Title: Taking Care
Prompt: Husbands, for
hyelFandom: Lord of the Rings
Pairing: Rosie/Estella/Diamond
Rating: PG
Word Count: 250
'I suppose they wouldn't be much without us,' Estella says, too proud of herself by far and it shows in her grin. Then her mouth is on Rose's, and the kiss is wet and deep. 'Well, that is, there are times when they need the looking after, still.'
'My Pippin, for example,' Diamond says, smiling, and her voice is fond enough. 'Out there, mucking about in the slushy cold with the little ones, and then he'll come back inside and want for a good hot cup of tea, and him having known all along what the cold would do to his bones. And I love him, and I couldn't do without him.' Her hands are small and warm, and Rose startles at the heat of them. But Estella catches that gasp with her own mouth, draws it in deep.
'But we all need looking after, too, in ways they wouldn't think. For all there are things that only we and we alone could even understand, there are things beyond that, things that are shut off and keep us in the dark, that aren't for us to know.'
Rose can think, but hardly - not with Diamond's mouth wet where it touches her, her hands sly and smooth, and Estella talking as she is, about things that matter more than they should. And she does think, listen - and Rose left feeling caught up in it, the heat of their embrace. She'll not cry out though she could, knotted tightly in their love.