From: telerinprincess	Date: 02/14/2007 14:36:30

*stumbles out of Elrond's clinic, looking a bit shell-shocked*

*almost trips over you* Hey! Watch out, you idiot!

	From: ingoldo	Date: 02/14/2007 14:42:20

*slides over on the step and glances up*

*surveys the vast expanse of stairway stretching for many feet on either side of him*

Sorry.

	From: telerinprincess	Date: 02/14/2007 15:06:07

*looks down at you and promptly bursts into tears*

	From: ingoldo	Date: 02/14/2007 15:16:39

*shoots to his feet*

Oh dear don't cry it was ever so rude of me to just sit there where any old, blind person without a cane or a seeing-eye dog or ears for that matter could just trip right over me you have every right to be upset but please won't you stop crying??

	From: telerinprincess	Date: 02/14/2007 15:26:21

*can't stop crying* I can't believe it, I've really messed up, this is so so bad.

	From: ingoldo	Date: 02/14/2007 15:29:54

There, there. *pats your shoulder awkwardly* There, um, there.

*soothingly he hopes* Things are never as bad as they seem.

	From: telerinprincess	Date: 02/14/2007 15:36:43

*sits down heavily on the step* It is bad, it's awful. My father's going to kill me and I think it's all wrong. There's something I should be doing differently, I know it.

	From: ingoldo	Date: 02/14/2007 15:40:09

*sits down beside you after double-checking to make sure they really are out of the line of foot traffic*

*with no idea what you're talking about, of course* Surely it just seems that way now. What can you have done that's so terrible? You don't look like a murderer...

	From: telerinprincess	Date: 02/14/2007 15:42:21

*looks away* I'm pregnant.

	From: ingoldo	Date: 02/14/2007 15:48:55

*quickly draws a few likely conclusions about the circumstances*

*softly* You see? It's not the worst thing in the world. More like the second-worst. *pensively* I just finished talking to some of the children in there. Children who will never leave this hospital. Children who would love to have the types of chances your baby can have.

If your father doesn't understand... *shrugs* It's his own loss.

	From: telerinprincess	Date: 02/14/2007 15:57:07

It's not right though. I'm too young. I can't have a baby. I d-I don't even kn-know the guy th-that w-well. It's not right. I did it all wrong.

*abruptly* Have you ever heard of someone called Finarfin?

	From: ingoldo	Date: 02/14/2007 16:01:00

Do you think you're the first one to make a mistake? You still have time to figure out the right answers. Lots of time, in fact. And to make the right decisions. You can't go back. Only forward.

*startled* Why, yes. I'm Finarfin. But mostly I go by Aro. Do we know each other?

	From: telerinprincess	Date: 02/14/2007 16:07:36

*starts to laugh hysterically* At--at least you--you're cute even-even if you're old.

	From: ingoldo	Date: 02/14/2007 16:09:29

*gapes*

OLD??? Cute?

*stammering* I...I don't quite follow...?

	From: telerinprincess	Date: 02/14/2007 16:14:14

*offers her hand to yours to shake* Hi. I'm Earwen. Apparently I used to be your wife.

*ignores the tears streaming down her face*

	From: ingoldo	Date: 02/14/2007 16:17:46

*shakes your hand both politely and numbly then backs away from the crazy girl somewhat*

That's what Elwë said only there must be some sort of mistake see because I've taken vows of celibacy see and I can't possibly have a wife see because that would be sort of outside the vow of celibacy thing see and...see??

	From: telerinprincess	Date: 02/14/2007 16:26:33

Celibacy? What the fuck? I meet my husband and he's fucking celibate? What is wrong with you?

	From: ingoldo	Date: 02/14/2007 16:30:23

Well excuse me if my religion is somehow offensive to you! We've clearly both been at the receiving end of some serious misinformation if anyone thinks I could have been married to a brazen, shameless shrew like you!





*claps his hand over his mouth*

	From: telerinprincess	Date: 02/14/2007 16:35:15

*glares at you and stands up* Clearly, someone has been having a joke at our expense because I would not marry you if you were the last man on Órë!

	From: ingoldo	Date: 02/14/2007 16:39:32

*his control escaping him again* Oh, YEAH??

Well...um...

...neither would I! Marry you. If you were the last woman.

*thinks hard to come up with something else really biting* Plus, vows of celibacy and stuff.

	From: telerinprincess	Date: 02/14/2007 16:43:53

You suck!

*is horrified that she could have married this individual*

*storms away*

	From: ingoldo	Date: 02/14/2007 16:46:57

*shouts after you*

AND DOUBLE SUCK TO YOU!

*summons courage enough to glance skyward*

Surely you can understand?