Briseis

For fawatson , who asked for Ptolemy-Bagoas, here.

And Odysseus must comfort Akhilles, and pry from his arms unbreathing Patroklos. A lifetime gone, and all the friends, and now the lover, and only the brother (brother in blood, your blood and his, and the golden child this grieving man) is left. You alone are left.

 

And this boy who turns so effortlessly invisible and so easily turns heads and tends to his lover (your brother) with such gentle hands and such efficiency. Such love (and the word is a dart) that he is less than alien, your brother’s boy. His Briseis.



 

In Knossos, In the Bull-Court

For schribaere , who has had a previous prompt unheeded (no, honey, I didn't write that, everything I tried was crappy), and asked for minotaurus, childhood, here.

The King my father looks upon me with a different eye than that he bears when he gazes upon my sister.

 

The King my father yet favours me, for I am his son.

 

The King my father has had built for me my own court.

                                                                                                             

The King my father decrees that there I shall live alone, as befits a prince.

 

The King my father calls me his best soldier and draws from me an oath to protect and serve his kingdom and his rule.

 

The King my father puts his hand in mine and leads me to my new home.

Of Procreation and Pleasantries

For noneedofcrepe, who asked, here, for Immediate Black Family. The Birds and Bees Talk.

“You know Bellatrix has had a miscarriage?”

 

“No. Is she going to be alright?”

 

“Perfectly. But that isn’t what I wanted to talk about. Do you know how she got with child?”

 

“No, Father.”

 

“Walburga.”

 

“Orion.”

 

“Regulus.”

 

“Father?”

 

“When a man inserts his penis into a woman’s vagina…”

 

“Father!”

 

“And ejaculates inside her… you do know about ejaculation?”

 

“Father?”

 

“Walburga!”

 

“Orion?”

 

“Ask Sirius."
 
"Yes, Father."

"When a man ejaculates inside a woman’s vagina, his sperm, on occasion, mixes with her ova and thus an embryo is created which the woman carries for nine months, before birthing a child.”

 

“Yes, Father.”