From: skilledhero	Date: 02/17/2007 14:03:51

*is not having a good day*

*is still up when you get in, having left orders for you to be shown directly into his office once you arrive*

	From: finellach	Date: 02/17/2007 14:05:10

*bounds into your office, figuring that bravado is the way to go*

Hey, Dad, how are you? *puts a small package on your desk* I got you a present from my holiday. Aren't you going to open it, huh, huh, huh?

	From: skilledhero	Date: 02/17/2007 14:08:40

*composedly* I'm not going to open it until you explain just what you think you were doing with that girl.

	From: finellach	Date: 02/17/2007 14:22:27

*runs his hand through his hair a bit nervously* Well, I met her in Delving and she was waiting tables, Dad, and I figured that it just wasn't right and I honestly thought you'd be happy to see her even if she isn't quite how you remembered her and, really, if it was true love, surely the fact that he's a she now shouldn't really matter.

	From: skilledhero	Date: 02/17/2007 14:33:31

*has come to the conclusion that you're an idiot & yet again questions your paternity*

*still pretty calmly* And was it true love when you met Eärwen?

	From: finellach	Date: 02/17/2007 14:34:27

Who?

	From: skilledhero	Date: 02/17/2007 14:35:30

Eärwen. Daughter of Olwë?

	From: finellach	Date: 02/17/2007 14:36:23

Wait. Do you mean the daughter of Elwë?

	From: skilledhero	Date: 02/17/2007 14:41:45

*--*

*imagines a wall, just like his therapist told him to* *imagines breaking it down, brick by brick* *gives up and imagines beating his head against it because that? Is far more satisfying*

No. Lúthien is the daughter of Elwë and unless you've knocked her up too, I'm really not interested.

	From: finellach	Date: 02/17/2007 14:47:27

What? I haven't knocked Lúthien up. I haven't even slept with--

*--*

I'm sorry but what?

	From: skilledhero	Date: 02/17/2007 14:53:31

I'll admit that it's not quite the way I would have wished to have learned of my impending grandfatherhood but there you have it. You, according to Olwë, have impregnated his daughter. His only daughter, I hesitate to add, who used to be married to my uncle.

*leans back* So. What do you intend to do about this?

	From: finellach	Date: 02/17/2007 14:58:32

Is denying it an option?

Are we sure that I'm the father? I mean, I only met her once every night for eight successive nights.

	From: skilledhero	Date: 02/17/2007 15:06:36

And now, I note, you're no longer denying her existence. *waves a hand* We'll have the DNA testing done, of course, but the fact is that Olwë is not the sort to get off his ass and come all the way down here unless he truly believes that you are the father of his daughter's baby.

*stands up* Congratulations, Ereinion Gil-galad. Once again, you have completely failed to live up to the very low expectations I had of you.

	From: finellach	Date: 02/17/2007 15:11:20

*--*

*suddenly laughs* Oh, wow. I cannot believe that you of all people are getting alll high and mighty about this!

	From: skilledhero	Date: 02/17/2007 15:26:16

*looks at you sharply*

*quietly* Me of all people? Me, the man who brought you up as his own? Who taught you and loved you and didn't pass you off to Círdan this time and gave you your very own ski resort kingdom? Yes, of course, Gil-galad. I'm clearly the villain here.

	From: finellach	Date: 02/17/2007 15:29:37

*suddenly feels about two feet tall*

	From: skilledhero	Date: 02/17/2007 15:38:32

*stands up* *walks around to your side of the desk and squeezes your shoulder briefly*

I am sure you will do your duty, son.

*pauses at the doorway* Turn out the lights when you're done.