Title: The Two Towers.

Author: Beth Brownell.

Feedback: Constructive criticism is very much desired. But keep your flames to yourself.

Archive: Archive is okay, if you ask me first and when this story is done.

Rating: R

Pairing(s): Not sure at this time.

Main Character(s): The members of The Fellowship, Solaris, my new character and those people in the Two Towers book that Aragorn, Gimli, Legolas and Gandalf encounters.

Summary: I'm not really good at summaries like this. This is the continuation of LoTR:FoTR (The Dark Elf story).

Notes: From what I can see from the trailers for The Two Towers; this story will be dealing with mainly the remaining members of the Fellowship on their hunt for the Orcs who kidnapped Merry and Pippin. I will repeat this is a fanfiction story of the movie version of the book not the book itself!

Also I do not know if the Elves can really turn their eyes purple to see in the dark, I saw in the trailer a close-up of Legolas’s eyes and they were purple. Maybe it’s due of the low lighting they used but who knows.

Disclaimer: I'm borrowing the characters and the whole storyline for a short time. No harm will come to them. Please don't accuse me of trying to harm them.

The Two Towers.

It was over a week since they left the river to hunt the Orcs who took their friends. Both Aragorn and Solaris were tracking the Orcs, sharing their own opinions on where they might have gone. They came upon one spot where it seemed that the Orcs fought each other before moving on. They knew they had stopped and rested in the area before running off again. Aragorn kept running as fast as his eyes could see the marks in the ground.

They were not too far off from the spot when Aragorn looked up to see that night was too close to continue on and he ordered them to stop and make camp. They were all tired from running but for the two elves, well, one was still strong with energy. The other one was barely able to continue on but for her will alone she was moving. Two days earlier, Aragorn tried to drug her with a sleep draft to at least allow her body to recover some strength but the draft lasted only couple of hours and then she was wake and refused to drink anymore of the drink he had made. Aragorn searched for some plants that he could make into a rub but none came visible to him. He wished he had gathered some before they had left Rivendell, now he was kicking himself for the female of the group was on the edge of death if she kept walking without sleep.

“We rest for the night and start at daybreak,” spoke Aragorn, looking at them. His eyes stayed on Solaris the longest.

Legolas knew that Solaris was tiring and would be useless in another few days if she continued without sleep, even with the Lembas, the elven travel cake, she was starting to fall behind.

Legolas whispered to Aragorn as they watched the elf remove her quiver and bow from her back. “Aragorn, you must encourage Solaris to rest. She’ll listen to you. I know you tried your best to drug her water she drank, but we can resist it. There is a pressure point on her neck right here.”

Aragorn looked at Legolas to see where he was pointing at and nodded. “How fast can I do this before she bolts from me?”

“You will have to move fast when you go about pushing that spot, Aragorn. But if you are unable to get the pressure point pushed, you will have to do the one thing that you don’t do to women….” spoke Legolas.

“Hitting them. Right, if she bolts from me when I push, I’ll knock her out that way.” Aragorn said, as he stood up and went towards the tiring elf. “Solaris, I wish you would rest. You are killing yourself with the lack of sleep. I do not wish to bury another member of the Fellowship.”

“I can’t not till my vengeance is over, Aragorn.” Solaris said, as she turned to look at him.

“All right,” Aragorn stated, as he put his hand on her shoulder only to feel tense muscles underneath his calloused hand. “Solaris, you are tense. Your muscles are so tense. Can I rub them for you?”

“Sure, I know you want me to sleep but I can’t, Aragorn, I just can’t.” spoke Solaris, as Aragorn flashed a smile towards Legolas as he massaged her shoulders working his way up to her neck and to the pressure point. Suddenly, Solaris swung around to face him, her eyes were angry looking. “You are trying to get to my pressure point on my neck! I know it! Don’t force me to sleep! I’ll sleep when I’m good and ready to!”

“Then, forgive me for this,” Aragorn said, as his fist plowed into her face knocking her unconscious and into his arms. He lifted her up and carried her over to the fire where he laid her down on her bedroll. He looked up at Gimli, who looked shocked at what he had done to Solaris. He said, “It was the only way to get her to rest, Gimli.”

Legolas looked over and spoke, “Its true, Gimli. She wouldn’t have willingly slept.”

“But you punched her! The pressure point would have worked!” Gimli cried out.

“She felt me looking for the point, Gimli! She knew what I was trying to do! But we will not argue the point anymore. We got her asleep which is what we all wanted in the first place. Didn’t we?” asked Aragorn.

Gimli nodded as he knew she would have just faked it to please them but now with being punched unconscious she would get enough sleep to be at least be strong enough to fight if it came down to it to free Pippin and Merry from the Orcs. He mumbled something about getting ready for bed.

Legolas watched as they fell asleep on their bedrolls before he started to patrol the area. He sang in his native tongue a song softly sung as he paced. The stars shone brightly over where they had settled in the grass for the night.

Morning came; Solaris was awake and was not really happy about being punched as she glared at Aragorn.

“Aragorn, I don’t like being punched like that!” snapped Solaris, glaring at him.

“I’m sorry; Solaris but I had no other choice. It was either watch you die in battle for you would be too tired to even fight two Orcs…if we found them or get you some sleep which you have received already. I couldn’t lose another member of this group,” said Aragorn. His gray eyes revealed his troubled mind.

“I should have known that you were trying to get me to sleep. There is a pressure point on my back that is more successful in making an elf sleep.” Solaris showed it to them on Legolas who collapsed right into her arms as he was forced into unconsciousness. She pushed the same location and watched as he woke from it. He didn’t like being used as a dummy. Solaris laughed as he glared at her. “Legolas, nas bain ir os be*.”

But then she froze as she gazed towards the distance as did Legolas. Aragorn stood and looked in the same direction but he couldn’t see anyone. Aragorn asked, “What do you see? Are there Orcs heading our way?”

Translations:

*. Legolas, you are cute when you frown like that.