Chapter 10.

Lord Elrond had now fallen alseep after an hour of continuous crying, Legolas holding him in his arms while gently stroking his hair. Erestor had seated himself on the window sill, staring out at the black skies. Glorfindel had occasionally popped his head into the other room, only seeing her feet and the backs of the healers. The twins kept quiet, sitting cross legged on some cushions by the fire. Apart form the odd crack from the fire place, the room was silent.

No matter how hard they tried, the healers could not wake Eramellin and her skin colour was a pale grey now. None of them were prepared to give up yet. They wrapped her in four layers of blankets, lay her on top of hot, wrapped coals and forced herbs down her throat.

"More coals please," said Airdan, the most experienced healer in the room. Another left the room with a thick bag while he checked her temperature again. It was like before, ice cold. He sighed, they were running out of ideas now and nothing they seemed to be doing was helping. He sat down on the bed and held her hand tightly, waiting for the coals. He watched her face carefully, the closed eyes were unnerving, the grey skin and blue lips were sickening to see. This wasn't anything he would have ever thought he'd see in his life and having known Eramellin since birth, it almost broke his heart to see her 'dead'.

The healer came back in with a bag of hot coals and the others began to roll her on her side to retrieve the bags and refill them. Meanwhile, in the other room, Erestor had slid off his perch to answer the door. When he opened it, he screamed and began to wail as he slid to the floor, hand over his mouth. Glorfindel turned round sharply, and also covered his mouth at who was stood there. The twins began to cry slient tears, staring openly at their visitor. Legolas had to use the strongest hold he had on the now, wide awake Lord who was convulsing from his new crying fit and thrashing about in fear.

"P-please! Don't take her from me!" was all Elrond could wail, Legolas was crying also but trying his best to keep calm for Elrond's sake.

"Be calm child of our earth, I have not come to take her from any of you. We created her, she is our child as well as yours and we wish for her to live more than you'll know. Calm, be at peace...I am here to help her," came the calm voice of Namo. He slowly walked into the now quiet room and passed all present to open the next door and shoo all of the healers out. A few of them came out rigid, Airdan came out white and almost passed out from the shock. The door closed with a slight click and everything went silent once again. Elrond stared at the door, and refused to be moved from where he was on the floor.

"...Namo..." was all he whispered to himself for the next five hours, watching the door for the whole duration in which Namo was in there.

The Lord of the Dead sat on his childs bed, holding her hand gently. The other hand placed on her forehead as he whispered to her, moving it then to her heart to say something more. He stayed like that for hours, eyes closed in severe concentration. After four and a half hours, her heart started to beat steadily under his plam and he let out a long sigh of relief and lay across her legs in exhustion. It was another twenty mintues before she moved and began to breathe properly. Namo was sat in the chair next to her by this time.

"Child, open your eyes," he said quietly and she did open them, slowly. She took in her surroundings, seeing the dream-catchers and the wind-chimes hanging from the ceiling and other places, she carefully sat up in her cocoon of blankets and stared at the Lord next to her in astonishment.

"What happened?" she asked quietly, still staring at him. He smiled as nicely as he could.

"You died child, and I could not bare to watch your life being taken away and so, I came to give it back to you. I am going to make sure you never have to go through those ordeals again child, your nightmares will stay within your head and never stray outside. You will only have one or two every six or seven moons and those will show you what evil needs to be destroyed. Fear no more, these will not harm you anymore...I apologise deeply for the horror they have put you through," he finished softly, watching her closely. For the first time in two days, she smiled brightly though her eyes were still empty. The colour to her skin was still blue, but disappearing somewhat.

"Thank you..." she said quietly and he smiled back and stood to let the others in to see her. He opened the door and motioned for them to enter. Soon enough, they surrounded her bed, Elrond didn't let her out of his embrace for over ten minutes. Legolas kissed her cheek repeatedly, Erestor smiled more than ever and the other three kept crying in joy. Namo, on the other hand, kissed her softly and vanished. She smiled and carried on with confirming she was heathly once again.

A/N: yes it is a little short but here it is :D I hope you liked it, the next chapter won't take as long to upload but I have college and a Job to keep up so, don't think, if I don't update, that I've forgotten:D