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Prompt6: "Animal I Have Become"(Three Days Grace)
Character(s): Rameses (Beginnings of a headcold)
Warning(s): Implied RamesesxMoses. Takes place after the plaque scene but before Moses walks in to talk with Rameses.
Rameses POV
Why can't things be the way they once were? I once loved you and when you came back to me I thought you were coming back for me but... You weren't, you came back for them to free them. What about me? Without you I have become this animal... An animal that I tried to suppress, a suppression that you've helped kept locked away when my father was still breathing air. Now that I'm the new morning and the evening star the power, the hunger, grows and grows each day each night. Each day when I watch my son play I think of us as we were once young and innocent like him and as night grows darker and I lay with my wife, I think of you beside me and not her. I think about the times you cared for me as I cared for you when you were sick, feeling lost and uncertain because of your newly discovered heritage...and yet as I watch my kingdom crumble beneath my feet, the hatred I feel for you grows stronger and stronger like the caged animal who wants to get out and begins to break free. When I see your face, I feel an emotional stir growing. I want the passion, your touch, your love, but then I also want to kill you, I want to strangle you slit your throat anything!
Moses look! I have become the animal...I've become the animal that you tried so hard to suppress. As I look towards what was once "our"place, I begin to feel drowsy and hot. The pain creeps upon me from my head to my feet. I sadly smile as I know what this means. Funny this is the first time I've gotten ill since becoming Pharaoh and you were always there beside me tending to my every need. So now I have two demons in me. One of which may or may not go away on its own but it is amusing to see those phony healers try...why I don't get rid if them...only Ra knows. The other, is something that started off small...and now it testers within me. No magic nor medicine can heal this... And part of me doesn't want too.
As I breathe in sharply, I instantly regretted it. The congestion reached my nose and since no one was around, I sneezed freely.
"HehChoo Heh-He-Hehchoo...ugh.. HEHCHOO!"
I sniff back wetly as the sneezes are not completely finished with me..
"His-Schoo....HIS-SCHOOO... Oh Ra.. By nose..H-H-HEHSCHHOO..CHOO!"."
I shiver from both this chill and the echoing of my sneezes and the ache intensifies throughout my body and my nose feels raw and sore as I lay my head back upon the cool granite statue. I rub my throat as it hurts to swallow; its almost as dry as the desert sand. The waters are filled with blood from what you wrought upon my kingdom Moses but no matter, I have wine. I drink a little and regret doing so because now my throat feels like it's on fire. I place it down on the arm of the statue and cough harshly into my hand. I feel so weak...so tired...I was once a free human...with expectations to be the next Pharaoh but this beast inside me lay dormant. Then father died and I became the morning and evening star and I had you in my bed. Moses, you allowed this beast inside me to grow and fester like this plague when you left me alone. I hate you...yet I still love you. I allow one stray tear to fall from my now closed eyes...I am an animal look what it has done to my Egypt.
I am an animal Moses..my love..my enemy,you made this way.
Look at the Animal I have become.