Author's Note: ... I'm at a loss for words
Disclaimer: Don't own Troy, it belongs to ... uh, whoever made it.
Scene change to Achilles' tent
Achilles, for a change, is clean. He's sharpening his sword.
Briseis has been crying for hours on end and the endless sobbing is starting to annoy Achilles.
Briseis: You've lost your cousin, and now you've taken mine.
Achilles: Freaking hell woman, you've said that five times already!
Briseis: When does it end?
Achilles groans.
Achilles: It never ends (meaning Briseis' crying rather than the killing).
Briseis storms off. Meanwhile, a cloaked figure enters Achilles' tent.
He kneels before Achilles. Achilles is sitting with his legs wide open, so kneeling before Achilles can only mean one thing, you're face to face with his family jewels.
Achilles didn't noticed the cloaked figure come in until he's kneeling before him.
Achilles looks down, sees the cloaked man in between his legs. Achilles jumps up from where he was.
Achilles: Jesus Christ! Where the fuck did you come from!
The cloaked man rises and throws his hood back, to reveal King Priam.
Priam makes a grab for Achilles hands. Achilles darts away. Priam chases and catches him.
Priam licks Achilles' hands.
Priam: I have endured what no one on Earth has endured before. I have licked the hands of the man who killed my son.
Achilles: Priam?
Priam: Who the hell did you think it was?
Achilles: How did you get in here you old fogey? The sentries -
Priam: I know my own country better than the Greeks, I think.
Achilles: You're a brave man. If Agamemnon knew you were here in my tent, he'd be so jealous, he'd have your head on a spit.
Priam: You think death frightens me now. You've dismembered my only success as a father. Now Paris is going to be king! Do you know what you've done?
Achilles looks away.
Priam: Give him back to me.
Achilles: I don't know if you were watching today, but uh Hector is dead, he's not going to be able to run a country. Looks like you're stuck with Paris.
Priam: He deserves the honour of a proper burial.
Achilles: He killed my cousin.
Priam: Ya, thinking it was you, how many cousins, father, brothers, have you killed? You've taken everything from me, my only son. I can't change what happened it was the will of the gods, but give me this small mercy.
Achilles: He wasn't your only son, you have Paris.
Priam: Just between you and me, Paris wasn't born a boy. So technically he's not my son.
Priam: I loved my boy from the moment he opened his eyes to the moment you closed them. Let me wash his body, say his prayers. Let me place two pennies on his eyes for the boatman.
Achilles: This doesn't change anything, you're still my enemy.
Priam: You're still my enemy too, but enemies can show respect.
Achilles: I admire you old fogey, You're a better king than the one leading this army. Meet me outside in a moment.
Achilles goes over to Hector's body and talks to it for a while.
Achilles bundles Hector up into a chariot for Priam.
Achilles: Your son was the best I've ever had, I want you to know that.
Priam looks uncomfortable.
Achilles: In my country the funeral games last twelve days.
Priam: It is the same in my country.
Achilles: Then no Greek shall attack Troy for twelve days. The prince deserves that honour.
Briseis comes over.
Priam: Briseis! We thought you were dead.
Priam and Briseis hug.
Achilles: (to Priam) You'll be safe behind Trojan walls. If I hurt you, it's not what I wanted. You gave me one night of peace in a lifetime of war.
Briseis: Uh... I'm over here.
Achilles: Oh, well then what I just said.
Achilles: (to Priam) Go, no one will stop you, you have my word.
Priam: Come my gal.
Priam and Briseis ride off in a chariot back to Troy.