Prologue

"Look at me"

I said, my voice strained because of all the pain I knew he was causing her. I couldn't even scream anymore. I couldn't shout out how much I cared or even show. It was too late. I had lost her and I was numb.

The clouds began to come together casting a gray glow onto the earth and a low rumble echoed all throughout the land. Thunder.

"I love you, I love you more than anything, Persephone"

She stopped walking and spun around. She was beautiful even when she cried. Her cream white skin was blushed from crying and her usually big green eyes were piercing and watery. I watched her cheek as tears slid down from it. Those were the tears I had caused her.

"Love me?" She said at first looking at me with such disgust that I, even a god, felt ashamed.

"Love me?" She asked again her voice increasing with severity.

"You love me more than anything!?" she screeched her voice drilling into my ears. "If you had any ounce of love for me, Hades, you would never do such a thing. You ruined it all!"

"Perseph-"

"NO HADES!" She yelled and cried out and my heart broke in half. I really was a monster. "Do you know how much I loved you? I- I still love you. I trusted you. I am your w-wife and you cheat on me with some nymph? My friend? What in the name of Tartarus has gotten into you? She cried and sputtered her body trembling and shaking with each heart wrecking sob.

The rain began to fall down in a drizzle. The grass and flowers in the field around us seemed to turn brown and die. It was Persephone. I had broken her. I was killing her.

I reached out and tried to grab her, to feel her warm skin around me and cherish her, my Persephone so full of life and happiness, so in love with me. She hesitantly pulled away and took large steps away from me. For the first time in forever, I felt that thick sensation rise in my throat and my vision began to blur. I felt a liquid fall down my cheeks and I quickly wiped it away. I was crying. I, the king of the gods, most feared by everyone, was crying.

"You cannot leave me, Persephone. You are bound to me by our marriage." I felt ashamed of myself to resort to these fear tactics now but I couldn't help it. I needed her. Maybe with time I could fix it to her. I could work to show my loyalty and devotion to her. We had eternity together.

The rain began to pour harder now drenching her dress and making it hug to her body pleasingly. She continued crying and burring her face in her hands. "How do you expect me to live with you? You're a monster."

When she uttered those words they went straight into my chest inflicting such pain that I couldn't even contemplate could happen to a god. I knew I was a monster but hearing it come from my beloved lips? It was worse than anything. I felt a knife slide into my chest right into my heart.

Trying to ignore the pain was difficult but I straightened my shoulders. It was okay to do this. All his brothers had cheated on their wives, multiple times. But he was not another god. He was Hades and he was more mature than his brothers. How could he have let this happen?

"I will not do this again. I won't ever. Just come back home to me. Please." Maybe if I begged for my queen to come back then she would oblige. She stared at me for a few moments as I said this without crying and then burst into tears again.

"I can't come back to you. We wouldn't be the same." She said softly her voice as mellow as the dead flowers around us once were. They were the same words I dreaded hearing from her. "We would never be the same, no matter how much time goes by." With those words I felt further more main in my chest. Desperation flooded through me and I finally felt the rain on my skin. It was cold and annoying and it seemed to go right through my body. I felt the cold inside me now.

"Give us time. I will work for your trust, my love."

"You can try that. You said I am bound to you by marriage, I know one thing that can ruin that." Despite her face being crestfallen, I saw a familiar glint of spark and energy that I knew my Persephone had. She was a crafty one.

Since I knew all the rules and laws I knew exactly what she was talking about. Death. If one partner dies then they are not bound eternally anymore. However she was a pure goddess. She couldn't die.

I chuckled at her courage. "You are going to die? I am King of the Dead. I will not allow you to. Besides you are a goddess."

Instead of retreating, she stuck up her nose and held out her hand an ominous looking dark violet flower appearing in the palm of her hand. "Yes, Hades, but as you once told me, there are loopholes aren't there?"

My body screamed to stop. I wanted to jump right in front of her and take that flower out. I knew what it was. I knew her mother had showed her which flowers to stay away from. That flower puts you in eternal sleep. I would never be able to wake her up and she would be as good as dead.

For a whole second, I watched as she put the flower in her mouth. I know I screamed. I know I ran straight into her. I know I tried to use my powers on her but it was too late. Her eyes rolled over and with a thump, her body fell to the ground.

"Persephone?" I said shaking her body. She seemed lifeless. "My love, wake up. Don't do this to me." Tears reached my eyes and I could feel my self crying.

"Persephone?!" Lightning and thunder spread through the whole sky. I screamed her name even louder.

What had I done? Her body wasn't warm. It was cold. She looked dead. For the first time in eternity, I looked up at the sky with Persephone in my hands and screamed wishing I had never existed before, the world creating cracks and fissure all throughout the land.