Disclaimer: It's always past midnight when these brilliant ideas come to me... I wonder why that is... <G> Anyway, here's something that started out being the introduction of 'Romeo and Juliet', then had Cable and Stryfe shoved into it. Yes, I rewrote Shakespeare. I'm just *bad*.
Dedication: For Alicia, Deity bless her little heart, in honour of all the work she put into her New and Improved Archive. (Ali, I promise to finish the other one too, but this one just plot-weaseled me)
Verona
by Dyce
Two brothers, both alike
in dignity,
In past and future, where fate lays their scene,
From
ancient grudge break to new mutiny,
With brother's blood make they their
hands unclean.
From forth the fatal hate of these two foes,
A sadly
star-cross'd future takes its life;
Whose misadventured piteous
overthrow
May, with its death, bury its parent's strife.
The fearful
passage of their death-mark'd fate,
And the continuance of their deadly
rage
Which, but their father's end, nought could remove,
Is now the
traffic of history's stage;
The which, if hope with patient ears
attend,
May hit or miss, in toil shall Stryfe to mend.
fin