She was drifting through the woods as the rain fell on everything. Pausing in her wandering, she looked at the small family of rabbits sheltered in a hollowed out rabbit's hole. With a faint smile she drifted away as she looked around the wet woods in wonder. She had always loved when it rained as it did now. When she had been a little Elfling she would run out into the woods and wander for hours when the rain had ended. Everything would seem brighter and cleaner after the shower and made her feel refreshed. With a sigh she continued to wander until something seemed to pull her along in a certain direction. Trusting her senses, she drifted along and eventually came to an apparent sinkhole. Drifting over it and looking in, she was shocked to see Legolas at the bottom pinned under a tree.

            With a gasp, her spirit snapped back into her body causing her body to jerk back. Without another thought, she jumped off the bed and ran out of the room. Sprinting down the corridors towards the exits, she flew outside and was immediately soaked. The only coherent thought she had was to find Legolas and help him. Running deeper into the forest, she tried to follow the path that her spirit had taken and look for something familiar. Coming to a stop, she angrily brushed away her soaked hair and looked around her. Her sharp eyes caught movement to her left and she slowly moved closer.

            "The rabbits," she breathed when she saw the family of rabbits.

            Turning to her right, she slowly started walking as she called out Legolas' name. Straining her ears to listen, she continued to cautiously walk while she looked for the pit. Freezing in her tracks she held her breath to hear better.

            "Legolas!" she yelled, hoping to hear it again.

            Sydney's eyes snapped towards the direction that she heard the name being yelled. She sprinted through the woods and slid to a stop before she fell into the pit herself to join Legolas. Looking down at him, she would have laughed it the situation had been different. He was coated in mud from head to toe considering the rain that fell in torrents.

            "Well damn. You look like a drowned rat Legolas," she smirked as he looked up at her.

            "Know what Sydney? I really do not care," he replied icily.

            "Can you climb out?"

            "No, not really. My arm is broken and I think my leg is to."

            "Damn," she muttered and pushed her wet hair out of her face. "Okay, give me a few minutes."

            Stepping away from the pit, Sydney looked around to hopefully come up with a plan. Resting her hands on her hips as she looked around, she cursed her stupidity. She should have grabbed some supplies before she ran out of Imladris like a fool. There was nothing that she could use around her to help Legolas. Even though he had put up a calm face for her, she could almost feel the pain radiating off him. She was almost about to kick the nearest tree when a thick vine fell in front of her face. Brushing it aside in annoyance, she suddenly stilled and looked at the vine in her hand.

            Resting her hand against the tree she smiled brightly. "Diola lle Hallaer."

            Pulling down more of the vine from the tree top, she wrapped it around the trunk of the tree before walking back to the edge.

            "Watch out below!" she called before tossing in the vine.

            Tugging on the vine to test the strength, she slowly backed into the pit and walked backwards down the wall. Reaching the bottom, she jumped next to Legolas and was quickly mid-shin deep in mud.

            "Oh this is so nasty," she muttered as Legolas weakly smiled.

            "Yeah and I am laying in it."

            Hearing the pain that laced his voice, she quickly knelt next to him and propped him up a bit to lean against her. Without another word, she gently held his arm that he held close to his body. Gently undoing his wrist guard, she tore away the shirt and apologized when he flinched. Pushing away her wet hair from her eyes, she looked closer and softly cursed.

            "You sure did break it. Did not puncture through the skin though, but I have to reset it," she said grimly as she looked at Legolas.

            "Go ahead and get it over with."

            Quickly scanning the bottom of the pit, she reached over and grabbed two fairly straight branches before tearing off a few strips of clothing from her sleeve. Putting them to the side, she looked at Legolas before tightening her grip on his arm.

            "Ready?" she asked watching his face as he nodded. "On three. One, two."

            With a quick twist of her hands she pushed the bones back into place as Legolas screamed. "Three."

            Picking up the branches and strips of cloth, she quickly made a small splint for his forearm while he panted in pain.

            "That was a dirty trick," he gasped as he glared at her.

            "If I had done it on three then you would have been tensed and expecting it. Believe me, it was a whole lot easier that way," she replied as she slowly moved her hands down Legolas' leg. "Which leg is it?"

            "Left one."

            Bending closer to the mud, Sydney tried to look under the tree without much luck. It was far to dark to be able to see anything clearly. Moving Legolas off her leg, she stood and looked over the tree. Mumbling to herself as she slowly moved through the mud to double check the dimensions.

            "If I life it and give you enough clearance, could you get out from under it?" she asked as she stood over him.

            "I should be able to but it is too heavy for you Sydney."

            "Let me decide what is too heavy for me. You would be surprised at how much I can lift," she said as she moved to grab hold of the tree.

            Squatting next to the tree and grasping the underside tightly, she took a deep breath. Concentrating all her strength to her legs, she slowly started to rise as her legs shook slightly from the exertion. Legolas watched as she clenched her eyes shut and stood all the way up. Feeling the pressure lift from his legs, he scrambled one armed to get out from under the tree.

            "I am out," he gasped as the blood flow to his injured leg increased painfully.

            A second later, Sydney dropped the heavy burden back to the mud with a splat. Stepping back from it, she slipped in the mud and fell to the ground. Expecting her to get back up, Legolas waited and started to grow worried when she didn't move.

            "Sydney? Are you well?"

            "Yeah…fine…just give me a few minutes," she wheezed waving a hand in his direction.

            Sydney closed her eyes against the rain and tried to find her reservoir of strength to pull from. Lifting the tree trunk had drained her more than she like and left her temporarily exhausted. Regaining some strength, she slowly sat up and shook away the dizziness she felt. Fighting down every ill feeling she had, she moved to kneel next to Legolas. Without looking to him, she carefully looked over his leg and grimaced at what she saw.

            Slashes and scrapes adorned both of his legs but were minor from what she could see. Mud coated everything and hid any other small injuries. Trying to be gently as she did it, she took one of her smaller daggers and slit open the bottom half of his leggings. Through the mud and rain she could see the slight odd line of his leg. Allowing her hands to drift over his shin, she jerked back at Legolas' yelp of pain.

            "I have to get you back to Rivendell. The break is too complex for me to set it by myself," she muttered, more to herself than to Legolas.

            "You have to go and get help Sydney. I trust your abilities, but you can not possibly get both of us out of this pit and I can not climb out with a broken leg and arm," Legolas said as he held back a moan of pain.

            Sydney glanced at him sharply before looking up the mud wall to the top of the pit. It was only about eight or nine feet deep but that was impossible if someone had a broken arm and leg. The concept of carrying him out was suddenly introduced to her.

            "Do you trust me?" she asked suddenly as she looked at him.

            "Yes," he replied after a few moments of hesitation.

            Kneeling next to him and concentration, she directed her spirit into him; being part of him, she felt everything he was feeling and sensing. His pain washed over her and she mentally grimaced at the sharp lancing pain from his leg. Once settling in she felt his jerk of shock at the intrusion and at hearing her thoughts. She expected that, but didn't expect what happened next. It felt as if a whole pack of wargs hit her chest and knocked her off her knees and back a few feet to hit the dirt wall painfully. Her body fell to the mud under her as she gasped for air from the powerful throw which knocked the breath out of her. Groaning softly to herself, she reached up and pressed her palm to her forehead where a huge headache had suddenly started.

            "What the hell was that?" Legolas asked angrily as Sydney slowly sat up.

            Glaring at him, she tried to balance her equilibrium after a hit like that. The world tilted a bit to the side as she tried to gain control of her senses. Slowly crawling towards Legolas, she sat down next to him with a grunt before looking to him.

            "I was trying to merge with you, you ass," she muttered. "Until you kicked me out; rather forcibly I might add."

            "Well I am sorry but it was quite a shock to me."

            "And I am sorry for trying to do it without asking and also what I am about to do."

            Before he could move away, Sydney reached up and pressed on a pressure point under his collar bone. Wordlessly, his eyes rolled into the back of his head and he started to crumble before she caught him and carefully lowered him to the ground. Quickly, she rid his body of his weapons and slipped his bow over her back with her own bow and attached his quiver to her hip. Standing up, she looked down at his lean body before kneeling and pulling him up to sitting position. Moving closer, she stood slowly with him draped over her shoulder and faltered a few steps before balancing herself. Double-checking to make sure she didn't leave anything behind, she grabbed the vine and slowly started to climb. Legolas had been right, it was almost impossible for her to get both of them out of the pit. Her body was screaming at her that it needed rest and she could feel her blood running down her back from the old arrow wound.

            With a small cry of relief, she reached the top and struggled to get completely out of the pit. Stumbling and falling to her knees, she carefully laid Legolas out before her as she paused to rest. As the rain washed away a majority of the mud Sydney looked closer at Legolas and took note of the slightly flushed face. Resting her palm against his forehead allowed her to feel the unnatural head from his skin.

            "Damn it."

            As quickly as she possibly could she created a rough split for his lower leg before lifting his limp body in her arm. She ran as fast as she could with the burden in her arms as her fear and adrenaline pushed her far beyond her normal tolerance level for exhaustion and pain. If she had paused to think about it, she would have been surprised that she was able to carry Legolas that easily for that distance. Contributing it to adrenaline, she ran until Imladris was well in sight and ran up the steps, almost slipping on the wet stone. Reaching the top, she kicked open the doors and almost flinched at the loud noise.

            "Elrond!" she screamed as she moved into the building and looked for someone familiar.

            "Elrond!" she screamed again as several Elves appeared from doorways to see what the noise was about.

            Sydney almost collapsed with relief when she saw Elladan come racing down the hallway towards her. Behind him came Lord Elrond and Elrohir also hearing her screams. Elladan paled slightly at the sight of the two muddy Elves as they stood before him. Legolas was limp in Sydney's arms and far too pale even for an Elf. Sydney didn't look much better and looked like she was about to collapse on the spot.

            "What happened?" Elrond asked as he lifted one of Legolas' eyelids to see the pupil and the reaction.

            "The tale can wait till later but Legolas needs help now," she said more concerned with Legolas' well being than reciting the tale.

"Take him to his room. Elrohir get me some healing herbs and warm water. Quickly now," Elrond ordered as they hurried towards one of the guest rooms.

As gently as she could Sydney lowered Legolas to the bed and moved aside for Elrond.

"His left forearm was broken as well as his lower left leg. I set the arm but could not do anything for his leg. You might need to check his head also, I think he might have hit it when he fell," she said knowing that the muddy clothes and remaining mud hid the injuries.

Barely noticing Elrohir when he moved in front of her, she jumped when he grabbed her shoulders. She looked up at him wearily as her adrenaline slowly ran out.

"Father will take care of Legolas. You have done all you can Sydney," he said gently as she nodded and looked past him to Elrond.

The lord's hands were gently resting on Legolas' lower leg as he concentrated on healing. His eyes clenched shut tighter and he softly murmured words that no one could hear. Several minutes later he opened his eyes wearily and nodded to his sons and Sydney.

"He will be fine."

Diola lle Hallaer ~~ Thank you tall one

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Here is the new chapter everyone, hope everyone likes it. I've been working diligently on all my stories and hope I can keep all of them in order pertaining to plot lines. Hoping I'm not going to freeze up on my writing because, see I'm in England right now for school and I turned in a research paper. And little did I know that American and English research papers are two totally different things. So yeah on that paper I got a big whooping F so I'm kinda scared to write but I'm getting past it.

Phoenixqueen-Yeah I liked the pit idea that I came up with. He's been everywhere else why not in a pit? The story behind Lord Elrond and Sydney will come up in later chapters and I think it's going to shock some of the readers when they find out. It involves Elladan and Elrohir also but they don't know it and will not find out about it. The little food fight thing just popped up out of my demented little mind and thought it was a cute idea, I can see the whole scene happening in my mind while I'm typing this. *snicker* so yeah that was amusing. Well here's the next one and I'll update next Friday or around there. Take care.

Tara-You won't have to wait for long after this one. Just check back next Friday and I'll have a new chapter up then or on Thursday, depends on which day I actually remember it. Yeah both are covered in mud and I can just bust out laughing at the image I'm getting of two mud covered figures.

The_ringspell-GET THE CRASH CART! WE'VE GOT A CODE LEGGY! Okay I have no idea where that came from. *slaps myself over the head* I think its sleep deprivation; a college student gets that a lot. Sleep? What's that? It's not in my vocabulary.

Artemis-Yeah the review-whore is the one that gets all giddy when she sees a review in the inbox and begs the people to give her more reviews. I try to repress her and keep her under wraps but sometimes she gets out. I can't help it. I'm trying to keep it non mary-sueish. You'll be happy to know that they won't live happily ever after and the way I'll end it could open it for a sequel if I decide to do one but I'll decide that when I finish this one. It will not be a leggomance, maybe a leggo flirt bit but no romance. I'll try to put in a few more pranks where I can and think that they'll fit in where I want them. I did read some of your stories but didn't get around to reviewing them so I'll get that done as quickly as I can. And I have plenty of respect for you, well for anyone that has the courage to post their stories publicly. Peace.