4. Tantrums, taunting and training

"What I lack in youth I make up for in immaturity."
Marty Feinberg

Imladris (Rivendell) June 24/20 Laire 2962 III Age

Buffy was tired. Buffy was cranky. And Buffy still had orc bits in her hair. All she wanted was a bath, food and her bed. And in that particular order. And if anyone got in her way...

Buffy made her way out of the stables with the gwenyn not far behind. They'd been out of almost a month this time and now that they were back home all she wanted to do was get clean, fed and then sleep.

Too bad fate decided to rear its ugly head.

Because as soon as she made it to the doors of The Last Homely House there was Arwen. Who would, like every other time, be there to mother hen her. The Valar knew that Elrond did it enough, but as bad as Elrond was he let her be unless she was bleeding or looked half dead. Arwen on the other hand had no qualms about clucking over the smaller woman.

The words 'I'm so busted' flitted through Buffy's mind as the elleth gave her a stern look. Buffy knew she was in trouble. She wasn't supposed to join the gwenyn this time as Elrond had informed her that he wanted her to learn basic healing before she made her way back to Lothlorien. But Buffy had been bored, and highly irritated after three months of Elrond breathing down her neck, and had snuck off with Elladan and Elrohir for a month to hunt orcs and relieve some stress.

Now, in the facing of the one whom was basically her older sister, she knew Exactly how Dawn always felt.

And by the way, this really sucked.

Buffy stopped short of the doors and waited for Arwen to start in on her. Oh, Arwen Undómiel never yelled, she didn't need to.

"I am not going to yell at you. I will leave that to ada. (dad) I am angry though, next time warn me if you plan to sneak out for a bit so that I might avoid being in the same room as ada when he finds out." Arwen's face was still slightly stern but Buffy knew that in her eyes this was nothing really. Basically the elven equivalent to sneaking out to go to the Bronze. And while in the family Arwen was now basically the middle child, the gwenyn and Buffy being who they were, left the poor elleth to play the peace keeper and shield against Elrond, something that buffy felt slightly guilty about but not enough to do anything about if she wanted to keep from being glared to death by Elrond for.

Which brought Buffy back to Elrond. While technically Buffy was his sister since she was now sister to his wife, in his eyes she was still very very young and his several millenia or more of fatherhood made him see her basically one of his children on occasion, a thing that irritated Buffy on occasion but not too much as it was nice in its own way.

Movement from the corner of her eye caused Buffy to turn and see Elrond fast approaching. The gwenyn had stopped short of her long before and were waiting for a sign of their adar. Upon seeing him they made a break for it through the doors and escaped to freedom before he could get close enough to stop them.

"Traitors" Buffy mumbled under her breath as the door closed behind them. She knew she was in for it. Facing Elrond was like facing the Mayor. The only thing that would beat him would be an explosion and the gwenyn were too busy hiding to provide one. That and they hadn't managed to blow anything up in the last two years since the incident with the fireworks and Erestor's office, which Buffy still found highly funny since they had been punished to the point of her almost feeling sorry for them. Almost.

Rolling her shoulders and waiting for the inevitable Buffy smiled weakly as Elrond bore down on them. Seeing the look in his eyes only one thing came to mind. Oh yeah she was in trouble., explosion worthy trouble and she knew she wasn't going to be able to get out of it. Tears wouldn't even work at this point.

Elrond came to a halt in front of the two of them and Buffy could feel his eyes boring into her. Under his gaze she suddenly felt like a child. Which was wrong on so many levels because she was thirty nine for the Valar's sakes!

"The next time you feel the need to disappear and leave your studies, pen neth, I suggest remember this. You will be assisting Erestor in his duties for the next month and Glorfindel for next two after that as well as continuing your studies." he told her, his gaze boring into her with so strongly that even the slayer in her cringed a bit.

"But That'..."

"Not fair? You left before finishing your studies and without informing the rest of the family. We worried. It was not fair to us and as such I will not be fair to you." he interruped her. Buffy hated it when he was right. And for the life of her she couldn't figure out a way out of this. Now she was just going to have to suck it up and deal. The gwenyn might be able to help her figure out a way to keep from dying of boredom with Erestor and how to make her stint with Glorfindel more tolerable since she had an ongoing battle of wills going with the silver haired Lord of the Golden Flower.

"And you will not be causing mayhem while you are punished either. For every prank I learn that you are a part of I will increase your time another week." Elrond informed her and she instantly deflated. She was screwed. So much for making the most out of a bad thing.

"Fine" Buffy said with a pout and proceeded to stomp to her room with Arwen in tow trying to suppress a smile.

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Imladris (Rivendell) October 26/29 Quelle 2952 III Age

It had taken nearly an extra month to get out from under Elrond's punishment and finish her basic healer training thanks to the gwenyn and Buffy's own inherent need to antagonize Glorfindel. And now, with her first full day of freedom from both punishment and training, she was itching to have some fun. Of course fun for her now meant mayhem for all of Rivendell but that had somehow come to be expected since she has taken up with the two terrors of the elven relm.

Deciding that the gwenyn were the best bet for finding fun Buffy started hunting. She found them on the training fields as usual and at the sight of her smiling face they knew she was up to something.

"You look to be in a fine mood this morning tithen dagnir" Elrohir said was a knowing smile as he let another arrow fly.

"Indeed she does nîn tithen tôr." Elladan added as Buffy came to a halt in between them.

"Yes I am. I'm finally free and you both know what that means." Buffy replied with mischief in her eyes.The two couldn't help but smirk at the tiny slayer. She was more fun than even Estel or Arwen.

"Shall we go find valiant Glorfindel then?" they said in unison. Knowing that now that she was free the taunting war was about to begin anew.

Buffy smiled broadly. "We shall"

And so off they went. Buffy to vent her frustrations of having to put up with the pompous balrog slayer.

And the gwenyn to see him get thrown around by a woman less than half his size.

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