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The journey to Helm's Deep was sad. Very sad. Not even Gimli said a word. When they reached they destination Éowyn came to them.
"So few. So few of you have returned." Lessien did not found the courage to look at her. However Gimli did.
"My lady..." he said.
"Lord Aragorn, where is he?" she asked with worry.
"He fell..." Gimli said looking at his feet.
Lessien couldn't take it. She turned around and walked away. Legolas noticed this and followed her.
"Lessien. Feith! (Wait!)" He was running towards her.
She stopped but did not turn around.
"What do you want Legolas?" she asked with venom in her voice.
Legolas was taken back at this.
"What do I want? To speak to you."
She turned around, tears streaming down her eyes.
"You had all day. All damn day! And now that the worst has happened... Now you wish to speak to me?"
He looked at her with sadness.
"I am sorry. I needed to think. What happened yesterday..."
"Happened because you wanted it to happen." Lessien said angry, poking a finger in his chest.
"I know that... I thought it was a mistake-"
She slapped him. With all her strength.
"Uum n' hinual nae amin au (Do not speak to me again.)" And with that she turned around and ran, not knowing where she was heading.
Lessien ran and ran. She passed Gimli and heard him shout for her. She didn't care. The tears were just to many.
Without realizing she was at Helm's Deep stables. Fingolfin was there.
She went to him and fell on the ground. With her head between her knees she cried for hours. She cried until her eyes were dry.
'I can't stay here forever.' She left the stables.
Lessien made her way to the main gate of Helm's Deep and then she saw him. Aragorn. Looking tired and wounded but still alive. He was talking to Legolas and for a moment that made Lessien stop and think but the she started running again.
"Aragorn!" He turned to the sound of his name and smiled. She hugged him with all her strengths.
"Llie naa kuila (You are alive.)" she said as she hugged him by his waist.
He laughed.
"I am mellonamin (my friend.)" and he ruffled her hair.
She freed herself from the hug and grinned at him. He smiled back. Then Lessien felt Legolas presence.
She didn't look at him and he didn't look at her. This of course was not unnoticed by Aragorn.
"What is going on here?" he asked with a stern voice.
"What do you mean?" Lessien asked not daring to look at him.
"You know what I mean Lessien. I will talk to the king." He passed them.
Both elf and elleth turned around still not looking at each other.
The news that ten thousand orcs were coming spread like a plague.
The king however seemed deaf to the advising of Aragorn when he said to call for help. That Gondor would come.
The women and children started being led into the caves. Lessien was next to the armory getting ready.
"Why aren't you with the rest of the women and the children?" she looked up to see Legolas looking at her. He was... well Lessien didn't know how to put it but he seemed mad.
"Because" she said as she restrained her bow and quiver at her back. "I can fight! And I will fight."
Legolas was near her in less than a minute.
"You will not."
"And who are you to tell what to do? I'm strong Legolas! I can defend Rohan as much as you can!"
"Amin sinta thaliolle e dagor (I know your strength in battle.) That is not what concerns me." He put his hand on both her arms. "Imagine how will I live with myself if you die out there Lessien? How could I live with the guilt?" He was not angry anymore. He had a look of pain in his eyes.
Lessien relaxed and put a hand on his cheek.
"I am sorry to tell you but that works both ways. How do you think I can stand in a cave not doing anything while you are risking your life?"
She watched as he looked at her defeated.
"That kiss it wasn't a mistake Lessien I..." In less than one minute things were back as before.
She stepped back from him.
"Now it's not the time to discuss that. A battle is about to start." And she walked away to where Aragorn and Gimli were.
"Farmer, farriers, stable boys. These are no soldiers." Aragorn said.
"Most have seen to many winters." Gimli said as an old man passed him armed.
"Or too few." Legolas said.
"Boe a hûn, neled herain dan caer menig! (Three hundred against ten thousand!)" Legolas said to Aragorn.
"Si beriathar hýn. Amar nâ ned Edoras. (They have more hope of defending themselves here than at Edoras.)"
"Aragorn, men I ndagor. Hýn ú-... ortheri. Natha daged aen! (Aragorn, we are warriors. They cannot win this fight. They all going to die.!)"
Lessien was getting tired.
"Lle tela? (Are you finished?)" she asked bored. Both looked at her surprised realizing that they were not alone.
"Then I shall die as one of them!" Aragorn said leaving.
Legolas made to go after him but Gimli stopped him.
"I cannot believe that you said that." Lessien said as she walked to Legolas.
"Mani uum llie mern amin nae antolle Lessien? (What did you want me to say Lessien?) Look at them. Fear is in their eyes."
"Amin cael n' wanwa ilod (I have not lost hope.)" and then she turned around and walked away to help more man.
Minutes passed. She was thinking of what Aragorn had said when she noticed a little boy, no more than fourteen years old trying to handle a sword. She walked to him.
"Here, hold it like this." She taught him how to hold it properly but in vain. His arms weren't strong enough.
Aragorn was back.
"Keep practicing." she said with a warm smile and the boy smiled back.
When she reached them, Legolas was apologizing. Gimli came.
"If we had more time, I'd get this adjusted." The bundle and the chain main reached the floor and Lessien laughed.
Suddenly they heard a horn. Lessien couldn't believe it.
She looked at Legolas and they shared a smile.
"That is no Orc horn." he said and all of them run out of the basements.
At her front, a Lothlórien army was ready to fight.
Theóden was speechless.
"I bring word from Elrond of Rivendell. An alliance once existed between Elves and men. Long ago we fought and died together." An elf, probably captain said walking forward.
'Elrond? Oh no.'
Aragorn went to him. "Mae govannen, Haldir. (Welcome Haldir.)" and hugged him.
Hope as been regained. Men and Elves started going to the battle posts. Lessien was following Gimli and Legolas when someone called her.
"My Lady Lessien?" It was Haldir. He was looking at her with interest.
"My Lord?" Lessien asked confused.
"I bring a note from your father." he gave her a piece of paper, bowed and went to his position.
Lessien stood, frozen. 'A note from Ada?'. She was afraid to open it.
'I have fought orcs and wargs and now I am afraid to open a note from my own father?'
With sudden courage she opened it. It was not what she was expecting. A big letter saying that she should return home immediately. Instead, only two words were in that piece of paper.
Stay alive.
UHOH! next chapter... Battle for Helm's Deep! Until then.
