A/N: I felt like writing an Elladan/Elrohir flick, I really like them and realized I hadn't ever done anything serious. Well I had a short thing with them but I seem to have mis placed it some place so yeah. I figured I'd go and do something else. I may work Glorfindel into this as well somewhere along the line since I like him as well. But we'll see what happens, I don't know if I plan no making this something long or just a short one shot, since I rather have quite a few multiple part fics going right at the moment.

Disclaimer: I don't own the characters but I do own the plot and any non Tolkien Characters that might pop up along the way.

In The Fading Light
By: Jaya (06.28.02){Jaya_Korin@wolfenet.com}
Challenge: S.W.W
Rating: Pg/ph13ish
Warning: Incest (brother love)
Pairing: Elladan/Elrohir (LoTR)

Blurb/Summery: Neither wants to be the first to speak and yet both want to say it.

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In the fadding twilight twixt the day and night
I look upon your upturned face
Eyes alight with unspoken passion
So the truth be known, and the truth be told
I care not what they think anymore
For you and I are ment to be together

Gently I lower my lips to yours, simple sweet truth
Love like no other that is what I have found
Star crossed lovers, mirror images of each other
As night falls upon us, I drink in this moment
And soon I will taste of your fruits, --
We will become one, and never will we part again

Love Like No Other - (c) Jaya 2002

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Elladan was standing on the balcony looking down at Rivendel spread out below their rooms, he and his brother hadn't gotten back that long ago, it was nice to be back. So entrhalled was he in the view that spread out below, that he never even noticed his brother as Elrohir came quietly back into the room. At least that is till Elrohir came up behind him, to wrap his arms around Elladan's waiste, pull their bodies together. He chuckled softly, as Elrohir brushed a kiss against his neck.

"Welcome back tease." He said quietly turning a bit in his brothers embrace so that he could look at him. "What mischieve have you been getting into?"

"I wouldn't call it mischieve." Elrohir replied, grinning as he messed up Elladan's hair with a smirk. "And it's better then standing here brooding, like you."

"I wasn't brooding." Elladan said batting his hand away, with a laugh. "I was enjoying the view."

"You were brooding!"
"I was thinking, and enjoying the view."
"Brooding."

Elladan rolled his eyes at his brother and turned back to lean against the railing again. "So what were you up to?" He asked after a bit, Elrohir coming to stand next to him this time, laying an arm across his shoulders.

"Food." Elrohir answered with a grin. "Something nice and hot for a change, I think it's even still steaming. And I got enought for two.. if you are interested, I figured you might be hungery since we haven't eaten sicne this morning..." He shrugged.

"Sounds good." Admited Elladan, with a smile as he let Elrohir pull him into the main room. Giving the hand a squeeze before letting it go he watched his brother for a moment appriciating the way the moon light from outside and the soft lap light from the single lamp on the other side of the room moved about his body, the way his hair fell down framing his face, the soft curve of his lips, the way his cloths clung to his body, loose and yet not. Shaking it off, Elladan mentally berated himself, he and Elrohir had always been close, though never quite that close, he sighed catching Elrohir's eyes on him. "What were you saying?"

Elrohir shrugged it off, throwing a napkin at him. "Doesn't matter you were off in lala land anyway. Where do you go when you sit around and *think* all the time. Elladan, it must get awefully boring or lonely, you should try doing something else for once."

Elladan arched an eye brow at his brother, though not about to respond with the first reply to that, which came to mind. "And what would you suggest?" He asked finally leaning back in the chair, tossing the napkin playfully back at his brother, reaching over as if on an after thought to pick up one of the vegi rolls eating it with slow deliberate bites; even though it took only two of them to finish the thing off Elrohir was watching him, absently Elladan wondered if his brother could feel his eyes on him as accutly as he could feel his. He was surprised when the napkin hit him square in the face though, laughing softly as he picked up and smoothed out the wrinkles. "What was that for?"

"I felt like it." Elrohir began eating one of the rolls, uncharataristically quiet at the moment. "How are the vegi rolls? I got exstra so I could actually have some this time, you usually eat them all." He grinend at Elladan who smiled back.

"Sorry, I guess I do, I'll try and remember to leave you some in the future." He commented eating another one.

"You just do that..." Elrohir snatched one. "Though I won't hold it to you.. that would be too much to ask, besides normally I don't care. You just leave my bread pudding alone and we'll call it even."

Elladan chuckled. "Well seeing as I don't like the stuff, I think that should work." He agreed, catching the vegi roll his brother threw at him, not about to be caught off gaurd twice in one night. "Have you talked to father yet?"

"Aye I talked to him shortly after we arrived, while you were taking care of things... Told him what we found, he wanted to know if we were aviable for breakfast tomorrow. I said yes, for both of us..."

Elrohir nodded. "That works...Elladan?"

"Yes Elrohir?" He looked up curiously at his twin, noting the subtle change in his voice, the sound of it. It wasn't something he heard often coming from Elrohir who was usually the more lively of the two.

"What were you thinking about earlier..."

Elladan started to say something, but Elrohir cut him off, his gaze strange intense as he found himself trapped in Elrohir's gaze. His heart was beating faster and he couldn't have slowed it if he wanted it, it was almost as if time began moving slower and everything was slightly off kilter.

"When you were watching me..."

He nearly didn't say anything, knew he wasn't about to say what he *had* been thinking, trying to force his pulse to slow back some something that was a bit more normal. Distracting himself with another vegi roll. "I was just spacing out, why?" He asked finally, avoiding Elrohir's gaze this time.

There was a pause. "You're lying Elladan, you forget you can't lie to me. Sometimes I think I know you better then you know your self, besides I could practically see the gears in your mind working."

//Except you don't know everything, brother. Maybe I don't want you to know everything, or maybe it's just you don't want to know everything.// Elladan thought, as he occupied himself smoothing out the napkin. "Perhapse you don't want to know." He said finally softly, crumpling up the napkin and throwing it at his brother again. "Actually I was just thinking about the trip, and how it's nice to be back, especially both of us being back and in one piece." Elladan finished.

"Yeah sure whatever you say." Elrohir said non comitantly, rolling his eyes as if he didn't believe him either, -- at least not totally. "Elladan, if you don't want to tell me, why don't you just say so?"

Elladan sighed, hearing the hurt in his brothers voice though it didn't show on his face. "Because I didn't want to hurt you." He admited truthfully, and it was the truth. Nor did he wanted to push Elrohir away with the truth, of what he'd been thinking. "Now why don't you eat some of this... nasty looking bread pudding, and tell me what else you've discovered on your little excursion out of the room since you are the only one who has really been anywhere since we got back."

Elrohir chuckled a smile sliding easily back onto his features, though his eyes weren't quite as lively as they had been before.. But he did tell Elladan what had happened while he'd been out, --in excrusiating detial.

- Later That Night

It was later then he'd realized, Elrohir noticed as he slowly set the book down, glancing around the center room between his and Elladan's bed rooms. He wondered absently if his brother was a sleep as he glanced towards his brothers mostly closed door. But he couldn't tell in the half light shead by the two candles he'd kept burning to light the pages of his book. With a soft sigh, Elrohir slide his book mark back into it's place and closed the book setting it on the table before blowing out the candles.

Though it was quite dark in the room, he didn't need the light to be able to find his way around the place. After all it was his room as much as it was his brothers and he knew where everything was dark or light, it didn't matter. Things were never far enough out of place to trip him up, besides he was only going the short distance to the door of his room.

Still his mind trailed to his brothers room, again and he paused in the door way of his own uncertianly. It was like something was pulling him in the other direction, he knew he wanted to go that was no surprise to him. He'd known of his feelings for Elladan for some time now, though he was afraid to share them with his brother, afraid of being rejected. Elrohir didn't so much care whateveryone else thought, he could live with that but the thought of Elladan's disgust and hatred was too much to bare, so he held his piece and said nothing. Turning back to his room and shutting his door quietly but firmly, trying to shut out thoughts of his brother asleep in his own room at the same time.

Elrohir had gotten no farther then out of most of his cloths and to the edge of the bed when a soft cry from the other room caught his attention. There was something in the sound of his brothers voice that drew him out of his room, faster then anything else could have and into Elladan's room. Still asleep thought obviously fighting off some nightmare demon of his own. Elladan moved restlessly in the bed, the look of fear and something Elrohir couldn't quite name going stright through him.

Kneeling on the bed, ignoring his brothers atempts to push him off Elrohir tired to wake Elladan. Only to end up on the floor, a bruise starting to appear on his cheek, curses in elvish and other slidding out in the wake of his fall. //Elladan youaren't getting away that easily!// He was back up on the bed again, determined not to be thrown off this time.

"Elladan, listen to me! Weake up, you are dreaming." //That's it!// Elladan's eyes cleared and for a few minutes they were only dark with fear and nothing else. Then finally recognition flickered in their depths, Elladna's body went slack beneath Elrohir.

Sliding off his brother to lay next to him, drawing Elladan into his arms. Elrohir pushed off his worry fro the moment content to comfort his brother, as Elladan had done for him so many times in the past. //Only this time it's my turn to be the stronge one... Aeei..brother mine, what hunted your dreams so?//

It was a while before finally the two of them sank into a dreamless sleep, Elrohir's arms locked around Elladan's body. And so they woke in the morning, neither quite sure where they were, surprise mirrored on their faces before it slowly broke into smiles. Elrohir pulled back blushing slightly, as he sat up, running a hand through his own mused hair.

"Good morning brother." Elladan said quietly, reaching over to tuck his hair back behind an ear for him, glancing away smile fadding a bit. "Thank you Elrohir."

Leaning over on impulse, Elrohir brushed a kiss across Elladan's cheek before sitting back. "You're my brother Elladan, I'd... I'd do anything for you." He said softly, taking one of his brother's hands before he could loose his nerve again. "Would you like to speak of what troubled your dreams so?"

Elladan was quiet for a long time so long that Elrohir was begining to think that he wasn't going to reply, though he was not quite as pacient as most of his kind. He was about to tell Elladan to disregaurd the question, when his brother finally began speaking, there was a far away look in his eyes as if he was seeing exactly what he was speaking of.

"Elrohir? Do you remember the sunset you told me about once? The one you claimed was even better then all the others you'd ever seen, the first one you saw over the ocean?" Elladan asked softly.

"Yes." Elrohir smiled faintly at the memory. "I do remember that." //Of course I remember elves don't forget... But aye who could forget that... And Elladan had been even better that night in the moon light when they had met again.// He shook it off concentrating on his brother in the here and the now instead of the past.

"I was there in my dream I could see it, just as clearly as you described it to me." Absently Elladan fiddled with the edge of the blanket. "Only this time I was there with you." Reaching over to turn Elrohir's face towards him meeting his brothers matching silver gray eyes. "It was like everything was happening slowly, darkness was coming on, but something was coming with the darkness." Elladan's eyes turned a shade darker just as Elrohir's seemed to grown brighter. "It was coming for you, and I.. I couldn't stop it, I couldn't save you Elrohir." Looking away Elladan stood up, walking to the window. "I'm sorry..."

"Elladan it was only a dream." Elrohir whispered from where he sat on the bed eyes following his brother.

//Yes only a dream in which you and I could be the way I've wanted to be for so long, together like lovers and not just brothers.// Elladan thought surprised at the bitterness in the thought. "Yes, it was." Was the only reply Elrohir got, before Elladan turned and left the room wit hsome comment about taking a bath.Elrohir watched him go, tempted to go after him, knowing there was something his brother wasn't telling him and at the same time not wanting to press Elladan too hard.

//What drives you to push me away as you never had before, brother// Elrohir wondered to himself slowly raising from Elladan's bed and moving into the other room. //What are you afraid to tell me? Can't you see that you are only hurting both of us by keeping it a secret so, nothing you could say or do would make me love you less then I already do... And what did he mean by us? Could... Elladan you will talk to me if I have to drag it out of you!//