Title: Shadows
Author: Tuxedo Elf
Rating: G
Character: Glorfindel

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I watch, as you make your way through a crowded room, stopping every
so often to talk to a friend or a colleague. You move gracefully and
effortlessly despite the throng and you gain the attention of those
nearby without even trying.

More than once I have been told you'd be a good match for me, that we
would be a lovely pair. Yet that that can never happen, for a very
simple reason.

I hate you.

I hate you for what you remind me of every day. I hate you for not
understanding what your presence does to me. I hate you for being
happy when I am not. I hate you for looking so much like him - and
most of all, I hate you for living when he died.

That is why I can never even be so much as your friend, Erestor -- I am
sure you would understand if I was to say that no one in their right
mind befriends the shadows in their heart.

End