Stalking the Fellowship

Chapter Forty one: Elrohir's feelings

"Move you stupid horse! Get off the damn boat!" Mo said struggling to get the stubborn Orion off the boat. Most of the crew and its passengers had disembarked and the rest were stuck on the boat as Mo was blocking the way.

"Legolas, get your elven ass down here now and move this horse," Mo pleaded.

Ten minutes later everyone else was once again firmly on solid ground, the dead army surrounding them ready to go into battle.

"We're going to die, we're going to die," Mo muttered under her breath.

"We shall be brave and victorious, we shall be heroes!" Maddy squealed.

"Shut up," Fran snapped.

"Hide, we must hide! I don't want to die," Mo continued to mumble, fear lacing her voice.

"Mo shut up!" Fran said, "I'm trying to think. You're all scared and Maddy has had a sudden rush of adrenaline that has turned her into a battle crazed lunatic. What is my role exactly?"

"The stupid one?" Maddy offered innocently.

"I will hit you across the head in a minute Madeleine."

"Hide! We must hide!"

Abruptly Maddy stopped, "What are you doing?" Francesca asked, "we are about to march out into battle and you're stopping to have a daydream, no scrap that, fantasies about a certain elf, I'm sure."

"I've been thinking about it, this army of the dead, you know it can kill everything in its path, right? Well, it will get all of the orcs around us so we could just…stay on the ship."

The two girls stared at her incredulously, "and you tell me after I have spent god knows how long trying to get my horse off the boat?" Mo groused.

The three then resolutely turned, breaking the unofficial ranks, and started jogging away towards the boats. "Where are you going?" called Elladan, frowning deeply.

"To the boats!" Mo called back as they continued their retreat, horses trotting beside them.

They got to the boats and quickly stowed their horses below deck before watching the battle scene, though they could not see it all.

"Minas Tirith…"Maddy breathed, "It's amazing."

"Apart from the fact that it's being catapulted with cannonballs and is falling apart," Fran replied sarcastically.

"You missed out that its crawling with dead people," said Mo as they watched the army scale the walls killing any orc that had dared enter the white city.

Meanwhile, Eowyn was defending her King, liege and uncle. "Look!" Maddy pointed, cowering slightly, "Eowyn is going to kill the Nazgul."

"Annoying Bitch," Mo muttered causing Fran to snort with laughter.

"I am no man," Maddy muttered and about thirty seconds later Eowyn's sword was embedded in the Witch King of Angmar's head should have been.

"You are scary, you know that?" Fran commented, "Why do you know what she's going to say when you can barely see her properly? Explain this to me. Are you suddenly blessed with elven eyesight, though that's impossible as you still where glasses." Fran was slightly peeved.

"I read!" Madeleine defended before becoming distracted, "Look! Legolas is bringing down the oliphant."

The girls watched in awe, "even I have to admit that was amazing," Mo announced.

They continued to watch the battle, for what seemed like hours.

"It's finished," said Fran eventually, "Come on, Maddy you can wave bye bye to the dead army and whatever."

Maddy nodded resolutely though they heard her mumble, "blanket."

Ooooo0ooooO

They were sitting in the throne room that had once belonged to the now dead steward; Gandalf was talking about diversions.

"Get off mister dwarf. I want to sit on it," Mo insisted, trying to shove the dwarf off the throne.

"Oh, so you do speak then? I thought you had vowed never to speak to us again."

"Move," she glared ignoring the annoyed look the wizard was giving them.

"No."

"Not even for just a little bit?"

"Nay."

"Stop stupid you short, fat dwarf. Move your ass, Gimli son of Gloin!" she tried commanding, though this failed dismally as she only succeeded in raising the dwarf's ire.

"Take that back," he ordered, rising off the throne, gripping his axe tightly.

"Enough of this!" Gandalf bellowed, "we are trying to help Frodo and all the two of you can do is argue little petulant children? Have some sense you fools."

"I'll sit on the stairs then," Mo cowered before the powerful mage.

"As I was saying, we need a diversion to buy enough time for Frodo to complete his task."

"What's this? A small chance of success, large one of dying, what are we waiting for? Let's go!" Gimli said, quickly vacating the white throne of Gondor.

"Right, ok then. I guess we'll see you when you get back then," Maddy said with finality, staring at Aragorn grimly.

"Will you not come with us?" Aragorn asked, "what of the advice Galadriel gave you? Will we not need it?"

"No Aragorn, all you need to do is follow your heart, you shall know what to do," Mo replied remembering the books and hoping that everything would go to plan.

"Yeah, we don't need to be there, we'll just get in the way." Fran continued, "we'll be fine, loads of places to explore."

Aragorn nodded, "I had thought that maybe…" he shook his head, "it matters not…"

"We'll get out of your hair now," Maddy smiled.

Aragorn smiled, "Elladan, Elrohir, I will need to speak with you later, but perhaps you could escort the girls out? We do not want them falling off the citadel."

"Is that a threat?" Fran grinned, "we must be careful," she let out in a stage whisper, "Or this new tyrant of a King will push us to an untimely death."

"Fran…" Mo shook her head, "Come on Elladan," she grabbed his hand and pulled him towards the door. "There's a great city to explore, if you ignore the dead and injured…" she trailed off. She walked through the door that Elladan held open for her and smiled, "Thank you, Elladan, for being there in times of need."

The elf smiled and squeezed her hand before dropping back behind the other girls, to keep pace with his brother.

Elrohir smiled softly, "So you have done it then? She no longer dislikes you, when did this happen? You used to tell me everything!" He teased causing Maddy and Fran to laugh as they had been eavesdropping.

"Nothing but friendship, dear brother." Elladan smirked, switching into Silvan, "And I thought you told me everything."

"I do, what made you think otherwise?" Elrohir questioned perplexed. His tone made the three girls turn towards him, the change in language intriguing them.

"The way your mouth hangs when you stare at Maddy!"

"I am simply in awe that someone so young knows so much."

"Really?" Elladan replied doubtfully.

"I heard my name! What are you saying about me? I don't understand your language." Maddy crossed her arms and glared at the older twin.

Elladan grinned, stuck his tongue out before flippantly commenting on the weather.

A/n It's a Friday night and I'm stuck at home :pouts: This is what happens when the humble author gets so engrossed in her school work she forgets to sort out her social life! So, with all this free time I can actually reply to reviews!

Bunny of despair: Kill Harry? Why would you want to do that? He's so cute and loveable, one of my favourite creations.

Fk306 animelover: Thanks! And is this quick enough? 24 hours?

LadyGlory: A reply! As rare as a dodo! At least they have been recently, I'm a very bad author. Though I would like to add that there are another two authors that write this and they're lurking about somewhere!

Fae black: I would guess that's because they were on a boat and stuff!

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