Chapter 90: Father Cield?
Legolas woke up. He could feel Thranduil's heartbeat, and enjoyed it. Legolas blinked and noticed he lay on his father's chest. Legolas enjoyed his father's chest as it was muscular and felt god when he lay upon it, and he found that heartbeats where amusing, both the heartbeat of Thranduil and Haldir. Feeling around with his face, Legolas could feel Thranduil's bare chest, as well as his own bare chest, and looking down at the floor, saw in a heap, the nightshirts of both himself and Thranduil, covered in ink. Thranduil had woken a second time and had learnt that the ink had been rubbing onto his back so was forced to remove his tunic, and carefully remove Legolas' tunic without waking him.
"Hi Daddy." Legolas whispered.
"Daddy?"
Legolas pulled at his father's ear and poked Thranduil's nose. Legolas waved his hand in front of his face, and Thranduil showed no sign of being awake.
"Ada?"
Legolas took some strands of Thranduil's hair and pulled with all his effort, until he held them in his hands. Thranduil yelled and woke up, startling Legolas so much that he went flying off Thranduil and caught by Thranduil just before hitting the ground.
"Legolas... ow... I did not know it was you."
"Ada, are you mad?" Legolas had tears in his eyes as he looked at his father.
"No, not at all." Thranduil pulled Legolas close to him and Legolas embraced his father.
"I love you daddy."
"I love you too little Greenleaf. Did you sleep well?"
"Yef. Did you Ada?"
Thranduil smiled and kissed his son.
"Yes Legolas, thank you for asking. But I woke up with ink on my tunic and back therefore I had to remove my tunic, and you also had ink on your tunic and back."
"Can I see Ada?"
Thranduil turned over and Legolas indeed saw the blue ink all over his father's back. Thranduil turned over again.
"Thats a lot of ink Ada."
"Indeed it is, and you have much on your tunic as well, but you luckily remained clean."
"Yay. I am clean!"
"Yes you are."
"Can I go wake up Haldiw?"
"I suppose you can but first I need to put more cream on your rash. It was all washed off last night when you took your bath, and I forgot to put more."
"Okay Ada. Is the cream still cold?"
"Yes Legolas, and will be even colder since I kept it near ice to stay fresh."
"Will you make sure I don't get a frostbite from it?"
"Don't worry little one, you will definitely not get frost bite from the cream."
"Good."
Legolas held close to his father as he was carried into the kitchen where Thranduil took the cold cream out and brought it back into his bedroom.
"Ada, why is you putting the cream on me here?"
"Would you rather here, where only I will see your backside, or in the kitchen, where guards and your siblings will see your backside?"
"I don't care if Cield or Tonus or Galion sees my bum."
"Well, trust me Legolas, in the future you will regret it if they did. They will tease you about it if I put the cream on you out in the kitchen."
"Buh Key knows I have a rash but he's not teasing me!"
"Yes, but when you are older they will laugh and never let you live it down."
"You're confusing me Ada."
"I'm sorry that I am confusing you."
"But if you say I'd be teased then I want you to put my cream on in here."
"Alright Legolas."
Thranduil took Legolas carefully and laid his across his lap, pulling down his son's undergarments (them being the only clothing Legolas wore). Legolas yelped loudly as the chilly pasty cream touched his tender skin.
"Ada... thats... cold..." Legolas whispered, clutching his father's empty hand. Thranduil rubbed the cream slowly onto the rash, and Legolas soon got used to the coldness and settled down when Thranduil pulled his undergarments back up.
"Now can I go wake up Hal?"
"Why don't we get you dressed first?"
"Okay."
Legolas was carried out of Thranduil's room and into his own, where Thranduil slid him into his green leather tunic.
Legolas ran out of his room and into Haldir's. Thranduil smiled at his son. Legolas was quite fast at his age, and Thranduil had never seen an elfling as fast. Legolas may have been slower at learning than the other elflings, but Legolas had all his immortal life to learn, and he had speed to make up for it.
Thranduil chose to go talk with Cield, as he wished to know how his date had gone. When he entered his son's bedroom, Cield was pulling his tunic over his head. Cield looked panicked and worried, and when he saw his father he looked as if he was going to be sick.
"Cield, is something the matter? Did your date not go well?"
"My date went well Ada. Too well." Cield said, his voice quiet and he trembled.
"I do not understand you ion nin, sit down and speak with me." Thranduil said, sitting beside Cield on his bed.
Legolas used the same technique as he did to get into his father's bed the night before: pushing a chair. When he got onto Haldir's bed, he poked Haldir in his eye. Legolas fell of the bed in shock when Haldir yelled in pain. Legolas wondered why everyone yelled when he woke them up, but Legolas figured it had to do something about the fact that since elves sleep with their eyes open, Legolas had poked Haldir's open eye.
Haldir winced as he picked up the elfling from the floor and held him tightly, to prevent him from crying.
"Don't do that, please. It hurt. Just don't cry either."
"I wont."
"Good. Now, would you like to go see your Ada? You know he misses you and he wishes you to not be mad at him."
"But I am not mad at my ada anymore! Now I am happy at Ada!"
"Great! Now, how about we go see him anyways, and have breakfast?"
"Okay!"
Haldir carried Legolas out of the guestroom, and was going to lead Legolas to the kitchen to find Thranduil when he saw the king leaning against the wall next to Cield's door, one hand rubbing at his temple.
"Thranduil, what is the matter?"
"Cield has... done something with Firelien, which I should not mention in front of Legolas."
"You would not mean to say he has...?"
"Yes, I do."
"Valar." Haldir muttered. Legolas was extremely confused at this point, as no one wanted to say what Cield had done before of him.
"Daddy!"
Thranduil looked down at Legolas and sighed.
"Yes Legolas?"
"What did Cield do?"
"Well... he did something... and... according to Cield... Firelien is pregnant."
"What does that mean?"
"That Firelien will have a child, and Cield will be the child's Ada."
"Oh. Is that a bad thing? Cause you did it Ada, so it cant be a bad thing if you did it."
"Cield is very young Legolas, and he is not prepared to be a father, no does he want to be an ada. I had had two children before you Legolas, so when your mother gave birth to you, I was ready... And, from what I can tell, Firelien chose to be pregnant, despite the fact that Cield does not want to have children with her... I believe she chose to be pregnant only because that would make her child the son of a prince. Cield is right now very confuse - He does not know how he feel... He's furious at Firelien for doing this, he's mad at himself for trusting her, he's sad, he's shocked... He does not know how he feels."
"Okay. Now can we have breakfast?" Legolas asked.
"Haldir, would you be so kind as to make Legolas' breakfast? Cield has asked to be alone but I do not wish to leave his side, as this is hurting him as well as me."
"Yes my lord. Come Cherub, I am going to make your breakfast."
"Goodie!"
Thranduil's times where rough, as his father was gone and mother, filled with so much grief, sailed to the undying lands, Cield becoming a father was not an easy road. Thranduil knew Firelien was pregnant on purpose, and so did Cield. Now Thranduil had to speak with Cield again, to find out if he would stay with the child or leave Firelien. Since Firelien did this on purpose, Thranduil believed that his son would hate Firelien for it.
Thranduil decided to go talk with Cield again. Thranduil wished to ease Cield, as it was not truly a horrid thing. There would be a year until the child was born, and Thranduil thought that would be long enough to teach Cield about parenting, if Cield wanted to father the elfling, and when the time came for Cield to take action as a father- well Thranduil had not thought that far as he would have two children to take care of already, and Tonus was soon leaving for Imladris.
To be Continued...