4 Part 2.
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The night air was crisp, and the sound of waves crashing against the shore was the only thing that could be heard other than Gimli's occasional snoring. The wind proved to be a predictment of the winter to come, for it was cold, and bitter.
Boromir had returned to the group earlier after having gone astray. He had returned with naught but the clothing on his back. he was skinny, and he had grown an exceptionally long beard, which he trimmed the moment he got his hands on a pair of scissors.
After her talk with Legolas, Levanna had retired early. She was both physically and emotionally tired, which has never been known to be a good concoction.
Frodo had planned to retire early, but seeing her already asleep, he knew it would be quite hard to sleep himself with her lying just a few feet away. He had decided to take his mind off of things, and he went to try and have a good time.
Levanna woke shortly after midnight and found it hard to go back to sleep. She decided to go and sit by the water, and to just think about all that had happened. She was careful not to bump anyone when she stood, and then was careful not to make noise when she walked away.
The entire group appeared to be sleeping. She looked over to see that Frodo was fingering the Ring, which meant that he most probably was awake too. But she ignored this, and continued on about a hundred feet, where she sat down and pulled her legs up to her chest, where the water could not splash them.
She sighed a sigh of frustration and stared at the water. It rose up to greet her toes, then fell back about a foot, then it returned, then fell back. She was so occupied by the rising and falling of the tide that she did not hear the footsteps behind her.
A pair of hands grabbed around her waist roughly, then began to haul her away. She let out a loud scream, waking most of the group and causing Legolas to jump up and grab his bow.
"Shut up, would yeh'? You're gonna wake 'em up and then what am I to do?" A husky voice asked from behind.
"You're to unhand her at once, or it will be your doom!" Legolas' voice grunted, she heard him pull back on his bowstring.
Frodo watched this from where he sat. Suddenly before his eyes the stranger holding her warped into an Orc, slobbering over her and holding her up to it as if he owned her as a bride. He became enraged and while Boromir was not looking, he grabbed his sword and snuck around to the other side of the beast.
"Who are you, and what is your business kidnaping young women in the middle of the night?" Legolas asked.
"I am Bartoniel. And my buriness is that my brother wants 'er dead!"
That pulled the last string. Frodo drove the sword into the Orc's back, and he watched as it let go of Levanna and tumbled to the ground. Then it became a man. Frodo gaped in horror as a bubble of blood left his mouth, and then he died.
"Levanna, are you all right?" Cried Legolas. He dropped the bow, causing the arrow to go off into the fallen man's chest.
"I'm fine but..." She lifted a hand to her back and then moved it into the moonlight. "I've been bled on by far too many things lately." Then she looked to Frodo, who was still gazing at the large man.
"Frodo...Are you all right?" She asked. He suddenly straightened his face and he looked to her.
"I am fine. Are you all right? I did not pierce you, did I?"
She said nothing. She just wrapped her arms around him, and pressed her lips to his. He did not kiss back at first, but then he smiled against her lips, and replied with his own kiss. Legolas watched with a smile, then turned and told everyone that she was all right, and how Frodo had saved her. They did not immediately return to their sleeping area. rather after the kiss they sat down and talked, and Frodo cleaned off Boromir's sword.
"I thought you could only carry your own weight?" She said softly, watching the ocean with her hand in his.
"You are a part of me, so I can handle you." He said softly into her hair. She smiled and kissed their combined hands, and then turned back to the tide, drift in, then out, then in, then out again.
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End Chapter 4.
