Restore and Rebuild by polutropos

They have crossed Aros. When Dior’s foot falls on the spongy earth on the opposite bank, the soil thrums softly. He crouches to rest his hands against the ground and breathes in the scent of the land: damp, rich, with the faintest thread of something like lightning. 

Nimloth is beside him when he rises. Strapped snugly to her back, Elwing is wide awake now. Her mouth is pinched into a little ring and her huge, grey eyes stare up at the canopy. She lets out a gleeful giggle and kicks. The twins have already run ahead, unaware that they have just passed into another realm. 

“Welcome home,” Nimloth smiles and kisses Dior’s temple. 

Chapter End Notes

Prompt: Reborn (song) by Kids See Ghosts

“Caaaaano! What is this?” Elros’ shout came from Maedhros’ chamber. Hadn’t he just been in the room with him? Maglor was about to rise when he heard footsteps running over the floor.

Elros had a small bowl clasped between both hands. “What is this?”

Maglor stared at it. He hadn’t seen that vessel for many years and assumed it was lost. He had no idea Maedhros still had it. “Oh,” he said. “That’s…”He crouched to take a closer look. “That’s a bowl that Nel– Maedhros made when he was, well, not much older than you.”

Elros looked contemplatively at the object, turning it around. “What are the gold webs? Decoration?” 

There were indeed threads of some metal running through cracks in the bowl – gold seemed unlikely, unless it had been repaired in the forges of Amon Ereb some time ago, long before the war.

“I think,” Maglor said, “that those are meant to hold it together.”

"It's beautiful!" Elros held it out, marvelling.

"Yes," Maglor agreed, lowering himself to Elros' height to look at it more closely, "even more beautiful than it was."

Chapter End Notes

Prompt: Image of Kintsugi bowl. 

In canon verse I don't generally subscribe to the idea that Elrond and Elros called either Maedhros or Maglor 'father' or the like.