An Unexpected Fanfiction: The Hobbit & LOTR One Shots

Double Affections (Pt 2- Legolas Ending)

Part 2 requested by the lovelies fluffyfoxella, theambernightingale, and Gabr1ella-Chan! Thanks so much, to all of you!!

Type: One-shot

Pairing: We have here a love triangle situation involving Thranduil, Legolas, and a Female (Elleth!) Reader

Notes: This is the ending to 'Double Affections' that ends with Legolas winning the reader's heart. I will publish the alternate end, in which she falls for Thranduil, soon.

Translations: 'Rhaich' = 'Curses' or, if I may, it's essentially 'OH FUCK'

Hope you like!

"We're under attack!"

"Rhaich!" Eliza curses, moving to draw her knives, then realizes she can't, as she's floating down a river while clinging to a piece of driftwood. She gives a grunt and manages to climb onto the driftwood, balancing delicately on its wobbly surface. She crouches and makes a flying leap toward a nearby fallen tree, the log stretching across the river. Her companions have to duck as they fumble for their weapons, Eliza dashing along the riverbank, drawing her throwing knives. She sprints at the closest orcs and leaps, spinning around and slicing open the wicked creature's neck and drawing a bloody slash across another's chest at the same time. She fights, a blur of quick, calculated movements and a spray of orc's blood flying around her as she cleaves a path of destruction through her enemies.

She hears an alarm horn blow and assumes the elves have discovered the orcs on their territory. She continues to fight, the lone warrior on land, her companions helpless to assist her much from the river. Before too long, she spots a patrol of armored elves out of the corner of her eye, racing this way. She's distracted and one of the orcs manages to land a searing blow on her leg. She gives a yelp and promptly decapitates the creature, fighting with renewed vigor. The rest of the Company seems to be stuck, trapped before a gate in the river, and Eliza wants to help, but she can feel the strength in her leg waning. 

The brave elleth leaves most of the orcs at the Mirkwood patrol's mercy and slashes her way across the narrow bridge above the water gate. She manages to find the lever to let through the barrels with her friends inside and pulls it, falling to her knees as her bloody wound sends a wave of pain through her body. Her vision grows blurry for a moment, but she shakes her head and it clears just in time to see Legolas give a flying leap to land at her side, sword drawn and gaze worried. He helps her to her feet and she sees her companions already far down the river. She looks to the prince of Mirkwood and they exchange a calm glance. "Go."

In his words, she can hear a promise that he'll follow. She nods and leaps back into the river, sheathing her daggers as she lands with a splash, right next to the driftwood she clung to earlier, which is caught on an embankment. She pushes it back into the current and swiftly floats to catch up to the rest of the Company. A trail of blood streams through the water behind her and she clenches her teeth, trying desperately to ignore the pain. The next few minutes pass in a blur, but once Eliza and her companions manage to land on a rocky landing quite a ways down the river, time resumes its normal pace.

She drops to sit with a groan, coughing up water and clutching at the gash in her lower leg. Her companions surround her worriedly and Bilbo offers her a handkerchief to mop up the blood. She gives him a stiff nod of thanks and does so, then rips off the corner of her tunic and binds the wound, wincing at the pressure. "Can yeh walk, lass?" asks Bofur, who helps her to her feet as she replies, "Yes, I think I can. We must hurry, though, I do not know how many orcs died back there. We could have been followed." Thorin nods and says he agrees with her, and they head along a path nearby, situated to get out of the forest and along the riverbank.