Disclaimer: I don't own anything of the Lord of the Rings.

Note: I finally have some time to sit down and properly write this fic. So let's begin.

"Elladan, you are not allowed to run through the hallways." Glorfindel gave a shout as he chased an excited elfling. Elladan grinned at him, waved before he took off again. Glorfindel sighed and pinched the bridge of his nose, damn Elrond.

He wondered briefly why both the elven lord and his lady had not yet killed their delightful children, for they were certainly capable of driving Glorfindel up the wall and he had faced down a Balrog. He counted to ten in Westron, seeking to calm himself, it didn't work!

He counted to ten in elvish, assuring himself that it had never failed before but there was always a first time. Therefore Glorfindel closed his eyes again and began counting, in all the languishes he knew.

Meleth, could you stop please?

I am not doing anything, Erestor! I have yet to catch the little fiend.

You are distracting me with your counting, go do something productive

Yes, I think torturing Elladan to make him promise not to splash me again in the bathtub will certainly be productive

Glorfindel!

Glorfindel ignored the warning shout from his beloved and shot in the direction Elladan had disappeared to. He had actually though it would be a good idea to take the elfling with him to the baths for the first time but Elladan had thought it a game and had fled, naked the moment Glorfindel sought to dress him.

He rounded the corner but Elladan had a head start because of Glorfindel's counting. He growled low, eyes scanning the doors on either side of the corridor but none were open and he would have heard a door slam shut.

But that meant….

Elladan must have disappeared to the Great Hall. Oh dear, Elrond would have his hide once he saw his young son standing there nude in front of the visiting party from Lorien. Why did this always happen to him?

Glorfindel heaved a sigh when he heard the loud gasps from around the corner, yes, and the party had already seen him.

"Oh dear Valar, will you look at that?"

"Poor little elfling, I wonder who he belongs to."

"He is naked."

The shocked silence that followed had Glorfindel growling as he rounded the corner with long and quick strides. Damn stubborn elflings!

Elladan was standing in the middle of the hall and Glorfindel tried to march over before the fiend embarrassed him further. Elladan did not look or behave like he was at all self conscious and smiled sweetly at the elves that had gathered in the Great Hall. Elladan behaved like any child and Glorfindel shook his head firmly before he strode forward, intend on frightening his ward, or at least give him a sound tongue lashing.

"Elladan!" He hissed, having discovered that he could get no further then the circles of elves that had gathered around the naked elfling.

Elladan turned and the grey eyes lit up as he shouted with glee. "Glorfindel!"

The fair face then fell and Elladan looked around as he began to realize that his babysitter had caught him.

"Come along." Glorfindel held out a large hand and Elladan took a step back as he asked sweetly.

"Why?"

"Because you need to get dressed." Glorfindel answered curtly, wishing for patience.

"But I don't want to! I like it here." Elladan whinnied.

"I am telling you to come with me to get dressed!" Glorfindel hissed, his voice dropping dangerously. He was quickly losing his patience.

"Why? I like to stand here. It feels good."

"It isn't natural. Now come along!"

"But I don't want to. Father never makes me dress and I can always run around his quarters naked after bath time."

"I am sure your father did not mean for you to get out and harass his guests. Do you have any idea how this will reflect on him?"

It wasn't many times that the honored and well esteemed guests of the Last Homely House were threaded to this sight. The famed Balrog Slayer was arguing with a tiny elflings, who was as naked as the day he had been born and by the looks of it, Glorfindel was losing the argument.

A kind female took pity of the small elfling, or on the big warrior but accounts is uncertain on this and asked. "Who is your father, little one? I am sure that one of us can go and ask him to come and collect you."

Snickers and very unelflike giggles and snorts could be heard among the assembled crowd and Glorfindel raised his blue eyes to glare at everybody as the giggles, snorts and snickers were hastily silenced.

Elladan turned to the kind lady and said. "My Ada's name is Elrond."

"Ah, I am sure…You said Elrond? As in Lord Elrond, the greatest healer of Middle Earth? As in the lord of this house?" The lady gasped as did the crowd. Glorfindel rolled his eyes.

"Yes, that lord! Now come along!" Making use of the distraction Glorfindel used warrior honed instincts to snatch the little demon up in his arms. Elladan, like all children, screamed bloody murder, tried to kick Glorfindel and tried even to cry on command, which he couldn't quite pull off as Glorfindel carried him with him in the air.

"Let me go! I don't want to get dressed!"

"I will not have you embarrass your father or myself further by this display! Now be silent or so the Valar help me, I will deliver a smack in the Great Hall, audience or not!" Glorfindel said sternly.

Elladan went slack in his arms, his teary eyes very real this time. Glorfindel cursed under his breath as the damned elfling asked with a small voice. "You wouldn't really smack me, would you?"

"I most certainly will unless you behave!" Glorfindel answered with as much as a flinch. The little fiend was not getting to him, he had trained all sorts of elves with attitudes and he was not swayed by a mere teary eyes.

"But Glorfindel, I behaved so well today."

"You did not! You ran away when I tried to dress you!" Glorfindel said.

"Because you put me in ugly clothes."

"Those are the clothes you need to wear for the feast tonight in honor of the guests from Lorien. The same guest you are hell bent on embarrassing me in front of!" Glorfindel's voice dropped into a hiss.

"Will this be a feast again where you kiss Erestor? You always kiss Erestor at a feast and the last one was especially bad since you didn't even talk to other people. You just kept kissing him." Glorfindel could feel his face flush as he hissed back.

"That feast was my wedding feast!"

"It is yucky when you kiss him like that. I will come quietly if you stop kissing Erestor!" Elladan looked at his guardian smugly and Glorfindel could feel the last of his already paper thin patience disappear.

"I will promise no such thing."

The Valar help me, I am very close to killing our lord's child.

What is the matter, Glorfindel? You could stress!

And you have no right to sound so amused, lover of mine! He says that he will come silently when I promise not to kiss you in public anymore!

Ah, I see!

That is all you have to say?!

No, I understand your despair. I wish you good luck, meleth nin.

You're abandoning me? You are cruel!

I am being practical, my love.

I will give you practical! Next time…

"Glorfindel? Elladan? What is going on here?" Glorfindel closed his eyes when he heard Elrond's voice. Great, his day was just perfect now.

"Elladan, why are you naked?"

Elrond turned to Glorfindel, his eyebrows knitted together over the sharp grey eyes and Glorfindel groaned. He shifted Elladan in his arms as the damned brat lifted his arms towards his father with a smile. Elrond picked Elladan up before he said. "Come and walk with me, Glorfindel."

The golden warrior already knew what this meant. He fell into step besides his lord and slowly said his voice low once they were away from the Great Hall. "I took him with me to the bats and when I sought to dress him he ran away. I gave chase and well…."

Much to his amazement Elrond let out a bark of laughter and turned to Glorfindel, grey eyes sparkling as he said. "That is why I always lock the door whenever one of my sons has had a bath."

"So they do this every time they have had a bath?" Glorfindel sighed.

"Yes." Elrond answered simply.

"Right, so how will I get him dressed then?"

"That," Elrond said with a sweet smile, "is entirely your problem, Glorfindel!" And with those words Elladan was handed back to Glorfindel.

"Ada, you can't leave me with Glorfy!" Elladan tried to shout but Elrond ignored him, giving a short wave of his slender hand as he walked back to his office. The small elfling swallowed thickly, wondering what he was supposed to do now when Glorfindel with said an evil smile.

"Let's get your dressed!"

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Elladan (and Elrohir, once he saw how his brother put up a fight to get dressed) screamed, sulked, sobbed and kicked when he was dressed by Glorfindel. He screamed for his mother, his father, his uncles and aunts (which he did not have) and everybody else the young elfling could think off to come and save him.

Glorfindel, his ears hurting, his arms aching and his temper flaring finally brought his hand down in a very soft smack which startled Elladan. He turned the small elfling around, growling in a low voice. "Enough! I have had enough! You can go naked for all I care but I am done with trying to dress you! I am very cross with you!"

Elladan's lower lip trembled but Glorfindel ignored the picture of misery as he left the young elf to his devices and went through into the sitting room.

He collapsed on the sofa, doing his best not to curse. Why did the children chose this day of all days to test him? He loved them like his own flesh and blood and he would always protect them but they seemed determent to get punished by him today.

He closed his eyes, allowing the moment of silence to strengthen him.

It didn't take long until the door to the bedroom opened and Elladan's voice came. "I am sorry, Glorfindel. See, I am dressed now." The elfling's voice was soft and Glorfindel looked up. Elladan was indeed dressed, his grey eyes filled with tears and the older elf held out a hand.

Elladan was within his lap in an instance, arms tightly wrapped around him. "I am so sorry…."

"You are forgiven." Glorfindel murmured, snuggling with the elfling.

Glorfindel, is everything well?

Yes, it is now.

So it is all settled?

Yes, it is, finally. Just promise me one thing, Erestor?

And what is that, my love?

That we shall never adopt any children!

And as his lover's laughter resounded in his mind, Glorfindel smiled himself.

That was it for now. I am looking for another beta reader and I need ideas, really badly. So email me or put them in the review. Review of course.