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Together Forever

By: Lady Starlight 2

Ch. 8

Night was falling as the company found a place to stay for the night. It was then that the girls noticed a large cut starting from above his left eyebrow all the way down Gimli's face ending at his chin. "Gimli, what happened here?" Llianna asked.

"Orc blade cut my face. No matter, it takes more than a cut to bring down a dwarf!" He exclaimed proudly.

"It will get infected if you do not treat it, Gimli." A soft yet stern voice said.

"Why would you care, Ellena?" The dwarf rebounded.

"I may tease you, Gimli, but that doesn't mean that I don't care. I care greatly for my friends, you Gimli, are one of them. So how about you let us fix you up." Soon Gimli was patched up and dark was the night, only lit up by the glow of the pale waning moon.

"Ellena, I meant to ask how you did that move." Gimli queried.

"It was the only thing that got me into the top guard. I can't really explain how."

"Well…I thank you for saving me back there."

"No problem," she yawned, her blue eyes becoming mere slits. "Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to sleep." With that she lay down and was out in a matter of seconds.

Angel nudged her in her side with her foot. "She must really be tired, she didn't even budge."

"She's been up every night watching over everybody. She deserves this rest." Legolas remarked.

"Every night?" Gimli questioned, looking towards the sleeping girl. A new light flickered in his eyes, that of respect for the female elf. "I'll take the first watch."

"And I the second." Legolas offered looking down at Ellena's prone form, a soft smile on his face.

Gimli noticed the smile and remembered the feelings of secrecy he kept getting from the others. "Alright, Ellena is asleep; tell me what is going on, the whole story." The four others looked to Gandalf in question, he nodded and they retold the story, bits and pieces being put in by the two males. A contented smile fell on Gimli's face at the story. "There, now I know what is happening. You two caught yourselves some very nice women." Looking at Aragorn's and Legolas' shocked faces he chuckled. "Aye. I might not be an elf with their sharp sight but I could see it clearly."

Angel blushed while Legolas and Aragorn looked away, fighting blushes down from their carelessness. Llianna let a crafty smile show on her face, she rarely had anything to tease Ellena about, but the fact that she was in love with her brother was very good teasing material, and another had just presented itself. Ellena had turned over in her sleep; tendrils of long brown hair fell into her face which was pale in the soft glow of the moon.

"You would never believe that she could cause so much harm, she looks so innocent." Gimli's gruff voice proclaimed.

Another smile crept across the princess of Mirkwood's face at this…group teasing. "None of us look deadly while we sleep. Gandalf, you just look like an old man, one who cannot possibly do any harm. Gimli, sorry to say this, but you look like a big bearded baby. Aragorn, Legolas, I can't say what you two look like but you couldn't look any more innocent than you do. Angel, I have to say that you look like a small sapling, easily broken." Llianna finished.

"I see you left yourself out." Gandalf pointed out.

"Yes, sister dear, why is that?"

Llianna looked around nervously.

"I think that she is afraid to tell us that she looks the same when she's asleep as she is awake; exactly like glass!" Angel proclaimed.

Llianna screeched at the sinister looks that everyone wore as they slowly approached her. Stormy blue eyes shot open as Ellena sprang up, an arrow already flying through the air. The arrow hit Gimli's chest plate, lodging itself in.

A look of shock passed over her face as she saw what she had done. She looked shakily at the surprised expressions on everyone's face as she backed up slowly. "Oh God…" she mumbled before she ran into a nearby forest with the other's staring after her in shock.

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