Maedhros was in the bathroom washing his face and as he looked in the mirror he froze. Standing behind grinning slyly was Mairon. He clenched the sides of the sink and shook his head. "Just dreaming...just dreaming." He whispered to himself.

"But you're wide awake," Said Mairon with a light laugh.

Maedhros shook his head and winced at every step he heard Mairon took as he inched closer and closer. He felt his head forced up and something gripping his face. "Come on little kinslayer. Where is that bravery?"

"You're...not real." He said his eyes closed.

"If I am not real. Then why don't you open your eyes and leave?" Mairon asked gripping his face tighter. Maedhros tried to move his legs but he was frozen in place. He shivered as Mairon laughed right behind him. Then he felt his body just crumble to the ground, he opened his eyes and Mairon's gleaming eyes stared down at him.

"You know you don't belong here. After everything I did to you and what you did before. You know you deserve everything I gave you. So why don't you go to that place in the back of your mind you found. You don't belong here...they left you. That precious friend of yours only saved you since he wants something from you. After all you are king. None of them care, after all if they did they'll come running in to help you from me. You are alone, little elf." Mairon said.

"Just get away!" Maedhros yelped and grabbed the closest thing he could which was a glass cup by the bathtub. He grabbed it and lashed it out but the next thing he saw was blood running down his hand. He blinked confused and his head looked around the bathroom. It was empty.

The door flew open and Maedhros looked up startled. Fingon saw Maedhros sitting there his hand bleeding and broken glass on the floor. He hurried over and bent down next to Maedhors. "Hey. Nelyo? What happened? Are you alright?" Fingon asked.

"H..he..was...I," Maedhros mumbled shaking. Fingon grabbed a towel and wrapped it around Maedhor's shaking hand.

"Come on," Fingon said softly and helped Maedhros up and led him to the bedroom.

"What happened?" Celegorm asked as he stood up with Maglor. Both of them looked worried as they saw Maedhros shaking and a bloody towel around his hand.

"Get Mildor," Fingon said. Celegorm nodded and ran out of the room as Maglor along with Huan came over. Huan hopped on the bed and gave Maedhros's face a little lick. Maedhros blinked and smiled very weakly at him. He opened his mouth but closed it and pulled back. Huan titled his head to the side and it seemed he frowned. He moved closer and placed his head on Maedhros's lap.

"Nelyo?" Maglor asked softly moving behind Huan to be on the other side of him. "Hey. Are you alright?"

Maedhros still didn't speak he just swallowed and stared blankly at the bed. Yet, he did look up a bit as Celegorm came back with Mildor close behind. Mildor saw the bloody towel and quickly hurried over. He gestured for everyone to give him space as he sat next to him on the bed.

"Maedhros? I am going to bandage your hand, okay?" He asked. He frowned slightly as Maedhros gave no reply. Mildor gave a sigh and gently took his hand and removed the towel. He removed the glass and bandaged the hand gently.

"There," He said as he placed his bandaged hand on top of Huan's head. Maedhros blinked and looked down. His hand gently moved across the soft fur numbly. Mildor stood up and singled Fingon and the brothers to the other side of the room.

"What happened?" Mildor asked once they were out of ear-shot from Maedhros.

"I don't know. He went to the bathroom and a bit later I heard a crash." Fingon said.

"What happened to him? He was doing much better," Maglor asked. Mildor stood back and closed his eyes to think.

He was quiet for awhile before he asked, "Did he say anything?"

"No. He can't get a full word out," Fingon said. "Why is that bad? What does mean?"

"It means that they did more to him than we thought," Mildor replied. "It could have been a hallucination or something in there triggered a bad memory. I am not sure but either way I would recommend you don't leave him alone at all."

The three nodded and Maglor looked at Maedhros who kept petting Huan slowly. He looked back at Mildor and asked, "Will he get over them?"

"I can't say but I do think he will or least find the strength to fight them now. He just got out of there a month ago, he still needs time." Mildor replied. "There is nothing more we can do to help him now. Let's just let him rest. Maybe just sit with him and make sure he stays calm. I'll be back a in a few hours, I have to check a few ideas I have out."

"Alright," Fingon said with a nod.

"We'll keep our eyes on him," Celegorm added. Mildor nodded and left the room. The three walked over and sat down. Maedhros looked up at them and blinked almost looking confused.

"Nelyo?" Fingon asked.

Maedhros looked at him his hand that was moving across the fur stopped. He stared at Fingon quietly, Fingon smiled kindly at him. Yet, that seemed to just confuse him as he looked at the three of them again.

"Nelyo. What's wrong?" Maglor asked softly.

"I...don't...understand," Maedhors said quietly.

"Don't understand what?" Celegorm asked. Maedhros swallowed as he looked at them. His bottom lip quivered but something inside pushed him to slowly tell them what happened. As he got further in the story tears started to stream down his face. By the end of it he was a crying shaking mess. They had to force themselves to stay seated there and resist the urge to go and kill Mairon.

"Hey. Don't listen to that," Fingon said as he moved closer to him. "You are my best friend, I just want you to be safe and healthy."

"And we're your brothers, we may drive each other insane but we care about you Maedhros," Celegorm said.

"Yes. We are right here for you and we aren't going to leave you like this," Maglor said as he hugged him. Fingon and Celegorm joined the hug and Maedhros melted into the hug allowing for them to hold him close. Even Huan nuzzled his say into the group the give Maedhors's face a few licks.

"Thank...thank you," Maedhros whispered as they hugged him closer.

~~~

When Mildor came back he saw Maedhros asleep with Huan sleeping cuddled next to him. Maglor, Fingon, and Celegorm where just sitting there. They looked at him as he walked into the room. Fingon stood up and explained what happened.

"Yeah. I figured," Mildor replied. "I have a few ideas of how to help him. I came by to give you this to talk to him and something for him to take. Yet, you can give to him when he wakes up,"

He handed Fingon a small vial of powder. He looked at it then at Mildor, "Put it in his food or in his drink. You can just put a bit in also I have this if he has another episode like he did."

He then gave Fingon a back that was tied up. Yet, it had a pretty strange smell to it. Mildor pushed it away from Fingon's face as he was about to smell more of it. "This is stuff is very powerful," He said. "It'll calm down anything just have him smell it or inhale some of it. Yet, the side effect is that he'll be a bit...loopy."

"You have a lot of strange stuff," Celegorm said.

"I am a healer who spent two years traveling around and sitting around plants all day. Weird is my definition, besides it's my job to have things to help people." Mildor replied. Celegorm just nodded and looked back to Maedros who was breathing soundly.

"Thank you," Fingon said as he put the things on the table by Maedhros's bed but he kept the thing to calm Maedhros down in a pocket.

"Well, I'll leave now. Please come get me when he wakes up," He said.

"We will," Maglor said as he looked up. Mildor gave a nod and then left the room. The group sighed and Maglor moved to put his feet out on the bed. He looked at Maedhros who was just holding Huan close. Maglor moved closer and put a hand on Maedhros's head and ran his hand through his hair. He shifted and a bit but didn't wake up. In a quiet voice he started singing an old song their mother sang to them. 

"Loo-li, loo-li, loo-li, lai-lay. 
Loo-li, loo-li, loo-li lai-lay

Nómë númë cár-tya ta inyë mendë lindë le a fúmëlírë
Nanwen ana-i yárë ve loo-li lai-lay
A Inyë mendë lindë le fúmë-nna ta nyë mendë enwa
Aista le yo melmë an mallë sana le lenna-"

He paused as he saw Maedhros relaxing more as he sang. Maglor smiled and continued on with the old lullaby. Maedhros slow breathing seemed to be lighter and he seemed much calmer. When he finished he still kept rubbing his brother's head. He looked up and gave a light sigh as his singing put both Fingon and Celegorm to sleep as well. He sat back and eventually chuckled. He looked back at Maedhros and settled on softly humming to him.

A/n: The song I had in Quenya is called 'Sleepsong' I went through the first paragraph and translated it to the best of my abilities. Yet, as I went on it got very hard. Yet here is the first paragraph in english.

-All rights of the song go the owner.

"Loo-li, loo-li, loo-li, lai-lay
Loo-li, loo-li, loo-li lai-lay

Lay down your head and I'll sing you a lullaby
Back to the years of loo-li lai-lay
And I'll sing you to sleep and I'll sing you tomorrow
Bless you with love for the road that you go"

https://youtu.be/_yQpU_73Dv0