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A Moment in Time	By : elvenjade Category: +Third Age > Slash - Male/Male Views: 1230 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
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Title: A Moment in Time

Author: Jade

Email: bc.cougarj@gmail.com

Rating: R

Chapter: 1/1

Warnings: Angst, Character death.

Pairings: Elladan/Glorfindel(implied)

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Summary: The twins meet for one last time.

A/N: Tissue warning for implied character death. A huge thank you goes to Sirkayem for being my Beta on this. It would not have sounded right without you

all thoughts are in Italics

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"Are we leaving?" The young elleth asked, looking up at her father. She reached up and gave his sleeve a small tug before asking him once more.

"Soon." Elladan replied quietly as he gently ran a hand through his daughter's hair.

"How soon?' She asked, giving him the innocent look that he knew well, both from her as well as from his own childhood. It was almost the exact same look he and his twin would often use. It worked now as it had then.

"Before the next sunset." He finally replied, staring back out over the water. He had lingered in Arda long enough, waiting for a hope that had never existed.

"why?" She asked, tugging his sleeve again before she was picked up by Glorfindel and carried off, leaving Elladan to his thoughts

"why?" the single word had haunted him for years. It had been the last thing he had ever asked his twin before Elladan had turned and walked away. He never heard whatever reply his twin had given, he still wished he had.

Elladan turned away from the water and faced the path they had been travelling on for over a week. Even with the eyes of an elf, he could no longer see Rivendell. He sighed softly as he thoughts of the home he had grown up in.

"we are the last of a dying race." He thought to himself, turning his head towards his family. His mate and daughter "the last of the elves left to sail, to become a mere myth amoung men."

"Even now you think to much." Whispered a voice behind him.

Elladan froze, afraid to turn around. He knew that voice well, heard it in his mind, his thoughts and dreams. His fear was to turn and find it only another dream.

"Will you not face me , brother?" Elrohir asked. He reached out slowly and placed his hand on his twin's shoulder. He left it there as Elladan turned slowly to face him "You have not aged a day."

Elladan almost laughed. Of course he had not aged, though he knew this had been Elrohir's bad attempt at humor. He merely sighed and shook his head

"Would you change it now if you could?" Elladan asked him, wanting to know.

"No." HIs twin replied. There had been no hesitation in his reply but Elladan could see the regret in his eyes. Not for the choice he had made. His regret was for how things had changed between them.

"I did not think you would." Elladan replied as he started to turn away once more. This time, however, Elrohir stopped him.

"It was my choice to make." The younger of the twins said

"You chose wrong." Elladan almost shouted. He'd lived though centuries of built up anger, hurt and disappointment. "We swore we would never be parted."

"You walked away." Elrohir replied. He wanted to grab his twin and shake him, wanted to hit him for all the years they had lost. He also wanted to hold him and never let him go.

"I had to." Elladan told him. " I will not watch you die."

"I would not have asked you to." Elrohir said.

Elladan all but lost it as he took a swing at his twin, his fist connecting hard with Elrohir's jaw.

"You bastard." Elladan hissed as his tears fell. "You did ask,the minute you made your choice to live as a man."

"I always knew what I wanted to choose, Elladan." He replied, rubbing his jaw where his brother had hit him. "You had refused to see it. We were both born to follow different paths." Elrohir continued "Father knew this, it was why he made sure we understood the way both sides lived."

"You could have come to me, 'Ro." Elladan told him "you could have warned me. I felt you make your choice and it was if i was being torn in two." He added. "The pain, the emptiness, I feel it still."

"I almost did go to you." Elrohir admitted. "I was right at your door and I forced myself to walk away. I knew, Elladan. I knew you would ask me to chose as you did and I would have.. for you" He said, giving his twin a small sad smile "I would have lived forever at your side but it would have been a lie."

"I asked you why once." Elladan sighed quietly "The last day we spoke before now. I asked you why you chose the life of a man. You never answered me."

"I did not know how to." Elrohir admitted "You were Erestor's best student" he grinned "you would have found the right words to use, I could not." He added "I knew I would only hurt you even more if I tried to explain."

"You had hurt me anyway." Elladan shrugged "what more damage could you have done?"

"I never wanted to hurt you, Elladan.' He replied "But to deny who I am would have hurt me even more. I am not sorry for the choices I have made. I am just sorry for what it has done to us." He took a step towards his twin and lightly kissed his forehead. "I should not have come but I had to see you one last time." He whispered into Elladan's ear as he hugged him tightly then turned to walk away.

"Do not let it end this way." Glorfindel said as he came up behind Elladan. "neither of you will ever have this chance again."

Elrohir turned to face the others. The tears in his eyes matching those of his twin's yet neither one of them moved.

"You are both as stubborn now as you were then." Glorfindel growled at them, pulling them both agianst him just as Elladan collapsed.

"Will he be..." Elrohir started to ask before Glorfindel silenced him

"He will be fine." Glorfindel assured the younger twin. "He is merely exhausted."

Elrohir shifted almost nervously as he watched Glorfindel set Elladan down on a pile of warm furs. He noticed the way the golden elf soothed Elladan's hair back gently as he whispered into Elladan's ear.

"I have missed more than I thought." Elrohir said

"You have." Glorfindel agreed. "He's seen too many of his loved ones die." He told Elorhir. "not all of them were in battle. his wife, the mother of his only child died giving birth to thier daughter. He spoke with Arwen the night she died. With each death, a small part of him died with them. He could not handle watching you die as well." Glorfindel said, his eyes pleading with Elrohir to understand "Nor could I allow him to suffer through your death."

"I have asked alot of you, Glorfindel, over the years" Elrohir started "I wil ask you to promise me one last thing." He added "watch over him, never let him forget that i cherish every moment and every memory we have ever made."

"I have never broken a promise to either of you." Glorfrindel replied " And I shall not start now." he added " I promise."

Elrohir started to say something when an elf spoke briefly to Glorfindel then hurried off.

"We must leave." Glorfindel told Elrohir. "Our time here has ended."

Elrohir nodded silently. he had not realized he was shaking until he felt himself wrapped in Glorfindel's embrace.

Looking over the younger twin's shoulder, Glorfindel saw Elladan watching them. He stepped back to let them talk. He watched as Elladan walked over and placed his forehead against Elrohir's. Whatever words were said, it remained between the twins only. He remained still, guarding them silently as he had often done before.

"Goodbye, my twin." Elladan whispered, placing one last kiss to his brother's forehead before he joined his mate. They both silently watched as Elrohir mounted his horse. The twins shared one last look before Elrohir raced from thier view.

"It was always his destiny." Glorfindel told Elladan as he slipped his arm around him.

"Knowing this does not make it any easier." Elladan whispered, closing his eyes in an attempt to stop his tears. "I will forever be without the other half of my soul."

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It was many years later when a tired rider slowly crossed the old lands once known to many as Rivendell. Now, a forgotten realm to all but him. His once black hair was now grey,hanging in a loose braid down his back.

The home he once knew now stood in ruins before him. weeds and vine's had overgrown most of the broken walls of the last homely house. To see his old home in such a state broke his old heart.

"I have let them forget." he spoke softly to himself "for that I am sorry.'

He made his way in the direction of where the lake once once. The water had dried up centuries ago. Yet one thing still stood after all these years. A single tree still stood proud long after many other had fallen. Moving away some of the dead leaves at the base of the tree's trunk, Elrohir could still make out the carved initials. His and Elladans.

"I am home." he whispered as he slowly placed himself down against the tree. "as I promised."

"I was hurt and angry and I wanted to hate you." Elladan's final words once again ran through Elrohir's minds "In truth, my twin, I am proud of you. You followed your path knowing how hard it would be and how I would react. I am sorry I pushed you away. If It is not to much to ask,would you be willing to promise me one thing?"

"What promise would you have me make?" Elrohir asked

"When it is time.." Even in his mind, Elrohir could hear the pain and fear in his twin's voice. "when your end is near, promise me you will come home."

Elrohir had closed his eyes then as he was doing now. he could see the image of his twin as clearly as he had seen him that day.

"I promise." had been Elrohir reply before he had raced his horse away from his twin.

It was in this moment, as Elrohir breathed his last breath, when nature around him once again had become silent. The trees no longer spoke of the legend of the elves and over time the world no longer believed.

Yet, somewhere, in a distant land far across the sea, there are those who shall never forget thier time in Arda or the memories that had been made. They will always remember those who did not make the journey, with them, to Valinor.
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