A|N:Hey, it's Savannah! So this chapter isn't as good as the first, but please bear with me  Also, I would really enjoy some reviews if you don't mind, and thanks to Zoeyua for adding me to authors alert! It makes me feel really good! Anyways, I hope you enjoy this.

CHAPTER 2:

The sky outside Troy was dark with the despair of its survivors, they had lost everything. Achilles didn't waste time trying to recognize the sad faces of Troy's citizens, and instead quickly found Briseis who was staring with thoughtful sadness at the sky.

Achilles went over to her, still carrying Helen, and kneeled beside her. He carefully set the woman down and Briseis' head snapped toward him.

"I thought you were dead" she whispered with shock.

"I said I'd be right behind you" He looked at her with his intense blue gaze.

"But it was over" she was still whispering "I saw Troy burn, I thought it took you"

Achilles was dumbfounded, he knew Troy had burned, but when he turned and looked at the city, he was glad he had gotten out.

The walls had crumbled to the ground and the buildings had smoke rising high above them in black clouds. He couldn't see the giant horse he had come here in, and figured it must have been burnt during their attack on the great walled city.

He looked back over at Briseis and said in a solemn tone "But I'm alive, I'm here"

She was still staring at him in disbelieve. It was a miracle that had brought him back to her.

But there was no time to waste, it was dangerous to be so near Troy when the warriors of Sparta were probably on the other side of the city. Achilles knew that they had to leave, and soon.

"We must leave this place" he whispered to Briseis.

"But what about the others?" she questioned him with a fear in her voice, fear for the citizens of Troy, fear for her surviving family.

Truthfully, he didn't care for these people. They were nothing to him, but enemies.

He looked at Briseis and he could see in her eyes that she didn't want to leave them, they were her family.

"Round them up, but be quick, we must leave by nightfall" he told her firmly, he would leave without them, he wouldn't give his life for these worthless cowards.

She got the people together faster than Achilles expected, she even had convinced them all into following him.

They started they're trek through the barren desert hours before sundown. It was a good thing though. The Greeks were approaching the other side of Troy at a quickening pace.

Achilles wasn't carrying Helen anymore; another young man had offered to take her and he'd let him. But Achilles was getting more and more agitated every time he looked back at her, now unconscious form. The death of her lover had been a great destruction to her mind and she had fallen asleep mere minuets after they had gotten out of Troy He decided to take her back now, he looked at the man and Helen and stopped.

"I will take her back now if she is causing you burden" Achilles hoped that he would just hand her to him and not say anything at all.

He didn't get his wish.

"It's fine, she is no burden…but you make take her if you want to" The young man, Liam, said this with all sincerity, as if he knew how much Achilles wanted Helen in his arms again.

Achilles couldn't ask of this, everyone thought he and Briseis were still together, Briseis thought they were still together.

He looked at Liam and said "No it's fine, I just thought you were tiring quicker with her". They kept on their path and continued expedition across the darkening desert.

Meanwhile, Agamemnon and his troops searched for any sign of a trail that would lead them to the Trojans. They had followed the light footprints a little ways, but as time passed the prints had been filled in by the blowing sand.

Agamemnon screamed at the top of his lungs. "WERE ARE YOU!?!"

He was becoming obsessed with finding them, there was a secret needing to be told.

A|N: OK, so thanks for reading, remember that all types of feedback (preferably not bad but … you know) :} Also, ideas for the story are welcome as well And I didn't do this last time but, I don't own anything you recognize!

Savannah