A/N: Sorry it took so long for the new chapter, but I wanted to take my time with this one and get it right. No apparent redeemable social value to this chapter, as what was to come could have been summed up in a few short sentences.

By the way, I have not said thank you to the 3 R's in a while. Readers, Raters and Reviewers- you are wonderful and thank you for your honest opinions. Also a huge thanks to my beta Monaleoht! Without her, I would have never come this far!

WARNING: This chapter is more on the NC-17 side of the rating scale... the one truly explicit chapter in the story. If you find this objectionable in anyway, please do not read to the very end!!!!!

Chapter 27- Breathe On Me

He could not believe that of all the times Orophin had chosen to come and relieve him of his injuries, he had to come right as he was starting to get somewhere with Indilisse. Haldir had been so infuriated when he first walked out to greet him, but he had to remind himself that Orophin had only been doing what he had asked him to do. After all, he had not intended upon Indilisse shoving him back on the bed and then climbing on top of him. All he had been planning to do was tease her a little with the removal of the pins and through his words before sending her to bathe. But he was not one that was going to stop such an action of being thrown back on his bed as he liked the fact that he was arousing her just enough to make her act on her own. And now he regretted letting Indilisse do it, and also was mad at himself for reciprocating her advances, as his sexual awareness was at an all time peak. He was literally going to rip apart if he could not alleviate his permanent state of arousal.

Though to move on to that, he had wanted to wait until they were both ready to bind wholly and he was able to ask her without it being in the heat of the moment. Unfortunately, it did not seem possible now to achieve that through the ways he had hoped. He could not restrain himself; the next time he would not even care if Celeborn or Galadriel were to walk in on them, he was not stopping what he and Indilisse had started.

Haldir hurried back to Indilisse, as he had left quickly to take a cool bath in Orophin's talan after he had tended to the one barely noticeable bruise on the side of his abdomen. The bath had helped by a slight degree in taking his mind from Indilisse, but all the while he had pictured her in the water, in his own bathing basin for that matter, in his talan, her body unmarred by any ounce of cloth. It had been so hard to push it from his mind.

He walked into the talan and heard peaceful, soft singing. Not wanting to interrupt her, but needing to see her, Haldir continued back and walked in the door. The sight before him did nothing for trying to calm himself down, and he felt the familiar tingling in his loins again as he looked over the smooth figure of the elleth, covered only by the drying cloth he had given her earlier.

Indilisse sat on the stool in front of the mirror, combing her hair slowly, the strands falling down her bare back in a wave of golden brown. Her face was soft in repose as she continued to sing the song, even though she glanced sideways for a moment to see who had entered. The cloth around her was being precariously held up by her small, but lovely, breasts. It ended high on her thigh, barely covering the perfectly rounded rump that balanced her on the stool, and revealing the smoothly toned thighs and calves of her long legs. Oh how he needed to touch her!

She stopped singing and turned to him, "I was planning to borrow one of your tunics, but I thought I would ask first."

Haldir shook his head, trying to break his stare and sighed, "Whatever is mine, is yours, meleth."

Indilisse smiled and moved carefully to stand up, making sure to hold the top of the cloth in place. "You did not tell me you were injured."

"It was not bad." Haldir replied, "Only a small bruise at my side, and by the time Orophin took a look at it, it was almost gone."

She did not walk over to the wardrobe, but instead went straight to him. Indilisse stopped and looked up at him with a soft smile, the faint scent of niphredil on her hair and on her skin finding his nose. Her smile grew larger, and she trained her eyes on his chest instead, placing a hand over his heart. Haldir followed her movements, and watched ever closely as she ran a finger along one of the fasteners of his tunic. The finger accidentally slipped past the closure and past the hem, touching his bare skin.

Haldir grabbed for her hand, and brought it to his lips to place a kiss over her fingers. "I have seen this seduction before."

Indilisse giggled lightly and met his eyes, "Except this time it is with you and it means something. With Rúmil, I was only teasing."

"That infuriated me so much when you did that to Rúmil." Haldir said, "Even though I had only realized it was you earlier that day, I was so angry that he was getting that attention and I was not."

"You did not deserve it. As I recall, you were being very arrogant." She sighed, and went to sit on his bed again. "Except Rúmil is not much a sport when it comes to trying to excite him. He is easily bothered."

Haldir chuckled and followed her to the bed, "I am not so impossible to excite either."

Indilisse smiled, pushing her hair back behind her shoulders, revealing the smoothness of the skin that he was sure was like velvet to touch. He noticed her glance at the bulge in his leggings before her eyes once again met his. "Nay, you are not, mell nin."

"Indilisse," he began with a heaving sigh. "I initially wished to wait until your parents left, but it seems that is no longer possible. I need you more than I need food for nourishment and sleep for rest. I need you as my lover, as my friend, as my wife, as my confidant... oh Elbereth, I just need to feel you against me."

"You did not even have to ask me, Haldir." Indilisse said, "I have been saying yes ever since the Fall Festival."

Haldir looked at his hands briefly and then back up at her, "I should have known by the way you grew nervous presenting me with that ring."

"It was not just presenting you with that ring that was making me nervous." Indilisse chuckled, "It was being so close to you, and smelling your scent after just fighting."

"You mean I did not have to go and bathe?" He asked with a half smile.

She rolled her eyes, "You do not wish to dirty your bedcovers, do you?"

"Nay," Haldir replied with a laugh. "But there is still the possibility of messing the bedcovers."

A bright blush spread across her cheeks and up her ears. "Aye, I suppose there is."

"Indilisse..." He said quietly, just barely over the huskiness of his voice. He lifted her chin to look at him and he could not help but smile at the lust he found in her eyes. Yet mixed with the love and nervous naïveté that he also saw there, Indilisse seemed absolutely vulnerable to anything that could happen to her. Never before would he have been able to think that Indilisse- the strong-willed and proud Indilisse- would ever let her guard down so easily to reveal that she indeed was defenseless when it came to her utter care and love for another.

"Yes, Haldir?" She asked.

Haldir sighed and leaned over, placing a soft kiss upon her lips, "Estelio enni, meleth e-guilen."

"Estelion allen, Haldir." Indilisse whispered, breathlessly. "Melin le."

He smiled, kissing her again, this time more forceful than before, but he hoped with still the same love he felt for her. "Will you be my wife?"

She nodded her head, unable to speak after such a kiss from him. The feel of his lips against hers was enough to make her melt into the ground. What made him think that kissing her before asking her this question was beneficial to getting a verbal answer? Indilisse summoned all of her abilities and focus to answer with a simple, "I would think of nothing I would rather be."

Haldir chuckled and pulled back from her, completely vacating the seat beside her. "I will be right back."

Indilisse was puzzled as to what he was doing, but he disappeared into the front room of the talan and she sat back against the headboard, waiting for him to return. The scrapping of wooden chair legs on the floor of talan found her, and then there was silence. Haldir came back into the room, closing off the door to his bedroom, and made a big show of latching this door shut. Indilisse laughed at him as he came back to her, "Why did we not think of that before?"

"I was not expecting you to do what you did." Haldir said, sitting beside her, placing a hand on a smooth thigh.

His hand was so warm on her thigh that it nearly burned, though of wonderful sensations, not of flame. She giggled, "I was not expecting myself to do that either."

Haldir laughed, running his hand down her leg slowly, watching her carefully for any reaction on her part. Indilisse sighed and grabbed for his hand, entwining her fingers with his. He gave her a questioning look, not sure of what she was doing as she kissed his fingers and moved his hand down to her chest. "I do not understand what is that you want."

"We have the rest of our lives to learn each other, meleth nin," Indilisse said. "All we have been experiencing together the past month has been leading up to this point and I will not be able to take one more moment of this play without serious action."

"If 'serious action' is what you want, my lady, then that is what you will receive." Those simple words from Indilisse sent his need for release even higher than before. Haldir leaned over her and claimed her lips hungrily, removing his hand from her chest and placing it beside her on the bed so that he could position himself over her. Without his coaxing, she slid down so that her head rested against a pillow, the cloth around her catching on the fabric of the bed linens and staying at her waist and revealing her lower body to him. He chuckled and pulled the piece that was tucked in to the top of the cloth covering, beginning to pull away the entire cloth from her body. "I am glad that you are no longer in that dress."

"Why is that?" She asked quietly as she lifted her body enough so that he could throw the cloth to the side.

"I was not looking forward to trying to figure out how the ties on that dress worked." He replied.

Indilisse giggled and grabbed the fabric of his tunic, pulling him down to her, allowing her to kiss him thoroughly. "Your ego would have been bruised, but would it really have hurt anything if you had fumbled with the dress?"

Haldir laughed and shook his head without replying, recapturing her lips with his. Without warning, a hand slipped down to her right thigh, this time trailing his fingers along the side of her completely nude body. He stopped at her breast, cupping and kneading it slightly as he kissed her ever deeper. She let out a small, contented sigh as he brushed his thumb over the already-hardened, pink nub.

So long had he waited to touch her. So long had he waited to make love to her. So long had he waited to find the perfect elleth that he could share his life with. The time had finally come for them to bind together; through much misunderstanding, arrogance and labor they had found love and a deep caring for each other that he could have never imagined possible in his long life. Never would he have been able to foresee this happening two millennia ago when she was constantly running from him and hiding, causing him many worries and heartache because of her mischievous elfling ways. It almost seemed too perfect that things were now happening so fast for them.

"Haldir?" Came the soft, questioning voice from beneath him. "What is wrong?"

He focused his eyes on her, not realizing he had gone so deep into thought that he had ceased all movement over her. "I was only thinking."

"Aye, it is quite the time to think, meleth." She giggled and lifted her head to kiss him. Her small hands found the clasps to his tunic, and slowly she began to undo them, until she got to the very end. She separated the opening of the fabric, placing her hands against his smooth chest, sliding them up to his shoulders. Indilisse pushed the fabric away and down his arms and back as he lifted his left arm and then his right to remove the offending piece of fine cloth. "Tell me, what were you thinking about?"

Haldir tried to focus on the question presented him, but the feel of her hands running down his arms and across his chest was something extremely hard to contend with. "I was thinking-." He paused as her lips found his collar bone, and she then moved up his neck to run her tongue along the contour of his ear, straight to the tip. Letting out a low growl, he pulled back from her so that he could easily look down at her. "What I was thinking about is not important any longer."

Indilisse roamed with her fingers over his strong back, feeling each muscle flex and relax as he made ever so small movements atop her. She had imagined what he would look like beneath his tunics, as he seemed so large muscularly for an elf, not even height wise in which he was considerably taller than many elves, but never had she expected his body to be so utterly flawlessly formed. It was as though a sculptor had chiseled away at his body for centuries just to define it perfectly. Not even the small bruise at his side could deter the perfection that was his body to both look at and to feel against her fingertips. She had been enjoying the feel of his body so much that she did not notice what Haldir was doing until he flicked his tongue out against a nipple.

Haldir smiled as she let out a sudden gasp, and took the nub into his mouth, grazing his teeth over the sensitive pink flesh. With the increased attention to her breasts, her breathing grew heavier and moans deeper. This aroused him so much that he could please his love in such a way, though he had barely scratched the surface of what he was planning to do. Her delicate hands found his head and tangled her fingers in his hair as he moved leisurely down her flat stomach with soft kisses on her unblemished smooth skin.

Indilisse felt the tingling of anticipation in her abdomen as his lips trailed ever closer to the place where she wanted him the most. The pleasure she was receiving from Haldir was beyond anything she could have prepared for, and while she was not surprised that he was taking a completely dominant role in the situation, she really could care less at the moment. His lips touched the inside tops of each of her thighs, the tingling turning into a wonderfully burning sensation where his mouth had been. With a gentle hand he moved her thighs slightly more apart and pressed his fingers against her swollen nubbin before sliding further down and into her.

In a testing manner, Haldir gently licked her and pulled away, eliciting an anguished moan from Indilisse's mouth and a slight buck of her hips. He wrapped his arms around her thighs and placed his hands upon her hips to hold her in place while he continued. He began again, softly at first, but gradually increased the pressure upon his ministrations of her swollen nubbin, twirling his tongue against it and sucking on it gently. Her fingers tightened in his hair. Glancing up at her quickly, Haldir saw her eyes flutter wildly, and then her back arch as the movement of her hips were restrained by his hands. The wetness and wavering tightness upon his fingers now deep within her told him that she was near her release, though he had only just started. He was more than thrilled that he had done that to her.

"Haldir..." She managed to moan, wishing to get his attention as soon as he went back to his absolutely satisfying actions.

"Yes, meleth?" He asked pleasantly, running his tongue against her once, making her entire body contract.

"Please..." Indilisse whispered in raspy voice.

Haldir smiled to himself and did it again, "Please, what?"

Unable to speak any more, her coherency near nonexistent, she moved her hands to his ears and ran her thumbs over the tips in hopes of drawing him up to her. He let out one of his low moans, unfortunately while his mouth was still centered over her, the subtle vibrations pushing her just enough that her entire body contracted and did not release. The waves of pleasure hit her one at a time, rhythmic and wonderful as Haldir continued to suckle her until she finally relaxed and her loud mewling was reduced to erratic breathing. He joined her again, kissing her passionately and allowing her to taste the trace of her still upon his lips. She was so incredibly excited now, heightened to an extreme she had not even thought possible just after release, that all Haldir would have to do was breathe on her in any suggestive way and Indilisse was sure she would lose it all over again.

"Now, tell me what you want." Haldir said with an arrogant smile. Without any word from Indilisse, he felt her hand press against his leggings- covered desire and grasp it sufficiently through the fabric, sending the most pleasurable feeling through his body. She ran her fingers along him a few more times before using her other hand to easily pull loose the ties of his leggings.

Her hands slipped over to his hips and pushed down on the fabric, it extremely effortless to be removed from his lower body even with his intensely swollen shaft a possible impediment. Haldir covered her hands with his, and removed the leggings completely from his legs, revealing himself to her completely for the first time. Indilisse smiled at him, pulling him back down to her lips, thinking him the single most perfect and attractive elf in all of Arda, and probably even in Valinor had she ever been there. Even Glorfindel had not been so lovely, and neither had Elladan- for what she had seen anyway. Indilisse reached down between them and encircled his shaft with her fingers, and ran her hand down the rigidly thick length, finding that Haldir was now moaning against her lips.

Haldir had been unaware of just how close he was to finding his own release, by being so unbelievably aroused by the sight of Indilisse's fair body. With one of her hands on him now searching, feeling and learning him, while the other pumped on his desire, Haldir was moving in and out of lucid thought. Whenever he had relations with others, he had never actually found himself in the place he was in with Indilisse. No elf maiden or maid had ever made him reach a point where he could no longer be rational and in control. But Indilisse did.

She was a bit staggered when he placed his hands on her hips and flipped their positions so that she was laying atop him, making it impossible to stroke him. Indilisse kissed his collar bone, then trailed her lips down his striated chest to flick her tongue against one of his nipples, before moving quickly down his abdomen to arrive at his engorged shaft. Slowly and teasingly, feeling quite a bit adventurous as she was just doing what she felt like was acceptable to do, she ran her tongue from the base to the tip where a small dribble of fluid had formed. She ran her tongue around the tip once, and again kissed back up to his lips.

He had not suspected her to do such a thing, and when she had started for that general direction he was shocked, but he was not going to stop Indilisse if this what she wished to do to him. Such a feeling it was to have her tongue on him! But as soon as she started, she worked her way up to his lips again. Haldir seized the moment, and took a strong hold of her hips, grinding his pelvis up against the wetness that was straddling him. She whimpered and looked at him.

"Whenever you are ready, meleth nin." Haldir informed her in a husky voice.

Indilisse blushed slightly, realizing that he was giving her complete control of the next events so that she could move at her own pace if she wished. Fortunately for Haldir, though, she was far past pacing herself. In one long, slow movement, Indilisse lowered herself, finding that as he stretched her there was slight pain, but it was fleeting and soon was replaced with pure bliss. Each of them let out low moans and met each other's eyes, Indilisse finding unadulterated love and need in Haldir's gray eyes. Almost instantly, her mind moving automatically and without thought, she began a slow up and down movement over him. His hands went to her thighs, and moved up her hips, to regulate the speed at which she moved.

He could not believe how tight she was, but found that it was very pleasing for his own gain, and it looked to be to hers as well, even though it had seemed she was in pain for a few fleeting moments. That was why he had allowed her to initiate the contact, so she could better measure her tolerance level than he. But now that it served his purpose he pushed Indilisse onto her back and began a quickened thrust into her.

Haldir could feel it coming, could feel the orgasm building within him, knew from the way she was swelling around him, shudders trailing down her spine, the moans falling regularly from her mouth, that she was close also. She massaged his ears again and he thrust into her, gasping and panting, relishing the fact that he was finally taking her. Under normal circumstances he would not have waited so long to claim what he wished, but he was glad that he had waited with Indilisse. Glad that he had been able to show her enough restraint that their binding would be all that more special an occasion.

Finally, her soft, wet walls pulsed around him...gripping him...and he found it far too much. Burying his face in the crook of her neck, Haldir let out a loud moan and emptied himself within her. He waited until the ripples of pleasure ended before carefully resting himself slightly to her side, but still inside of her. She turned to meet him in a long kiss as he pulled her close. Never before had he felt such pieces of him given away, but he knew that this time it was because of his intent on binding with Indilisse. They had forged the bond through their friendship, but now made sure with this act that it would remain together throughout eternity.

He slowly removed himself from her and reached to pull the rumpled bedcovers down enough to slip them beneath. Haldir rested again beside her and placed a kiss on her brow, "Melin le, hervess nin."

"Melithon le anuir," Indilisse smiled. "Hervenn nin."

---- mell nin- my beloved

meleth- love

Estelio enni, meleth e-guilen- Trust in me, love of my life

Estelion allen, Haldir- I trust in you Haldir

Melin le- I love you

Hervess nin- my wife

Melithon le anuir- I will love you forever

Hervenn nin- my husband