Chapter 4 Who is Hephaistion?

Later Alexander was stood pacing waiting for Hephaistion/Alexios he was shaking; He was worried what was going to happen.

A couple minutes later there was a genteelly knocking at the door, that was wrong Hephaistion never knocked He opened the door and Hephaistion/Alexios was stood there.

He had changed out of the black robe and was now wearing a midnight blue one belted at the waist with a silver sash and gone had the heavy kohl.

Alexander stepped back to let him into the room, Hephaistion/Alexios shut the door behind him and they stood facing each other.

Hephaistion/Alexios didn't even look up at him as he began to unfasten the belt at his waist and sip the robe off his shoulders. Alexander rushed forward and grabbed his wrist to stop him.

"That's not I want." he said

Hephaistion's brows frowned in puzzlement and his checks turned a little shade of red as he pulled the robe back on his shoulders.

"Please have a seat," Alexander said

Hephaistion/Alexios sat down and Alexander sat down opposite.

"Do you know who I am?" he asked

"Yes sir you are Alexander the Great my master said." Hephaistion replied

"That's right now do you remember who you are?"

Hephaistion/Alexios looked up at him he knew that there was something familiar about the long hair blonde man sat opposite but couldn't think where no matter how hard he tried

"I'm sorry I never seen you before." he said

Alexander jumped up and grabbed Hephaistion/Alexios by the shoulders and began to shake him while yelling in his face.

"YOU ARE HEPHAISTION!" he screamed over and over again

He looked down at his face and saw Hephaistion looking back at him with wide freighted eyes and Alexander stopped shaking him and let him go, he turned away tears running down his face.

Hephaistion/Alexios stood up and made his way to the door.

"I shall tell my master that you were very gentle with me and you were left satisfied." he said

Alexander let me go and waited tell his hand on the door when he called him back.

"Wait," he said

Hephaistion/Alexios stopped and turned to face him

Alexander stood up and genteelly put his arm around his waist "please stay."

Alexander's lips brushed his lips and then they were on the side of his neck and kissing down to his shoulders.

He shivered in pleasure; He slide away from Alexander and out of his clothes he had been wearing nothing underneath he went to sit on the bed and speared his legs a little.

Alexander hesitated he know then that this was not his Hephaistion because Hephaistion never offered himself so willing. He went to the bed and stood in the gap that Alexios made and pushed him back so that he was on top and lent in for a kiss.

There were noises all around, the sound of charging horses and shouting men. He looked down and found himself dress in armour. In his hand he held a sword, somebody came at him and with a hesitation he swung the sword and they fell to the floor another person came and another and each time he swung the sword he stopped them. Suddenly he saw that someone was in trouble, he saw that it was the blonde hair man he began to feel panicky he had to go and help him before it was too late. He began to run towards the blonde haired man when suddenly he tackled from the side and to the ground he didn't have time to protect himself when his attacker brought the curved sword down.

He jerked away he was laid in one of the rooms of his Master house wrapped in red stain.

When he first arrived he had those types of nightmares every night until he was scared to go to sleep though not always were they of battles but of love and childhood. Then they stopped and he could sleep easier until now. There was a noise next to him and he looked down the sleeper next to him tossing and turning He smiled the blonde man had been so gentle with him not like Hades who always left him bruised and blood afterward.

He reached out and he tried waking the sleeper.

"I'm sorry Hephaistion," the man said in his sleep

Then he laid quiet before he cried out and woke up.

Alexander looked around he was in a room that was black marble, and then he noticed the person next to him.

"Oh Hephaistion." he said

Alexios's brows knotted in puzzlement. "Who is Hephaistion? "He asked

Alexander felt the sting of tears on his face

"He's yo…." he began but stopped he didn't know how to answer that question how do you explain somebody to another person when that person is the somebody they want you to describe.

"He was my world," Alexander said sadly "My other half my Patroclus."

At the mention of Patroclus's name Alexios eyes went wide.

"I know that name." he said "It's from the Iliad."

A tiny flicker of hope filled Alexander and he sat up "Yes that right do you remember we used to read it together before we went to bed."

Once more that puzzle expression appeared on Alexois face

"No," he said simply "I found a copy of it in the library."

"Oh," said Alexander disappointed as his hope faded.

Alexios got up and picked up the robe he had dropped and Alexander noticed that there was a scar on his shoulder blade in the shape of a H.

"What's that?" Alexander asked pointed to it

"That means I belong to Hades." he replied

Alexander was about to protest but he know that he would get no where, Hephaistion/Alexios put on his robe.

"I have to go." he said

"Can I see you again?" Alexander asked

Hephaistion/Alexios shrugged "I don't know," he said "You might have to pay."

And with that he was gone Alexander flopped back onto the bed and throw the cover over his head.

He crawled up into a little ball and wept How was he supposed to get Hephaistion back now.