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Beta: Aranel


24.

"You both had better be stopping that," Gimli advised his friends but it clearly fell on deaf ears.

Sighing, Gimli dodged his way across, dashing over during a brief pause in the shooting and reaching Aragorn just in time to tackle him to the ground.

"Gimli, why did you do that?" Aragorn tried to scramble from under the dwarf.

"Can't you see or feel that arrow? It almost got you there…" Gimli touched Aragorn's chest, a horrified expression on his face.

"I will try not to make the same mistake," Aragorn nodded.

Still, they had another problem: getting Legolas safe.