Live For Me

[Agron]

Tag: @duro

blood and battle

ARE ALL I HAVE EVER KNOWN

This conversation was not going to be easy. Agron had already had a difficult one with Nasir. And despite their hug and seeming understanding, Agron's gut told him that the conversation was far from over. But he would not change his mind. Just as he would not change his mind in this either. He wanted the people that he loved to embrace a life of freedom; to live it. Not to keep being dragged into battle because of him. Just because Agron was incapable of living as anything but a warrior, did not mean he wished the same for the two most important people in his life. Duro deserved happiness.

Nasir deserved happiness. And Agron would accept whatever fate met him on this path. Seeing his brother enjoying the celebrations with drink in hand, an assumption that Agron would join Spartacus in leading the others at the Alps . . . Agron hated to break the high spirits. Approaching his dear brother he put a hand on Duro's shoulder. "May I have words?" He asked, nodding to the company that Duro had kept as Agron turned to face him. The older brother forced a smile on his lips, having taken some time before having this conversation since his last with Nasir so that the tears would dry in his eyes. "It warms heart, to see you in such high spirits brother," he told him honestly.

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Tag: Agron

Words

I've wasted time, I've wasted breath

Duro smiled up at his brother. He was not yet drunk enough that he was in danger of losing sense or falling over, but he had imbibed enough to have him in a great amount of cheer.

"You may have all of the words that you wish, brother," Duro said as he faced Agron. Distantly he heard his friends and companions moving away to give him and his brother privacy. He thought it was a respect that was unneeded in this moment. They were all celebrating and preparing for the parting of friends on the morning's rise. That was well known so there was little need for secrecy or privacy in anything right now. At Agron's words, he smiled. "There is much to be joyous over. Tomorrow our brothers will part to make Rome tremble and fall to their knees while others of us gather up those that cannot fight this battle and take them to the mountains and to freedom. It is a good night and though we will miss our brothers and sisters, their fighting spirit and call for blood will give time for the innocent find a safer haven."

He caught sight of his brother's empty hand and shook his head. "You have lost your cup, Agron. That will not do on this last night of togetherness with our very large family. We must find you drink." He held out his cup. "You will share mine until we find you another of your very own."

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[Agron]

Tag: @duro

blood and battle

ARE ALL I HAVE EVER KNOWN

Agron felt the guilt weigh heavily on his heart. To know that this conversation would spoil his brother's jovial mood -- just as it had Nasir's -- made Agron wish he did not have to have it. But it would be far worse received coming tomorrow morning rather than now. Still, it took the older brother time to gather the courage to do it. Continuing to force a smile on his lips, attempting to look at his brother with anything but sadness. He had raised him, fought to protect him and now . . . he was letting him go. It was not easy. This was perhaps the hardest thing he would ever have to do. But necessary. He wanted Duro to live. Not just fight.

Duro deserved that. Agron put his hand on Duro's that held the cup extended to him and gently urged it towards him with a slight shake of his head. "I would be of a clear mind tonight," he told him. Agron did not drink excessively but enough tonight, in such an uplifted mood by all . . . he would not partake. He let a moment of silence linger, looking at Duro with affection for his brother. Incredible love for the man who had become so strong. "I am proud of you, Duro," Agron said, words thick with sincerity. He did not say that enough. "Of the man you have become." Not just the warrior, but of the man he was. "It is that strength I see in you, that I find my own to ask this of you." He knew that Duro would be ok.

That he would use that strength to aid Spartacus and Nasir and the others to see those to proper freedom. Agron took a deep breath, his throat dry despite lacking desire for anything to quench it. "Come tomorrow, I will not be with those who move beyond the Alps." A reveal, that he would go with Crixus. When Agron had said this to Nasir, his partner had assumed that he would go with him. Agron wished to dismiss the same assumption from Duro; knowing that it would be even more difficult to tell him otherwise twice. "Yet I ask that you remain among them." The words said, impossible to hold back emotion in them though they were determined in their purpose.

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Tag: Agron

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I've wasted time, I've wasted breath

Duro was caught off guard by his brother's words. He knew, of course he knew, that his brother was proud of the things he had done since slavery, the arenas, the rebellion... everything. Just, Agron did not often talk freely as he did now. Never before had Duro needed those words as he could always see the things his brother did not say. One did not spend your entire life with someone and not learn how to read them. They had often communicated without words, but now... now this was strange. Something was weighing heavily on his brother and it filled Duro with concern.

When further words came, all thought of drinking and revelry faded.

"I am no child to be sent away to safety, Agron. I am a Gladiator and a warrior! More importantly, I am your brother and my place is on the field of battle with you. Always together, remember? It is what we do."

He was wounded that his brother would treat him as a child and try to send him over the mountains to safety while Agron bled for their people. Had he not proven himself a warrior over and over again? Had he not earned the right to fight for freedom every bit as much as the rest of them did?

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[Agron]

Tag: @duro

blood and battle

ARE ALL I HAVE EVER KNOWN

Alaways together. Agron felt the sentiment of the words as a sad smile formed on his lips. "Not in this," he told him. Similar words spoken to Nasir. Agron knew he was fucking fortunate to have two men in his life who were so devoted. But it was exactly why he could not let it be him who condemned them. He loved them both far too much to allow them to be dragged down by this war. "It is not lack of confidence I hold in you Duro that prompts me to ask this of you," he assured him. Agron reached forward, his hand going on the back of his brother's head with his thumb on Duro's cheek.

"There is no greater pride I feel, than seeing the man you have become." Seeing his brother to be such a strong warrior, and furthermore, possessing such a strength of heart. "But I will not let this war condemn you. I can not let it consume your life when I know there is more for you than blood and battle." Agron had raised him, and felt responsible for him in every way possible. "I set you upon this path since you were a child." The guilt of it weighing heavily on him. "Now is my chance to free you of it. So that you may embrace a life you deserve. Not one where I have thrust thought of war upon you." Duro deserved better; he deserved to be happy.  

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Tag: Agron

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I've wasted time, I've wasted breath

Duro couldn't believe what he was hearing; the things that his brother was saying. No, the absolute fucking shit that was falling from his brother's mouth. How could he think that Duro would ever not want to follow him into battle or wherever else he might go? They were family and family stayed together. For them to have gone through such hell and survived when others did not... for Agron to try to make him do this was not pleasing to him.

"Then ask me for something that makes sense, Agron. Ask me not for something that means I run away from battle like a coward." Especially when he should be with his brother and watching his back.

Feeling Agron try to comfort him in this like he always had broke Duro's heart.

"None of what happened was your doing, Agron! Even when I was a child you did everything that you could to take care of us both and keep me safe. War was not thrust upon me by you at any time! It was enemy that set my foot to this path, but my heart that keeps me steadfast upon it."

It didn't make any sense that Agron would not have his person with him and Nasir in battle. Had he not proven over and over again how skilled and adaptive he was when the enemy was at them. If anyone had the right to see a safe and peaceful life, it was Agron. He had taken care of him for so long, but now Duro was his own man. Agron had a life to hold onto and to stay alive to see it. Duro... truthfully, Duro had no one. If he fell in battle, he would leave behind no broken heart like Agron would.

"Do not... do not speak to me like this, Agron. Do not ask me to stay behind while you leave to face blood and battle."

Notes: He has a lot of emotions and hurtful words that he is fighting to hold in.

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[Agron]

Tag: @duro

blood and battle

ARE ALL I HAVE EVER KNOWN

With each passing word, Agron felt the ache in his heart intensify. He felt the pain of having to part ways with his brother, when he had fought so hard to remain at his side. But he wished for Duro to live. He wished for him to embrace life and not just fight for survival. It was the same hope, the same wish Agron held for Nasir. And with Agron's presence in both their lives, he felt it was fucking impossibility for them to do so. Honored that they would follow him into battle, but he knew now more than ever that he had to let them go.

He loved them both enough to let them go. Agron reached out to gently squeeze Duro's shoulder. "There is no act of cowardice in turning away from this battle." Spartacus, Nasir, Gannicus, all of them would cease fighting and go beyond the Alps. Agron held none of them to title of coward, and he wished for Duro to not name himself one either. Despite Duro's protests, Agron knew that he had failed Duro. He was meant to be his protector, and they had wound up enslaved by the Romans. Had they not been, then things would be different. "Then I ask for your mind now, to see reason in this.

To live the life we once had absent slavery and fucking war." They had always been fighters; always been warriors. But here, they were rebel soldiers. "Live to honor what I can not embrace," he continued to tell him. Taking a slow breath, Agron could feel the sting of tears in his eyes, fighting to hold them back. "Decision is made," he said with a strong voice, though he could not stop the emotion from seeping through it either. "You move with Spartacus. Aid him, for the journey will require fighting men." Several of them were going with Crixus, so they would need all the able bodied men that they could get.

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Tag: Agron

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I've wasted time, I've wasted breath

Duro was shaking with tension and emotion as he listened to his brother organize his life and his actions for him even while making plans to sacrifice his life on the battlefield far away from him. How could Agron accept Nasir fighting at his side but send away his own brother? How could he think that Duro would be at ease with being left behind by both blood brother and near brother?

"Decision is not fucking made," Duro growled. The only reason he did not shout out his temper and rage was because he did not want to bring unwanted attention to this fight. "You do not get to decide my life or my future for me, Agron. You do not have the right to try to order me to set put upon path that is not listed as my own."

Under any other circumstance, Duro would stay with Spartacus and fight at his side no matter what. However, in this he and Agron were not of agreement.

"Spartacus has given us everything since the ludus fell. He has done all to keep his brothers at his side and has shown us path to freedom and now you seek to do what? Die on a battlefield with someone you have claimed to always be at odds with while trying to order me to stay behind and in safety like I am some kind of dog held to leash by master?"

Notes: German Bro Temper Unleashed

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