Brothers forever

Chapter four

Brothers forever

The night seem to stand still for Elladan, though the hours ticked by, minute by minute, the morning sun was just coming over the hill to shine it's face on the elven realm. Yet Elladan did not move from his position in the corner, he had stayed there and watched as Elrohir helped their father with Estel, getting him up on Elrohir's bed and trying to get his fever down. They had work on him long into the night and now Elrohir was passed out from exhaustion on one of the overstuffed chairs that had been pulled over beside the bed.

As the suns raze come through Elrohir's window Elladan finally moved over to sit on the bed. Estel was breathing a little easier but it was still hard for him to get a breath.

Elladan felt his brother's forehead again and winced when he noticed that the fever had gotten worse.

"Estel, I'm so sorry I should have been there for you last night, instead I sat in a corner thinking, Estel you have had this before and we almost lost you that time, I don't want to take the chance of loosing you again.

You and Elrohir, you mean everything to me. I don't know what I would do if we lost you." Said Elladan stroking the wet curly mob on his brother's head that most people called hair.

Elladan stayed on that spot for a long time stroking his brother's hair and thinking. His father had given Estel the medicine that had been used on the last case of pneumonia that Estel had had, but it didn't seem to be working.

As Elladan sat there he remembered a song that his mother use to sing to him and Elrohir and then later to Arwen. It was a song that her mother had song to her when she was young. Before Elladan knew it he was humming it, then he started to sing it.

Don't you leave me here alone;

In this Darkness and Shame;

Don't leave me here alone;

Can't you see the darkness falling?

Don't leave me here alone;

Where all I can do is call your name;

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Because you are more then a person;

You are more then a friend;

You are more like a brother to me;

You are more then a person;

You are more then a friend;

You mean everything to me.

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You can't die;

Please don's leave us here alone;

You can't die;

The darkness is surrounding;

Don't leave us here alone;

Where all we can do is call your name.

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You are more then a person;

You are more then a friend;

You are more like a brother to me;

You are more then a person;

You are more then a friend;

You mean everything to me.

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What can we do now?

We can do nothing but wait;

But waiting seems like forever;

The darkness should be never;

Don't leave us here alone;

Where all we can do is call your name.

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You are more then a person;

You are more then a friend;

You are more like a brother to me;

You are more then a person;

You are more then a friend;

You mean everything to me.

You mean everything to me...

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"Did Nana ever tell us what that song meant?" asked a voice from the other side of the bed.

Elladan jumped and looked over to Elrohir who was now awake and looking kindly at his brother.

"No she didn't, but I don't think it really has a meaning, it just means what you are feeling at that moment," said Elladan giving his twin a half smile as he put yet another cloth on Estel's head.

"Do you remember the day Estel came to live with us," asked Elrohir coming over and joining his brother on the bed.

"Yes, I remember the promise I made his mother and father before they died, that I would protect him and treat like a brother," said Elladan looking over at his twin.

"I made that promise too, and now I'm going to make one to Estel, I will not leave him while he still needs me," said Elrohir looking at Estel and then to his twin.

"I will not leave either," said Elladan taking one of Estel's hands into his own.

Elrohir took Estel's other hand and together the twins said, "Because we are brothers, brothers forever.

TBC

The song is a poem I wrote for Frodo and Sam, It's called you mean everything I just changed some of the words to fit Elladan, Elrohir, and Estel. Happy reading. Frodo's Sweetheart.