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A/N ::All characters are historically accurate. Deiphobus is a brother of Hector and Paris and Laodice, He is decsribed in the Iliad as a very skilled warrior. Once again, Helicaon is the husband of Laodice.
Deiphobus and Helicaon have words.
Helicaon left his wife on the balcony, taking a moment to glance at the way her dark hair moved in the Aegean breeze. Everything was peaceful, but Helicaon felt that something at least, was amiss. His suspicions were confirmed when he crossed the path of his brother in law who was pacing up and down the hallway, sword in hand, looking troubled.
"What is this? Deiphobus going mad?" he said taking Deiphobus by surprise.
"Not mad brother, just anxious that is all." He replied leaning against the wall of the hallway.
Helicaon grinned. "You have the feeling of foreboding today as well I see? I was just going to the templ- " but he was cut off by an outburst from Deiphobus.
"The ship master, Erylaus, you know him. He told me of some troubling news. It would seem that in Sparta, Paris had another rendezvous... With the wife of Menelaus." His eyes were wide.
Helicaon nodded "Does Menelaus know?"
"And that is the cause of my anxiousness my friend, I don't know. But you can imagine what it would mean if he did." Deiphobus sighed heavily. "I mean not to tell father, he is old and it would worry him."
Helicaon clasped Deiphobus on his shoulder. "Come pray with me, to Apollo, Perhaps Cassandra can give us a message from the sun god himself?"
"Can Apollo save us from Greece?" said Deiphobus, his eyes wide. "There will be a war over this Helicaon, mark my words!" and he stormed off down the hall and past Andromache who was now coming towards him. She glanced back in the direction that Deiphobus had gone and back at Helicaon's worried face.
"What is troubling him?" she asked.
Helicaon sighed deeply. "Something that will trouble us all im afraid." He said running his hands through his hair.
"What are you talking about?" asked Andromache, her voice stern.
"I have just heard, only now that there have been some complications on the trip to Sparta... Nothing has happened to Hector- yet."
Andromache gasped.
"Paris, it would seem has brought the wife of Menelaus with him, to keep."
"Oh gods!" cried Andromache. "That is indeed bad."
Helicaon spoke quickly. "I tell you this in the strictest of confidence, what ever you do, do not tell the king, and do not trouble any of his daughters or even his wife." He looked into her eyes, "Mention nothing, not even to Laodice whom you are going to see now, if she suspects something, tell her otherwise. I must go now and visit the temple of Apollo and speak with Cassandra." He turned on his heel and went the same way that Deiphobus gone. "Tell no one!" he repeated.