I'm so sorry for the delay. School started again and my life is just crazy right now. I have TI's (annoying tests in the middle of the year, here in Portugal that prepare us for our final exams) and like tons of essays and things to do, so updates will probably be just once a week. (Kill me right now!).

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Anyway, enjoy the chapter! I made a little longer than usual, so that you guys wouldn't be too mad at me.

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A/N: This chapter was really hard to right, because it's a battle and the Helm's Deep one so don't be too angry at me if it's not that great.


'Ten thousand of them. Ten thousand.' This was the thought that ruled over Lessien's mind as she positioned herself for battle next to Legolas and Gimli.

Sounds of an army moving started to be heard. She could feel the tension coming not just from the men but from the Elves too. Some were saying prayers, others whispering to their families, many in the caves, others however just stood like statues, occasionally straightening their helmets and weapons, still Lessien felt it. Fear. Hate. Sadness. Courage too. Every Free creature was a mixture of this feelings.

A light started to be seen. A light from thousands of torches burning in the hands of ten thousand Uruk-hai.

This made the warriors even more stressful. At a distance it could be named only as a blur. A black blur that in the darkness of the night moved fast and took all the horizon with it.

'They are too many.' And looking from where she stood she could see that the same thought passed some minds.

"You could have picked a better spot." Gimli said grumbling.

Legolas and her smirked at this. Gimli was standing with them behind a wall besides a row of Elf archers.

Aragorn came to them smirking as well.

The three of them engaged in a conversation about luck but Lessien was not hearing it. A lightning stroked and that sudden light made the Uruk-hai more visible. It had started to rain. Lessien closed her eyes. Rain was good. It calmed her in times like this with great fear and tension. When she opened her eyes she saw that one of the Uruk-hai had stopped and was on top of a rock. Aragorn started giving way commands.

"A Eruchîn, ú-dano i faelas a hyn an uben tanatha le faelas! ( Show them no mercy! For you shall received none!)" At this the Elves stood even more straight and got ready to start shooting.

'Easier said than done.' Gimli raised to his toes and started jumping.

"What's happening out there?" Lessien was ready to answer but Legolas did it for her.

"Shall I describe it to you? Or would you like me to find you a box?" He said with a grin.

Lessien laughed along with Gimli. This made Legolas remember that she was still there. He only looked at her but it was enough. Lessien knew in her heart that he was wishing for them to win and to be alive.

The groans of the Uruk-hai were louder than ever. An arrow was seen going to an Uruk-hai neck.

'Too soon. Too soon.' Aragorn started shouting more orders. The Uruk-hai charged.

"Faeg i vary dîn na lanc a nu ranc. (Their armor is weak at the neck and beneath the arms.)" Legolas shouted.

The Elves fired. The Men fired. In vain. Those who fell were being replaced by more and more enemies.

A ladder was loaded near where Lessien was. She gave it no second thinking. As Uruk-hai started to climb out she drew her sword and cut one's head. The Elves came to help her. In the middle of the rain, in her first real battle the daughter of Elrond was slaying orcs like a true warrior. Cutting a head. Stabbing in the stomach. Sending a dagger straight into a forehead. Some were leaving the ladders. others no. As she heard Legolas and Gimli doing their usual counting, Lessien came up with an idea. Spinning to avoid a blade that was threatening to cut her arm she made her way to the ladder. An Uruk-hai surprised her by standing in her front.

"I know whatttt are you thinking she-elffff." he said spitting at her.

"Good. I guess your kin isn't that dumb after all." And with a kick he was on a ground. Even before moving he was dead with an arrow in his chest. The elleth started running to the ladder again and when she reached it she made a sign to a man stading next to her struggling with his own Uruk-hai. He nodded in comprehension and together the both of them pushed the ladder of the wall. The Uruk-hai all fell.

"Thank you." Lessien said in a rush.

"Anytime my Lady." he said with an ironic grin. She wanted to see where Legolas was but there was no need.

A couple of meters away Gimli and Legolas were fighting with Uruk-hai that came from two ladders standing next to each other. Lessien glanced down to see what was happening. A group of them was heading towards the Causeway in a tortoise formation.

She made a gesture for her bow while hearing Aragorn shouting "Causeway!" to the Elves. Along with them Lessien shot arrows to the nearest Uruk-hai. They died but the rest of them just kept on moving.

As she was shooting at them she saw one Uruk-hai running to the gate at the Deeping Wall with a torch in his hand. She tried to stopped him but she wasn't neared enough.

"Aragorn! Ie i' ghaatiil! (At the gate!)" she shouted to him.

Aragorn spotted him and sent Legolas to kill it. The arrows just made it stumble before the creature entered the gate. Lessien only had time to run before the explosion. She was projected by the force of it and landed on her front. The elleth then tried to get up but a sharp pain in her shoulder made it impossible. After some minutes she finally had raised to her knees when she saw her tunic soaking in blood. Inspecting her body she saw that the blood came from a deep cut on her forehead. She was about to check on her shoulder when the biggest Uruk-hai she had ever seen was in front of her.

He roared as he raised his sword and Lessien rolled on the floor. The creature screamed again and went for her when she saw her sword just a few steps away from her. With only one arm, because Lessien couldn't move her shoulder, she fought him. After a couple of stabs and escapes, the elleth had another cut, this time on her arm and was beginning to feel dizzy because of all the blood and the pain in her shoulder. With one last try she raised her sword and cut the Uruk-hai head. She stood there breathing hard and trying to control her dizziness. She raised her eyes to see Legolas sliding down a flight of stairs with a shield and killing enemies.

'Show-off.' Aragorn however was shouting again. To fall back to the Keep.

Lessien started running, or better, walking to reach the Keep and was half way when she noticed Haldir fighting a couple of Uruk-hai. She turned to help and started running but it was too late. The Captain of Lothlórien collapsed on the floor.

"HALDIR!" she wasn't the only one screaming. Aragorn ran with her to him. He pulled Haldir to his arms but life had already left his eyes. To be truth Lessien only met him that day but there was just so much grief in those walls in that moment that his dead only increased it.

Aragorn looked at her and saw the cuts, and her shoulder, which she now guessed was dislocated.

"I'm fine." She said with effort. "I still can fight."

"Not with your shoulder like that. Run to the Keep. Now!"

In a very stupid and impulsive action, Lessien stood, went to the nearest wall and crashed her shoulder against it.

She thought her screaming could be heard even in Mount Doom. Aragorn was looking at her like she was crazy.

"It still hurts like hell but at list I can move it now." she said with a grin. He nodded and with a sharing look they screamed and jumped to the Uruk-hai.

Together they killed all they could find. Reaching the gate Lessien watched as the men tried to defend it and that the King was hurt.

"How long do you need?" Aragorn asked.

"As long as you can give me!" Theóden shouted. Then Aragorn turned to her.

"Go back! To the Keep! Go!"

"What? No! Aragorn! I can fight!" she said panicking. He put both hands on her face.

"You've done brilliantly. You are the bravest elleth I have ever known. But you must go now. You're wonded. Uum vee' Amin nyar. (Do as I say.) Please Lessien."

"Uum n' mor (Don't die.)" He gave her a small smile and kissed her forehead before calling Gimli.

She ran towards the Keep and when she entered, a soldier came to her.

"My Lady, you are hurt! Come we have what we need just to heal some wounds but that should be enough."

He put bandages on both her head and arms, as for the shoulder, when she told him what happened he laughed and tied another bandage around it.

By time she was ready, Legolas and all of the ones that were fighting came inside.

The three of them walked to her with concern in their eyes especially Legolas.

"What happened to you? he questioned.

"Usual battle wounds. Nothing big."

"How's the shoulder?" Aragorn asked with a little smirk.

"Better now than before" Lessien answered with another smirk.

Legolas was looking at her with such sadness and fear that Lessien started to get worried.

"Legolas?" But he didn't answer.

"Hey lad, she is talking to you!" Gimli said. But he didn't answered him too. Instead he turned around and walked away.

Lessien looked at his back with disbelief. 'He fears for me.'

The Uruk-hai were breaking in. Aragorn left Lessien and Gimli and went to help Legolas to put a table against the doors.

"The fortress is taken. It is over." Theóden said emotionless.

Aragorn raised to is full length.

"You said this fortress would never fall while your men defend it! They still defend it! They have died defending it!"

A cry was heard from the caves. The Uruk-hai were breaking in.

"Is there no other way for the women and children to get out of the caves?" No one answered him. Lessien saw as he turned angry. "Is there no other way?"

Gamling, the captain answered him.

"There is one passage. It leads into the mountains. But they will not get far. The Uruk-hai are too many."

Aragorn turned to her at this.

"Send word for the women and children to make for the mountain pass. And barricade the entrance."

"Nay. Amin mern nae dagor! (I want to fight!)". To her surprise it was not Aragorn who answered her. It was Legolas.

"GO NOW LESSIEN!" Fury could be felt from his body, miles away. She was scared. Nodding, she did want Aragorn asked for. Climbing down the stairs to the caves she thought of him. 'He was mad. Really mad. What is wrong with him?'

"My lady! What is happening?" A woman came to her as she entered. Lessien pushed Legolas out of her thoughts.

"We need to leave. There is a passage that goes trough the mountains. Am I right?"

"Yes." A young woman said from a corner. "But hasn't been used for many years."

"It will have to do. Lead me there.". The woman went behind a pillar where it could be found a small passage within the wall.

"Now I want every one to enter it. Then I will barricade it." The elleth said watching their expressions.

"Are you not coming with us my Lady?" A small girl asked.

"No little one. I have to stay and fight."

In less than five minutes every women and children were in that hole, walking forward to the mountains. Lessien, along with other soldier that had came to check on her, covered the entrance with all the wood and rocks they could find.

"What do we do now my Lady?"

"Upstairs. We go and fight, my friend." Back in the Keep Theóden was mounting is horse. No one noticed that Lessien was there again, so making it an advantage, she went to stand near a wall waiting for the gates to open. She still had two daggers, her sword and her quiver was half-full. Gmili blowed the horn of Rohan with pleasure.

The doors opened. "FORTH EORLINGAS!" The King shouted.

And with one last thought of the ones she loved Lessien ran, with her friends and companions to kill some Uruk-hai.

There was a bright sun as she stepped outside. With her sword in hand she tried to kill has many as she could. Spinning, ducking, jumping, she killed with strength and courage. She was near the King when she heard it.

"Éomer!"

'What?' Looking to where Theóden was facing she saw at least a hundred of riders along with Gandalf were charging down to Helm's Deep.

"GANDALF! YES!" Lessien had gone insane. She was so happy that the shoulder that had been hurting her the entire battle, suddenly didn't hurt anymore.

The Uruk-hai stood to face the Rohirrim but the sun blocked their vision and the Rohirrim killed all that they faced.

Lessien ran to Aragorn and Legolas still killing enemies. As she reached them they looked at her surprised.

"Weren't you supposed to be in the mountain passage?" Legolas said while stabbing an Uruk-hai in the stomach with is blade.

"Too dark and fearful for me." Aragorn laughed as Legolas gave her a stern look. The both of them were now with their backs touching and were killing all the Uruk-hai Aragorn wasn't able to defeat a couple of steps away from them.

"In opposition to what?" he shouted to her sending an arrow to a creature's head.

"To being here, helping you and kissing you once we are finished." Lessien answered kicking an Uruk-hai that had one of her daggers in his throat.

"I don't oppose to that." he said.

She was about to answer when she saw that they didn't have anymore enemies. They had won.

"Victory! We have victory!" Theóden cried.

She turned to celebrate with Legolas but in a very quick moment he had captured her lips in his in a kiss with such passion that made Lessien legs quiver. His arms were around her waist and she deepened the kiss putting her arms around him as well.

They were still busy kissing when they heard a a noise coming from behind them. Caught in surprised Lessien stepped away from him and blushed.

Gimli and Aragorn were there. Aragorn was smiling but Gmili was grinning like a crazy man.

"79. How many did you had lad?" he asked.

"98." Legolas said with a smug on his face.

"Gentleman. There's no need to discuss something between you two when I am clearly the winner." Lessien said with a hand gesture.

"Why lassie? How many did you get?"

"140." She said walking away just turning back to see the shock on Legolas and Gmili faces.


OMG! that was the most hardest thing I have ever wrote in my life! It took me 4 days just to do it! Did you liked the Lessien/Aragorn moment? Fluffy time!

LEGOLAS AND LESSIEN MADE UP! I'm really glad for both.

Please, please review! I need to know how bad this is (jk) But seriously... REVIEW! Until the next chapter.