Edited 1/2/20

Chapter 9

After three days and a lot of running the woods of Lothlorian came into view. But Harry was really feeling the effects of the poison now, soon after they were past the tree line Harry collapsed breathing hard.

"Harry, what's wrong?" James, Sirius, and Remus all crowded around Harry trying to find out why he collapsed.

"My times almost up." Harry rasped

"What are you talking about, what do you mean your time is almost up, son?" James asked worriedly

"The poison, when Gandalf fell I was hit with a poison tipped arrow, I knew we had to get here I couldn't have anyone else killed because of me. I may only have a few hours left at most before my body goes into a coma to heal itself."

Sirius sighed and said "You need to stop this, sacrificing yourself for everyone else, we can't lose you either." Harry just smiled shakily.

Aragorn stood to the side looking calm but on the inside he was panicking he knew Harry would die if they did not get him to Lady Galadriel soon. It seemed that James knew this as well as he stood, told Remus and Sirius to stay with Harry and walked to the edge of the clearing before calling out "I am James Halfelfin son of Lord Elrond of Rivendell and grandson of Lord Celdaborn and Lady Galadriel my son is poisoned and needs healing please help us I am begging you."

Soon after a voice rang out that four people in the clearing never expected to hear again. "No need to beg James Harry will be helped." And a man with shoulder length black hair, and midnight black eyes, stepped out into the clearing his voice was chocolate velvet the only thing new was the smile on his face.

"Severus it is good to see you with all my memories intact old friend. Harry's over here please help him." James said still stunned.

Severus kneeled down by Harry and said "Still getting yourself into trouble Harry?" Harry just chuckled weekly and nodded Severus just shook his head and sighed "All right I will take him ahead get him to Lady Galadriel the others will escort the rest of you there. I will come get you when Milady say he is well enough or she needs any of you."

"Thank you Sev, take care of him." James replied Severus only nodded and then he lifted Harry into his arms Bridal style and ran into the woods till he reached his horse and he put Harry on getting up behind him and then spurred his horse into a run hoping he would get there in time.

(Time skip)

Severus walked to where the Fellowship was camped out and took James and Aragorn aside "Milady had asked for the both of you to come to our house of healing she needs to talk to you both separately then together. Harry's fine" Severus added as an afterthought seeing the worried look on James's face.

Soon they were all at the house of healing and Severus spoke "James is to go first then once he comes back out Aragorn will go in next then she will call James back in. I will take my leave."

James grabbed Severus by the arm to stop him from leaving just yet "Thank you for saving my sons life. If you had not gotten here quick enough he would have been dead so thank you." Severus just nodded and left to get back to the border as he was the March Warden much to Haldir's dislike as he had been before Severus reclaimed his post as he was older than Haldir by a hundred years so he got his post back.

James walked into the house of healing and saw his son sleeping peacefully and sighed in relief then he noticed his grandmother "Grand-Naneth, Thank you for saving my son."

Lady Galadriel laughed lightly "Of course he is family but I need to speak with you my grandson, Harry is very special as you know but it is even deeper than you think. When the time comes he will help Frodo destroy the ring at great cost. I do not know the cost but I do know it will be great and for a while there will be grief but it will not be permanent. He will be the turning point and finality of this war. But he will have those he can lean on the one he will lean on the most is Aragorn, from what I can see Aragorn will be Harry's strength and happiness in the end. I cannot see how though is that Harry will need him more than anyone else including you." James nodded starting to understand just what the Gondorian King meant for his son and hoped that he did not hurt him or he would hurt him worse.

"Send Aragorn in please Jamie." James smiled at the old nickname but nodded and left the room and sent Aragorn in behind him.

"Aragorn." Harry whispered in his sleep as the very man entered the room. Aragorn was shocked to say the least until Harry started to cry out Aragorn could not help but rush over to him taking Harry's hand in his running the other through Harry's hair saying "Shh, Harry rest easy your safe now. No one will harm you." Harry calmed and leaned into Aragorn's caress sighing gently.

"Now you see that he needs you. My grandson has known nothing of love until now, he has known only war, death, and abuse. You are the one who was chosen to help him through this, to be his everything and he yours. He trusts you much already and his trust is hard to gain. When you find out what this truly means understand that it will not be easy but as long as you have each other you can get through anything. Do you understand me Aragorn?" Lady Galadriel asked as she stepped around the bed that Harry lay in.

Without looking away from Harry Aragorn said "I already know I care about him greatly I just don't know how far that goes yet. I do know I will never abandon him I will protect him the best I can. I will always be there if he needs me. The more I am around him the more I want to be for him. I do understand what you are saying Milady and I will honor it." Lady Galadriel just smiled and went to get her grandson.

"You may both stay here with him till he wakes, when he wakes he will be free to go. I will see you all later just remember what I have told you both." After the Galadriel left the three men alone, nothing was said until Harry woke and hour later.

(Time skip)

Harry woke feeling groggy until he heard his Dad's voice "Harry, come son wake up."

Harry was glad his dad was ok as was everyone else at least they could rest easy here. "I'm up Ada, I am sorry I just could not let anyone else be killed because I failed."

"You did not fail Gandalf did what he had to do and you said yourself he will be back. But next time you need to let us know if you are injured so it does not get to this point again and if you don't I will box your ears."

Harry chuckled but nodded then he saw Aragorn "I heard you while I slept you pulled me from a nightmare no one has been able to do that before. Thank you."

Aragorn smiled softly "Your welcome I will always be there when you need me I promise you that."

"Come on lets go see the rest of the fellowship they are all worried about you." James said standing up helping his son stand as well. Soon they were all off to go to the camp where the rest of the fellowship waited.

When they got there Frodo was the first to see them and came bounding over hugging Harry around the waist "I am so glad you're ok. I was so scared you were going to die."

Harry hugged Frodo back saying "It will take a lot more than that to kill me Frodo. I will always come back to you sometime." Frodo just hugged him tighter. Soon after Harry was bowled over by the rest of the hobbits he laughed as he was tickled by the four of them.

He was given mercy soon after and after he stood up Gimlie embraced him saying "You have the uncanniest luck Laddie bless you."

"Thank you Gimlie." Harry said hugging the dwarf back.

"You scared us all young one but I am glad your alright your need a older brother to look after you and kick you behind into gear so I will take that role and make sure you don't do this again. I am just glad you're ok." Legolas hugged Harry close he had become very fond of the younger elf over the time he had spent with him and knew he did think of his as a younger brother that he had to protect and he would.

Borimire just said he was glad that Harry was alright and that he should not have made his father so worried about him then went off to sit alone. Soon enough all the fellowship went to sleep fully resting for the first time in a while without fear.

(Time skip)

Almost a week had pasted for the Fellowship as they stayed in Lothlorian. Harry got to know all the members of the fellowship better in this time but he also spent time with his grandmother Lady Galadriel who taught him how to communicate with others from a great distance like she could so he contacted his mother and talked to her for a long while she comforted him about Gandalf saying he did all he could and scolding him for being careless but saying she was glad he was ok. They promised each other they would talk soon. Harry was glad he now had a link to his mother who he knew would always be there to lend an ear if he needed to talk.

Today was when the fellowship was to leave Lothlorian Harry had said his goodbyes to Severus who he was glad was alive and well and to his grandmother. She had given him his own Evenstare pendent who he could give to his beloved when he knew who it was and he could not have been happier to have it. He was also given an elfin cloak with a gold leaf broach on it holding the clasp together to remind him he was not alone and never would be.

Soon the fellowship was off in the boats down the river onward towards the next stage of their journey. Harry knew what would happen to Borimire but he had also been working with his powers and knew he could save the young Gondorian and give him another chance at life.