Just so you know, I am using 'hot' as in temperature, not as in attractive. :)

Hot

"Immortality." Elrond decided without a second thought, before turning confidently towards Elros, waiting for the same word to come forth in the same way from a mouth that looked just like his, save for a small scar on his twin's upper lip.

There was no doubt. Of course he would choose the same, why would he not? They belonged together.

"Mortality." he murmured, avoiding Elrond's eyes and focusing instead on the small Feanorian star Maglor had sewn onto the edge of his tunic at Elros' request many years ago, because, as he had explained to the surprised minstrel, they belonged to each other, like father and son.

A sudden hot fear surged through Elrond's body at the unexpected word, over his back and across his face and down his thighs, piercing and prickling like a million scalding needles.

Surely, he had just failed to hear the 'I'?

Elros caught his confused and dismayed gaze despite his valiant attempts not to, and, turning his face to the sky and squeezing his eyes shut he cried, "Mortality! I choose to be mortal!"

At those words Elrond's world crumbled around him and he felt himself falling, falling, falling into darkness. Into nothingness.

He had always been prone to fainting, while Elros never had. When they were very young, their mother, Elwing, had told him that it was because he got too over-excited over things, and that his constitution was weaker than Elros'. When their mother was gone, Elros had helped him to calm down and avoid embarrassing situations, but sometimes he had still fainted, and Elros had always been there to catch him.

But not this time.

As he hit the ground, Elrond felt as if he, his life, his very soul was shattered into a million pieces, spraying out over the world like a glass cup dropped from an inattentive grasp, too many pieces to ever pick back up again.

The last thing he heard as his world faded into darkness was Elros' voice, cold and faraway, not hot and brave and excited, the way it always used to be.

"I am sorry it had to be this way, Elrond."

ok guys, I have to share this realization I had about Elrond and Elros the other day:

Maglor named Elrond(star cave)and Elros(star foam)because of how he found them, Elrond hiding back in a cave and Elros playing in the water outside it. Wouldn't that mean...*drumroll*...that Elrond and Elros aren't their original names? What were the names their parents gave them, that their family and friends pre-kinslaying knew them by?

Interesting, isn't it? Please tell me what you think of my theory in the review box(and what you thought of this drabble as well)!

Thanks for reading, I hope you enjoyed, and have a great day!