Warning: Childbirth


Fëanàro would blame himself for having started an explosive argument with his wife in his sleep-deprived state (about the Valar, about their choice in releasing Melkor, and her still unwavering reverence in their will, he raged) and running out of the door of their home in seething anger, almost immediately before her water broke, a month before the year's cycle ended.

Instinct had him turning around and running into Curufinwë, who had been searching for him with Tyelkormo and Carnistir halfway before they went rushing back.

There had been blood, and pain, and her screams filling the house.

Fëanaro had forgotten what he had been angry about, being so overcome with fear when he found his wife half-crouched on the edge of the bed, held upright by Maitimo, holding one of her hand, while Makalaurë there wiping her brow—who was already singing to sooth her—and their healer crouched between her legs, encouraging her to push.

She looked so pale and in pain that Fëanàro rushed to her side, taking her other hand, just in time to see a head emerge.

It wasn't long before a tiny, blood-soaked body slip out into the healer's hands before wrapped in linen and passed into his arms.

He held his all-too-still newborn son against his chest for what seem like an eternity of agonizing fear and grief he had never felt before––barely noticing how his sons watched or near-wept in the background-until the infant finally let out his first breath and started to wail, as weak and frail as a kitten's.

Then Nerdanel had started laboring again, and everyone jumped back into position in alarm.

Long minutes of more pain and panic passed after (everyone confused at why his wife was still laboring), while Fëanàro passed his newborn child to Maitimo to grip his wife's hand while Makalaurë then gripped the other, the healer shouting at Nerdanel to push, and his wife did so with a final cry, nearly breaking his hand in the process.

To all of their amazement, another infant slipped backwards into the healer's hands.


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