Getaxreader Stories

❝If you cannot catch a fish, do not blame the sea.❞ - Greek Proverb Everyday, you woke up and performed the steps necessary to complete your routine. It was monotonous, like clockwork, as you traveled down the tracks laid out for you since birth. With a mind uncontested, you found yourself graduating college before you were legally an adult, and at the behest of your controlling parents, you continued on to medical school, then further on into a surgical residency at a nearby hospital. You had always wanted to help people and this was the best way to do it. So, why, with everything you had ever wanted at your fingertips, were you so unhappy? Maybe that was why when you awoke in the past, surrounded by farmland instead of your blankets that you decided to 'just roll with it' rather than scream. That was your motto now as you were unceremoniously dropped from your assigned path onto untrodden ground with no hope of going back. So, even when you saved the life of a soldier and were carted off into the heart of the corrupt Roman Empire to be the twin emperor's new physician, you barely batted an eye. After all, you would do anything to save your patients.

"I have learned to command armies, to bend the will of men... yet I find myself powerless before you. Your words, your presence, even the smallest glance-it unsettles me more than any battle ever could. And though I know I should keep my distance, I cannot. I do not wish to." A story between Lucretia Bellona and Emperor Geta. Slow burn

"You're clouding my mind - just the thought of you is enough to make me lose all sense of balance. I'm powerless against it." The Emperor's taster and the Emperor himself Geta. [It gets better, i promise] slowburn

"In his eyes, I see the future of my city-but in his touch, I feel the loss of everything I've fought for." Alessandra Vescovi is Venice's most captivating courtesan, known for her beauty, intelligence, and the delicate balance she maintains between love and power. When Emperor Geta visits to secure trade routes, their unexpected connection evolves into something deeper, threatening both her loyalty to Venice and her heart.

After Avis is brought to Rome as a slave and loses everything, she encounters the Emperors Geta and Caracalla. Her life has changed drastically, and not always for the better. She needs time to accept everything. not historically accurate as it is based on the film and not on the historical brothers.

"White is the symbol of purity" she said, leading you over to your full length mirror. Looking at her in the reflection, she continued. "You will be the small few who will wear white, and for it to mean something." Before you could ask her to explain this further, as if she had read your mind through the reflection of the mirror she cut in. Placing the golden cuff over the tips of your fingers, not yet slipping it over your hand and onto your wrist. "They will know, and they will be curious for something they've never had"

You are struck with an illnes, laying in the dark and quiet bedroom. You focused on the feeling of his hands to keep you grounded as you started to feel yourself slip away slowly in and out of consciousness. You imagined him in the moment, sat on the cusp of the bed beside you in his toga, and you could hear his faint breathing past the throbbing of your mind and body.

Here he stood before you, with something off about him. He looked down at you with those impossibly dark eyes, the first thing you noticed about him when you first met at the altar on your wedding day. Looking into them you often thought how a man's eyes could be so dark, cold and yet warm. If you could swim in his deep eyes to learn the currents of him you would, part of you wanted to just be closer with him, maybe you hoped there was more to him than before and you just had to go searching for it.

The Emperor is not used to being denied. He'll come to find even the most beautiful flowers carry thrones. Drawing his intrigue is dangerous and no prickle will stop him. (Written inclusively, no race mentioned or implied)