Authors note: So I managed to come out with another chapter… yay! I hope you all enjoy and thank you to those who reviewed!

Disclaimer: I do not own lord of the rings

Through the wind and the rain
Through the laughter and pain
Count on me
And when life isn't fair and there's nobody there
I will be
In a world of pretenders
I am your defender
And when it all comes down
I'll be the last one standing

Chapter six: Defender

"No it wasn't, I am sorry," he said feeling guilty as his head rested on the cold bars of her cell, "I will save you I promise."

"Please no more promises prince of Mirkwood," she said sadly, "I don't need a hero, and I don't want you to get yourself into any unnecessary problems."

"You may not need a hero Inwë, but helping people is what I do. I will not leave you here, not without a fight," he said and walked off before she could protest. A slight smile came to her face, she finally had someone she could call a friend.

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A day had passed while Olwë, Celebriän, and Legolas sat in their rooms. The day had finally arrived where there would be a trial. Legolas prepared in his nicest clothes, while the others just got dressed up. They quickly went for a breakfast before they went down to a room that was full of people ready to tri this "murderer". Legolas sat up front with Aragorn and Arwen, his other two friends sat in the crowd of people. He watched them walk the brown haired girl out to sit besides the gaurds, and the men of her town.

"So why have you brought us this girl?" Aragorn said trying to act like he knew nothing.

"She murdered a man, a bartender, an inn's keeper, a good man," her step father's best friend said glaring at her. She looked at her dead stepfathers drinking buddy.

"Ok, tell me what happened," Aragorn said looking at the tiny scared girl.

"Well he wasn't just some man, he was my stepfather, a terrible drunk…" before she could finish she was interrupted.

"A LIE! LIAR!" the drunken man who was her stepfather's friend yelled angrily as he pushed her back into her seat. Legolas gripped his chair ready to stand before Aragorn put his hand up in front of his friend; the men from the forest had not noticed the elf from the forest sitting there.

"SILENCE!" Aragorn yelled to the man, "let her finish!"

"Thank you my lord," she said bowing her head and standing back up. She looked to Legolas finally noticing him sitting there, he had a hand up to his mouth obviously thinking about trying something, she shook her head softly, "he was no great man, he ran his business into the ground, he drank our money away, spent his time yelling at me, drinking," Legolas began to wonder where she was going with this, why didn't she just say she didn't do it, "I did kill him, but he deserved it…"

"Liar, LIAR, LIAR!" yelled the man again jumping up in anger.

"She is a liar," Legolas said jumping up from his seat, everyone turned to look at the blonde elf, they recognized the prince of Mirkwood. Everyone turned to their neighbor gossiping their suspicion, "she didn't kill him!"

"Legolas no!" she yelled looking at him, her fate was already sealed, she was a woman they would not harm her, but what would they do to him? Everyone then began to get louder buzzing with excitement.

"ENOUGH EVERYONE!" yelled Aragorn angrily.

"I killed him," Legolas said bravely everyone turned to look at him as Aragorn's hand flew to his face and he sat back into his chair.

"Legolas," Aragorn said slouching in his chair, Arwen bit her lip trying not to laugh.

"What, I am man enough to admit I murdered him, he was a horrible person, I will tell you what happened. The night before his death there was a bar fight, I stopped it and he threatened me and her, she told me to leave so I left, I had realized I left my knife the next day. When I returned to the bar I saw him pointing at her. He then came at me when he saw me, he would have killed her as he went to strangle her, I through the knife at him, I didn't try to kill him, but it happened, I… am so sorry," he said looking at Inwë, she looked at him slowly sitting into her chair.

"I do not believe you!" one of the men jumped up and yelled.

"It is true, I am a prince of Mirkwood, you cannot touch me, it was self defense for her and me," he said still standing, his long blonde hair falling to his shoulders. She had never admired him more since she met him. One of the Gondorian guards untied Inwë. She rubbed her wrist and looked at the prince of Mirkwood, now she had a hard choice, stay with him and journey with him for he saved her, or go on her own like she had always dreamed to.

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Inwë looked at Legolas from across the table; this was a very hard decision for her. She slowly ate her ham while looking at her plate, shouldn't she be happier? Legolas looked over at her wondering do I like her? NO I can't, can I? He looked down at his fork as Arwen and Aragorn along with Olwë, and Celebriän eating merrily.

"So Legolas you said you had bad news," Aragorn said slurping up some of his soup.

"Yes, I believe that there is another threat to Middle earth," Legolas said looking at Aragorn.

"What kind of threat?" Aragorn asked nervously.

Authors note: Thanks everyone! I hope you enjoyed it. Sorry it was short I had to hurry lol…