" I cannot return Helen to you, it against Menelaus' wishes"
" Achilles do you love me?"
" More than anything"
" Then do not listen to Menelaus!" As Briseis shouted this Achilles was already back on the beach.
" He cannot love you cousin" Paris spoke in sorrow. Tears rolled down his cousin's fair skin as she ran to her room. Paris followed her to her room.
Achilles stared to the sky as he lay on the sandy beach, he saw a shooting star and he wished to be remembered. The tide brought the salt water to his ankles and back to the sea. If only life was easier.
Helen paced the tent, plotting her escape plan; she peered out of the tent entrance and saw Achilles lying there. She slipped on a cloak; she had escaped from Menelaus, escaping from Achilles would be the same. She peered once more and he was gone this was her chance, she closed her eyes and took a step forward but to her surprise a hand clamped over her mouth and she was pushed back into the tent.
" Think you can escape?" said Achilles in a whisper. Helen knew that Achilles would have her head for trying to escape.
" I was merely going outside to see you and the sky,two very beautiful things. Helen hoped it would work and the minute Achilles is asleep she will be back with Paris.
" Beautiful?" He looked up at her amazing eyes and perfectly combed hair. She leaned forward and kissed him, causing him to back out of the tent in shock and amazement.
" Don't you 'only love Paris', as you said you did?"
" The gods have bewitched me to love you! At first I didn't want to but now I can't deny it!" Achilles would have never lived to see the day that he was not interested in a woman when she was drawn to him.
" Listen Helen…I can't give you what you want ok?"
" But…then why do you still keep me in your tent? Send me to Menelaus and get my death over with." Tears formed in her eyes.
" I don't want you to die, it's not that you're not beautiful its just…."
"…..your heart lies with someone else and you want to be with her…..I know that feeling but it is magnified a million times for me, let me go back to the one I love and he will not hurt Briseis."
" I cannot let you go! Menelaus will kill me!"
" No man can kill you and by the way, wear more protection on your heel honey"
" How did you?" Helen released a sinister chuckle.
" Achilles, if you don't let me go…. Paris will kill Briseis and then I will be to scared to love him and WE will live out our everlasting days together! Is that what you want? come letme sleep with you,we explore the land of dreamstogether." That one word had always triggered Achilles, 'together' he said to himself…He did have the most beautiful woman in front off him…. why not take advantage of it?
"Paris, Achilles can die…in one place" Paris listened to his cousin's tears through the wooden door.
" Where?"
" His….heel" Paris could kill him,his archery wasn't that bad, he had been training since he was young....
" One last thing cousin, where do I find him?"
"YOUR NOT GOING TO KIL HIM ARE YOU?"
"Of course….."
"Paris no…"
"Where is he?"
"The tent by the shore."