A/N – hey sorry about not updating... well here's my responses to all you
people that reviewed:
Trojans – haha... she wasn't in the last chapter... heh heh, but she's in this 1 and Astyanax just found out that she's Achilles and Briseis' daughter... haha... ouch, that'll hurt... anyways... glad you enjoying the story... thanks for reviewing!!!!
o Bubbles o – haha, read and you'll find out!! Heh heh... anyways, here's chapter 5!
Topherismygrace – haha... thanks for understanding!! Heh heh, well here's chapter 5... hope you enjoy ok!!! "
GoldenEcho7287 - hey thanks for that... haha, I'm an idiot!! Sorry, I wasn't so certain and in other people's fic it was a female... sorry again... Hope you continue to read and review!!! Thanks again!!!
Well anyways... THANKS!!! It's great to know that people are reading my stories... well here's popsickles for all you BRIALLIANT people!!! Anyways, without further ado, I give to you...
Chapter 5: He's back! But terror follows...
While Astyanax sat in his room in total and complete silence he tried to remember what his father said to him... But for some reason he couldn't remember everything, but Astyanax didn't really care about that, as much as you'd think he would, all he thought about was what his father looked like, and how, he looked like his father... His face, his body, his hair colour, his eyes, his everything...
"Astyanax, are you in here?" His mother said, peering into his room staring into the darkness surrounding her.
"Yes, I'm here mother..." Astyanax said, though his voice was quite rough and hoarse seeing as he'd been crying the whole day long.
"Dear..." she said as she lit a candle so she could see where she was walking to, "What... what... what did you father...." She stopped in the middle of her sentence... but Astyanax knew exactly what she wanted to say...
"What did he say to me?" Astyanax finished his sentence for Andromache... though as he said it, tears were forming in his eyes and before he could wipe them away, Andromache noticed them, but she grabbed hold of his hands...
"No, enough hiding!! That's why we're still mourning!! It's time we let it out Astyanax, we're not little children!!! I've been trying to be brave by putting on a brave face in the mornings, but at night I cry so much!!! I've had enough of this, and you should be too Astyanax!!" Andromache said to her son, full of tears a stuttering everything out, she had lost a big part of her, Astyanax knew that, but he too lost a big part of him...
"I don't know what your talking about!" Astyanax said, turning around on his bed so his back faced his mother.
Andromache, obviously not believing him just hugged her son and cried there...
Astyanax, knowing that it was obvious why she felt so much pain, I mean, her soul mate died by a murderer!!!
"Mother, I wish this pain could just go away! I wish father didn't die... I wish we could just be an ordinary family!!! I wish I had a father..." Astyanax said... though he didn't mean to blurt it all out... but he too was feeling pain, it was not only Andromache...
While up above Hector heard what had been said.
Tears started forming in Hector's eyes... "Astyanax, that's what he needs, a father..." Tears were streaming and Ares noticed them... and for once the God actually felt pain in him to see Hector suffering like this, Hector was a good man, that much was true, he fought for his family, but he didn't deserve to die!
"Hector!!" Ares chanted as he walked over to Hector's side... thinking that Hector would quickly wipe away his tears and pretend that it was nothing... Ares was amazed that Hector continued to cry in front of him...
"What do you... want Ares?" Hector said, his voice tired and hoarse from all the crying and from all the pain he had to endure, even when he was dead.
"I'm sorry..." Ares said, comfort in his voice, but with that he walked away, Ares felt really sympathetic towards Hector, but there was nothing he could do to end his nor his family's pain... he really was sorry...
Whilst back on earth
Both Astyanax and Andromache were holding each other and crying... It seemed quite a long time, but the pain was soothed knowing that they both had one another... And that they always would have one another, they weren't alone like they'd been thinking al this time...
'I'm sorry father died... I will do anything in my power to kill Achilles' child, for you mother!!! And for father!!! The father I never got to know because of that murderer!!!' Astyanax promised to himself and to Andromache and to Hector, who he knew was listening from above.
There was a voice that seemed to be whispered with the winds... 'I'll always love you both..."
Astyanax and Andromache knew that it was Hector that said those words... Andromache looked at her son, "You truly look like your father...!" Andromache said... and with that she fell asleep with Astyanax holding her tightly...
"I know mother... I know..." Astyanax said as he too drifted into a troubled sleep... "I know..."
The next day
The sunshine peeped through the window of Astyanax's room... Astyanax woke to see his mother sound asleep in his arms... He remembered what happened the day before... Tears were starting to form but he forced them back... 'I won't cry again!!!' He promised himself... But he knew that it would be a hard promise to keep... But he would keep it! Just like his promise to avenge his father's death!
Astyanax heard the door bell chant... Someone was here, but so early? He could hear that whoever was at the door was getting really impatient seeing as they were knocking with, it seems, all they're might...
Astyanax, getting really peeved at this just went to put on his new days clothing... He put on his top and one of his toga's, seeing as he decided today wasn't a good day to go to school, who cares what people wanted him to do! He really needed to train, as he'd been missing quite a lot of training sessions...
Astyanax walked towards the door... Getting irritated with whoever was at the door... Couldn't they just get it into their heads that it's still really early in the morning? Astyanax was in deep thought as he walked to the door... "COMING!!!" He screamed... irritated he slammed the door open... "WHAT!?" He screamed at whoever was at the door... he didn't even look at the person when he asked in a much more calm voice... "What do you want?"
"Astyanax, good morning to you too!!" someone beamed at him, it was the voice that came to his house the last time... he knew it... he looked at her face... Briseis...
"What are you doing here?" Astyanax said, quite shocked seeing his aunt when he was busy scheming to kill her child.
"I'm here to look for your mother!" Briseis said, "is she in?"
"It's early Aunty! She sleeping!" Astyanax said, losing his temper in seeing Briseis at his house... "So where's your child aunty?" Astyanax said, though his eyes not concentrating on his aunt but searching for a weapon somewhere nearby...
"O, she's in the carriage, why do you ask..." Briseis said, suspicion rising in her thoughts why Astyanax would care where her child was.
Astyanax, obviously not concentrating on what she just said, obviously not noticing that his aunt had said 'she'...
"O that's nice... come back later when my mother wakes..." Astyanax said, almost slamming the door in his aunt's face...
"Astyanax!! You don't just slam the door in your aunt's face!!!" Paris fumed... How little manners his future heir had... obviously he had to be taught some before he gets given the title Prince of Troy...
"My dear cousin!!! How fare you today?" Paris asked his cousin as he kissed her on the cheek.
"I am very well Paris, thank you very much!" Briseis said quite happily.
"Glad to hear that! Please come inside!" Paris motioned for her to enter.
"Alright, let me just get Gabrielle!" Briseis said to Paris.
Astyanax hadn't heard that name seeing as he was already half way to his room already, getting his equipment for training with Joshua... As he got into his room, the clanking of him putting on his armour and getting his swords (the real ones this time, not wooden) out of his secret stash that only Joshua knew of, well now probably his mother... his mother started to stir at the commotion in the bedroom...
"What's going on? Where are you going?" She looked up, he vision quite blurry, all she saw was her husband getting ready for battle (well that's what she thought)... and with that she thought she had a second chance to stop Hector from going into battle... "Please don't go Hector!! Please, think of us... Think of Astyanax!!" Andromache screamed at the top of her lungs...
Paris, obviously hearing his dear brother's name ran towards Astyanax's room...
"Where's Hector?" He screamed quite breathless as he looked at Andromache, but he scanned the room and he saw Astyanax's back, his hair, his body... "Brother?" Paris said walking over to Astyanax.
"You are all seeing ghosts!!" Astyanax screamed as he turned around revealing that it was him and not his father.
"Astyanax, you..." Paris stopped... then finally, he realized the armour... "Why are you dressing as if to go into battle?" Paris said, very confused at the sight.
"To go and train!" Astyanax said coldly and he walked off.
Andromache, still crying and shaking after seeing her husband continued shaking and pointing into thin air! "I saw him Paris!! I saw him! He was right there!!!" Andromache pleaded with Paris...
"It was your son Andromache!" Paris said, he could feel sadness in the pit of his stomach, but Paris learnt to grow up faster than he intended to... he had to be there for his family, his whole family!
"Paris, he was there!! I'm not mad!!! It was him... please? Believe me!?" Andromache pleaded with him some more... there was something in her that wanted him back so much that she was imagining things Paris thought... But he comforted her all the same...
"Ssshh Andromache, everything will be ok! I'm sorry that Hector died too!!!" Paris said, forcing back the tears that he'd cried almost 16 years ago... The tears that he tried to forget!
"How can you just stand there!! You must look for him! He's here Paris! He wants us to find him!! Andromache pleaded some more.
"Please Andromache, you must rest, your tired... Your not thinking like yourself... You must rest some more!" Paris said as he lifted Andromache and put her in Astyanax's bed... He kissed her forehead... "Sleep sister... You'll need you energy! For Astyanax!" Paris said and he left the room...
Meanwhile with Astyanax
Astyanax was walking outside when he saw Briseis talking to a child... It was her child! He stopped walking and merely stood there... It had long hair... As much as he hated the thought... It was a girl!
Back with Paris
Paris walked out of Astyanax's room... tears forming in his eyes... "Brother... I can't do this without you!" Paris whispered falling onto the floor with tears falling onto the ground...
"You aren't alone!" Paris heard someone say... He looked up... It was Hector... He had come back like Andromache had said!
"Hector!" And Paris hugged his brother tightly! "You've come back to us!" Paris said, tears of joy in his eyes!
A/N – Well, Hector has come back for a reason... And since I'm anxious to tell you guys why... I'll tell you right here... He came back because remember Ares... But the thing is... Was he the only one brought back? Haha... the suspense... well I couldn't add in the other person seeing as I didn't know how to... haha... anyways... I'll update ASAP... but for now... REVIEW!!! Haha... bye... review ok?
Trojans – haha... she wasn't in the last chapter... heh heh, but she's in this 1 and Astyanax just found out that she's Achilles and Briseis' daughter... haha... ouch, that'll hurt... anyways... glad you enjoying the story... thanks for reviewing!!!!
o Bubbles o – haha, read and you'll find out!! Heh heh... anyways, here's chapter 5!
Topherismygrace – haha... thanks for understanding!! Heh heh, well here's chapter 5... hope you enjoy ok!!! "
GoldenEcho7287 - hey thanks for that... haha, I'm an idiot!! Sorry, I wasn't so certain and in other people's fic it was a female... sorry again... Hope you continue to read and review!!! Thanks again!!!
Well anyways... THANKS!!! It's great to know that people are reading my stories... well here's popsickles for all you BRIALLIANT people!!! Anyways, without further ado, I give to you...
Chapter 5: He's back! But terror follows...
While Astyanax sat in his room in total and complete silence he tried to remember what his father said to him... But for some reason he couldn't remember everything, but Astyanax didn't really care about that, as much as you'd think he would, all he thought about was what his father looked like, and how, he looked like his father... His face, his body, his hair colour, his eyes, his everything...
"Astyanax, are you in here?" His mother said, peering into his room staring into the darkness surrounding her.
"Yes, I'm here mother..." Astyanax said, though his voice was quite rough and hoarse seeing as he'd been crying the whole day long.
"Dear..." she said as she lit a candle so she could see where she was walking to, "What... what... what did you father...." She stopped in the middle of her sentence... but Astyanax knew exactly what she wanted to say...
"What did he say to me?" Astyanax finished his sentence for Andromache... though as he said it, tears were forming in his eyes and before he could wipe them away, Andromache noticed them, but she grabbed hold of his hands...
"No, enough hiding!! That's why we're still mourning!! It's time we let it out Astyanax, we're not little children!!! I've been trying to be brave by putting on a brave face in the mornings, but at night I cry so much!!! I've had enough of this, and you should be too Astyanax!!" Andromache said to her son, full of tears a stuttering everything out, she had lost a big part of her, Astyanax knew that, but he too lost a big part of him...
"I don't know what your talking about!" Astyanax said, turning around on his bed so his back faced his mother.
Andromache, obviously not believing him just hugged her son and cried there...
Astyanax, knowing that it was obvious why she felt so much pain, I mean, her soul mate died by a murderer!!!
"Mother, I wish this pain could just go away! I wish father didn't die... I wish we could just be an ordinary family!!! I wish I had a father..." Astyanax said... though he didn't mean to blurt it all out... but he too was feeling pain, it was not only Andromache...
While up above Hector heard what had been said.
Tears started forming in Hector's eyes... "Astyanax, that's what he needs, a father..." Tears were streaming and Ares noticed them... and for once the God actually felt pain in him to see Hector suffering like this, Hector was a good man, that much was true, he fought for his family, but he didn't deserve to die!
"Hector!!" Ares chanted as he walked over to Hector's side... thinking that Hector would quickly wipe away his tears and pretend that it was nothing... Ares was amazed that Hector continued to cry in front of him...
"What do you... want Ares?" Hector said, his voice tired and hoarse from all the crying and from all the pain he had to endure, even when he was dead.
"I'm sorry..." Ares said, comfort in his voice, but with that he walked away, Ares felt really sympathetic towards Hector, but there was nothing he could do to end his nor his family's pain... he really was sorry...
Whilst back on earth
Both Astyanax and Andromache were holding each other and crying... It seemed quite a long time, but the pain was soothed knowing that they both had one another... And that they always would have one another, they weren't alone like they'd been thinking al this time...
'I'm sorry father died... I will do anything in my power to kill Achilles' child, for you mother!!! And for father!!! The father I never got to know because of that murderer!!!' Astyanax promised to himself and to Andromache and to Hector, who he knew was listening from above.
There was a voice that seemed to be whispered with the winds... 'I'll always love you both..."
Astyanax and Andromache knew that it was Hector that said those words... Andromache looked at her son, "You truly look like your father...!" Andromache said... and with that she fell asleep with Astyanax holding her tightly...
"I know mother... I know..." Astyanax said as he too drifted into a troubled sleep... "I know..."
The next day
The sunshine peeped through the window of Astyanax's room... Astyanax woke to see his mother sound asleep in his arms... He remembered what happened the day before... Tears were starting to form but he forced them back... 'I won't cry again!!!' He promised himself... But he knew that it would be a hard promise to keep... But he would keep it! Just like his promise to avenge his father's death!
Astyanax heard the door bell chant... Someone was here, but so early? He could hear that whoever was at the door was getting really impatient seeing as they were knocking with, it seems, all they're might...
Astyanax, getting really peeved at this just went to put on his new days clothing... He put on his top and one of his toga's, seeing as he decided today wasn't a good day to go to school, who cares what people wanted him to do! He really needed to train, as he'd been missing quite a lot of training sessions...
Astyanax walked towards the door... Getting irritated with whoever was at the door... Couldn't they just get it into their heads that it's still really early in the morning? Astyanax was in deep thought as he walked to the door... "COMING!!!" He screamed... irritated he slammed the door open... "WHAT!?" He screamed at whoever was at the door... he didn't even look at the person when he asked in a much more calm voice... "What do you want?"
"Astyanax, good morning to you too!!" someone beamed at him, it was the voice that came to his house the last time... he knew it... he looked at her face... Briseis...
"What are you doing here?" Astyanax said, quite shocked seeing his aunt when he was busy scheming to kill her child.
"I'm here to look for your mother!" Briseis said, "is she in?"
"It's early Aunty! She sleeping!" Astyanax said, losing his temper in seeing Briseis at his house... "So where's your child aunty?" Astyanax said, though his eyes not concentrating on his aunt but searching for a weapon somewhere nearby...
"O, she's in the carriage, why do you ask..." Briseis said, suspicion rising in her thoughts why Astyanax would care where her child was.
Astyanax, obviously not concentrating on what she just said, obviously not noticing that his aunt had said 'she'...
"O that's nice... come back later when my mother wakes..." Astyanax said, almost slamming the door in his aunt's face...
"Astyanax!! You don't just slam the door in your aunt's face!!!" Paris fumed... How little manners his future heir had... obviously he had to be taught some before he gets given the title Prince of Troy...
"My dear cousin!!! How fare you today?" Paris asked his cousin as he kissed her on the cheek.
"I am very well Paris, thank you very much!" Briseis said quite happily.
"Glad to hear that! Please come inside!" Paris motioned for her to enter.
"Alright, let me just get Gabrielle!" Briseis said to Paris.
Astyanax hadn't heard that name seeing as he was already half way to his room already, getting his equipment for training with Joshua... As he got into his room, the clanking of him putting on his armour and getting his swords (the real ones this time, not wooden) out of his secret stash that only Joshua knew of, well now probably his mother... his mother started to stir at the commotion in the bedroom...
"What's going on? Where are you going?" She looked up, he vision quite blurry, all she saw was her husband getting ready for battle (well that's what she thought)... and with that she thought she had a second chance to stop Hector from going into battle... "Please don't go Hector!! Please, think of us... Think of Astyanax!!" Andromache screamed at the top of her lungs...
Paris, obviously hearing his dear brother's name ran towards Astyanax's room...
"Where's Hector?" He screamed quite breathless as he looked at Andromache, but he scanned the room and he saw Astyanax's back, his hair, his body... "Brother?" Paris said walking over to Astyanax.
"You are all seeing ghosts!!" Astyanax screamed as he turned around revealing that it was him and not his father.
"Astyanax, you..." Paris stopped... then finally, he realized the armour... "Why are you dressing as if to go into battle?" Paris said, very confused at the sight.
"To go and train!" Astyanax said coldly and he walked off.
Andromache, still crying and shaking after seeing her husband continued shaking and pointing into thin air! "I saw him Paris!! I saw him! He was right there!!!" Andromache pleaded with Paris...
"It was your son Andromache!" Paris said, he could feel sadness in the pit of his stomach, but Paris learnt to grow up faster than he intended to... he had to be there for his family, his whole family!
"Paris, he was there!! I'm not mad!!! It was him... please? Believe me!?" Andromache pleaded with him some more... there was something in her that wanted him back so much that she was imagining things Paris thought... But he comforted her all the same...
"Ssshh Andromache, everything will be ok! I'm sorry that Hector died too!!!" Paris said, forcing back the tears that he'd cried almost 16 years ago... The tears that he tried to forget!
"How can you just stand there!! You must look for him! He's here Paris! He wants us to find him!! Andromache pleaded some more.
"Please Andromache, you must rest, your tired... Your not thinking like yourself... You must rest some more!" Paris said as he lifted Andromache and put her in Astyanax's bed... He kissed her forehead... "Sleep sister... You'll need you energy! For Astyanax!" Paris said and he left the room...
Meanwhile with Astyanax
Astyanax was walking outside when he saw Briseis talking to a child... It was her child! He stopped walking and merely stood there... It had long hair... As much as he hated the thought... It was a girl!
Back with Paris
Paris walked out of Astyanax's room... tears forming in his eyes... "Brother... I can't do this without you!" Paris whispered falling onto the floor with tears falling onto the ground...
"You aren't alone!" Paris heard someone say... He looked up... It was Hector... He had come back like Andromache had said!
"Hector!" And Paris hugged his brother tightly! "You've come back to us!" Paris said, tears of joy in his eyes!
A/N – Well, Hector has come back for a reason... And since I'm anxious to tell you guys why... I'll tell you right here... He came back because remember Ares... But the thing is... Was he the only one brought back? Haha... the suspense... well I couldn't add in the other person seeing as I didn't know how to... haha... anyways... I'll update ASAP... but for now... REVIEW!!! Haha... bye... review ok?