WARNING: Spoilers for my story Rivendell's Star!

Note: It's taken me a very long time to get this uploaded as an error kept coming up for the past two days whenever I tried to get this onto doc manager ;-; Oh well, it's obviously been fixed, so here! Enjoy :)

Water

Eleniel: 12

Estel: 17

"Come on El, you can do it."

Elrond frowned. He was stood by a tree in the forest, Glorfindel standing next to him and Erestor watching from where he was sat against a tree. Eleniel, Elladan, Elrohir and Estel were in front of them, three in the water, and one sat cross-legged on the bank.

It had been a year since Eleniel's accident by the waterfall. She was okay now – her broken bones were healed and her memories had been regained, but there was just one more thing.

She was now completely terrified of the water.

Elladan was standing by the bank, the clear water coming up to his hips as he rested his arms on the grass by Eleniel. "Why don't you want to come in?" he asked, already knowing the answer.

"I am scared, Dan," the elleth admitted, readying herself to jump up and run in case her brother was planning to grab her and pull her in.

"There is nothing to be afraid of," Elrohir said as he and Estel swam up to them, "we will be right here next to you and we will not let you go until you feel confident enough, alright? We will not let anything hurt you."

Eleniel hesitantly looked out across the water and sighed. She wanted to go in, of course she did - it would be just like the times before the accident when she would go swimming with her brothers and splash and have fun – but it brought back unwanted memories any time she even thought about it.

"What if I came in with you?" said a new voice, and the elleth looked up to see her father walking towards her.

Eleniel smiled faintly and looked at the puppy-dog expressions on her brothers' faces. Rolling her eyes, she sighed and looked down. "Okay."

Elrond smiled and sat down on the grass next to his daughter, removing his boots and immediately jumping into the water. He turned around and looked up at the blonde. "Are you coming in?" he asked.

Eleniel nodded, slowly uncrossing her legs and shuffling forward. She dipped her feet into the water first, feeling the cool water wash over her toes, before submerging her legs and finally lowering herself into her father's arms, hanging onto his neck and placing her forehead against his chest as he swam with her further into the middle of the lake where his sons were playfully splashing each other.

Glorfindel smiled. He walked over to Erestor and sat down next to him, one leg stretched out in front of him while the other was brought up to rest his chin on. "I am glad she is overcoming this fear. It was not a nice one to have."

Erestor nodded in agreement, a huge smile appearing on his fair features as he saw Elrond push Estel under the water after receiving a huge splash. Eleniel was in Elrohir's arms, still clinging onto him tightly but laughing all the same.

With help from her family, she was recovering.