Aegus rubbed his throbbing temples, though the exercise failed to reap a soothing effect. They were considering a campaign to reunite the divided empire of Aegus' father. All the men had accomplished so far was giving Aegus a drinking problem.

"You are twenty-two Aegus, you should be here building up an army because I don't like the beady eyed looks the Seucleucid Empire has been giving us. We have a young king again, we need to be careful." Heracles stated. His wife had recently given birth to their second child, a boy named Hector.

"Or maybe you just want to stay here with your young family?" Antipater stated in a pretend question, to which Heracles gave him an annoyed look.

"At least I can produce a healthy child." Heracles had taken a low blow, but the whole court knew that Lena had miscarried every child that she had conceived by Antipater.

"Men, shut your mouths. We need to focus on our Western campaign, not sit here and gossip like women." Aegus reminded the two men before a fight broke out.

"You need to stay behind and get your wife pregnant Aegus. " Heracles said, as Antipater nodded in agreement. Dysthe was a beautiful Grecian woman, with long, thick and dark locks and big green eyes. She was the perfect match for Aegus, a medium height, cerulean eyed man with olive skin and dark curls. Heracles nor Antipater could understand why Aegus hadn't touched her in the last month, but then again, they never understood him well at all.

"I have an heir, a boy who is still breathing may I remind you." Aegus shot back.

"Our Western Campaign would take us into Rome and then the rest of Europe! Do you really think we will let you go without a decent army or a viable heir to the throne? " fumed Heracles.

"I do have a viable heir." Aegus maintained his stubborn reply.

"Whose prognosis in terms of health is guarded at best!" Heracles was extremely upset now and Antipater knit his brows in concentration.

"So? He is still my son." Aegus stood up from his chair in defiance.

Aye, but it is still an unhealthy son." Antipater interjected quietly.

"What is this anyway? A fucking inquisition? We need a major victory for our army." Aegus argued.

"What we need is an army and for you to have a healthy heir!" Heracles restated in a stubborn tone. As the tactician of the group, he knew it was stupid to invade without a decent army and no heir left at home.

"I don't understand your problem with having sex with Dsythe! She s beautiful, twenty two, and is your queen. You are twenty two and how can you NOT want to rip her clothes off?" Antipater was simply trying to drive the point home for Aegus. Aegus got up, and went right in front of Antipater.

"Great. Why don't you marry her too?" he asked rhetorically before he stormed out.

"Aegus!" Heracles called, just as Aegus slammed the door shut

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Lena held baby Hector in her arms and cooed at the little boy. He was bound to grow up to be like his grandfathers. Big and strong, with a cutthroat attitude to back it all up. She wondered f she was going to give birth to a boy, or if it would be a girl. She knew she was expecting again, but had chosen to keep it hush for awhile, from everyone. Maybe even until the baby was born.

Maybe until she didn't feel like a horrible person when she looked into Aegus' eyes and saw nothing.

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Roxana stuck her lip out as Ptolemy went on to beat her at another bet.

"I told you Heracles would produce sons!" Ptolemy smiled as he chugged from her wineskin.

"It's no fair, you're just really smart." She crossed her arms and glared at Cassander because everything is always somehow his fault. Everything.

"This is somehow your doing Cassander." Roxana gave him a suspicious glare as Cassander looked up innocently.

"What? That Aegus' heir is terminally ill and that he has no desire to touch his Argive princess? For all I know it's your fault that Lena keeps miscarrying!" Cassander replied in his normal sarcastic tone.

"Has anyone ever told you two how annoying your bickering gets?" asked Hephaestion, as he was reading The Odyssey underneath a big leafy tree.

"Well, has anyone ever mentioned to you that you shouldn't be such a whore?" retorted Cassander. Ptolemy shook his head while Roxana looked like she was going to deck Cassander.

"Listen, Lena is pregnant, Dsythe wil get pregnant, no one has been decapitated, mutilated, mummified or eaten so I would say it is all good, wouldn't you?" asked Ptolemy, as he ate an apple.

"Well what about this whole 'Let's go West' business? The boy might as well be signing the death warrants for the men in that army." Cassander looked down into the pool. Roxana surprisingly nodded her head in agreement with him.

"The only men with proper training are too old to be of much use, and the younger men lack the skills needed to win." Ptolemy dropped his head, praying to Zeus that someone stop Aegus. Like how someone should have stopped his father.

"I'm on the pursuit of happiness and I know everything that shine ain't always gonna be gold
I'll be fine once I get it, I'll be good."- Pursuit of Happiness- Kid Cudi

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A/N: YES! I FINISHED! -jumps around like a fool-

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