turning back from the wrong north by atlantablack
Fanwork Notes
In response to a prompt by InfiniteRiver in the Silmarillion Secret Stockings 2025 collection.
written for the prompt [C&C's Oath compels them to join Finrod on his quest to help Beren retrieve the Silmaril. Possibly after coup-ing him, for extra drama and tension. Do things go better, worse, or entirely off the rails?]
I had great fun writing this, though it tried to get away from me a few times, and I realized half-way through that I'd gone about the oath part a bit different than the prompt, but I hope you enjoy it <3
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Summary:
With any luck, he will simply be able to keep Finrod alive until Beren gets himself killed as he is destined to do, and then he can drag Finrod back to Nargothrond alive and well. It will not be an end that leaves Finrod once more in Curufin’s bed, but it will be an end that he can live with. Curufin needs Finrod to live, every other ending leaving him with bile on his tongue and nausea haunting him. He knows this is foolish. He knows he is ruining the carefully crafted plans he’s been building for years, cutting all the strings he’d been ready to carefully pull, but when he closes his eyes—
When he closes his eyes, he sees blood caught in the dulled yellow of Finrod’s hair, blood on his mouth, his cheeks, blood weeping from his throat. Curufin closes his eyes and cannot bear to keep them closed.
“We are going with you,” he says simply, the words like ash in his mouth.
Major Characters: Curufin, Finrod Felagund
Major Relationships: Curufin/Finrod
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Rating: Adult
Warnings: Incest, Sexual Content (Mild), Violence (Mild)
Chapters: 1 Word Count: 2, 250 Posted on Updated on This fanwork is complete.
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