07 ❧ VOICE

[imperiouswan]

[his voice is on the edge of panic, but then again who isn't panicking in the complex these days? blame it on an irrational fear that daddy is going to be the next to go, and then he'll be alone.]

Hermes... ? Father...? Where did you go?

You can't just leave Echo and I alone in here!

I- [mumbled in some half brave attempt to save face] I don't even

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[Filter: Cycnus]

[ohvirility]

In... my room?

... and how am I supposed to be with someone when I don't live with anyone?

I locked the front door and Yahoo!Answers told me I could make a... um, flame thrower with a lighter and bug spray... It works kind of.

[Filter: Ganymede]

[imperiouswan]

You're supposed to go somewhere, stupid! Couldn't you have stayed with Zeus? Isn't he supposed to protect you?

You should come here with us. I just... need to find where Father went first. So he can get you. I don't want to go out by myself.

[Filter: Cycnus]

[ohvirility]

Why? Everyone else is dying! If I stay down here then no one will know where I am and... it'll be fine! I'm not... it doesn't work like that. I'm not his boyfriend or something, it's just... I'm a prince of Troy, I can take care of myself. Right?

But what if he's out there? I don't want anything to happen to Apollo!

[Filter: Ganymede]

[imperiouswan]

But everyone says you shouldn't be by yourself. Besides if he does come, it's easier to fight if there's more than one of us.

And that's what lovers are supposed to do.

... Hermes can come instead.

[Filter: Cycnus]

[ohvirility]

I'm not going to... Okay! Fine! I'm... I'm coming up myself. If I'm not there in an hour... well... Yeah. Don't send anyone down, I don't want anything to happen to them.

... yeah, well it's a little different.

[Filter: Ganymede]

[imperiouswan]

If you're not here in ten minutes, someone is coming down. I don't know who, but someone. Don't die.

The whole thing sounds stupid, then.