Hidden Secrets
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Chapter Thirty: Aragorn & Beran
T.A. 3019
"Aranwen?" Aragorn said softly as he saw Aranwen stir slightly.
A pair of gray-blue eyes slowly blinked open and Aranwen whispered, "Ada?"
Aragorn nodded and Aranwen smiled. Her father was all right, just as she had hoped he would be. But why was she just waking up?
Aranwen went to sit up from the ground and her head pounded. Wincing, she touched the back of her head and touched some blood from a cut. The sticky substance was red—the color of her blood. She then remembered getting hit with a shield and knocked to the ground.
"You're lucky to be alive," Aragorn told her.
"No, you're lucky to be alive!" hissed a voice from behind Aragorn and a blade appeared at his throat.
Aranwen jumped at the sound of the voice and looked up to see Beran holding a dagger to her father's throat. Beran was going to kill Aragorn.
"Daro i, Beran!" Aranwen cried. "Daro i!" (Stop that, Beran! Stop that!)
"Give me one good reason, Wanderer. Give me one good reason why I shouldn't kill this Ranger," he challenged her.
"He's my father," Aranwen whispered, voice trembling and close to tears. "He's my father…"
"What?" cried Beran in shock as he dropped the dagger at Aragorn's throat and stepped back. "Your father? You told me he was dead! You told me your whole family was dead!"
"They were!" she exclaimed. "The people that I believed to be my family were dead. My mother sent me away when I was two. She sent me away to protect me. My father never knew I was even born."
"Protect you from what?"
"People like you, Beran. People who would see her dead!" yelled Aragorn who moved over to sit by his daughter.
"I don't want her dead. I never did. I wanted to protect her."
"If you want to protect me, you have to stop chasing me," Aranwen said softly. "It's the only way. You scare me when you chase me."
"How then, would I know you were safe?" he questioned.
"You would have to trust ada. You would have to trust him to keep me safe. Someday, when this war is over, you can come back. But not now. You are putting me in constant danger by following me."
"When will I know that I can come back?"
"You'll know, don't worry about it. Right now, other Rangers need your help. I will be fine, Beran," said Aranwen.
"Gerich veleth nin, Wanderer," Beran said softly and sadly as he disappeared again. (You have my love, Wanderer.)
Aranwen closed her eyes and bit her lip. She'd done it. She'd managed to send Beran away. But why did it hurt so much?
Author's Notes:
This is an odd chapter, but it shows a lot about the trust and feelings between Beran and Aranwen. Aragorn would have killed Beran, but when Aranwen didn't seem worried about him and he didn't attack her, he decided to sit back and wait. He suspecting that there is more to them than meets the eye. Next update soon!
Reviewers!
ElvenRyder – Now you can see why I left it there: )
YoginiGal – Correct! And now you get to see Beran again! But don't think that he's gone, cause he's not: )
IwishChan – Yep, he was always so close, yet so far. : )
ArwenFairTinuviel – She's okay, but yes, Orcs are very evil: )
Fae Black – She was a little too crazy in her search, but she probably had a good reason why she felt she needed to find him. Pregnant women are a little crazy anyways. I don't let family members, other than my cousin, read my fan fictions. My other family members can read my original fiction, but I don't want them reading my fan fictions. I'm fine with letting others read it though! My family would probably want to send me to a loony bin if they read some of my fan fictions. They'd think I was crazy. : )