The Harry Potter Ring Series
Harry Potter and the Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter Four
By Emma
A/N: Once again I am just going to thank reviewers without naming them officially. You all know who you are and I love you all.
I would like to thank my wonderful beta Fireblade who has given me some great ideas for this chapter (and right now I'll feel pretty stupid if I've named the wrong beta in here so smack me silly if I have.)
Anyway, this is the very last chapter of the first part of the Harry Potter Ring Series.
Yep, this is the last official chapter of Harry Potter and the Fellowship of the Ring.
As always review, and I will get Part two, Harry Potter and the Two Towers, out very quickly.
Enjoy.
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DISCLAIMER: Lord of the Rings Belongs to Tolkein, the script is the writers', and Harry and Co. are property of the lovely Ms. Joanne Rowling.
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Chapter Five: The Breaking of the Fellowship and the Departure of Boromir
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Boromir looked over at Hermione as she slept peacefully, a content and blissful smile on her face, in Draco's arms.
He was filled with a feeling of hatred and jealousy of the small ring bearer.
He watched as Draco gently stroked Hermione's soft, curly brown hair and held her gently in his strong arms. Inside he felt the strong urge to take his paddle and beat the blonde repeatedly over the head with it.
Harry and Ron, who had been having a soft, heated discussion about Quidditch, heard the sound of teeth clenching together and scraping across each other. The two boys had been enjoying being steered around in the boat with the redhaired human, seeing as they didn't have to do any of the work involved in getting safely from point A to point B.
They exchanged a look and followed his gaze. They were startled to see Hermione looking happy in the arms of their former enemy.
They exchanged another look and smiled, "About time they realized it." Harry whispered to Ron with a grin forming on his face.
Ron nodded, "I was starting to think that we would have to spell it out for them in giant letters." They laughed and grew silent as they received an icy glare from the captain of their vessel.
They quickly returned to their earlier conversation, leaving Boromir to his thoughts of lust about the beautiful brunette.
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Draco smiled down at the sleeping form of Hermione as she snuggled closer to him, her breathing even. She looked like a beautiful angel as she laid there in his arms.
"You love her." Aragorn said softly to Draco, his eyes never leaving the water ahead of the boat.
"What??" Draco said, shocked out of his reverie. "Is it that obvious?" He said after a moment, seeing as there was no point in denying the truth.
Aragorn shrugged with a knowing smile apparent on his lips. "It's very clear that you have feelings for this beautiful girl. I don't deny that she is quite attractive. Not my type of course, but attractive none the less."
Draco's cheeks turned a light tinge of pink, "I do like her very much. It's going to be hard."
"What will be hard?" Aragorn asked quickly, his eyes darting to the figure in front of him.
Draco shook his head, "Nothing, forget I said anything." He felt Hermione stir in his arms and she sat up.
She sighed, "Mmm, that was a nice nap. There's something about the feeling of the boat moving across the waves that's just so.soothing." She smiled and looked around at the other boats, leaning unconsciously against Draco's chest.
Legolas and Gimli were having some sort of discussion about the differences between the dwarves and the elves. She smiled as Gimli seemed to be getting more irate every time Legolas made a valid point.
Her gaze shifted to the other side of their boat, the side where Harry, Ron, and Boromir's boat was traveling.
She grinned when she heard Ron's voice crying out that 'The Cannon's will so go all the way this year!! Just you wait!'. She chuckled and glanced back at Draco who had a small smile on his face too upon hearing this declaration.
Draco looked over at the captain of their boat and saw that he was staring straight at Hermione. Looks of want, and desire evident on his pale features.
He glared at the other man, and made Aragorn aware of the expression on their companion's face.
"We'll have to keep an eye on him." Aragorn whispered softly to Draco. The two glanced at Hermione, who was blissfully unaware of the looks she was receiving from Boromir.
She was currently calling over to Harry and Ron.
"Yoo Hoo!" She cried.
"Hey Hermy! Your finally awake!" Ron called out to her, poking Harry to get his attention too.
She rolled her eyes, "How many times have I told you not to call me Hermy. It sounds like Herbie and that's a car from a muggle movie that disturbs me greatly." She said all this with a grin on her face though.
"Sorry, Mione." Harry said, laughing.
Aragorn called to Legolas and Boromir, and the three boats turned and landed on the western shore of the river.
They unloaded the boats as Aragorn told them the plan, "We cross the lake at nightfall, hide the boats, and continue on foot. We approach Mordor from the north."
They all nodded and began to cover the boats with branches and leaves, concealing them expertly into the landscape.
Gimli wasn't all that pleased with the plans, "Oh, yes? Just a simple matter of finding our way through Emyn Muil? An impassable labyrinth of razor-sharp rocks? And after that, it gets even better! Festering, stinking marshlands, as far as the eye can see!"
Aragorn sighed, "That is our road. I suggest you take some rest and recover your strength, Master Dwarf."
Gimli looked shocked and spluttered, "Recover my... phfwahh..." He turned and muttered about how Dwarves needn't rest, as they were always ready for battle.
Legolas walked over to Aragorn, a worried expression in his eyes, "We should leave now."
Aragorn shook his head no. "No. Orcs patrol the eastern shore. We must wait for the cover of darkness."
Legolas responded, "It is not the eastern shore that worries me. A shadow and a threat has been growing in my mind. Something draws near. I can feel it." Aragorn sighed, he would not be moved on his decision, but he knew he should heed some of Legolas's warnings.
Gimli strode over to Ron, "Recover strength... Pay no heed to that, young Hobbit." Ron chuckled and noticed Harry looking around confused.
Hermione was over at their boat, retrieving one of her bags, but Draco was nowhere in sight.
"Where's Draco?" Harry called out, surveying the immediate area.
Hermione dropped her bag shocked and began calling out his name.
Aragorn and Legolas exchanged worried looks and Harry and Ron went to comfort Hermione while they searched. Gimli stopped his complaining and grabbed his axe. Boromir too, was nowhere near.
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[A/N: I am adding a quick something hear that won't really affect other characters views of a certain character, it might alter your own, but remember this is a story, not the real movie or book, and certain situations will be altered because of a plot addition between two characters that was really only there in the Slash obsessed mind. (Slash, in case you didn't know, is same sex pairings in fics.)]
Draco kicked at a few rocks as he made his way up the wooden hill. He heard snapping branches behind him and he whirled around, face to face with Boromir. He was carrying firewood, and stooping to collect more as he went.
"None of us should wander alone. You least of all. So much depends on you. Draco? I know why you seek solitude. You suffer. I see it day by day. Are you sure you do not suffer needlessly? There are other ways, Draco. Other paths that we might take." Draco's eyes narrowed at his words.
"You speak of Hermione, do you not? Your love for her, and for the ring blinds you of our true purpose." Draco responded, glaring at the man before him.
"Don't deny the fact that you are abandoning the fellowship to destroy the ring on your own. Your newly discovered love for Hermione would only slow you down, and make you regret your decision to leave her behind. But should you break her heart, and tell her that she didn't love you, but me, than perhaps your leaving might not impact her as much as it would have, and you could leave knowing that she was safe and happy in the arms of a real man, and not some horrible hobbit." Boromir said, as calmly as he could when facing a person that he knew could probably rip him limb from limb given the proper chance.
"You disgusting muggle!" Draco screamed, pure hatred coursing through his voice, "Your words might sound like wisdom, that your intents with Hermione are pure, and that you think that, is she had you, she might not be as disappointed if I die. Or at least she would have you to turn to, and I can leave knowing that she's alright, and safe with you."
Bormir lunged at Draco and grabbed him by the collar of his clothing, dragging him up so that they were nose to nose.
"I knew I should have followed the warning in my heart against you, you horrible creep." Draco snarled into the putrid face of Boromir.
"Warning? Against what?" Boromir asked innocently, "We're all afraid, Draco, but to let that fear drive us to destroy what hope we have. Don't you see, it's madness."
Draco smirked into the eyes of the horrible excuse for a man in front of him, "There is no other way."
Boromir glared at him and threw him to the ground, "Give me the ring, and the girl, and I'll allow you to escape with your life."
Draco backed away, "No, never."
"Why do you recoil? I am no thief." Boromir said with a snarl in his voice.
"One, your not yourself, two, you are blinded by the power this stupid piece of scrap metal possesses, and three, the most important fact of all, you lust after the woman that I love with every fiber of my being. And this fact clouds your judgement. So in response to your question, that's why I'm getting the hell out of here, so that I can save her, and everyone else in the fellowship, excluding your sorry rat assed cowardly.well I could go on but, I have to save Middle-Earth." Draco turned and began to walk away.
"What chance do you think you have? They will find you. They will take the Ring. And you will beg for death before the end!" Boromir called after him, walking quickly after his fast retreating form.
"I'll just have to take that little risk now won't I?" Draco called over his shoulder.
"You fool! It is not yours save by unhappy chance." Draco turned and walked backwards so he could face Boromir.
"Your right about that, I never wanted this stupid ring, but now that I've got it, I'm going to do everything I can to destroy it."
Boromir's face screwed up into one of determination, and hatred, "It could have been mine. It should be mine!"
"Now what are you talking about there? My girlfriend, or this stupid ring?"
Boromir snarled, "Both!" As he lunged at him, knocking Draco to the ground as he was caught off guard. "Give it to me! Give me the girl, and the ring and I might let you live!"
Draco's eyes narrowed, as he whispered, "No." Regretting already his next move, he slipped the ring on his finger and scampered away from him, invisible.
Boromir stood and whirled around, searching every direction, "I see your mind!! You will take the Ring to Sauron! You will betray us! You go to your death! And the death of us all! Curse you! Curse you and all the Halflings! And what's worse, Hermione will be alone, with only me to comfort her, oh boo hoo. What a tragedy."
A wave of realization swept over Boromir and he realized what he was doing, "Draco? Draco. What have I done? Please, Draco." He whispered, tears appearing at his eyes.
"Draco.I'm sorry."
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Hermione dragged Harry and Ron with her through the forest. "Come on you two, we have to find Draco, no matter what it takes."
Harry moaned, "Mione, we've been searching forever, we're never going to find him."
Ron nodded his agreement, "We should go back to the camp and wait for him to come back, cause really, that's where he'll come back."
Hermione shook her head no. The two males sighed, "Alright Mione, how about we spilt up to cover more ground. You go back to the camp to see if her comes back. And we'll search the woods. Ok?"
She nodded and threw her arms around their necks, "I love you guys, what did I ever do to deserve friends like you two?"
They shook their heads no, "I think the question is, what did we do to deserve you?"
They smiled at one another and engaged in one other their famous group hugs.
Something in their hearts told them to remember everything about this moment, as it could be the last one like it for a while.
The three parted and went in separate ways, each calling out the name of their missing companion.
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Draco was lost in a world of darkness. Images were swirling around him, he saw Barad-dûr, and then the Eye of Sauron. He quickly pulled the ring off his finger and reappeared in the land of the living, and was visible once again.
As he was catching his breath, Aragorn appeared nearby.
"Draco?" He called, concern in his voice, and on his face.
He shook his head, "This stupid trinket has taken Boromir, he is no longer the 'innocent' warrior he once was."
"Where is the ring?" Aragorn asked, worried that Boromir had somehow taken it from Draco.
"Stay away!" He called out warningly, backing away, watching Aragorn steadily.
"Draco! I swore to protect you!" Aragorn said, confused as to Draco's sudden change in behaviour towards him.
"Can you protect me from yourself?" He asked simply as he showed Aragorn the ring, "Would you destroy it?" He held the ring out in front of him, almost offering it to Aragorn.
The voice of the ring filled Aragorn's head, "Aragorn. Aragorn. Elessar."
Aragorn knelt in front of Draco and closed the 'halflings' hand over the ring, "I would have gone with you to the end. Into the very fires of Mordor."
Draco nodded sadly, knowing that Aragorn knew what he planned on doing. "I know. Look after the others. Especially Hermione, she will not understand."
"You should tell her." Aragorn started, before noticing a strange glow from the sword at Draco's waist.
"Sting.it's blue." Draco said, cursing the approaching orcs.
"Go! Draco, run! Run!" Aragorn cried as he drew his sword from its sheath and attacked the oncoming orcs.
Draco turned and fled towards river edge, down the through the woods.
"Good-bye, Draco." Aragorn whispered the retreating back of the blonde. He turned and slaughtered the first thing he saw.
"Find the Halfling! Find the Halfling!" The uruk-hai were calling to one another.
Legolas and Gimli join Aragorn in his fight of the attacking creatures. They kill many, while four halflings are fighting for their own lives.
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Draco dodged away from oncoming Uruk-Hai and changed his course many times. He quickly hid behind a tree.
He looked around and saw Harry and Ron hiding in a more safe location. "Draco!" Harry called softly, but loud enough for the blonde to hear him.
"Hide here! Quick! Come on, Malfoy!" Ron cried, beckoning him over.
Draco shook his head sadly, "I can't."
"What's he think he's doing?" Ron asked Harry, a look of shook and disbelief on his face that Draco wouldn't rush to safety with them.
Draco shook his head no as Harry realized what he was doing, "He's leaving."
Ron shouted, "NO! Listen here Malfoy, I have it on good authority that one of my best friends is madly in love with you, for some reason I can't for the life of me figure out, you are not going to leave in some stupid attempt to save her life." He jumped out of his hiding place to go and drag Draco back with him.
Harry followed him, he knew that Draco had to do what he had to do. "Ron, it's for the best, Hermione might be safer this way." Ron nodded weakly.
"Run, Malfoy. I mean.Draco.Run!"
Harry and Ron waved their arms to distract the Orcs and Uruk-Hai. "Hey, Hey you! Over here!" Harry cried.
Ron followed suit, "Over here! Over here! This way!" They noticed them and began to come in their direction, while Draco ran in the other direction.
"It's working!" Ron said, shock evident in his voice.
Harry nodded and dragged Ron in the opposite direction that Draco had left in, "I know it's working! Run!"
The two friends ran as fast as their legs could carry them. Soon, they were surrounded by Orcs. They laughed and mocked them, and threw a battle axe at Ron's head.
They screamed in terror but suddenly, out of nowhere, Boromir appeared and stopped the axe from hitting Ron.
He attacked the Orcs, protecting Harry and Ron, and blowing the horn of Gondor at the same time.
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Legolas, Aragorn, and Gimli were still fighting the oncoming creatures. Their ears were suddenly filled with the sounds of the horn blowing.
"The horn of Gondor!" Legolas cried, as he killed another monster.
"Boromir!" Aragorn cried. The three warriors made there way towards the sound, as they defended themselves against the attackers along the way.
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Boromir yelled quickly to Harry and Ron, "Run, Run!!!"
The three of them run away from the attacking Orcs, while defending themselves as well. They stop suddenly when Boromir is shot in the chest with an arrow.
He continued to defend the halflings and killed orc after orc. He groaned as another arrow pierced his skin. Still, he persevered. He fought bravely against the attackers, even when a third arrow entered his body.
Harry and Ron rushed forward to help him as he sank to his knees, still fighting against the monsters. Their efforts were in vain as they felt disgusting arms encircle their waists and they are lifted high above the ground and carried away.
"No!" Harry screamed, he grabbed the blade he was given in Lothlorien and attacked at the Orcs.
Ron followed suit but it was no use, their hides were too thick. And the two wizards were taken. Gone from the fellowship, and in danger.
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The trio arrived too late to see the Orcs take the two hobbits, but in time to see Lurtz, the leader Uruk-Hai, aiming his bow and arrow at Boromir's head.
Aragorn attacked it with his sword. They fight for what seems like an eternity before finally succeeding in cutting off its head.
Aragorn runs to the fallen form of Boromir.
"No." He whispered softly.
Boromir's pale face turned to look into the eyes of a despairing Aragorn, "They took the little ones."
Aragorn sighed in frustration, "Stay still."
"Draco. Where is Draco?" Boromir asked, not able to rest.
"I let Draco go."
"Then you did what I could not. I tried to take the Ring from him." Boromir said with a sigh, leaving out the part where he tried to threaten him into giving him Hermione.
"The Ring is beyond our reach now." Aragorn said firmly.
"Forgive me. I did not see it. I have failed you all." Boromir said sadly, tears forming at his eyes.
"No, Boromir. You fought bravely. You have kept your honour." He moved to remove one of the offending arrows from his wounded chest.
"Leave it! It is over. The world of Men will fall. And all will come to darkness. My city to ruin." Tears were about to spill from his eyes when Aragorn spoke.
"I do not know what strength is in my blood. But I swear to you, I will not let the White City fall. Nor our people fail." His voice full of emotion.
Boromir smiled weakly as Aragorn gave him his sword, "Our people. Our people."
Legolas and Gimli look over to see Aragorn kneeling over the fallen body of Boromir, the decide to leave them for a moment, allow them to have their moment.
"I would have followed you, my brother. My captain. My king." Boromir smiled slightly as he breathed his last breath, before passing out of the realm of men.
Aragorn kissed his forehead, "Be at peace, son of Gondor."
Legolas and Gimli come over to comfort Aragorn as he stands, sheathing his sword.
"He's at rest." He said softly to his remaining companions, an elf, and a dwarf.
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Draco stood at the edge of the lake, by the boats with the ring in his hand.
"Draco!" Hermione cried, still deep within the woods, but able to see his still form.
Draco stared out onto the quiet water, a memory filling his head.
"I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened." His own voice said, soon replied to by the voice of one of his late companions.
"So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you." The voice of the elderly wizard comforted Draco.
He smiled as he took heed to the words of wisdom that he had spoken.
Draco closed his hand over the ring and put in back around his neck as he boarded one of the boats and pushed off from the shore.
Hermione finally escaped from the woods and fell onto the sand of the shore. She looked up and saw Draco rowing away from the land in one of the Elvin boats.
"Draco, no!!! Draco! Draco!" She screamed after him, her eyes welling up with tears that he was leaving her. She picked herself off of the ground and raced after him into the water.
"No, Hermione." He whispered softly to himself before turning and calling back to her,
"Go back, Mione, I'm going to Mordor alone."
Hermione waded deeper into the water, "Of course you are. And I'm coming with you!!"
"Your really stubborn, you know that?" She nodded, and suddenly held her side.
"Oh god, cramp." She cried as she slipped away from view beneath the surface of the water.
Hermione reached blindly towards the light above the water, as she slipped deeper into the lake. She held her breath as long as she could before her eyes closed and her body fell limp from lack of oxygen, her hand still held desperately above her head.
Draco grabbed her by the wrist and dragged her up above the water and into the boat. Coughing and spluttering weakly, Hermione fell against Draco, crying harder than ever.
"I'm not going to leave you Draco, I love you too much to see you go off to Mordor alone. Besides, you need someone with brains on this mission, am I right or am I right?" She said weakly, looking into his eyes.
He wrapped his cloak around her shivering shoulders and hugged her tightly against him. "Oh Hermione, I love you too." Tears fill his eyes as he pulled her into a passionate kiss.
He held her as tightly as she held him, each afraid to let go of each other, each crying their eyes out.
Draco dried his eyes, "Well, come on then." He said as he began to row again,
Hermione helping him as she rested against him, their arms around one another. They smiled at one another as they rowed off down the Great River.
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Aragorn sighed sadly as they left Boromir's body to rest in one of the boats to fall over the waterfalls.
"Hurry!" Legolas cried after they had mourned for awhile, "Draco and Hermione have reached the eastern shore!"
His eyes filled with grief and sorrow, Aragorn looks across the river to see Draco pulling Hermione into one of the bushes to pursue their path towards Mordor.
Legolas nodded in realization as neither Gimli, nor Aragorn moved to pursue them. "You mean not to follow them."
"Their fate is no longer in our hands." Aragorn said simply.
"Then it has all been in vain. The Fellowship has failed." Gimli said sadly.
Aragorn walked over to Gimli and Legolas, and placed a hand on either one of their shoulders, "Not if we hold true to each other." Gimli covered Aragorns hand with his own.
"We will not abandon Harry and Ron to torment and death. Not while we have strength left. Leave all that can be spared behind. We travel light. Let's hunt some Orc."
"YES!!" Gimli cried as he rushed to prepare himself. Legolas smiled and the trio ran off in the direction the Orcs and Uruk-Hai had fled.
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Draco and Hermione paused at the top of a cliff, overlooking to mountains on the way to Mordor. "Mordor. I hope the others find a safer road." Draco said softly, his arm wrapped around Hermione's waist.
Hermione smiled and put her arm around his waist as well, "Aragorn and the others will look after them."
"I don't suppose we'll ever see them again." Draco said sadly, still staring out at Mordor.
Hermione shook her head no, "Seeing as how the four of us really aren't supposed to be here, I really think that somehow, even if the real story doesn't foretell it, we will be reunited again."
Draco looked over at her, "Galadriel told me that if we didn't keep to the proper chain of events..that both our world and the world of Middle-Earth will fall to ruin."
Hermione nodded, "Even then, we'll all be back at Hogwarts again, just you wait and see." She smiled firmly and leaned her head against Draco's shoulder.
"Hermione." He smiled and kissed her gently, "I'm glad your with me."
Her smiled widened, "So am I Draco, so am I."
The two of them smiled at one another and made there way down the rocks, into their semi-certain future.
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A/N: This is the end of the LONGEST chapter I have ever written. I'm serious, I think its around 4000 words! I'm shocked! Its even OVER 4,000 if I'm right! Wow.Wow.
Anyway, the more reviews I get, the sooner Part two will appear on fanfiction.net.
I'll post a link here when chap one is up.
Review!! Even if you hated it!
~*~Emma~*~
Harry Potter and the Fellowship of the Ring, Chapter Four
By Emma
A/N: Once again I am just going to thank reviewers without naming them officially. You all know who you are and I love you all.
I would like to thank my wonderful beta Fireblade who has given me some great ideas for this chapter (and right now I'll feel pretty stupid if I've named the wrong beta in here so smack me silly if I have.)
Anyway, this is the very last chapter of the first part of the Harry Potter Ring Series.
Yep, this is the last official chapter of Harry Potter and the Fellowship of the Ring.
As always review, and I will get Part two, Harry Potter and the Two Towers, out very quickly.
Enjoy.
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DISCLAIMER: Lord of the Rings Belongs to Tolkein, the script is the writers', and Harry and Co. are property of the lovely Ms. Joanne Rowling.
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Chapter Five: The Breaking of the Fellowship and the Departure of Boromir
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Boromir looked over at Hermione as she slept peacefully, a content and blissful smile on her face, in Draco's arms.
He was filled with a feeling of hatred and jealousy of the small ring bearer.
He watched as Draco gently stroked Hermione's soft, curly brown hair and held her gently in his strong arms. Inside he felt the strong urge to take his paddle and beat the blonde repeatedly over the head with it.
Harry and Ron, who had been having a soft, heated discussion about Quidditch, heard the sound of teeth clenching together and scraping across each other. The two boys had been enjoying being steered around in the boat with the redhaired human, seeing as they didn't have to do any of the work involved in getting safely from point A to point B.
They exchanged a look and followed his gaze. They were startled to see Hermione looking happy in the arms of their former enemy.
They exchanged another look and smiled, "About time they realized it." Harry whispered to Ron with a grin forming on his face.
Ron nodded, "I was starting to think that we would have to spell it out for them in giant letters." They laughed and grew silent as they received an icy glare from the captain of their vessel.
They quickly returned to their earlier conversation, leaving Boromir to his thoughts of lust about the beautiful brunette.
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Draco smiled down at the sleeping form of Hermione as she snuggled closer to him, her breathing even. She looked like a beautiful angel as she laid there in his arms.
"You love her." Aragorn said softly to Draco, his eyes never leaving the water ahead of the boat.
"What??" Draco said, shocked out of his reverie. "Is it that obvious?" He said after a moment, seeing as there was no point in denying the truth.
Aragorn shrugged with a knowing smile apparent on his lips. "It's very clear that you have feelings for this beautiful girl. I don't deny that she is quite attractive. Not my type of course, but attractive none the less."
Draco's cheeks turned a light tinge of pink, "I do like her very much. It's going to be hard."
"What will be hard?" Aragorn asked quickly, his eyes darting to the figure in front of him.
Draco shook his head, "Nothing, forget I said anything." He felt Hermione stir in his arms and she sat up.
She sighed, "Mmm, that was a nice nap. There's something about the feeling of the boat moving across the waves that's just so.soothing." She smiled and looked around at the other boats, leaning unconsciously against Draco's chest.
Legolas and Gimli were having some sort of discussion about the differences between the dwarves and the elves. She smiled as Gimli seemed to be getting more irate every time Legolas made a valid point.
Her gaze shifted to the other side of their boat, the side where Harry, Ron, and Boromir's boat was traveling.
She grinned when she heard Ron's voice crying out that 'The Cannon's will so go all the way this year!! Just you wait!'. She chuckled and glanced back at Draco who had a small smile on his face too upon hearing this declaration.
Draco looked over at the captain of their boat and saw that he was staring straight at Hermione. Looks of want, and desire evident on his pale features.
He glared at the other man, and made Aragorn aware of the expression on their companion's face.
"We'll have to keep an eye on him." Aragorn whispered softly to Draco. The two glanced at Hermione, who was blissfully unaware of the looks she was receiving from Boromir.
She was currently calling over to Harry and Ron.
"Yoo Hoo!" She cried.
"Hey Hermy! Your finally awake!" Ron called out to her, poking Harry to get his attention too.
She rolled her eyes, "How many times have I told you not to call me Hermy. It sounds like Herbie and that's a car from a muggle movie that disturbs me greatly." She said all this with a grin on her face though.
"Sorry, Mione." Harry said, laughing.
Aragorn called to Legolas and Boromir, and the three boats turned and landed on the western shore of the river.
They unloaded the boats as Aragorn told them the plan, "We cross the lake at nightfall, hide the boats, and continue on foot. We approach Mordor from the north."
They all nodded and began to cover the boats with branches and leaves, concealing them expertly into the landscape.
Gimli wasn't all that pleased with the plans, "Oh, yes? Just a simple matter of finding our way through Emyn Muil? An impassable labyrinth of razor-sharp rocks? And after that, it gets even better! Festering, stinking marshlands, as far as the eye can see!"
Aragorn sighed, "That is our road. I suggest you take some rest and recover your strength, Master Dwarf."
Gimli looked shocked and spluttered, "Recover my... phfwahh..." He turned and muttered about how Dwarves needn't rest, as they were always ready for battle.
Legolas walked over to Aragorn, a worried expression in his eyes, "We should leave now."
Aragorn shook his head no. "No. Orcs patrol the eastern shore. We must wait for the cover of darkness."
Legolas responded, "It is not the eastern shore that worries me. A shadow and a threat has been growing in my mind. Something draws near. I can feel it." Aragorn sighed, he would not be moved on his decision, but he knew he should heed some of Legolas's warnings.
Gimli strode over to Ron, "Recover strength... Pay no heed to that, young Hobbit." Ron chuckled and noticed Harry looking around confused.
Hermione was over at their boat, retrieving one of her bags, but Draco was nowhere in sight.
"Where's Draco?" Harry called out, surveying the immediate area.
Hermione dropped her bag shocked and began calling out his name.
Aragorn and Legolas exchanged worried looks and Harry and Ron went to comfort Hermione while they searched. Gimli stopped his complaining and grabbed his axe. Boromir too, was nowhere near.
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[A/N: I am adding a quick something hear that won't really affect other characters views of a certain character, it might alter your own, but remember this is a story, not the real movie or book, and certain situations will be altered because of a plot addition between two characters that was really only there in the Slash obsessed mind. (Slash, in case you didn't know, is same sex pairings in fics.)]
Draco kicked at a few rocks as he made his way up the wooden hill. He heard snapping branches behind him and he whirled around, face to face with Boromir. He was carrying firewood, and stooping to collect more as he went.
"None of us should wander alone. You least of all. So much depends on you. Draco? I know why you seek solitude. You suffer. I see it day by day. Are you sure you do not suffer needlessly? There are other ways, Draco. Other paths that we might take." Draco's eyes narrowed at his words.
"You speak of Hermione, do you not? Your love for her, and for the ring blinds you of our true purpose." Draco responded, glaring at the man before him.
"Don't deny the fact that you are abandoning the fellowship to destroy the ring on your own. Your newly discovered love for Hermione would only slow you down, and make you regret your decision to leave her behind. But should you break her heart, and tell her that she didn't love you, but me, than perhaps your leaving might not impact her as much as it would have, and you could leave knowing that she was safe and happy in the arms of a real man, and not some horrible hobbit." Boromir said, as calmly as he could when facing a person that he knew could probably rip him limb from limb given the proper chance.
"You disgusting muggle!" Draco screamed, pure hatred coursing through his voice, "Your words might sound like wisdom, that your intents with Hermione are pure, and that you think that, is she had you, she might not be as disappointed if I die. Or at least she would have you to turn to, and I can leave knowing that she's alright, and safe with you."
Bormir lunged at Draco and grabbed him by the collar of his clothing, dragging him up so that they were nose to nose.
"I knew I should have followed the warning in my heart against you, you horrible creep." Draco snarled into the putrid face of Boromir.
"Warning? Against what?" Boromir asked innocently, "We're all afraid, Draco, but to let that fear drive us to destroy what hope we have. Don't you see, it's madness."
Draco smirked into the eyes of the horrible excuse for a man in front of him, "There is no other way."
Boromir glared at him and threw him to the ground, "Give me the ring, and the girl, and I'll allow you to escape with your life."
Draco backed away, "No, never."
"Why do you recoil? I am no thief." Boromir said with a snarl in his voice.
"One, your not yourself, two, you are blinded by the power this stupid piece of scrap metal possesses, and three, the most important fact of all, you lust after the woman that I love with every fiber of my being. And this fact clouds your judgement. So in response to your question, that's why I'm getting the hell out of here, so that I can save her, and everyone else in the fellowship, excluding your sorry rat assed cowardly.well I could go on but, I have to save Middle-Earth." Draco turned and began to walk away.
"What chance do you think you have? They will find you. They will take the Ring. And you will beg for death before the end!" Boromir called after him, walking quickly after his fast retreating form.
"I'll just have to take that little risk now won't I?" Draco called over his shoulder.
"You fool! It is not yours save by unhappy chance." Draco turned and walked backwards so he could face Boromir.
"Your right about that, I never wanted this stupid ring, but now that I've got it, I'm going to do everything I can to destroy it."
Boromir's face screwed up into one of determination, and hatred, "It could have been mine. It should be mine!"
"Now what are you talking about there? My girlfriend, or this stupid ring?"
Boromir snarled, "Both!" As he lunged at him, knocking Draco to the ground as he was caught off guard. "Give it to me! Give me the girl, and the ring and I might let you live!"
Draco's eyes narrowed, as he whispered, "No." Regretting already his next move, he slipped the ring on his finger and scampered away from him, invisible.
Boromir stood and whirled around, searching every direction, "I see your mind!! You will take the Ring to Sauron! You will betray us! You go to your death! And the death of us all! Curse you! Curse you and all the Halflings! And what's worse, Hermione will be alone, with only me to comfort her, oh boo hoo. What a tragedy."
A wave of realization swept over Boromir and he realized what he was doing, "Draco? Draco. What have I done? Please, Draco." He whispered, tears appearing at his eyes.
"Draco.I'm sorry."
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Hermione dragged Harry and Ron with her through the forest. "Come on you two, we have to find Draco, no matter what it takes."
Harry moaned, "Mione, we've been searching forever, we're never going to find him."
Ron nodded his agreement, "We should go back to the camp and wait for him to come back, cause really, that's where he'll come back."
Hermione shook her head no. The two males sighed, "Alright Mione, how about we spilt up to cover more ground. You go back to the camp to see if her comes back. And we'll search the woods. Ok?"
She nodded and threw her arms around their necks, "I love you guys, what did I ever do to deserve friends like you two?"
They shook their heads no, "I think the question is, what did we do to deserve you?"
They smiled at one another and engaged in one other their famous group hugs.
Something in their hearts told them to remember everything about this moment, as it could be the last one like it for a while.
The three parted and went in separate ways, each calling out the name of their missing companion.
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Draco was lost in a world of darkness. Images were swirling around him, he saw Barad-dûr, and then the Eye of Sauron. He quickly pulled the ring off his finger and reappeared in the land of the living, and was visible once again.
As he was catching his breath, Aragorn appeared nearby.
"Draco?" He called, concern in his voice, and on his face.
He shook his head, "This stupid trinket has taken Boromir, he is no longer the 'innocent' warrior he once was."
"Where is the ring?" Aragorn asked, worried that Boromir had somehow taken it from Draco.
"Stay away!" He called out warningly, backing away, watching Aragorn steadily.
"Draco! I swore to protect you!" Aragorn said, confused as to Draco's sudden change in behaviour towards him.
"Can you protect me from yourself?" He asked simply as he showed Aragorn the ring, "Would you destroy it?" He held the ring out in front of him, almost offering it to Aragorn.
The voice of the ring filled Aragorn's head, "Aragorn. Aragorn. Elessar."
Aragorn knelt in front of Draco and closed the 'halflings' hand over the ring, "I would have gone with you to the end. Into the very fires of Mordor."
Draco nodded sadly, knowing that Aragorn knew what he planned on doing. "I know. Look after the others. Especially Hermione, she will not understand."
"You should tell her." Aragorn started, before noticing a strange glow from the sword at Draco's waist.
"Sting.it's blue." Draco said, cursing the approaching orcs.
"Go! Draco, run! Run!" Aragorn cried as he drew his sword from its sheath and attacked the oncoming orcs.
Draco turned and fled towards river edge, down the through the woods.
"Good-bye, Draco." Aragorn whispered the retreating back of the blonde. He turned and slaughtered the first thing he saw.
"Find the Halfling! Find the Halfling!" The uruk-hai were calling to one another.
Legolas and Gimli join Aragorn in his fight of the attacking creatures. They kill many, while four halflings are fighting for their own lives.
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Draco dodged away from oncoming Uruk-Hai and changed his course many times. He quickly hid behind a tree.
He looked around and saw Harry and Ron hiding in a more safe location. "Draco!" Harry called softly, but loud enough for the blonde to hear him.
"Hide here! Quick! Come on, Malfoy!" Ron cried, beckoning him over.
Draco shook his head sadly, "I can't."
"What's he think he's doing?" Ron asked Harry, a look of shook and disbelief on his face that Draco wouldn't rush to safety with them.
Draco shook his head no as Harry realized what he was doing, "He's leaving."
Ron shouted, "NO! Listen here Malfoy, I have it on good authority that one of my best friends is madly in love with you, for some reason I can't for the life of me figure out, you are not going to leave in some stupid attempt to save her life." He jumped out of his hiding place to go and drag Draco back with him.
Harry followed him, he knew that Draco had to do what he had to do. "Ron, it's for the best, Hermione might be safer this way." Ron nodded weakly.
"Run, Malfoy. I mean.Draco.Run!"
Harry and Ron waved their arms to distract the Orcs and Uruk-Hai. "Hey, Hey you! Over here!" Harry cried.
Ron followed suit, "Over here! Over here! This way!" They noticed them and began to come in their direction, while Draco ran in the other direction.
"It's working!" Ron said, shock evident in his voice.
Harry nodded and dragged Ron in the opposite direction that Draco had left in, "I know it's working! Run!"
The two friends ran as fast as their legs could carry them. Soon, they were surrounded by Orcs. They laughed and mocked them, and threw a battle axe at Ron's head.
They screamed in terror but suddenly, out of nowhere, Boromir appeared and stopped the axe from hitting Ron.
He attacked the Orcs, protecting Harry and Ron, and blowing the horn of Gondor at the same time.
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Legolas, Aragorn, and Gimli were still fighting the oncoming creatures. Their ears were suddenly filled with the sounds of the horn blowing.
"The horn of Gondor!" Legolas cried, as he killed another monster.
"Boromir!" Aragorn cried. The three warriors made there way towards the sound, as they defended themselves against the attackers along the way.
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Boromir yelled quickly to Harry and Ron, "Run, Run!!!"
The three of them run away from the attacking Orcs, while defending themselves as well. They stop suddenly when Boromir is shot in the chest with an arrow.
He continued to defend the halflings and killed orc after orc. He groaned as another arrow pierced his skin. Still, he persevered. He fought bravely against the attackers, even when a third arrow entered his body.
Harry and Ron rushed forward to help him as he sank to his knees, still fighting against the monsters. Their efforts were in vain as they felt disgusting arms encircle their waists and they are lifted high above the ground and carried away.
"No!" Harry screamed, he grabbed the blade he was given in Lothlorien and attacked at the Orcs.
Ron followed suit but it was no use, their hides were too thick. And the two wizards were taken. Gone from the fellowship, and in danger.
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The trio arrived too late to see the Orcs take the two hobbits, but in time to see Lurtz, the leader Uruk-Hai, aiming his bow and arrow at Boromir's head.
Aragorn attacked it with his sword. They fight for what seems like an eternity before finally succeeding in cutting off its head.
Aragorn runs to the fallen form of Boromir.
"No." He whispered softly.
Boromir's pale face turned to look into the eyes of a despairing Aragorn, "They took the little ones."
Aragorn sighed in frustration, "Stay still."
"Draco. Where is Draco?" Boromir asked, not able to rest.
"I let Draco go."
"Then you did what I could not. I tried to take the Ring from him." Boromir said with a sigh, leaving out the part where he tried to threaten him into giving him Hermione.
"The Ring is beyond our reach now." Aragorn said firmly.
"Forgive me. I did not see it. I have failed you all." Boromir said sadly, tears forming at his eyes.
"No, Boromir. You fought bravely. You have kept your honour." He moved to remove one of the offending arrows from his wounded chest.
"Leave it! It is over. The world of Men will fall. And all will come to darkness. My city to ruin." Tears were about to spill from his eyes when Aragorn spoke.
"I do not know what strength is in my blood. But I swear to you, I will not let the White City fall. Nor our people fail." His voice full of emotion.
Boromir smiled weakly as Aragorn gave him his sword, "Our people. Our people."
Legolas and Gimli look over to see Aragorn kneeling over the fallen body of Boromir, the decide to leave them for a moment, allow them to have their moment.
"I would have followed you, my brother. My captain. My king." Boromir smiled slightly as he breathed his last breath, before passing out of the realm of men.
Aragorn kissed his forehead, "Be at peace, son of Gondor."
Legolas and Gimli come over to comfort Aragorn as he stands, sheathing his sword.
"He's at rest." He said softly to his remaining companions, an elf, and a dwarf.
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Draco stood at the edge of the lake, by the boats with the ring in his hand.
"Draco!" Hermione cried, still deep within the woods, but able to see his still form.
Draco stared out onto the quiet water, a memory filling his head.
"I wish the Ring had never come to me. I wish none of this had happened." His own voice said, soon replied to by the voice of one of his late companions.
"So do all who live to see such times, but that is not for them to decide. All you have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to you." The voice of the elderly wizard comforted Draco.
He smiled as he took heed to the words of wisdom that he had spoken.
Draco closed his hand over the ring and put in back around his neck as he boarded one of the boats and pushed off from the shore.
Hermione finally escaped from the woods and fell onto the sand of the shore. She looked up and saw Draco rowing away from the land in one of the Elvin boats.
"Draco, no!!! Draco! Draco!" She screamed after him, her eyes welling up with tears that he was leaving her. She picked herself off of the ground and raced after him into the water.
"No, Hermione." He whispered softly to himself before turning and calling back to her,
"Go back, Mione, I'm going to Mordor alone."
Hermione waded deeper into the water, "Of course you are. And I'm coming with you!!"
"Your really stubborn, you know that?" She nodded, and suddenly held her side.
"Oh god, cramp." She cried as she slipped away from view beneath the surface of the water.
Hermione reached blindly towards the light above the water, as she slipped deeper into the lake. She held her breath as long as she could before her eyes closed and her body fell limp from lack of oxygen, her hand still held desperately above her head.
Draco grabbed her by the wrist and dragged her up above the water and into the boat. Coughing and spluttering weakly, Hermione fell against Draco, crying harder than ever.
"I'm not going to leave you Draco, I love you too much to see you go off to Mordor alone. Besides, you need someone with brains on this mission, am I right or am I right?" She said weakly, looking into his eyes.
He wrapped his cloak around her shivering shoulders and hugged her tightly against him. "Oh Hermione, I love you too." Tears fill his eyes as he pulled her into a passionate kiss.
He held her as tightly as she held him, each afraid to let go of each other, each crying their eyes out.
Draco dried his eyes, "Well, come on then." He said as he began to row again,
Hermione helping him as she rested against him, their arms around one another. They smiled at one another as they rowed off down the Great River.
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Aragorn sighed sadly as they left Boromir's body to rest in one of the boats to fall over the waterfalls.
"Hurry!" Legolas cried after they had mourned for awhile, "Draco and Hermione have reached the eastern shore!"
His eyes filled with grief and sorrow, Aragorn looks across the river to see Draco pulling Hermione into one of the bushes to pursue their path towards Mordor.
Legolas nodded in realization as neither Gimli, nor Aragorn moved to pursue them. "You mean not to follow them."
"Their fate is no longer in our hands." Aragorn said simply.
"Then it has all been in vain. The Fellowship has failed." Gimli said sadly.
Aragorn walked over to Gimli and Legolas, and placed a hand on either one of their shoulders, "Not if we hold true to each other." Gimli covered Aragorns hand with his own.
"We will not abandon Harry and Ron to torment and death. Not while we have strength left. Leave all that can be spared behind. We travel light. Let's hunt some Orc."
"YES!!" Gimli cried as he rushed to prepare himself. Legolas smiled and the trio ran off in the direction the Orcs and Uruk-Hai had fled.
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Draco and Hermione paused at the top of a cliff, overlooking to mountains on the way to Mordor. "Mordor. I hope the others find a safer road." Draco said softly, his arm wrapped around Hermione's waist.
Hermione smiled and put her arm around his waist as well, "Aragorn and the others will look after them."
"I don't suppose we'll ever see them again." Draco said sadly, still staring out at Mordor.
Hermione shook her head no, "Seeing as how the four of us really aren't supposed to be here, I really think that somehow, even if the real story doesn't foretell it, we will be reunited again."
Draco looked over at her, "Galadriel told me that if we didn't keep to the proper chain of events..that both our world and the world of Middle-Earth will fall to ruin."
Hermione nodded, "Even then, we'll all be back at Hogwarts again, just you wait and see." She smiled firmly and leaned her head against Draco's shoulder.
"Hermione." He smiled and kissed her gently, "I'm glad your with me."
Her smiled widened, "So am I Draco, so am I."
The two of them smiled at one another and made there way down the rocks, into their semi-certain future.
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A/N: This is the end of the LONGEST chapter I have ever written. I'm serious, I think its around 4000 words! I'm shocked! Its even OVER 4,000 if I'm right! Wow.Wow.
Anyway, the more reviews I get, the sooner Part two will appear on fanfiction.net.
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