Left Alone - by Larner

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

B2MeM Challenge: 2009 Cue 22: Breaking one’s word.
Format: drabble
Genre: general
Rating: PG
Warnings: canon character death
Characters: Denethor, Boromir, Faramir, Finduilas
Pairings: Denethor/Finduilas
Summary: Was his question for his departed wife, or for the Valar?
Note: Sorry, but I've been ill.



Left Alone

The Lord Steward of Gondor stood by his Lady, looking upon her beloved face, dimly to be seen past the shroud that wrapped her, holding his younger son in his arms, as his older child peered past his legs.

“How has it come to this, beloved?” he cried in Quenya. “Didst thou not promise to be by me always? How is it that I stand alone, bereft of thy company? Why do our sons weep at thy leaving?”

When at last he left the Silent Street, he would no longer use the High Tongues, certain the Powers had forsaken him.

Comments

[curiouswombat.livejournal.com]

I do wonder how different things would have been had Finduilas lived. That, of course, is why we have fanfic!

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

Oh, yes, precisely why we have fanfic, I think. Thanks so!

[hhimring]

He might well feel that, under the first impact of grief! Worse, Denethor being the way he was, he might also going on feeling that all those long years...

(I hope you are entirely well again!)

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

Almost. Still coughing up leftover phlegm, sad to say.

And I do suspect that Denethor never fully gave over his anger at any who in his mind might have saved her but did not do so, the Powers and Thorongil included.

[silver-trails.livejournal.com]

Powerful!

I hope you feel better now?

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

Thanks so!

And am feeling better, although the crud is unwilling to leave me completely as yet.

[lindahoyland.livejournal.com]

Poor Denethor, you made me feel for him.

[blslarner.livejournal.com]

He might have been so much more than he showed himself at the end, I fear. Thanks so, Linda!