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LittleLeaf: Thank you for your very kind review. The two girls will meet again I assure you and youll probably find it quite entertaining as the chapter was done by my friend and myself. This story will continue up until the very last chapter (I have all the chapters done and typed up they only have to be edited and revised.) And as for your generous offer to be my beta, I would be delighted! I do not have one and I would love the help and input so please email me if you are still interested. :D

Chapter 4

When Rin awoke silence surrounded her, no talking and no horses neighing, ' I guess everyone is still asleep' she thought.

Sure enough when she looked around all the men were still snoring peacefully. Not that it surprised her, the sun had barely peaked over the horizon and it was still very chilly. She shivered involuntarily and nearly screamed when an arm wrapped around her waist. She turned around to find Eomer, sleeping peacefully. She layed there confused.' Holy Cow! What did I…oh yah…." she blushedremembering the night before when Eomer had allowed her to cry on him and he merely held her quietly not even asking any questions. Her dreams were much of the time haunted by her past, and it meant a lot to her that even though she had only know Eomer a few hours, he was able to comfort and soothe her dreams so easily.

Rins thoughts were quickly interrupted when she heard familiar screeches. 'Oh god not more.' She hurriedly awoke Eomer.

" My Lord! Orcs!" she shrieked. He was up so fast along with the other men Rin nearly went flying into the fire pit.

They stood armed with bows and swords drawn ready for battle. She could just barely make out the grotesques creatures in the dawn light as they ran toward them. " Lady Rin keep out of sight." He shouted to the frightened woman. Rin hid behind a large boulder, (hmm seems I've come very familiar with these boulders.) She heard more screeches, swords piercing flesh. It nearly made me spew chunks at the thought. She tried to cover her ears from the sounds but to no avail

Rin could hear metal against metal and a lot of thumping as bodies hit the ground in a sick heap. She tried to block the sounds out by focusing on something else. Which was rather difficult.

A small jolt of pain went through her body and it was only then she remembered the deep cut she had received the day she landed here. Rin was still in her green long sleeve shirt and black PJ pants and by now they were torn and dirty. Slowly she lifted her shirt, wincing slightly in pain as the blood that had stuck to her shirt was also causing her shirt to sick to her body as well.

With deep breaths, Rin gathered up all her courage and tore the stained top from her bruised body. It was definitely a nice one, red and still slightly bleeding. Rin put her shirt back down and was reminded of the fight when a loud crash against metal rang through her ears.

She quickly got to her knees and peered over the boulder, careful not to give away her position. Some of Eomers men were on the ground, dead. At seeing this Rin held back a sob, they would never see their families again. She continued to look around and noticed there weren't many Orcs left.

She could see Eomer fighting against a huge and massive Orc not far away from where she was hiding. The Orc was about 7 ft tall, with long black hair (not including whatever else was stuck in it), his skin was a dark grey and covered in greasy slime, he bared his teeth (or what he had of them) at Eomer and Rin held back a gag at the sight of the yellow and black chompers.

Eomer and the creature fought for a few moments longer before Eomer took a good swing and took of the Orcs head, and then leaned over to catch his breath. That's when she saw it. There, a lone Orc heading straight for Eomer and he didn't even realize it.

"Eomer, look out!" Rin screamed, desperately hoping hed heard her.

Without even realizing what she was doing, Rin grabbed a dagger lying on the ground and ran with all she could muster. She quickly (and clumsily) came up behind the Orc, as he was about to pierce Eomer with its sword. Rin took the dagger at it tips with her fingers and quickly shot it, nailing the Orc right in the back.

Good thing she was a good darts (thanks to her uncle Don). Eomer stood motionless for a moment, stunned. Rin smiled weakly and went to the ground clenching her side. The cut WAS worse than it looked. Eomer ran to her side and fell to his knees scanning her body m desperately trying to locate the wound (if she were clenching her side maybe you should look there)

"Rin, what's wrong? Where are you injured?" Rin clenched her jaw and pointed to her side. She blushed slightly and lifted her shirt over the wound. Eomers eyes widened as his gaze fell upon the cut, " When did this happen?"

"Shortly after I arrived here. I landed on some rocks, sharp ones too." Rin answered nearly in tears

Eomer lifted the young woman up gently and brought her back to where she slept. The other men returned after piling the corpses and burying their dead. They stood watch while Eomer went over to a man whom Rin later learned was called Delenor. He explained her injuries to the man, and then Delenor came over to tend to Rins wound.

He cleansed it then began to stitch it up. Tears ran down the girls cheek as he continued to sew the skin back together. He had only gotten halfway through when Rin released a sob she had been holding in,

"My lady you must remain calm and still or the thread will release and then I will have to restart."

Eomer came over and took the frightened girls hand as Delenor continued. Rin squeezed Eomers hand trying to hold back from screaming. The pain was almost unbearable. Eomer rubbed her hand and just stayed there comforting her as much as he could.

When Delenor was done he instructed Rin to rest so she could give the stitches a chance to heal. Rin agreed, to frighten to move in fear of causing herself more pain. She eventually found rest as sleep overcame her, while Eomer stayed close by incase he was needed.

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