Not Your Average Romeo (A Tale Of Hades And Persephone)

by HadesAngel1

(THIS IS NOT ACTUALLY A ROMEO AND JULIET FANFIC, IT IS HADES AND PERSEPHONE) When Persephone makes her way to the Underworld each year, Demeter always fears of what horror she goes through. Little does she know, Persephone has grown to be in love with her originally unwanted husband. Chapter 1 of Not The Average Romeo.

1. The Day

Not The Average Romeo Ch. 01; The Day.

By: HadesAngel1

This story is complete fiction and any resemblance to persons living or dead is strictly a coincidence, this is a fictional work of my complex mind.

It was a cool morning, Persephone realized, as she stepped out onto the grass outside of her home. The leaves were beautifully askew with colors of red and orange. This is the day, she thought. The day she would have to leave her beautiful home and mother for the underworld and her husband Hades. Unknown to her mother, she felt very strongly for Hades and did not understand why he was given a bad name, for he was actually a kind god. Many had assumed he was a cruel creature, anable to be touched by love, all because he was givin the Underworld to rule. She kept her feelings for Hades hidden to all but him, in fear that she and her mother would be shamed. As she set aside her thoughts of her husband, she walked swiftly back into her home and up to her bedroom. She had a lovely room. Large with a ravishingly beautiful dresser with a mirror reflecing the lavender color of her walls, and an incredibly large bed for such a small woman.

She walked over to her dresser, where she found the outfit she had laid out days before in preparation of this day. As she dressed herself in a lovely white tunic, her dark hair glistened in the sunlight from her window and she vainly stopped to admire her reflection. She was a beautiful girl with lovely pale skin, freckles, dark hair, gray eyes, and a very smooth complexion. She stopped, frightened, when she saw a figure behind her, relieved to find it was only her mother, Demeter.

Demeter stared at her beautiful daughter and thought of the horror she must have to go through in the underworld. Just thinking of it brought tears to her eyes. "Oh, please mother, do not cry." Persephone spoke softly, "I will always return home" Demeter was a lovely woman who looked at the world with much expression and was able to feel emotions more intensely then most. As Persephone embraced her mother, she felt the usual ping of guilt she always felt for hiding her feelings from her.

"Gather your belongings," Demeter said with tears in her eyes, "It is time to leave"

Persephone packed away most all her clothes, a hairbrush, jewelry given to her by both her mother, and Hades. She snapped on a necklace that her husband had given her, and slipped into a pair of tan sandals, and they were on their way. "Down cold, twisted paths" Her mother would often call it. When they reached the point where the ground opened up for her she embraced her mother, "I love you Mom, I will be back when it is time." Her mother started weeping again and hugged her daughter tightly "I love you" was all she said as Persephone literally jumped into the gaping hole in the ground leading to the underworld, and her husband and true love, Hades.