Restoration & Rebuilding Drabbles by Grundy

Make Do And Mend (Elros & Tindomiel)

Prompt: image, stoneware cup showing kintsugi-style repair

“I’m sorry, Ada.”

Elros reminded himself sternly a grown man should not cry over a broken cup. Particularly not when Tindómiel’s little eyes were already filling with tears.

Even if it wasn’t just any broken cup, but one he’d had since he was a boy, that had followed him from Amon Ereb to Nogrod to Balar to Lindon to Elenna – and now to the unforgiving tile floor of the balcony over looking his garden.

“Cheer up, my loves,” his wife said. “It can be made whole again.”

Elros did cry two days later when she brought him the repaired cup.