impression on someone! Thank you for brightening my day!
Estel - LOL. I will arrange the Elves to sing for you if you promise not to die on me!!! I am also a sucker for sappy moments in L/A fics, I promise you there will be more! Thankies for the lovely and constant reviews! Love and huggles!
Wilde Phyre - Yes, he's awake, and pretty much still alive, not going to say if he's going to stay that way. ^_^ I'm saying nothing! Thank you for the Beta offer, I willingly except! Will e-mail you about it when I start my next project. Thankies muchlies!
Earendil - Thank you so much for the lovely words, you have brightened my day, you really have! I love how you describe Legolas as "semi-sappy musings of a semi-lucid and injured Elf" I just love it!!!!! It's perfect for him at the moment!!! Love and huggles! See you at the next chapter. Botticelli
Shauna - I admit that I am terrible, and I love cliffhangers! There will be more to come, but you know they're worth it! =) Thankies for the review, glad to see you still with me! See you at the next chapter! Love and Huggles.
EtheLeA - hello sweetie! Of course you are naturally forgiven for not reviewing. I didn't mean for it to sound like I was talking about any one specific, I was just commenting at the general lack of response, which has raised fantastically! FF.net has been messing me about as well, it took me two days to be able to upload the final bit to my other fic because it just wouldn't let me log in. Grrrrr! I am very sorry for leaving it where I did, but it was just the perfect place to end it, and I'm afraid that I may have done it again in this one. Ooops :s I think I need an A/L flag, will have to go and make one as I doubt I will find them on sale anywhere :( Ohhh, I can't wait for the next instalment of your fic. **jumps up and down excitedly** Take care sweetie. Love and huggles. Botticelli Angel
Amia - I agree, A/L kissing better would defiantly be good, I'm sure I can manage to arrange something at some point, not that I'm giving anything away ~_^ I would be honoured to be your valentine sweetie, we can be lonely together!
Elvish Lady - thankies for the review. Will e-mail you asap! Feels great to know you will check straight for mine, so here is an update for you to find =)
Darkphoenix - Thankies for taking time to review me! Am very touched.
Please REVIEW everyone. You know I love it, and how happy it makes me! Once again apologies for this one being a bit short, but I will post again very very soon to make up for it, and it should be back into Legolas' PoV.
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Chapter 8
(Aragorn PoV)
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I pulled the shaft of the arrow from Legolas' back with all the haste that I could manage whilst avoiding doing further injury to him. For the last thing I wanted, and he needed, was me doing more damage in removing the arrow because I was in such a hurry. His moans of agony rang in my ears despite being muffled by my shoulder where he buried his head and bit down hard on my leather jerkin to try and withhold the scream I knew he wanted to let out. His body finally rid of the vile object that I now held in my hand, I let out a breath that I didn't even know that I had been holding and threw the black arrow down to the floor.
Taking great deal of care I placed an arm around his shaking shoulders and my other at the small of his back, and pulled him into my welcoming embrace. His body was ridged against mine, every muscle in his body tense and held tight, an obvious sign that he was still in an immense amount of pain and trying to contain in. I smoothed small circles with my hand on the bare skin of the small of his back in attempt to get him to let out his anguish so that he could try to relax even if it was only but a little.
"~Let it out Legolas, there is no one here but you and I.~" I instructed him in a calm and soothing voice. I waited for what seemed to be one of the longest moments of my life for a response, but I got one.
Legolas let go of his bite on my shoulder and released an almost deafening scream, the beauty of his Elven voice broken and filled with the pain that I had been forced to cause him. Words could not describe the sorrow that I felt as Legolas collapsed against my chest, the air from his lungs expended and his pain expressed for now, whimpering quietly into my neck. His arms snaked around me and in response I held him as tightly and as closely as I dared to without causing him any more injury, gently rocking him back and forth as I whispered calming words of Elvish to him.
"~I have never felt such pain in all my years as the pain that I feel now~." He whispered softly the breath of his words tickling my neck.
"~I am sorry that for that my friend, that I was the one to cause it.~" I said into his soft golden hair, which despite all that had occurred this night, still smelled sweet like the woods, like him.
My already heavy heart had started to break upon hearing those words that had escaped his lips, never in all my time with him had I heard Legolas admit to being fatigued, let alone in pain. To hear such a confession from him, in this time when I didn't know if he was going to live or be destroyed by the evil of Sarumans, was more than I could bear. A tear slipped from my left eye, the first tear that I had shed since the loss of Boromir, though I knew in my heart that if I were to lose Legolas I would shed many more.
"~Do not say such things Aragorn. You have done naught but sought to ease my pain.~"
"~And have brought you more!~" I would not allow him to ease the grief and anger I felt at myself so strongly for being able to help him more, for not being there to stop him getting injured to begin with. I couldn't allow him to forgive me for what I had done to him, for what I still had yet to do.
"But it will pass, it will all pass soon.~" He did not need to say anymore for I could his voice told me what his words, that he felt he would pass to the Halls of Mandos and leave me here alone.
"~Do not speak in such a way! You will not pass Legolas, I will not let you!~" I would not let him give up on himself, for we would surely lose him if he did not fight, if he sat back and let it win, at least if he fought, we stood a chance. I leaned back away from him to look him in his beautiful blues as I told him this.
"~I can feel it Aragorn. I can feel Sarumans black poison spreading through me. It makes me so cold, so weak, there is so much pain.~"
I brushed a wayward strand of hair from his face before I answered, silently contemplating if I could go on with out him, if I could bring myself to live and to fight if he was not by my side. I knew they were thoughts I should not be having, they were more than that of friendship and what was even more of a shock was that there was something inside of me that felt stronger for Legolas than it did for Arwen. In that moment as I saw the defeat in his blue depths I knew that I could live without Arwen, that her passing to Valinor ailed my soul little in comparison to the thought of losing the beautiful elf that sat before me.
"~I will not let it claim you Legolas.~ I will not!"
I had to tell him.
I loved him.
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a/n: **cackles evily** I know, I am terrible aren't I? You will find out what happens very soon! Promise!
Botticelli Angel
Cannot believe that I have passed the 100 reviews mark on this fic already. I never thought I'd get a hundred by the time I had finished, let alone just over halfway through!!!! Am I a severe state of shock! As for the reviews, awwwwwww! Thankies so much for them all!!! They were wonderful and made me feel all happy and gooey for several hours after reading them all! You have all really lifted my spirits for this week and made me feel so much better than I did before. I can categorically say that I am much chirpier now!
I had lost the plot a little bit last week, both figuratively and literately, and I couldn't write this chapter because I was SO stuck on where to go, but I had a bout of inspiration today at lunch and have been able to get this one out for today as promised. Am V.pleased and highly proud of myself. Will be very brave and say that the next update will be done and posted by Friday night or Saturday morning. I apologise in advance that this update is rather on the short side, but it is Aragorns PoV and I need to go back to Legolas' for what I've got planned next - a sure sign that he'll stay awake for a little while longer =)
Once again thank you too all those who have reviewed and all those who continue to come back and review chapter after chapter. If it weren't for all the reviews for the last chapter then I don't know if this one would have come into existence. An extra big thanks to my Baby Moo (aka Little Moo and Mini Moo) who has been so very kind to me in her words and has repeatedly nagged me to get this posted. Wouldn't be here with out you hun! Och!
Ithildin - Thankies for the review and the chocolate Legolas', they will be put to very good use. The only thing that I would like better would be a chocolate covered Legolas, the chances of me getting one are low, but I can hope ;)
Elentari - Yes, this will very much be turning into a slash story, as the summary says, if it wasn't slash before, it is after this chapter. I hope that this is a good thing for you, and if it's not, please do continue to read and give this a chance as I think there is more to it that just slash, as you said there is a lot of emotion in this, and I've worked had to get it there. Thank you for the review, hope to see you at the next chapter.
Alynna - LOL. I think you sum up the way most people feel. We feel so sorry for poor old Legolas getting hurt and beaten up all the time, but we love it!!! Purely for the fact that we can then get to see him being comforted. Preferably by Aragorn!!!!
Skywise - I am so evil to poor little Legolas, I just put him through so much pain, and I'm not even done yet, but I think we can all agree that it is worth it just to see him get comforted and cared for by Aragorn, especially when he gets all mushy! =) I am really honoured that you think that this is well written and that it was the best chapter so far. I wasn't so sure about it personally, but it seems to have gone down really well so I am pleased. I would like to think that I am getting better with each chapter, as apart from my Pippin story this is my first LotR fic so I guess each chapter is just more practise at the characters. Hopefully I can keep on getting better! Your crappy day sounds ten times than mine had been, I SO feel for you, it must have been awful, and annoying! Makes my crappy day seem like heaven! Thank you so much for the kind review, it made me feel so much better and brightened up my day! See you at the next chapter. Love and huggles. Botticelli Angel
Arwyn - Thank you muchlies for the chocolates, they were much needed and gave me a nice little boost of the happy hormone to add to the one I got from your kind review. I'm very flattered that you like this despite not being a big fan of slash! Huggles.
Baby Moo - I really don't know what to say to you other than thank you for keeping me going. I also feel the over whelming need to say Liverrrrrrrrrrrrrr! Och! Huggles, mummy moo!
S_star - Reviews are just as good as chocolate! Thank you for feeding me one! I am very glad that I have now been bumped down to being demi-evil! I will read your fic asap and give you a nice review like you have done for me! Thankies!
Alona - When I'm depressed I become dangerous when writing, I get even more evil than normal, so its probably best for Legolas' health that I am feeling better now. Thanks for the review.
Erin - Thank you for the review. I am really honoured that you like this work and thin so highly of it despite not being a big fan of slash. I like to know I am making conversions, they really make me feel good about what I am doing =) thank you so much!
Vana - Wow, some one nearly as insane as I am on a good day! Was most impressed by your muses, and I was much complimented by you and them! Here is more - please don't come and hurt me with your muses, I am v.scared!
Shadow Dreamer - I am so nasty to the elf I know, but its all for a good reason! Am most honoured by the praising of the fic, I am SO glad that you like it, it's always wonderful to always to make such a good impression on someone! Thank you for brightening my day!
Estel - LOL. I will arrange the Elves to sing for you if you promise not to die on me!!! I am also a sucker for sappy moments in L/A fics, I promise you there will be more! Thankies for the lovely and constant reviews! Love and huggles!
Wilde Phyre - Yes, he's awake, and pretty much still alive, not going to say if he's going to stay that way. ^_^ I'm saying nothing! Thank you for the Beta offer, I willingly except! Will e-mail you about it when I start my next project. Thankies muchlies!
Earendil - Thank you so much for the lovely words, you have brightened my day, you really have! I love how you describe Legolas as "semi-sappy musings of a semi-lucid and injured Elf" I just love it!!!!! It's perfect for him at the moment!!! Love and huggles! See you at the next chapter. Botticelli
Shauna - I admit that I am terrible, and I love cliffhangers! There will be more to come, but you know they're worth it! =) Thankies for the review, glad to see you still with me! See you at the next chapter! Love and Huggles.
EtheLeA - hello sweetie! Of course you are naturally forgiven for not reviewing. I didn't mean for it to sound like I was talking about any one specific, I was just commenting at the general lack of response, which has raised fantastically! FF.net has been messing me about as well, it took me two days to be able to upload the final bit to my other fic because it just wouldn't let me log in. Grrrrr! I am very sorry for leaving it where I did, but it was just the perfect place to end it, and I'm afraid that I may have done it again in this one. Ooops :s I think I need an A/L flag, will have to go and make one as I doubt I will find them on sale anywhere :( Ohhh, I can't wait for the next instalment of your fic. **jumps up and down excitedly** Take care sweetie. Love and huggles. Botticelli Angel
Amia - I agree, A/L kissing better would defiantly be good, I'm sure I can manage to arrange something at some point, not that I'm giving anything away ~_^ I would be honoured to be your valentine sweetie, we can be lonely together!
Elvish Lady - thankies for the review. Will e-mail you asap! Feels great to know you will check straight for mine, so here is an update for you to find =)
Darkphoenix - Thankies for taking time to review me! Am very touched.
Please REVIEW everyone. You know I love it, and how happy it makes me! Once again apologies for this one being a bit short, but I will post again very very soon to make up for it, and it should be back into Legolas' PoV.
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Chapter 8
(Aragorn PoV)
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I pulled the shaft of the arrow from Legolas' back with all the haste that I could manage whilst avoiding doing further injury to him. For the last thing I wanted, and he needed, was me doing more damage in removing the arrow because I was in such a hurry. His moans of agony rang in my ears despite being muffled by my shoulder where he buried his head and bit down hard on my leather jerkin to try and withhold the scream I knew he wanted to let out. His body finally rid of the vile object that I now held in my hand, I let out a breath that I didn't even know that I had been holding and threw the black arrow down to the floor.
Taking great deal of care I placed an arm around his shaking shoulders and my other at the small of his back, and pulled him into my welcoming embrace. His body was ridged against mine, every muscle in his body tense and held tight, an obvious sign that he was still in an immense amount of pain and trying to contain in. I smoothed small circles with my hand on the bare skin of the small of his back in attempt to get him to let out his anguish so that he could try to relax even if it was only but a little.
"~Let it out Legolas, there is no one here but you and I.~" I instructed him in a calm and soothing voice. I waited for what seemed to be one of the longest moments of my life for a response, but I got one.
Legolas let go of his bite on my shoulder and released an almost deafening scream, the beauty of his Elven voice broken and filled with the pain that I had been forced to cause him. Words could not describe the sorrow that I felt as Legolas collapsed against my chest, the air from his lungs expended and his pain expressed for now, whimpering quietly into my neck. His arms snaked around me and in response I held him as tightly and as closely as I dared to without causing him any more injury, gently rocking him back and forth as I whispered calming words of Elvish to him.
"~I have never felt such pain in all my years as the pain that I feel now~." He whispered softly the breath of his words tickling my neck.
"~I am sorry that for that my friend, that I was the one to cause it.~" I said into his soft golden hair, which despite all that had occurred this night, still smelled sweet like the woods, like him.
My already heavy heart had started to break upon hearing those words that had escaped his lips, never in all my time with him had I heard Legolas admit to being fatigued, let alone in pain. To hear such a confession from him, in this time when I didn't know if he was going to live or be destroyed by the evil of Sarumans, was more than I could bear. A tear slipped from my left eye, the first tear that I had shed since the loss of Boromir, though I knew in my heart that if I were to lose Legolas I would shed many more.
"~Do not say such things Aragorn. You have done naught but sought to ease my pain.~"
"~And have brought you more!~" I would not allow him to ease the grief and anger I felt at myself so strongly for being able to help him more, for not being there to stop him getting injured to begin with. I couldn't allow him to forgive me for what I had done to him, for what I still had yet to do.
"But it will pass, it will all pass soon.~" He did not need to say anymore for I could his voice told me what his words, that he felt he would pass to the Halls of Mandos and leave me here alone.
"~Do not speak in such a way! You will not pass Legolas, I will not let you!~" I would not let him give up on himself, for we would surely lose him if he did not fight, if he sat back and let it win, at least if he fought, we stood a chance. I leaned back away from him to look him in his beautiful blues as I told him this.
"~I can feel it Aragorn. I can feel Sarumans black poison spreading through me. It makes me so cold, so weak, there is so much pain.~"
I brushed a wayward strand of hair from his face before I answered, silently contemplating if I could go on with out him, if I could bring myself to live and to fight if he was not by my side. I knew they were thoughts I should not be having, they were more than that of friendship and what was even more of a shock was that there was something inside of me that felt stronger for Legolas than it did for Arwen. In that moment as I saw the defeat in his blue depths I knew that I could live without Arwen, that her passing to Valinor ailed my soul little in comparison to the thought of losing the beautiful elf that sat before me.
"~I will not let it claim you Legolas.~ I will not!"
I had to tell him.
I loved him.
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a/n: **cackles evily** I know, I am terrible aren't I? You will find out what happens very soon! Promise!
Botticelli Angel