A/n hello!!!! Tis me again and Gladathriel, sooo how are you people, ummm, Gladdie take over, do the whole, I don't own anything thing "Kay, Elendor doesn't own anything except unknown characters etc, blah, blah, blah, yadda, yadda, yadda the usual. (In really bad cheerleader accent) Hi mom!!!!, I cooked prawns for dinner!!!!!!…………MMMMMexican style"

And they say I'm weird……so yeah, I own hell all so do not sue, all you will get is some paper, a calculator and the lord of the rings appendices…enjoy!

Oh, and dreams are in

You are beautiful Little Star

Chapter one

The nightmare returns

I am sorry, please, please! I'm so sorry

The guardian of Lorien woke up in a cold sweat.

*No, no*

*Why must it haunt me? *

He heard a knock at his door.

"Brother?"

"Come in"

Orophin and Rumil looked round the door nervously.

"My darling brother, you were calling out in your sleep again."

"Yes, and always these nightmares in the winter nights."

The two saw unshed tears in Haldirs eyes as they ran to take their brother in their arms.

"Why do you keep it in, little star? Why do you not tell us of which taunts you?"

Haldir buried his face in Orophin's chest and howled. Rumil put a hand on his brother's shoulder and glanced around Haldirs room.

Always so bare, empty. Never any mirrors, no never mirrors, for Haldir hated his reflection, hated himself, no one knew why, everyone said he was beautiful but he refused to see that.

"My love" Rumil sighed. "Won't you tell us what plagues you"

"I, I, I, c, can't, I c, can't, it hurts so bad!"

"What hurts, what hurts, little star?"

Haldir put a hand to his heart

"Here, here it hurts!"

Orophin tried to cheer his brother up, he hated to see Haldir like this, he hated the silver tears that fell.

"Shhh, little one, think more happy thoughts, for tomorrow you will be two thousand five hundred years old"

"Yes and the Lady is expecting visitors from Mirkwood, including a young prince that seems to have caught your eye"

Haldir felt himself blush; it wasn't that obvious was it?

"I know not of what you speak"

Orophin gave a knowing smile to Rumil, who returned it, they had seen the looks their brother had given Legolas twenty years ago when he had come with the fellowship, quick glances yes, but to many for pure coincidence.

"Do you feel better now?"

Haldir nodded, feeling the beginnings of shame, he'd done it again, he had cried in front of his brothers, why was he so weak?

"Sorry"

"For what, little star?"

But he just shook his head.

~***~

When the two got back to their own rooms Rumil frowned.

"Why do I always feel so much older than him, even though he is the eldest, and that he is so innocent, something to protect?"

Orophin pondered his brother's strange question

"Because we are slightly taller and stronger than him, and take after father, and he takes after mother, even more than Orokalie and Rumenl, and you deem him innocent for he has never loved nor courted another."

"You are so much wiser than me my brother… I wonder if Haldir loves Legolas, I hope not for Legolas is a prince, and Heir to the throne"

"If Legolas loved him back this would not be a problem, yet this I doubt, Legolas is renowned for being a bit of a play-boy, and Haldir is so quiet and shy and not one to trust easily"

"He did not always be so shy, oh why wont he tell us? I wish I could read his mind!"

"He will tell us one day, Rumil, one day…"

The two went to their beds, as somewhere else in Lorien a young elf was weeping himself to sleep.







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