Prompt: What if Maddie has a tattoo somewhere inconspicuous and sometime in the future Boromir finds it and she tries to explain what it is/represents etc.

Bumblebee

Maddie had quite forgotten about it that evening after celebrating the end of the war until Boromir had choked when he'd divested her of her left stocking. "What is this mark?" he asked incredulously.

"What?" she asked confusedly until he'd twisted her hip until she could see the image imprinted on her skin. "My tattoo?"

It took a bit of discussion before they could agree on the Westron word for it—which was derived from the Haradim word for tattoo, because inking ones skin apparently wasn't common in Gondor. Boromir had only seen tattoos on a handful of merchants; certainly not on a woman half-undressed in his bed.

"Why do you have this mark upon you?" Boromir asked once the matter of the name had been settled. He ran curious fingers up and down the outline of a bumblebee as though he could feel the lines imbedded in the skin, and Maddie shivered, which made the corner of his lips tick up.

"My grandmother's first husband was a beekeeper. Even though she never had children with him, she always called him her first love, and I always wanted something like that." She gave Boromir a somewhat shy grin.

"In honor of your grandmother then," he acknowledged, fingers just a hair lighter as they brushed over the skin. It sent a tingle up Maddie's leg.

"For her and for true love," she murmured, and then added under her breath as Boromir's hand crept up further, "and watching too much Disney."

He didn't bother to find out what she meant as he kissed her, thumb rubbing along the tattoo on his thigh. It had always been that one bit of spontaneity from college she'd carried with her when her grandmother died. Funny to think it had been forgotten until now.

"You don't mind?" Maddie whispered against Boromir's chin, tongue darting out to taste the stubble that curled around his jaw.

"Mind? No," he admitted roughly. "Only you and I know it's there, and it is a mark of a honor."

Maddie huffed a laugh and rewarded Boromir's tolerance with a longer, deeper kiss.