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The Middle-earth Thanksgiving Meme

The Middle-earth Thanksgiving Meme

Prompts

1. Cooking! Mmm Lembas... Is it supposed to be smoking like that?
2. Long lost relatives! Long time no see! How were the halls this time of year?
3. THAT relative! Nobody wants them to be here. Is it you or someone else?
4. Too much wine! Go ahead and speak your mind or act ridiculous.
5. Clean up! If you didn't cook, you clean up, it's only fair.
6. Food Coma! Apparently a condition that can affect even Elves.

OR ANYTHING ELSE YOU LIKE! AU IT UP!
Doesn't have to be a Thanksgiving dinner with relatives - friends ~~or enemies~~ are cool too!

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And you think that I would ever believe the word of a kinslayer?

[Ice cold are her words.]

I would have preferred they had the chance to run and find someone to care for them. Anyone but you and yours. I would have preferred you died along with the rest of your family and left mine alone. You are worthless and you have no right to ever claim to love my children. May your tongue burn for ever moment you claim it.

[She swings again, this time aiming for his nose and hoping to break it. She may not go so far as to kill him but make him bleed? Oh yes.]

I will never lower myself so far as you have.

No one ever does. But tell me, Lady Elwing, when did either of us ever break our word? [ Truth ]

I have no right but it changes not the way I feel. It changes not the way things happened. And I ask again, would you have preferred me to kill them instead, because at the time that was the only option you left to me. I did let them go you know.

[ Again he lets her, does not turn away from the blow, nor try to block, his head snapping back with the force of it ]

Then strike.

When did you stop acting like decent people? [She retorts.]

I would have still preferred them far from you. Far from your influence, far from the blood on your hands. I would have taken them with me had you not already found them, and prayed to the Valar to spare them over me.

How long before you did? Long enough to make you feel better for your sins? To feel less like scum? Long enough to forget that you murdered their friends too? Or for them to? How can you claim to love anyone whose lives you destroyed?

When we took our oath. [ He does not hide from it ]

I know you would have. In truth, so would I. But that changes nothing.

Oh Lady Elwing. Nothing I have done will ever make me feel any less like scum - every time I looked at them I only drove the sword in deeper. I never forgot, Lady Elwing. And we did not let them forget, either. [ He wrote them a song, once, where they had their happy ending with their parents. It was their favourite lullaby ]

I have no answer for you. I can only tell you that I did, and do. And if you need to strike me again for that, I will not stop you, e'en if you wished to strike me dead.

[Had he let them forget, no power in the world could have saved him. As it is, nothing he says or does can ever really make her feel better. She will never have her children back, the lights of her life and he will, the person that had slaughtered all her loved ones.

It wasn't fair.]

I wish that I could. How desperately I wish that I could but I will never become that monster.

[ Life, Maglor could have told her, is very rarely fair. ]

[ he shrugs wearily and dabs at his bloody nose ]

Then what would you have of me? I cannot return what has been taken, nor can I fix what was broken. But your sons wish for us to converse, at least civilly, if nothing else, or they would not have conspired to leave us both here.

[A part of her is satisfied to see him bleed. Another part isn't satisfied enough, she wonders if she ever will be. Wonders if punching him again might help but her hand already hurts from hitting him twice. Briefly she wonders if she might have broken something.

It would be worth it. she thinks.]

You could stay away from them. [It's a petty request, almost. Definitely bitter. In her mind, anyone caring for her sons is better than them.

And at least the twins hadn't stayed to make sure they stayed civil.]

I do. [ He points out ] But they still seek me out.

I may haunt the edges of Imladris and Lothlorien but never have I crossed the borders, excepting once and that at direst need to bring news. And even that I do but rarely, and I do not sail West to Numenor.

Go farther then. Where they cannot seek you out and remove yourself from their lives as you should already have.

[She crosses her arms, careful of her now sore hand.]

[ He shrugs quietly ] Outside of places like this they will be lost beyond my reach soon enough. Will that content you?

[ He sees the careful movement and tsks softly, crossing to one of the nearby tables he wets a napkin and offers it to her ]

Here - I am sorry about your hand, but my nose will remember your rage for a while, I think. [ at least the bleeding has stopped ]

[Grudgingly:] It may.

[She's hesitant but the pain in her hand wins over and she accepts it, lightly dabbing her knuckles.]

It might have been worse were we anyone else.

[ he shrugs ]

A distinct possibility, but I decided long ago that I would take any punishment dealt, up to my life, if that was what one that I had wronged decided.

[ There Elwing, have implicit permission to do whatever you like to him ]

[She wishes permission were enough. It wouldn't be hard to take a knife and end him but she can't. The thought alone makes her stomach turn. So perhaps it would be hard and in ways she's not prepared for.]

At least there is that. [Still bitter. Hopefully her desire, and need, to punch him has worn off for the remain of the holiday.]

[ he shrugs a little back at her, as if to say 'What more can I offer you?' They both know there is no going back, only forwards ]

I will send them both to you, if they come to find me here, if they have not found you again.

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The Middle-earth Thanksgiving Meme

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/cries on you

/leans on you

<33

/clings

/holds close

i want to fix them but there is no fixing sob

there really isn't ;;

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