Disclaimer: Tolkien's.

Warning: Slash! Meaning two males together.

A/N: Okay, this chap's not all that and it's kinda cut short. I just needed to post something to let you know that I may not be able to post for a while. I'll be busy in real life and the next chap may not be posted till Aug. 19. I am so sorry, but I've been in hell for a week and will be for the next two. I hope you will be able to wait. Thanks.

"Vairye! Vairye!" Haldir called the goddess. His voice held a desperate note.

"What is it, Haldir?" The goddess appeared beside him, smiling. Haldir whirled around to face her.

"Vairye, please. Make him stop."

Vairye gestured Haldir to sit beside the fountain that formed out of the mist. They were in Lothlorien again. Trees surrounded them. It was warm.

Haldir obeyed. Vairye looked at him.

"Make who stop, Haldir?" She asked.

"Glorfindel. He has to stop loving me."

Vairye cocked her head.

"So you do believe that he loves you."

Haldir frowned. He opened his mouth, then closed it.

"You mean…he doesn't?"

The winds changed and the place became colder. The trees surrounding them became bare as the leaves turned brown and fell.

"Haldir, I did not say that."

"But…"

Vairye sighed. "Haldir, I just pointed out an observation. I was not saying he doesn't love you. He defied the Valar to be with you. Of course he loves you."

Haldir suddenly looked up from where he was staring at the pool beneath the fountain.

"What?"

Vairye smiled. "Why do you want to make him stop loving you?"

"Because I will hurt him. I am dying. And when I do…"

Vairye picked a brown leaf floating on the pool waters.

"You sound sure that you will die."

"I…am. Manwe said…I mean…"

"You think what he said was a death sentence? Haldir, to die of a broken heart means you have lost all hope of having your love requited."

"But it's already broken."

"Even the broken can be mended, Haldir. Don't you want to be with him?"

Haldir sighed.

"More than anything."

"But you are afraid this is another dream? Or that he would change his mind?"

Haldir took a deep breath and looked at the goddess.

"It's just…ever since I was a child, I have heard stories of Glorfindel. He was a legend. A hero, someone I looked up to. He was a renowned warrior. He killed a balrog. I listen to stories of his feats before I go to sleep at night." Haldir paused briefly. "When I got older, I began to hear another set of stories. This time it was about another side of him, but nonetheless as legendary and…respected. It was about a great love between two great warriors."

Vairye nodded in understanding. "Ecthelion and Glorfindel."

"Yes. Their love was unrivaled. It was pure, and real, and…great. It was beyond anything anyone has ever known."

"And you wonder if you destroyed it? Or if you can rival with it?"

Haldir couldn't look her in the eye.

"I saw them together. I saw what other people saw. I saw the love that was where the stories came from."

Haldir closed his eyes. "They were meant to be." He whispered.

"This is what you have been telling yourself the past month, isn't it? Accepting it?"

"Yes. And I've accepted it. Maybe Glorfindel feels guilty that he has hurt me. But…he is meant for Ecthelion! No matter how I wish that it could be me."

Vairye shook her head again.

"I thought you believed that he loved you."

"He does. That's why he came to me. But it can't be as great as the love he feels for Ecthelion!"

"Then you have nothing to worry about. If his love for Ecthelion is that great, and his love for you is not, then he would not die of a broken heart when you die, would he?"

Haldir fell silent. It was suppose to relieve him, knowing that he would not send Glorfindel to his death. But strangely, it hurt.

"Oh. Right. Of course." He tried to smile, but failed. "He would not die because of me. It's ridiculous."

/His love for you is not that great! Why would it be? You were worried for nothing! You think too much of yourself!/ Haldir berated himself.

"I can die, then." He smiled. "I have to go."

Vairye reached for Haldir, but he had gone.

The goddess sighed.

Haldir opened his eyes. Beside him, Glorfindel continued to slumber, the March Warden nestled against him. Glorfindel held Haldir close. Both were lying on their sides, facing each other.

Haldir watched his sleeping lover. He felt his heart warm up to the eldar. He smiled, letting the love he felt show in his eyes, for once not trying to hide it from the world.

"I love you." He whispered. He leaned forward and bestowed a soft kiss upon the sleeping elf's lips. It was a momentary brush, their lips barely touching. But the warmth in the small contact went straight to Haldir's groin area and he moaned softly.

He leaned back, putting a semblance of distance between them, yet remaining in the eldar's embrace.

Carefully, he brushed a stray lock of golden hair from Glorfindel's face, tucking it behind a pointy ear. Then he placed both his hands under his cheek, lying on his side, he watched his lover sleep. He memorized the beautiful face. The soft lips, slightly reddened cheeks, glazed eyes. Glorfindel's relaxed pose gave him an innocent look that made elves look godlike, ethereal in their beauty. It was a vision that had appeared in Haldir's dreams so many times, yet more beautiful that his mind could ever comprehend or replicate.

An angel.

/Who was, for a moment, mine./

Haldir smiled. Though he felt the pain of his loss, he felt gratitude for the moments he had been allowed to be with Glorfindel.

/I cannot hurt you. I can't./

Haldir vowed that he would make sure that Glorfindel would be happy.

/I will do everything./

Haldir moved closer, slowly so as not to wake the eldar, until they were pressed against each other. He bestowed another kiss, this time, longer and more passionate than the first.

He had not been able to resist. Watching Glorfindel, it was all he could do so as not to lose control and ravage the sleeping angel whose arms were around him. So he had kissed the eldar, intending to keep it short. But arms around him tightened and he was pulled closer. Before Haldir could know for sure, he was hauled up and turned until he lay on top of Glorfindel, who now lay on his back. With his hand at the back of Haldir's neck, and the other on the small of the March Warden's back, Glorfindel responded to the kiss fiercely, opening his mouth, letting Haldir in, and exploring the March Warden's mouth with a ferocity as well.

Haldir moaned at Glorfindel's heated responded. He could feel his body responding, his arousal hardening, and rationality deserting him. He placed both arms around Glorfindel's neck and pressed closer as well.

With skillful hands, Glorfindel removed both their clothes without breaking the kiss. It was not that difficult, considering they were only wearing robes, for their breeches had been divested before they went to sleep.

Sighs escaped as heated skin came in contact with heated skin.

Glorfindel made a subtle movement that rolled them, letting him get on top of his lover. Haldir's legs willingly made room for Glorfindel between them.

"Glorfindel.." It was almost a sob that came from the March Warden as the eldar nibbled on a pointy ear while hands moved to explore the body beneath him. Touching neck, brushing over nipples, and finally, Glorfindel wrapped a hand around his lover's arousal, eliciting a moan from Haldir, while all the time continuing to kiss the younger elf.

Glorfindel moved to kiss the exposed neck of his lover, sucking and nibbling, leaving marks of passion. The hand around the March Warden's arousal caressed, and coaxed until precum began to leak from the hard arousal. Glorfindel gathered the slick droplets, along with the ones from him, and used it to prepare Haldir's opening.

Haldir's hips lifted from the bed when a finger entered him and brushed against his sweet spot. Another joined, and then another, and Haldir was soon mindless. Glorfindel's other hand continued to pump the March Warden. Haldir's hands clawed at Glorfindel's back, leaving scratch marks. But the eldar paid no attention.

It was too much. Glorfindel knew he could not hold on any longer.

Haldir moaned his disappointment when Glorfindel removed his hands, but sighed when he felt Glorfindel's erection on his entrance.

Glorfindel placed Haldir's legs around his waist, placed both his hands on the March Warden's buttocks, lifting the younger elf as he began to enter his lover's tight opening. In a single thrust, he was buried to the hilt.

Both elves moaned at the sensation. Haldir locked his arms around Glorfindel's neck as the eldar began to move, setting a rhythm that they know so well.

Passion built with each thrust. Moans grew louder. Both elves went up the high peak, then fell into oblivion, their release sending them toppling over the highest mountain. Time stopped for a moment before the stars burst into a million pieces.

When breathing was once again normal, Glorfindel moved to lay beside Haldir, pulling the other elf with him, in his arms.

"I like the way you wake me up." Glorfindel said, smiling against Haldir's hair whose head was tucked beneath the eldar's chin. Haldir's reply was a grunt, letting Glorfindel know that the younger elf had not yet fully recovered from their trip to heaven. Glorfindel chuckled.

"We need to make sure you get well, and that you get your strength back."

Haldir again did not reply.

They stayed in each other's arms, not speaking for awhile.

Haldir sighed.

/Maybe if he thinks he had done everything, he would not feel guilty when I die./ Haldir had already formed a plan. He would stay with Glorfindel, be happy for the brief time, so that the eldar would not feel that he was the reason the March Warden would die.

"I love you, Haldir."

The brief whisper sent jolts of both happiness and sadness to the March Warden's heart.

"I am not letting you go."

/Oh Gods. Glorfindel, please, don't say that./

"Do you understand what I am saying, Haldir?"

"I love you too much to let you go."

TBC

A/N: In case you didn't read the note above, this chap was posted just to let you know that the next chap may not be posted until Aug. 19. I am so sorry but real life is gonna take over for awhile. But I promise to update as soon as I can. And yes, there is already an ending, except it has not been edited yet. So sorry. Please understand.

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