He Will Stay 'Till You Come

Posted January 2003
Type: FCS
Author: Lanna Michaels
Rating: PG
Characters: Aragorn/Boromir
Summery: What happens after death.
A/N: Because it's too long to be a drabble and too short to be a fic, and I didn't want to cut it down or lengthen it. The title is, of course, from Hamlet. Companion piece to "Goodbye Isn't Forever".

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If you follow the Anduin to where it flows into the Sea, if you watch carefully at deep midnight, you may see Boromir of Gondor, standing guard on the Western shore. His body lies in state on a gently rocking boat, surrounded by the trophies of the enemies he fought. The shadow of the warrior may lead you there, if you are lucky. And if you know your tales well, you might even make out the outline of the ghost of his cloven horn, returned to him now in death, at his hip as he walks.

And if you chance upon the son of the Steward on a fair night, you may even see his companion, for the High King himself joins his lover nightly, to watch over their entwined bodies and borders. Eldarion himself has ordered this, and his orders have been obeyed. The High King Elessar was set adrift to find the flowing sea and found his love instead.

Together in death as they could never be in life.

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THE END

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