Tauriel and Kili: How we survived

My world falls away as her eyes close.

I become numb to everything else, every part of my mind screaming is she dead is she dead is she dead. I lightly brush a strand of soft red hair that has fallen in front of her face, over her eyes. There is a steady flow of blood trickling down her face from a gash on her head, as well as from countless other places, but she looks to peaceful. You can't die. I think to myself, because I seem to have lost the ability to form words. You can't. Vaguely I hear someone call my name behind me. I feel hand grab at me, pressing on my leg, where blood is pouring carelessly onto the snowy ground. They drag me away from her, and I scream her name, the noise so full of agony and pain that I sound like an animal. I try to wriggle myself from their grasp, but my strength is gone, the fight taken out of me. My heart is torn apart, the sky is fading in and out of focus. Fili's face appears, pale and concerned, then Thorin's and Dwalin's. Fili is saying something about her, my Tauriel. Just thinking about her makes me want to break down and sob. Everything hurts like a fire in my body, and I can't breathe. I feel someone tie something around my leg, and that makes me scream, then I am lifted into the air. My head lolls to the side, and I can see her broken body in full view. Then I see the rise and fall of her chest, and my heart stops. She is alive.