Demeter ∾ Δημήτηρ (thesmophoros) wrote in nevermore_past, @ 2012-07-19 18:15:00 |
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Entry tags: | demeter, poseidon |
WHO: Demeter & Poseidon
WHEN: Ancient Greece
WHERE: Greece
WHAT: Not long after the world has been divided up, a brother and sister discuss it all.
Demeter's bare feet were in the gentle waves as they lapped the shore of the beach, and she smiled at the sand between her toes. Her dress she held carefully around her knees to keep it try as she just enjoyed the bright sunshine above and this beautiful ocean.
The presence of Poseidon was closer now and she turned, smiling at him as the breeze whipped her dark locks around her face. "This is all to be yours then?" she smiled at him, and then kicked up sandy water at him playfully.
Poseidon ran his hands through his hair, feeling that breeze spritz from the ocean against his face. There was a sense of freedom now that Cronus had been defeated after having engulfed he and his other siblings. Now, however Zeus had taken the throne for himself while he and Hades were left to their own kingdoms.
At first Poseidon took it sourly. He, older to Zeus had gotten what was left once Hades (the eldest) and Zeus (the youngest) had picked before. As the middle brother, Poseidon had felt like he got the shorter end of the stick.
True, there was discord between he and Zeus, but as he saw Demeter there smiling joyfully, the unrest was pushed aside.
"Yes," was his deep reply. "So it appears."
[info]thesmophoros
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"It's truly beautiful," she told him with a nod and then ran her bare toe through the sand. "I have been given the growing land as my own, so always shall we border one another."
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"It will be," he announced, crouching down to feel the water run through his fingers. The water was cold, but comforting. It sent a shiver down his spine. The things he could do with this vast beauty. His kingdom would surpass Zeus'.
He looked up to Demeter "So we shall," he nodded, letting his eyes slide over her affectionately. "I am to leave you soon, then," he stood back up, finding that he'd grown some attachment to Demeter that hadn't been as strong before.
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2010-12-16 12:10 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
The smile she gave her younger brother was comforting and warm and she reached out to take his now-wet hands in hers. "I'll never be truly far from you. I feel we shall all remain close despite such distances."
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2010-12-16 12:55 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
There was something soft and charming about Demeter. Later that would change when discord would turn ugly between siblings, for now there wasn't such a cold block of ice in his heart. He hadn't hardened himself to the Olympian he'd be later known for. His mood was soft.
Poseidon gave Demeter a half smile. "You are right. Feels so different now."
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"The end of something old," Demeter agreed, "and the beginning of something new. The world is ours now, little brother," she told him, stroking his hand in hers. "And we shall fill it with our own glory."
Demeter couldn't help mothering her siblings. They're own parents were terrible examples to anyone and (except for Hestia) she was the eldest of them all.
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"Something new," he liked the idea of creating something vast. "A kingdom of our own." He wouldn't likely share it well with Zeus, but he would contently with Demeter. He squeezed her hand. She had a way of tempering any flare of uneasiness inside him.
"I'll create my own euphoria." One Zeus could be jealous of.
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2010-12-16 01:18 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
"Yes," Demeter nodded and then she turned him to look out to the sea. "Look to the horizon, Poseidon. To there and beyond is now all under your command."
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He could feel the water wash up against the shore, over his feet and past where they stood, as if it were inviting him with it's ocean blue gaze. Already it moved as if to his own temperament. If only every day would be so calm.
"Beautiful...." he breathed in a deep whisper of a voice. His hand still held onto hers. "Thank you, sister."
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2010-12-16 01:24 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Demeter looked at him with a tilt of her head and a gently curious expression. "For what?"
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It was here when Poseidon did confide in her. When they confided in each other, though that would change as they chose different paths. "This wasn't what I'd wanted." He hadn't chosen but been chosen for when he took what was left. "Among brothers I was given what they did not want. Doesn't seem so terrible now, does it?"
[info]thesmophoros
With a smile Demeter brushed his cheek with her thumb, amused that he hadn't understood what he was getting. "Silly brothers," she said fondly with a shake of her head. "Fighting over the earth and not even knowing what they have. If I were given a choice of the three, my heart would belong to the sea." Perhaps she meant him as well. He and Hades had always been her favorite siblings, after all.
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His hand grabbed hers at that brush, keeping it there for longer. Her touch felt light, inviting, caring. "Why the sea?" he asked, deeply. Or did she mean something more?
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Demeter watched him thoughtfully for a moment, wondering exactly what words he was looking for. Then she said, "Because the sky is empty and the earth below is cold, but the sea gives without end."
Then she leaned up on her toes to lay a kiss upon her brother's cheek.
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She made it all sound so glorious. As if he could be the better of all of them, her words then were so influential, they held such impact on him before he turned himself into that cold and dead monster.
His hand touched the cheek that brushed so sweetly with those lips, a smile given in return.
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"I must leave you now to your wide ocean, brother," she told him. "I have a harvest to bring in, my very first." They were all so new to this, every part of it just beginning.
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It was the beginning of the end, and this was just a moment happiness that would eventually crumble between Poseidon and Demeter. The next time he would look on her it would be with lusty eyes.
Poseidon pulled her into his arms. For him this felt like goodbye.
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2010-12-17 11:53 pm UTC (link) DeleteFreezeScreenTrack This Select
Demeter hugged him back, watching his beautiful ocean over his shoulder. "This is going to be marvelous," Demeter said, having no doubt about it. They were the Gods of Olympus and all they did from now on would be acts of perfection.