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: Nope. Well, I am making Neoptolemus Briseis' son. Because I can. And I don't really know who his momma was. 'Cause my sources are offline right now and I don't feel like looking it up in any of my books. Dammit.

Love Will Try To Get By

Two: Well, I Guess I Did

She is sleeping now. Curls fall over her face and she looks so calm, though I know otherwise.

Menelaus is in another room, having a concubine warm his favorite rutting bed. Their screams and moans ring through the fortress and I can see this blonde goddess before me cringe, even in her sleep.

That damned Greek haunts her even in her sleep. I have visited her on a couple of occasions, in which she was indignant and completely in denial of my accusations. And then she slapped me. Even in her sleep, she defies me, whom she claims to have loved.

The Trojan War has come to a close. My great brother, Hector, has come to my side in-between his visits to his true love. As I took leave from my obsession with her, I looked in on my close family.

Fair Andromache was captured by the Greeks and presented to Neoptolemus as a slave, as Hector was not there to protect her. Astyanax was put to death by being flung from the walls of our beloved kingdom. Cassandra, my dear, sickly sister, was given as a slave to Agamemnon. His wife Clytemnestra was angered at her husband's sacrifice of Iphigenia and thus murdered the pair.

Our dear cousin Briseis bore a son, Neoptolemus, who ended up slaying the great Priam of Troy. Priam did breed a very interesting bunch.

Back to my dear obsession, she has awakened now. Brushing her golden hair with a thin-toothed comb as she sits at her vanity, studying her reflection as if it is a book she cannot read.

She will break my heart. And I will wait for her.

An eternity.

We fought a war for her. Fought an eternity just to stand by her side. And I never caught up with her.

Never.

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