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Disclaimer: See chapters one and two.
I can not wait until school's out. This is the longest trimester of my life! URGH!!!!
Thanks to my reviewers. Lots of love. Get your story up Nicole!
Note: In the first chapter I said the year was 1035 and in the second 1033. It really is the year 1033. Sorry for the confusion. I promise to fix it soon.
Chapter three
Orcs and Confessed Feelings
When Anna woke up the next morning she looked around with confusion. She was alone in a cave she had never seen before. She sat up and pushed the looses strands of her hair behind her ear.
"Good morning Anna." She looked towards the mouth of the cave and remembered everything. Where she was, how she got there, who she was with. Who was standing at the cave opening.
"Holme kwal." At Faramir's face she answered "Good morning." He nodded.
"I thought so." She smiled and he walked over, holding his hand out. She took it and he easily lifted her up and made sure she was able to stand up before letting go of her. "I forgot where I was this morning." He laughed gently.
"Good thing I came when I did then." She nodded and remembered last night, how wonderful his small kiss was. "The men are making something to eat. Why do you not get dressed and come out. Your steed wishes for you." She laughed and grabbed her pack, disappearing behind the curtain again.
When she came back out, dressed in the same as yesterday, Faramir had left the cave. She walked out and saw him standing next to her horse. She walked down the hill, admiring the sights. The smell of the food made her stomach growl with hunger.
'She'ea ê khaden coskluh.' Umpra said. She nodded to him and ran her hand over his nose.
"You seem to talk to your horse like he can answer back." Faramir wondered out loud to her.
"He does answer. That's why he was given to me. Every human has an animal they can communicate with. Few find theirs however." she explained.
"Has he said anything to you this morning?"
"It is a beautiful day. She'ea ê khaden coskluh." He looked impressed and nodded, his green eyes sparkling in the sunlight.
"Come, I think breakfast is ready. I will have the men feed your horse." She followed the man to the food and grabbed a plate, thanking the guard for it. Faramir and she sat together towards the water's edge.
"Do you like it here?" he asked her.
"Yes, it is lovely. I wish I could see more of it though."
"You will. We are leaving this site today, finishing our patrol. Unless you are to go back through the portal." When he said this she smiled inwardly at how sad he looked to lose her company.
"No I will stay with you. I need an adventure, some new excitement." 'I wouldn't want to leave you anyway.' she added in her thoughts, but didn't say anything. He looked happier and they ate their breakfast, talking more about their lands.
She got Umpra feed and explained what they were going to do as the men packed up camp. Some (like Jonim) seemed unhappy that she was going with them, but didn't say anything.
At noon they left, Anna leading Umpra. Most of the men didn't have horses so she wouldn't ride either. She walked by Faramir, who had put on his whole uniform. It was made of brown leather and was carved with a white tree.
"What does the tree represent?" she asked him. He looked grave for a few seconds before answering.
"It is the tree of Gondor. It sits in the courtyard of the city of Minas Tirith, my home city." She nodded and they fell quiet unless Faramir pointed something out to Anna on the walk.
"Do you want me to teach you Elvish?"
"I would like to know some. It would be amusing to learn. The walks are often boring." She smiled.
"Alright. We'll start simple. 'Yes' is 'sli', 'ils' is no."
"They're backwards?" He answered lightly.
"Yes. I thought that was funny when I learned too." They laughed and for a long time she taught him other small words.
They had been walking for another hour or so when Anna stopped suddenly.
"Anna?" She hushed him and looked around. Her head snapped around and in the blink of an eye, she had her bow in her hand, and an arrow zipped through the air.
"What in the?" he asked her when she crept towards the direction she shot her arrow. Faramir followed her and stood amazed at what she shot.
She shot an orc straight through the head at a great distance of several hundred feet, farther than any man could shoot.
"What is that?" she asked him, ripping her arrow out of his head and cleaning it on the grass.
"An orc, something we're patrolling against. Come, we must inform the others." They ran towards the guard and Faramir told them what it was.
"She shot it?" Jonim asked, amazement in his voice.
"Yes I did. I was trained by the Elven prince of my land." She told him, her eyes never resting from looking around. "I don't see any too close."
"They are around here, somewhere. They will come. Men keep your eyes open! The orcs will be furious when they find him dead." Anna kept her ears open and no one talked, afraid to alert the orcs that they were approaching.
"What did you hear?" Faramir whispered to Anna when she stopped and tensed her whole body up, another arrow fitted to her bow.
"Not sure. It sounded like a scream." They strained to hear anything and soon a loud roaring came from behind them.
"I guess they found their friend." Anna whispered, smiling slightly.
"I do not believe it is anything to be happy about." Faramir told her. She just smiled bigger and everyone got their own bow and arrow ready.
"They're coming." she said, loud enough for everyone to hear. "They're splitting in two groups, one on the left, the other on the right."
They divided in half, watching all four sides. Faramir stood next to Anna, amazed at how like an Elf she really was. Suddenly she let an arrow fly and a loud scream of pain followed. She grabbed another arrow.
"They're going to attack!" she shouted and everyone got ready. They started to notice black figures getting closer and closer. When they were close enough to see, the guard started to let their arrows go.
Most hit their targets and then they grabbed another arrow until the orcs were in front of them and they grabbed their swords. Anna had to admit, they were the ugliest things she had ever seen.
Black creatures, with red boils all over their skin. They were disfigured with odd shaped heads and odd bulging eyes. Hanging out of their mouths were large yellow teeth, sharp and deadly looking.
They seemed to direct themselves mainly at herself and Faramir. They had killed ten each when the orcs started to retreat. She dropped her sword and grabbed her bow and arrow, killing several more.
After twenty minutes of battle all but two or three of the orcs were dead. Five of the guard were killed and several wounded.
"Are they always that easy to fight?" she asked Faramir as they tended to the wounded.
"No they are not. For some reason they were not as strong as usual." She looked like she was thinking deeply when she moved to the next guard.
"Jonim where are you hurt?" she asked him. He looked at her through a black eye.
"It cut my leg." She nodded and cut a hole in his breeches to reach the cut. It was deep and needed stitching, but didn't look like it would get infected. She poured some alcohol on the wound and he shut his eyes tightly. She held his knee and started to sew the wound.
"Anna I am sorry for mistreating you." He told her. She looked up surprised.
"It's okay Jonim. I knew you had ill feelings towards me, but I never thought you'd act on them."
"I wished you dead." He told her. She stopped sewing and looked him in the eye.
"Why?"
"I do not know. I thought a woman does not deserve to be on the field of battle and thought you wrong to be there. Please forgive me. You are one of the best fighters I have ever seen."
"I forgive you. Middle Earth customs are very different. Woman are allowed to be trained as knights and warriors. We do the same things men do. I'm sorry to change your customs."
"It is our own fault we do not see potential." She smiled at him and cut the thread.
"Well Master Jonim, I do believe you will live." He smiled and nodded thanking her again. She stood, all the guards being tended to. Faramir touched her shoulder.
"You are an amazing fighter." He told her. She smiled at him and walked away. He frowned, worried. She walked over to Umpra and taking his reins led him away. She was still in sight, but out of hearing distance.
"Umpra I'm so confused!" she whispered to her beloved friend in Elvish.
'What about?'
"Faramir, being here. Everything Morgana said has happened. The great adventure I would have. This is it, I know it. But she said I would find love."
'He seems interested enough. I would go for it. Obviously you're going to find love, might as well be from him. You like him too right?'
"Yes you know he's the only one I've felt like this about. I told you already."
'Go for it then.' She patted Umpra and led him back to camp. The guards that were unwounded were helping the wounded find ways to travel. Most of those wounded had wounds to their arms.
"Someone with a leg wound can ride Umpra." she said noticing how Faramir was avoiding her eye. Umpra nudged her. Jonim hobbled over.
"May I ride your horse?" he asked. She nodded and helped him up onto Umpra's back.
"Don't do anything to him Umpra. He's wounded." She told Umpra who snorted and tossed his head.
'Fine. I still don't like it.'
"Doesn't matter." The guard moved forward again, Anna holding onto Umpra's reins.
"Jonim, will you take Umpra's reins?" she asked after awhile. He nodded and Anna handed them up to him, before going to the front, closer to Faramir.
"Yes Anna?" he asked her, not looking.
"Faramir I didn't mean to seem cold earlier. Please don't be angry with me." He turned his head slightly.
"I am sorry as well. I have needed to think." Faramir said, taking her hand in a friendly gesture. "I did not mean to seem angry, for I am not." She gave his hand a squeeze.
"I needed to think too." He smiled at her and they continued to walk hand in hand. The guard walked until nightfall and they set camp up again. She had gathered food along the way to cook and had shot several rabbits and other small animals for meat. The men cooked it and she sat away from them looking up to the stars, thinking about her quickly growing feelings for Faramir.
"May I join you?" Faramir's voice interrupted her thoughts. She turned and looked up at him. The shadows hid his features, giving him a mysterious look. She nodded and he sat next to her.
"The sky is different here then in Fawe." she said. He looked up and realized that the stars had never looked closer. He then looked at her. The moon light reflected off her face, bathing her in it's light.
"Anna." he whispered softly. She turned towards him slowly and he put his hand on her cheek. "Has anyone told you how truly beautiful you are?" Her eyes widened and her breathing quickened slightly.
"No man's ever called me beautiful to my face, at least not a man that has meant anything to me. Until tonight." She whispered back. She blushed slightly and they stared into each other's eyes, not speaking or moving for several seconds.
Faramir couldn't take it anymore. He leaned forward, capturing Anna's lips with his own. She seemed shocked for a second or two, until she started to kiss him back. Faramir had one hand on her cheek and the other on her hip. The kiss deepened as she slipped her arms between his to slip a hand on his neck and the other on his shoulder.
Finally they moved away catching their breath.
"Oh Anna." Faramir whispered, kissing her forehead. He wrapped his arms around her, pressing her to his body.
"I have never felt this way before Faramir. Never in my entire life." She kissed his lips, her arms around his neck.
"Neither have I." They held one another for several minutes.
"Come, we should go back to camp. Dinner will be ready soon." She groaned softly, but they unwrapped their arms from around one another.
He stood first and held his hand out. She took it and he lifted her up. He hugged her to his chest again and kissed her forehead. She wrapped her arms around his waist and snuggled her head into his neck.
"Captain?" Jonim asked into the dark.
"We will be there in a minute." They heard the guard laughing and passing plates around. "We should go." She nodded and she slipped out of his arms, placing her hand into his. They smiled lovingly towards the other and walked to the rest of the men.
They ate dinner quietly stealing glances and smiling secretly. When she was done Anna walked to Umpra and hugged him.
'You kissed him.' Umpra said.
"Yes I did." Umpra laughed. "What?"
'You look like you're floating on a cloud.'
"Perhaps I am." Umpra snorted.
'You humans get so mushy.'
"The Elves can too! I've seen the way the King and Queen look at one another. They have been in love for thousands of years!"
'Well I'm not that old. Besides I stayed in the stables. I've never seen such romance.' Anna sighed and petted Umpra's back. 'Speaking of romance.' Anna turned around to see Faramir walking towards them. He smiled and she walked closer to him and they hugged.
"Ca nortamar." She whispered. "I love you." She whispered even softer. His hold tightened before he pulled back to look at her.
"I love you too." She smiled.
"Ca norsamar ata." She told him.
"Ca norsamar ata." Faramir said slowly, smiling broadly. Anna's smile widened and she leaned up as Faramir leaned down. Their lips met and Umpra snorted and walked away.
'Too mushy for me.' Anna didn't respond and Umpra felt happiness, instead of hearing words spoken. 'About time, now the real fun begins!'
Hope you liked this chapter! Review please!
Disclaimer: See chapters one and two.
I can not wait until school's out. This is the longest trimester of my life! URGH!!!!
Thanks to my reviewers. Lots of love. Get your story up Nicole!
Note: In the first chapter I said the year was 1035 and in the second 1033. It really is the year 1033. Sorry for the confusion. I promise to fix it soon.
Chapter three
Orcs and Confessed Feelings
When Anna woke up the next morning she looked around with confusion. She was alone in a cave she had never seen before. She sat up and pushed the looses strands of her hair behind her ear.
"Good morning Anna." She looked towards the mouth of the cave and remembered everything. Where she was, how she got there, who she was with. Who was standing at the cave opening.
"Holme kwal." At Faramir's face she answered "Good morning." He nodded.
"I thought so." She smiled and he walked over, holding his hand out. She took it and he easily lifted her up and made sure she was able to stand up before letting go of her. "I forgot where I was this morning." He laughed gently.
"Good thing I came when I did then." She nodded and remembered last night, how wonderful his small kiss was. "The men are making something to eat. Why do you not get dressed and come out. Your steed wishes for you." She laughed and grabbed her pack, disappearing behind the curtain again.
When she came back out, dressed in the same as yesterday, Faramir had left the cave. She walked out and saw him standing next to her horse. She walked down the hill, admiring the sights. The smell of the food made her stomach growl with hunger.
'She'ea ê khaden coskluh.' Umpra said. She nodded to him and ran her hand over his nose.
"You seem to talk to your horse like he can answer back." Faramir wondered out loud to her.
"He does answer. That's why he was given to me. Every human has an animal they can communicate with. Few find theirs however." she explained.
"Has he said anything to you this morning?"
"It is a beautiful day. She'ea ê khaden coskluh." He looked impressed and nodded, his green eyes sparkling in the sunlight.
"Come, I think breakfast is ready. I will have the men feed your horse." She followed the man to the food and grabbed a plate, thanking the guard for it. Faramir and she sat together towards the water's edge.
"Do you like it here?" he asked her.
"Yes, it is lovely. I wish I could see more of it though."
"You will. We are leaving this site today, finishing our patrol. Unless you are to go back through the portal." When he said this she smiled inwardly at how sad he looked to lose her company.
"No I will stay with you. I need an adventure, some new excitement." 'I wouldn't want to leave you anyway.' she added in her thoughts, but didn't say anything. He looked happier and they ate their breakfast, talking more about their lands.
She got Umpra feed and explained what they were going to do as the men packed up camp. Some (like Jonim) seemed unhappy that she was going with them, but didn't say anything.
At noon they left, Anna leading Umpra. Most of the men didn't have horses so she wouldn't ride either. She walked by Faramir, who had put on his whole uniform. It was made of brown leather and was carved with a white tree.
"What does the tree represent?" she asked him. He looked grave for a few seconds before answering.
"It is the tree of Gondor. It sits in the courtyard of the city of Minas Tirith, my home city." She nodded and they fell quiet unless Faramir pointed something out to Anna on the walk.
"Do you want me to teach you Elvish?"
"I would like to know some. It would be amusing to learn. The walks are often boring." She smiled.
"Alright. We'll start simple. 'Yes' is 'sli', 'ils' is no."
"They're backwards?" He answered lightly.
"Yes. I thought that was funny when I learned too." They laughed and for a long time she taught him other small words.
They had been walking for another hour or so when Anna stopped suddenly.
"Anna?" She hushed him and looked around. Her head snapped around and in the blink of an eye, she had her bow in her hand, and an arrow zipped through the air.
"What in the?" he asked her when she crept towards the direction she shot her arrow. Faramir followed her and stood amazed at what she shot.
She shot an orc straight through the head at a great distance of several hundred feet, farther than any man could shoot.
"What is that?" she asked him, ripping her arrow out of his head and cleaning it on the grass.
"An orc, something we're patrolling against. Come, we must inform the others." They ran towards the guard and Faramir told them what it was.
"She shot it?" Jonim asked, amazement in his voice.
"Yes I did. I was trained by the Elven prince of my land." She told him, her eyes never resting from looking around. "I don't see any too close."
"They are around here, somewhere. They will come. Men keep your eyes open! The orcs will be furious when they find him dead." Anna kept her ears open and no one talked, afraid to alert the orcs that they were approaching.
"What did you hear?" Faramir whispered to Anna when she stopped and tensed her whole body up, another arrow fitted to her bow.
"Not sure. It sounded like a scream." They strained to hear anything and soon a loud roaring came from behind them.
"I guess they found their friend." Anna whispered, smiling slightly.
"I do not believe it is anything to be happy about." Faramir told her. She just smiled bigger and everyone got their own bow and arrow ready.
"They're coming." she said, loud enough for everyone to hear. "They're splitting in two groups, one on the left, the other on the right."
They divided in half, watching all four sides. Faramir stood next to Anna, amazed at how like an Elf she really was. Suddenly she let an arrow fly and a loud scream of pain followed. She grabbed another arrow.
"They're going to attack!" she shouted and everyone got ready. They started to notice black figures getting closer and closer. When they were close enough to see, the guard started to let their arrows go.
Most hit their targets and then they grabbed another arrow until the orcs were in front of them and they grabbed their swords. Anna had to admit, they were the ugliest things she had ever seen.
Black creatures, with red boils all over their skin. They were disfigured with odd shaped heads and odd bulging eyes. Hanging out of their mouths were large yellow teeth, sharp and deadly looking.
They seemed to direct themselves mainly at herself and Faramir. They had killed ten each when the orcs started to retreat. She dropped her sword and grabbed her bow and arrow, killing several more.
After twenty minutes of battle all but two or three of the orcs were dead. Five of the guard were killed and several wounded.
"Are they always that easy to fight?" she asked Faramir as they tended to the wounded.
"No they are not. For some reason they were not as strong as usual." She looked like she was thinking deeply when she moved to the next guard.
"Jonim where are you hurt?" she asked him. He looked at her through a black eye.
"It cut my leg." She nodded and cut a hole in his breeches to reach the cut. It was deep and needed stitching, but didn't look like it would get infected. She poured some alcohol on the wound and he shut his eyes tightly. She held his knee and started to sew the wound.
"Anna I am sorry for mistreating you." He told her. She looked up surprised.
"It's okay Jonim. I knew you had ill feelings towards me, but I never thought you'd act on them."
"I wished you dead." He told her. She stopped sewing and looked him in the eye.
"Why?"
"I do not know. I thought a woman does not deserve to be on the field of battle and thought you wrong to be there. Please forgive me. You are one of the best fighters I have ever seen."
"I forgive you. Middle Earth customs are very different. Woman are allowed to be trained as knights and warriors. We do the same things men do. I'm sorry to change your customs."
"It is our own fault we do not see potential." She smiled at him and cut the thread.
"Well Master Jonim, I do believe you will live." He smiled and nodded thanking her again. She stood, all the guards being tended to. Faramir touched her shoulder.
"You are an amazing fighter." He told her. She smiled at him and walked away. He frowned, worried. She walked over to Umpra and taking his reins led him away. She was still in sight, but out of hearing distance.
"Umpra I'm so confused!" she whispered to her beloved friend in Elvish.
'What about?'
"Faramir, being here. Everything Morgana said has happened. The great adventure I would have. This is it, I know it. But she said I would find love."
'He seems interested enough. I would go for it. Obviously you're going to find love, might as well be from him. You like him too right?'
"Yes you know he's the only one I've felt like this about. I told you already."
'Go for it then.' She patted Umpra and led him back to camp. The guards that were unwounded were helping the wounded find ways to travel. Most of those wounded had wounds to their arms.
"Someone with a leg wound can ride Umpra." she said noticing how Faramir was avoiding her eye. Umpra nudged her. Jonim hobbled over.
"May I ride your horse?" he asked. She nodded and helped him up onto Umpra's back.
"Don't do anything to him Umpra. He's wounded." She told Umpra who snorted and tossed his head.
'Fine. I still don't like it.'
"Doesn't matter." The guard moved forward again, Anna holding onto Umpra's reins.
"Jonim, will you take Umpra's reins?" she asked after awhile. He nodded and Anna handed them up to him, before going to the front, closer to Faramir.
"Yes Anna?" he asked her, not looking.
"Faramir I didn't mean to seem cold earlier. Please don't be angry with me." He turned his head slightly.
"I am sorry as well. I have needed to think." Faramir said, taking her hand in a friendly gesture. "I did not mean to seem angry, for I am not." She gave his hand a squeeze.
"I needed to think too." He smiled at her and they continued to walk hand in hand. The guard walked until nightfall and they set camp up again. She had gathered food along the way to cook and had shot several rabbits and other small animals for meat. The men cooked it and she sat away from them looking up to the stars, thinking about her quickly growing feelings for Faramir.
"May I join you?" Faramir's voice interrupted her thoughts. She turned and looked up at him. The shadows hid his features, giving him a mysterious look. She nodded and he sat next to her.
"The sky is different here then in Fawe." she said. He looked up and realized that the stars had never looked closer. He then looked at her. The moon light reflected off her face, bathing her in it's light.
"Anna." he whispered softly. She turned towards him slowly and he put his hand on her cheek. "Has anyone told you how truly beautiful you are?" Her eyes widened and her breathing quickened slightly.
"No man's ever called me beautiful to my face, at least not a man that has meant anything to me. Until tonight." She whispered back. She blushed slightly and they stared into each other's eyes, not speaking or moving for several seconds.
Faramir couldn't take it anymore. He leaned forward, capturing Anna's lips with his own. She seemed shocked for a second or two, until she started to kiss him back. Faramir had one hand on her cheek and the other on her hip. The kiss deepened as she slipped her arms between his to slip a hand on his neck and the other on his shoulder.
Finally they moved away catching their breath.
"Oh Anna." Faramir whispered, kissing her forehead. He wrapped his arms around her, pressing her to his body.
"I have never felt this way before Faramir. Never in my entire life." She kissed his lips, her arms around his neck.
"Neither have I." They held one another for several minutes.
"Come, we should go back to camp. Dinner will be ready soon." She groaned softly, but they unwrapped their arms from around one another.
He stood first and held his hand out. She took it and he lifted her up. He hugged her to his chest again and kissed her forehead. She wrapped her arms around his waist and snuggled her head into his neck.
"Captain?" Jonim asked into the dark.
"We will be there in a minute." They heard the guard laughing and passing plates around. "We should go." She nodded and she slipped out of his arms, placing her hand into his. They smiled lovingly towards the other and walked to the rest of the men.
They ate dinner quietly stealing glances and smiling secretly. When she was done Anna walked to Umpra and hugged him.
'You kissed him.' Umpra said.
"Yes I did." Umpra laughed. "What?"
'You look like you're floating on a cloud.'
"Perhaps I am." Umpra snorted.
'You humans get so mushy.'
"The Elves can too! I've seen the way the King and Queen look at one another. They have been in love for thousands of years!"
'Well I'm not that old. Besides I stayed in the stables. I've never seen such romance.' Anna sighed and petted Umpra's back. 'Speaking of romance.' Anna turned around to see Faramir walking towards them. He smiled and she walked closer to him and they hugged.
"Ca nortamar." She whispered. "I love you." She whispered even softer. His hold tightened before he pulled back to look at her.
"I love you too." She smiled.
"Ca norsamar ata." She told him.
"Ca norsamar ata." Faramir said slowly, smiling broadly. Anna's smile widened and she leaned up as Faramir leaned down. Their lips met and Umpra snorted and walked away.
'Too mushy for me.' Anna didn't respond and Umpra felt happiness, instead of hearing words spoken. 'About time, now the real fun begins!'
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