Title: Tragic Metaphors I: Helen and Paris
Author: Margaret Brown, aka Andromeda Valentine
Fandom: Andromeda
Pairing: Rommie/Tyr, shades of Rommie/Dylan
Rating: PG-13
Status: New (05/31/03); Complete
Archive: Yes to list archives, anyone else please ask first.
Feedback: Yes, please!!
E-mail address for feedback: andromeda_valentine@hotmail.com
Series/Sequel: Part One of the 'Tragic Metaphors' Series
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Disclaimers: Not mine - Tribune's. I just enjoy making them suffer on occasion...
Summary: Maybe Helen wasn't so stupid after all...
Notes: Inspired by a myth drabble challenge I saw on LiveJournal - to write a drabble with a mythological theme. I chose the fun little Helen/Paris/Menelaus triangle from the saga of the Trojan War... (Helen was married to Menelaus, but fell in love with Paris, who stole her away to Troy and thus started the Trojan War... Troy lost, and Menelaus dragged Helen back to Sparta kicking and screaming...)
200 words, a double-drabble, because the Muses love Tyr/Rommie/Dylan angst...
Warnings: angst, character death...
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She'd always thought Helen of Troy was stupid - why give up everything for love, only to end up right back where you started?
Then *he* came to her one night, with whispered words and honeyed promises. She'd expected to be played for a fool, but it hadn't happened - in fact, the bond between them was more genuine than either of them had been prepared for.
They'd known it couldn't last - there was no way it would be allowed to - though they'd sought a safe haven elsewhere.
It got even worse after they went public. Dylan's too-fragile sanity had snapped under the weight of jealousy and betrayal, driving him to extremes no one could have anticipated.
They'd left, hoping to ease the tension, but he'd come after them like a man possessed. She'd feared him then, for the first time.
And so she'd known it could only come down to this moment - cradling her dead lover, her Paris, while staring down the barrel of the forcelance pointed at her by her very own Menelaus...
She vows to die rather than return as his slave, and in the last moment before oblivion takes her, she realizes something...
Maybe Helen wasn't so stupid after all... Just... brave...
