Journey to Mordor (By SUV)
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Chapter Thirty-six: Meeting Mary
"So this is the Houses of Healing?" Tess asked as she followed Aragorn into them.
"Yes, this would be it."
Tess looked around the large room as she entered. She saw a pair of figures that seemed somewhat familiar. She walked over to them, forgetting Aragorn and she went and sat down beside the lady. One of the two, the man was lying down on a bed. The lady was sitting at his side. If you could call her lady, that is. She was like Tess, dressed in Ranger clothes. She looked surprised to see Tess.
"Who are you?" the Ranger asked.
"I'm a Ranger also. I go by the name of Tess. Who are you?" Tess felt sympathy for the older Ranger, yet she didn't know why.
"Mary, Mary's my name. This is Faramir."
"The younger brother of Boromir?"
Mary nodded as a response as she turned to face a sleeping Faramir once more.
"What happened to him?"
"He was injured on the way back from Osgiliath. It was a fell beast who attacked us. I got the worst of it, but despite my attempts to save him, he was still hurt. Then his lunatic of a father tried to kill him."
"Fire. There was a fire," spoke Tess quietly as she closed her eyes and glimpsed the event.
"Yes, the crazy Steward made a pyre and tried to roast my Faramir alive. Then I lit him a flame and chased him off the cliff by the citadel."
"Faramir is very lucky to have, Mary. I wish you both luck together," said Tess with a wink. "And ask for Kingsfoil, the plant. It might help Faramir heal.
"Thanks! Oh, I have one question for you," said Mary as Tess stood up to leave. "Who is that who came in with you?"
"That is also another Ranger. He is my father, Aragorn, son of Arathorn."
"Oh."
Tess smiled and walked back towards her father. Aragorn smiled at her and then Eowyn was brought in. She was laid on a bed beside Faramir and Mary glared at the White Lady of Rohan. Aragorn walked over to Eowyn's side while Tess stayed put. He looked at her and called for Kingsfoil, which was brought by a healer. Aragorn began to heal her using it and managed to wake her.
"What did you do?" asked Aragorn.
"Um, I beat the Witch-king? Why?" replied Eowyn as Tess was hit with a flashback, which caused her to close her eyes and bring her hand to her head.
Eowyn was fighting the Witch-king. Theoden had been knocked down and was lying under Snowmane, who was dead, while Eowyn stood between him and Theoden. Eowyn had her shield in one hand and her sword in the other. The Witch-king shattered her shield with his mace.
"No man can kill me! Die now!" he hissed as he grabbed her around her throat. She gasped for breath.
Then Merry stabbed the Witch-king in the leg from behind. "You are ugly! You must die now!" he said to the Witch-king who dropped Eowyn to face the Hobbit.
Eowyn seized the moment to stab the Witch-king and reveled her identity before she collapsed on the ground near Merry.
Tess came back, shook her head and focused again on her father and Eowyn. He still talking to her, looking in her eyes. Tess was disgusted and quickly turned around and fled.
Aragorn looked around quickly. He noticed that Tess no longer was in the Houses of Healing. She must have gotten bored and decided to leave. He had no clue where she had disappeared to. But since she was gone that meant that he could have a serious talk with Eowyn.
"Eowyn, why did you give Tess a poisoned stew during the party in Rohan?"
"How did you know?"
"Legolas figured it out before Tess could eat any. Then he brought me into it and worried me half to death. Why would you do such a thing?"
"Because I loved you!" choked Eowyn. "I've loved you ever since the first time I saw you in Rohan. But she had always been there, a little annoying shadow. At first I thought she was competition but then when you told me that she was daughter, I lost it."
"So because she was my daughter you wanted to kill her? You insane pyscho freak!"
"No that wasn't it! She was the reason that we couldn't be together! Because you had her it meant that you had a wife!"
"Eowyn, I will admit that I felt some attraction to you but every time I looked at my daughter I remembered why it could never be more than friendship."
"Friendship? I never felt friendship!"
"You had friendship but you betrayed it when you tried to murder my daughter! What made you think that killing her would make me love you?"
"I figured that if she died, Arwen would hate you and you would have to find someone else!"
"Arwen would never have blamed me! She would have me find the killer but never would she blame me! Besides, Arwen was supposed to have sailed to the Undying Lands."
"So it was all for nothing, huh?"
"Eowyn, your stew alone probably could have killed her. And that's before adding the poisons. And we never could have been together because I love Arwen and can never love another," said Aragorn, leaving. "Sorry, but I was the wrong man for you. Find someone else."
Eowyn turned her head towards Faramir and smiled. Mary saw the smile on her face and drew her sword. Eowyn looked surprised.
"No one looks at my Faramir like that besides me! Now you must die!"
Eowyn stood up, her 'injury' having been all an act, a plea for Aragorn's attention. She wasn't injured at all. She found a sword and prepared to engage in battle with Mary over Faramir.
"Let me tell you the rules. This is a fight to the death. Winner gets Faramir. Loser, well the loser dies so there will be no re-matches and no backing out."
Eowyn nodded. "Bring it on!"
Mary attacked. Eowyn parried the heavy blows coming from Mary's sword. Then Eowyn tried to hit Mary who blocked the blows and then used her sword in a stabbing motion when Eowyn's sword was out of the way. Mary made the first hit upon Eowyn. She stabbed Eowyn in the stomach, knocking her down.
Eowyn tried to get back up but couldn't. The wound was too bad. Mary took pity on her and sliced her head off in one smooth motion, which ended her pain. Then she sheathed her sword and took her place besides Faramir once more.
Author's Notes:
EOWYN IS DEAD! EOWYN IS DEAD! HURRAY!!!! The long awaited fight is here! YAY! The next chapter will deal with the SUV's journey and will be called "Shelob". After that, Chapter 38 will be called "Runaway" and will be a short chapter before another short chapter entitled "Battle Plan" and then we jump right in "March on the Black Gate". Next update due: Tuesday, October 5th!
Reviewers!
(Chapter 34)
Laer4572 – I'm glad that the wait seems worth it! I'm going to try to stay on schedule and I have a whole load of chapters written on paper, ready for typing. I was working on Chapter 40: March on the Black Gate today!
A Darker Side of Light – Yes! Together you and I shall scare Elrond out of Middle-earth at the wedding! He he!
(Chapter 35)
Ari Moon – Yes he is! The Ghosts in LotR don't scare me at all, they never did. They scared the shit out of Kate though! She couldn't watch RotK in the dark! The WIG WEARER!!! Ahh! Yeah, let's hope not…
A Darker Side of Light – Aww, poor hurt Faramir… He's too badly hurt in my fic. I sure hope the HoH scene is in the Extended Edition of RotK.
Dark Borg Drone – Yep, and Legolas gets tortured because of his wig many more times in the story… I just couldn't help it! Yep Agent Elrond, dress wearer, will be back soon…
Jak – It's okay, you get to kill plenty more people at the Black Gate… I know the Jackal isn't scary but I had to put something in there! Glad you love them all twitches and the two chapters! More is coming.