Summary: "Do you worry for her?"
Universe: Books
Author's Note: I felt like this was necessary. Just a short drabble, but I was never really satisfied on the way the books provided closure for Éowyn's feelings for Aragorn and I wanted to write this to get a little more closure.
Disclaimer: I don't own Lord of the Rings. I make absolutely no claim to write even half as finely as Tolkien.
"Do you worry for her?" The soft, mellifluous voice in Elven drew Aragorn back to the attention of his wife, who smiled gently at him. She knew well where his grave eyes had fallen.
The muted sound of Éowyn's laugh from further away in the chamber was an alien chime, but welcome all the same, when she had shown so little joy in the past when Aragorn had known her as the bleak, somber lady of Rohan. Her gray eyes were alight now, but still shadowed and her eyelids still heavy.
"I…feel guilt on her behalf," Aragorn admitted. His voice grew far away, quiet and distant, "She has suffered greatly, because of me."
"And none of this, none of what came to pass," Arwen pointed out, reasonably with a glaze of sympathy growing over her eyes, "was the fault of any man, was it?"
He nodded, reluctantly. "No, none of it. But still, if there was something I could have done, anything at all…"
And then, Arwen laughed, shaking her head. "My love, my dear, vexed love." She was teasing him, in her own way; the humor underneath her words was plainly evident. "There is no life without peril, no life without pain. You know this, as does Éowyn of Rohan.
"Yes, she still labors under the weight of her grief, but of the daughters of Men, she is one of the strongest, one of the most valiant, and one of the most perseverant." Arwen's eyes were drawn away, back to the center of the chamber where the crowd milled and circulated. "And she will not be alone to bear it and heal."
Faramir was with Éowyn now, his face shadowed with kindness and love, and Aragorn knew the meaning of Arwen's words, bearing a pale reflection of a smile.
"Her love is a worthy man. There will be no more grief to wound Éowyn's steadfast heart. Do not worry for her, any longer."
