Authors note: was it worth the wait guys? Soon I will be using the poem Aloragreenleaf wrote about Loriel. She gave me permission the girls got talent.

Shatter me with your eyes

Love is not always about doing what brings pleasure

It is also about doing what is good for someone At whatever cost . . . in that moment

Sometimes its leaving for. . . awhile

Love is shown then in the pain  given

For pain is a lesson best learned from the one who loves you the most

- Linda Goodman pg 129 of love poems.

It was night and the alarm for Elaines abscence had been raised. He had said nothing and had simply let his son and wife take over. She would figure it out soon enough. She knew him better than any.

So it was a game of paticents now. He waited for her to burst into his study her hair flying out behind her. Her green eyes blazing with her fury and suspicion.

She didn't disappoint once she burst in throgh the door.

"You arrogant monster! What have you done!" she growled loudly in rage.

"I did what needed to be done. She was causing my son pain" he said calmly.

"Your son! You didn't just hurt the girl you ruined her! Your son will be fine she was good for your son!" She yelled moving toward him and pushing him as he stood there taking what she gave.

"What did you say?!" she growled lowly giving him a final shove.

"Nothing that was not said to her before." he evaded. He fought the flush of shame coming upon his cheeks.

Suddenly she was at his neck sucking his blood. Finding the truth of what happend. What he refused to tell her.

She jerked herself from him, blood trickling from her lips. So beautiful she was. It wasn't the rage that shattered him. It was the disappointment he saw there.

'You shatter me with that look in your eyes.' he thought.

He moved toward her to explain she jerked backward. Far from his touch as if it was filthy.

"Everyging I did was for my son. If that causes you pain or the girl then I am sorry." he said coldly. " The well being of my son of my son will always come before others. Unless it was yours and Aven's happiness against his that would be a choice I couldn't make. My family will come before all others. I am not sorry for that Little one."

"You bastard! I knew you had trouble with empathy and kindness but you have taken this to all new extremes." she sighed heavily tears in her eyes. "I will not help you find your heart again. Perhaps in my absence you may learn your lessons. I refuse to be mated to a man with no heart forever. Aven deserves a better father."

She was gone. He felt it. If he had thought his heart was broken before he was child's play to this. She had left and ripped his heart out in the process. He had no heart with her leaving.

He stayed crumpled against his pillar where he had crumpled at her leaving. At the end of their argument. This he doubted he could fix.

When the smell of the sea came to him he looked up raising his head from his hand. Galadriel was before him

"What have you done?" she asked sort creasing her brow.

"I have lost everything because of my cruelty." he answered solumnly.

"Oropher did you a wrong by teaching you to be heartless in order to be royalty. That is not so. Where is my niece? Where is the girl with a tainted soul? The half she elf?" she asked.

His eyes widened in shock. He sent an image of the girl to his friend. Her eyes widened as she nodded.

"What have I done?" he asked brokenly.