Chapter 2: Cield runs away
"Tell me Tonus, I want to know why I cannot let my own parents know that I am married to the prince of Mirkwood!" Yáviel whispered, rubbing Tonus' shoulder gently.
"Yáviel, well... My father would not care, and I do not want him to be angry with me. Our relationship would change if I told him, and I am happy with how it is now..." Tonus said.
"Tonus! Your father would care, of course he would! Why would he be angry with you? If I where to have a grandchild, I would be thrilled! There must be something, another reason why... You can tell me." Yáviel said gently. Tonus shook his head and kissed her hand.
"I do not want him to know. I just don't..." Tonus whispered, though there was another reason that he would not let himself tell his wife, or anyone. Florien then entered the room and jumped onto the settee in-between his parents.
"I finished." Florien smiled, mouth and hands covered in jam.
"Florien, wash your hands and face, you are all sticky." Yáviel said, and Florien grabbed onto his father's tunic, getting jam on the tunic.
"Florien! You've gotten your father's tunic dirty..." Yáviel scolded her son gently, and Florien slowly let go of his father to look at the jam on Tonus' chest, were he had grabbed.
"Sorry." Florien sniffled, and then was grabbed by Tonus and embraced.
"Don't worry about it sweetheart. I can wash off the jam, it's no problem at all." Tonus cuddled his son carefully.
"Tonus, would you like me to wash your tunic?" Yáviel asked, Tonus shaking his head.
"Don't bother."
Florien smiled and kissed his father (getting jam on his father's cheek).
"How have things been while I was away?" Tonus asked. Yáviel was about to give him a response when Florien spoke.
"Good, but I missed you. My doggie got fatter," Florien said proudly. "Why is my doggie getting so big and heavy?"
"Your doggie is getting big because she is pregnant Florien, remember?"
"Oh ya! Does that mean I'll get lots of puppies?"
"Yes, but we can only keep one for you. I will bring one back to the palace for my brother, Cield, as a present, and the rest we will have to sell to earn money." Tonus said.
"Will I still get to keep Limwen?"
"She's who you have right now, correct?"
"Yes."
"I suppose you can keep Limwen, she is getting old though."
"Thanks daddy." Florien kissed his father.
Yáviel smiled as she watched Tonus nuzzled Florien, as the small elfling got comfortable in his father's arms.
"Have you been playing with the other elflings, Florien?" Tonus asked as Florien twirled Tonus' hair with his small fingers.
"No... not really. They don't like me." Florien said sadly.
"They don't like you?"
"No. They tease me. They don't believe me that you are my ada, and they tease me and say that I don't have an ada. But... You are my ada, right?"
"Of course! Florien, I am your father, no matter what those elflings say." Tonus reassured his son, stroking Florien's blonde hair gently.
"You're a good ada, ada. I love you a lot." Florien mumbled. Florien's eyes where no longer focused and Tonus looked down to see him sleeping.
Tonus sighed and kissed his son on his brow saying quietly, "I love you too, my beautiful son."
Yáviel stood up and followed Tonus, who brought Florien to his bedroom, which was downstairs.
Tonus tucked his son in and kissed him, then turned around and sat on the settee again, Yáviel sitting beside him, and looked at Tonus sadly when she noticed that he had tears down his face.
"Tonus, you miss your mother, don't you?" Yáviel asked carefully, pulling Tonus close to her and holding him in her arms.
"We where walking in the forest unarmed, because we thought... We thought my father would catch up to us, armed. He was not coming though. Orcs heard Legolas crying. We ran, but my mother dropped Legolas. She ran back to get him, but the orcs got her. Legolas was barely awake. I got him and ran. My father sent out his army, and they slew the orcs and brought back my naneth's body. I saw them carry her back. She was bloody, an immense mess." Tonus shut his eyes and was about to reach up to wipe away one of his tears when Yáviel did that for him.
"Maybe I should go home now... Elrond and his sons have came down because they had been planning a friendly visit but they arrived on the same day that my mother died, which... May just be a good thing, for if they where not coming Illiendal would have gone in the forest with us and... She may have been killed as well. Cield is locked in his room and refuses to listen to anyone and Legolas... He is confused, he knows what happened but it's in the back of his head." Tonus sighed, kissing Yáviel.
"I am so glad I have you to come to, Yáviel, it would be so much harder without you." Tonus squeezed her tightly, and Yáviel smiled happily.
"I am glad I married you Tonus. I met you one day when you where in tears, because of... Why where you so sad Tonus?"
"My father had hit me because of my behaviour. I should not have been so upset; really, I cannot believe I was in tears over a slap... It was my own fault that he hit me, for first I had fallen asleep during an important meeting and when my father talked to me after the meeting concerning my behaviour I threw a fit. I acted like an immature child, and I deserved a slap. I was sent to my room and while moping around on my balcony, I saw you and I snuck out of my room to meet you." Tonus smirked.
"You where nineteen by human years and still you did all that?"
"Yes, but also, my pet had died during the morning, which saddened me throughout the day." Tonus sighed, kissing Yáviel's cheek.
"So you will be going now?"
"I suppose."
"Bye sweetie... Don't be too sad, all right? Bear in mind that Florien and I are here for you, and we always will be. Do you recall, sometime during our third week of dating you came to me upset because you had crashed into your father's bedroom and destroyed all of his precious, delicate antiques and for the next two weeks you would have to be working your fingers to the bone in order to repay your father for the damage?" Yáviel asked, Tonus sighing at the memory.
"I remember. My father was mad, but he kept calm with me. He said that if I could not repay him in two weeks time, he would be mad..." Tonus whispered, then he quietly gasped.
"I remember! When I came to you sad we... we... We decided... It was a year before Florien was born! That was the night we... Were married!" Tonus blushed.
"Yes... You where so happy!" Yáviel smiled.
"I cant do that again! No! My mother just died. It's not the same... As much as I'd love too, I just... cannot." Tonus shook his head, but a smile crossed his face.
"I would, however, love to do that once I have gotten over my mother's passing." Tonus smiled, leaning over to kiss his wife.
"I suppose you are too sad right now... And besides, with Florien in the house, it would not be right." Yáviel stood up and helped Tonus to his feet.
"I'll be back soon, I promise, my love." Tonus kissed his wife for a final time before leaving, hoping onto his horse and setting off towards the palace, where Thranduil waiting on the steps nervously.
Tonus rode up to his father, dismounted his horse and stepped forwards.
"Ada, why are you here?" Tonus asked and was suddenly pulled into a tight embrace.
"You have been gone for two hours. I was concerned... I feared that I would be burying two members of my family..." Thranduil said quietly.
Thranduil and Tonus walked into the palace in silence.
"Ada, has Cield come out of his room yet?"
"No. He will not listen to me either." Thranduil sighed.
"How are Illiendal and Legolas fairing?"
"Illiendal has Elladan for comfort and Legolas has Elrohir for games... The two are doing better than your brother."
"And how are you, Adar?" Tonus asked, and Thranduil looked surprised.
"Me? I am... Managing." Thranduil said softly.
Tonus nodded and entered his room. Legolas was curled on Tonus' bed beside Elrohir who read him a story about Erestor (which seemed to have been written by Elrohir, considering it was about the time Erestor made fun of mandos and turned into a pie), Elladan and Illiendal not in the room.
"Hey Tonus." Elrohir smiled, Legolas gasping.
"Erestor really said hey Tonus?" Legolas asked.
"No, I was only greeting your brother." Elrohir pointed to Tonus, who was changing out of his jam-covered tunic and into a clean, darker tunic.
"Were is my sister and your twin?" Tonus asked Elrohir.
"I believe they are both eating, or at least my brother is and has dragged your sister with him... He tends to bring people with him to watch him eat, it is very odd." Elrohir laughed. Tonus nodded and approached Legolas.
"How are you doing, leaf?"
"Good. Now be quiet! Listening to good story." Legolas, or leaf as he was called by tonus, snapped. Tonus smiled and went to check on his sister, as for some reason he felt the responsibility to make sure his siblings where not trying to kill themselves in misery.
Tonus passed by Cield's room again, and again he used his hairclip to open Cield's door, but he opened it only a small enough amount so that he could see in without Cield noticing. Cield was crying, but he was not killing himself or anything of that sort, so Tonus left to go see how his only sister was doing with Elladan.
Tonus could hear Elladan's loud voice as he entered the dinning halls. Elladan was shoving many grapes in his mouth, and Illiendal seemed worried that he would start chocking.
"How are you two doing? Illiendal you look like your watching him die." Tonus smiled, taking a seat beside the grape-eating elf.
"I am! He could choke, make him stop Tonus." Illiendal covered her eyes as Elladan grabbed another handful of grapes.
Tonus smacked Elladan's back and Elladan gasped as all his grapes fell out of his mouth. Elladan looked angrily at Tonus and began to blush.
"Thanks Tonus." Illiendal smiled, cleaning up the spilled grapes to prevent Elladan from trying to fill his mouth with them again.
Tonus got up. He knew his sister only looked happy because she loved Elladan dearly and that in truth her heart was broken from the loss of her mother, but Tonus knew that Elladan would help her.
"I'm going to see Cield, he needs cheering up." Tonus said before leaving the room.
"Be careful Tonus! If he tries to set you on fire, run!" Elladan warned.
Tonus was about to use his hairclip to unlock the door when Elrond and his father came out of it.
"Tonus? What are you doing here? Elrond asked.
"I... was going to see how my brother is doing." Tonus said, looking at his father who was clearly upset.
"He has gone." Thranduil said softly.
"Gone? G... You mean... To mandos?"
"No, he does not mean that. He means that he has left... run away, so to speak." Elrond said. Tonus' eyes widened.
"I can go look for him." Tonus said.
"Alright but... Be armed, and bring your horse and... be careful... If you cannot find him in one hour come back right away, because in one hour we have to prepare for... Your mother's funeral." Thranduil said, embracing his son before he took off in search of Cield.
To be continued...
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