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[onceaviking]

Eric's room is cool and clean.

His bed is made with white and grey, and there's a tray with a carafe and a glass on a small table closer to it.

He steps inside and turns to face Ganymede with a hungry, eager expression.

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[the_cupbearer]

"He dislocated my shoulder when he snatched me off the mountain," Ganymede says slowly. "Pulled it right out of the socket. And his talons hurt, they cut deep." As the scars show, with how depressed the valleys of tissue are against the rest of his skin.

"Nearly to the bone. I don't remember how long it took for them not to hurt."

[onceaviking]

"Those who want the attention of gods have no idea what they're playing with," Eric replies.

The same could be said to go for those who want the attention of vampires.

[the_cupbearer]

Ganymede huffs. "I didn't. I never did," he amends on a sigh. "Zeus would have come whether I wanted him to or not. And still does."

[onceaviking]

"Still? "

That was - unexpected.

[the_cupbearer]

"Did you think he'd give it up if he didn't have to?" Ganymede asks. And he'd like to hear how Zeus would have to anything. "Not all the bruises I get come from things I want."

[onceaviking]

"And your gods cannot be killed?"

That's what he would do. Plot the demise of whomever held him in thrall.

[the_cupbearer]

He gets a tiny, mirthless smile for that, and Ganymede's hand on his arm. "No. And it generally ends badly for those who try. It isn't as often as it was once, that he searches for me. Maybe he's grown tired of the sport."

Consiering Ganymee refusesto play his rules, and all.

[onceaviking]

"Decapitation? "

Eric is a somple guy on as much as he likes simple solutions to his problems. And problems in general.

[the_cupbearer]

"No one's ever gotten close enough," Ganymede replies with a soft sigh. "Trust me, Eric, in almost seven thousand years...I know."

[onceaviking]

"Really?"

It just seem so defeatist to not even plot something.

"Is his wife after you too?"
He seems to remember that being a reoccurring theme.

[the_cupbearer]

"No, Hera is perfectly content to have nothing to do with me now," he says. "She was less upset at me personally and more that I happened to be the plaything her husband chose over her."

[onceaviking]

"So no roping her into decapitating him either?"

It's hard to tell if he is serious.

[the_cupbearer]

"If she were inclined to listen to anything out of me except dying screams, I'm sure she would," he says. "I haven't so much as looked at her in...a very long time. And I'm not keen to go looking."

[onceaviking]

"Worth looking at?"

Eric is, as already mentioned, in some ways a simple guy.

[the_cupbearer]

"Not if you enjoy waking up again," Ganymede says lightly, with a snort. "Don't involve yourself with that. It isn't something you'll walk away from."

[onceaviking]

Eric sniffs.

"If you say so. I do tend to have a way with the ladies."

[the_cupbearer]

"Is there something about my face that renders me incapable of being taken seriously?" Ganymede asks, finally sitting up.

"She threw her own son off the mountain because he wasn't a cute infant. Her husband castrated and killed his own father, in that order. Exactly what do you think you're going to do, flash a smile or your dick and have Hera bend over backwards because you ask?"

[onceaviking]

Eric manages to roll his eyes at him from his surpine position.

"Yes," he says."it's the curse of being beautiful. Just like people assume that I'm an idiot. That Jesuit priest that used to come here was in shock that I could a)read and b)would want to."

He rolls onto his side.
"And while I am rather amazing in the sack, lots of women bend over backwards because of what they want others to feel when they see them get it good. Be ut their husbands, their parents, or the friends."

A pause.

"It was a joke."

[the_cupbearer]

"Your delivery fell a little flat," Ganymede returns dryly. "It doesn't surprise me that you can or would read at all. You're much smarter than you want people to realize." And so is Ganymede.

He sighs, and turns to Eric, leaning back on his hands. "You know I'm not lying to you. You of all people should know."

[onceaviking]

"Because- I am much smarter than people think?"

[the_cupbearer]

"Because after letting you kill me, if you called me a liar over this I'd strangle you with your own exceptionally clever tongue," Ganymede says.

[onceaviking]

"Hmm," Eric says.

And then, "It is rather clever, isn't it?"

Because vampires do not apologise.

[the_cupbearer]

"You should have been a monk, you're so modest," Ganymede says, dry as dust.