Chapter 19: Fireworks
I uploaded this chapter to the wrong story. I'm embarrassed. Oh and just to let you know, Haldir's Heart and Soul, it's not Haldir. I thought the words 'red hair' and 'him' where pretty big hints.
"What do you mean we can't go?" Florien exclaimed. Yáviel sighed and scooped her son into her arms.
"Ion, understand that now we have Locien to care for. He is scared of the fireworks. We can still see them from a window, but we will not be going." Yáviel said. Florien glared at his new brother.
"I don't like Locien. Send him back." Florien said before jumping out of his mother's arms and running off. Yáviel looked down at Locien, he looked sad.
"Locien, come here." Yáviel opened her arms. Locien came forwards and received an embrace.
"No one likes me, nana." Locien said quietly. "Nana and me had to leave our home and come to Mirkwood, nana said it was so that my ada would not come and find me and try to hurt me. I think it was my ada who knocked my teeth out and sliced my ear, but I can't remember." Locien admitted.
"Florien loves you, he just needs to get to know you better. Do not fear, he is my son, and knowing him, he is a loving elfling who will eventually warm up to you." Yáviel said. "Now come, we can watch the fireworks from my bedroom." Yáviel smiled, carrying Locien into her bedroom.
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Legolas stayed close to his father, the fireworks had commenced and he was a bit scared. The fireworks where bright and Legolas especially liked the green ones, green had always been a colour that appealed to him. Once the firework show was over and everyone gave Gandalf a huge round of applauds, Legolas went to talk to his brother.
"Tonus, ada punished me. He said I hurt you with your knife. Can I see what I did to you?" Legolas asked. Tonus bit his lip. He had not meant to get the elfling punished. Tonus pulled down his leggings so that his brother was the only one who could see the mark, and only the mark. Legolas looked at it sadly.
"I don't remember doing that to you." Legolas said quietly.
"Listen… You did not do that to me. I blamed you for it…" Tonus noticed how upset Legolas' expression became.
"Why does everyone blame me? I'm little but I don't ruin everything always! No one loves me!" Legolas turned around and stormed off. Tonus would have followed if three she-elves had not came to him and tried to get him to dance with them.
"I can't stay, please, I will dance with each of you after-
"After? We would like to dance with you now, my lord." One of the she-elves giggled.
"Yes, you would not be a gentleman to run off without dancing with at least one of us…" Another she-elf smiled. Tonus sighed and began to dance with one of the she-elves, trying his best to figure out where his little brother had run off.
Legolas kept running until he crashed into another elfling, the red haired elfling he had found behind his father's throne.
"Sorry." The elfling murmured, offering Legolas a hand to help him up.
"It's okay." Legolas said; smiling when he realised it was Florien.
"Oh, it's you Legolas!" Florien smiled, looking around to make sure his father was not nearby. He could see his father dancing with a lady. Nana would not be happy.
"Your Florien, right? I missed you!" Legolas smiled, giving Florien a hug. The two played tag and hide-and-seek until Tonus discovered them.
"Legolas! What are you doing with this elfling? Elfling, where is your nana?" Tonus asked, grabbing Florien by his wrist.
"At home." Florien whispered.
"You should be at home too. Legolas, when I get back, I wish to speak with you." Tonus said, turning around and bringing Florien with him. When he was a good way away from the courtyard and no one was around to hear, Tonus bent down to be eyelevel with his son.
"Why did you play with him? Why? I told you not to!" Tonus said, frowning at his son.
"Ada…" Florien whined.
"Why Florien? You can't play with your own brother, but with mine you can? I don't want you seeing Legolas any more." Tonus said.
"That's not fair! Legolas is my friend!" Florien looked away. Tonus glared at his son.
"Listen to me Florien! No playing with Legolas." When Florien did not look at him, Tonus turned his around and shook him rapidly, trying to get his son's full-undivided attention. "Listen to me!" Tonus snapped. Florien looked shocked, this was not his usually friendly father. Florien ran away, but Tonus jumped into a tree and got ahead of his son before jumping out of a tree in front of him.
"Florien!" Tonus grabbed his son and walked home with him. Tonus flung the door open and Yáviel greeted him.
"You found Florien, thank valar!" Yáviel smiled, but Tonus ignored his wife and brought Florien into his empty bedroom.
"Do you know how disappointed I am in you?" Tonus asked. Florien began to quiver and ran under his bed, where his father did not fit.
"Florien, get out!" Tonus snapped.
"No… Ada… You're scaring me… Go away… Please… You hurt me…" Florien sounded like he was crying. Tonus bent down and looked under the bed. Florien had curled up into a little ball and was crying. Tonus reached under the bed and pulled his son out and Florien began to panic, trying to get away.
"Ada let me go! Don't hurt me again, please!" Florien pleaded, trying to get away as fast as possible.
"I wont hurt you. Florien, I am sorry." Tonus said softly, lifting Florien's tunic up and seeing red marks on his son's sides where he had had his fingers when he shook him. Florien jumped out of his father's arms and hid under his blankets on his bed. Tonus sighed and stood up.
"I love you, Florien." Tonus said before leaving. Now he had to make things right with Legolas.
When Tonus arrived back at the palace almost everyone had left the courtyard. Legolas was sulking in the bushes.
"Legolas, I know you are mad at me for many reasons. So you know what you can do? Invent a story that will get me in trouble, and tell it to ada. I am already in a lot of trouble as it is, but I think this is fair." Tonus said, sitting near Legolas. Legolas sighed and crawled over to Tonus.
"I wont get Ada mad at you, Ton. I love you too much." Legolas kissed Tonus on his cheek.
"I love you too Legolas, I love you a lot." Tonus said. Legolas pulled at his brother's clothes.
"This is not your normal clothes, Ton." Legolas said.
"I know, ada is making me wear this." Tonus said, smiling for his brother.
"TONUS!" Cield's voice yelled. Tonus sighed.
"He must be ready to go inside. Come with me, ada is probably looking for you." Tonus said, offering his brother his hand to lead him to their father.
Cield was at Thranduil's feet, swatting bugs away. There were little red lumps up his arms where he had already been bitten by the bugs.
"Tonus, look at all these bugs! Get me inside! Please!" Cield continued swatting as Tonus bent down and scooped him into his arms.
"Tonus, when you get to Cield's door put him on his feet and help him walk to his bed." Elrond said. Tonus nodded and brought Cield to his doorway.
"Please Tonus, I am your brother, if you love me, you will carry me to my bed." Cield said.
"I love you Cield, and I don't want you to loose your ability to walk, do you know how much that would damage you? You would never be able to run, bathe yourself, fight, climb trees, enter the forest, dance with a she-elf, teach your child to walk, play with your child and you would not be able to be independent, and I know how you loathe being helpless and babied by us. So to make sure none of those problems happen I will do as Elrond said." Tonus placed his brother on his feet. Cield clutched Tonus by his tunic and whimpered softly.
"I cannot imagine the pain you are going through. Come on, let's get this over with." Tonus said, holding his brother's arm. Cield groaned and look one step forwards. He would not have been able to if Tonus had not been there, practically carrying him.
"You can do this Cield. You are strong, and-
"Stop treating me like an elfling!" Cield snapped, taking a few steps forwards faster in attempt to keep away from his brother, before tripping and falling onto his chest.
"Ai…" Cield whispered, shutting his eyes tightly. Tonus quickly sat down beside his brother and turned him onto his back, looking at the burns.
"Here, let me put some cream on…" Tonus picked up a bowl of cold salve that Elrond had prepared in advance. Tonus took some of the salve onto his fingers and gently ran his sleek fingers over his brother's burns.
"Does this hurt?" Tonus asked. Cield nodded his head slowly.
"It should make the pain go away, I think. I have not been taught much on salves yet." Tonus said. Cield gasped.
"Where did you get that salve?" Cield asked.
"In the bowl on your night table, why?" Tonus began to stir nervously when Cield sat upright, grabbing Tonus' hand and smelling the salve on his slender fingers, screamed.
"That's not salve!" Cield said. "Get it off me!"
It was too late; the salve was rubbed in his skin.
"What did you do?" Elrond had heard Cield's scream.
"I put this on his burns." Tonus said, wincing at Elrond's shocked expression.
"What is it?" Tonus asked.
"That would be my expired hand cream, mixed with some parts of my lunch that I did not eat, meaning cooked fish that by now has gone bad. Also, some butter sauce and salt." Glorfindel said. Tonus put a hand to his head and groaned.
"What will happen?" Tonus asked.
"His legs will get infected. We cannot have that happen… His risk of loosing his legs will be even higher." Elrond said, getting to work on some proper cream for Cield's legs.
"I cannot believe I cannot tell the difference between salve and Lord Glorfindel's leftovers and hand cream. I feel so stupid, and I will put all the blame on myself if something happens worse to Cield." Tonus said.
"Alright Cield, what I have here should clean your burns so that they do not get infected. You will feel some pain-
"AI!" Cield let out a loud scream when Elrond put a cloth dampened with the medicine on the burns that had been covered in leftovers and hand cream.
"It hurts!" Cield bit his lip until it began to bleed.
"Cield, calm! Here, watch me!" Tonus scooped a handful of the hand cream and leftovers and ate it. Cield's eyes widened and he ignored the tremendous pain in his legs to snap at Tonus.
"Idiot! Why are you eating that?" Cield asked as Tonus took another handful.
"So that I will suffer too, for making you suffer." Tonus said before eating another handful.
"Tonus, you hurt your brother but stop hurting yourself. I am leaving tomorrow and I cannot stay any longer, so to have you vomiting up Glorfindel's hand cream would not be good." Elrond said. Tonus sighed and put away the mixture, holding Cield's hand as the burns where treated.
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"There you boys are." Thranduil said in a hushed voice. Elladan and Elrohir smiled.
"You did not think we would forget, did you?" Elladan asked. Elrohir smirked.
"This is going to be good. But you, my lord, must take the blame if anyone suspects us!" Elrohir said.
"Yes, you must swear an oath not to tell our father, and you must make sure that we do not get punished, and if Elrond orders you to punish us then you must punish us kindly since we are doing this for you." Elladan said. Thranduil nodded his head.
"Fair enough. We can get a barrel to fill from the barrel room; there is an empty bunch down there that I told Galion to leave. The water has already been boiled, and there is plenty. Beneath my bed I have hidden rope and a knife to tie my father-in-law to the ceiling, and I have made sure that everyone is asleep." Thranduil said. Elladan got the rope, Elrohir dragged the barrel into the kitchens and Thranduil poured the boiling water in the barrel. Then the tree brought the barrel to Landion's chambers, where Thranduil and Elrohir tied Landion up.
"There, now stay close to the room to hear his screams!" Elladan smiled at their work.
To be continued…What should Landion do to Thranduil as punishment for pranking him? I NEED SUGGESTIONS.
Haldir's heart and soul: Well, it's not the happiest vision… Now, wait a second, who do you think was the tortured one in that vision?
Aranna Undomiel: So, was it your birthday on the 26 of January too? Thranduil stopped crying and now he's playing with Legolas with a rubber ball.
Karone Evertree: Actually you did not state the obvious… Because it's not Yàviel. It said 'he' and 'his' a few times and Yaviel would be 'she' and 'her', you know. And whoever it is will not die I can assure you.
LOTRFan2: You want something to happen to Locien? You are so friendly. Well yes, something IS happening to poor Locien, but it's not for a little while, when Locien is around 16. But I'm not killing him off, that was the original plans but I'm letting him… Live? Well, maybe, it depends what you think of the situation when you read about it.
Here comes the hockey puck: I can't guarantee when it will be ready… Some times I slack off.
Bberry06: Thanks. Oh, and thank you for the pictures… Remember: The next chapter of this is dedicated to you!