Disclaimer: I do not own Lord of the Rings and it characters, you know the drill.
Summary: When Legolas gets wounded in battle and falls ill from orc poison, can a young Aragorn heal him or will he die in the attempt?
Genre: Drama, for now.
Raiding: T for Teen, just to be safe.
Chapter Two: Drastic Times Means Drastic Measures.
Aragorn awoke with a start when a cry of agony reached his ears. Panicking he looked around till he realized that the cries of pain where coming from his injured friend Legolas. The elf was curled up in a fetal position, his sweat drenched hair clinging to his face. Sometime during the night, the young elf started to feel small cramps through his abdomen, he tried to ignore the pain, hoping that it would go away. Unfourtunely it didn't and it quickly progressed to the cramps he was feeling now.
Aragorn rushed to his side, brushing the sweat soaked hair from his friend's face. His whole body started to seize up when a stabbing pain entered his stomach. Tears spilled from the elf's eyes, and Aragorn lovingly brushed them away.
"Mellon nin, I am here. Let me comfort you." He put a hand on Legolas's forehead to check his fever and found out it raged higher than the last time. He took a cool cloth and moped the elf's burning body, as Legolas moaned in pain.
What could be causing him so much pain, the young healer thought, could it be the wound that was poisoned with the orc blade? Suddenly without warning, Legolas to gasp in quick breaths. Aragorn rolled over the elf on his uninjured side as he began to vomit. But what the elf threw up worried the young healer, the young prince was throwing up blood.
Oh Valar, thought Aragorn, this situation is quickly getting out of my hands. After his friend had finished vomiting, he gently laid him back down, wiping the blood from his mouth.
The young elf's eyes were closed, his breathing slow and raspy. Aragorn checked the elf's pulse and it was still there, though it was getting weaker by the minute.
Oh please Mellon Nin, pleaded Aragorn, hoping that his friend would here, please hang on, don't die, I would be lost without you. As if he heard the ranger's words, Legolas's eyes fluttered open.
"Aragorn," he whispered weakly, "I feel so tired and weak." Again his eyes started to close, but his eyes shot open again when pain washed through him again. His body shook with the trauma as Aragorn put a comforting hand on his forehead. The elf gasped and the healer turned him over again as the elf expulsed more blood.
The pure motion of vomiting pained Legolas even more and he was almost on the verge of passing out. Aragorn heartbreakingly tried to comfort his friend as best he could, wishing that he could take his friend's place and not see him suffering so. After it was over Legolas felt so weak that he collapsed on his back, his hands shaking violently.
Aragorn unwrapped the bandage that was around the wound in the elf's side. To his dismay he found it still a sickly color of blue, but also it was red with infection. Oh Valar, I shouldn't have fallen asleep. I should have kept an eye on him and his wounds. Legolas stirred as the fever raged in his body, wishing for some way to cool the fire in his body. His relief came as the form of a cool cloth on his forehead.
Aragorn continued to put a cool cloth on the elf's forehead, all the while wondering what he was going to do to give his friend aide. If he tried to stay here and heal the elf himself without the proper medicine he could die, and yet if he tried to make it back to Rivendell, the journey alone could kill him also.
His thoughts were broken when he felt the elf relax and his eyes closed. The elf's skin grew paler and Aragorn knew what he had to do, he could not stay here. Gathering the limp form of Legolas in his arms he mounted his horse, and with determination in his heart he vowed to get his friend home, even if it meant dying himself.
Well that is the second chapter, what is going to happen to our two companions? Is Aragorn going to make it in time? The next chapter is going to be called "Shelter from the Storm." and someone is going to be in trouble by the end of the chapter, gulp!
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