Elrond closed his eyes with a slight sigh as the blond pair walked around the edge of the building, hiding them from view. This was getting worse and worse with every day. With the ring destroyed, he longed to cross, to rest in the havens with his wife and children. He had thought of five beings as his children through the years, yet only two would be able to go with him.
Thankfully, they were going to go with him.
And now, it seemed he had doomed another to Arwen's fait.
"It is his choice, Father," Arwen said from behind him.
He smiled faintly, thinking for an instant how Arwen had inherited her grandmother's gift for knowing how a person felt. Lunian had the same gift, but from a different source. Her mother had been one of the most astute beings he had yet to know, and Lunian showed the potential to reach her mother's level, or even surpass it, with the proper training.
His mind turned back to the issue at hand—that of Legolas and Lunian. "It may not be too late. She has not turned to him as anything but a friend."
"She has not turned to any as anything more than a friend. It has not occurred to her. That will change, before she returns to Rivendell."
"Then you think it is possible she will—"
Arwen was shaking her head, dashing his new hopes. "No. I mean she will see women her age with babies on their hips and children at their feet. She will realize that love has come to them already, and even if she tries to tell herself she doesn't want it, she will no longer look at things in quite the same light, as a child."
Elrond looked out the window again, seeing where the pair had stood embraced for the longest time. Darkness clouded his vision for a long moment. "Then I have doomed Legolas to die."
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There, I solved the problem of super short chapters—posting two at once! Te he… Yeah, long week, too much school work. Hope you enjoyed them!