Unconditionally (Spartacus FANFIC -- Gannicus/Caesar/OC)

Chapter XXIV

The last few days, I had been at Ilithyia's side Dominus had been worried about her state of mine. I had asked her several times why she continued her pursuit of Crixus, she gave me no answer just vacant stares. I warned her and yet she refused to heed my warnings, I should have known Domina would still use Spartacus. I should have told Dominus, part of this felt like it was my fault though. How was I supposed to know the actions or irrational mind changes of others would result in the death of a prominent Roman woman. 

The woman would ramble for hours when we were alone, speaking of all things vile in this house. Nothing would relax her mind from what she had been lured into doing, and Domina knew something of the sort would happen. Mira thought that maybe Domina was hoping Spartacus would kill Ilithyia removing two of the things she hated most from this world. A thought we both shared.

"They will pay with their lives for this." The woman had told me at one point, it had left my body filled with worry. 

Dominus and Domina had left early in the morning for the days games, I had offered to stay at home and care for the Roman woman. I had found her at one point sitting in the baths, the steam rising off the water as she sat there staring blankly as I walked in sitting outside the water looking at her. 

"These people are monsters." She growled to me, "You warned me...I did not think that hag to be so bold." 

I nodded to her, "Speak plainly with me, I could you as friend, ally, trusted. I would not have you hold back in honest conversation." She told me.

"I should have known Lucretia would have swapped out Crixus for Spartacus. I had thought I convinced her to do otherwise. I would have given warning yet it was too late when I realized what she had done. I was a fool to think she would have kept her word." I told her.

"The fault does not lie with you." She told me, "But with her, the woman is an ill bred snake, and once favor for this house falls, and it will...she will be buried so deep in the rubble..." She told me.

"Domina has always been known to do whatever it is that she pleases, regardless of the consequences. A few of the slaves here, believe she is the one responsible for the death of Titus, Dominus' father. We have no proof other than a slave dying from drinking from the same bottle of poisoned wine." I told her as her eyes widened. "She is bold, is she not?" She questioned me.

"She is." I admitted to her, "Dominus has plan towards holding the boy Numerius' Toga Virilis here at the Villa. They will ask of you to procure people of note to be at the party... for their own gain." I told her as she shook her head. "The nerve... these people have... I will ruin them and Spartacus..." She told me as I nodded, "That I have no doubt of." I told her.

"I just hope you do not plan to fight fire with fire, I could not bare anymore loss." I told her softly, "Anything I do, I promise it is not to hurt you... but to hurt those who hurt me. Though I will not lie to you and say that lives will not end at the result of what I plan on doing." She told me.

"I will not beg for you to do otherwise. I know my place." I told her as she nodded, "If only you were born a proper Roman woman, and of status... I think you might have had a real chance in this life to do great things." She told me. "So I have been told before." I smiled softly to her.