Not My Immortal [Apollo]

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Artemis wasn't sure if it was the loneliness she was suddenly experiencing, or if it was sheer boredom. But for the past few days, she really felt like there needed to be more for her. More than just Tintagel Academy, and hunting. Sure, it was who she was, Artemis, the Goddess of the Hunt. Everyone knew that. Everyone who's ever spoken with her, anyway. But she needed...closure, of some sort. Closure that didn't involve a drink and a one-night stand with a handsome stranger.

Closure that involved her brother and twin. She truly missed Apollo. So much, in fact, that she was willing to go begging on her knees for forgiveness from him. She needed to know she was forgiven. What she did was absolutely abominable and she regretted it, every single second of it. If she could go back in time, she would not have given in. If there was a way to get her virginity back, she would find that way, be it by magic or by other means. She just wanted her brother back.

The thrill of the hunt tended to come and go as it pleased with Artemis. Her companions, of course, were dear to her, but even they could not provide her the comfort she desired. The poor dears probably didn't even know what was wrong with Artemis. At least they knew the goddess would never, under any circumstances, abandon them.

Also, Hermes was quite possibly planning her slow and painful...un-death right this second. Hadn't he had beef with Apollo before? It was quite amusing how the revenge went from one twin to the other. So, the only other way for Artemis to release this bottled up...whatever she was feeling, would be to shoot arrows at something, one after another, like at a marathon of shooting arrows. Her pent-up angry, remorse, longing, everything. Letting it out was good. Better than exploding the nearest human or something.

Actually, the nearest human looked an awful lot like..."Apollo?" ...had she just said that aloud? Great.

[Apollo]

The sound of someone saying his name cause the arrow he had been attempting to launch veer off to the side and embed itself in the wall. Turning to glare at whoever it was he upped the wattage of it when he realised it was his traitorous sister. The sun god had been aiming at the small group of students currently playing basketball however her words had destroyed that opportunity. His little illness was making the rounds of the student body and with every one that got ill he felt better. How funny that they didn’t realise that the one thing that caused them pain, the light of the sun, was the one thing that if they endured it long enough, would cure them. It was a cruel little illness that he was enjoying sending out to the masses.

He couldn’t harm Hermes.

He couldn’t harm Artemis.

But curse it all he could harm the mortals they cared for.

“Sister,” he said coldly, loading the bow with another arrow, “you are looking well.”

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She didn't know what to say at first. Here was Apollo, standing right in front of her, not strangling her. And she wasn't able to say a damn thing to him. Nice job, Arty. But what was she supposed to say? Tell him that she missed him? He probably knew that already, and wouldn't give a care about the fact. He had made it abundantly clear that if she slept with Hermes, she wasn't his sister anymore. Something like that hurt to hear, much more to go through with it and then know it.

Good thing he was smart enough to speak first, because that definitely put her out of her silent misery for a bit. Approaching him, Artemis attempted a smile at him, hoping that perhaps her sisterly duties would kick in and make him see that they needed one another. She threw her arms around his neck in an embrace. "Brother," Artemis said, half-exclaiming it. Pulling back, she wondered if he was still angry with her. Then again, who was kidding? This was Apollo, the God of the Sun. He was the most heated of them all. Of course he was still angry. Perhaps he could find it in his heart to forgive his sister.

The cold tone with which he spoke was ignored by Artemis. Well, that answered her questions about his anger. "I am well. Better than one could hope for, anyway, but not as well as I once was," she admitted, watching him attempt to brush her off like she wasn't even there. Well, that wasn't nice.

Narrowing her eyes, Artemis silently summoned her own bow and arrow and quickly shot his arrow away before it could hit the group of mortals. "Apollo, please, listen to me. Don't ignore me like this." If it was the only way to get him to hear her out, then so be it.

[Apollo]

Not as well as she once was? Good.
 
It was a terrible thing to think and it was in his mind before he could chase it out, but good, he was glad that she was hurting. He hadn’t heard, he didn’t know if Hermes had been successful but he could guess that he had been. He always got what he wanted. Given Artemis’ attitude he assumed that it hadn’t been a wonderful beautiful thing that would last millenniums.
 
Heartbreak. Good. Maybe she would understand now.
 
Pulling the arrow back he let loose firing it towards a group of girls up in the stands. They all clutched their chests for a moment before carrying on as normal. Apollo smirked.
 
“Why should I listen to you?” he said reaching back for another arrow, “You made it quite clear who’s side you were on and I have come to terms with that.”
 
Loading the bow he said, “Besides, Auntie ‘Dite is in town, she’s all the family I need.”

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Did he have to be so frustrating all the time? It's not like she was trying to attack his fortress, or even making out a peace treaty with him. They were brother and sister. Twins. When they started building walls to keep each other out, then it would be a time to worry. And Artemis was afraid that...she should start worrying.

Scowling at him, when even her poor attempts to stop him from what he was doing, to listen to her, Artemis put a hand to her hip. "I am not on the side which you think I am, Apollo," Artemis stated plainly, slightly narrowing her eyes at him. "IF anything I have always been on your side."

"I don't understand why this offends you so much." Really, it was something that Artemis should be dealing with. Not he. It hardly made much sense at all. "I get it. The whole...giving a new meaning to 'sleeping with the enemy', but how can I have offended you so much that you do attempt to disown me as your sister? It is something that happened to me, and not to you."

...she probably shouldn't mention that Hermes would like to murder every single part of her immortal self.

"And Aunt 'Dite isn't the one who's been there all of your miserable years, brother. I was."

[Apollo]

“Because your MY sister,” said Apollo, losing his composure completely, rounding on hi sister and stepping in close, “because that little brat has taken everything that is mine, every single day of his life, except you. You were MY sister, MY twin, and now I don’t even have that anymore. Because you chose him, I told you not to do it and you chose him. What has come before doesn’t matter anything because you ruined it all with one stupid decision.”

Turning away from him he loaded another arrow quickly, firing it directly into the heart of a young girl with blonde hair. The girl looked down at her chest expecting to see something there, and looked confused. Shrugging she carried on, giving out a little cough. Apollo smirked for a moment before collapsing down onto the floor, holding his head in his hands.

“No, no, this cant be happening, this isn’t, this isn’t happening,” he muttered.

The light around him flickered a little.

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Artemis narrowed her eyes at her brother as he continued speaking and speaking. He made sense, of course, but she could not understand why he wouldn't forgive her. He knew she regretted it, and yet, he was making her suffer. Why was that? Why did he need to hold a grudge against that?

"You do not make any sense, Apollo," Artemis said at last. "We have...thousands of years of history, and you want to throw all of that away? And do not say that I threw it away, because I didn't. I'm here, practically begging you to let me be your sister again, like I always have been, and you refuse to give me the chance!" He needed to quit being so stubborn. "I love you, and that will hardly change. Why can't you forgive me and...maybe just..say 'I told you so' because I regret doing what I did?"

Apollo then fell to the ground, and Artemis' sister instincts quickly kicked in. She knelt down behind him and her eyes widened. "Apollo? What's wrong? Are you okay?" Something wasn't right. "Apollo?"

[Apollo]

Apollo tried to push her away, he didn’t want her to see this, he didn’t want her around. He didn’t want to be sitting here wishing he could just let her wrap her arms around him and be the big sister he really needed. He scrambled to his feet, willing himself to stay on them and keep his balance. Once he was sure he had it, he checked his hands. The light was still flickering but eventually it sorted itself and remained on. He let out a breath he didn’t know he had been holding.

Looking up at Artemis he said, “…I helped him.”

It wasn’t possible to put any more spite into those three words than Apollo did then, it was as if he almost spat them out. “I didn’t want too, I wanted to see that thing die but I couldn’t do it…I healed it…I helped him,” he said angrily, “and now I’m paying the price. I had a moment of weakness, a moment of pain, I made him make a deal, a terrible awful deal and now I’m being punished for it.”

Pointing up at the sky he shouted, “he is punishing me for it! For hurting the damn BRAT!”

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Artemis was getting really worried about her brother. something was happening, and there was no way in Hades' lair that Apollo would let her help. He didn't even allow her to get near him, but it wasn't his choice now, was it. He was her brother, and though he may hate her, he was the one person she knew she could always trust. Artemis wanted that back. All of whatever sibling relationship they had.

Frowning at Apollo's words, Artemis tilted her head. "Helped who?" There was no response, so Arty tried again. "Apollo, who did you help?"

Who in Zeus' name could Apollo be talking about? Even after he made his way through full sentences, Artemis couldn't guess who her brother was talking about. It was obvious that it was about another god. And which other god could have...a thing? "Hermes," Artemis finally said, glancing at Apollo questioningly.

"What kind of deal did you make, brother? Who is punishing you? Zeus?" If only he would tell her things so she wouldn't keep guessing.