Brothers forever 3

Chapter Three

What ails him?

"Ada! He stopped breathing! What do we do!" asked Elrohir arms trembling from fear.

Elrond did not pause to answer his worried son, instead he started to pound on Estel's chest with his fist with all his might.

"Come Estel, breath for me son, breath!" Elrond yelled as he pounded.

It had been two minutes since Estel had stopped breathing; Elrond was losing hope when Estel made a gasp for breathe. Elrond let out a sigh of relief and collapsed on the floor by Elrohir. Sure each of his sons had been close to death before, but never before had one of them stopped breathing for that long of a time.

"Ada…Is he alright?" asked Elrohir still shaking.

"Elrohir… It's alright…he will be alright," said Elrond taking his shaking son into one of his arms and feeling Estel's forehead with the other.

"He is still burning…" said Elrond. He watched Elrohir as he pulled a ringlet out of Estel's face.

As Elrohir's shaking grew less, Elladan returned to the room holding a bowl in one hand, and a cloth and some herbs in the other.

His eyes first went to Estel on the floor who was far to pale and still for his liking.

Then his eyes met a pair of light gray eyes that were stern, gentle, and worry filled all at the same time, they were the eyes of his father.

Last of all Elladan's eyes fell upon dark blue eyes that matched his own, his twin's eyes were full of horror.

Elladan walked up next to Elrohir and said. "Ro, are you alright?"

Elrohir didn't answer, he just kept his eyes glued to Estel as if his life depended on it.

"Ada what's going on? Did something happen?" asked Elladan now standing above Estel.

Elrond stood up and took the bowl, cloth, and herbs from Elladan's hands and put them between Elrohir and Estel, absent mindedly Elrohir crushed the herbs into the water and started to gently wipe Estel's face with it.

Elrond took Elladan to a corner of the room.

"Ada, what happened?" Elladan asked again his voice a bit more stern then he meant. "I'm sorry Ada, I did not mean to snap."

"That's alright Elladan, I know that you and your brothers are very close and you know how happy I am that you are, but Elladan, when I got here Elrohir was barley holding on, Estel was shaking so bad, he had gone into convolutions, it got so bad that he stopped breathing."

Elrond paused, Elladan had turned sickly white and was teetering from side to side, Elrond grabbed his firstborn by the shoulders and gently guided him to the floor.

"Elladan, He is alright, I got him breathing again, I know what ails him, I know this is a shock, but I need your help now, you need to be strong for your brothers," said Elrond.

"Yes Ada," said Elladan getting up, more color coming back to his face.

Elrond knelt next to Elladan, Elladan looked up and said. "What does he have Ada?" H e was dreading the answer.

"All I can tell you is this Elladan, he has had it before," said Elrond standing up again and going back to Estel, leaving Elladan in the corner to think.

Think he did and hated what he came up with. Estel had only had one thing with those same symptoms before. He had only had it once, though he knew his father would never say it in the common tongue. Elladan knew what men called it. It was Pneumonia.