[Silmarillion] Forests

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Title: Forests

Prompt: 28 - Children
Fandom: Silmarillion
Characters: Maedhros, Maglor.

Rating/Warning(s): T.
Word Count: 100 words.

AO3

When he finds Maedhros again, it’s with two young children by his side. They’re scared, crying for their dead parents and afraid of the man with blood in his clothes that holds their small hands.

Maglor supposes he doesn’t look any better; he had killed as much as any other of his kin.

“Mait-“

“They’ll stay with us.”

There’s a desperate glint in his brother’s eyes. Maglor still remembers the Doriath’s twin princes; it took him days to find Maedhros in those forests.

He hasn’t let Celegorm near their home since then.

“Alright, brother, let’s get them something to eat.”