Remind Him
Oct 12, 2005
Gladiator // Maximus/Lucilla // PG
“What will he be like now?” whispers her brother maliciously. “Will he remember you?” Commodus’s pale eyes bore into her and his voice is like a snake’s. But she can shake off the immediate terror, for there, they come: Aurelius and his Praetorian Guard, the soldiers that protect his body in battle. The Emperor’s banner ripples over their heads, and she keeps herself straight as a spear and replies to her brother: “If not, I shall remind him.”
Commodus laughs, and she hears the jealousy in it. “Who could forget you, dear sister?”
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