Chapter 15
"Do you think he is alright?" Elrohir asked.
"Estel?" Elladan faced his mirror image, "Hardly. He was in the hands of the enemy for too long, much longer than he should have been. It had to have had some effect on him..." he trailed of hearing muffled noises coming from the room behind, they were quick to enter.
"Lau...saes...don't..." the Human was murmuring, trying to fight something in his sleep.
"Estel, sidh, gwador, sidh, shh, Estel wake up," the twins looked down into a pair of frightened silver eyes.
"Saes...p-p-please...don't hurt me..." he whispered, his voice trembling in fear.
"Estel," Elrohir murmured as he and Elladan sat either side of the Human, "we would never hurt you brother..." he trailed off feeling the Human tremble under his light touch.
"Estel, look at me brother," Elladan commanded softly, Estel looked u into Elladan's eyes as the elf continued, "What did we...they do to you to make you think we would hurt you?" the Human looked away and started shaking again, "Estel, please, let us help you, talk to us brother," he spoke softly, as if Estel was a small child again.
"You...Ada...you kept..." he took a deep breath, "you...beat me...the pain...I was...alone...so alone...told me...no one came...hate me...so sorry..." he felt tears damp his cheek, "you're right...should've left me for the Orcs...as a baby...such a burden..." the twins sat in shocked silence, how could he even think that they would even think that, let alone tell him.
"Estel..." they whispered, moving closer to the distraught Human.
"Estel, none of that is true, we would be sent to the void before even thinking that." Elrohir spoke first, his own eyes welling with tears.
"You are our brother Estel, we love you more than anything, you are so precious to us, nothing or no one could make us think otherwise. Understand me gwador? We love you. We don't know what you have been through, but I do know that Elrohir and I love you so very much and we'll do whatever it takes to make sure you know that." they both placed a light kiss on top of the Human's head simultaneously.
"Love you both too." He whispered, snuggling closer between them.
Elrohir started singing an old elvish lullaby, soon after Elladan started humming the tune with him until the three fell to sleep.