Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters contained herein, I merely make them dance in what I hope is true to their rhythm.
Prologue
Zeus looked down at the Earth. He pulled Hera to him and hugged her.
"Haven't we created something magnificent?" he said to her.
She looked at him. "I'm just your wife," she said. "You slept with everything else under the sun to make all this." She shot a glare over at Athena. "And she came out of your thigh! How did you get that to work?"
He shrugged. "I don't know. Where the hell did I come from in the first place? Who made me this way, or did I just spring out exactly like this?"
Hera frowned. "I hate you when you go all philosophical like this."
Zeus grinned at her. "No you don't." He eyed a few of the humans down in the valley below. "Keep an eye on that family there."
Hera looked. "Are you talking about Prometheus and Epimetheus? What's wrong with them?"
Zeus shook his head. "Not just them. It's Pandora we really need to keep an eye on."
Hera threw her hands in the air. "You didn't."
Zeus grimaced. "I did. I gave her curiosity."
She turned to him with her hands on her hips. "You know what curiosity does. Look at what happened to the Egyptians! They worship cats!"
Zeus chuckled. "They definitely should not have gone swimming in the Nile."
Hera turned back to the family of humans. "So you gave Pandora curiosity." She narrowed her eyes at him. "I also see you gave her beauty and wisdom. You gave her beauty and wisdom to rival that of Aphrodite and Athena. How do they feel about that?"
He shrugged. "They're not threatened. They're goddesses, just like you. Pandora is merely a mortal. What can she do?"