Its The Classic Prompt: Sharing A Bed!!

its the classic prompt: sharing a bed!!

more like sharing the floor though

Wow what a great idea Neoptolemus Mestor!!!!

Taken from a story from the Trojan War Chronicle by Dictys Cretensis. Within this story Peleus has been thrown from his land. In order to kill the usurpers, Neoptolemus dresses as one of his trojan slaves (Mestor the son of Priam) and proposes the idea that they should wipe out the whole bloodline and kill the sleeping Neoptolemus where he lies in a cave. After leading the traitors to the cave he surprises and kills them, allowing his grandfather to rule his lands once more. 

kaveh remembers returning from the desert, from his project, only to find the akademiya thrown into utter disarray. the sages gone, a large portion of the ground near the sanctuary of surasthana collapsed and crumbling, and rumours spread like wildfire. remembers realizing just how much he’s missed, how much danger alhaitham was in without his even knowing (alhaitham was injured, and he was none the wiser—). remembers hearing divine knowledge capsule and the scribe in conjunction and ice flooding his veins until he finds alhaitham, alive and well, in the house of daena. only then does the cold finally fade.

still. it could’ve so easily gone wrong. he could’ve returned only to find alhaitham dead, or gone, or his sanity shattered.

(there are fates worse than death, kaveh knows. that—that would’ve been one of them.

what is alhaitham, without that cunning, that stubbornness, that surprising deep-seated kindness? what would be left of him, without his mind?

kaveh has nightmares about it sometimes, about how he could have come back to find alhaitham an empty shell of himself, that brilliance so neatly excised. to see him without any of his sharp intellect, to look into his eyes and find no recognition there. for all their disagreements, kaveh does not think he would have been able to withstand that.)

i feel like every fandom needs to have that one mind reading fic wherein a character gains the ability to read someone's mind and like so much stuff is revealed in the process

and i feel like there HAS to be one for Kaveh & Alhaitham but one where only Kaveh gains said ability and Alhaitham doesn't know Kaveh has it.

so Kaveh's like: finally, i know just how badly he thinks of me. but, like, it's just 20.000 words of him trying to get Alhaitham to think a single bad thing about him and he never manages to do it. all Alhaitham thinks are just such mundane small things like "oh, i need to make a copy of that" or "what am i gonna eat today?" and when he does think of Kaveh it's just him being like "why is he mad at me?" or silly stuff like "did his fanclub make a tcg card of him yet?"

of course there's a subplot wherein Kaveh thinks Alhaitham has to know and he does a trillion tests only to find out Alhaitham really has no clue.

and then Kaveh has to face the bitter reality that he's a MASSIVE overthinker and there's a really impactful moment where he realizes Alhaitham's harshest insults only come as reactions to HIS OWN rude quips born from the assumption that Alhaitham secretly hates his guts

PART TWO of my stupid Iliad doodles.

Here's part one.

My boy, My Sonion, Neoptolemus as a proper Hades game fake screenshot