Not A Word

T.A. 2490

Lothlóríen

With the help of her sons, Celebrían made it back to her chambers. The twins helped their mother sit on the bed.

'Naneth,' "are you sure you are alright?" Elladan asked.

Celebrían noticed neither one of them ask about the baby, but she spoke anyway.

"Yes, I will be fine, and no one mentions this to your father. Understood."

"Why not?" Elrohir asked.

"Because Elrohir," Elladan said hitting him on the back of the head. 'Ada', "would ask about it."

This got Celebrían ferrous. She knew who Elladan spoke of. How could he,...they not care about their little sister?

"That is it!" Celebrían shouted, standing up. "I have had enough with the two of you, at least Arwen tries!"

The twins stood frozen, eyes widen at the sound of their mother's voice, so much anger. They hardly ever heard their mother raze her voice at them, or at anyone.

"How can you not care about your little sister or brother?!"

Celebrían realized what she just said, scared her. She slowly sat back down in the bed. Celebrían has never yelled at any of her children before. She did not know what came over her, must have been the hormones.

"I...I am sorry, I do not what came over me."

"No, 'Naneth,' you do not have to apologize." Elladan said. "You are right, we should care."

"So,...do you care?"

Neither of them answered. Celebrían just looked down not looking at her sons.

"It is a simple question. Do you care?" She asked again looking at them.

"Still hard to believe." Elrohir said.

Nodding her head, she looked back down.

"Same here. I will see both at dinner. Now go."

"Naneth -" They both began to say.

"GO!"

They quickly left their parents' room closing the door behind them. After a moment of silence, Celebrían laid down on the bed and cried herself to sleep.

~~~

"So, are clear on the plan?" Lady Galadriel asked.

"Yes, Lady Galadriel." Elrond and Thranduil said.

To be honest all they wanted to do, is get the heck out of there. Especially, Elrond he was worried sick about Celebrían and...her.

"Just one more thing you have to promise."

"And, what is that?" Thranduil asked.

"This one you have to promise to each other.''

Thranduil and Elrond looked at each other, then looked back at Lady Galadriel.

"Which is?"

"No, matter what they do, what they say, you can not kill them."

"How about he does not put a hand on my daughter at all and no one has to make any promises." Elrond states.

"I agree with that." Thranduil commented.

"It is easier to lay a hand. Than it is to slice a neck."

They both thought about this for a moment. After a few moments in silence Elrond faced Thranduil and spoke.

"Alright, I promise not to kill the Prince of Greenwood."

"And, I promise not to kill the Lady of Rivendell."

Lord Elrond and the Elvenking shook hands and turned back to Lady Galadriel who was smiling.

"Now, dinner will be ready soon. Go and wash up, I will see you all there."

Lord Elrond and King Thranduil bowed and left the library.

~~~

Elrond practically ran back to the room he and Celebrían share. Opening the door, Elrond found Celebrían sleeping, peacefully on the bed. Elrond let out a deep sigh of relief, as he made his way over to his wife's side of the bed.

He noticed the dry tear stains down her face, this concerned Elrond slightly. As he bent down meeting her at eye level, he placed his hand right beside hers, hovering over her small stomach.

He, himself did not understand of why Celebrían was so small, but he forgot all of that when there came a kick. Elrond smiled, and desisted to wake Celebrían up.

"Celebrían," Elrond whispered, shacking her shoulder. "Celebrían, wake up."

Celebrían's eyes opened, to find her husband looking at her.

"Elrond?" Celebrían questioned with a yawn. "What time is it?"

"It is time for dinner."

Celebrían sat up and looked around.

"So it is. Well, let me go and change then." Celebrían said, getting up from the bed to go change.

Elrond took notice of Celebrían's dress which had dirt on it.

"What happened to your dress Celebrían? It is covered in dirt."

"I was in the gardens, and I guess I got a little messy." Celebrían lied.

"Do not lie to me Celebrían, I know you fell." Elrond said firmly.

"Did Elladan and Elrohir tell you?" She asked with bitterness in her voice.

"No, it is a long story."

"Yes, I fell, but I am fine and so is she."

"And, if I had not known, were you going to tell me!?"

"When, were you going to tell me, that our daughter marries the Prince of Greenwood!?" Celebrían asked angrily, coming into the room, now wearing an evening dress.

"How did you know about -?"

"Regeína told me." She said going back into the bathroom to finish her hair.

Wanting to change the subject, Celebrían asked.

"What was the meeting about, 'Melleth?'"

"I can not say."

"How come?"

"It is a secret."

"My husband and mother keeping secrets from me. So, you can not tell me anything?"

"Not a word."

Upset by this, Celebrían saw her chance to get back at him.

"You know, when I fell I saw something."

"Oh, really?" Elrond said, not believing her.

"Yes."

"What did you see?"

"I can not say."

"Why?"

"It is a secret." Celebrían replied, reentering the room, walking to her husband.

"Oh, come now 'Melamin.' "You are just messing with me, are you really not going to tell me?"

"Not...a...word." She whispered, kissing her husband.

Once they broke apart, Elrond asked.

"Shall, we go to dinner?"

"Yes, we shall."

~~~

Arwen's POV

I was in my room finish getting ready for dinner when a knock came.

"Come in." I said.

The door opened to reveal, Elladan and Elrohir as they walked in.

"We need to talk." Elrohir said, being completely serious.

"About what?"

'Naneth.' Elladan replied.

"What...What about 'Naneth?'"

"She fell, today." Elrohir whispered.

"What!? Is she alright!? Is the baby alright?!" I asked frantically.

"From what 'Naneth', "said yes, they are both fine." Elladan assured me.

"Well, you do not sound pleased, by this."

"She yelled at us. Mother has never done that before." Elladan said.

"Well, you are the one who said we did not care, about the new addition." Elrohir reminded him.

"Is that what, this is all about? Can both of you just try to care?" I begged.

They both looked at each other, in silence, before they both nodded.

"Good, and you need to apologize to mother on what you said."

"She will never forgive us." Elladan said.

"This is mother we are taking about. Of course she will." I assured both of them.

"It is just, this happened before. And I guess we just both fear that she will get hurt again." Elladan replied.

"She never left her room." Elrohir continued.

"Are you saying, this all happened on purpose? Because she seemed just as surprised when we found out as well." I asked.

"No, but I am also not saying it was a mistake. We just are afraid that history will just repeat itself." Elladan remarked.

I took notice on why they were sheltering themselves, from all of this.

"Well, maybe the Vala is giving them a second chance."

They took my words for a moment and Elladan spoke.

"We do not say a word about this."

We all agreed.

"Not a word."

~~~

' ' - Elvish

Naneth - Mother

Ada - Father

Melamin/Melleth - My Love

HEY!!!

I am updating a day early because PROM is tomorrow. I might update tomorrow, I dont know yet.

If you go back to chapter 8 theres a picture of what the Áthel looks like.

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