Water

Water

Posted: June 22, 2007
Title: Water
Author: LK
Type: FCS
Characters: Erestor/Glorfindel
Rating: NC-17
Disclaimer: Don't own any, just playing; I'll put them back when I'm done.
Warnings: Slash
Challenge: Daily Drabble challenge at LOTR All Slash, word of the day "water"
Timeline: Imladris, Third Age, long before the Fellowship

Summary: What lies beneath the surface...

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Erestor lay in the pool of steaming water, his head resting back against the edge, cushioned by a rolled-up towel. The bathing chamber was his favorite wicked indulgence. When the Last Homely House was built, he told Elrond that he did not mind having the only set of chambers that did not look out over Imladris' famous waterfalls, PROVIDED the shortcoming was offset in another manner.

The compensation Erestor had requested was a massive bathing chamber off of his bedroom. The centerpiece of the room was an enormous sunken marble pool that could be filled with warm water by way of pipes fed from a natural spring beneath the house. Erestor knew Elrond had wanted to ask what he could possibly want with such a decadent luxury. The public baths of the Last Homely House were not exactly lacking in elegance or grandeur, after all, but the Lord of the Valley had kept his peace and merely granted the request. When a particular gleam had entered Erestor's eyes during the planning of the massive room, Elrond was certain he did not want to know Erestor's reasons.

With his eyes closed and his lips parted slightly, anyone watching Erestor would have thought he was near falling asleep in the soothing water. When his head began to loll from side to side and his breathing sped up, however, it was clear that the Elf was not merely relaxing. Moans began to escape his lips until Erestor's body suddenly arched and he gave a hoarse, wordless cry.

Sighing blissfully, Erestor lazily opened his eyes and watched as the golden head of his lover emerged from beneath the water.

"Feeling better, love? Not as tense as before?" Glorfindel asked with a wicked grin.

Erestor reached out to caress his lover's cheek before saying, "Elrond has always wondered why I sacrificed a room with a view in exchange for this chamber . . . but then he knows nothing about your talent for holding your breath."

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THE END

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