Dean Thompson-Hades

April Overland-Persephone

Charlotte Overland-Demeter

Mira Charleston-Aphrodite

Romeo Charleston-Eros

December 22, 2012

He was sipping his coffee, black three lumps of sugar and almost scalding, just the way he like it, when he heard something. The shrieking of a banshee. A very prejudiced banshee, he thought to him self. Ignoring the sounds of his employees tiring to stop Charlotte Overland from storming into his office but failing. Horribly. He gave a sigh and rubbed his temples, he was tired and wanted to go home, owning and running a multi-billion dollar company was exhausting.

He was a handsome man in his mid thirties with long silky black hair usually tied in a ponytail, tall and broad shoulder but pale and he always wore dark suits that made his skin stand out even more. His most noticeable feature were his eyes they were the exact color of sapphires.

"THOMPSON!" He heard right outside his office door before it was thrown open by admittedly an attractive woman, tall with hair the color of wheat, dark blue eyes. and tan skin and tall. It was almost a shame she hated him, he thought. He liked tall women.

He ignored her and went back to his files, he had to finish looking them over before he could let himself go home for the night. She walked forward her winter boots stomping heavily on his polished floor, slamming her hands on his desk she gave a wordless snarl glaring at this monster that she had foolishly welcomed into her home once.

He heaved a heavy sigh, ignoring her was not going to work this time. "Can I help you with something, Charlotte?" using her name so causally as if they were friends always annoyed her to no end.

"It's Ms. Overland to you Thompson. And I want you to answer me something. What do you think you're doing, making my daughter work three days before christmas? She should be at home with me baking cookies, wrapping presents for her little sister. Not working herself to the bone, you making her do God knows what."

He blinked up at her from his seat. "Is that all?"

"Yes! You slave driver!"

"I see, well Ms. Overland," he emphasized her name "The reason your daughter is working three days before christmas and she'll be working tomorrow and christmas eve too, is because she offered to work on those days." He sipped some more coffee and pushed back some loose hair that had fallen from his ponytail.

"She offe-"

"Yes mom," a tall young woman with short amber-colored hair walked into the room wearing a silk green blouse and a dark brown skirt that hugged her legs, she had a faint tan and spring green eyes that peaked through the short strands of hair the fell into her face. "I offered to work today, tomorrow and christmas eve. Now could you please leave Mr. Thompson alone? The sooner he's done reading and or signing those papers, the sooner I get to go home and watch christmas movies with you and Melody."

Charlotte sighed and nodded, she knew she still had to talk to her daughter about why she was taking on extra work for this man, she shivered but the sooner April got away from him the better. "Okay April. Just give me a call when you're done and I'll come and pick up." she walked over to her daughter, gave her a very tight hug, shot her boss one last glare and left almost slamming the door as she did.

April sighed and sat down in one of the chairs in front of his desk. "Must you always annoy my mother when she comes here Dean?"

Dean smirked and sipped his now warm coffee, "She makes it too easy."

"Still," she scolded her boss without worry of losing her job or getting her pay reduced. "It's not nice and you never know someday, my mom might just lock me up in the barn and I'll become like Rapunzel, locked inside someplace with no hope to escape."

"And that concerns me how?" amused that she would compare herself with a fairytale, "I could always get a new personal assistant."

"Yes you could, but answer me this. In the two and half years I've worked for you, how many times have I tried to get you to sleep with me, or done something that could ruin your reputation, steal money-though I could use a pay raise-etc, etc. So how many times sir? I would like to know."

"You have never done any of that April, I will admit. But I have to argue that you could ruin my reputation. After all according to your mother I kidnapped you two years ago. Nothing ruins a rep faster than a fully grown man taking a 17-year-old girl to his house and her not emerging until the next morning." He gave all of his finished paperwork to April to file quickly, he could take care of the rest tomorrow. "It took four months after that to convince her to let you work here if I recall correctly."

"Four months, three weeks, six days. But who's counting?" April said as she but away the files in a cabinet. Dean was known by most people as being a heartless person that would kill his own mother if she stood in the way of him getting what he wanted. But that would be hard, her being dead already and all. The one thing Dean was known actually to care about was his dog. Kore.

A Meliteo Kinidio, Small Greek Domestic Dog. An odd choice for a man like him, but he had found her when she was a puppy and never bothered to give her away. It was thanks to Kore that Dean and April met. And April had the job she did today. three years ago, April had been going around town volunteering for work, trying to figure out what she wanted to do in the future, one week April had been at the vets when Dean had brought Kore in for a yearly check up, Dean hadn't taken much notice of her then just that she and Kore gotten along really well. Which was strange, Kore usually hid from strangers.

Half a year later, he had shown up at her front door demanding to see her and when she showed up he threw her over his shoulder like a sack of potatoes and kidnapped her.

Dean had just come back from a vacation only to find the guy he hired to take care of Kore not there, and Kore laying on the ground, in pain. He had tried the vet but he was in the hospital. desperate, Dean had remembered the girl who had volunteered at the vets and upon discovering who she was, he went to her house got her and took her back to his home.

It turned out Kore was pregnant. A pregnant dog and her litter of five, was the start of strange and beautiful job/friendship. April became Dean's personal assistant, helping him out in the office, going to the other side of town to get his favorite coffee, taking care of Kore when Dean went away for business trips, etc, etc.

"Who is?" he wondered, standing up, stretching till he heard something make a nice crack! "Come on, I'll buy you dinner." Dean said grabbing his jacket from where he laid it earlier on his office couch. Also grabbing April's, helping her with it.

"I told mom I'd call her when I was done." she said, not making a move to get her phone out of her jacket pocket.

"So, you'd rather go home try to put up with your overprotective, smothering mother telling you to quit your job, and not go to that nice little café you like so much two blocks away where they have a wonderful new vegetarian soup that I'm sure you'd love?"

April bit her lip, he was trying to get a date with her, she knew. He never hesitated to make his attraction to her known, except when her mother was around. She should say no, she knew but..."You'll buy me a slice of that chocolate pomegranate tart?" she asked

Dean chuckled and looked down at her, god those lips, he thought then quickly shook off that thought. There'll be time for that later...perferably after dinner. "I'll buy you as many slices as you want." he told her.

April smiled. "My mom can wait." she said, secretly thrilled when Dean bowed to her, opened the door and muttered "My lady," letting her go first. If he kept acting like that April might just let Dean get away with kissing her after dinner, she giggled at the thought ran out the door when Dean questioned her about the sudden laugh.

"And cut!" the director yelled. "Mira! You were fantastic! Good work."

Mira smiled, instantly all men within a fifty mile radius felt weak-kneed and breathless. That was the kind of effect Mira Charleston had on the male species. She was only 22 with long wavy scarlet hair, curves in all the right places, large doe brown eyes with gold mixed in and a face that would even make Venus jealous, her old Uncle Albert would always say when he visited.

"Thanks, Chuck. I rehearsed my lines last night. I was really nervous that I wouldn't be able to remember. They've given me so much trouble." Mira shook her head a sheepish smile on her angelic face. "Just ask Romeo." she said as she walked off the set, an overly romantic-quite chessey and unrealistic looking set in her opinion. But who ever listened to the air-headed celebrity?

Romeo looked up from his game, he was a small boy of 11 with red hair like his sister but his was lighter almost pink. He had large blue eyes that could melt a heart of stone and a face round with baby fat, but even more angelic looking then his sister. "Huh? Oh, yeah Mira was really nervous. She couldn't even touch her dessert." he recalled "She didn't notice when Anthony came over." That had been the weirdest part of last night, sure his sister was never nervous about her roles and stuff but she was a die-hard romantic and she had won the lead role of the world's soon to be worst romantic comedy ever. It was an insult to her abilities and love of love to play this, but she had promised she would do it for Romeo, who had also got a part in it.

But really how someone could not notice a six foot five giant of muscle and a prosthetic leg limp into their home was beyond him.

"Yeah that was pretty weird, I'll have to make it up to Anthony somehow." A grin spread across the actress/model's face, showing she knew exactly how she would make it up to him. Mira walked over to her brother knowing all the guy's eyes would be on her, watching as her hips swayed. She could almost hear their thoughts.

"Come on Romeo, we got to go. Promised to meet Penelope for lunch." Romeo's face light up, it was a well-known fact to people close to the sibling actors that Romeo had the biggest crush on his sister's best friend.

Romeo grabbed his sister's hand and they walked out of the studio. Neither of them noticing a man watching them from the shadows before he disappeared.

Okay people! Here is the next chapter. I hope you like it. I'm not very sure anyone will like it *Worried face* I'm not very good with romance so there will be a limited amount of it. This is really just me trying it out with Hades and Persephone.

Also don't worry the man at the end of the chapter wasn't anyone bad. Or was he?

Anyway I'll stop rambling now and just ask that you pretty please with a cherry on top, please review and if anyone has any ideas or wants to see anyone just PM or leave a review and I'll see what I can do.