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Zeus punched the closed elevator doors, glaring. "So. I forgot I also wanted to talk about that." He turned back to Hera, who looked at him defiantly.
"You do it to me all the time. You bring your females around me. In fact, you flaunt them. Am I not allowed to do the same, Zeus?" Hera challenged.
"I saw you two kiss." Zeus muttered.
"What—" Hera stuttered, blinking.
"I was in the restaurant too." Zeus laughed bitterly, running a hand through his hair. "But you know what, I deserve it. I really do. I know what I've done to you over the centuries was wrong. I know I'm the worst husband in the galaxy. I know I need a millennia just to make it up to you. But Hera, I'll be damned if I let some useless mortal take you from me."
"Zeus," Hera started.
"No." Zeus shook his head. "I don't care if he's the nicest, most down to earth person. Because he tried to take my wife, my other half, my soulmate, he's going down." Zeus said.
"Soulmate?" Hera asked, though a faint blush tinted her cheeks.
"I swear on the Styx I will win your love back. I swear I won't stop until you come home to Olympus with me. I swear after this is all over and you're back in my arms, I will change my ways." Zeus promised.
Hera looked down. How many times has she heard this speech before? "You swore on the Styx. You can't break that."
"I know, love." Zeus smiled, taking her hand and kissing it lightly. "That's to show you how committed I am to change."
"Then start now." Hera pulled her hand back. "Let me have some privacy."
"What if he comes back and hurts you?" Zeus questioned.
"I know how to handle myself, Zeus." Hera rubbed her temples. "Besides, Jacob isn't like that. He's very kind—"
"Oh, you two are on a first name basis?" Zeus grit his teeth slightly.
"Zeus, don't start." Hera warned.
"Well what if this so called 'Jacob' is just pretending to be nice so he can get in your pants? What if he harms you?"
"Like you did to me how many years ago?" Hera challenged, Zeus flinching.
"Hera, I didn't—" Zeus tried to explain.
"I don't know if you've forgotten since we've been married "happily", and I use that lightly, for so long, but I was unwilling to be with you. You raped me. You hurt me, and not just once, but over and over because you made me fall in love with you and then you just crushed me with affair after affair! So don't act all high and mighty and like you're my shining white knight, because you're far from that! Jacob is a wonderful person, and I don't appreciate you making assumptions that he is just. Like. You." Hera walked into her apartment, slamming the door shut behind her and locking it.
Zeus sighed, rubbing the back of his neck. Ouch. That hurt a lot more than he expected. He will admit, he did some pretty messed up stuff to her. Okay, really messed up stuff. But he regretted it all, and for some reason she just won't believe him.
"I know you're mad. I'm sorry." Zeus said, and received no answer. "But I will win you back. Like I said, I'm not losing to some punk mortal that's a goody two-shoes. I love you." Zeus waited, pursing his lips. After a few minutes of no "I love you" back, Zeus sighed quietly and vanished, figuring Hera needed her alone time. Zeus never understood before why Hera would overreact and throw fits when he was with other women. He always thought she was just being her bitter self. I mean, why should he be faithful when Hera couldn't leave him and he was surrounded by beautiful nymphs and mortals? It was a horrible mindset, but he thought it was okay. That is, until he saw that stupid Jacob kiss Hera, and make her laugh, and smile, things Zeus hadn't been able to do in years. Zeus had never felt such anger and jealousy than he had in that moment. It was worse than the time Hera, Poseidon, and Athena tried to overthrow him. He didn't think anything could top that moment, but Gods had he wanted to just blast the mortal into oblivion. Zeus had thought of twenty different ways to kill the kid in a minute. Isn't that just pathetic? However, in that moment he realized how Hera had felt for all these centuries. Just watching them kiss made him burn with jealousy. Imagine if she had sex with him! Zeus wouldn't be able to contain himself. Except...he actually did have sex with all those nymphs and mortals. And that realization hurt him more than seeing Hera with that stupid mortal.
"Even though I don't know why, I love you too bastard—" Hera mumbled, opening the door after a half hour. She had drank some wine and read a book while sitting by the door. Pathetic, really. Hera couldn't say she was shocked to see Zeus had gone, but it kind of hurt that he hadn't stayed. Just a tiny bit. She realized she did tell him to leave, but usually Zeus was very persistent and would stand by their bedroom for hours until she finally relented and let him in so he could "apologize sincerely" and "promise to never cheat on her again" because apparently he "loved her so dearly". Hera didn't understand. Why did he care so much? He never seemed to care when she would cry herself to sleep, so why did he care that she was being noticed by a guy?
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