Chapter 2: Spanking

Haldir walked over to his wife and looked up at her. Illiendal pat her lap again.

"I said here." Illiendal ordered. Haldir sighed and tried to climb up onto her lap. Being too short, he grumbled (being careful not to curse again else he knew he'd be in more trouble). Haldir clutched Illiendal's dress and tried to pull himself up, but that only resulted in ripping the dress. Haldir bit his lip as he fell onto the ground.

"I'm sorry." Haldir looked at the big rip down his dear wife Illiendal's dress. Illiendal sighed and picked Haldir up onto her lap. Haldir expected a lecture about swearing, so looked at his wife in her eyes, but gasped when he was flipped over on his wife's knee, his leggings pulled down to his knees so that his bottom was exposed completely.

Illiendal settled Haldir down; Haldir was fidgeting around, trying to get free from the spanking. Haldir was humiliated now, he no longer felt like the grown man he was. Illiendal gave him one slap. Haldir winced, it hurt more as an elfling than it did as a grown man and he knew how light his wife's slaps where. The second slap, Haldir admitted, stung. By the fifth and final blow Haldir had tears on his face and his backside was stinging and red. There had only been five smacks, but Illiendal had put force into them.

Haldir's lips began to tremble and as soon as he was let down on the ground he pulled his leggings up and he ran away, headed to his bedroom shared with Illiendal. Illiendal stood up and followed him, finding him sobbing on the bed. Haldir lay on his stomach since his backside was now sore. Illiendal lay down on the bed beside the sobbing elfling and propped her head up with some pillows. Haldir ignored her presence and continued to sob into a pillow.

"Haldir, it was only a little spanking-

"It hurt!" Haldir cried.

"I told you I would have to discipline your misbehavior, and elflings most certainly should not swear like you did." Illiendal said. Haldir continued to cry.

"Do you want to feel the baby?" Illiendal asked, decided to change Haldir's mood. Haldir looked up miserably.

"What?" Haldir asked. Illiendal took his little elfling-sized hand and put it on her stomach. Haldir quieted down and remained calm.

"I felt something." Haldir smiled slightly, approaching Illiendal, keeping his hand on her belly.

"That's your child you just felt. Remember when you felt the first kick?" Illiendal asked as Haldir nodded his head.

"I got excited and started talking to your tummy. But this elfling cant be mine, since I'm just a baby myself." Haldir stuck out his tongue in woe.

"Haldir, don't worry. This elfling will always be yours, no matter how old or young you are. We are still married." Illiendal pulled Haldir into an embrace.

"I'll try to stop swearing." Haldir said quietly. "But it will be hard." He added.

"Yes, you did curse a lot as an adult." Illiendal gave Haldir a sad smile.

"How will I go to work this small?" Haldir asked Illiendal, removing his hand and sitting besides her, wincing at the pain it caused his sore bottom. Slaps hurt more as an elfling, Haldir remarked.

"Work? Haldir, you will not be working any more, at least not until you are a grown elf." Illiendal said. Haldir groaned.

"I love my job. I want to work." Haldir was ready to throw a tantrum.

"Sweetheart I'm sorry. Here, why don't we go visit your parents before you take a nap?" Illiendal asked. Haldir gave her a strange look.

"A nap? I don't need a nap." Haldir said, crossing his arms across his chest. He tried his best to hide a yawn.

"Children need naps Haldir, or they are in a bad mood and misbehave. And you've already been showed what happens to elflings who do not listen and do not behave, so lets not have that happen again. You are taking a nap." Illiendal said. Haldir grumbled and followed Illiendal outside. Illiendal took his hand and walked him to his parents' home, where Rumil and Orophin where currently telling their parents of their adventure and what had happened to their brother.

Haldir knocked on the door for his wife since it made him feel bigger. Haldir's mother, Mallriel, opened the door.

"Haldir!" Mallriel scooped her tiny son up and hugged him. "Oh it's been so long since I've been able to do this!" Mallriel spun around, holding her elfling.

Haldir's father Arhael came to greet them and gave the tiny elfling a hug.

"I never thought he would have another childhood." Arhael said. "Come inside, both of you. I've set up Haldir's old crib, you can leave him in there for a nap." At those words, Haldir tried to get out of his wife's arms. Arhael knew it must be hard for Illiendal to hold the squirming elfling, being pregnant and all, so Arhael took Haldir into his arms in a way so Haldir could not squirm very much.

Arhael dropped his son into the crib, which was near the kitchen table, where the family was talking. Arhael pulled up a chair for Illiendal and Haldir became angry, wanting to be the one to pull a chair up for his wife. It was his wife, after all.

"Are you really alright, caring for Haldir whilst you are pregnant? You know you will have to act like he is truly a child, using discipline and rewarding his proper behavior. We do not mind raising him a second time, nor do we mind him living with you, it's whatever suits you both best." Mallriel said.

"I want Haldir to be happy, I miss his normal self so much and I know he is upset that he has been reduced to a meager elfling. I think he would be happy with me, unless he'd rather be with you both. Whatever he wants, I want him to have… I want him to like his second childhood." Illiendal whispered. Haldir banged on the side of his crib.

"I'm not going to enjoy it if you keep spanking me like you did." Haldir snorted. Illiendal shut her eyes.

"He swore. I spanked him. Was that the right thing to do?" Illiendal asked.

"How many slaps did you give him, and where?" Arhael asked.

"Five on his bottom…" Illiendal said softly. Arhael smiled.

"When he swore as an elfling I gave him at least ten smacks. But you're getting there. Haldir has been on my lap for spankings many times, it is how I disciplined all three of my sons." Arhael stated, Orophin and Rumil nodding their heads in agreement.

"He either gave us short but hard spankings or long and light spankings, they both equaled a very sore, red bottom." Orophin said. "And we usually did not do what we where spanked for again. Haldir does not count though since he always got into mischief. He will probably be the same this time." Orophin added.

"As long as I punished him properly I am relieved." Illiendal said, noticing the fuming look little Haldir gave them all.

"We have a lot of baby things that used to belong to Haldir we had planned to give you when the baby came, but now I think we should give them to you for Haldir. The crib is one of them."

"I don't need a crib, I can sleep in my old bed." Haldir said.

"I don't know what Illiendal will say to that." Mallriel pointed out.

"Illiendal said I can sleep in our bed." Haldir pouted.

"I did." Illiendal nodded her head.

"Are you sure? It's one thing to share your bed with your husband, but when your husband is an elfling…"

"You and ada used to let me sleep with you sometimes." Haldir complained.

"I know he is not what he used to be but I think he still deserves to sleep in his own bed." Illiendal said. Haldir nodded his head in agreement.

"Alright. We have other things to offer: Play pins, elfling clothes, bibs, and bottles… I can show you it all now." Arhael said. Illiendal nodded and she took most of what was offered.

"Thank you for coming over, Illiendal." Mallriel kissed her daughter-in-law on her cheek. "Please take care of my son. He must be miserable. Treat him well the first few days before you start acting like a real mother would." Mallriel whispered.

"I will. Thank you for all these nice gifts." Illiendal lifted Haldir. Orophin and Rumil where carrying all the baby supplies back to Illiendal's home for the pregnant she-elf.

"Thank you, Rumil, Orophin, for carrying the stuff." Illiendal hugged both brothers.

"As we said before, if you need any assistance at all we will be here for you, no matter what the assistance is." Rumil said.

"Now if the assistance is delivering your child, that can be Rumil's duty." Orophin added. Rumil elbowed his brother.

"Lets hope we find a cure to Haldir's problem before that happens." Rumil said as he left.

"Wait!" Illiendal stopped Haldir's brothers.

"Yes, are you in dire need of assistance?" Rumil asked.

"I'm very tired. Would you both minds watching Haldir whilst I sleep? If you are too busy I can stay awake, but…"

"Nonsense! We will take care of the bugger." Rumil smiled at little Haldir. "We will take excellent care." Rumil said.

"Well, Rumil can. I think I will leave, I need a nap as well." Orophin did look tired, so he left. Illiendal kissed Rumil on his cheek in thanks for watching Haldir, and she gave Haldir a kiss on his cheek and reminded him to behave before she went to her chambers to sleep.

"Well now Haldir, I'm not the smallest anymore!" Rumil grinned.

To be continued…

I laughed at Haldir as I wrote this. Poor fully-grown elf being spanked… Can't help but laugh and mock him! I'm jealous of Illiendal, to be honest.

Spike's Girl Luna Ash: I'm very happy that it's cute... I found the plot to be a bit strange!

Mesozoic Flower: You should laugh at him, and every now and then pretend to be sorry, just pretending makes him happier... I planned a while back, when writing Haldir's here, to marry Illiendal and Haldir. At one point I had had a story about their marriage but it was deleted, it made Illiendal like a Mary-sue, so I should have deleted it myself really...

Haldir's Heart and Soul: Hehehe, yea, I loved writing that part at the beginning of the chapter, got kind of jealous of Illiendal while I did. You see, whilst writing Haldir's here it seems I developed a love for Haldir, and that love grew stronger and stronger as the story went on. When I started the story I only decided to make it with Haldir because I needed an unimportant elf who I had never heard of to use as babysitter to be guaranteed that not many had done a story like mine before, or at least with the same characters.

Navaer Lalaith: Over the two years I've been writing fan fictions (I had another account) I have been given many sites to correct my spelling, my elvish, my names... The elvish site helped but it's closed now. Now Illiendal is what's bothering you, isn't it? See, Illiendal's been her name for two years so It's hard to change it. I have more elvish names for other characters like Galadhril, Nenmir, Locien, Yáviel, Finvelin and others... In my other stories because those characters are recently made, but the three oldest characters I have are Cield, Tonus and Illiendal. Cield I could not bare to change, I love his name as un-elvish as it is, and Tonus I did not like so I put in one story that his real name was Tonusalion Veryan but being so long he called himself Tonus. If you can think of a name that is like Illiendal but more elvish, tell me... Illiendiel... Hehehe, that sounds kind of weird. Now as for the language, like the site you send me, I know bastard is really not a word someone in Middle Earth would use, but I needed him to say something naughty... And that word thing is a bit much for me to do... I use English and I do tend to throw in some elvish every now and then.

Bberry06: In response to your review before you read this chapter: Don't you just want to eat Haldir up? And in response to the review you sent me via deviant art: Haldir gives everyone dirty thoughts, he's so handsome after all!

CapriceAnn Hedican-Kocur: I think I am getting the hang of typing your username... Yup, there's no such thing as 'too much march-warden', only too little!