Warning: potentially slash, but no lemon (read: graphic sex) scenes. Should my characters come close to doing something seriously slashy, I`ll warn you at the beginning of the chapter. Apart from that: Explosions, Uruks, Grima in trouble.

Intro: some stuff you might want to know before reading the story. If you don`t feel like bothering with it, jump ahead to the next chapter.

***** Read sunandshadow's already? *****

O.k., I'd prefer if sunandshadow was already posting further chapters, too. I consider what I'm about to do to her story a second prize, but let's not give up hope, she might yet write her own, somewhat darker, version of Part II. So, shower her in reviews and plotbunnies and pathetic begging for a part II, curse the fact that all the inspiring Grima & Saruman stuff is cut out of RotK, and let's all hope the movie will be enough of an inspiration anyway.

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Right.

Now the excuse for this is: one of the best Grima fics I've read so far is as yet unfinished, ending just when Grima is kicked out of Edoras, and the writer, sunandshadow, graciously allowed me to tinker along with it. Actually, we`re deviding the story: darkfic and lightfic. My part II is going to be as much of a lightfic as you can expect something which includes 10 000 Uruk-Hai to be.

So: This is not a new chapter, but a sequel to an existing story.

You might want to read her part one () first, though most of my chapter one is going to make sense as it is.

Otherwise, here`s her summary:

What's AU: When Theoden King sent to Gondor for aid against the orcs, the Lord of Gondor did not deny them, but sent Faramir and his company. Boromir doesn't die, but instead accompanies Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli to Edoras after the breaking of the fellowship. Theodred doesn't die because Wormtongue is too busy to try to kill him. Some would argue that Faramir's character is AU, but IMHO my Faramir is just the sort of guy who would make up a story about a holy spring in order to get some information out of a hobbit without resorting to force; just the sort of guy who would know enough about evil to not take the ring; and possibly the sort of guy who, if he no longer had an older brother to provide an heir, might marry Eowyn for the sake of his country's morale.

Go enjoy. Make me happy and review. Make me ecstatically happy and review sunandshadow`s part I, too.