The Fire Dance

Authors Note:

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MaelleConstance - Don't worry, Glorduin will get his turn...turned face
down on the bed! *Snort*...:)

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Macheil - Yeah, I noticed how my nieces interacted with other babies
and
how they seemed to carry on complete garbled coversations...its
interesting to watch...glad your still enjoying the story...:)

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Minerva Ann McGonagall - Er / G are my favorite to write...them and
Thranduil...Im not sure why, but I cant help but make Thranduil and
Glorfindel smartarses! *Snort* and Erestor quiet, yet strong...:)

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TopazKat - I always held a strong belief that the father should be just
as involved as the mother...to truly bond with a child, you have to
have equal care, or at least equal attention...if that makes sense...:)

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Ithilwen - I know, can you imagine all that heavy wood landing on your
back? Ouch!...:)

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S.... - Yeah, I think Thranduil would definitely take good care of
Elrond, and be all over the healers to make sure they are doing their
job!...:)

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Eliriel - Thank you for taking the time to review, that means allot to
me...Erestor lovers ay? Hi there my fellow yahoo friend...and Im glad
your enjoying the story...:)

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Authors Note2: Thank you to two of my friends from the yahoo group Im
in for giving me...1) An odd medical thing that can actually happen to
nursing mothers...and 2) How Torfindels name could be troublesome in
the future...Thanks for the ideas my friends...:)~DarkDreamer





The Fire Dance







Ch86





Thranduil gasped as Elronds head dropped and landed on his shoulder
"Elrond!"

Elladan and Elrohir were the first to arrive.....

"Adar!"

"Ada?"

Thranduil let out a sigh of relief "Elladan! Elrohir! We are under the
canopy! Hurry! But be careful, your Adar can not feel his legs and has
fallen unconscious!"

The twins eyes flew wide as they gasped and leapt toward the bed "Hold
still Thranduil, Roh and I will begin to remove the pieces"

The Mirkwood king rolled his eyes "Oh worry not about my moving, I
cant"

Elrohir furrowed his brow "Why not, are you injured as well?"

*Sigh* "Nay, I am between your Adar and the matrices, he is above me,
between myself and the canopy...oh, I should also mention, we are
facing the foot of the bed...and are...uh...naked"

The twins shared a knowing glance, and then Elladan looked to the
wardrobe "Quickly Roh, get each of them a robe"

~*~*~

Glorfindel jumped when he heard the loud crash and Erestor placed his
hand on his shoulder "Nay! You are staying here, I will go and see
what..."

Melpomaen shook his head "Neither of you are going anywhere your
elfling comes first I will go and see what has happened"

~*~*~

Thorvel and Thoron skidded to a halt as they ran into the chamber
""Daeradar!!""

Elladan looked at his sons and sighed "He is trapped under the canopy"

"Adar, we can help!"

"Daeradar! Can you hear us?"

"Ionath, your Daeradar is unconscious, do you think that you could help
your uncle Elrohir and myself, by removing some of the fabric and
small splinters of wood?"

The little twins immediately ran to the bed and began to carefully
remove what they could ""Aye Adar!""

When Tordren and Haldir entered the chamber, the healer gasped when he
noticed that Elladan, Elrohir, Thorvel and Thoron were frantically
trying
to remove the canopy "Is lord Elrond under there?!"

Before they could answer, Tordrens eyes flew wide when he heard a
muffled "Prep the healing wing Tordren! Elrond said he could not feel
his legs and he is now unconscious!"

The master healer knelt down by the foot of the bed "King
Thranduil...is he...is he breathing"

"Aye, I can feel him breathing on my neck, but it is shallow"

Tordren looked for Haldir and noticed that he to had begun to help
remove the wood "Prince Elladan and Elrohir, I will send two rolling
beds, and have the healing wing ready!" then ran out the door.

~*~*~

As Tordren ran to the healing wing, he found Melpomaen on his way
"Advisor Melpomaen! Tul! I need your help!"

Explaining on the way, when they arrived, Mel told Erestor and
Glorfindel.

The dark advisor placed a comforting hand on his husband shoulder, gave
a light squeeze, then jumped to his feet and quickly put on his robe
"What can I do to help"

As his husband left the room and entered the main healing chamber,
Glorfindel looked down at Torfindel. The
little elfling had stopped feeding, looked up, then quietly blinked
"G...gwee?"

Glorfindel smiled, put him down, donned a robe, then picked him up
again "Tis alright little Gwee, tul, let us stand in the door frame and
watch to make sure all is well"

~*~*~

A short time later, everyone had gathered in the healing and Tordren
sighed after he thoroughly checked Elrond "He is in a healing sleep"
The master healer
then looked to Elladan and Elrohir "His right leg is broken in three
places and his back...his back is broken as well"

Elladan and Elrohir swallowed hard, then questioned together ""But he
will heal...right Tordren?""

*Sigh* "Being half-elven, it will take far longer then if he were a
full elf...you know this"

Thranduil growled as he got down from his table "But he Will heal!"

"King Thranduil! Get back up on that table!"

Thranduil narrowed his eyes "Answer me!"

Tordren shook his head defeated "Aye King Thranduil he Will heal. But
as I said, it will take him quite some time to do so"

Legolas quickly grabbed his father "Adar, saes, get back up on the
table"

"Push the table so it is against Elronds and I will consider it!"

Seeing his sons worried face, Glorduin held out his arms "Hand him over
ion, Aglar and myself will watch him while you help the others"

Glorfindel nodded, then gave his son a kiss "I will be right over there"

Glorduin rolled his eyes "I know that!"

"I was Not talking to You Adar, I was talking to Gwee"

After Glorfindel walked away, Torfindel noticed Aglar and squirmed as
he held out his arms.

Taking him carefully, the red haired courtesan smiled "Well hello there
you odd little thing"

"Gwee!"

"Aye"

"Ggg...ee..eee...ahh"

"Of course"

"Gwwuh"

"Oh he is helping the others"

"Ahh! Gweeee!"

"The one who helped you into the world is hurt"

"Uuuh! Eee"

"He will be fine"

"Gweeeee!"

"I like you as well"

The ancient lord furrowed his brow "What are you doing, give him back
to me"

Aglar smiled as he handed Torfindel over "We were only conversing, can
I help it if you do not understand elfling speech?"

"Uh-huh...and do not think for a moment that we are not going to talk
about what you did"

"What did I do Glorduin?"

"That whole thing earlier when you "learned my truth", or whatever it
was you were doing. I feel like I have been stomped on by a cave troll,
I haven't been this tired since I used to go on patrol!"

Glorduin then looked down at his little grandson and sighed "You do
realize little one, that when you enter the age for lessons, you are
going to get your arse kicked daily if that is still your pet name"

Torfindel squirmed in his arms and giggled "Gwee...ee...eeee"

The ancient lord shook his head as he bounced his arms "Humph, you wont
be giggling Then I assure you"

~*~*~

After things settled down a bit, Tordren rubbed his neck "I will have
the other room prepared so that lord Elrond may remain in the healing
wing, that way when he is able to be moved, he will be more comfortable"

Elladan and Elrohir slowly turned when they heard Thranduil whisper
into their fathers ear "I will Not loose another mate Elrond...do you
hear me? You will heal and wake for me. Your ionath will Not loose
Another parent...do you hear me? Rondy?"

The twins slowly walked over, gently pulled Thranduil from their
father, and held him close....

"Calm down Thranduil, Adar will heal"

"Aye, it will just take a while"

Legolas swallowed hard when he saw tears fall from his fathers eyes and
joined the hug "Oh Ada, everything will be alright...Elrond is strong"

~*~*~

Three days had passed.........

Glorfindel picked up his son and winced, then entered the healing wing
just in time to see Thranduil slam Tordren against the wall "Why is he
not waking!"

"Thran! Put him down!"

Tordren hit the floor and narrowed his eyes "Do that again king
Thranduil and I'll shove that ScratchThorn up your arse!"

Thranduil gasped, then held perfectly still as Glorfindel plopped
Torfindel into his arms and growled "Try to fight now!"

Looking down into the small elflings eyes, Thranduil sighed, then spoke
much more softly "Why is he not waking Tordren...it has been three
days"

"I told you, he is half-elven...lord Elrond may not wake up at All
during his time of healing. And if he does, it could be months"

Glorfindel winced as he rubbed his chest, then furrowed his brow when
he noticed wetness "Uh...healer Tordren? My chest is wet"

The master healer sighed "Tis normal Captain Glorfindel, sometimes the
milk leaks out"

"Uh...red?"

Tordren swiftly turned, then pointed to one of the tables "Nay, remove
your robe"

After checking him over, the healer sighed "I have seen this with
ellith, Torfindel is suckling to hard...you have a cracked nipple"

"I have a what?!"

Thranduil snorted as he walked over to Elronds sleeping form "Ouch,
that must hurt"

Glorfindel narrowed his eyes "Aye, it does...laugh again and you'll
find
out what it feels like once I find a blade"

Tordren handed Glorfindel a salve "Put this on the nipple when you are
feeding from the other. Unfortunately, you can not cease feeding from
this one, you will have to endure the pain...tho it will heal in time"

The seneschal rolled his eyes "Wonderful"

~*~*~

At mid day, everyone gathered in the healing wing to have midday
meal...hopeing the familiar noise would comfort Elrond in his sleep.

As they all began to eat, they talked about their day so far..........

Elladan: I am trying to make heads or tails of the paperwork on Adars
desk.

Elrohir: I am helping.

Erestor: You are both doing well, as I said, try not to get to
frustrated.

Ormeril: Adar gave me a dress that hides knives in its folds! Its
pretty!

Melpomaen: *Groan*

Haldir: What, its a very nice dress.

Miradel: It sounds lovely, how many blades can it hold?

Huradel: Why, do you want one?

Miradel: Aye.

Glorfindel: I have a cracked nipple.

*CollectiveGasp*

Erestor: What? Are...are you alright?

Glorfindel: I am fine, Gwee just eats to aggressively.

Glorduin: He gets that from you.

Torfindel: Gwee!

*CollectiveChuckle*

Vel and Ron: We made a mud fort!

Rumil: *Sigh* And I had to wash them after!

Orophin: Would someone saes, pass the salt?

Legolas: Gildor and I are going back to Mirkwood to help Thalion for a
little bit.

Thranduil: That would ease my mind ion, hannon le.

Gildor: We are happy to do it Thranduil.

Lindir: Tree and I are looking into hiring someone to help with the
daycare, we now have 23 younglings.

Orophin: Aye, and 5 of them are still in cloths.

Cirdan: I would be more then happy to help out, I love younglings.

Elrohir: Ooo...you could tell stories!

Glorfindel: Careful Cirdan, they are younglings, watch your story
content *Snort*

Cirdan: Well tis not like I would tell them about the time I visited
that brothel!

Elrohir: What brothel.

Cirdan: Never mind.

Elrohir: What brothel.

Aglar: *Tilts head in thought* Do I work in a brothel?

Glorfindel: Nay, tis a courtesan wing. More exclusive...cleaner, and no
one beats you if you do not work.

Aglar: Ahh, I thought so. Don't like the sound of "brothel", it does
not
sound nice.

Cirdan: They're not.

Elrohir: What brothel.

Thranduil: Elladan, Elrohir, I would be more then happy to help you and
Erestor run Imladris. I do after all, know a thing or two about running
a realm.

Elladan and Elrohir: Would you? We could use your help.

Tordren: Alright now everyone, if you are all finished, I need to get
back to tending to lord Elrond.

When everyone went their separate ways, the master healer sighed "They
love you dearly my lord. Wake for us soon hmm?"

TBC.........................................





Translations:

Ada /Adar ------------------------------ Dad / Father

Daeradar ------------------------------- Grandfather

Ion / Ionath ----------------------------- Son / Sons (plural)

Tul -------------------------------------- Come

Ellith ------------------------------------- Female elves

Hannon le -------------------------------- Thank you