6 Works in Polyxena (Song of Achilles)
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When Achilles takes his last breath, he smiles.
But when he next opens his eyes, it is not his lover he sees, but his own corpse, face down in the mud, a betrayal of all his mother wanted for him. He spares no more than that thought, before looking around. There is one face he longs to see among the crowd. It is the one face that is not there.
How cruel of the fates, to keep them apart, even in death.
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As a Prince, Achilles was privileged in ways most people could only dream about. But that's the catch with people who already have everything - they begin to want things even their money and status can't get them.
And what did Achilles want most? The one thing he could never in a million years have.
Prince Patroclus.
Modern Royalty au.
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After his death, Achilles finds himself in the underworld. Prepared to face his judgement and eternity, he marches into hell, only to learn that Patroclus never arrived. He sets up vigil outside the gates, and waits.
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'Where is he?’ he demanded, his voice breaking against the colossal thrones like a wooden spear against the walls of Troy. The crowd stirred over his shoulder, whispers amongst ghosts, but Achilles paid them no mind.
‘And who do you speak of?’ asked Minos, the barbs of his lashing tongue catching Achilles’s skin, tearing what little remained unmarked. He turned his attention to the last of the judges, and spoke solely to Rhadamanthus.
‘Patroclus.’
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Achilles is Phthia College’s top rower. Paris is its top soccer player. Briseis is a film student, and Helen is an asexual dancer who Menelaus keeps bothering. Patroclus is a transfer student from East Locris University who’s sitting at a local Subway familiarizing himself with the city and being a good studious student and trying not to stare at the incredibly handsome golden-haired boy sitting nearby, when – was that a camera flash?
And thus begins the adventures of Patroclus and Achilles, or, in other words, in which Achilles is completely smitten with Patroclus and Patroclus is trying his hardest to deny he has a crush on Phthia’s golden boy.
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The Kiss That Launched a Single Love by Eristastic
Fandoms: The Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller, The Iliad - Homer
21 Mar 2016
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Caught between the sun and the stars, Patroclus learns to thrive in the shadows and bloom as himself.
[AU in which Helen and Patroclus are twins and he goes to Troy with her]
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