A/N: Conflict! We get to see what they've been doing at the Troy Estate.
Hector was walking around the Troy estate, still in an arm sling. He went to go visit his father Priam who was still bedridden. Paris was there talking to him.
"Hector, I haven't seen you in a while. What happened?" Priam asked
"I had a bit of an accident" Hector replied as he sat next to Priam on the bed
"And his name was Achilles" Paris added
"Who?" Priam asked
"Pay him no mind father. Paris just has a bit of a grudge against him"
"He was hired by the Agamemnon brothers to kidnap Briseis. He put her in danger and then-" Paris started
"Enough Paris!" Hector said
"He shot Hector" Paris finished
"This Achilles shot you? He did this to you?" Priam asked looking at his arm sling
"Paris shot him, twice I should add, and almost shot Briseis too!" Hector answered back
"What has been happening in this house?" Priam asked
"We don't mean to upset you father. It was a complicated situation. One that got more complicated when more people got involved"
"He tried to kill you!"
"Paris!"
"How can you forgive him for this!"
"Paris please! You're upsetting father!"
"He kidnapped Briseis, put her in danger, tried to kill you and yet you forgive him?"
Hector sighed as his brother forced it out of him. He would have rather waited for a better time to tell him and his father.
"Briseis loves him."
"That is the worst case of Stockholm syndrome I have ever seen! You've got to talk to her!"
"Briseis loves him, and she's pregnant"
"Briseis? Pregnant?" Priam said as he sat up
"He forced himself on her!" Paris said as he got up
"She loves him Paris, she honestly does. I've never seen her like this. If you saw her. If you'd just stop your battle with Achilles and just saw her. She's happy. And he makes her happy. How can you deny her that? She's never asked for anything, except this." Hector said
"You are a better man than I am brother, I cannot forgive him. Even if he is the father of her baby" Paris said as he walked out
"Hector come here my son" Priam started, "Tell me of this Achilles, and why Briseis is so fond of him"
Briseis and Achilles walked into a spacious apartment on the upper east side. The apartment took up the whole floor. It had 4 bedrooms, 2 bathrooms, a huge kitchen, living room and dining room, and an amazing view of the city. Briseis gasped in amazement as she stood staring out at the Manhattan skyline. Achilles came up from behind her and put his arms around her.
"So what do you think? Is it too small?" Achilles asked
"It's beautiful"
"There's 4 bedrooms, one for the nursery, one for Patrick-"
"One for you and one for me" Briseis said as she turned around
"Separate rooms? Who are we kidding?"
"Well we'll just tell everyone that, so we're not living in sin"
"So let me make an honest woman out of you"
"No" Briseis said as she walked away
Achilles watched her walk away into the other rooms and followed her in.
"Why?"
"It would never work. You would marry me out of obligation, it would be this thing between us. We can't pretend to be this happy family. You working a 9-5 job of killing people, me at home playing the happy housewife. And I don't know where Patrick falls in all this, or my family, Hector, Paris, my uncle"
"Briseis," he reached out to her, he took her hands into his, "I love you, and I want to marry you, not out of any obligation. Let me make you happy. I'll do anything. Anything for you"
"I don't want things to change between us"
"It already has"
"I'm afraid Achilles" Briseis hugged him, "I'm so afraid"
"Of what?"
"Of what will happen if I do marry you. I'm afraid of my family, if they don't accept it or not. They're the only family I know. I'm not strong enough to do this alone"
"You're not alone. I will never leave you. And Patrick will always be around, that is if he isn't too busy playing video games."
Briseis laughed out a little and rested her head on his shoulder.
"Achilles.."
"Yes?"
"I don't think I can wear white down the aisle. Or even walk the down the aisle at this rate"
R&R please! Thanks! Don't worry there's more!