Disclaimer: I don't own any of the lotr people...bugga! But I do own da rest of them!!

Summery: what do you get if you mix orcs with the fellowship and few random characters? Well this is what I think anyway!

Sorry it's been so long between updates! I've been on holiday. But I'm back now, full of ideas for this story so please hit the iccle button at the bottom and tell me what you think. You know you want to!

Boromir sat up in his bed and looked around. "Nice of you to finally awake!" he heard someone say behind him. He, with difficulty, swivelled around to see who his visitors were. There stood Telania and Sequoia. "How are you feeling?" Sequoia continued from where she stood.

"Better; there's no pain from my wound anymore," he answered. Telania, who had now moved over to the opposite side of the room added, "and I should hope so too! You had the two best healers in all of Delven working on that."

Boromir laughed to himself and watched as they busied themselves around the room, tidying and sorting the dried herbs into neat bundles and hanging them from the wooden roof beam.

When Telania came to his bedside and gave him a cup full of a thick purple-green liquid, he looked at it and said, "What is that!?"

"Its poison, why?" answered Sequoia.

"Huh yeah right. Well which of you two is going to give me the bed bath?" he requested,

Telania looked at him with disgust and then at Sequoia with amusement. "Shall I do it or do you want to?" At this point Boromir was looking exceptionally pleased with himself. "I think we'll both do it!" Sequoia replied making his smile widen dramatically.

Telania went up to him first, looked him in the eye, and then slapped him around the face. His face fell but as he looked up again, there stood Sequoia who did the same.

"Wrong thing to say I guess! Geez. That hurt."

"Yeah but that's going to come out as a lovely purple shade, it'll match your eyes!" said Telania as they left the room.

Later on that day, Strider went to the houses to see how Boromir was mending up and found him wondering round, hobbling a bit but otherwise looking fine, well from the back anyway. As Boromir turned to greet Strider, he burst out laughing as he saw his eye.

"Hey. Its not funny, it hurts!" Boromir tried to defend to himself but it just made Strider laugh even harder.

"How did you get that? Walk into a wall?! Or don't you want to talk about it?" he said in an insulting voice.

"Not!" he said and walked away.

"Sorry! Well, if it makes you feel better, it's a lovely shade of purple!" Strider continued to laugh harder than ever.

Then, the rest of the fellowship trailed into the room.

"Hey. Aragorn. What you laughing at?" asked Merry, but all Strider had to do was move out of their way so they could see Boromir. The sight even made Gandalf laugh out loud.

"What on earth happened to you!?" said Gimli between amused looks.

"I don't want to talk about it," Boromir muttered, just as Telania and Sequoia sauntered in.

"What? Is it too embarrassing to admit that you got beaten up by a couple of girls!" Telania giggled, "Well it was for your own good. Here, if it really hurts that much I'll put some ointment on it." She picked up a bottle and stepped towards Boromir.

"Oh no! Keep away from me you. I don't trust you!" He took a step back, away from them.

Meanwhile, the others fell about laughing at this amusing scene.

"We need to leave soon." Aragorn whispered cautiously. "There may be more orcs on the way, we cannot take that risk." He looked around at the eight people sat around him. They were all in the room they were staying in while in Delven. Their only light, a candle, sat in the middle of the circle making it just possible for them to see each other's faces.

Gandalf nodded slowly. "Aragorn's right. We have lost enough time, we need to be on our way."

"Well then we'll leave tomorrow in the morning. I'm sure Sequoia will understand." Frodo stated plainly but paused as he noticed the look shared between Aragorn and Gandalf.

"You think we should leave without their knowledge." Legolas said. It was a statement, not a question. Aragorn nodded.

"It will be better that way. If they don't know, then hopefully the enemy won't know either."

"But you can't mean just leave without saying goodbye." Pippin said sounding surprised, his voice rising above a whisper.

"Shhhh! That's exactly what I mean." Aragorn alleged.

"When do you intend for us to leave?" Frodo asked. Gandalf looked at him.

"Tonight. When there is the changeover of guards. It is our best change, tonight when the moon is hidden."

Pippin and Merry shook their heads but Frodo and the rest reluctantly agreed. "We had better get ready then." Legolas signalled the time to move and they all went of to prepare to leave.

And at the same time, a shadow moved unnoticed from the corner of the room and disappeared out of the slightly open door.

Bit of a cliffie there for you! Tell me what you think, please! Any corrects are appreciated and amended as fully as possible and helpful comments are more than welcome!

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