Chapter 8

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//. . .// are thoughts

". . ." -speech

The story continues. . .

They stopped at nightfall for a rest. Legolas unconscious. During the past few hours, he had wakened and fell back unconscious twice.

As Aragorn carried Legolas down from the horse, he noticed for the first time that Legolas's body was burning. He thought at first it was because of the wound in the stomach when it finally hit him. Aragorn was so focused on getting Legolas back to Rivendell as he had lost too much blood from the stomach wound, he had forgotten all about the poison that was still in Legolas's body.

//damn! How could I have forgotten about that?!//

As Aragorn gently laid Legolas on the ground did he realize the blood dripping down Legolas's hand, staining his cloak. His heat beat faster.

//what happened? How come Legolas has so many injuries I don't know of?// Aragorn sighed.

"How is he Estel?" Elladan asked, suddenly appearing behind him.

"Bad. Look." He pointed and Legolas's hand, the sleeve was red with blood.

"We forgot all about the injury in his shoulder and the poison."

"What? That's very bad. . ."

Aragorn nodded.

Carefully, Aragorn cut away part of Legolas's tunic, to see the wound on Legolas's shoulder reopened, much bigger than before, blood still streaming out steadily, and infected.

//oh no.// he sighed.

After he bandaged the wound once again, he made painkiller for Legolas to ease the pain and also for the poison in his body.

"Wake up Legolas, come on, wake up."

Legolas stirred and groaned when pain swept through his body. Beadily opening his eyes, he saw fuzzy versions of his three friends surrounding him.

"Drink this Legolas, it will help with the pain."

Legolas nodded, his world was slightly spinning around him, there was a dull throbbing in his head, and pain filled every inch of his body.

Aragorn held the cup up to his friend's lip for his friend to drink. It took quite a while as midway, Legolas choked on the drink and started coughing. The cough only smoothed after a while.

"Awful! Are you sure you gave me herbs and not orcs blood Estel as a trick or by mistake?" Legolas asked weakly, cracking a joke to ease the worry in his 'overly' worried friends.

Aragorn smiled. Legolas never failed to make him smile even in bad circumstances. "I think so. . . maybe it was something else I put in by mistake?" he grinned back.

"Feeling better Legolas?" one twin asked.

"Yes" Legolas replied, not so truthfully. The medicine had left him feeling nauseous, it took him some energy to keep himself from retching what he had just drank, he forgot about the pain in him for a while.

"Rest. We will set off tomorrow morning and hopefully reach Rivendell by afternoon, if nothing else happens."

Legolas was more than grateful to get back to sleep, within seconds he fell asleep.

Aragorn and the twins watched him silently at the side.

"He is so weak, he didn't even have the strength to sit up. . ."

"I know. Let him rest, we shall see tomorrow. Go and sleep, I will keep watch tonight."

"No Estel, you are tired from the fight today, I shall take watch."

Aragorn wanted to argue but knew it was useless. "Fine, I will take second watch at least? Wake me up."

Elladan nodded.

It was not long before Aragorn's snores were heard. . .

Tbc. . .

A/n: I am very busy these days and wont be able to update as often as before, bear with it for a while. In the meanwhile, PLS REVIEW!!!