Title: For Lost Cousins
Fandom: The Silmarillion
Rating: K
Length: 216 words
Content notes: N/A
Author notes: N/A
Summary: Maglor and Fingolfin discuss the reunification of their people, not noticing the elf lurking outside the tent.



“Could you ever?” Maglor asked, mouth suddenly dry. “Could you ever forgive us for everything we caused, Uncle? Maedhros is chained to Morgoth’s mountain, if he still lives, and my father and youngest brother are dead. But Turgon will not forgive us still, and I know your people say that he has the right idea.”

Fingolfin shook his head. “I do not know if I can. If Maedhros were here – he would serve better to unite our people than you can, Maglor. You cannot keep your brothers under control, and you are not close to any of my children in the same way that he was.”

Maglor shook his head. “Then we shall stay on our side of the lake, and you and yours may stay on your side.”

Neither noticed Fingon lurking outside of the tent, listening to them. If the Noldor needed Maedhros to be reunited, and this was the only way to return things to how they should be, he would simply have to go and fetch his cousin, and they would return to the shores of the lake together. It would redo everything, the sundering of the two sides, if they could only arrive together for once.

And he would have his cousin back.

That was what he wanted more than anything.