Prompts: 'Life' and 'Siblings'
A/N: Time for some more angst from me.
I care not to repeat the sight of watching a family member's life ebb away, but I have seen it far too many times. Of my six brothers, only one still remains. The other five; each I watched slip away and die before my helpless eyes. Caranthir, Curufin and Celegorm; all dead by a Sindar's hand, Doriath. The name still brings tears to my eyes. And Amrod and Amras; at Sirion. There...Maedhros and I lost one set of twins, only to gain another. Maedhros and I...we are the only ones left now...the rest of our family - save Artanis (1) and those we left behind - are gone; passed beyond the circles of this world, possibly never to return.
Even now we prepare for a suicide mission, one that will surely lead us into death after our brothers. My only prayer is that they will kill us at the same time, so that he doesn't have to watch the life leave my eyes and I won't have to watch the life leave his. I do not think that I could endure another brother slipping away from me - even if only for a moment or two - and I know that Maedhros' spirit could never survive that. He has suffered too much to be able to endure another loss.
A/N: Snuck a little implied Maedhros angst right at the end, didn't I? No, you were probably expecting something like that to happen, I love angst too much not to. :) I don't deny it for that would be the biggest lie I have ever told and I have told some whoppers.
1: Galadriel, you silmarillion deprived peoples. (jk)