The Holy or the Broken

independence1776:

Rating: General Audiences

Archive Warning: No Warnings

Category: Gen

Fandom: The Silmarillion

Characters: Maglor, Nerdanel

Additional Tags: Fluff, Reunions, Jewish Character

Words: 1674 (complete)

Summary: Nerdanel finds Maglor on a Florida beach.

*

Nerdanel waited until she could barely see Makalaurë far down the white sand beach and stood up, leaving the book she’d picked up at a secondhand shop on the green-and-pink striped beach towel. She toed on her flip-flops and walked over to the boardwalk leading to the beach house her son had rented. She carefully walked over the worn boards and up the stairs to the porch overlooking the Gulf of Mexico.

He’d left a book on the picnic table. She smiled and flipped it open to where he had a piece of scrap paper as a bookmark. She replaced it with her note, folded over so he wouldn’t immediately see the Tengwar, and put the book back exactly how she’d found it. She returned to her towel, folded it, and tucked her book between her chest and the towel. And then she went to her hotel room overlooking his rental house and sat on the balcony to wait for his return. She had to be sure he received her note.

If he didn’t, she’d knock on his door at eight AM. She was not going to chase her son back to his home. She’d already had to convince one of his neighbors that she meant no harm when she’d asked where “Matt” went on vacation. Nor would she return to Aman without him.

Read the rest of the story on Archive of Our Own or the Silmarillion Writers’ Guild.