A/N: This series is based around stories from Ovid's 'Metamorphoses'. This one is an attempt at 'Phaethon'. The original story goes something like this: Phaethon, son of Clymene and (she claimed) the Sun, was taunted as a bastard by his friends, and so journeys eastward to the palace of the Sun, wanting proof of his parentage. The Sun gladly recognises his son and promises anything to prove his fatherhood. Phaethon asks to drive the chariot of the Sun across the sky and will not be dissuaded. Granted his wish, Phaethon cannot control the team and scorches heaven and earth before finally being blasted out of the sky by Jupiter.
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Lucius remembers the day Draco came home, indignant, angry. Remembers his shrill voice demanding proof of his colourless heritage. Can still hear his own voice intoning the killing words. Draco's face lights up, and his father remembers what light is.
Lucius remembers the day Draco came home, terrified, shivering. Remembers the tiny words that bubbled forth in a spasm of tarnished green shock, can see the imitation adults scattered unmoving, feels the pride crumble into diamond purpose.
Lucius remembers.
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Lucius remembers the day Draco came home, indignant, angry. Remembers his shrill voice demanding proof of his colourless heritage. Can still hear his own voice intoning the killing words. Draco's face lights up, and his father remembers what light is.
Lucius remembers the day Draco came home, terrified, shivering. Remembers the tiny words that bubbled forth in a spasm of tarnished green shock, can see the imitation adults scattered unmoving, feels the pride crumble into diamond purpose.
Lucius remembers.