A/N: Glad you guys liked the last chapter, but I feel as if I should move things along some more. Now we're onto conflict!
Paris was driving the car while Hector was still in shock.
"That boy died because of me" Hector said in disbelief
"That boy wasn't Achilles, Achilles was the one shooting at us" Paris answered flatly
"But that boy"
"Hector please! We came here to get Briseis!"
"He's coming for us, for me"
"No he won't, he wont' harm us"
The ambulance carried Patrick away to the hospital, he was alive, barely. Achilles entered his apartment with Briseis behind him cowering in fear. The taxi cab had thrown out her things and drove off without asking for payment. A rarity in New York City. Briseis grabbed them and followed him in. Achilles was consumed by anger. He opened a large armoire and inside were several guns. He reached in and took a few out. Briseis stood there not knowing what to say. He turned around, not acknowledging her and started to walk out the door.
"Please," she held onto his arm, "don't do this"
Achilles did not answer her, he merely kept walking. She ran in front of him and stood blocking the door.
"He is my cousin Hector, he is a good man. Please don't go. Please…" she begged
"Do you think this is a game?" he asked trying to control his anger in front of her
He could see her eyes swell up with tears as she begged him not to go. He could also see a hint of fear building underneath as well.
"Please, don't go. Please" she pleaded
"Move"
"You don't have to go!" she placed her delicate hands on his chest, in hopes that should hold stop him
"You know nothing of the world girl! You hide behind altruistic work! You were born into privilege, you know NOTHING about me and what I have to do"
"Please…"
"Stop crying! You're just a sad little girl. Now move before I throw you aside"
His words burned her, her tears spilled out of her eyes as she looked up at him. He was not the same person anymore, not the caring tender person that she trusted. His eyes were icy cold. Her Achilles was gone, and what stood before her was some monster.
"What happened to you?" she asked in a whisper
"I am who I am. Nothing can change that. Your cousin has to pay. An eye for an eye. My cousin for yours"
"No! Do I mean nothing to you?"
Achilles felt a rage inside him about to explode. She was standing in his way and she would not relent. And most of all she used the only thing she had left. Emotions. He hated that. He hated how women would cry and then use love or rather lust as a reason. This is why he never gets attached to the women he's had. Never get attached. Never show emotion, and never say you love her. Never.
He knew he had to show her what he really was. A killer. A man born to end lives. Someone that would only hurt her. Someone that was not meant for her. He showed her his anger. There was no turning back. Lines were drawn not by him, but rules had to be obeyed. He let his anger consume him.
"Do you honestly think this would work, with us?" he grabbed her face and looked down on her, "You going off to Africa saving lives while I'm here taking them? Systematically killing those that have offended the ones that pay me? Do you think you could be anything more than some pathetic little girl that opened her legs to me?"
And that was it. His words cut into her worse than the violence he would inflict with his hands. His words sharp like daggers cut into her heart and broke it. She had become the entity that his words made her into. Empty, barren, hallow, he had turned her into a hole. Nothing more than a void of emptiness. She was nothing to him. Nothing. Absolutely nothing.
And with whatever energy she had left she raised her right arm to slap him, he had already anticipated it. He released her face and blocked her hand. He reached over and grabbed her throat, she began gasping for air, he couldn't say anything else to her, and so he threw her down onto the ground and walked out. Briseis held her throat and tried to breathe. Crumpled on the floor she watched him walk out the door and was helpless against it.
Awe...he was so mean to her. What will happen now? Will Achilles kill Hector? Will Briseis be there when Achilles returns? Will Achilles return? Will anything resemble sanity be in the next chapter? Who knows! But R&R! Thanks!