A/N: Last chapter! Took me me long enough! Please R&R!

Briseis's body lay limp on the broken, jagged rocks below. Paris had watched his cousin take her own life and was helpless against it. Achilles had taken everything away from him, everything. All he had left was Helen, and he would never let her go.

He climbed down and picked up her lifeless body and carried her back to the camp. Andromache was horrified when she had learned Briseis had taken her own life. She looked over at the former priestess and saw the shell necklace on her face, and her lips, there was a slight upturned curve in them, almost a smile.

"We must build her a pyre" Paris said out loud

"We cannot now, it will tell the Greeks of our location" a citizen of Troy called out

"Then we will wait until night. She must be given a proper burial" Paris answered back

It wasn't until dusk that they lay Briseis's body upon the funeral pyre. Paris placed two coins on her eyes and kissed her on the forehead.

"Beloved cousin, your beauty still grows, in this life and the next. I'm sorry that the pain in your heart was too much for you to bear. Find peace dear cousin. You will be greatly missed. And tell Hector that I miss him always" Paris said

Briseis was walking in the underworld. It was dark and dreary. There was no sun, no joy, only darkness. She followed the dark river Styx to find the boatman. She walked slowly, wearing her blue dress and touching the shell necklace she wore on around her neck. She saw the boatman, taking his last passenger.

Achilles walked towards the boat, stepping one foot in and then stopping. He sensed something. He could always feel her. But it couldn't be her. He had watched her run into the night. He gripped the coins in his hands that Odysseus had placed on his eyes and slowly turned around.

I know we're just like old friends
we just can't pretend
that lovers make amends
we are reasons so unreal
we can't help but feel that something has been lost

Briseis gasped as she saw him. She stood there for a moment unable to say anything to him. Achilles saw that it was her, he wanted to reach out to her and hold her and love her, but then he realized what had happened if she were here.

Briseis walked towards him slowly, her tears building in her eyes. Her hand reached out and he held it in his. He kissed it and then pulled her into his arms. Briseis held onto him, afraid to let go. As the last time she did, he died.

angel, you know it's not the end
we'll always be good friends
the letters have been sent on

It seemed like an eternity before either one of them spoke, and perhaps it was as time no longer existed in the underworld. Achilles held her hair and inhaled the sweet scent of it.

"What happened?" Achilles asked

"I heard you calling out to me, and I followed you"

"Where?"

"In the mountains. I heard you. And I fell"

Achilles kissed her forehead and held her closer. She rested her head on his shoulder.

but please you know you're just like me
next time I promise we'll be perfect…
strangers down the line
lovers out of time
memories unwind

"You should not be here. You should be up there, living, happy" Achilles said

"I am happy here with you. I am dead and numb to the world up there. I am nothing up there"

"You are still Briseis"

"I am still yours"

so far I still know who you are
but now I wonder who I was...

Achilles lifted her chin up to look into her eyes.

"Why have you given up everything for me? You deserve more. You deserve to be happy. I gave my life so that you would live"

"Why do you say such things? Don't you know? Don't you know I love you?"

so please, you always were so free
you'll see, I promise we'll be perfect
strangers when we meet
strangers on the street
lovers while we sleep

Achilles smiled briefly and looked down.

"I knew in my heart that I loved you, but you were not mine. I knew you gave me back a soul I lost out in the battlefield. But you were far too beautiful and perfect for me. I was not worthy of you"

Briseis reached up and held his face in her delicate hands.

"A warrior's heart" Brisies said as she kissed him.

Briseis felt two coins appear into her hands. Paris apparently lit her funeral pyre, and she was delivered.

"I am delivered"

Achilles held her closer, his arms wrapping around her small frame. Her arms held onto him tightly. And she opened her hand to hold onto him more, and the two coins fell to the floor. Achilles heard the sound of the coins falling. He opened his hand and his coins fell as he reached to caress her neck.

"Briseis I do not know what will happen when we reach the other side. What will happen when we are judged"

"It doesn't matter, I'm here with you, that's all that matters"

"I will love you, in this life and the next, always"

"Just love me now"

The two lovers stood there embracing each other. The boatman put down his paddle and watched the two lovers. He sighed and sat down.

Achilles and Briseis stood there holding on to each other for eternity. Each one fearing that once they let go, they'd be lost again. And so they stood there loving each other, holding each other in the underworld, together.

perfect
you know this has to be
we always we're so free
we promised that we'd be
perfect

The song is Perfect by the Smashing Pumpkins. I love that song. Thank you all again for your time in reading this and leaving me a little feedback.

"Everything is more beautiful because were doomed. You will never be lovelier then you are now. We will never be here again"