Here is the second part, it could end up being a tad longer than expected.

Legolas entered his chamber with the twins and was pleased to see the young mother has a goblet in her hand and look slightly less pale. The two little elflings were reluctant to leave their mother to eat and clung tightly to her leg. Legolas moved across the room and pulled a jar down from the shelf, opening it he revieled some elven sweets that he loved. Offering the jar to the elfling he ended up leaving it on the floor in front of them when they moved away from him. Sitting in front of the family he began to try and work out what had happened. "Okay, Lets start with some introductions. I am Caun Legolas Thranduilion." The Ellon nodded and proceeded to introduce himself and his family. " Lolindir Arcamenel, my bonded Nessa and my two elflings Orchaliel" He jestured to the littlest girl clutching to her mothers dress hiding as much as possible. "and this is Cossel now my ... oldest." He hesitated here. Legolas poured a goblet of strong elven liquor and handed it over. "Now, please tell me what has driven you here and what happened to your home." Taking a large swig of the liquor Lolindir began to tell their story.

"We used to live in the forest of Lothlorien but when the one ring was destroyed the elven rings were powerless and The Lady Galadriel was preparing to sail many of our kin had also felt the pull of the sea. We on the other hand still had wished to stay here. The lady made mention of you and your citadale, we made to travel leaving Lothlorien traveling the common trail. We though them safe. We left with what we could carry to make a new life here. Whilst we were traveling through Cair Andros we were set upon but by bandits they destroyed everything we had by attacking at night, my and my eldest son done what we could to protect out caravan and family but..." Lolindir hand shook violently. He dropped the crystal glass which shattered on the ground. Lolindir jumped and began to apologise, dark brown hair waving wildly. Legolas placed a hand on either side of his shoulder and forced him gently down into the chair again. "It matters little. It can be cleaned up. Please take a few deep breaths and continue your story." Lolindir did as asked heaving in a deep breath and carried on "My eldest fell to the bandits. He.. was cut down and we... we had to leave him. Ai Valar I left him their my only son to be ravaged by nature." He broke and descended into heavy sobs, Nessa followed soon after. Legolas knelt in front off the hunched elf. "You did what you had to, to protect what you had left. You still have two beautiful elflings and a stunning wife. I will send out a search party to find you son, he will have his rites and will be commended to the valar and you will meet again in aman. Tell me your sons name that I may prey for him." Lolindir raised his head "Idhon, my lord". Legolas turned to Elladan, "Can I entrust this task to you my bonded, find this son and bring him home to his family. You will have a patrol at your disposal" Elladan felt the anger and the sorrow that Legolas felt for the family. Feeling that this was from the Prince not Legolas dispite the refrence to his bond. He stood and bowed "Yes Caun Legolas." Elladan left the room and began to make preparations although it would be a short journey there was the treat of the bandits.

Legoals turned back to the family. "I will do all within my power to help you. First of we need to find you some where to rest tonight and then tomorrow we will get you on your feet here." Legolas pulled a cord in the corner of the room and his seneschal came bustling, a tall elf with shoulder length black hair and serene features with calm golden eyes. "Laebon, please see to it that there is a guest suite prepared for this family, with a large bed as the elflings will wish to be with their parents." Laebon, bowed and beckoned to the family to follow.

When the door closed Legolas changed, standing he moved back to the more private area of the chambers and looked around. Quite suddenly he picked up a glass and violently threw it agains a wall where it shattered, He fell back against the wall sliding down it. Elrohir didn't know what to do he had never seen Legolas act like that. "It was all pointless. The sacrifice, the death was all pointless. too many lives ended. We destroyed the ring fought a war and what for. Men to continue the evil that we fought to contain. The sorrow of that family, pain over something that didn't have to happen. Orcs it was their nature but men..." He gripped his hair and started pulling at it slamming his head back against the wall. Elrohir was terrified, Legolas had gone off the deep end. Trying to restrain him and protect the back of Legolas head but he wasn't strong enough. The sound of his head slamming back to the wall sickening to him. "Why did I come back, why? It was calm and peaceful. Why does it all go wrong, I do so much..." He tried to get to Legolas neck but the jerking of his movements were too violent. He needed help, looking around for anything he could cushion Legolas head with. "Legolas, Las. Listen to me please. Please Listen to me." Elrohir manoeuvred his body so that Legolas was slamming his head against his chest. He was beginning to panic, he couldn't tell if Legolas was even hearing what he was saying. "Elladan Help!"

Elladan was currently trying to find the commander of the patrols to get his given support when a wave a complete unadulterated emotion bolt through him and he had to grab the wall. Once he could gain a breath he stood straigte and turned tail running through the corridor. Elves pinned themselves to the walls of the corridors as he ran, then he felt Elrohir call out for him 'Help'. Pushing himself even harder, rounding a corner he crashed into Laebon. Picking himself up the later elf gave Elladan a disapproving look. "Do you mind not causing such chaos in the halls. You seem to be good at it but restrain yourself." Elladan stood, "Move, need to get to Legolas" Laebon recognised this single minded need to find one person as the panic of a bonded partner and followed Elladan as he tore through the corridor.

Legolas was calming slightly now he was still convulsing violently but was talking now. "Why can't they understand, Why do they do this?" Elladan rushed through the chambers doors chrash against the walls and stopped dead when he saw the state that Legolas was in. To both Elladan and Elrohir surprise Laebon spoke with understanding "Oh Legolas again." He bent into of Legolas placing both hands on either side of Legolas face, and quiet roughly forced the hysterical elf to look at him. His eyes were rolling in his head, chest heaving still. "Legolas look at me." He stated firmly. Legolas gazed finally fixed on the gaze of Laebon. With practiced experience he began to sing an elven Lullaby in a quiet calm voice that held elven magic.

The wind's in the tree-top, the wind's in the heather;

The stars are in blosson, the moon is in flower.

And bright are the windows of Night in her tower.

Dance all ye joyful, now dance all together.

Soft is the grass, and let foot be like feather.

The river is silver, the shadows are fleeting;

Merry is May-time and merry out meeting.

Legolas relaxed under the weave of the magic that calmed his hysteria. Laebon lifted Legolas and moved him through to the bedchamber. Laying Legolas in the center of he large bed he moved to the cupboards and pulled out new sheets. He changed the bed around Legolas, with a fluidness that spoke if the amount of experience that he had. Refilling the pitcher with clean water and picking up some of the items from around the chamber. The piece of a half painted portrait he placed in Elrohir's pliant hands, the elf looked down sadly recognising it a one that Legolas ha painted for their fiftieth anniversary. It depicted themselves and Legolas in a daybed on the grass they were either side of him with their hands joined over his chest. Legolas has burned through his own body face and hand so that what was left was only the twins joined hand in hand. Laebon who had yet to stop singing finished putting the room in some sort of order, turned and cast a look of loathing and anger but also sorrow and gratitude. It was an odd combination. "I can feel a Valas touch on him. I don't know what happened in Gondor and I don't care to, something changed him. What ever happened there how ever serious had a build up and this is it. I have seen his destroy everything he held precious in this room, in pain and sorrow. Watched him blame himself for your neglect, I will protect him. I know that he loves only you and would not presume to steal him away no matter how undeserving I think you are but hear this; I love him with my whole heart, and he knows this. I held him when he cried, I held him when he said he couldn't take the pain anymore and I held him in the night when his soul and body screamed for you to come. I was here and I will always be here, I will pick up the pieces. So leave now if you think that you are going to build him up and then tear him apart again, for that I know he could not survive." He stopped their and continued his cleaning around the chamber. It would appear to any-other that he had said nothing but the word sat heavy and foreboding in their hearts. They could feel that although they had dealt with the pinnacle of Legolas desperation, Laebon had dealt with five years of neglect and the aftermath of every trip to Gondor.

The three left Legolas to sleep and moved into the living room of the chambers Elladan broke the akward silence between them when he remembered the task that Legolas had given him. "I was tasked by Legolas to take a patrol and retrieve a body. Where might I find the..." Laebon answered before he finished. "The barracks are on the north west side of the citadale, hard to miss. You will find your captain their, his name is Liron. They will likely not take a liking to you all that quick. Many here care greatly for Legolas and know of his strife with you." Elladan was expecting this last stament and nodded leaving the room to find this Liron. Elrohir looked around the room and saw the mess, he began to pick up items but soon realsied that he has no idea of where anything was to be put away or how Legolas organised his books, Laebon took pity and claimed the pile of books off him and began to place them in their proper places on the shelves. "You are Elrohir if I am correct." Shocked he answered "Yes but how did you tell us apart.?" It was odd to meet and elf that so easily differed between the brothers. Laebon smiled to himself "Legolas talked a great deal about the difference in the pair of you and I can see that there is indeed much between the pair of you. You are a scholar, I can tell they way that your eyes analyse everything more so than any other. While your brother, The mighty Elladan is a warrior more at home with quick action. The pair of you must have made a formidable pair at the kings right hand." Elrohir nodded, he wanted to ask about the fit that Legolas had had, but he was afraid of what Laebon would say. Was this a mild one or serious, did he have them often before? Elrohir had stopped his movements as he thought. "You have questions? About what you saw in there." Elrohir nodded again trying to find the words to express the nature of his wishing to know. "I will call for some fresh wine and we will convers"

The pair sat either side of a large fire place that remained unlit, Laebon had pilled a stack of sketches, unfinished letters and pages of completely unintelligible scrawl. "When Legolas first set up the colony here there was so much work that had to be done, he could forget, become immersed with work. Then things began to work by themselves, we took our duties and he had more and more free time between council meetings and parties, he started to wish to see you. He would send the letters and get the replies that asked if he could come instead to Gondor and he went. With no delay he went. People would ask him "Why hav your bonded never been seen here.?" His answer was always the same, alway defendinf yoi. "Aragorn needs them, Gondor needs a lot of work to build it up. They are in valuable.". This was what he said everytime. Then you just stopped relpying one day. He put himself whole hartedly into making sure that we had the perfect citadale, he forgot to eat and was quiet. That was three years ago. After that he just got worse, the fits started, his mind just wouldn't recognise the fact that there was a great rift in your bond and that while you and your brother had eachother he had no one..." He took a deep breath and calmed himself "Then he built your garden, it was the center of his life nearly every day, he would complete all his paper work in that garden and even took to sleeping in there. Then the fits got really bad, near daily he would have them. I watched and comforted when I could, when he screamed so loudly that there was gaurds on edge and citizens were banging at the doors to know what was wrong. The council were actually cosidering invoking the rite of appearance and demanding that you came to Ithilien, but once again legolas wouldn't hear of it and stopped it there and then. So for the next two years he continued in the downward spiral the created these." He handed over the letters and made Elrohir look.

Meleth ,

Please tell me what I have done to earn this scorn...

Elladan, Elrohir

I beg you please, I want come to me I can't...

The drawings were dark and painful in some and others were memories of days past. One that caught his eyes imparticular was a sketch of the twins sat in perfect happiness in Gondor each-other and there was writting in the conner of the Image. ' Better off with out me', he turned to look at the other sheet of parchment that was covered with so many layers of writting, he could only jsut make it out. It was the same sentance. 'Better off without me'. "Why did he come to us when we asked if he belived this." He couldn't stop himself from asking. Laebon leveled him with a glare "Because everytime that you asked him it was alway 'Meleth, we missed you dearly come and stay with us and we will have such a time togehter'. Hope is what brought him back to you every time. Hope that maybe this time would be different." Laebon then made it clear that this conversation was over by standing and continuing with the tidying.

"Thank you." Elrohir didn't know what or how to express the shear gratitude to his lovers saviour. "You have clearly done so much for Legolas and we can never thank you enough." Laebon stopped with his back to him. "Thank you! thats it. I'll tell you what you can do. Worship him like you would a valar, care for him and love him properly for if you don't I shall."

Legolas mind felt heavy and slow as he woke, then he remembered. The fit, oh Valar. He though he had gotten over these now that he had the twins back, Maybe he was more broken than he thought at first. He climbed from the bed and rubbed his face quiet visiously. His head was pounding and it was hard to think, he raised his hand and felt the lump on the back of his head. "Ouch!" he grimace, it felt like a extra head was growing. He could hear voices from outside his chamber and recognised one as Elrohir and the other a Laebon. How long had he been alseep, he was hungry so it had to have been a few hours. He checked himself in the bathroom mirror and straightened out his hair before splashing water on his face, gripping the the sides of the bassinet he stared into his own deep blue eyes. He centred himself breathing deeply and closing his eyes, calming his heart and soul. Casting a look out the

Elrohir waited in the chambers, it was nearing time for Legolas to make his appearance at the feast. Debating weather or not he should wake the elf and deciding that it possed less hazards to his health to wake Legolas. Standing and walking past the reading Laebon that had refused to leave until he knew that Legolas was better. "He is already awake and is preparing himself for the feast, you have no need to worry." As he finished the sentence the oak door swung on it's hinges and a vision walked out, dressed in ivory and green. He sparkled and glittered were the mithril thread graced the cuffs of the floor length robe. He appears to sweep across the floor to stand close to Elrohir. "You can't go to a feast like that, my love. I have set out some appropriate robes on the dresser." Legolas ushered him towards the bedroom and shut the door after him. "And I'm not letting you out till your decent for a feast and party." Once he was safely getting dressed Legolas turned to Laebon. "How bad was it?" Laebon just raised an eyebrow. "Not one of the worst but the lump on the back of your head should be some indication. Oh and some more news, your father and Lord Elrond have announced that they will be coming to visit for. They both felt the pain of you and you lovers." Legolas nodded he knew he should have been expecting this, he hadn't seen his father or father in law for quiet a while and was going to invite them. But there was going to be some explaining to do. "Ah, well it can't be helped. How soon?" Holding out the letter for Legolas he read that it would be within the month. "Have you replied yet?" "Yes My Lord. I agreed to the visit. Any way on a different note, where is your circlet?" Legolas froze. "Do I have to wear it?" Laebon didn't say anything "Fine. Can you put it in then."

Elves were sat chattering to one another, so pleased to see that their lord was home and whole. Although they could all tell that something has befallen their prince but it was not theirs to question why. The great hall was set up beautifully, vines cascaded from the ceiling and the tree had spread it's roots to allow the moonlight through and white ivory moon flowers sprung up where it's rays touched. Music drifted up from the small elven orchestra that sat in the middle and elves in beautiful flowing gauzy silk robes danced gracefully. The door man at the entrance stood and brought a large staff down hard on the floor, all in the hall stopped and turned to the doors. "Presenting Lord of Ithilien Crown Prince Legolas, and his bonded Lord Elrohir of Imladris" the doors opened and Legolas walked in on the arm of Elrohir (but this should not be taken as his position in the relationship, say that and risk painful and messy consequences). They walked heads held hight to the top table, Legolas greeted noble and servant alike with the same equality. Stand at the top of the hall he was before the largest chair and began his greeting. "To the friends I have returned to and to new friends that I have only just met. I am glad to say that I am home and whole. Now lets cut this short cause I like you all am hungry." A cheer rose up and food began being brought out, severing the top table first. A large roast was brought out and placed on the top table "First hunt of the new season My lord" The servant that brought it out stated.

As the night progressed many of the nobles that graced the hall came up to Legolas bowing to the pair and offering pleasantries, subtly dropping hints about what they all wanted in the next council meeting. He took all this in before standing and offering his hand to Elrohir "I feel I wish to dance." Elrohir smiled broadly and took the hand. "My Prince, I would be honoured to dance with you."

The music changed, slow and romantic as they danced. Legolas robes swirled and danced with him as he forget everything.

Many of the inhabitants of the citadale were put at ease seeing the relaxed joy on Legolas face where his head lay on Elrohir's chest. Despite the absence of Elladan, they felt that they could worry less, for not matter how wrong the notion, how different can twins really be.