Stalking the Fellowship
Chapter Twenty: A tangled web of lies
"We really should practice our sword play," decided Mo, taking her sword out motioning to Fran to do the same.
"Erm, Maddy's sleeping. We can't in here."
"Throne Room then, that's where Eowyn practices, did you see..."
"How she looked at Aragorn? She might as well of had 'Take Me' written across her forehead," finished Fran.
"We should totally mess up the whole Aragorn/ Eowyn thing."
"We can't."
"Why?"
Fran glanced at the bed.
"What Maddy doesn't know, doesn't matter. Anyway, she messed up the whole Gandalf thing."
"Oh yeah! Come on then."
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"No, Legolas, Gimli we can trust them." Interceded Aragorn.
"Aragorn! They've been following us since Hollin! Before we met Galadriel!"
"They must have a reason," Aragorn persisted.
"Spies of Saruman!"
"Who?" Eomer asked sitting next to them.
"Those girls," spat Gimli.
"They couldn't hurt a fly," said Eomer grinning.
"Take that!" Shouted Fran thrusting her sword at Mo's side.
"Never! Give up!"
"I will vanquish you!"
"Long word!" teased Mo.
"And what are you going to do about it?"
"Hit you over the head with a thesaurus repeatedly."
"I didn't say what fly," shrugged Eomer.
Eowyn came across the room glaring at them. She walked over, "He's mine, not that Maddy; who he was carrying earlier," she said her heatedly her eyes blazing.
"What?" asked Fran.
"No point in stopping them," Said Mo, "They're hopelessly in love, going to marry when he becomes King of Gondor."
"What?" Eowyn said startled, dropping the ceramic bowl she was holding, letting it shatter before running out.
"That was bitchy," Said Fran.
"She's a bitch!"
"Fighting fire with fire?"
"Too right! What?" She asked the men, "That woman is mad! She has got it into her head that Gimli is hopelessly in love with Legolas, but was devastated as she likes Gimli."
"What?" Eomer asked astonished.
"MO!" Interjected Fran.
"What? Let us have our fun!" Mo replied flippantly, a glint in her eye.
"What about gaining trust?"
"Leave it to Maddy; we have to make sure that she's always with Aragorn."
"Er Legolas? She stalks him."
"Well Leggy and Aragorn will always have to be together then." Mo grinned an evil grin.
"Don't let Maddy come into the room until I get everyone seated," whispered Mo to Fran
"Why?"
"Because... oh you'll see, oh don't let Eowyn in either," with that she walked off into the dining room leaving Fran puzzled.
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"Your majesty please have a seat," said Mo pulling the chair at the table.
"Why thank you..." said Théoden.
"Mo."
"Mo, but you are the guest in my house, do have a seat."
"Thank you, but I will be honoured to sit everyone at your table," said Mo grinning evilly once more.
"Very well, please do so."
"You are very kind my lord." said Mo as she backed towards the door.
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"No Maddy, you can't go to dinner like that," said Fran stopping Maddy from leaving the room.
"Why not? I want meet the king!" moaned Maddy.
"Because... Because... Because you stink and you need a bath," said Fran quickly.
"Fine," said Maddy as she retreated to the bathroom.
Just then Eowyn walked past.
"Eowyn wait," yelled Fran closing Maddy's bedroom door.
"What is it?"
"Erm before we go to lunch, can I have a word?"
"Ah I guess you could," replied Eowyn.
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"Aragon, pleasure to meet you again," said Mo now pulling out the chair next to Théoden.
"Pleasure's all mine," replied Aragorn before accepting the seat.
Legolas then came into the room with Gimli, heading towards the seat next to Aragorn. But before he could sit down, Mo ran to the other side of the table pulled out two chairs and said. "I'm so very sorry, but those seats are reserved, please do have mine and Francesca's seat."
Seeing that it was too rude to reject, Legolas accepted the seat, bringing along Gimli. "I don't know what you're up to girl, but be assured I will find out." He muttered.
"What? Little old me up to something? I don't think I could even hurt a fly," Said Mo sweetly before seating everyone else down.
"I wonder why she's being so nice." Gimli said to Legolas.
"Is it so wrong for someone to be nice without you questioning it?" Legolas enquired.
"No. Not when it's someone else, but when it's her then yes, the look of those three is deceiving."
"Oh stop being so worried and enjoy their company."
Now there were four seats remaining, one for Francesca, Madeleine, Mo and Eowyn.
Just on time Fran and Maddy walked into the room, and Mo pulled Maddy towards the seat next to Aragorn and then sat herself and Fran down leaving Eowyn the seat next to Gimli.
Théoden rose from his throne at the very head of the table.
"Welcome friends old and new. During these hard times good food is hard to find, but do enjoy the splendours we have to eat." Théoden raised his arms and directed the servants forward. They carried greatly gilded trays of steaming foods.
"Finally some decent food," said Maddy relieved.
"Don't diss the lembas man! Galadriel may haunt you in your sleep if you start dissing her food," warned Mo.
"I'm not the only one grateful to quit eating Lembas," said Maddy tilting her head towards Fran sitting next to her, who was transferring a hand full of food from every tray onto the pile of food already on her plate.
"Are you going to eat all that?" asked Mo.
"Yeff" a muffled yep came from Fran's mouth which had been crammed to the brim with chicken.
The feasting continued way into the night with Gimli telling stories of the many treasures unearthed by his dwarf ancestors, Théoden told the banquet of the great wars of the past and Legolas sang a loud his favourite elven folk songs much to Maddy's delight.
"Very good," complimented Aragorn, "You have a beautiful voice Legolas."
"Firstly not only does Legolas look like a woman he sings like one. Secondly, Aragorn couldn't be gayer. Can you feel the sexual tension between them?" Fran joked to Mo, laughing aloud.
"Pass me the cup of apple juice please," Maddy slurred.
"Apple juice?" Said a surprised Fran, "Maddy that's cider, alcoholic apple juice."
"Oh...I thought it tasted...hic... funny." Maddy leaned heavily on to the table, clutching the jugs wooden handle and after three attempts she successfully poured cider into her goblet and not the table.
Mo and Fran looked at Maddy down every last drop of cider, then looked at each other and laughed.
"It's time to put Maddy to bed, I think." Fran told Mo.
Maddy made another loud hiccup which came very unexpectedly causing her to jump with fright and falling over backwards.
"Yeah," Mo said, while Maddy's calves could be seen waving uncontrollably in the air. "Definitely."
The two (more sombre) girls stood up, "Excuse us," Mo said politely to the table of guests who were all staring at Maddy's attempts to get to her hands and knees. The girls took hold of one of Maddy's arm each and dragged her across the floor. All three girls exited backwards in respect to the royalty present.
A/n well according to our account we haven't updated this since 22/2, huge apologies for that. I edit these chapters and I haven't been on the computer since then…I have to compete and everyone has coursework or just normal work to do…Anyway, onto reviews…
Jousting elf with a sabre: It seems your threatening us with vegetables didn't work, though I think that's more to do with the fact that I haven't even been able to check reviews recently…I hope you enjoyed this chapter though…laugh at my expense.
Lady Glory: After all this editing I seem to have noticed that we don't like Éowyn, that said we don't seem to like any of the female characters…Yesterday we were reading an article that has made the three of us hate Arwen more than we previously did.
So I am: Thanks for the review!
Dark Lady Arantraneth: Is DBD back yet?
Avarwen: Is this going to be another Legolas drooling fan-girl fic? Well first off the story is based around three characters only one of which erm…drools over him, and no she doesn't end up with him in the normal sense of he gives up his immortality (even though he can't as he's not half-elven like Elrond's lot)… ' "The world started spinning around and the three found themselves on the ground, map in front of them." It's clear enough that you meant they had gone somewhere else, but it also could be mistaken as meaning that before they were up in the air with the map behind them.' Erm…the spinning part meant more than a turn of more than 180 degrees…And by saying that they landed on the ground meant bare ground rather than being in a building, I wouldn't count the floor of my bedroom as the ground…just the floor.
Lewdeveen: Thankies!
Well I am about to edit the next chapter; hopefully I will get a large batch done so that Mo cant post…
All reviews welcome!
PiXiE