He was the golden boy of a silver family, the brightest star in the night sky, the pride of a prideful family.
And he was eternally a child in his naivety.
She was the flower in a family of stars, a legend in her own way, grounded with her head in the clouds, lacking fire but calm enough to weather the storm.
And she was unmovable, rooted deep in the soil, unable to walk away.
She was the damsel in a family full of warriors, the child abandoned to the fates, the courageous in a family of cowards.
And she was the Princess of a kingdom that did not want her.
And they were stars in their own right, brilliant in the grandeur and untouchable in their ferocity. But they were a thousand light years away, removed from a society they had no connection with.
But them, they weren't stars at all. They were Gods, born of iron and stardust and ichor.
She was moonlight trapped in flesh, the rage of Artemis pulsing beneath her skin. She was the hunter, Cleopatra, Helen of Troy, Persephone following Hades into the Underworld, knowing.
She was a child of the void, a swirling medley of raven wings and orchids and gasoline.
And the madness ran through her veins like lifeblood.
He was smoke entangled with mortality, Apollo in his pride. He was a spectacle, Caesar, Menelaus, Hades leading Persephone into the Underworld, wanting.
He was a child of the oblivion, the end and the beginning, nicotine and harps and leather coated rebellion.
And tragedy shined like starlight in his eyes.
And together they were Apollo+Artemis, whose sins even Zeus was disgusted by. But it didn't matter to these children of mercury and ink, these mortals raised to be Gods, these celestial beings bound to bone and marrow, these battlefields aching to class with one another.
(And the stars watched over them; Regulus in his golden glory, Narcissa in her stability, and Andromeda in her exile. )
(And they watched these wild beasts who dared to hold the cosmos between their jaws, as they spilled blood at one another's feet.)
(And when the blood dried, it's wasn't red it was Black. )
And they were Cleopatra+Caesar, Helen+Menelaus, Persephone+Hades, Artemis+Apollo, Bellatrix+Sirius.
They may have been named after stars but they were Gods through and through.
