I love you.

I love you.

All-nighters are doable but they're very tiring the next day so once they're properly situated in the back seat of the car she's just going to fall asleep on him, 'kay?

He has no objections.

She has very pleasant dreams.

When she wakes, she observes his presence--flinches away from the thought, expecting to realize she was imagining it--realizes it's real--and opens her eyes to look at him in bare wonder.

I'm here. I'm here. I'll be here for the rest of the ages of Arda.

Oh, beloved. I love you so much.

I don't understand why you're alive but it's the best thing that's ever happened to me.

I don't understand either! But I'm not inclined to look a gift horse in the mouth. And I am so, so glad you're alive.

It was kind of a close call. I hated Mandos but I didn't want life either.

Oh, sweetheart.

I'm so glad to be alive.

I'm really really glad you're alive too.

If I'd had any idea it was even possible it wouldn't even have been a question, I'd have taken all of Mandos' tampering and begged him -

How much tampering did he do?

Don't know. Don't remember much about the Halls. I'm not into men anymore but I hadn't the faintest interest in anyone so that might not even be tampering.

I hate the idea that he touched you like that--that he'd warp anyone's mind, but especially yours, I know the bisexuality thing was never going to practically matter but still--

I don't even know that he did, sweetheart. I don't feel very guilty over anything I did so he might have just thrown up his hands at us, not even tried...

I hope so. I love you, I love you, the Valar had already taken fucking enough from us all already.

I bet if he did anything he'd have made me feel bad about Doriath. And I don't. So.

I don't know what Doriath is but I don't really care I'm just glad you're probably untampered-with.

Dude tried to get some kid he didn't like killed by assigning the kid a quest to steal a Silmaril. Valar thought this was hilarious, intervened, kid succeeded and brought him back the Silmaril. Dude then called some Dwarves a bunch of racial slurs and started threatening them, one of them stabbed him, his people committed genocide of every Dwarf in the region because why the fuck not.

And they still had the Silmaril. And wouldn't give it back. And said it was rightfully theirs now.

Augh. I wish that hadn't happened to you.

I would rather have died fighting the Enemy, but like I said I don't regret it.

...Right, daughter's boyfriend, why the fuck was he trying to get his daughter's boyfriend killed.