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410 CE

"I am coming with you."

Darius looked at the woman that was standing before him for a long moment, and then he started to laugh.

Callestina flinched at the harsh sound, but still held her ground, determined to make him see that she could be an asset to him. "What is it exactly that you find so humorous?"

The laughter stopped just as suddenly as it had started, and a hard dangerous look came into the General’s eyes. It was a look that the soldiers in his army had long ago learned to respect, and even to fear. "The fact that you seem to think that you actually mean enough to me that I would take you to Paris."

Her eyes narrowed, and she got a rather imperious look about her. "You will take me to Paris, Darius, or I will inform my brother of how you seduced me into your bed. Then we will see just how far you get on your little campaign."

Darius was out of his chair and had his hands around her throat before she even realized that he had been intending to move. He dug his thumbs into her windpipe and squeezed, his voice a low growl that barely even hinted at the true rage that was showing in his eyes. "You were a diversion and a means to an end, Callestina, nothing more. You mean less to me than my horse, and chances are you mean about the same to Alaric."

She grabbed at his hands, trying to pull them away from her neck, but he was too strong for her. Soon, the world seemed to shrink around her until all she could see was his eyes, and even those were starting to fade. She was dying, and there was nothing that she could do to stop it.

Darius leaned in, making sure that she would hear him even as her body started to go limp. "Remember this when you draw your next breath. If you so much as hint to your brother about what happened here, then I will come back and I will make sure that the next time I am finished with you, that you won’t be waking up again."

And then everything went black.

Date: 2005-11-07 08:52 pm (UTC)

Date: 2005-11-08 12:19 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] on-holy-ground.livejournal.com
*blush* Thank you! :)

Date: 2005-11-08 02:38 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trickster-loki.livejournal.com
Sure you don't want to go back to the good bad ole days?

Date: 2005-11-08 03:21 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] on-holy-ground.livejournal.com
Yes, I'm quite sure, Loki.

Date: 2005-11-08 03:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trickster-loki.livejournal.com
You only say that because you're obligated.

Date: 2005-11-08 03:40 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] on-holy-ground.livejournal.com
Funny, I hear much the same thing from Haag. Do you two compare notes?

Date: 2005-11-08 03:46 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trickster-loki.livejournal.com
Can't say we do. *pause* Can't say I've ever talked to him, actually.

Date: 2005-11-08 05:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] on-holy-ground.livejournal.com
You should, I'm sure the two of you would get along famously.

*not that he would purposely set the God of Chaos on Hsu, because that would be wrong.*

Date: 2005-11-09 03:03 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trickster-loki.livejournal.com
About like myself and Methos, hmm?

Date: 2005-11-09 03:27 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] on-holy-ground.livejournal.com
Something like that, yes.

Date: 2005-11-09 03:34 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trickster-loki.livejournal.com
So are you suggesting I turn him into a cat?

Date: 2005-11-09 04:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] on-holy-ground.livejournal.com
I did not say that.

*But he may have thought it just a little bit*

Date: 2005-11-09 04:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trickster-loki.livejournal.com
Ah, of course. *beams*

Date: 2005-11-08 11:11 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] civ-barbarian.livejournal.com
Perhaps we should. *smirk* I rode with Darius back before he got...religion.

Pleased to make your acquaintance.

Date: 2005-11-09 03:04 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] trickster-loki.livejournal.com
And yourself. I am, actually, surprised we haven't met before now.

Date: 2005-11-09 07:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] civ-barbarian.livejournal.com
Ja, it is quite something that our paths have never crossed, especially as I was in your neck of the woods back in the 9th and 10th centuries although in some ways I'm quite glad.

Date: 2005-11-08 05:13 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] immortalmacleod.livejournal.com
And people say that I brood over too much...

Are you all right? Just... remembering?

Date: 2005-11-08 06:20 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] on-holy-ground.livejournal.com
More or less, yes. These kinds of thoughts just seem to pop up on occasion when some of the questions given.

Date: 2005-11-08 10:12 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] immortalmacleod.livejournal.com
I know. I understand, I was... well, I guess I was worried about you.

Date: 2005-11-08 06:39 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] on-holy-ground.livejournal.com
*smiles softly* I appreciate your concern, but I tend to try and keep my past in perspective as much as possible rather than dwelling on what I could have done differently.

Date: 2005-11-08 11:08 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] civ-barbarian.livejournal.com
You really knew how to treat a woman back then. *smirk*

(OOC and ETA: Lovely post. And LOL at Darius' comment to Loki!)

Date: 2005-11-08 06:42 pm (UTC)
From: [identity profile] on-holy-ground.livejournal.com
I've heard rumors on occasion that she's still alive.

Date: 2005-11-09 07:18 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] civ-barbarian.livejournal.com
That doesn't surprise me, she always struck me as a survivor. Must be the reason why you hide out on holy ground. *smirk*

Date: 2005-11-10 12:45 am (UTC)
From: [identity profile] on-holy-ground.livejournal.com
I am not afraid of her, if that is what you are trying to say.
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