Title: Erestor and Aglarien go to the circus.
Author: chaotic_binky
Rating: PG
Pairing: None
Summary: Erviniae cannot find a babysitter because Erestor is too
naughty. Elrond and Glorfindel offer to take them to the circus.
Erestor continues his naughtiness and Aglarien gives Elrond new hope.
Warning: Fluff
Disclaimer: I do not own the elves or their surroundings. The elves
made me write this even though they belong to Tolkien; they are very
naughty making me do this! I make no profit and have no intention of
making any.

Erviniae sat in the play garden watching her small ion Erestor
swinging up and down on the seesaw with his little friend Badhoron.
She felt sad and Erestor, she reflected, was partly the cause of it.

"Nana, look at me," the elfling called out to her. "I am going as high
as the sky." He squealed with laughter whenever the see saw went up
and down.

Erviniae gave a smile and then looked down to check on baby Aglarien
who was sound asleep in her baby basket. "If only Erestor could be
like this all the time," she said to Badhoron's nana, who sat beside her.

"Well at least he shows some fire," Badhoron's nana replied. "He will
do well I am sure. He is very intelligent."

"Perhaps too intelligent," Erviniae sighed. "I cannot even get a
babysitter for him tonight. Just about anyone will look after Aglarien
but they run a mile when I mention Erestor."

"I wish I could stay and help you," Badhoron's nana said. Her family
was due to leave for Lothlórien that afternoon. "Badhoron will miss
Erestor and I will miss you."

"We will see each other when we travel to Lothlórien." Erviniae
replied. "I will miss you terribly. I haven't even told Erestor yet."

"I haven't told Badhoron either," Badhoron's nana stood up and called
to her small ion who got off the see saw and ran over to her. She
hugged Erviniae and told her that it would not be long before they saw
one another again, then took her elfling's hand and walked inside.
When she reached the door, she waved to Erviniae, who waved back.

"Nana," Erestor said, pulling on Erviniae's dress to catch her
attention. "Why are you upset?"

"Because my best friend is leaving to go and live in Lothlórien and I
will miss her."

Erestor's face fell. "Does that mean that Badhoron will be going away
as well," he asked in a small voice.

"I am afraid it does," Erviniae replied and sat back down on the park
bench.

Erestor looked concerned. "Can he come and live with us instead?"

"His nana and ada will miss him if he did," Erviniae replied sadly, as
she knew that Badhoron was Erestor's only friend.

"Are they going away to live because they don't want Badhoron to play
with me because I am naughty all the time?" Erestor asked with tears
welling in his eyes. He put his thumb in his mouth and climbed on his
nana's lap. "I don't want my friend to go away."

"They are going to Lothlóórien because Lord Elrond has sent Badhoron's
ada there as part of the warrior exchange program. It was his turn to
go this time." Erviniae ruffled her small ion's hair. "He will come
back to live here in a few years time and we will go and visit him."

Glorfindel made his way down the path. He had finished training and
felt hot and sweaty. In the distance was the play park and he thought
that he could see Erestor and Erviniae in the distance. He walked
further and saw that he was correct. Neither looked very happy and
Erestor was crying.

"What is the matter, Erestor?" Glorfindel asked and stroked his cheek.

"My friend Badhoron is going away to live in Lothlóórien and I won't
see him anymore," Erestor cried.

"He will be back," Glorfindel lifted the small elfling. "It is not
forever."

"I am very upset," Erestor said. "He was my best friend."

"I thought I was your best friend," Glorfindel laughed.

"Well I suppose you will have to be now, won't you?" Erestor said,
with a sad smile that contained just the merest hint of cheekiness. He
snuggled into his tall blond friend and put his thumb in his mouth.

Little Aglarien started to stir. "Come on Erestor," Erviniae said and
smiled at Glorfindel. "We have to get ready for lunch." They all
walked together into the house.

"Well I have to go and have a quick shower and perhaps I will see you
all in the Hall of Fire?" Glorfindel handed his small friend back to
his mother and left them outside Melpomaen's office.

The door was opening and Melpomaen and Elrond walked out. "Have you
found a babysitter yet for tonight?" Erviniae's husband asked her.

"No, it seems that everyone is busy," Erviniae replied sadly.

"Why do you need a babysitter?" Elrond asked.

"It is our wedding anniversary and I had hoped to take Erviniae out to
dinner and then a surprise afterwards." He looked at his wife. "We can
do it another time, meleth. Perhaps when the elflings are a bit older."

"Nonsense," Elrond said. "I will look after Aglarien and Glorfindel
gets along well with Erestor, so he can look after him."

"Will Glorfindel agree?" Melpomaen asked.

"He might as well, because this evening we are going to the circus as
guests of honour and the elflings can sit on our laps." Elrond grinned.

ooooooooooooooooo

Erestor sat on Glorfindel's lap and Aglarien sat on Elrond's.

"Look at the bears, Agie," Elrond said and pointed to them.

"Bears……" Agie said. "Big bears." She looked at Erestor and pointed
into the ring. "Look bears……"

"I know what they are. I am not stupid you know." Erestor retorted.
"You are the stupid one here because you are a baby. Not me."

"You stupid," Agie giggled. "You smelly too. You stupid smelly."

"Lord Elrond, Agie just said that I am stupid and smelly."

"Never mind, Erestor," Glorfindel said. "Just watch the show."

"Excuse me, but are you Lord Elrond?" Erestor demanded. "No, I do not
think you are. Are you?"

"If you are rude to me again, I will spank you ass in front of
everyone here," Glorfindel whispered warningly into the elfling's ear.

"You are not allowed to," Erestor replied. "You are not my nana or
ada. Only they are allowed to spank me and I am not sure that you are
allowed to tell me off either."

"Your ada said, "If Erestor is naughty tell him off and spank him," so
I think you are wrong there, young Erestor," Elrond said most
severely. "Now behave."

The lions came into the arena. "Why do other elves say that you are
like a lion, Glorfindel?" Erestor asked with a note of scorn in his
voice. "Have they ever seen a lion?"

"They say it because the lion is a proud and beautiful creature of
supreme strength and majesty, just like me," Glorfindel answered, a
slight smirk playing on his lips.

"You are up your own arse a bit, aren't you?" the elfling replied and
Elrond looked most severely at him and told him to shut up.

"You cannot talk, Erestor. You are a cheeky monkey, and yes I have
seen one before, it looks exactly like you," Elrond said.

Glorfindel, however, thought back to when he lived in Gondolin and
Turgon had called him a powerful lion of a warrior.

"Has the twat ever seen a bloody lion?" Ecthelion tittered when they
were in bed that night.

"I expect he was likening me to the lion because of my supreme
strength and majesty and because the lion is also a proud and
beautiful creature." Glorfindel laughed and kissed his dark haired
lover. "You are jealous."

"No, I am not," Ecthelion replied. "But you are totally up your own
arse about it. You have not stopped mentioning it all afternoon."

"Just because he likened you to a cheeky monkey," Glorfindel laughed.
"I think that is a slur on monkeys myself."

"When did he say that?" the dark haired elf demanded. "I did not hear
him say anything like that."

"I made it up," Glorfindel grinned. "Now be quiet and let me love you……"

The show was soon over. Circuses were never long enough, in
Glorfindel's opinion, but like an elfling, he still enjoyed them
immensely.

They walked back to the house and went to Glorfindel's rooms. Erestor
felt sleepy but stayed awake because he enjoyed being with the
warrior. Agie had slept through the latter part of the circus and was
starting to stir.

"You will have to change her nappy now," Erestor said. "She always has
a crap when she wakes up."

Glorfindel burst into fits of laughter, even more so when he saw the
elf-lord's shocked face.

"Don't encourage him," Elrond said and sorted through the baby bag for
a fresh nappy.

"Come Erestor; let us look at the murals on my bedroom walls."
Glorfindel took the toddler's hand and they looked at the first mural
of a street scene in Gondolin.

"Look, his name is Salgant," Erestor said pointing at a portly elf in
armour. "What you got a picture of that toe-rag on the wall for?"

Glorfindel looked at his little friend. "Can you tell me who this is?"
he asked.

"That is Ecthelion," Erestor said and went onto name everyone in the
street scene.

On the other wall was a mural of Glorfindel's old bedroom, where he an
Ecthelion had loved for many years before the fall. "Look that is my
old bedroom in Gondolin."

"It must be here too, as I have been in that bedroom loads of time and
I have slept in that bed too," Erestor said. "Do you think that you
might have your places mixed up?"

"It is definitely in Gondolin," Glorfindel replied. They walked over
to another mural of two warriors sparring.

"That is me when I grow older and that one there is you," Erestor
pointed with his finger at Ecthelion and Glorfindel.

"How do you know it is you when you are older?" Glorfindel asked.

"Well I don't know, do I?" Erestor replied sarcastically. "You are not
very bright are you?"

Elrond had come into the bedroom, with Agie who was giggling as she
played with the elf-lord's braids and put them in her mouth. "Erestor,
why are you continually rude?" the elf-lord demanded.

"He naughty……," Aglarien giggled. "He told off."

"Shut up, Agie," Erestor snapped. "No one likes you."

"Well, I like her," Elrond said and then added that no one liked
Erestor and that his nana could not get a babysitter for him because
of his behaviour.

"Shut up, I hate you," Erestor cried and his eyes filled with tears.

"Wrong thing to say," Glorfindel said smoothly to Elrond. "His best
and only friend went to live in Lothlórien today and he is very upset."

"I am sorry," Elrond said to Erestor who refused to look at him. "It
does not mean that you can be rude though."

"He is a small elfling," Glorfindel said in Erestor's defence. "He
does not know how to deal with his feelings, he is far too young."

"I am sorry Erestor," Elrond said. "But he will be back in a couple of
years."

"You sent his ada away and he was my bestest friend. I don't have any
friends now," the elfling cried, tears racing down his cheeks.

"Every warrior has to do the exchange program so that they learn to
fight in different areas," Elrond explained. "If we do not teach them
different ways of fighting then they could be killed. We do not send
them away because we do not like them but to make them more effective.
Do you understand what I mean, little one?" He stroked Erestor's cheek
and wiped the tears away. "Even your ada and nana had to spend some
time in Lothlórien."

Glorfindel stroked Erestor's hair and eventually he felt the small
elfling relax. "I think he is asleep," he whispered and laid him on
the bed, covering him with a blanket from the chest of drawers. "I
hope he doesn't wet the bed."

Elrond grinned, "I hope not, as well."

Aglarien grinned at Elrond. "Love ooo," she said and chuckled, then
returned the wet braid to her mouth.

"I love you too, little one," Elrond laughed and kissed her cheek.
"Now you need to go to sleep as well."

He held her close and rubbed her back. A tiny voice came from her as
she cuddled into his chest, "Night night, sweet dreams, I love you."

Someone else had said that to him every night before she had departed
forever, a long time ago. Elrond looked at the small baby, the hair
was the wrong colour but he could see the ages of a past life shining
in her eyes as she smiled at him. He held her tight and smiled.

Could she be…… and dare he hope?

End