Chapter 2 of the Prologue
They stayed in each others arms until Greece's sobbing subsided, and Sadiq laid him on the bed and sat down on the corner and listened until the Greeks eyes closed and fell asleep. He listened to his even breathing for a while before crawling up to him and stroking his tear stained face.
"Oh Heracles" he breathed as the Greek unconsciously leaned into his touch. He stayed that way until it got dark and got up to go to his own room turning off the bedrooms lights he whispered "Goodnight, Heracles"
Heracles woke up in a cold sweat hearing someone scream he looked around until he realized it was him. Clutching his chest he looked around trying to figure out where he was.
"Greece!" yelled a concerned voice combined with footsteps, from the sound of them, coming his way. Sadiq threw open the doors looking around wildly for the cause of his screaming.
"What's going on! Wait no are you alright!" He said walking toward the sweating Greek man.
"Y-Yeah, just a bad dream I guess" he said with a nervous laugh wiping the sweat off his brow he fell back onto his pillow. Sadiq seeing his obvious discomfort he walked toward the Greek.
"What's wrong Greece?" he said the concern obvious in his voice laying his hand on the top of the still recovering Greek.
"Nothing" with that short 1-word lie the older sighed.
"C'mon you know it's not nothing and I'm not just going to leave it at a 'nothing'" Receiving no reply he let out another sigh and crawled under the covers and grabbed the Greeks waist and pulled him closer. Propping himself up on one elbow he turned the other around to look at him looking into his eyes he said "You know if you keep it all bottled up like that you'll eventually explode."
"Idiot" was the only reply he got.
"OK at least tell me what that dream was?" at that Heracles visibly whitened.
"Like I said it was NOTHING! Turkey now get the hell out of my bed."
"Ah! But you forget this bed actually belongs to me." He said with a smug grin.
"OK then get the hell off YOUR bed."
"Better but the answer is no, not until you tell me."
"I'm OK with waiting besides you have the attention span of a rodent it won't be long"
Sadiq actually surprised Heracles he lied there just staring with a smug grin on his lips for 2 hours. The quiet was actually killing Heracles instead of the other way around, and that quite pissed him off. Deciding to break the silence he asked a question.
"Why do you always wear that damn mask?"
"Hmm? This mask, no reason."
"Now who's being evasive?" sensing an opportunity the Turk leaned in.
"If I tell you about the mask then you tell me about the dream OK?" Now Greece was just pissed he asked a question he's wanted answered for years now the bastard uses it against him. He's been spending too much time with cats he thought and his curiosity won over his stubbornness both of which are traits of cats.
Letting out a deep sigh and he nodded. Sadiq fist pumped in victory making the Greek letting out an even deeper sigh.
"OK I wear this mask because..." he looked around as if he was sharing top-secret information "It looks cool."(So Creative MMO)
"WHAT!" Yelled Heracles "That's the only reason!"
"Yep pretty much."
"No"
"No what?"
"I'm not telling you anything now."
"Yes you are"
"NO I'm not"
"Well why not?" Sadiq asked still not quite sure what they were talking about.
"I'm not telling you about the dream because that was stupid a reason to wear that damn mask."
"Stupidity had nothing to do with our deal."
"Well it does now."
"Now that's stupid"
"Why do you want to know?" asked Heracles his voice soft. Sensing the conversation had taken a drastic turn from the mood that was present during the "fight" he allowed his face to soften.
"Because I worry about you, even if you don't believe me." The Greek mans widened at the Turk still holding him close not believing that his voice could hold such compassion. Sadiq lifted his hands off Heracles' waist and brushed aside a stray piece of hair getting into Heracles' face. The Greek blushed slightly at the contact and brought the sheets up to cover his face realizing the he was almost chest to chest with Sadiq and, most important, alone.
Most nations thought that the Greeks dislike came from something that happened when he was under Sadiq's care. Most of them thought rape or something along those lines. The truth of the matter he just hated being under someone else's control he wanted to his people to say that they were Greeks not Turkish (Is the Turkish part right or was it Ottoman people-dudes? Can someone tell me if I got that wrong?) He had nothing personally against Sadiq; OK maybe just a little.
"Liar" he said turning around and hiding under the covers "why would you worry about me." The Turk looked at the lump of sheets that was Heracles and tried to see if there was any hostility in his tone, but he could only find confusion. He reached over the top of his head peeking out from under the sheets and patted it gently.
"Idiot, I care about you." He said sighing he rolled over and rested his hand over the lump of sheets.
"OK" came a muffled voice from Heracles.
"OK what?"
"I'll tell you what the dream was about." (Greece is so awesome he can remember a dream 2 hours later, can you?)
"You don't have to if you don't want to."
"No we made a deal." Said climbing out from under the covers he turned around in buried his face into the Turks chest.
"Damn I'm so pathetic" he said chuckling slightly "I dreamed about the war I guess; I dreamt that Hitler marched across Athens and the rest of Greece killing all the Jews that are in my country burning my temples and destroying my cities killing my people and destroying anything he could get his hands on and not just me. I dreamt that he did the same thing to the rest of Europe then Asia then Africa then South America then North America then Australia. That the every country he conquered was set on fire and, and millions of innocents killed." By this point Greece was crying into Sadiq's chest. "What if it happens what if it happens and I could've done something to stop it!" He yelled clutching the front of Sadiq's shirt.
"Greece" he said getting no response he grabbed the Greeks wrists "Heracles!" he yelled shocking the younger out of his tears. "Heracles, listen to me nothing that happens will be your fault do you understand!"
"B-But what if could-" The Greek started babbling again. Sadiq sensing that words alone couldn't stop him, he cupped the ranting Greeks checks and leaned in and captured his lips.
Dun-Dun-Duh Cliffhanger! Review and you could get one of Heracles' cats not really though
