Everyone silently stood at the posts, watching as the Uruk-hai slowly made their way. Haldir has made sure that Nanaylia was stationed right next to him. When questioned about it, he tried not to tell them too much, giving an obscure answer that made them all confused.

The marching grew ever louder, causing Legolas to be ever more at ease than what he was now. The darkness which the night brought gave him one sense of comfort which he still couldn't explain. It seemed that he almost embraced the night like he never had before.

"I hope that I am able to help him during this. I do not want to see him doing something stupid and that mistake cost him his life," Nanaylia whispered.

"I have a feeling you will tell him sooner or later. I am sure of it," Haldir quietly replied.

Nanayli nodded, her mind on several things and Haldir could tell. He could sense the distress in her rising until she started to back away. Haldir quickly grabbed her arm and pulled her back into position beside him.

"Keep calm. These things are not your friends and never will be, no matter what your other senses are telling you," Haldir whispered to her. "You're not going anywhere as long as I'm around. I swore to your father that I'd keep you safe, no matter what."

"Thank you," she told him.

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"You couldn't have picked a better spot," Gimli muttered. "I can't see what's happening and I'm standing next to an elf who going through something which he won't say."

"Gimli, I chose not to tell you for a reason. Please do not bring it up the again for I do not wish to talk about until I am ready to," Legolas angrily told him.

Gimli was a bit surprised by this reaction but he decided to keep his mouth shut about the subject. The elf was still a bit touchy about it, even though he had finally asked for help.

"I think if that elven lass was ever here, she'd have your head. I wouldn't want to get on her bad side again. I don't think I'd want to see her again to be honest with you," Gimli mentioned.

Legolas was very surprised with the the remark. He was almost to growling as he drew closer to the dwarf.

"Bring up my sister again and I will be sure that she knows what you think of her. She might not like it," Legolas quietly told him.

"Your sister?" Gimli said, raising his eyebrows.

Aragorn walked up behind them and Legolas turned his head enough to look at him.

"By the luck you live by, let's hope it lasts the night," Gimli mused.

Legolas glanced between Aragorn and the oncoming Uruk-hai as thunder boomed nearby. Rain was threatening to fall.

"Your friends are with you Aragorn," Legolas told him.

"Let's hope they last the night," Gimli said.

Aragorn leaned in closer to Legolas, hoping that none of the others would hear.

"Will you be alright? You really haven't been yourself in the past several days and you're still slightly injured," Aragorn wondered.

"I will be fine Aragorn. I am positive that nothing will happen until after the sun rises," Legolas quietly replied. "I am fine."

Aragorn didn't completely believe that, even before the words came out of the elf's mouth.

"Of course. What was I thinking? Take care my friends," Aragorn told them before walking away from them.

The thunder boomed again and the rain began to fall. Legolas felt the fury within him swell. He really wanted to get at those Uruk-hai more than ever.

Aragorn began to talk to the elves about the oncoming army. Roars could be hear in the distance and the tension began to rise.

"What's happening out there? Tell me!" Gimli demanded, jumping to try and see over the wall.

"Would you like me to describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you a box?" Legolas asked him.

Gimli began to laugh at the statement.

'Well, at least he hasn't lost his sense of humour. I just hope what happened during the warg battle doesn't happen here. I'd hate for my life to be nearly taken by ssomeone I call a friend,' Gimli thought to himself. "That was a good one Legolas. We have to look at the bright side at these times. Now let me at them!"

One of the Uruk-hai roared before they all started to pound their spears against the ground. The men readied their arrows as the pounding continued. That was until one of the men accidentally released his arrow, hitting one of them in the necks. It gasped once before falling to the ground.

'Hold!' Aragorn cried out in Elvish.

"Well, at least that wasn't me that did that," Nanaylia whispered to Haldir.

"Just be glad you didn't decide to start without me. I'd have your neck if you decided to prove something," Haldir replied. "Remember that."

"I'm just glad that you remember. If I remember right, not only did you promise my father to keep me safe, you promised Lady Galadriel and Lord Celeborn to keep me safe," she reminded him.

"Yes, I remember that now. You're not going to make me forget, are you?" he wondered.

"I'm not going to do that. I'm going to let you forget that I'm carrying your Lord and Lady's great-grandchild," Nanaylia replied.

Haldir gave her a disbelieving look and she gave a small laugh as they watched the Uruk-hai began to roar even more. They began to storm Helm's Deep.

Haldir and Nanaylia both notched their bows when he heard Aragorn say they should prepare to fire.

"Are you sure you can do this?" he asked Nanaylia.

"Yes, I can. I know I'm not as good as you or my brother but what I can do is alright. I can still hit the target," she replied.

From a distance, she heard her brother say something about the Uruk-hai's weak points. Gimli could tell that the elf seemed determined about something.

The elves fired their arrows, most hitting their targets.The few Uruk-hai wielding crossbows fired their weapons, hitting a few of the elves.

Haldir, out of the corner of his eye, saw one of the elves near him fall from the wall. Terrified that Nanaylia had gotten hit, he looked to see that the elf next to her was the one who received the bolt.

'That was a close one,' he thought to himself. 'I'm going to get some lecture if I get back to Lothlorien and she's injured in some way. Even more so if she happens to be dead.'

She stayed right close to Haldir, knowing that she had to stay alive if she wanted to help her brother. She looked over at him.

The ladders were propped against the wall and raised up and the Uruk-hai climbed into the midst of the elves, menand one dwarf. Everyone began to attack the enemy.

All the while, Aragorn noticed that one of the Lothlorien elves was staying quite close to Haldir.

'What is elf doing? I do not understand why he is doing that. I think Haldir knows a bit more than what he is letting on,' Aragorn thought to himself.

The man had been watching the elf as much as he could and it was only then that he noticed something: the elf seemed to be a bit more heavy than the others. He seemed more heavy than what was normal for a male elf.

'That is most peculiar. I will ask when this battle is over,' Aragorn said to himself.

With that, his attention went back to the siege of Uruk-hai around him.

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Gimli thrust his axe into one of the creatures before him. He turned around to see Legolas standing near him.

"Legolas! Two already!" Gimli called to him.

"That's nothing. I'm on 17," Legolas called back.

"What? I'll have no pointy-eared outscoring me!" Gimli roared, attacking again.

"I'm glad my sister wasn't here to hear you say that. She'd have your head," Legolas told him.

'She almost did have my head, back in Rivendell when I said something quite simliar. I am glad she isn't here,' Gimli thought to himself. 'For she's also a pointy-eared, just like him.'

Gimli watched Legolas as much as he could. The dwarf could tell there was something drastically different with the elf's fighting style.

'He almost seems to be enjoying this. He never did before,' Gimli noted to himself.

His mind went away from it as he soon found his way on top of the ledge, between two of the ladders, his count going up as he forced the Uruk-hai to the ground.

Aragorn was busy on the wall until he noticed a large group ofUruk-hai heading towards one section of wall. He told the archers to aim for them instead. They did so, killing several of them.

"Is this it? Is this all you can conjure Sarumon?" wondered Theoden.

What they weren't expecting were the explosives heading towards the wall from the middle of the group. They were placed in the drain. The two ran out as another, carrying a lit torch, headed for the drain.

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Haldir was busily killing as many as he could, ever watchful of Nanaylia nearby. He took notice that she was seemed calm about things as she almost stood next to him.

"What makes you think that you can't fight when the rest of us are?" Haldir asked.

"Because they're not attacking me," Nanaylia replied with a smirk.

Haldir took more notice that what she was saying was indeed true. Very few of the Uruk-hai were attacking her, mainly the elves and men.

"They see me as a gargoyle, Haldir, not as an elf," she confirmed. "I can take my time more than you until they decide to do something about me."

Haldir rolled his eyes as he watched her pull out her knives and began to attack them.

'Which I hope doesn't happen. The fewer that go after her, the better,' Haldir thought to himself.

"Not that I'm not going to do anything to help, of course," she told him.

It was then that they heard Aragorn calling out to Legolas. She glanced to see an Uruk-hai heading towards the wall with torch in hand.

"Be prepared!" she called to Haldir. "We might have some trouble on our hands soon."

He nodded in reponse as he continued to fight yet preparing for the worst.

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Legolas heard Aragorn telling him to kill the Uruk-hai. He notched his bow and was ready to fire but something kept him back. Aragorn kept telling him but his arm wouldn't move.

'Why can't I release this arrow?' he wondered.

He finally managed to release two arrows but it was too little too late as the Uruk-hai dived and that section of wall exploded into pieces.

Aragorn landed on the ground, stunned as was Gimli. Legolas couldn't believe that he allowed something like that to happen but he found he couldn't kill him. It seemed to Legolas that the creature was a friend. The elf stepped back, as pain started to come back. This time, it was not just in his back or his arms but his entire body.

"Why is this happening now? I was certain that it would not have come back until morning," Legolas stuttered.

His head began to ache as he began to step back. With the pain too overwhelming, he failed to notice how close he was getting to the edge of the wall and with that, he plummeted off the wall and landed on the ground in a heap.

TBC...