Drabbles – Fear –300 Words
Hephaestions' biggest fear was that a certain stool would make another appearance before he could have his own sweet revenge. He lay in his bath on a morning not long after Mt. Stool had once again appeared to humiliate him.
Suddenly he sat up right in the tub and grinned widely. As the plan formed, he jumped out of the tub and dressed for the meeting of the generals and their king.
Simple and sneaky and all he had to do was say a few words and watch everything else fall into place.
He made his way to the hall waiting back a bit till he knew that Alexander had spotted him. All of the others generals entered leaving just the two of them in the hallway.
As he walked closely by Alexander, Hephaestion whispered quietly, "I have nothing on underneath my clothes, no loincloth. "
He glanced briefly at the stunned face of his friend and made his way into the meeting room with a big smile on his face.
The meeting progress very quickly, record time actually thought Hephaestion.
Alexander fidgeted, squirmed and glanced his way often, his eyes wondering below his waist. Finally he called the meeting finished and followed Hephaestion out of the hall and to his rooms. A couple of the other generals tried to talk to Alexander but he quickly brushed them off, his eyes full of the provocatively swaying hips getting away from him.
Hephaestion was feeling very proud of himself several hours later as they lay contently curled up in the bed. But all that vanished and his eyes flew open with Alexander's next words.
"Amazing revenge, my wonderful friend, and to think I was going to destroy that stool for you earlier. Maybe I will wait awhile longer."
Check and checkmate.