Author: Dicey
Title: Love Will Try To Get By
Summary: Love will try to get by. Did anyone try too hard? Well, I guess I did. I guess I did. And she'll break my heart. She'll break my heart.
Notes: Oh, you'll see. And I'm completely sure they wouldn't be talking like this in the old days. This is just an experiment written in half-an-hour.
Love Will Try To Get By
One: Did Anyone Try Too Hard?
I can see her face. I've always been able to see her face. Always. Even before I met her. Before this. Before all of this happened to us. Before we were destroyed by our lust for each other. Our cursed lust which took everything we had. Everything I had.
But she got everything more.
And so I sit back here in the concert hall of the theater of the Underworld, slowly waiting for her next move. It actually is quite sad that I don't care as much as I thought I would. My death was simple. Lost by a poisoned arrow. My afterlife is spent day by day, watching her as if she is my obsession. Which she is.
And now I can see her for who she truly is in her heart. I can peel away the layers of her beauty with my all-seeing eyes and I see her hate. Her lust. Her ugliness. Her greed.
I wonder how I ever could have loved you.
She whines constantly. Things are never good enough for her. The bath water. The food. Not fresh enough. Not soft enough. Not perfect enough. Greed consumes her. Deiphobus spoils her relentlessly. Gold, silver, and jewels of enormous size...they all make their way without fuss towards her vault that is her bedroom.
I watch in silent remembrance. Had she been as disagreeable when I had been with her? Maybe.
Soon, I shall forget her. I will fool myself into hating all the things about her that have never bothered me. And thus, I will hate her.
My love will be forgotten. Soon.
And I will erase her embrace from my mind's eye. How she would hold me so gently. How easily she moved on from me. How easily I was fooled into saving her from that damned marriage with Menelaus.
Damned golden apple.
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