You Could Have Caught Me

By:

LiL Pippin Padfoot

Disclaimer: I do not own anything. And I'm sorry to people who like Eowyn, I'm afraid that I've done her a very bad injustice, for I cannot write her as wonderfully as others.

Chapter 18

Helm's Deep II

Well, I had a slight problem. Some people thought I was a boy. You see, I found a piece of leather on the floor, and tied back the rat's nest that I call hair.

Immediately, someone threw some amour at me, I was like okay. Then some guy asked me if I had a weapon. Well ya, a knife. So I was walking around, hair tied back in amour, I walked right past Aragorn.

"Wait! Boy!" he called after me.

"Do I know you?" he asked me

"Duh, it's me, Anna."

"You're wearing amour."

"Just because some guy threw it at me, and yelled at me to put it on. That was after I tied my hair back."

"Yes well, your not a boy, and all though, I know you can fight, don't say anything, you have to stay down here. Now, go find Eowyn, she'll find you a brush. Braid your hair, so that people know you're a girl."

I sighed, but I had to obey.

This was not going to be a fun battle.

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I had found Eowyn and she gave me a brush, and braided my hair. Which I didn't like, especially since I hadn't worn braids since forever.

"I heard that you were all ready for battle."

"Yes, most unintentionally, mind you."

"If someone took me as a boy, I would fight."

"I have fought, I don't know if I could make through Helm's Deep though."

"You have fought?"

"Yes." I said this quietly, because I saw Boromir falling, and giving me the chance to hide, saving me, instead of himself.

"So that's how you got that cut?"

"Yes, But that was from an arrow, not from the combat. I was in a tree."

"You don't want to talk about it, do you?"

"No, it's not that, it's just that's how one of our companions died."

"Oh, I'm sorry."

"That's all right. But I think I'm going to go."

I walked into the big room. I heard the shouts from outside.

The Uruk-hai was here.

They were gearing up men, old men, and very young.

I saw Legolas.

"Legolas!" I called

He turned around.

"You shouldn't be here." He said

"What's going on?"

"The Uruk-hai are here. There are to many of them, and to few of us. They are amouring children and elderly. These people will die." He looked down at me, thought I am tall, he's still taller.

"You must go. Go back with the women and children, Take them back deeper into the caves. I know they go back deeper, because Aragorn told me."

A sudden thought just occurred to me. What if, we don't win? I mean, most things have gone smoothly so far, but so many lives were at stake.

"How long can you hold off the Uruk-hai?" I asked Legolas

"Not much longer I'm afraid, they'll tear this place apart."

I swore.

"Gandalf's coming, but we need to hold them, as long as possible. Legolas, tell Aragorn that, and Gimli. Not just Gandalf is coming, more people, but you must-"

I was cut off, because of the yells and jeers from outside.

"Go," I said. "Pass that along. Get all that you need, but do not fire until, until, until you can see the whites of their eyes." I wish my History teacher would have seen that, and she thought I didn't pay attention.

Legolas nodded his head, he turned to go and then he turned back.

"Promise me you won't go into battle."

"I can't."

"Promise me for Boromir. He wouldn't have let you fight."

"I wouldn't promise him. I can't promise anything, no one can."

And with that I left.

I ran to find some amour, I would pull an Eowyn. There was only one piece of amour left, a battered old thing. I also grabbed a cloak someone had left.

I put it on. Undid my braid, and tied it in a back ponytail.

I unsheathed Boromir's knife. Then I got in line behind the soldiers, I don't know why; it was unexplainable, I felt that I had to fight.

I was feeling guilty, because I passed Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli. I pulled the hood of the cloak low over my eyes. But I had a feeling they could see right through it.

Aragorn said to me as I walked past "Pull your cloak back, otherwise, you won't see. "

I pulled it back a bit, but not enough so that they could see me.

Then I was outside.

We were met with black arrows. That pierced the ground.

The cries of the Uruk-hai pierced the night.

Aragorn and Eomer were at the head of the charge, I heard them call

"Guthwine! Guthwine for the Mark!"

"Anduril! Anduril for the Dunedain!"

I held up Boromir's knife, and along with the cries of the Rohirrim, I cried

"For Boromir. For Merry! For Pippin!"

Then we charged.

All the swords shone in the moonlight as we fought. I just kept swinging the knife. It was nothing like having a sword, but it served its purpose.

I didn't notice the men were retreating until, I was left all alone. I turned around, and a Uruk-hai came after me, thankfully Aragorn was right there.

"Go back to the caves! Retreat!"

I ran back to the caves.

My hood had been thrown back, and my tie had fallen out, so my disguise as blown, but my face was rather dirty, and bloody, so I don't think anyone would notice.

I saw Aragorn running to a stairway and I followed.

Legolas was there. His bow drawn and ready.

Uruk-hai swarmed into the stairway, Legolas with his last arrow shot one in the throat, and we doomed till a boulder fell, and forced the Uruk-hai back out.

"I need more arrows." Said Legolas "And light to shoot them. Where is Gimli, by the way?"

"I do not know," said Aragorn

I thought back to the book.

"He is in the Caves."

They looked at me.

"Anna!"

"Anna, you could've been killed!"

"That's the best part about it!" I said , trying to be cheerful "I could've, but I wasn't."

"What are we going to do? You can't get back into the Caves now, you'll have to fight."

"I have been fighting!"

"Come," said Aragorn "It is almost dawn. Gandalf may be here soon."

I followed them to the top of the Helm.

At the top, we could see that Dawn was approaching.

The Uruk-hai taunted and jeered.

The Sun rose, and with it came a Rider clad in white, on a white horse, with a thousand men.

The men and Gandalf rode into the thick of the Uruk-hai. Killing all in their path.

We had done it.

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Sorry, I had a bad time trying to take it from the book, to here. Not my best, definetly not my best. Horrible in fact. I'm not a big battle scene person.