Chapter 6

"Why are you doing this? The war lies to the East. You cannot leave on the eve of battle."
What was he doing, I just didn't understand. Already I had lost one of the men who meant everything in this world to me. How could he expect me to let him go?

"You cannot abandon the men." They needed him…and so did I.
"Eowyn..." I didn't like or approve of the way the way he looked at me. He was pitting me. I hated pity.
"We need you here." I begged him. He looked at me sadly as he prepared Brego. He was leaving, and I knew it.
"Why have you come?"
"Do you not know?" was he really this blind. Could he not see how I felt for him?
"It is but a shadow and a thought that you love. I cannot give you what you seek."

Eru. Those words. I could hear him saying them to me, just as Grima had. And I felt yet again the same hurt and pain that Grima had installed upon me all over again.

I back off from him. It was like he was too good for me, and he knew it. Maybe that was it; Grima had told me that he was not good enough for me. Maybe it was I who was not good enough for Grima.

Aragorn reached out to touched my cheek and his hand felt so cold and chilled me to the bone despite the fact I knew it was warm. I felt cold. No, I felt nothing.

"I have wished thee joy since first I saw you," I shut my eyes sand wished he hadn't of said that. It felt like he was mocking me. If he truly wished me joy, why would he not give me joy?

Why did he hurt me so?

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"I have left instruction. The people are to follow your rule in my stead. Take up my seat in the Golden Hall. Long may you defend Edoras if the battle goes ill." I had my arms crossed over my body and was standing in the sun when my uncle came to me. He wanted me to rule after him if he died? No, he wouldn't die, and beside I would be going with him.
"What other duty would you have me do, my lord?" I couldn't let on what I was going to do. I did not want to deceive him, but I could not return to the hall this time. I just could not. I couldn't bare it. It would be cold and empty. Not the hall I had arrived at when I was a young girl. But then again it hadn't been that hall for quite some time now.

I missed it terribly. I missed the party's and feasts….but most of hall the noise. Everything was al ways so quiet now. There was a time when my uncle would hold balls and party's almost weekly.
"Duty? No... I would have you smile again, not grieve for those whose time has come. You shall live to see these days renewed. No more despair."

But how was I meant to keep myself from despair when I the man I love rejected me and my save haven was dead. Gone. I felt my fore head rest against my uncles and it wasn't long till he closed the distance between us and embraced me.

I knew what this was. He was saying goodbye.

a/n: sorry its not longer!

auri mynonys: thanks for your review. I get what you mean about the flash backs now and next time I put one in I will put it all in italics. My language is too modern and I'm not thinking really. I thinking this chapter was better, was it?

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