Author's note: I fudged the timeline a bit, just to make the elves a little closer in age. For clarity's sake I've included a list of the elves' ages in human years.
Approximate ages: Legolas, Elladan and Elrohir are three, Arwen is a newborn
"A friend is one to whom one may pour out all the contents of one's heart, chaff and grain together, knowing that the gentlest of hands will take and sift it, keep what is worth keeping and with a breath of kindness blow the rest away." - Arab proverb
Sifting With Gentle Hands
He was there when she was born, along with a hundred other dignitaries and noblemen. But he was special - after all, had any of those tall, shining lords stood with his raven-haired friends as Lord Elrond spread a hand across his wife's stomach, feeling the baby moving, laughing at her discomfited expression? No they had not, not even his father, and so Legolas sat curled in his father's lap and patiently awaited the birth of the little girl he felt he already knew.
Hours later, his father called softly to wake him from sleep. He sat up, bleary-eyed, as Lord Elrond carried a small white bundle into the room, flanked on either side by ecstatic twins who were both talking at him but he was tired and still half-asleep and captivated by the tiny creature so he ignored them.
Lord Elrond gently passed the baby to his father, who smiled so brightly it made Legolas feel all happy and glowing inside. Legolas slowly reached towards the blanket - his father had cautioned him earlier to be extra careful - and moved it just a little bit and then a hand reached out and grabbed his finger and it was the smallest hand Legolas had ever seen, even smaller than his friend Suineth's who was the youngest elf Legolas had met. The head inside the blanket turned and Legolas watched two wrinkled eyes open and look into him and they seemed to say, I see you, hello, my name is Arwen.
Legolas laughed and said back, "Hello, Arwen. I am Legolas."
This will be continued, sort of a series following the (platonic!) relationship of Legolas and Arwen. Please review:) it would just make me so happy.