AN: I decided I wanted to write a story mentioning the Daughters, but not fully focused on them. I wanted something a bit darker, a bit….EVILER! Mwahaha. D
Summary: A girl with the gift of death. A boy with immortal life. Sian grew up believing her family, gifted with powers their royal ancestor prayed for to keep a dying king's final request, didn't want her around because she seemed to have no gift. Bran was kidnapped from his home in the 1920s, and made into a servus for a powerful Lecta. With the death of her father and stepmother, Sian leaves to live with her stepbrother in Los Angeles. But this place doesn't feel right to her at all. She ends up in a group of girls suspicious of her arrival and timing, and all Dakota can say to her is that a "demon" lives within her. And until she meets the runaway slave, she has always felt something missing. Now the two are drawn to each other as they journey into the underworld of Sian's ancestral past to discover that what seems to be isn't, and what is there is a whole lot sweeter.
Below the feet of a goddess waited a god, a powerful and sometimes frightening one that most misunderstood as evil. By his brother, her father, he was promised the maiden, whose name was known as Persephone, as his wife, and now all he had to do was wait to take her to his kingdom in the Underworld. When he saw the right time, the death god, Hades, sprang up from the earth in his chariot, sweeping the poor confused and startled girl into the gold chariot, and then back down into the earth where not even her mother, Demeter, could hear her strangled cries of protest.
Even though Hades had taken Persephone against her will, he loved her greatly and treated her like no other man could have. Still, his great Queen was sad and missed her mother and the sun, even though she tried to be happy with her new husband. She wanted to go home, but never had the opportunity until the messenger Hermes came to the Underworld to bring Persephone home. He told Hades that the gods demanded that Persephone be released to return the earth above. The god was forced to agree and let his lovely wife go.
Hades had a plan though, to keep his wife with him. Before she left, he fed her the fruit of life, telling her it would be the most delicious fruit that she would ever eat. She ate of it, but not all. In partaking of the fruit, she had condemned herself into staying with her husband one-third of the year, leaving her mother to despair and becoming the Queen of the Underworld once more.