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Note: Thanks for the reviews. I am a little sick so if this story comes out kind of weird, don't pay attention to it. A fight between Eldarion and Aragorn so it will be drama. Let's begin.
"Father?" Eldarion asked as he stopped in the doorway to the king's study. At seeing Aragorn standing in front of the window, the prince stopped. A smile had crossed his father's lips as Aragorn only called out an absentminded greeting to allow the young male inside. "Come and look, son." King Elessar called out to his son.
As Eldarion joined his father he had to smile as well. Outside in the courtyard some of the guards were throwing snow balls at each other while they should have been on duty. "Should they not be standing guard?" Eldarion turned to his father as Aragorn grinned. "Yes, but there is no treat now and they will be happier now then if they stand still each day."
Eldarion did not answer and soon he felt Aragorn's hand upon his shoulder as the king said, returning to his seat. "What do you want?" He gestured for the prince to sit down as well which Eldarion did, sinking down in the cushioned seat with a grace resembling the elves.
"I was wondering since I shall be turning 15 this month, if you would consider me old enough to tell you full tale to me. Like you promised." Eldarion watched as Aragorn paled instantly. "I have told you the tale already, ion nin. I kept nothing back."
The boy leaned forward slightly and said in elvish. "Then tell me how such a proud man, such a proud king can love an elf prince? You had the love of the evenstar of the elves but you wanted somebody else. Was it not enough?"
He watched as Aragorn paled even more as the king asked in a choking voice. "Why are you asking me this, Eldarion?" Eldarion could see the pain his question had brought Aragorn but a sudden anger at the situation he had found himself in and the taunts by the other children made him say. "I ask this because you have not only condemned my mother but mine as well. Do you even know what our people are saying behind your back? What they are saying to me? They call you a coward and a murderer for you allowed your queen to die."
"And that gives you the right to call me this as well? To ask these questions of me? You are out of line, prince." Aragorn roared as he placed both hands upon his desk and stared at the prince before him. "And what are you going to do about it? Order me to my room, banish me from this realm. In case you have forgotten, king Elessar, I am the only one you have got left…." Eldarion had risen to his feet as well.
He saw the sad smile cross the other man's lips as Aragorn said. "I have been aware of that from the moment you were born and I have not forgotten. I have lived my life for you, Eldarion. Not for our people or for my friends but for you. So that you could have a change at a life with at least one parent. It cuts through my heart to know I have failed in your eyes."
With those words the king strode out of the room, leaving too quickly even for Eldarion's eyes to follow. The next moment quick footsteps hurried to the room and Eldarion's heart leaped in his chest as he hoped his father might be returning. But it was only Faramir.
The steward looked wind blown as he stuttered. "I heard shouting, where is Aragorn?" His keen gaze settled upon Eldarion as the prince quickly told the tale of their argument. Faramir's breathing hitched in his throat as the steward heard the words that had passed between father and son.
"That is a heavy blow to his heart. You should not have said those things." Faramir finally concluded. "He should not have kept these things from me!" Eldarion cut in angry. "Your father has not kept anything from you, Eldarion. He has been truthful with you from the very beginning, more so then even his own people. You do not know your father as he had been when Legolas was still around." Faramir's voice was firm and Eldarion found himself deflating.
"You mean Ada was different when Legolas was here?" Eldarion felt like he had made a grave mistake in judging his father so harshly. "Yes, your father became a lot, oh how do you say it, the light died in his eyes the moment Legolas sailed. I think in those first few months he wanted to throw himself off the nearest building. He could look so lost in thought at times when you were sleeping peacefully in his arms. He held on and it was because of you, Eldarion. It was for you that he held on. Sometimes that darkness is still near him but I know he still fight because of you."
"Because of me?" Eldarion asked tensely. Faramir smiled and said. "Yes, because of you. After those first few months he would always stay near you, like he was afraid you might disappear like the other people he had lost. He has lost much in those months. Every waking moment he would hold you in his arms, pretending to be strong until I found him one night weeping. He was heartbroken, Eldarion but he has come a long way since then. Do not hurt him now. You do not have the right."
"Then I have made a grave mistake. I allowed my mind to become poisoned by the words spoken by the other people. I… I have deliberately wounded Ada. I have tore at raw wounds without any regards for his feelings. Only my own were on my mind. I am not worthy to be his son and heir." Eldarion hid his face in his hands as he realized how his words must have affected Aragorn.
"You are worthy of being his son. He has assured you of that many times. Perhaps you need to assure him he is worthy of being your father, since you have tore at raw wounds. Wounds that will never completely heal." Faramir placed a hand upon Eldarion's shoulder to guide the young male out of the room.
Eldarion frowned as the door closed behind him before walking with lead in his shoes in search of Aragorn. He dragged his feet as he looked in room after room but he could not find the elder king. He eventually walked outside and into their private garden. He heard a soft voice singing, a voice he had not heard in a long while.
He walked towards it, slowly thinking of ways to apologize. He rounded the corner into the garden and found Aragorn standing there, singing softly to the trees. The intone of the song was remarkable sad and Eldarion felt his heart clench together. "Ada?" He called as Aragorn turned.
The next moment happened as in like a dream. Aragorn simply opened his arms and Eldarion rushed to his father as if he were a small child. When the king closed his son in his arms, pressing kisses against the forehead close to his lips he continued the song.
Eldarion wept bitterly as he realized the song was about the passing of the elves into the west and he remembered one of his first childhood memories. When his father had asked him, even before he could answer. "Will we survive, El?"
He looked up into the haunting grey eyes and answered. "Yes." When Aragorn looked at him with a questing on his lips Eldarion answered before he could think. "Yes, we will survive, Ada. I will answer you now as I could not do before, yes, we will survive."
When tears started to flow down the sunken cheeks Eldarion held his father, allowing the king to weep bitterly as the prince had done a moment again. "I love you, Ada. And this will not change because of what the people say. I am so sorry for what I have said to you but I do love you."
Aragorn only nodded until Eldarion began to weep as well as the king continued his song. Both of them holding onto one another, the only one the other had left.
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