Title: Tragic Metaphors II: Klytemnestra Unbound
Author: Margaret Brown, aka Andromeda Valentine
Fandom: Andromeda
Pairing: Rommie/Tyr, shades of Rommie/Dylan
Rating: PG-13
Status: New (06/02/03); 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 Two of the 'Tragic Metaphors' series (There *may* be others, who knows...)
Other Websites: Crimson Redd -
Disclaimers: Not mine - Tribune's. I just enjoy making them suffer on occasion...
Summary: She'd read the myth, but never understood it...
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, and it demanded a sequel...
For those unfamiliar with the myth I'm pulling from here, it's an aside to the Trojan War saga. Agamemnon was the brother of Menelaus (the husband of Helen) - he married Helen's twin Klytemnestra. When Paris stole Helen away, Agamenon was bound by his oath to stand with Menelaus against anyone attempting to come between him and Helen. Unfortunately for Agamemnon, even getting out to sea to reach Troy required the sacrifice of his oldest daughter Iphigenia, Klytemnestra's favorite. Klytemnestra never forgave or forgot, and Agamemnon met a very bloody end upon his return home after the war...
Also, Kassandra was a Trojan preistess of the god Apollo, given the gift of prophecy but cursed never to be believed. Agamemnon claimed her as a prize of war, and Klytemnestra supposedly killed her along with him...
200 words again, another double-drabble, because the Muses got chatty...
Warnings: angst, character death...
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She'd read the myth, but never understood it. Could the sacrifice of a child, ostensibly for a good cause, *really* drive a mother to cold, bloody vengeance?
That was before Dylan had returned, and she'd realized what he'd done, that he'd sacrificed an innocent for his own ambitions.
It had struck her like a blow - odd, for a being so typically unemotional - and the surge of grief, rage, and hatred that came after literally blew several of her circuits.
She'd finally understood Klytemnestra, then. Her avatar - her *sister* - was gone, destroyed by Dylan's pride and jealousy, and he was going to pay for it in blood.
It had been pitifully easy, too - the only one who even *tried* to stop her was Trance. She'd considered furthering the tragic metaphor and dispatching the woman like the Kassandra she was, but decided she had no real cause.
Not even Harper spoke against her, though that may have been simple fear. Still, something in his expression said otherwise, for he'd loved *her* too...
And Captain Valentine?
She could have sworn Beka actually smiled when her holographic projection had stood over Dylan's lifeless body - Klytemnestra gloating over the corpse of Agamemnon - before turning to face her.
"Captain Valentine, you have command..."
