From Bottom to Top

~ about 4 years ago ~

Aragorn had finished the dinner, with relatively little interesting conversations and Legolas being to transfixed on Celebrian Aragorn was really quite bored and decided to talk a little walk.

Without even realizing it, he had walked right back to where he has seen Amy earlier that day. He stood a few meters away from her gate and just looked at the house, he could see lights streaming from inside the house but all the shades were shut very tight. Very suddenly the front door opened and a man came tumbling out. Aragorn heard someone whisper from inside, "Come back later tonight after they are all asleep!" The door closed and the man tugged at his disheveled clothes to fix them.

"Good evening." The man smiled as he passed, then suddenly stopped "Aragorn?"

"What?" Aragorn turned and looked at the man, "Turin?!"

"I didn't expect to see you out here!" Turin walked back towards Aragorn right as Amy's sister and father returned back to their house and disappeared inside.

"I didn't expect to see you either!" Aragorn was still a little shocked that a ranger friend of his just walked out of the house of the girl he had just recently, extremely recently taken a fancy to.

"I was passing through, wanted to stop by and see my girl." Turin smiled and pointed back towards the house, "Her name's Amy, we've been together for about a year and a half now." Turin beamed with pride.

"That's really great." Aragorn forced a smile back at Turin and really wanted to sock one in Turin's face, march in that house and bring Amy back to his castle.

"Well, I have to be going now. I'll see you some time." Turin nodded and headed off back towards the darkness of the night. Aragorn rolled his eyes and turned back towards Amy's house. He heard an angry shout from inside and the door flew open and a man, Amy's father, was dragging Amy out of the house yelling at her for being 'lazy, mean, unappreciative, and a whore'. Aragorn watched in amazement as Amy's father pushed her outside the gate, threw some clothes and food at her and marched back to the door where Amy's sister was crying and waving to Amy.

The door closed and Amy was left standing in the street alone, with no place to go.until Aragorn came to the rescue.

"I couldn't help over-hearing you father." Aragorn walked over to Amy.

"Yea, well, he never did like me. Always wanted me to be more like my sister, 'why can't you be more like your sister? She's such a good daughter.' Ugh, no thanks." Amy picked up her clothes and actually looked at Aragorn, "Oh, my Valar! King Aragorn! I didn't know it was you!"

Aragorn frowned, he may have been king for the past year or so but he still wasn't used to the title, or the treatment that came along with it.

"It's perfectly fine. Since it seems you have no place to go and I'm guessing not much money why don't you come back to the castle. There are plenty of rooms available for you to stay in?" Aragorn smiled kindly at her.

"Are you sure you don't mind?" Amy asked, a little uncertain, though one thought kept crossing her mind, he is good looking!

"I don't, at all. Come on, I'll show you the way."

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