Requested by stringslady 
3RD P.O.V.

Sam was climbing down the stairs, tears in his eyes.

After all that had happened, how Frodo could send him back? Yet Gollum had tried to kill him, and he was up there. Sam should have been up there!

He los and slipped down the rest of the way.

Something caught his eye he hit the ground.

A package of lembas bread!

He thinks for a moment,  before crushing it in anger, and turning back to the stairs.

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Frodo ran through the tunnel, but fell, entangling himself in the webs.

He struggled to stand up, but staggered back.

And you frodo baggins. I give you the light of  Earendil, our most beloved star. May it be a light for you in dark places, when all other lights are out.

He fumbled for his pocket, closing his eyes.

"Aiya Earendil Elenion Anclaim." He spoke  to it, shoving it  forward.

It blazed forth with a bright light. he looks at it surprised.

Frodo sensed a movement behind him and turned his head slowly around to look.

He leaped up and Shelob, a huge spider, attacked him!

He helds the light up to her, which she didn't like, and she stood back
from him. Frodo fell over backwards as he tried to get away.

She attacked him again,  but he stood up and thrusted the light at her, making her back off.

He fell over again and she trusted her stinger at him. He slashed at it with sting, before jumping up and running off. Shelob chased him.

He managed to escape from her by falling through a hole too small for her to fit through. He drops the light.

Frodo continues to run away through the tunnel but he gets stuck in a web. He is suspended in the web powerless.

"Naughty little fly. Why does he cry?"
Gollum appears in front of him to gloat over him Caught in a web.

"Soon you'll be eaten."

Frodo began to slash at the web angrily,  with Sting. Shelob came up behind him, but Frodo was beginning to escape from the web.

Gollum saw this and looked worried. He turned and ran away. Frodo runs through the web with Shelob behind him. Sting got caught in the web, so Frodo let go of it and ran after Gollum. He escaped through a narrow entrance and struggled to release himself from the entangling webs around him. Immediately Gollum jumped on him and grabbed him by the ears.

"Got away did it precious? Not this time. Not this time." He muttered, trying to grab the Ring.

"NO!" Frodo yelled Gollum threw him against the rock face.

Frodo ran back to attack him and pushed him down on the floor, punching him.

"It wasn't us. It wasn't us."Gollum cried.

Frodo had him by the throat.

"Smeagol wouldn't hurt master. We promised. You must believe us. It was the precious. The precious made us do it."

Frodo let him go and falls back. He looked at Gollum who was also lying down and gasping. He gets up.

"I have to destroy it Smeagol. I have to destroy it for both our sakes." He said.

He turns away and Gollum's face changes to a nasty grimace.

"NO!" He launched himself at Frodo from behind.

Frodo fell to the ground and pushed him straight over the top of his head.

"Aaaaaaaahh!!"

Frodo got up and started to stagger along the path. He staggered against a rock.

"I'm so sorry Sam." He fell to his knees.   "I'm so sorry. "

He fell to the ground, which was covered in grass in broad daylight...

He lifted his head to look around him and looked up to see Galadriel standing in front of him. She walked towards him with her arms open.

This task was appointed to you, Frodo of the Shire. If you do not find a way, no one will.

She bent  down close to him and offered him her hand. He looked at it and her and then with a determined face he grabbed her hand. She smiled at him and pulled him upright.

Frodo was on his feet back on the dark pass. He breathed heavily, a new look of determination on his face. He started to walk along the path.

Frodo was moving along the pathway. He spoted the lookout tower at the top of the pass and paused to look at it. He ran to look at it from behind a rock. Above him, two spider legs emerged from a gap in the rock.

Frodo moved forward slowly as the spider snuck up on him from above and behind. She moved directly above him as Frodo looked  at the Tower.

He heard a slight noise behind him and spun around to look. He saw nothing. He looked around, Shelob came down behind him with her sting.

He turned and suddenly she stung him in the chest. He foamed at the mouth and collapsed. Immediately, she wound him up in a binding web. She covered him from top to bottom.

a bright light shined down on her.

"Let him go, you filth! Let him go!" Sam yelled. He was holding the light of Earendil in one hand, and sting in the other.

Shelob dropped Frodo on the ground.

"You will not touch him again! Come on then, finish it!" He yelled at the beast, walking towards it.

He ran towards her and slashed at her face. Shelob lunged back at him. Sam slashed at her leg. She threw him backwards and he dropped the light. Shelob kicked the light away advancing on Sam.

She held him down to the floor and pushed him up the wall. He held on to her pincers as they tried to grasp him. He got above her and kicks her in the face, she fell back a little.

Sam tried to escape up the rocks. She grabbed him, he fell down over her back and onto the ground. He moved around and Shelob gathered herself for a final pounce on him from above.

Sam managed to thrust Sting into her eyes and she fell back in pain. Sam thrusted Sting at her again. She grabbed it with her pincers and wrestled for it with Sam.

Eventually Sting flew out of his hand. As he turned to run and get it,  Shelob knocked him forward onto the ground. He was just about to grab the sword when Shelob stood on it and stopped him. He turned around. She was right above him and thrusted her stinger at him.

He rolled over as she tried to sting him over and over again. Finally he was able to pick up Sting and thrusted upwards into her body. She writhed in pain. Sam managed to get the light and thrusts it at her.

"Back!" He yelled.

Shelob retreated backwards through a hole and disappeared.

"Mr Frodo!"He ran to Frodo, putting  Sting down.

he pulled the webs away from his face. Frodo looked dead. Sam cried.

"Oh no! Frodo, Mr Frodo."He shakes him.

He picks him up and cradles him in his arms, crying.

"Wake up. Don't leave me here alone. Don't go where I can't follow. Wake up. Not asleep. Dead." He cried.

Suddenly Sting took on a blue tinge and Sam saw it. Noise from the pass attracted his attention. Orcs were there.

"You get back you scum!" The orc yelled.

Sam looked around hurriedly.

The orc came down from the pass with other Orcs following him.

"What's this?"

He approached Frodo lying on the ground. Looks like old Shelob's been having a bit of fun.

Sam watched from a cave entrance.

"Killed another one has she?" An orc asked.

"No." He poked Frodo with his whip.

" This fellow ain't dead."

"Not dead." Sam whispered.

She jabs him with her stinger and he goes as limp as a boned fish ahaha! then she has her way with them. That's how she likes to feed. Fresh blood. Get him to the Tower!" He ordered.

They obeyed, picking Frodo up and taking him with them up the pass.

"Samwise you fool."

"This scum will be awake in a couple of hours." The orc rumbled.

"Then he'll wish he'd never been born."

He looked around and then followed them up the steps.

Sam got up to follow them.

Frodo lay half-naked on the ground with his hands bound in front of him. He had the remains of some spiderwebs still wrapped around him.

Frodo woke up and heard voices behind him.  two Orcs were sorting through Frodo's belongings. One of them picked up Frodo's mithril shirt and turned it about in the light admiring it. The other saw him.

"Hands off! That shiny shirt, that's mine!" He yelled.

Frodo was listening to them.

"It's going to the Great Eye, along with everything else."

Frodo realised what Shagrat was saying and felt in panic for the Ring on its chain around his neck. It wass gone.

"I don't  take orders from stinking Morgul-rats!" He pushed the other orc against the wall, but he pulls out a sword.

"You touch it and I'll stick this blade in your gut!" He threatened him with his sword.

They began to grapple. Eventually, one of them  fell across the trapdoor. The other stamped on him, pushing him through the trapdoor.

He fell down the stairs eventually landing amongst the partying Orcs below.

"The scum tried to knife me. Kill him!"
The other orc shouts down to them.

They tried to attack the fallen orc, who knocked an Orc out of the window to land far below. The Orcs at the bottom of the tower saw him land, and reacted. They began to fight amongst themselves.

Meanwhile Sam was moving up towards the tower. He could hear the Orcs fighting. Sam creeped up to the tower entrance. All the Orcs seem to be dead. He started to run through the tower looking around  him with Sting and his own sword, one in each hand.

He ran up the stairs to the higher levels. He saw some Orcs coming so he begans to roar at them to pluck up his courage.

His shadow looked huge on the wall. When he emerged from the stairwell the Orcs saw he was only small and move to attack him. But Sam was too quick. He stabbed the first one.

"That's for Frodo!"He yelled.

He approached the second one and stabbed him, knocking him off the stairs.

"And the Shire!"

He pushed the third one over the edge of the stairs and shouted after him.

"And that's for my old gaffer!"

Sam continued on up the stairs.

The orc from before was escaping with Frodo's mithril shirt.

Frodo was in the top of the tower. He was struggling with his bonds to try to escape. The orc appeared behind him.

"Stop your squealing you dunghill rat!" He pulled out a knife.

"I'm gonna bleed you like a stuck pig!"

He cried out suddenly and a blue blade stuck out through his chest. Sam appeared behind him.

"Not if I stick you first!"He yelled.

"Sam!" Frodo let out a relievedsigh

Sam pushes the orc off his sword. He dropped the sword and knelt  down in front of Frodo.

"Oh Sam, I'm so sorry. Sorry for everything." Sam smiles at him.

"Let's get you out of here." He starts to help Frodo get the ropes off his hands.

"It's too late. It's over. They've taken it Sam, they took the Ring!" He sits up and looks at Sam.

"Begging your pardon but they haven't." He pulls the ring out of his pocket by the chain.

"sam...what would I do without you?" Frodo laughed, reaching out for the ring, but at the last second,  just as his fingers were about to brush is, Sam pulled it back.

not by much, just a small amount.

"Sam, give me the ring." Frodo said slowly.

"Why should i? after all that's happened...I thought we had to destroy it, but...the power that radiates off it...it's almost screaming for me to reach out and touch it..." He murmured the last part.

"Sam, you can't." Frodo warned him.

Sam stood up.

"then why...can you?" He raised an eyebrow.

Frodo's eyes were wide.

"It's trying to control you...to tempt you, just like it did boromir and Smeagol..." Frodo whispered.

"Gollum? you mean that horrible creature? the one that tricked you? lied to you... and you believed him. you sent your best friend away for that thing!" Sam yelled.

"Sam, I made a mistake!  please, keep your voice down. they'll here us!" He hissed.

"Now, give me the ring."Sam laughed at him.

"You're the one who's obsessed with it."

Frodo stood up.

"Give it to me." He reached out his hand.

"no."

Frodo ran at him, tackling him.

they rolled around on the ground, throwing punches at each other.

most of them were badly aimed, but a few made their mark.

and then, the ring rolled across the ground, landing a few feet away.

Sam reached for it, but Frodo was on top of him and it was just out of his reach.

"Stop it, sam! just stop it!" He yelled.

both of them were panting as they stared at each other.

Sams expression changed.

"Frodo..." He swallowed, his mouth suddenly going dry.

"I'm sorry,  Frodo. I'm so sorry!" Tears formed in his eyes.

"It wasn't you. it was that ring. we need to finish this. but I'm not sure I can do it alone." Frodo stood up, offering his hand to sam.

"I'm with you 'til the end." Sam  took his hand, standing up.

"So let's finish this."
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I AM SO SORRY THAT TOOK ME SO LONG!!! In my defense, two horses were born on the farm the same day, and I have been super busy. well, this is the longest chapter EVER. so, goodnight!       ~Turranna