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Aphrodite, Goddess of Love and Beauty ([info]loves_a_bitch) wrote in [info]mount_olympus,
@ 2008-08-16 21:54:00

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There was a dissatisfaction she felt as she moved through the temple that, if she thought about it, had started creeping up a few days ago. She was back to being Love and Beauty, which she thought would have offered a feeling of completion, but there was something missing. It wasn't the crown of the sea, she was sure - Gaia knew that regent or not, the responsibilities offered to the Queen were still hers de facto, regardless of what Cronus wanted to play at.

The only thing she could think of was the children... and those she saw on any sort of regular basis were all fine, she could tell. There were others, Hymenaios in particular, who felt... off at the moment, more distant... but he hadn't been one for Olympus in ages. She tried to summon him to no avail - still not sure if that was a sign of a problem, or mere insolence on the part of her cherub. Granted, of all her children, the Erotes were the least likely to be problematic in any way, but given recent situations, it was always a possibility that he was still nursing the wounds of having been cherub of divorce and separation for a while.

More troubling was that when she tried to find him, she was unable to pinpoint a location, but again some no longer dwelling on Olympus were known to give up a corporeal form, preferring to be more of an *essence*. None of these thoughts were doing anything to solve a mood.

There were of course a few who'd be able to tell her where he was, without much effort... the messengers were one source, but she didn't feel like explaining what was going on to any who weren't asking at the moment. The other answer was her daughter.. if everyone was back to normal, Harmonia would know the general idea of where to find a sibling. Only problem there, of course, was where she tended to be.

It really was unavoidable.

With a soft growl she left her home, making her way quickly to that of Ares, heels offering an angry staccato across the marble of his entrance way. She offered an annoyed glance to the closest attendant, a brow lifting slowly. If he even thought of collecting Ares, well... it might not be pretty.



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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-18 09:28 pm UTC (link)
"King Ares?"

The words were shouted over the loud pants coming from the occupant in the chair and the loud slurps from the slave kneeling in front of him. She began to remove her head from his lap and his hands moved to keep her attached to him.

"Stop and I remove your fingers with gardening shears." His eyes cracked open and he glared at the attendant. "WHAT?"

Quaking in his shoes, the attendant gulped. "Umm...Queen Aphrodite is in the temple and she doesn't look too pleased."

Damn it, the blow job would just have to wait. He pushed the slave away from him and did up his pants as he headed out to waylay her.

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-18 10:18 pm UTC (link)
She was going to kill his attendant. Kill. She could probably do it with a simple look...

She took a slow breath and counted to five, a brow arched sharply as she turned towards the door Ares was about to come through. One look at his face and she knew what he was doing...

"King Ares? Surprised you haven't gotten the Memo. I do hate to pull you from whatever..." she glanced at his crotch for a moment, then back up at his face "little task you were up to, but I'm really only here to see our daughter."

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-18 10:43 pm UTC (link)
He crossed his arms and stared at her.

"That's fine, baby. I'm sure you'll finish it up for me later. And what memo? The one where you trusted Cronus to fix that little problem Apollo made and he fucked us all over? No, I got it. I'm thinking if you continue to fuck up this badly, I may just have to replace you as Queen." He smirked at Dite.

"I bet that little piece Elpis would like an upgrade."

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-18 10:56 pm UTC (link)
Was that how he wanted to play it, then? she lifted her chin as her smirk widened slightly, eyes turning a stormy shade.

"Oh, I wouldn't take any bets, darling, on anything involving my proximity to yourself. As for replacing me as Queen? I think you need to remember a few things, Ares. The first being I'm not your Queen... I actually worked to get what I have. The second being that I've a lot more friends than you do, currently... The third? Simply that you're not King of anything at the moment. Makes it a bit hard for you to do anything. Though please, feel free to mess with Apollo's child. I'm sure he'd love that."

Her arms crossed over her chest as she regarded him, wondering perhaps for the first time why she'd ever been so enamored with him.

"Of course, if you're so dissatisfied with the current status quo, I can always undo the spell I did... Would you like being God of Love again?"

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-19 12:25 am UTC (link)
"My dick is like your heroine, love. You need it."

Ares simply rolled his eyes at her words, none of that mattered to him. Except for maybe the Apollo's child part. That actually just made it all the better an idea. He'd have to get her to the temple at some point.

"Go for it, woman. Then I'll give you back your love for me and fill your mouth up so you'll stop being such a nag and making stupid mistakes. Cronus? Really? CRONUS?"

He wasn't the smartest brick in the building, but he at least understood that Cronus wasn't going to be playing on their side.

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-19 12:33 am UTC (link)
"..."

And she really thought once she got over him, once there was no love, he'd not be able to hurt her anymore. She just looked at him for a long moment, then shrugged, voice low and calm.

"At least Cronus was willing to do something."

Her hands fell to her side as her demeanor grew visibly chilled, hostility fading away as distant politeness took its place.

"Shall I take it by your choice of conversation topic that Harmonia is not currently present?"

She was not going to let him pull her into an argument about love, particularly not if that was the stance he was going to take. And while she was willing to argue the brilliance of dealing with Cronus, she was done being insulted.

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-19 01:06 am UTC (link)
His forehead knit with confusion. This wasn't his Dite, his Dite would fight back, why wasn't she fighting back. Damn it. This love thing was fucking up his game.

"Harmonia? I don't know where she is...why aren't you fighting?"

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-19 01:13 am UTC (link)

She canted her head at his question, offering a slight shrug.

"I'm sorry, Ares... I've no desire to fight with you. It's a lot of energy to spend on something that will get us no where. And you've indicated a displeasure at what you perceive as nagging... and so I'll let you be. What's done is done, right?"

She offered a soft, sad smile, and sighed lightly.

"Hmm. Well, I do hope you'll let her know I'm looking for her when she returns. She can bring Neikos along if she likes."

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-19 01:38 am UTC (link)
What's done is...Holy shit! He moved to block any path she had of escape.

"You're leaving?" She wasn't leaving. Wait, was she really leaving!? This was NOT HOW IT WAS SUPPOSED TO GO.

"No. You're NOT LEAVING."

Moving he picked her up, threw her over his shoulder and began to stalk down the hallway to their room.

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-19 01:50 am UTC (link)
"Well..."

She didn't get much more of her statement out before he blocked her, his vehemence against her leaving startling her.

"I'm not? I..."

Oh he didn't. Did he? He apparently did...

There was a long moment of shock as she felt his shoulder suddenly in her abdomen, and the faintly disorienting feel of being upside down before she squirmed in his grip, a fist striking his lower back.

"Ares! Put me down this instant! You can't go manhandling me like this, you chauvinistic ape!"

She couldn't kick, hitting him was like punching a brick wall... and he wanted her to get mad. She knew this. It was the one thing keeping her from screeching at him. Taking a deep breath, she wrapped her hands on his shoulders, and pulled herself up to vertical, glaring down at him as he continued to carry her.

"What in name of Gaia do you think you're doing, Ares!? Have you gone mad? Put me down this instant!"

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-19 01:59 am UTC (link)
He just kept walking with her.

"I'm taking you where you belong. Our bed."

He turned the corner and entered their room, and with hardly a grunt, put her on the bed.

"There. Now, put it back. I don't like you this way."

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-19 02:04 am UTC (link)
He wasn't making it hard at all, it seemed... in fact, he was making it all too easy for her. She bounced just a bit as he placed her on the bed, and she leaned back, hands supporting her as she looked up at him, eyes blinking slowly.

"I don't think I will. In fact, I think you did me a favour, sweetpea. As appreciative as I am, I'm not going to let you bully me back into our old pattern."

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-19 02:27 am UTC (link)
"It's not natural. NOT NATURAL. You are supposed to fight. You fight. I fight. We sex. This?" Motions to her being all calm and shit.

"NOT NATURAL."

His face fell as he looked at her.

"I'm sorry?" Maybe that would make it better.

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-19 02:34 am UTC (link)
Her eyes widened as he apologized, and she smiled, reaching a hand out toward his, tugging him to sit beside her.

"And that doesn't seem like a strange way to work things? You think *that* is natural?"

She sat up a bit straighter, calm as she regarded him, choosing her words carefully.

"Ares... All we do any more is fight. We're mean and bitter and snipe at each other and are bitingly insulting toward each other, then end up sleeping together and starting the whole cycle over again. Is that really what you want? That endless, unbroken cycle? Because I just don't think it's enough."

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-19 02:48 am UTC (link)
He followed her pull downward. There wasn't much he wouldn't do for her in the end.

A grumble left at her assertion that his apology wasn't natural, it actually wasn't, but he didn't like her looking at him like she didn't care. Even when they were at their worse, he still knew that she loved him. And now she didn't. And he could see that.

"What do you want?"

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-19 03:04 am UTC (link)
"I want to matter."

She sighed, realizing that didn't make enough sense.

"Ares... I want you to think about something. From before the time you were born... I was waiting for you. Once you were grown, I was there. Waiting for you, with open arms to love you. We have been through countless obstacles, thick and thin, and I've been at your side, loving you, offering you everything I could. Whatever you have wanted, I've done my utmost to give you. It was always, always you. And in all of that, I let myself be taken for granted. I allowed it to happen... And it did not make me happy. And now we fight. All the time. And if that's what we're going back to, I want nothing of it. Because to be brutally honest? I'm worth more than that. Honey, I'm not vain, but let's not kid ourselves... I am the Goddess of Love. A bit of attention from me, and I can have anyone I want wrapped around my pinky.

Everyone else I've ever taken as a lover had to work to win my affections.. except you. I don't know if that's the difference, or if we've just grown apart, or what... But once I got over the gut wrenching pain of having that deeply rooted love ripped out of me? It's like a weight is lifted."

"And even now... you say you're sorry. And I can't help wonder if you're sorry you hurt me.. or sorry things changed and I'm not here willing and ready."

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-23 03:59 am UTC (link)
He really had nothing to say to that. Nothing he could put into word form. She did matter to him, and he wasn't quite sure how she didn't know that. How she didn't know that while she had lost her love for him, he had never lost his love for her. She was the goddess of love, shouldn't she know that?

He wasn't good with words of love and affection. He wasn't a poet like their sons were, and if that was what she was looking for, she was looking for it from the wrong person. He loved her, but it seemed like she wanted him to be something that he's not.

"What do you want me to do?" He asked, unsure that he would like the answer she was going to give him or even if he could do what she wanted.

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-23 04:13 am UTC (link)
"I want... I want you to really comprehend that you hurt me. That you cut right to the bone in the most painful way possible. You were Love for a bit. I want you truly understand what that meant. But tat's on you, Ares... And I want you to do those things for yourself, not for me.

"For me? I just want you to see why I make have the ability to fix things the way you'd like... but I don't have the inclination. I don't want to be your enemy... and it felt like I was."

She smiled at him lightly, a kind smile, her fingers lifting to brush his shoulder.

"And I want you to think about what you want. What you want from me.And if you think about that, and decide you want a relationship with me because of who I am, and not what I am? I'll make you a deal. I won't snap my fingers and put things in place...But I won't work against you. If you decide what you want is me to have that love back, and can win my heart? Then it's yours."

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-27 02:37 am UTC (link)
His mouth just kind of hung open. Thinking back now to whatever his reasons had been for taking her love away? They weren't nearly worth this crap. He didn't get why he suddenly had to know why he wanted her. He didn't know! He never thought that deep...EVER! There was never a need to think about it before. He loved her, she loved him, now he had to "WIN" her "HEART" back? Motherfucker.

"So you want flowers and candy and shit like that?" He really just wanted it to be that easy. Come on, be that easy.

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-27 06:48 am UTC (link)
"Oh, baby.... I'd never ask for something so difficult as "shit like that"..." she airquoted for emphasis. "I simply want the sentiment behind the flowers and candy. I want to know I'm more than just an willing roll in the hay... that I matter, and am not some trophy."

She slid toward the end of the bed and stood, a hand absently sliding down over her hip and thigh to smooth her dress as she eyed him.

"I'm asking you to show you love me, Ares. Is it really that much of a chore, after all these years?"

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-27 08:12 pm UTC (link)
His eyes followed the path of her hand and his eyes fired. No. Pay attention!

"You are more. You're mine."

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-27 09:10 pm UTC (link)
She sighed as she watched him, unable to hide the hint of a smile that curled her lips up slightly. Oh, she was a fool, she knew... but it'd be so, so easy to love him again. Stupid, sure, but easy. She stepped back toward him and the bed, stepping in between his knees as she ran a finger down the profile of his cheek.

"Yours. But what does that mean to you, Ares? Please."

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-27 09:28 pm UTC (link)
It meant...it meant that he would do anything for her. Anything she asked! He had no loyalties. None. Not to his mother, his siblings, not even to his father. Except for Dite.

She asks him to help her side of a war, even after he's promised the other side? He does.

She asks him to lend her his chariot because she's hurt? He does.

She asks him to kill her intended husband? He does...well, tries at least.

"It means...it means..." He sucked it up. "I'm yours. All of me."

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-27 09:40 pm UTC (link)
"I know you are."

Her thumb brushed his chin slowly... once, twice, before she leaned in to press a kiss against his brow, arms sliding around his shoulders as she looked down at him. He was hers... she'd claimed him the moment he was born. And she knew she was made for him. So why wasn't it enough?

"Ares... we weren't healthy. fighting like we did? It's not right. I can't do it. Am I really asking so much of you?"

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-27 10:35 pm UTC (link)
His hands reached up and settled on her hips as she kissed him and when her arms settled on his shoulders, his hands slid up her sides and around her back, resting on her shoulder blades.

"No, I don't think so. I just don't know how to give it to you. I'm not good with words like that twat Hermes."

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-27 11:04 pm UTC (link)
She had to chuckle.

"Baby... don't be rude to your brother..."

She fit perfectly in his arms. That, more than anything had her almost willing to give in. It was right... and it hurt so much to not give what he wanted.

"The only words I need from you is the occasional "I love you"... I don't need any fancy verbiage. Just.... show me. sex an fighting are all well and good, but it's all we do. I want everything in between. Contentedness, and sweetness and to know I'm more than just a bed partner. I want support, and to not feel like I've got to be the one to take care of everything. I want a lover, and a partner. Not a fuckbuddy who's no time for me when I'm not soothing the aches of battle, or whatever. Ares..."

She sighed, eyes closing as she dropped her head down to rest against his, not sure at all how to explain the "more" she was looking for.

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-28 12:05 am UTC (link)
He rolled his eyes. After all, it wasn't like Hermes didn't call him worse. The twat.

See, ok. He could do that or try to do that.

His hands moved to her face and his fingers threaded into her hair. He lifted her face so that he could kiss her once again.

"I don't know that I can give you all of that, but I can try. I do love you."


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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-28 12:25 am UTC (link)
"Trying would be appreciated."

She smiled as he kissed her, leaning in so that her brow touched his, eyes closed as she blinked back tears that threatened to fall... crying in front of him wasn't really an option, no matter what he was willing to try.

"I was always yours, Ares. I just want it to feel right again."

Keeping her arms around his shoulders she shifted slightly, taking a seat on his one thigh.

"There's so much fixing to do, with everything."

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-28 12:54 am UTC (link)
"I'll try."

He moved one arm around her waist and the other hand rested between her knees. Finally, they could get down to business. This time he wasn't going to leave her out in the cold.

"Do we know who these Chosen ones are yet?"

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-28 01:06 am UTC (link)
She waited a moment, for accusations of everything she'd done wrong, shoulders relaxing slightly as the accusation didn't come.

"Specifically? No... my brother isn't going to be that forthcoming. But thinking over the words of the spell, I think it's younger deities. They'll be marked."

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-28 01:22 am UTC (link)
"Marked? Then they should know about it then, right? They should come to us."

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-28 01:32 am UTC (link)
"I don't think the mark comes with an engraved letters explaining they should come to us, so we can tell them what to do." She laughed lightly. "Apparently, they are to choose the new monarchs, and then time will once again go forward. Everything feels all strange, the way it is now... It's why I was looking for Harmonia. She's better at sensing people."

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-28 01:39 am UTC (link)
"Stupid. It should come with directions." Ares muttered a bit to himself before her words caught up to him. He began mentally searching for his daughter, but wasn't able to find her anywhere. No, wait. That wasn't true. He could feel her, but she felt distant, really far away and he couldn't pinpoint her location. His brow knit as he looked over at Aphrodite.

"Can you feel her anywhere?"

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-28 01:48 am UTC (link)
"I just assumed she'd be here... she was with Strife. Why?"

She canted her head, not lookig his expression one bit, and did a quick scan for Harmonia, the searched deeper... a pit forming in her stomach as she recognized the same feeling she'd felt before. Wondering if it was her, she searched for Anteros, picking up his vibe pretty easily... but Harmonia felt as distant as Hymenaios. Looking back at Ares, her posture stiffened as she looked at him.

"Ares. Where is Harmonia?"

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[info]blood_lust
2008-08-28 01:59 am UTC (link)
"Strife..." If that hooligan had gotten his daughter into some kind of trouble, he was going to rip his limbs off and staple them back on backwards. He searched for Strife and found him easily, but Harmonia wasn't anywhere with him.

"I don't know, love, but I've found Strife. Let's go and find out where she is."

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[info]loves_a_bitch
2008-08-28 02:04 am UTC (link)
"It's not just her... Hymenaios. I can't feel him either... but the rest seem normal. Is the lack of time affecting them?"

She unwrapped her arms from around him and stood, body tight with tension as her arms crossed over her chest as if to ward off vulnerability.

"I think finding Strife would be a good idea."

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[info]blood_lust
2008-09-01 11:13 pm UTC (link)
"Hymenaios? What would he have to do with Harmonia?" Harmonia didn't even have wings.

He agreed, nodding then grabbed her hand, he took them both to Strife.

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