AU that as soon as Aredhel left Gondolin she sent a messenger hawk to Celegorm telling him 'to ready the hounds cause she free from her annoying over protective brother! She'll be there in a month or so!'
But then a month goes by and Aredhel isn't there, and Celegorm worries about what happened to his favorite cousin but hopes she was forced to go to visit Fingon or her father. He tells Maedhros about it, who writes a letter to Fingon asking after his sisters well being. How would he know shes in Gondolin with Turgon??
The Feanorians panic. Both over the well being of their female cousin, but also because if something did happen to the High Kings only daughter on her way to visit Celegorm, they were all FUCKED
Search parties go out. Subtlety. They don't want to to arouse suspicion and bands of Feanorians roaming the lands between where Carainthir thinks Gondolin is to Himring and down by Doriath is definitely eye catching
A few months go by with no word and at this point Aredhel has been missing for almost a year and Caranthir is exhausted, worried, stressed, and heading to a meeting with some Dwarves about a new trade deal. The Dwarves notice and ask why their tall friend is upset. He mentions his female cousin went missing while traveling to visit his brother for months now and his family is spent trying to find her.
The Dwarves go quite. They trade knowing and unnerved glances between each other.
One dwarf hesitantly mentions that the last time they met Eol, their Dwarf-Friend smith who lives in Nan Elmoth, he had mentioned that he recently married a Noldor Princess and that he wouldn't be by for a while.
Carainthir's face goes ashen, then a furious red. The Dwarves dont need to ask if it was a consenting marriage as they watch their Elf companion grit an apology out of his teeth before he stalks out the room
In a week Nan Elmoth has a pretty sizable portion of the Feanorian army besieging its woods. Fingolfin and Fingon are worried, because Feanor's Sons have been acting weird lately, and now they've amassed an army??? Attacking what they believe is Thingol's territory??? Very alarming, Fingon is dispatched post haste to see what the fuck is going on and hopefully to work some diplomatic magic and not have all of Thingols wrath upon the Noldor
When he arrives at Celegorm and Curufin's fortress in Himland, for that seems where the whole host is now camped, he is shocked to willingly and eagerly be let right to the room where the Sons are. They are bloody, weary, and travel worn, but all viciously pleased with themselves
Maedhros turns to Fingon and greets him: "Hail Crown Prince of the Noldor, come forward and meet your newest subject and future heir"
Fingon stumbles forward with a cry and collapses onto his sister's sick bed. He hasn't seen her in years and shes thin, sickly, pale, looks like she could sleep for a decade, and has a haunted look deep in her eyes that wasn't there when he last saw her, but she also looks radiant as she holds a tiny, sleeping baby
"Ah! Brother there you are! I will need your hand to write a scolding letter to Turgon in regards to him getting better guards, or at least training them better in tracking. But first, come meet your nephew. Say hello to Lomion"
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