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Who: Thanatos and Peitho
What: First Meetings
When: Ancient Greece
Where: Some mortal's residence
Warnings: Mentions of death and dying

Thanatos always felt like he could be everywhere and nowhere. He'd sat besides the Fate's wheel not moments ago, trading jokes with Atropos, when she'd given that look that had him suddenly be within a mortal's bedchamber. He could see the strand, and Atropos' scissors hovering over it. Soon then. He walked closer to the mortals bed, already having been touched by his brother's presence. He looked young, this mortal, and for a moment Thanatos sighed.

He allowed himself to enjoy taking those who were in his brother Geras' claws more. Not that it would stop him. The decision was final. Quietly he crossed over to the side of the man's bed, setting his sword aside to start his vigil. It was then he felt the presence of another immortal. Curiously he looked around, it didn't feel like family so he was wondering who else roamed the rooms of the dying.

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[info]formortalhearts
2011-04-09 05:36 am UTC (link) Track This
Peitho had found the man watching her as she bathed in the sea and from there she'd taken him as he newest lover. He was a beautiful thing, young and alive, and he worshiped her as she deserved.

But she didn't sleep as he did, and that was the time Peitho used to do other things. On that night when she returned she didn't expect another god there.

"Who are you?" Peitho asked as she watched the man in the darkness. He was completely unfamiliar to her, one she'd never met.

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[info]a_gentle_death
2011-04-09 05:47 am UTC (link) Track This
He didn't know this Goddess. Not family. Not Olympian. Not like him at all, so an unknown. Not that he ever got to know many Gods. They all avoided him.

Calmly he sat on the edge of the mortal's bed, watching the thread before looking to her. "Thanatos." He gave a bow of his head before looking back to the mortal, studying him, before looking to the Goddess. "I do not know your name."

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[info]formortalhearts
2011-04-09 05:51 am UTC (link) Track This
The man gave his name as Death and Peitho understood then why she had never met him. She had no room in her world for death.

"Peitho," she told him, her eyes on his in the darkness, curious and wary of this new figure.

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[info]a_gentle_death
2011-04-09 06:04 am UTC (link) Track This
"Ah," meeting other Gods was always awkward. Especially one calling herself persuasion. At least it wasn't Heracles or Apollo again. Why they assumed they could turn him away from those who needed him was beyond him.

He cleared his throat then, "you have time to say your farewells if this mortal has your favor." He couldn't do much more. Every strand had it's length. This one was at it's end.

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[info]formortalhearts
2011-04-09 06:05 am UTC (link) Track This
Peitho looked at her young man and then frowned at Thanatos. "No," she said with a shake of her head. "I'm not finished with him." He wasn't going to die while he was still of interest to her.

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[info]a_gentle_death
2011-04-09 06:10 am UTC (link) Track This
He blinked to the goddess words and sighed, "his time is at an end. Soon he will walk into the halls of Hades. Say your farewells goddess." He looked back to the mortal, knowing he wouldn't wake again. His twin was always kind to those Thanatos would visit.

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[info]formortalhearts
2011-04-09 06:13 am UTC (link) Track This
No, Peitho would not allowed this. She approached Thanatos and laid her hand upon his chest as she'd done with a hundred Gods and looked into his eyes. "You have no need to take this man," she whispered, filling her words with the full force of her magic. "He will live and you may leave this place. We thank you for your kind visit, but it will not be required."

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[info]a_gentle_death
2011-04-09 06:21 am UTC (link) Track This
She approached him and he wondered what she was doing. Then she was close and he looked into her eyes. Then he raised an eyebrow. What was she doing? "Yes. It is required." They may not see the strands at the ends, but he did. "Lady I do not make the rules. His strand was measured, and will now be cut by the decree of the Fates." Gently he set his hands on her arms and rose to put some distance between them so he could pick up his sword. "I cannot leave this place without completing my duty." He glanced to the mortal and leaned closer.

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[info]formortalhearts
2011-04-09 06:24 am UTC (link) Track This
Peitho stepped back, visibly shocked that he was refusing her. She could see that her words and her magic had not even had the slightest effect on Thanatos which wasn't possible.

"You-" she stared at him in disbelief. "How do you say no to me?" The matter of the mortal was forgotten already. There were thousands of others and Peitho would have any she wished, but a God who could refuse her commands and desires? That was a first. Was Peitho losing all that she had?

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[info]a_gentle_death
2011-04-09 06:34 am UTC (link) Track This
When she stepped back he focused on the mortal. Gently he set his hand on the mortal's forehead the second he saw the shears clip the strand. Careful not to hurt the mortal he lowered his sword and cut off a lock of the mortals hair. Only then did he straighten and set the sword into it's scabbard and the lock into the folds of his robes.

At her question he smiled, "lady. I am Death. Brother to the Keres, twin to Sleep. I am the mortals' relief to pain, the gentle touch to lead them into the halls of Hades." He gave her a rueful smile, "from this task I cannot be persuaded," he emphasized the word for her benefit, "to stray. All mortals have their time. Not even Almighty Zeus could stay my hand."

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[info]formortalhearts
2011-04-09 06:36 am UTC (link) Track This
"None say no to me," Peitho whispered, feeling a odd sense of helplessness that she'd never experienced. "None have ever said no to me."

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[info]a_gentle_death
2011-04-09 06:44 am UTC (link) Track This
Now he felt awkward. "Well. I suppose I am the one exception then." He tried to smile never knowing how to make others feel comfortable around what he was.

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[info]formortalhearts
2011-04-09 06:48 am UTC (link) Track This
Peitho took a few steps back from Thanatos, deeply uncomfortable with the sheer idea that someone was immune to her charms. Her expression read all her confusion at it. Even Zeus could not deny her, but this man can.

Finally she asked, "why? Why is it that Death can ignore the words of Persuasion?" She gathered her thoughts then and approached him, standing before him and meeting his eye. "Kiss me," she commanded, testing to see if it worked.

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[info]a_gentle_death
2011-04-09 06:57 am UTC (link) Track This
He shrugged. He didn't know why really. He figured it was part of how he was. When she came near him he was more then uncomfortable. Her command drew a frown from him. "Lady, you're pretty, no doubt, but I have no desire to kiss you." He stepped back. "I doubt it is you Lady. More then likely it is me."

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[info]formortalhearts
2011-04-09 06:59 am UTC (link) Track This
Peitho stepped back again, her mouth falling open in sheer shock. "You- I-" She blinked rapidly. "This is a twisting of the ways of the world."

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[info]a_gentle_death
2011-04-09 07:04 am UTC (link) Track This
"Or it is exactly how the world must be." He shrugged again, really wanting to leave. She made him feel very uncomfortable, and he wasn't at all sure what to do around other gods. "I need to go. Others need me. I'm sorry for making you uncomfortable."

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[info]formortalhearts
2011-04-09 07:08 am UTC (link) Track This
Peitho said nothing but made a gesture with her hand to tell him to leave her. Before he even moved she'd turned on back on him, long dark hair fading into the night. She didn't want him there anymore. She wanted no God or mortal to see her right then.