Love Notes and Breakfast in Bed (Lindir x elf!wife!reader)
A/n: I loved these requests, they were both so cute and I feel like Lindir doesn’t get enough love, which is why I kinda feel bad about combining the two, but I felt that they worked good with each other, and anyway I’ve already got another request for Lindir. - Sloan xx
Description: Lindir has been stressed from work so Y/n makes a deal with Elrond for Lindir to have a day off, before the day Lindir is scheduled to have off Y/n makes encouraging notes for Lindir and hides them around Imladris for him to find.
Warning: None, unless you count some tooth rotting fluff?
Word count: 1,491
Imladris has always been very peaceful, everyone who visits always comments on how calm and beautiful it is, but it takes a lot of work to keep it that way, and as Lindir is the assistant of Elrond and his job is to make sure everything runs smoothly he can get pretty stressed. That’s what has been happening recently, I don’t know what has happened, or if nothing has happened at all but everyday for the past week and a half Lindir has been getting up early and going to be late, he barely has any time to relax and recuperate.
As his wife I see it as my duty to take care of Lindir just as he takes care of me, so I talked to Elrond and we both agree that Lindir has been working longer hours and putting in more effort recently and that he deserves a day off to relax. I made Elrond promise not to tell Lindir that I came to him, knowing that Lindir would be embarrassed that his lord would see him as weak, even though Elrond would never dare think that of Lindir.
The day that we decided Lindir would take time off was in three days, not as soon as I would like but there were some important meetings and other issues that were taking place during that time that Elrond needed Lindir’s help with so I let be.
Walking back to Lindir’s and I shared quarters I thought of other things I could do to help Lindir relax or take some of the weight off his shoulders. I really didn’t like seeing Lindir as taxed as he was.
I was almost to the door when an idea came to mind, it wouldn’t exactly help take any stress off of Lindir, but it would make him smile and feel better, and that’s all I needed. I changed my route to go get all the supplies I would need to make my plan come to life. I couldn’t wait to see Lindir’s reaction.
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Having gathered all the necessary supplies I went back to the room to begin my plan of action. When I got inside the room I placed everything on the floor I sat down, readying myself to spend the next hour or so making little notes of encouragement for Lindir. My plan was to place the notes I made all around Imladris in places I know that Lindir will find them so over the next three days while he is still working he can have a few minutes of happiness, hopefully stress free and look forward to finding more notes. Who knows, maybe this will turn into a game between us.
I gathered all the paper I had gotten from Erestor and got the scissors and began cutting the paper into pieces big enough for me to write a message on, but small enough for me to hide them around Imladris.
When I had a decently sized pile of paper cut outs I moved on to writing messages of encouragement on them, some of them were simple messages like “I love you” or “Thank you” while some of them went into detail about how I love his work ethic and things like that. I made sure to keep all the messages pretty basic and vanilla just in case anyone else were to come across them instead of Lindir. I made sure to keep them all unsigned so that if anyone did come across them they wouldn’t know it was me, and I knew that Lindir would be able to recognize my writing anyway. I debated between writing Lindir’s name across the top so that it was clear who the message was for and decided to go with that so that he knew that it was for him when he first finds them.
When I finished writing messages I gathered them up in a bag and began to walk around Imladris thinking about spots that Lindir frequently visits and would find them. I began with easy spots like his office, which thankfully he was not at for the time being, and put them in drawers in his desk, on the bookshelf, and even one by one of the flower vases. I then moved to places that I knew he went to take a breather when he had a minute to spare, places like a few of the hidden balconies, in the garden, and at the gazebo that was hidden at the very back of the garden that Lindir and I consider “our” spot.
Heading back to my room for the afternoon until dinner a shot of excitement went through me, it was hard to gage how Lindir would react to the notes, I don’t know if he would say anything or not but I was excited to see how it would turn out.
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Over the next three days Lindir came across dozens of notes, spread out all around Imladris, at first he was confused but then he realized the Y/n, his wife had done it in an effort to cheer him up and distract him from the stress of work.
It was quite interesting really, as soon as he thought that he had found all of them he would find another one, it kept him on his toes and more aware of his surroundings than he would normally be. It got to the point where he was actively looking for them because they were always so lovely.
Later that day, after supper Elrond had sent him off to his quarters earlier than normal, in fact, Elrond had been acting strange all day, not anything drastic but enough that Lindir, having been by Elrond's side since he was an elfling, could pick up on it.
When he got to his chambers that Y/n and him shared he found that she too was acting strange, she kept trying to get him to relax, and when he had tried to get some more work done earlier she had thrown a fit, talking about how he needs to relax more, and that work shouldn’t be brought into personal life. Lindir knew that they both had planned something, but he didn’t know what. He figured that their plans would come to the surface sooner rather than later.
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The next morning Y/n felt Lindir wake up as she normally did, but this was the day that Lindir was scheduled to have the day off so instead of rolling to the side and ignoring Lindir she climbed on top of Lindir to prevent him from getting up.
Underneath her she could feel Lindir freeze up and hesitate to remove her, “what are you doing, nin mel? I have to go to work, you know this” he stroked her hair and gently tried to nudge her off him.
Hugging him tighter I buried my face in his neck, for me it was much too early to be awake, “not today you don’t, Elrond has agreed to give you the day off.”
“Oh, so that is why you and him had been acting weird yesterday.”
Offended, Y/n straightened up so she was now sitting on him, “weird? I wasn’t acting weird last night! You were!”
Lindir laughed at how indigent Y/n was at the prospect of her acting failing, he rested his hands on her thighs, “alright mel, I was the one acting weird. Now that I have the day off what do you wish to do?”
Laying back down beside Lindir, Y/n brought the blanket back up to their chests, “well for one, I want to get some extra sleep, it is too early to be up yet.”
Lindir kissed Y/n’s forehead and smiled down at her, he couldn’t believe that someone so sweet and caring as Y/n had taken an interest in him so much as to marry him, but for whatever reason that she had he was thankful, he would have probably run himself into the ground multiple times by now if it wasn’t for Y/n.
“Okay, mel, would you like me to read aloud to you while you fall asleep?” Lindir reached over to the bedside table to grab the novel that he had been wanting to read for awhile, but hadn’t had the time to due to work.
“Please, I would love that.” And so Y/n fell back to sleep while Lindir read, it would be another two hours until Y/n got up and they both decided to have a lazy day and finally catch up with each other.
While Y/n was sleeping, close to when he knew she would wake up, he went to the kitchens and gathered a breakfast for the both of them and put it on a breakfast table so they could have breakfast in bed, something neither had indulged themselves in in close to a hundred years.
