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In Rohan	By : Sighs4l Category: Lord of the Rings Movies > Het - Male/Female Views: 2679 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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9. Victory

The
Countess was thrown to her knees, stunned at the explosion from Saruman’s
invention; the fight had been draining her strength quickly, more quickly than
she would have expected. She saw that Aragorn had been thrown off the Deeping Wall, unconscious from the blast.
The
elves on the Wall ran down the stars to fight the orcs that they knew would
come through the gap. And indeed, the Uruks,
accustomed to loud noise and mayhem, had recovered quickly and began their run
into the gap in the Wall created by the explosion.
Aragorn
was still down on the ground behind the Wall; Gimli, recovering and seeing
Aragorn’s danger, jumped from the Wall to fight to keep the Uruks from his friend.
Finally,
Aragorn, to her great relief, stood; he saw Gimli standing in the
path of the Uruks coming through the gap. She heard Aragorn shout and
then shout again "Charge!" and then he led the elves who had been
placed behind the Wall in a charge against the Uruks. And, relief
flooding her heart, she saw Legolas join Gimli and Aragorn on the ground behind
the Wall and she turned to reenter the fight on the Wall.
But
it was to no avail. The elves left on the Wall were being killed all
around her and they were in danger of being overwhelmed.
Theoden
shouted "Aragorn! Fall back to the Keep! Get your men out of
there!"
Aragorn
shouted to his force "To the Keep! Pull back to the
Keep!" Looking up to the wall, he saw Haldir, the Countess fighting
not far from him. "Haldir! To the Keep!"
Haldir,
looking down at him, nodded and then turned back to help the Countess, shouting
to the elves left on the Wall - "To the Keep!" The elves still on the Wall had gone to the
stairway and down from the Wall to make their way back to the Keep. He
and the Countess were last on the wall now, still fighting. Haldir turned
to help the Countess and did not see the danger behind him. Haldir was wounded in the arm as he turned to
help her up. She looked up to see the
look of surprise on his face as he was hit again from behind. She heard
Aragorn shout "Haldir!' and, reaching forward with Galadriel's sword, she
skewered the orc who had struck Haldir.
She
took the dying elf in her arms and listened as he whispered to her.

Aragorn
fought his way through Uruks up the stairs and onto
the Wall. He saw the Countess holding Haldir as close as a lover and he
ran over to them.
"He's
gone now," she said looking up at him with a glazed look on her face. She carefully placed Haldir down on the
Wall.
Aragorn
took her arm and pulled her to her feet and, fighting off the orcs now coming
at them, went to the orc ladder closest to them. They jumped onto it and
Aragorn pushed off; they landed on the ground before the Wall, in the center of
the fighting. They fought their way to the stairway leading up to the
Keep and they followed Legolas up the stairway and into the Keep, passing elves
covering their retreat, still firing arrows into the mass of Uruks.
Aragorn
and Gimli had gone to find the King; the Countess, determined not to be
separated from Legolas again, followed him up to the high wall over the Gate,
seizing arrows out of the quivers of slain elves they passed for his
use, and while he fired arrows, she defended his back. Her heart
sank as she looked over the wall. All the fighting, all the loss and they
hadn't made a dent in the number of Uruks and the Uruks were advancing,
threatening to break through the Gate.
The
Uruks were firing enormous hooks over the Wall to
raise ladders high enough to reach the Keep. Legolas shouted
"Aragorn!" and she looked down over the wall to see Aragorn and
Gimli, fighting Uruks just outside the Gate. She ran off; Gimli and
Aragorn would need a way off the Causeway if they were not going to die trying
to defend those repairing the Gate.
She
found what she was looking for in time and ran up to Legolas as they heard
Theoden shout "Gimli! Aragorn! Get out of there!" and
handed him the length of rope she had found.
Legolas
stood at the Wall and shouted to get Aragorn's attention before throwing the
rope she'd found down to Aragorn.
Seizing the rope, then Gimli, Aragorn swung out of reach of the orcs on
the causeway and the Countess and Legolas pulled them up the high
wall; they had just pulled them up and to safety when they heard
"Fall back! Fall back!" They were to retreat even further
now and they ran into the Keep, still being defended by the arrows of the few
elves remaining. The hastily repaired Gate would not hold.

It
was almost day.
The Countess thought 'we made a pretty poor showing, not even a whole
day.' She looked around the Hall.
After a short time of quiet, the Uruks had started
battering at the door and the defenders were bracing the door against the orcs
outside. She watched Legolas and Aragorn, looking for benches, tables,
loose timbers, whatever they could use to brace the door, the last barrier
against the Uruks.
Theoden
was being tended to by Gamling. The King turned
to them and said "The Fortress is taken. It is over."
Aragorn
walked over to him. "You said this fortress would never fall while
your men defend it. They still defend it. They have died defending
it!" But he heard the battering the door was taking and knew it
could not last long. Aragorn looked at
the door that led to the caves. "Is there no other way for the women
and children to get out of the caves?" Hearing no answer, he looked
to Gamling. "Is there no other way?"
he demanded.
Gamling answered for his King: "There is
one passage; it leads into the mountains. But they will not get
far. The Uruk Hai are too many."
Gimli
and Legolas came over to join them.
Aragorn
took her arm and pushed the Countess toward the door to the passage leading to
the caves and said "Send word for the women and children to make for
the mountain pass." He pushed Gimli after her. "And
barricade the entrance!"
She
exchanged a last look with Legolas, then she and Gimli ran to and out the door
to the Caves; she followed Gimli has he'd been all through the Keep and knew
the way.

"Something's
wrong," the Countess said to Gimli as they stood at the entrance to the
Caves. They heard screaming and some of the women were heading back up to
the entrance to the Keep. She left Gimli to stand at the door and direct
construction of improvised barricades and went in the direction the women and
children were running from. Running quickly through the corridors, she
came upon a sight she didn't expect.
Princess
Eowyn stood alone, fighting and slaying orcs as they came through a
passage. She joined Eowyn but still the Uruks were coming through
and they were being backed up. They heard a roar behind them and
Gimli was there to lend his axe to their battle.
The
number they fought suddenly diminished as the orcs suddenly turned to flee
back from the cave and the three of them pursued the fleeing orcs through
the passages, slaying those they could.
The
Countess heard cries behind her and, wondering if the Uruks had found yet
another way in, left Eowyn and Gimli to pursue the fleeing orcs. Running
back to the cave where the women and children were, she saw them pulling down
Gimli’s hastily improvised barricades. "Oh, no," she
whispered. "Stop!" she shouted but the door to the Keep was
opened.
But
it was not the army of the Uruk Hai that came through
the doors but their husbands and sons searching out their loved ones, crying
out “Victory! The Uruks are defeated!
We’ve won!”
The
Countess watched the women and children reunite with joyous shouts with the men
and boys. The people of Rohan left the
cave, back up into the Keep and the new day but she did not join them.
She
frowned. She was pleased at the victory,
of course, but she felt disturbance in her heart for her elf. She would wait in the caves for Legolas.
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