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Visions (G)

15 September 2010 | 226 words

Title: Visions
Author: Tal
Rating: G
Pairing(s): Faramir

A Faramir vignette, written for the Aragorn Angst Group weekly prompts: King & Grateful.

Boromir had imagined a king in Minas Tirith, Faramir knew, though not in the same way as Faramir. His brother had imagined himself on the throne, leading a united Gondor in a glorious battle against the East, taking the enemy’s war to its own gates.

Such had been Boromir’s vision.

Faramir missed his brother, but he did not miss his dream of kinghood, had never agreed with it. He would have served his brother had the dream come to pass. Reluctantly? Perhaps. Not with a clear conscience, at the least. For in his heart, Faramir had always been waiting for another king.

His own vision of this king: a man of legend, tall and regal, stern and wise. Faramir would have served him with every fiber of his soul, however frayed; would have toiled silently and endlessly in his favor, day and night. And if this king, now and then, would have nodded acknowledgement at him at the end of a long day—well, Faramir would have needed nothing else.

Such had been his own vision.

Sitting on the carpet at Elessar’s feet, his head resting against the king’s knee and Elessar’s hand on his shoulder, both of them reading documents of state in the warm glow from the fireplace, Faramir swelled with gratitude for how both visions paled next to the true return of the king.

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