Author's Note: Yes, new fic. About Hades and Persephone this time. I intend to make this one longer than my last.

Disclaimer: USE COMMON SENSE PEOPLE.

Summary: In my studies I've learned that it is a common misconception that Hades is evil. He is actually known to be more passive than aggressive, and pursed the common good of all. So, here's a retelling of his abduction of Persephone.


Misconceptions

Though many may say otherwise...Hades was not an evil tyrant such as you've been told. No, he is what one might call 'by-the-book'. The 'book' being the Fates, of course.

Hades, ah Hades, he hid from all. Not in the traditional 'hide-and-seek' sense that you may think of, but he was meant to be the unseen, he separated himself from others. Always alone. You would imagine that he would be lonely...

You would be right.


To take his mind off of his impenitent misery in Erebus, Hades would go to the world above, and venture about. In these times, he would seek out his brothers and sisters. Often their offspring as well.

Usually, these escapades proved a waste of his infinite time...But today, oh today was different.

He had heard of Demeter and Zeus' daughter. 'Kore', they called her. He had never met her before, why, she must have been grown by now.

The day had become far too bright than what Hades was used to, in the darkness of his Underworld. He would soon find that he didn't mind the light of Helios. For before his eyes, between the trees he'd been walking through, in a meadow, picking flowers, was she, and she burned far brighter than the sun. For the first time in far too long, Hades felt alive.

She was like a dream, she glowed, her hair spun with gold, and he wanted her to light the dark abattoir of his realm. When her delicate, porcelain hands picked flowers colored a violet that was put to shame by a mere glance of her eyes. Her face, lovely and heart-shaped, with lips like rose petals, what they must be like to kiss.

In that moment that took all meaning from everything that he had done prior in his existence, Hades realized why Demeter had been so persistent on hiding her daughter away from all the Olympians. After the epiphany faded, he saw that she wasn't alone. Two nymphs accompanied her.

Hades didn't know whether to approach her or not, what would happen, how he should respond to it. In fact, there was only one thought that he truly was sure of, he had to have her.


Now Hades had spent his leisure time watching her. He spent his days in the Underworld pacing, thinking about her.

He simply couldn't remove her from his thoughts. So then, his mind was made up. He made another, abrupt trip to the Overworld, not to see her this time, but to seek counsel Zeus.


I would imagine that Zeus would have been surprised, that the Ruler of the Underworld, epitome of solitude, had come to him to asking to take Persephone, Goddess of Spring, Bringer of New Life, as his Queen.

Then came the booming voice of Zeus, "Hades, dear brother, Persephone, my daughter, is as unlike you as could be. Why is it she you choose as your bride?"

Hades remained silent.

"Well, then. You have your reasons as to why you don't answer. So, Hades, as my brother, given Erebus, rule of the dead, you are far more than what I could hope for a suitor. You want Persephone as your Queen? So be it." Zeus gave Hades no room to reply, not that he would have either way. "I'll assist you in capturing her, lure her to the meadows with the most enchanting flowers. When she plucks the first sprig, she shall be swallowed by the ground, and you will take her in a golden chariot to her new kingdom."

Hades seemed satisfied, so Zeus did as well. He sent Hades away, and went to work on their trap.


The flowers were truly a marvel. Kore had smelt their sweet aroma before she even laid eyes on them. The nymphs following her had thought so as well.

"Ah, what a joyous sight! A tender beauty that I should miss do they leave me the day that follows. It would be a sin against my gracious Father and Mother that I leave this wonder for myself! To take a single flower with me would harm the others not." As she said this, her delicate, porcelain hands, that our reader should be well acquainted with, reached down and took a sole blossom from the patch.

Not a moment later, the ground shook and cracked open. The nymphs shrieked and ran, while Kore, never dropping her lovely flower, cried out, "Oh, what have I done?! To take from Gaia what is so precious that it may devour me in it's place!"

She fell then. Down into the black abyss. Her eyes were shut tight to conceal from her mind the horrors that she may see. In so, she unwillingly fell into sleep.

Hades did appear then, and caught in his arms a sleeping beauty, a Queen, her.