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        Title: Anything

        Author: Stacee Phelps

        Author's Note: This is a birthday fan fic for Celebdilgalad. It will be late, but oh well. This will be posted and worked on before Mortality's Sacrifice because my disk screwed up and deleted the file, so I had to restart. Sorry.

        Summary: Missing. Captured. Death. All of these words Aragorn was unprepared for when he received news from his best friend. Now, it's a desperate race against time as the heir of Isildur must fight with everything he has for the prince of Mirkwood's life. Risking anything and everything, Aragorn is determined to save his friend.

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        <Aragorn gently rocking a dying elf, tears streaming down his face>

        "I'm sorry, mellon n�n. None of this was supposed to happen. I tried everything, but no matter what I did, it wasn't enough."

       Haunting music

     `You are at fault....`

        Receiving word from Mirkwood had never been difficult. Not until this day.

       `Bring yourself forward, Heir of Isildur, unless you want your friend to pay the price for your secrecy.`

        A race against time

        Nothing as it seems

        One man will put everything on the line for the one he loves as a brother.

        "No, it never should have been Legolas! He never should have been involved in this!"

        <Aragorn sinking to the floor in his torment, a broken whisper escaping him>

        "All I ever bring is pain."

        <Men and orcs, shuffling through the woods, a bound elf staggering>

        "Keep it moving, elfy!"

        Sneers and jives the entire way.

        "Not feeling so high and mighty now, are we?"

        A hidden enemy that no one expected.

       <Legolas, trying desperately to hide his pain>

        "Why are you doing this to me? What has he done?"

       <a man, clothed all in black, turns to stare the hanging elf down>

        "He was born."

        <Horse running full-hilt through wooded areas and wide plains>

        "He did nothing to deserve this! He is the best friend I will ever have, and I will not let him pay for the weakness in my blood. I will not let him be the price for my life."

       <Aragorn fighting orcs>

        <Blows raining down on Legolas' defenseless body>

        <Brass knuckles being slowly drawn in the firelight>

        "Only one last thing, elf. And, the Heir of Isildur will watch every minute of it."

        <Legolas falling to the earth, blood running quickly down his ashen features>

        "LEGOLAS! NO!"

       <Elves running around, panic etched into their features. A man walking between the panic, a magnificent sword held within his grasp>

        <Standing over a bleeding Elrond>

        "This ends now."

        <A weakened voice from the doorway>

        "I never heard anything more true in my life. Estel?"

       <Fighting, twin blades flashing>

        <Sword meeting skin>

        "LEGOLAS!"

        One mission will prove before all the strong relationship of brotherhood between elf and man.

        One mission may prove to be the undoing of a special elf held closely in everyone's hearts.

        "I let him down."

        One man may face the odds against them..........

        and win.

        Anything

        Written by Stacee Phelps