After The Clouds
A fanfiction based simply on RotKmovie!Eldarion. I have a lot of perceptions about Eldarion, but I just wanted to write a spur-of-the-moment fic.
--- My father's death was frankly terrifying.
Can you imagine the strongest person you know, your only model for life, your hero, lying down on a soft bed and telling you he's going to die?
That he's ichoosingi to die?
It was like all the stars had gone out.like someone had taken away the sun.
And then my mother left me too.
I had known she would, of course. And I hardly blamed her. I couldn't understand fully, of course, because I had never loved, much less loved and lost, as she had.
But it haunts me, her goodbye. Her eyes dimmed.
The light had gone out.
They left me, one by one, telling me they trusted me to do it right, and what a great King they knew I'd be.
Eldarion Elessarion Telcontar, and now responsible for not only ruling the Free Kingdoms but also for making myself a family, for far too much. Much, much more than I could handle.
Sitting on the throne was only the first time I cried in front of my men.
I wasn't strong.I was pitiful, stupid, sightless.
My mother told me why she had stayed. And then she left me, denying me the only thing I wanted; a final hug, a final smile.
She told me it was because of me.and maybe that was my curse, really. Maybe what she intended was to make me stop crying, to make me strong. To make me ibelievei.but instead, it told me that it was my fault she was going to die.
You can't imagine the night after Prince Legolas left. You can't.
Elboron was coming the next day and my manservant was telling me all the details and when he asked me where my friend should meet me, I broke and I ran.
I ran from the storm and the blackness and the emptiness and I ran into more of the same and there was nothing that could bring me out.
Nothing except what happened when Elboron found me the next afternoon.
A fanfiction based simply on RotKmovie!Eldarion. I have a lot of perceptions about Eldarion, but I just wanted to write a spur-of-the-moment fic.
--- My father's death was frankly terrifying.
Can you imagine the strongest person you know, your only model for life, your hero, lying down on a soft bed and telling you he's going to die?
That he's ichoosingi to die?
It was like all the stars had gone out.like someone had taken away the sun.
And then my mother left me too.
I had known she would, of course. And I hardly blamed her. I couldn't understand fully, of course, because I had never loved, much less loved and lost, as she had.
But it haunts me, her goodbye. Her eyes dimmed.
The light had gone out.
They left me, one by one, telling me they trusted me to do it right, and what a great King they knew I'd be.
Eldarion Elessarion Telcontar, and now responsible for not only ruling the Free Kingdoms but also for making myself a family, for far too much. Much, much more than I could handle.
Sitting on the throne was only the first time I cried in front of my men.
I wasn't strong.I was pitiful, stupid, sightless.
My mother told me why she had stayed. And then she left me, denying me the only thing I wanted; a final hug, a final smile.
She told me it was because of me.and maybe that was my curse, really. Maybe what she intended was to make me stop crying, to make me strong. To make me ibelievei.but instead, it told me that it was my fault she was going to die.
You can't imagine the night after Prince Legolas left. You can't.
Elboron was coming the next day and my manservant was telling me all the details and when he asked me where my friend should meet me, I broke and I ran.
I ran from the storm and the blackness and the emptiness and I ran into more of the same and there was nothing that could bring me out.
Nothing except what happened when Elboron found me the next afternoon.