Title: Artificial

Chapter Title: Enter Xerxes...Prince of Persia? 1?

Author: Sandrei

Summary: Someone came to save Hephaistion from the poison that ended his life. Nothing that was written in history ever became the same when Xerxes Kronus Darius returned. Crossover with an AU Harry Potter

AN: Ok...I am totally obsessed with Hephaistion and with the actor playing his character, Jared Leto. I was pretty pissed off with Alexander what with his affairs. With Roxanne I could sympathize, Statira was OK but Bagoas? Come on...you have got to be kidding me when you implied that the most powerful man on earth at that time slept with another king's leftover...anyways, the x-over thingy...I am totally serious when I say Alternative Universe for Harry Potter! Don't believe me? Wait and see...hehe...

Disclaimer: Hephaistion, Alexander and all other characters that are familiar to you belongs to WB, Oliver Stone, history and a lot more people, Harry Potter belongs to J.K. Rowling, WB and a lot more people. Only Xerxes Kronus and other unfamiliar characters are mine. No illegal manufacturing or distribution is intended therefore no money is being made. This is just a product of a fifteen-year-old girl's imagination.

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I. Enter Xerxes...Prince of Persia?

Babylon.

The land where I was born.

The land my father once ruled.

The land where I was exiled from.

The land I left at the age of thirteen.

The land now ruled by Alexander the Great, the man who considers himself as King of Asia.

My name is Xerxes Kronus Darius, former prince of Persia, disowned son of the former great king Darius III and a philosopher from the hidden but much talked about Emerald Isle, a kingdom of greatness amidst the Northern barbaric tribes of Europe, the Celts and the Britons.

My destination?

Babylon.

The summon to go home came as a surprise for me. It was from my beloved younger sister Princess Statira, the only member of my former family who knows of my current location.

It has been twenty long years since I last saw her and she was just a young girl at the age of seven back then. From my spies and our annual correspondence with each other, I have learned that the man proclaiming himself as the son of Zeus-Amon, Alexander of Pella took her as his second wife.

Such an arrogant prick, that Macedonian king who according to rumors also took my father's then eunuch-in-training Bagoas as his lover, all the while balancing his time between two wives and flaunting his second-in-command general as his beloved above all else.

HIS Lover. Ah yes, Blue Eyes. That is the name that I have given the beautiful Macedonian. You see, I may be gone from the place but my eyes and ears will forever lounge at the vast and lush gardens and palaces of Babylon, or at least until I am alive.

Blue eyes. He is the reason why I am being called back to the kingdom that threw me away. You see, if there is one good thing my father drilled into our head when we were young, it is this: "You must never be bitter in your defeat."

Such irony eh? He himself felt no bitterness I suppose. After all, he did run away from the fight before it was finished, did he not?

However, my father's descent to cowardice is not the point of my sudden trip back home. No, it is Statira's kindness that beckons me back to the deep ports of Persia. She felt no bitterness that her husband loved someone much more then he loves her. On the contrary...

My sister has informed me thru her forever-faithful messengers that she has seen Alexander's barbaric first wife, Roxanne plotting behind the Great King's back. What is the objective of her scheme? Poisoning Hephaistion Amynthor, Patroclus of Achilles, Alexander's beloved. Blue Eyes.

I am afraid I have grown fond of that man. What with the tales of my spies and with Statira's barely hidden worshipping words about the general. It seems to me that my little Statira has fallen for her husband's most beloved lover. How ironic is that?

Enough of my ramblings though, I have arrived in the place I once called home. Babylon.

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