Disclamer; If you haven't got the fact that I don't own this universe then you are very stupid. Sorry this chapter took a while but uploading is a pain when you have no internet! I begged my bestest friend Hatti to let me upload at hers. (note the obvious sucking up for next time I need it. I LOVE YOU HATTI! Not in the lesbian way though)

Chapter 26; Discoveries

The 2 bid their farewell's when Leila yawned. Arwen promised to look after Tinw until Elrond released Leila from the healing halls. Leila was gently stroking Sindadil's cheek when Elrohir came in quickly. He smiled as he saw her and sat in the seat by her bed.

"I'm so glad your alright, when Ada told me what happened...I wished I'd been there for you" Elrohir said gently. "He's so tiny."

"Too tiny according to Lord Elrond which is why we can't leave this hall" Leila said. "Would you like to hold him?" she asked and Elrohir gently took the tiny boy.

"What's his name?" he asked.

"Sindadil, after one of my brothers" Leila said. She fiddled with the sheet covering her body and pulled it up so it was up to her neck but still under her arms. Elrohir smiled and gently touched the tiny boy's cheek with one finger. "Luckily he hasn't woken yet" Leila commented quietly. Elrohir looked at her and tried to ignore the strange feeling inside of him about the fact that Leila was quite obviously naked under the blanket.

She blushed as she noted the area he was looking at, her breasts, and folded her arms over her cheast. Elrohir blinked and shook his head, but couldn't take his gaze off her.

"I'm sorry" Elrohir said trying to tear his gaze away from here. He smiled shyly at her. Leila made a little shrugging movement. "Leila, there has been something I have wanted to talk to you about." He stood up and began pacing infront of her. "You see...I...well, the thing is..."

"What is it Elrohir?" Leila snapped, tying to get a coherent sentence out of him.

"I...I...I love you!" he said suddenly before quickly leaving the room leaving a stunned in his wake.

The group were riding again and as usual Shí was complaining. The other's had built up a tolerance to it and just ignored her. But soon the sound of beasts ravaging ahead of them drew their attention and Shí fell quiet along with the other's.

"Send a scout ahead on foot, the rest of you arm up" Legolas ordered. The scout dismounted quickly and ran lightly ahead to find out how close the Wargs were. The others all drew their weapon's waiting for his return when suddenly a scream filled the air, an agonised scream coming from the scout. "Attack!" Legolas shouted, kicking his horse sharply and galloping forewords.

"To death!" Shí screamed as she swung her sword at the first Warg. Another bit her horses neck with it's sharp teeth, causing the horse to buck Shí off. Shí watched in horror as her horse slowly bled to death, then turned to see a Warg charging at her. With no time to bring her sword up Shí was thrown backwards, the wargs claw pinning her to the ground and cutting her shirt and flesh. Shí screamed in pain as the beast brought it's other claw up and down. The skin on her face was torn open with 3 deep cuts. Then it started to maul her cheast which really hurt, her arms and stomach. She tried to hold off it's claws with her hands but it didn't work.

"GAALIN!" the panicked shout was from Dagon and then a sword impaled the beast mauling her threw the neck. It collapsed foreword onto her, covering the fact that her shirt and breast band had been torn open. Dagon and Dallas hauled the beast off her now unconscious form and gasped in shock. "You're a girl?"

"Woman" Shí gasped, rolling onto her hands and knees she started to cough up blood. "Dying woman." Dagon caught her as she collapsed forewords and turned her over while Dallas pulled his spar shirt out and lay it across her cheast.

"But what about Ahora?" Dallas asked as the other elves finished off the wargs and the company healers started to go round checking the fallen. When one approached Shí the 2 men held up a hand.

"Fetch the Prince first" Dagon ordered. The healer was puzzled but did as he was bid. Legolas arrived and from what he saw immediately knew what he had been called for.

"Treat her" he ordered compassionately.

"Her?!" the healer exclaimed.

"Do it, before she dies" Legolas ordered. The healer silently obeyed, frowning all the while as he bandaged and treated Shí's numerous injuries. The 3 on her face were difficult and it ended with most of her face being covered by bandages except for one eye, half her mouth and the bottom half of her nose.

"She'll survive, although I'll have no part in explaining it to the King" and with that the healer moved on.

"So what's her real name?" Dagon asked as he cradled Shí's body in his arms.

"And how did she hide the fact that she was a girl!?!" Dallas asked amazed.

"Her names Shí, that's all I really know" Legolas said.

"But Ahora, they-she?" Dallas asked.

"She's obviously a homosexual, it's not that rare" Dagon was taking this allot calmer than Dallas. "And I suppose she bound her cheast as flat as she could, although I did always think he-she was a bit too muscled in that area."

"I still don't believe it" Dallas mumbled.

"Look, she signed up with Leila who was exposed in the great battle, her and Leila always kept to themselves, neither took their shirt's off, everyone thought they were together when Leila was exposed, all the fact's are pretty much obvious, we just didn't see it" Dagon said. Legolas nodded.

"We shall burn these fowl beasts and then set up camp until the wounded are ready to return to the palace" Legolas ordered to all the elves. "Get a tent put up and her in it" he ordered Dagon and Dallas who nodded and set about their task.

Leila was sitting up on the bed when Elrohir arrived, bouncing Sindadil in his arms to try and hush his wailing. She looked up and smiled apologetically. Elrohir smiled nervously, remembering what he told her earlier, about loving her.

"I'm sorry about him, he's louder than Tinw was" Leila said to him. Elrohir reached for him and Leila gave him to the Noldor.

"He's cuter than Tinw" he said. Sindadil looked up into the new face and for a moment stopped crying, then began to cry again only quieter now. "Leila, about earlier..."

"It doesn't matter, you were...not yourself" Leila said awkwardly.

"I was myself, Leila I meant what I said earlier. I-I-I love you. I think I've loved you since that day we shot at you" Leila smiled at the memory. Elrohir supported Sindadil in one hand and cupped Leila's cheek with the other. "I truly, madly, deeply love you" he whispered before kissing her on the lips tenderly. Leila was surprised at first but then brought her hands up to his face, running her fingers threw his hair. A gasp from the door caused them to break apart and look at Arwen, holding a staring Tinw in her arms.

"I'm sorry, I didn't think... I didn't know..." she stuttered. Elrohir got up, still holding Tinw and smiled at his sister.

"It's alright Arwen" Elrohir said quietly. Tinw made a gurgle and reached for his brother. "Now now little man, you've got to be gentle with him" Elrohir scolded playfully while holding Sindadil closer to Tinw. Both boy's reached for each other and their hand's brushed. Leila got up slowly, holding her still saw belly.

"What are you doing? Get back in that bed this instant" Arwen scolded. Leila sighed as both the Rivendell elves started to fuss over her...again.

Shí woke to the feeling of being carried and looked around her in surprise. Soon she found herself gazing up at the ceiling of a tent and then a blonde head leaning over her.

"Your very lucky you know, not many people could have survived that" Legolas said kindly.

"I think it would have hurt less if I hadn't ow!" Shí complained loudly. Legolas laughed and lifted her head gently, pressing a cut to her lips.

"This will help with the pain, at least a little bit. You've got allot of question's to answer for" Legolas said.

"So've you but no one asks you them" it seemed that the painkiller also effected her bluntness. Legolas blinked, he knew what people wanted to ask him. 'Why don't you just marry Leila and have 2 son's? your father wouldn't mind after a while.' He sighed and looked away from Leila's best friend. "Where am I?" Shí was incredibly dazed.

"In a tent so the men don't see your rather large bosom" Legolas said smiling. Shí looked down and realised she wore no top but practically all of the upper half of her body was covered in bandages.

"Oh would you look at that" she mumbled before her eyes rolled back into her head and she fell back unconscious. Legolas left the tent and went to his horse, pulling out something from his pack, Leila's favourite necklace (the swirl one from way back in the story) that she'd given him the day she had made the speech.

Legolas still loved her, he yearned for her but the biggest problem being the crown Prince of Mirkwood was what is expected of you and it is not done to marry a woman who pretended to be a man and have 2 bastard children with her. His sons. Legolas had only ever seen one of them and the kingdom didn't even know they were his. He didn't even know his second son's name. That tore his sole apart, he wanted his son's to know their father.

A/N There we go. Liz is writing lot's more for me although I have to bribe her to write HET any more as she is now a certified lesbian so she takes even longer than usual. The next chapter will be all about Shí and the whole recovery/discovery made by her and everyone else. See you lot later then.