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Achilles stood up straight and puffed his already big chest out in a sense of pride.

"Certainly not! When have you ever known me to get...'cold feet...about anything? I have faced the mightiest warriors in the fields of battle and you think a little thing like...proposing...to Patroclus...might...."

Achilles lurched over with his head between his knees and started hyperventilating! That was when Chris popped back and Achilles straightened upright, his face glistening with a sudden persperation.

" You'll be fine Achilles.'

Cassie kisses Achilles on the cheek and goes back to sitting next to Wally.

Achilles followed his sister back into his room, almost like a lost puppy. The sound of the shower was heard from behind the bathroom door as Pat was obviously cleaning off the remnants of the little impromptu food war.

"B-b-but what if he says no?"

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Billy:

"What spell?"

" I'm sure you'll find a way to convince him... Besides you're my brother who could resist you...?"

Cassie winks at him and then starts cleaning up the mess in the room. Once she's done she looks at Achilles.

" Anyways I should get back to my room. Let me know how it goes."

Cassie gives Achilles a big hug.

" Dear brother, Patroculus loves you just as you love him. Have some faith."

With that Cassie leaves towards her own dorm room.

Picking up where his sister left off, and giving Chris a helping hand, Achilles was lost in thought as to the current situation. His first instinct was to do exactly what Hades demanded, and that was to become his champion. He knew Patroclus would have to return to Troy. He hated it. He mourned that fact, but he understood that it was simply inevitable. He only had the potential comforts of knowing that his love would possibly make other visits t him, and that there would come a time they would spend their eternity together in the Elysian Fields.

That was, if Hades took offense to any refusal on his part. Punishment against himself would not happen. As the son of Zeus and Thetis, Hades would not dare, but Patroclus...

He had no such safety net in the afterllife. His parents were mortals, and thus Hades would do anything he damned well pleased if he so desired. it would be the one effective way to punish Achilles for any offense, and it would be the hardest to accept...knowing he had been the one to cause it. What could Hades do? He could place him in the prisons of Tartarus, guarded by the Furies themselves. He could reduce him to the eternal punishments that other transgressors had been victimized with. Or worst yet, he could deny him any such passage to his realm, and condemn Patroclus to walking the shores of the Styx as a meaningless shade.

That was why Achilles had been prepared to do as demanded, and protect the one who was closest to his heart. It was why he was prepared to risk Athena's displeasure. Now his sister, his beloved and crafty sister, had cooked up an idea of her own that would protect the man who she had come to love as her own flesh and blood. The risks were there, but the plan was brilliant to say the least.

Eros was the god of universal love and passion. He suspected strongly that it was Eros himself that united Patroclus and himself all those years ago. A union sanctified by one such as he would be unyielding, even by Hades himself. And he had his darling little sister to thank.

Still, there was one problem; what if Patroclus denied his request for a holy union between them? They had already been 'united' by Thetis herself. Would he be willing to go one further with the god of love?

Achilles set aside a pile of garbage and asked Powell without thinking,

"Christopher, if I were to ask you to wed me, would you?"

*Chrs, who had his head under a desk trying to snag a crab rangoon that was thrown, jumped at Achilles's question and smacked his head on the underside of the desk.*

OW!

*He fell flat on his stomach.*

What!?

Karen washed up and called Anakin, long, long distance... like planetary.

"Uh Hi. Anakin? It's Karen. I'm not really sure what your doing for your Winter break, but I was wondering If you weren't too busy."

She pauses, biting her lips nervously.

"Would you like to meet my parents?"

Cassie looked over at Eros and smiled.

" I knew you were around. So anyways I was hoping you wouldn't mind performing Achilles and Patrosulus's wedding... that is as soon as Achilles gets the nerve to ask him..."

Cassie opens her door.

" Come on in... I'm sure my roomie won't mind."

Cassie waves to Dani.

" Dani, Eros..Eros, Dani."

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Anakin had been relaxing in his room near the galactic senate building on Coruscant. He wanted to see his mother back on Tatooine it was then he looked at his phone. He got a call all the way from earth..it must be Karen. Yes!... She wanted him to meet her parents ..? That was a good thing right? Still it could go one out two ways... good or bad. There really was no in between... plus what if they asked how they met?What would he say? ... ' We meet when I snuck into your daughter's room to steal her pannies?' Oh yeah that would go well.

" Umm.. Sure I would love to meet your parents."

Doh! What if they don't like him? What if their one of those earthlings who think all aliens were evil invaders trying to take over their planet? Anakin was a bit nervous... he still didn't know all of earth's customs..

" Though it is kinda soon... I mean is there anything I should know? I'm afraid I'm still a bit of a novice when it comes to earth's customs."