Elrond watched Galadriel speak to Gil-galad with a darkened brow. He spoke
so openly with her and so gently, without even the slightest harshness in
his tone that Elrond suspected something.
'But Galadriel truly loves Celeborn, it would not be possible….could it?' Elrond grumbled as the thought entered his mind. 'Gil-galad said he had no other, was he lying? No, he would not, not to me…would he? All this time alone and with so many journeys to the Golden Wood, it is possible, No! He went on business.' Watching as Gil-galad laughed and Galadriel smiled in response, Elrond's fears grew. 'I am not exclusive to his touch, what is to say that he is to mine?
I never noticed how much time they spend together when she is in Imladris or he is in Lorien, there is every possibility…' Elrond's thoughts were halted when Ereinion gazed at Galadriel. He did it in the way Elrond had only seen when his lover looked at him after they had made love. Elrond arose from his chair and left the elves gathered in the Hall of Fire, causing many to stare after him, including the two that loved him deeply.
"Elrond?" Celebrian's question startled her husband as he turned from gazing out the window at the end of the hall that led to their bedroom. "Are you alright? You left with a great deal of haste without excusing yourself or giving reason."
Elrond sighed and turned back to the window. "I am not feeling well this night, I am sorry meleth nín."
Celebrian walked quickly toward him, turned his head to face her and placed a hand upon his forehead. This caused Elrond to smile warmly down at her as he took her hand from his head held it in his own. "I welcome your concern for it allows me to be so near to you but I shall be fine, rejoin those on the Hall of Fire."
Celebrian did not leave with ease and she constantly looked back as she walked slowly from him. Elrond sighed, dropped his smile and turned back to the window. Not even his wife's care over him could wipe the thoughts from his mind of his lover's possible betrayal.
The elf that tended the stable was surprised to see his Lord enter quickly and leave much the same with a horse in tow.
Mounting the horse bare back, Elrond tore from the stables and cleared the fence of the paddock with ease. The fact that he had done so without saddle and reins didn't seem to reach the elven Lord as he continued on at a speedy pace. Only when his horses skin was covered in a white froth did Elrond stop, gazing over a steep cliff that overlooked a vast lake.
Breathing heavily and apologizing to his steed for not giving him a proper warm up, Elrond calmed enough to realize that this single thought would haunt him until he knew for certain what exactly was between the high King and the Lady of Lorien. But Elrond paused ere he turned from looking over the smooth, dark water.
'What will I do if it is true?'
That single question stayed Elrond and he looked upon the water for many moments more.
"Are you well this night my lady?"
"Yes, thank you Glorfindel." Celebrian felt a sense of caution towards the other elf and did not turn back to her work for she didn't feel safe in leaving her back to him.
"But something troubles you?" A flash in his eyes frightened her but Celebrian would cower before no one and show fear to no one. Her posture remained rigid and her face, cool.
"Elrond is not feeling well and now I am informed that he has taken leave of Imladris without warning nor reason."
Glorfindel's fast movement of placing both hands on her arms was to quick for Celebrian to evade it. "I see how you are pained by his erratic actions every day I am here and I feel them every day I am not, why do you suffer them?" His grip tightened but Celebrian did not squirm from it, rather, she looked up at him coldly.
"Elrond's behavior is far from erratic, I would expect something such as this given all that he's stresses over, now, release me." A tone of ice and a glare of fire almost made Glorfindel waver but his grip remained tight.
"The you deserve one who is not subject to such behavior due to his stressful position, one who is free of such a life."
"Let me go."
"Let yourself free of him!"
Celebrian realized what he was saying and quickly, catching Glorfindel off guard, slipped from his grasp and brought her knee to his chest, tearing her dress and leaving him without breath and grasping his chest as he fell to the floor.
"Stay away from me Glorfindel." She said in a hard tone as she left the hall and went quickly to her own chambers, locking the door and sitting with her back against it as a shiver ran through her body.
Glorfindel managed to drag himself up against the cool marble wall as he regained his breath. He strayed often near to the Lord and Lady's chambers that night, checking the handles of the doors every time.
"I wonder why he left."
"Perhaps he did not like the company he was keeping." Gil-galad's remark drew a laugh from the Lady of Lorien as they made towards her chambers.
"I bid you goodnight, my Lady." Erenion said as he kissed her hand.
"And I bid you a goodnight as well."
The two elves gazed at one another for a while until they were interrupted by Celeborn opening the door to the chambers.
"Hello my King, hello meleth nín. I was going to wish our daughter a fare night."
Galadriel nodded and did not meet Ereinion's eyes again as she turned into the room and shut the door behind her. Celeborn bowed his head to Gil-galad ere he walked from him.
The King stared at the door for a few moments longer, chided himself, then walked to his own room.
Celeborn was confused as he, encased in the shadows, watched Glorfindel test the door nob to his daughter's bed room. He stepped into plain sight and cleared his voice. "Glorfindel, what are you doing?" His tone was demanding and held no respect for Glorfindel's title. The elf stepped back in fear when he saw Celeborn, a large elf who could, when he wished to, hold a very frightening demeanor.
"Nothing, my Lord, nothing." Celeborn watched him walk down the hall quickly and heard the sound of feet running when Glorfindel rounded the corner.
When he was certain that the other elf had gone, Celeborn went to the chambers of one of the guards that had accompanied his wife and himself to Imladris and had looked after Celebrian many times when she was little and asked him to wait around the corner from his daughter's room.
When Celeborn knocked on the door, it sounded as though someone was leaning against it but no one answered. "Celebrian, are you in there?"
"Ada?" the door creaked open slightly and Celebrian sighed at the sight of her father. Celeborn stepped into the doorway quickly when he saw her state.
"Why are you pale and shivering and why is your dressed torn?" When he placed his arms upon her arms, it was warm and comforting and Celebrian leaned into the embrace.
"I tripped, I am very clumsy when I am not paying attention."
Celeborn did not believe this for a moment and his thoughts traveled back to Glorfindel as he wrapped his arms around his daughter.
"I came to say goodnight."
"Goodnight Ada."
When Celeborn left Celebrian's chambers, he called the guard to stand by her doorway and told him to keep Glorfindel from it's presence. Nodding and wishing his Lord goodnight, the guard stood straight by the door as Celeborn walked back to his room.
Gil-galad strummed a lute as he looked out over the valley of Imladris from his window, his thoughts were of two claimed that he loved despite it.
'The love of a Golden one or the love of a dark one, either way, I am left with the hate of a Silver one.'
He sighed sadly thinking that much possible stress could be caused by his affection, stress that would be inflicted upon two whom he had grown to care for despite their love of those whom he loved also.
During his pondering and slow strumming, he did not notice Elrond enter with his fists and jaw clenched.
"What is between you?"
Gil-galad turned but did not understand the question. "What is between who?"
"Do you lover her? Do you go to her bed after you leave mine?"
Ereinion stood and went to place his hands on Elrond's shoulders. "Who are you speaking of?"
"Galadriel!"
This stopped Gil-galad's approach of his lover. "I am not certain what you mean, you know that you are the only one to touch my body and my soul."
Elrond looked at him with a deep pain in his eyes. "Liar, I see the way you look at her…I thought it was I alone who gained such looks."
Ereinion cast his eyes to the ground ere he looked into his lover's once more. "I share that look with her because…although we are nothing more that old friends and allies now, we once…did share one another's flesh and soul…"
Elrond stared at him in disbelief and Gil-galad made quickly to wrap him in his arms. "But I promise you, with everything I am and have been, that, although she is close to my heart, no one holds it save you, understand?"
Elrond nodded slowly but removed himself from Ereinion's grasp. "Sleep well my King."
Gil-galad stared after him and he felt his heart breaking. Elrond's face had grown expressionless at the knowledge that he and Galadriel had been lovers ere they had. Ereinion was not used to coldness from Elrond and he felt the chill spreading throughout his body until he crawled beneath his covers to seek warmth.
Elrond, more than just slightly disheartened, was startled to see a guard posted at his doorway. The tall, light haired elf stepped aside for him at once and Elrond found himself to tired to question his presence. He only wished to be in Celebrian's arms right at that moment.
Finding her asleep, Elrond shed his clothes and climbed into their bed. When he went to wrap an arm around her shoulders, he found them cold and she jumped. Elrond turned her face towards his to see a hint of fear in her eyes.
"Are you alright meleth nín?"
Celebrian nodded and snuggled into his arms. "I was having a nightmare. Where did you go?"
Elrond leaned his head against hers. "I believe I was having a nightmare as well…but it has gone now that I am with you."
Celebrian smiled, comfortable and safe in her husbands embrace and nodded in agreement.
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There's another one. Again, thankies for the support, this is hard to write(dark elfyness is scaring me, Glorfie is definitely scaring me)
This stands as a warning, it's gonna get really creepy as in children of the corn, silence of the lambs aint got nuthin on this creepy. So, bring a blankie to pull over your head during the scary parts and your preferred elfie of choice plushie:)
'But Galadriel truly loves Celeborn, it would not be possible….could it?' Elrond grumbled as the thought entered his mind. 'Gil-galad said he had no other, was he lying? No, he would not, not to me…would he? All this time alone and with so many journeys to the Golden Wood, it is possible, No! He went on business.' Watching as Gil-galad laughed and Galadriel smiled in response, Elrond's fears grew. 'I am not exclusive to his touch, what is to say that he is to mine?
I never noticed how much time they spend together when she is in Imladris or he is in Lorien, there is every possibility…' Elrond's thoughts were halted when Ereinion gazed at Galadriel. He did it in the way Elrond had only seen when his lover looked at him after they had made love. Elrond arose from his chair and left the elves gathered in the Hall of Fire, causing many to stare after him, including the two that loved him deeply.
"Elrond?" Celebrian's question startled her husband as he turned from gazing out the window at the end of the hall that led to their bedroom. "Are you alright? You left with a great deal of haste without excusing yourself or giving reason."
Elrond sighed and turned back to the window. "I am not feeling well this night, I am sorry meleth nín."
Celebrian walked quickly toward him, turned his head to face her and placed a hand upon his forehead. This caused Elrond to smile warmly down at her as he took her hand from his head held it in his own. "I welcome your concern for it allows me to be so near to you but I shall be fine, rejoin those on the Hall of Fire."
Celebrian did not leave with ease and she constantly looked back as she walked slowly from him. Elrond sighed, dropped his smile and turned back to the window. Not even his wife's care over him could wipe the thoughts from his mind of his lover's possible betrayal.
The elf that tended the stable was surprised to see his Lord enter quickly and leave much the same with a horse in tow.
Mounting the horse bare back, Elrond tore from the stables and cleared the fence of the paddock with ease. The fact that he had done so without saddle and reins didn't seem to reach the elven Lord as he continued on at a speedy pace. Only when his horses skin was covered in a white froth did Elrond stop, gazing over a steep cliff that overlooked a vast lake.
Breathing heavily and apologizing to his steed for not giving him a proper warm up, Elrond calmed enough to realize that this single thought would haunt him until he knew for certain what exactly was between the high King and the Lady of Lorien. But Elrond paused ere he turned from looking over the smooth, dark water.
'What will I do if it is true?'
That single question stayed Elrond and he looked upon the water for many moments more.
"Are you well this night my lady?"
"Yes, thank you Glorfindel." Celebrian felt a sense of caution towards the other elf and did not turn back to her work for she didn't feel safe in leaving her back to him.
"But something troubles you?" A flash in his eyes frightened her but Celebrian would cower before no one and show fear to no one. Her posture remained rigid and her face, cool.
"Elrond is not feeling well and now I am informed that he has taken leave of Imladris without warning nor reason."
Glorfindel's fast movement of placing both hands on her arms was to quick for Celebrian to evade it. "I see how you are pained by his erratic actions every day I am here and I feel them every day I am not, why do you suffer them?" His grip tightened but Celebrian did not squirm from it, rather, she looked up at him coldly.
"Elrond's behavior is far from erratic, I would expect something such as this given all that he's stresses over, now, release me." A tone of ice and a glare of fire almost made Glorfindel waver but his grip remained tight.
"The you deserve one who is not subject to such behavior due to his stressful position, one who is free of such a life."
"Let me go."
"Let yourself free of him!"
Celebrian realized what he was saying and quickly, catching Glorfindel off guard, slipped from his grasp and brought her knee to his chest, tearing her dress and leaving him without breath and grasping his chest as he fell to the floor.
"Stay away from me Glorfindel." She said in a hard tone as she left the hall and went quickly to her own chambers, locking the door and sitting with her back against it as a shiver ran through her body.
Glorfindel managed to drag himself up against the cool marble wall as he regained his breath. He strayed often near to the Lord and Lady's chambers that night, checking the handles of the doors every time.
"I wonder why he left."
"Perhaps he did not like the company he was keeping." Gil-galad's remark drew a laugh from the Lady of Lorien as they made towards her chambers.
"I bid you goodnight, my Lady." Erenion said as he kissed her hand.
"And I bid you a goodnight as well."
The two elves gazed at one another for a while until they were interrupted by Celeborn opening the door to the chambers.
"Hello my King, hello meleth nín. I was going to wish our daughter a fare night."
Galadriel nodded and did not meet Ereinion's eyes again as she turned into the room and shut the door behind her. Celeborn bowed his head to Gil-galad ere he walked from him.
The King stared at the door for a few moments longer, chided himself, then walked to his own room.
Celeborn was confused as he, encased in the shadows, watched Glorfindel test the door nob to his daughter's bed room. He stepped into plain sight and cleared his voice. "Glorfindel, what are you doing?" His tone was demanding and held no respect for Glorfindel's title. The elf stepped back in fear when he saw Celeborn, a large elf who could, when he wished to, hold a very frightening demeanor.
"Nothing, my Lord, nothing." Celeborn watched him walk down the hall quickly and heard the sound of feet running when Glorfindel rounded the corner.
When he was certain that the other elf had gone, Celeborn went to the chambers of one of the guards that had accompanied his wife and himself to Imladris and had looked after Celebrian many times when she was little and asked him to wait around the corner from his daughter's room.
When Celeborn knocked on the door, it sounded as though someone was leaning against it but no one answered. "Celebrian, are you in there?"
"Ada?" the door creaked open slightly and Celebrian sighed at the sight of her father. Celeborn stepped into the doorway quickly when he saw her state.
"Why are you pale and shivering and why is your dressed torn?" When he placed his arms upon her arms, it was warm and comforting and Celebrian leaned into the embrace.
"I tripped, I am very clumsy when I am not paying attention."
Celeborn did not believe this for a moment and his thoughts traveled back to Glorfindel as he wrapped his arms around his daughter.
"I came to say goodnight."
"Goodnight Ada."
When Celeborn left Celebrian's chambers, he called the guard to stand by her doorway and told him to keep Glorfindel from it's presence. Nodding and wishing his Lord goodnight, the guard stood straight by the door as Celeborn walked back to his room.
Gil-galad strummed a lute as he looked out over the valley of Imladris from his window, his thoughts were of two claimed that he loved despite it.
'The love of a Golden one or the love of a dark one, either way, I am left with the hate of a Silver one.'
He sighed sadly thinking that much possible stress could be caused by his affection, stress that would be inflicted upon two whom he had grown to care for despite their love of those whom he loved also.
During his pondering and slow strumming, he did not notice Elrond enter with his fists and jaw clenched.
"What is between you?"
Gil-galad turned but did not understand the question. "What is between who?"
"Do you lover her? Do you go to her bed after you leave mine?"
Ereinion stood and went to place his hands on Elrond's shoulders. "Who are you speaking of?"
"Galadriel!"
This stopped Gil-galad's approach of his lover. "I am not certain what you mean, you know that you are the only one to touch my body and my soul."
Elrond looked at him with a deep pain in his eyes. "Liar, I see the way you look at her…I thought it was I alone who gained such looks."
Ereinion cast his eyes to the ground ere he looked into his lover's once more. "I share that look with her because…although we are nothing more that old friends and allies now, we once…did share one another's flesh and soul…"
Elrond stared at him in disbelief and Gil-galad made quickly to wrap him in his arms. "But I promise you, with everything I am and have been, that, although she is close to my heart, no one holds it save you, understand?"
Elrond nodded slowly but removed himself from Ereinion's grasp. "Sleep well my King."
Gil-galad stared after him and he felt his heart breaking. Elrond's face had grown expressionless at the knowledge that he and Galadriel had been lovers ere they had. Ereinion was not used to coldness from Elrond and he felt the chill spreading throughout his body until he crawled beneath his covers to seek warmth.
Elrond, more than just slightly disheartened, was startled to see a guard posted at his doorway. The tall, light haired elf stepped aside for him at once and Elrond found himself to tired to question his presence. He only wished to be in Celebrian's arms right at that moment.
Finding her asleep, Elrond shed his clothes and climbed into their bed. When he went to wrap an arm around her shoulders, he found them cold and she jumped. Elrond turned her face towards his to see a hint of fear in her eyes.
"Are you alright meleth nín?"
Celebrian nodded and snuggled into his arms. "I was having a nightmare. Where did you go?"
Elrond leaned his head against hers. "I believe I was having a nightmare as well…but it has gone now that I am with you."
Celebrian smiled, comfortable and safe in her husbands embrace and nodded in agreement.
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There's another one. Again, thankies for the support, this is hard to write(dark elfyness is scaring me, Glorfie is definitely scaring me)
This stands as a warning, it's gonna get really creepy as in children of the corn, silence of the lambs aint got nuthin on this creepy. So, bring a blankie to pull over your head during the scary parts and your preferred elfie of choice plushie:)