The Vigil:

[baileymoyes]

Part Twenty
Please see chapter one for synopsis.
Pairing: Aragorn/Legolas
Rated: PG13
Disclaimer: I borrow these characters from J.R.R. Tolkien with love and respect.
Thank you, Jean.
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“Well, Faramir,” Aragorn said, as he came into the courtyard. “It seems you are a more than adequate deputy for your sire.”

Comments

[tmelange]

I just want to say one more time (LOL) how impressed I am with the complexity of that reaction. Everything in this chapter was outstanding, from the language to the execution -- especially the scene between Legolas and Haldir, and the way you demonstrated the impact of the bond through Legolas' perspective. I love bond fics and can't remember reading one that was executed half as well in...I don't know -- a long ass time.

But beyond all of that, the scene that changes everything -- the killing of the Umbaran -- made me exclaim out loud. At first I thought Aragorn was being childish, blaming Legolas for losing a resource when there was nothing else Legolas could reasonably have done. But when Aragorn mentions the part about Legolas sacrificing someone he had just been sleeping with, I said to myself, "Oh shit! He's right!" That one detail elevated Aragorn's reaction from childish to ethically mature and almost...noble. Of course, you still have the problem of Legolas' compulsion that excuses his actions in a lot of ways, but if that is the case, then the compulsion is the very thing that saves him and damns him. How could Aragorn possibly believe in Legolas' love now?

And you pulled all that off in a few sentences. ::chortles::

Sometimes, a story will come along that reminds a person why she spends so much time reading fanfic... ;)