The Dance On Water

The gathered party saw Thranduil and Legolas off, followed in flank by their Greenwood escort. The dawn was just breaking and a glorious sunrise had painted the sky in radiant colors to see them off.

Elladan and Elrohir, feeling pretty emotional with seeing their new friend and partner in crime leave, clutched tight each other's hands, feeling such gratitude that Legolas had given them the push and courage to accept their love. A bittersweet feeling still lingered in their hearts, and they hoped that perhaps, one day, Legolas could too find his soul-mate as well.

Elrond wondered and sincerely hoped that peace would find its way into both Thranduil's and Legolas' hearts. He knew that Thranduil had made his choice, and right or wrong, Elrond could not say.

He hoped for Legolas' sake that a distance would not come between them, for a light and life like Legolas had would be a said flame to lose. It brought him distress to think that he had only known rejection instead of receiving back the love he so desired.

'Someday you will.' Elrond breathed an elven blessing to Legolas.

Erestor and Glorfindel had gathered as well to see Thranduil and Legolas off. Although Thranduil had the strangest of ways with conducting himself, Erestor felt no ill will towards him, understanding that not so gentle shove that Thranduil had given him regarding his feelings towards Glorfindel.

'Glorfindel'. Erestor leaned into his lover's arm that had wound itself around his waist.

The two held onto each other, long after the departing elves had vanished into the woods, and their cohorts had gone to see to their days. The two held each other, watching the sun rise over the trees of the valley. Blue eyes peered down into grey eyes, and the two shared a smiled and a sensuous kiss.

Erestor was glad that he had not simply ignored his heart's desire. What a dance the two had taken in coming to know their love and finally accept it. Their dance had brought them through the peaks and valleys of emotions, until it had concluded with the sweetest of endings found with each other.

The rays of the sun drifted down from the sky and the gentlest of breezes blew the strains of their hair in the crests of its dance. The valley was waking and the silence of dawn was breaking with the calls of the birds and of the distant voices.

But the two did not head it, holding each other still, oblivious to it all.

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The end 

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