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Chapter 23

Making chocolate is fun. Really. You take the chocolate, melt it down, you can carve it into so many different shapes and things... Oh yeah.

I forgot to mention that my backpack seems to work in reverse as well. I can pull out of it almost anything from earth with just one exception- it has to be something you can life with one hand. And no electronics either. I don't care. Who needs that stuff here anyway? Besides, using it to get chocolate was the better idea anyway.

Meh. Did I mention that making chocolate is fuuuun?

"Soooo... What are you going to make for lord Nàmo and lady Vairë?" Elíl asked me as she stirred her batch of chocolate. I grinned.

"For lord Nàmo I'm going to make a- now wait, I'm not telling you yet. You'll just have to see. And for each of our brothers too." I snickered. She rolled her eyes as Lir giggled.

"Just in case someone asks you out, are you going to make one for them?" Elíl asked slyly. I snorted.

"I highly doubt that, Elíl, but it will on one condition." I shook a finger at her.

"Deal!" She chirped.

"You have to make it too." I said with satisfaction. She sighed.

"Oh fine." She grumbled, and Lir was left to stifle her hysterical laughter at the wriggling eyebrows I shot her.

"And you too, Lir! You already know that you're a soulmate." Elíl sniffed, and Lir hushed up, blushing furiously.

"I wonder who it is." She murmured.

Elíl and I were breathing hard and had stitches in our sides from that one. Lir glared at us. Mairon attempted to sneak into the kitchen once, but I sent him on his way with the bribe of a small bag of almonds. He was happy, anyway.

By the time we were done, working fast, it was already afternoon and there were still many things to do. I groaned.

"I still have to ask Ammë-"

"For what, dear?" Vairë appeared in the kitchen as we finished wrapping up the chocolate.

"For a nice dress for Lir and Elíl." I replied with a smile, receiving her fond hug. She laughed.

"I know, my dear, and I have worked on dresses for all three of you. Here." And with that she winked and produced three packages, giving one to each of us and then fading away.

"Thank you Ammë!" My thanks was echoed by the others, and there was saucy laughter from Vairë in reply. I looked to the place she had disappeared suspiciously.

"Why do I get the feeling that she knows something we don't?" I asked dubiously.

"Because she does?" Elíl offered. I face palmed as Lir went into a spasm of laughter at Elíl's cheeky grin.

"You, my friend, should be put into the same room as Erestor and see what happens then." I threatened so a huff, gathering up my packages and heading to my room.

"And I don't know about you, but I think that I'm going to give out my chocolate this evening." I added.

"Me too!" Elíl chimed.

"How about in the living room after dinner?" Lir suggested.

"Good idea." Elíl agreed, and I nodded. So we were left to go to our respective rooms and sort out the treats and take a look at the dresses.

I pulled it out of the package and gasped, shaking my head. The dress was an icy blue color, making my hair and eyes pop, and had no other ornament but a plain belt of black silk that held the device of the sun-in-eclipse on it. The sleeves were tight and came down to my wrists, extending to the backs of my hands in triangles, and a pair of blue slippers had been added to go with it. And it would go with my hair.

"Thank you, Ammë, Atto." I grinned, and carefully hung it up in the wardrobe so that it wouldn't get wrinkled. I poked my head out the door.

"Mairon!" I called cheerily. He bounded up the stairs in a moment and slipped through the crack in the door. Rolling my eyes, I closed the door and turned to him as he grinned cheesily at me.

"You little troublemaker." I shook my finger at him fondly. He snickered.

"You know you love me, Míleth!" He bubbled, and I threw up my hands.

"Whatever. I need your help. Can you help me pick out a circlet to go with this dress?" I showed it to him. He took one look and then went to my jewelry box, riffling through it and muttering to himself.

In the meantime I changed out of my modern clothes and put back on my normal robe. "Aha! Here it is! I made this one a long time ago. It was one of my favorite ones." Mairon declared, waving it around triumphantly.

I took it from him and then hugged him tightly. "It's perfect! Thank you, little brother." I planted a hearty smack on his cheek as he glowed. The circlet was simple, just a plain Mithril band with several strands of gold in the shape of a few leaves, intricately done.

"Errm, Mairon?" I suddenly asked. He looked up from where he was bouncing on my bed cheerily.

"Yeah?" He asked expectantly.

I blinked. "Is it true that you nearly burned Khamûl once?" I asked randomly. He stared at me.

"What?"

Yep, I've lost it. All that chocolate-making has gone to my head.

...

Dinner was over, everyone is gathered in the living room.

Caranthir is still sulking at me as he lounges on- and therefore hogs- the settee for himself. Maedhros is stretching out his tall frame on a cushioned couch. Maglor snitched the love seat, causing Elíl and I to snicker. Glorfindel chose the arm chair. Ecthelion randomly dumped himself onto the swing.

Lir chose the thick rug on the floor for playing with Amras. Elíl chose to cuddle with Amrod on the second to last arm chair. I, on the other hand, chose to squeeze in with Celegorm on the lazy-boy type chair with Mairon on my lap.

A fire crackled in the grate, and Elíl had put on a popper to pop corn in, making a nice popping sound. Everyone was content to just lay around, smiling at nothing and thinking of the days events, happy to be with each other.

After a while, I finally spoke up with a yawn. "So Tyelko, find anyone?" I asked lazily. There were snickers as everyone took interest in the conversation.

"Yes." Was the unexpected answer. I raised an eyebrow as I stroked Mairon's hair, causing him to purr like a cat, to everyone's amusement.

"Oh? Who?" Elíl beat me to the question.

"You'll see." Has his vague and slightly smug answer.

"As long as it's not Amarië." Glorfindel snorted, and everyone cracked up as he grinned unrepentantly.

"And Maedhros?" Lir asked slyly with a wink. "I'll bet you anything he chose the shortest elleth he could possibly find..."

There were roars of laughter as Lir found herself with a pillow in her face and Maedhros was muttering sourly under his breath.

"Yes, wouldn't it be cute?" I giggled maniacally. "Seeing him whisk her about and dancing on his toes?" I dodged the pillow aimed in my direction as I snickered madly.

"Okay okay how about Caranthir?" Elíl chipped in, raising an eyebrow.

"Oi, that's my question! I'm the one who loves our dark brother the most!" I protested loudly. He shot me the death glare. I sniffled.

"He hates meeee!" I wailed, and Mairon tried to comfort a blubbering mess of Míleth.

"I don't hate you." Caranthir muttered, and immediately I looked up pitifully. Everyone else was grinning widely.

"Really?" I asked meekly. He sighed long-sufferingly.

"Yes, seler." He mumbled, and then turned to the fire for an excuse for his red cheeks.

"Good. About time you admitted it.." I declared, not a tear on my face as I sniffed haughtily. He glared as the rest sniggered.

"How about you, Maglor?" Elíl asked. He shot us an uncertain look.

"Oh, well... I haven't yet actually." He trailed off uncertainly as Elíl and I smirked.

"Okay. Better hurry up." I suggested off handedly. Elíl was chortling by the fire as she took the popper off and dished it out.

"Catch!" Elíl suddenly threw a piece in my direction. I poked out my tongue and managed to catch it, making the terrible trio immediately clamber to try.

"And Ecthelion?" I gurgled through a mouthful of popcorn, which they rolled their eyes to. "Theeeeel!" I whined.

He glared. "No, I haven't." He said curtly.

"You'd better do it soon, or else I'll skin you alive, Thel." I threatened, throwing a piece of popcorn to him which he snatched and promptly threw back. I ate it.

"Ewww. Cooties!" Lir teased with a mock-shudder. I grinned.

"We're family. We all have the same cooties." I snickered. Elíl snorted.

"And Glorfindel?" She asked the golden-haired Balrog Slayer. He suddenly turned an interesting shade of red.

"Er, no." Was his mumbled reply, looking at no one in particular.

"Whatever. Hurry up already, whoever it is isn't gonna wait forever." Elíl grumbled. He ignored it. I shrugged. Whatever.

There was a mess of popcorn on the floor where it had been tossed about by the trio. I stretched.

"Well, let me go get something, I'll be right down." And I patted off up the stairs to get the chocolate. I heard Elíl and Lir do the same.

I finally clattered back down the stairs and sat back down with Celegorm, all of the packages on my lap. Elíl and Lir soon joined.

"In our world, we have a custom that on valentines day, usually a girl gives a guy chocolate, and the guy gives the girl a flower, usually a red rose." Elíl explained.

"But sometimes a girl can choose to give her brothers or anyone she wants, like even parents, what we call 'obligatory chocolate.'" Lir went on.

"So we three wanted to introduce you all to valentines day chocolate." I winked. "Lir can hand hers out first. I'll be last." I suggested. She shrugged and picked up hers, handing them out. They all seemed to be surprised but thanked her heartily as she grinned.

She gave Maedhros some chocolate wine balls (oh yeah, wine for the eldest), Maglor got a fruit and nuts bar (at that point he smiled at her and I tell you I had to literally clamp my hand over Elíl's mouth as she squirmed), Caranthir got a crackle bar (my comment: "it fits with his temper!"), Celegorm got a white chocolate bar (Elíl's comment: "I mean, he is Celegorm the FAIR, right? Get it? Fair skin? White?" Me: "hush up!"), Glorfindel got a bag of chocolate drops (Elíl: "yeah, he got dropped off a cliff alright."), Ecthelion got chocolate fudge (me: "he sure fudged up on liking that one particular fountain."), Mairon got a chocolate-covered hot tamale bar (Elíl: "you know, if he were older he would be the most popular one out there. I mean, come on, he's hot!" I groaned.), Amrod received a dark chocolate bar, as did Amras (...no comment).

Next was Elíl after everyone had managed to calm down from our nice commentary.

Maedhros got a chocolate rose (me: "roses are red, so's your hair, before you bled, your face was fair."), Maglor got a tiny chocolate pie (Lir: "because after all, isn't there a thing in music called pie?"), Caranthir got a dark chocolate bar (me: "rather fitting, no, my dark and gloomy brother?"), Celegorm received a white chocolate rose (Lir: "so fair, no fair, to all the ladies way out there..."), Glorfindel got dark chocolate cubes with nuts in them (Lir: "oh, are you suggesting that he's nutty?" Me: "hey wait, that's my type!"), Ecthelion got a can of hot chocolate mix (me: "nice to cuddle up to someone with a mug of it..."), Mairon and the twins got chocolate bunnies (Elíl: "for the terrible trio.").

I finally managed to get up after getting rid of the stitch in my side and started my rounds.

I gave Maedhros a chocolate figurine of himself (Elíl: "well I have seen a lot of ellith looking like he was a hunk of chocolate, so I guess he'll find out why now..."), Maglor got a chocolate harp the size of his arm that took me a full hour to make (Lir: "it makes me wonder if it can actually play!" Elíl: "as long as you don't ask to play his harp, because after all, instruments are like swords among the elves- and get your minds out of the gutter, y'all!"), Caranthir got a horse-shaped figure of chocolate (Elíl: "hmmm, I wonder if that's referring to a meeting with a certain Haleth-? Lots a rumors on that one ya know."), Celegorm got a chocolate figurine of Huan growling (Elíl: "at his poor deserted master to boot!"), to Glorfindel I gave a chocolate Balrog (me: "because you boasted it was your bane, so as they say, 'you are what you eat.'"), Ecthelion received a chocolate fountain, complete with a side of strawberries (Lir: "now you have an excuse to drown all over again!" The rest were roaring at this point.), Mairon got a huge chocolate ring with the words 'my precious little brother... I'm watching you!' engraved on it (Elíl: "ah ha! Precious little brother, my eye!"), Amrod got a large pirate ship of chocolate (me: "not to bring up bad memories, but you know I can tell you quite a few good pirate stories from my world."), and Amras got from me a cute little teddy bear (Lir: "after all, it's a nice sticky thing to hug at night, I'll bet you.").

Everyone was in hysterics at that point and we all took a while to calm down.

"Wonderful." I sighed.

"Only one thing that could make it better." Elíl murmured wistfully, staring at the fire.

"What?" Lir queried.

"Having parents with us AND cuddling up to someone special." Was her whimsical reply.

"From your lips to the Valar's ears." I mumbled unconsciously.

"Oh, yes indeed." A new voice said, and bright flash of light accompanied it.

"Oh snap!"