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Chapter 14
The sun rose on over the body littered field that had seen the worst battle in nearly an Age. The women and children were being released from the caves and directed towards the infirmary to claim their dead husbands, sons, and brothers. Iasbelin had dreaded this moment the entire time she was in the caves. She waited for the moment when she would see Legolas on one of the beds and she would lose it. She knew that her body could not suffer any more heart break. She was already fading and if something did not change soon she would be gone.
Iasbelin put Osric on her hip and walked out of the caves into broad daylight. She could see wounded soldiers and bodies littering the streets. A huge hole had been blown in the keep's wall and thousands of bodies lay where the wall once was. She saw Gimli sitting on an Orc and smoking a pipe from a distance and sighed a breathe of relief. At least the Dwarf had survived. After she saw Gimli she turned and headed towards the hall of healing where she knew the bodies that had been found now rest. She entered and a foul stench caught her nose. Osric wrinkled his nose at the stench too.
As far as the eye could see there were bodies piled onto of the beds and on the floor. Iasbelin drew in a breathe of courage and made her way up and down the rows of dead bodies. She heard wailing and sobbing every time a woman found her dead kinsmen. She saw a small girl sitting next to a slightly larger boy and holding his hand. The girl had silent tears running down her face. Iasbelin thrust her head away from the sight and continued down the rows. She saw so much death and she wondered how Legolas coped with it every day. She was very sheltered in her home at the Mirkwood palace but she knew that her husband had fought in many battles and was used too seeing death.
After walking up and down the rows of men twice Iasbelin decided that no one she knew was in this room so she went outside to see if she could be of any help. She walked down the stairs and down to the place where she had seen Gimli. Maybe he could be of help to her. She did not see Gimli sitting on the Orc when she returned to the spot, however. She looked around and saw the soldiers of Rohan looking through the hoard of bodies for any one who may still be alive. Iasbelin felt water soaking into her shoes and looked down at where she was standing. Instead of looking down at water she found herself standing in a pool of blood and she followed the blood to its origin and found three men lying side by side with their swords clasped across their chests. She let out a heart wrenching scream and fell to her knees with Osric in her arms.
Legolas found Gimli sitting on and Orc directly after the battle and decided that it was time to tell him that he had won the competition. There was no way that the Dwarf could beat him with forty-two kills. Legolas walked up to Gimli and examined his bow as if killing that many Orcs was not hard at all.
"Final count, forty-two." Legolas beamed.
"Fort-two? Well, that's not bad for a pointy eared Elivsh princeling. I myself am sitting pretty on forty-three!" Gimli laughed. Legolas drew an arrow and placed it right between Gimli's legs and into the Orc.
"Forty-three" Legolas said proudly.
"He was already dead." Gimli countered.
"He was twitching." Legolas replied.
"He was twitching because he's got my axe imbedded in his nervous system!" Gimli yelled as he moved his axe to show Legolas. Legolas simply snarled and walked away in a huff.
"Better luck next time laddie!" Gimli called after him. Legolas simply ignored him and walked to the other side of the wall where he knew Aragorn was sitting. He found him on a rock smoking his pipe much like Gimli had been doing.
"I heard you lost." Aragorn said when Legolas reached earshot.
"He cheated." Legolas replied as he sat down next to his friend.
"I'm sure. We ride for Isengard as soon as we help clean up here." Aragorn said.
"I need to find Iasbelin and make sure she is alright." Legolas replied.
"Send her with Eowyn back to Edoras. She can help her get ready for the party." Aragorn stated.
"That is a good idea. She will not be pleased about it though." Legolas huffed.
"When is she ever?" Aragorn laughed. Legolas smirked and patted his friend on the back.
"Where it not for you we would have lost this battle, my friend." Legolas complimented.
"No, it was not me. It was the men who now lie dead at my feet that fought for their families and kingdom." Aragorn muttered
"The people of Rohan will forever be in there debt." Legolas responded. Just as he said that a blood curling screamed ripped through the air. Both men whipped their heads around and raced to follow the scream. It had come from inside the blown out wall. Legolas reached the wall and gasped as he saw where the scream had come from. Aragorn stopped straight in his path and started at Iasbelin. She was on he knees next to three dead men. A young child tugged on her dress and called her name as Iasbelin wept. Legolas raced over to his wife and knelt in front of her trying to see her face.
"Iasbelin! What's wrong?" Legolas asked. Aragorn and Gimli were not far behind Legolas and they stopped when they reached to two Elves.
"He was but twelve years of age and now he is gone. His father and brother along with him." Iasbelin explained through her tears. She touched the little boy's face and bent down to kiss him in the forehead.
"Iasbelin, I do not understand." Legolas said quietly. Osric simply stared at Iasbelin as she wept over his family.
"Theolaf, this child, asked me to watch over his brother while he was fighting. Now his entire family is gone and Osric does not have a family." Iasbelin said. Osric looked up at Iasbelin when she said his name and she went over to her side and clung to her. Legolas looked at the child and then back to the three men lying on the ground. They all looked extremely similar. Legolas realized that this was the child's family.
"There is nothing that you can do, Iasbelin." Legolas soothed. Iasbelin looked up at Legolas and rose from her kneeling position. She picked Osric up and walked up to Legolas.
"Osric, this is Legolas, my husband. He is an Elf just like me." Iasbelin introduced as she smoothed out his hair.
"Hello, Mister Elf." Osric waved with one hand. In the other hand he clutched his toy horse, Arroch.
"Hello to you too, Master Osric." Legolas replied. He looked up at Iasbelin and then back down to the child. He knew exactly what she was thinking. He turned to Aragorn and Gimli. "If you will excuse us." Legolas led Iasbelin away from prying ears and spoke to her.
"Are you sure you want to do this?" Legolas asked. Iasbelin put the child down and let him play with his horse.
"I am sure."
"The child is human. He is not an Elf, you will have to bury him one day." Legolas explained.
"I know but this child is alone and he had no family. I cannot just leave him." Iasbelin replied.
"If you really wish to continue with this I give my consent." Legolas complied. Iasbelin smiled at her husband and placed a small kiss on his lips. She bent down to pick Osric up.
"How would you like to be a prince?" She asked him with tears still in her eyes.
"Oh yes, Belin!" He called her 'Belin because he could not pronounce her full name.
"Well my dear I think we can arrange that." She laughed. Legolas smiled and touched the child's face. He never thought that this would happen to him. He was a father and his wife had finally gotten the child she had pined after for so long.
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