And eventually, "I'd like to see him, but I'm next world over and don't have a teleport."

I'm going to go pick up Elrond, she tells her patient. After that should I stay while you talk to him or leave you be?

I don't know. Do I require any ongoing management - 

The only thing I'm actively sustaining right now is the headache suppression and I can set that up to hold without me.

Okay. 

So she sets the headache suppression up to last longer than the headache would, and then she goes to get Elrond.

Thanks for coming. 

You're welcome. Do you want me to just drop you off - Gem can have a staffperson bring you home - or stick around?

Not sure. You're welcome to stick around if it might help somehow. If you go lean against a tree Lórien'll probably decide how far away he needs that tree to be...

I can do that.

And she brings him in, and goes and leans on a tree.

The tree doesn't move. 

Elrond sits on the ground a ways away and then starts talking, over osanwë. I wanted to tell you what happened, I don't know how much news you get in Mandos. Elros'll want to tell you too, and he'll know his end better, so I'll only tell a bit, there...and seven thousand years, a marriage, three children of his own, more horrors by Sauron, the rise of kingdoms, the fall of kingdoms, stories he thought at the time Maedhros would appreciate.

I had very mixed feelings about you for a very long time. I guess I still do. But I want you to be happy and healed, that part's not complicated. I always wanted that, when I hated you for taking us and when I hated you for leaving us and when I missed you very badly.

I think we could do it, with enough time, but I know enough about pain now to know why you might not let us try.

Let you?

What everyone really needs from this is to walk away feeling like they did right by you. If we force you to stick around and get better, we don't achieve that. Even if someday you thank us for it, and you wouldn't, I don't think.

No. I want to die. I'm sorry.

Don't be. I guess, then, I just - want you to die loved, this time, and not alone.

I feel loved, and not alone. Now?

...if you want, but there are a lot of other people...

Oh. Okay.

Boots? I think he'd like to get all of the audiences over with.

Okay.

O Crystal Ball Network -

Elros will come. He was a Man, but still half an Elf. Lived four hundred years. They were happy years. He built a kingdom. Both of us built kingdoms, Maedhros, do you think that's a coincidence, do you think we achieved that despite you - here are all the occasions I missed you, there were many, so many...

His brothers will come. One at a time. The conversations are all over osanwë. Most of them don't leave, afterwards, just let the trees give them a little distance and a little privacy. Maitimo still doesn't move. He does talk, a little. He loves them. He's proud of them. He's so glad there are other hims, he's sure the other hims will love them too, not just as alternate versions of his brothers but as brothers,  if that matters - the other hims should know that it's important to this one, will someone make sure to tell them -

- are his people okay -

- Findekáno will come. He will sit across the clearing and say god, I missed you. It was so long ago. Everyone's back alive now, soon it'll be like none of it ever happened, like a bad dream we all woke up from except you.

You weren't supposed to still care, Maedhros says. Didn't the Valar fix that.

Not well enough, I guess. They tried. I don't remember wanting you, just loving you. If you decide to die I'll ask Boots to fix it, I want - I want to remember everything....

If you were going to fix it either way, why not yet -

Not going to fix it if you decide to live, I thought - it'd be a while before you're ready and you might be more comfortable if I'm not either, let you decide when you want that back...

I'm not going to live. Sorry. There are - other mes -