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A/N: Huggles reviewers - YAH! bounces New chappie!!! I 'm trying to make this chappie a bit more funny then the last... huggles Bill I know I'm unbelievable late, sorry! and sorry this one's so short!

Nekomiyu: Wow, thanks for your review! I'll try and update sooner next time! -

Bosson12787: Thanks -! bounces happily

AkageRaikyaku: Thanks for your review, yes, Lea is rather unicorn-sueish. I don't have a spell check but I do read the story over when I'm done with it but there still are grammatical errors in my story, I know. Maybe I should ask for a beta for my next story, this one isn't too serious. Thanks for your last tip, I'll try and use new paragraphs more often (and in the right places) This is my first fanfic (as you already pointed out) and it's not to serious, I'm just testing writing in English and writing fanfiction. My next story will hopefully be more serious, realistic and better. grins One can always hope... -

Hirotani: Really? I haven't read any 'Mary Sue as unicorn' before. But I'm pretty new to fanfiction so that's no real surprise, I guess. The tomato line was straight from the movie, I use both movie and book in this story but I honestly didn't know tomatoes didn't exist in ME, I'll try and remember it for my next fanfic. I'll change some things and leave things out in this story (it's my first and I'm still testing a bit) so I don't think you should continue reading, I don't think you'll enjoy this story...

KnowInsight: Thank you so much for your review! I hope you didn't think I gave up this story by now, I've just been so terrible busy! Sorry for the late update!

Willow26: Maybe I'll make someone ride her, unicorns are very fast, and it would be fun! - Maybe I'll let her take Frodo to Rivendell when their attacked again... although...maybe I'll let Glorfindel keep his role...after all it was stolen by Arwen before... Thanks for your review!

Angel: Glad you liked the chappie (and the plushie) here's a (very late) update.

Bex the Bold: Thank you! - I'm sorry to keep you waiting, won't be so long next time!

Lindiel Eryn: - Thanks for the review and info, I haven't updated in a long time hangs her head in shame but I've been very busy with school and I've done a lot of reading fanfic's lately. I'll check my profile when is up again. It's down right now...

kittykatt: bounces Thanks for the review! I'm glad you like it, sorry for updating so late! I love cats!

White-Witch-Sakura: I'm sorry for updating so terribly late, here's my new chappie.

Lady Harlequin: Thank you so much for your review and advice! I know my grammar and spelling is off... I wish I could run it trough a spelling and grammar checker but it somehow doesn't work on my pc... I've got Word but whenever I want to use the spelling checker it doesn't work... My friends only have a Dutch spelling checker so I can't send my chappies to them... which means I have to use a dictionary and I only use that with some words and it doesn't help the bad grammar...

I'll try and watch the language of the characters of LotR, but I've never read the English version of the books (though I plan to as soon as I FIND them somewhere... I could only find the hobbit in the library... which I'm reading now.) so that gives me some problems too...

Maybe I'll have to find a beta, but since this is my first fanfic and not quite err... great... I decided not to bother... I might revise it though if I find a beta.

Yeah, white space is a lot nicer to a readers eyes, I'll keep that in mind and I won't use author's notes within the story anymore - it can be quite irritating to some or most people.

Thanks again for your review, I really appreciate you taking the time to help me improve my writing and take my work seriously -

"Words "

' Thoughts '

Chapter 5

Lea opened her eyes but immediately closed them again, her first thought being 'OUCH! HEADACHE!!!' or something close to that.

"Oy, Strider she's wakin'up!" Pippin exclaimed happily.

"Don't be so damn happy in the morning, it's annoying!" Lea mumbled.

The hobbits looked strangely at her while Strider smiled.

When Lea opened her eyes again she saw that it was rather light and supposedly around ten o 'clock in the morning, she also noticed that they were still on Weathertop.

"Do I even want to know how long I've been unconscious?" Lea asked no one in particular.

The Rangers' smile widened; "Well I don't know whether you want to know it or not...either way I am going to tell you. You've been unconscious since yesterday night."

Lea breathed a sigh of relief; "Only a night, thank god, it felt like a whole lot longer."

Pippin was just about to ask why she said 'thank god' instead of 'thank the Valar' when Lea interrupted his thoughts; "So err... those where the bad guys huh?"

"The...bad guys...?" Frodo asked in a disbelieving voice.

"Err...yes?" Lea replied, looking at the hobbit and hoping for an explanation as to why they were attacked.

"Well...that's one way you could describe them..." Strider said thoughtfully "They are called Nazgul or Ringwraiths, and they are indeed the...'bad guys' they are after us, that's why we have to reach Rivendell as fast as possible."

"Are they after you?" Lea indicated the whole group "Or are they after Frodo?" she asked, remembering how the hobbits had stood between Frodo and the enemy.

Pippin looked at her dumbstruck; "How do you know that?"

"Well...it was kind of obvious when the bad...the Ringwraiths attacked."

"Well..." Merry began.

"You see..." Sam said at the same time.

"It's like this..." Pippin said.

The three looked at each other for a moment.

"Frodo is...err he...he doesn't like mushrooms!" Pippin suddenly exclaimed.

Frodo looked at Pippin indignantly "But I do like mushrooms Pippin, I love them! Like every self-respecting hobbit would!"

Strider watched the whole exchange in amusement, although he was worried about what he would tell Lea. 'Hopefully an incomplete answer to her questions will be sufficient.'

He needn't have worried.

Lea tried hard to contain her laughter but failed miserably and burst out laughing.

The hobbits looked at her, dumbfounded before going into hysterical laughter too.

When the unicorn had finally composed herself she stood up, looked around and with a very serious expression said: "FOOD!"

This caused Strider to go into a silent laughing fit, especially when he saw the laughing hobbits immediately turn serious and give Lea some food.

After Lea had eaten (some real food instead of grass) and drank a bit of water (which the hobbits had to put in a bowl for her because she can't drink from a flask without hands...) they packed their stuff and continued their journey to Rivendell.

Aragorn was walking in front, Bill and Sam behind him, Lea walked behind them, with Frodo next to her.

At the back Merry and Pippin where talking about god-knows-what.

Lea looked at Frodo and noticed he looked a lot better then the night before, he had looked pale and almost dying then. She wondered just how much her healing had helped him.

"How's your shoulder?" she asked him quietly.

'Will we even make it to Rivendell?' Frodo was lost in thought, looking at nothing in particular 'What if those Black Riders find us again?' he shivered at the thought.

"How's your shoulder?" Lea's quiet voice broke trough his thoughts.

He looked up at her and suddenly felt a wave of gratitude hit him 'What would have happened if she hadn't been there?' he silently wondered and thought back at the coldness and darkness he had felt after the knife had pierced him.

He shook those thoughts off and gave her a small smile; "It's fine, it hurts but Strider says that's normal, he said it looks like a normal knife wound and that it will heal just fine..."

Frodo paused then and looked her straight in the eye with a serious expression, there where a few moments of complete silence between the two of them, when neither of them heard the bantering of Merry and Pippin or Samwise's soft words to Bill, when they just looked in each others eyes and found some sort of understanding, some new bound of trust and friendship; "Thank you, Lea" Frodo finally said, softly, and gave her a smile before looking away, lost in thought.

"Thank you, Lea" she heard him say and time seemed to move again, although she had never really noticed when it came to a stand still.

Her hearing seemed to work again and she saw him give her a smile before looking away.

She knew that something had happened in those silent moments, when she saw the pain and coldness that he must have felt the night before reflected in his eyes, and she knew that the coldness and pain she had felt yesterday before fainting was only a fraction of what he must have felt.

She suddenly felt awed by his strength 'How can such a little person be able to take all that while I almost immediately fainted when only a part of his pain and coldness hit me?' she wondered.

But then she smiled and kept on walking, she had just made a friend, for life.