STARGATE COMMAND_BIL.W-MEMORY_FILE2

EARTH—

4,600,060,010 BCE …

The night air was cold, I sighed to the touch, or maybe it was the touch of soft skin of the woman laying down on his right.

A curious man I was, I looked up at the sky, wondering about just random things now. I too was lying down, head on my hands as I turned to face the beautiful woman beside me. Her long blonde hair covered most of my view but he could still see her smiling as she watched the stars above.

I reach in and remove some of her golden locks, her pale face turns and smiles up at me. 'It's a beautiful night tonight, isn't it?'

It was more a statement than anything though I smiled at my own twist of meaning. Yes she is beautiful, I mutter. Then I reach down and capture the woman's lips in my own. 'You are beautiful, Persephone.'

She blushes and then leans upwards to recapture his lips, 'Even in my limited form.'

'Oh you are nowhere near limited or imperfect…not perfect though…' I tried a joke which she laughed to and playfully smacked my arm. 'I'm kidding, I'm kidding. Persephone, you are the greatest person I have ever met. The embodiment of perfection and I love you, I love everything about you.'

'Oh, my love,' she sighs. I see her sad eyes and could sort of guess what is going around her head. She cups my head in her hands, her delicate cold fingers brushing my scarred cheek. 'If not for this war I'd have accepted your marriage proposal, you know that.' She says and I smile up at her.

But then I notice my own smile change, I could not help but be reminded of tomorrow. I give her a saddened smile but accepted her explanation. She then snuggles into me, her head resting on my chest. She told me that she was listening to the soft melodic play of my heart. 'We have this night at least,' I whisper to her. She mumbles 'yes'.

That night was spent with little words and kisses. We just laid there on the grass and watched the heavens shower us with the marvels that have interested me. Oh, when I look at her…I love her, this human and we were at peace that night, knowing it wouldn't last but it did not bother me. Not that night.

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'They rise against us, these mortal slaves?!' exclaims my young brother…and my king. 'How could they dare to do so, Hades?!' he says to me. It was not a question.

I just stand on the balcony, Zeus in front, surveying the uproar below. I see on the other side of Zeus, his wife Hera and then there was Poseidon too.

'Do they not feel gratitude when I banish the Titan dictators before us?'

I try not to listen to him, though he is my king…he is first and foremost my youngest brother. But the way he talks about the human species we helped shape…it angered me.

When I created the technology that enslaved them…it was not my intent.

Then Zeus draws out his golden staff, Poseidon with his trident and Hera with her ring, all of which were created by me and powered by my devices, the 'Apples'.

I watch in horror as then my brothers and Zeus' spouse, produces an Apple each and with them begin shooting out their energies. Immediately they all fall down in prostration. I look at my family with anger and disgust.

'You know, when my friends and I created the Apples, this was not what I had intended to be their purpose.' Soon all attention was on me. Demeter appeared behind me and to my relief, I was in the wind.

'Brothers, Jupiter and Minerva have called to ask of brother Hades' progress.'

I groan as then all attention was back upon me. The progress that our colleagues refer to is the project that my friends Loki, Thoth and Hephaestus and I have been working on with our powerful tools—newer weapons and a space vessel to carry us across the stars.

Juno had said that they intended to explore and study other planets but we knew better. There was nothing in their minds now but control and power, through conquest and death. 'Yes we are on schedule. I need but a few more tests.'

Zeus nods to me before dismissing Demeter.

Do they still not see, have they learnt nothing of the torments that we endured at the hands of our father?

I don't expect Zeus to know…he was spared imprisonment when our mother kept his birth a secret. He was saved and thus felt naught of our pain. It angers me to think of it sometimes. I look back down at the prostrating race…our slaves.

But I can fix this. Immediately I thought of Persephone. I will remove the chip inside her that gives the Apples their grip. If my race must rule them, then I will deny them rule over the one person I love.

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I clutched my throbbing head and sigh. It almost sounds like defeat. There was another man with me in the study. Loki was his name, an esteemed colleague of mine. He enters clutching a small spherical object of gold.

'Headache?' he guesses.

I simply give a nod, still pinching the bridge of my nose in attempt to dull the pain. We had been working on the project for years now and an extra few hours at night too. But we didn't mind that much, well at least I didn't. Our work was important, and I was not talking about the weapons and the ship. No, through my studies to our sun's movements I have discovered something disturbing and important. Very important and Jupiter's war against their human slaves topped with his younger brother's war against the powerful Titan race was only getting in our way.

'You know Zeus won't believe you, right?'

'I…I know, Loki. His heads too deep into war—but this involves the survival of life on this planet.' I took the orb from his friend's hands and examined it. It was my first working creation and we had already mass produced it for the Precursors in the West. I did not however intend for the 'Apple' to be used in such a devastating and degrading manor.

But now we had other plans with my invention. I was going to create another gate, one that led to a world of our own creation, like I did with the fiery inferno of the Tartarus Zone that Zeus had us cast our father into, only this world would be great and beautiful. Though not a replacement for this planet, my friends and I—the Illuminati, hoped it would sustain everyone long enough for whatever catastrophe transpired.

'Well he is your younger brother and you being the oldest, he has to believe you.' Loki pointed out as he closely examined another one of the Apples at an angle. 'Oh and I forgot to tell you, Thoth might not be able to come over tomorrow with your shipment of minerals. His brother Osiris had just died.'

I understood and gestured as much and returned to his work. Me, Thoth of the East and Loki of the North were the best minds in our fields. We also shared the same disagreement about the normal belief that we were gods. Smart for our already intelligent race and as thus we knew to fear this threat that the numbers had predicted. 'How far away is the solar flare?' I asked.

Loki looked at his glowing stone tablet. When he saw the numbers appear he began to think. 'Um, in…four seasons.'

'What…seven-hundred and thirty days?' to say I was gobsmacked and terrified would be an understatement. There was not a lot of time left. I needed to gather the components and construct my master gate. I only hoped his brothers and sisters would listen to me and abandon their vanity and play of supremacy…

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I took her hands in mine and looked deep into her eyes, feeling hers searching deep into mine. With the Light as my witness, I took my vows to protect and serve her as she did the same for me. Our love was the only thing present that night. We were at the forest that surrounded Mount Olympus. Rays of moonlight squeezing past the branches, the world here was simply perfect…why would they want to change it?

My love—she in a flowing and simple white gown, hair tied back, she was so beautiful. Me? I was merely in the best clothes that I had. To think that I was nervous when we started and now I just didn't care. The twilight shining, illuminating her beauty and I found myself speechless, just admiring her stunning beauty.

As Eros, my nephew wrapped the binding cloth for the ritual, I could see the tears roll off Persephone's pale cheeks. Yet she was smiling, she was happy, she had told me they were tears of joy and I believe her.

Eros smiles, nearly tearful himself as he told us to conclude the Bonding Rite. I give a relieving smile as both our foreheads touch lightly. Then our noses touch by which I whispered, 'I am forever yours, my beloved Persephone.'

She chuckles joyously before whispering, 'And I you…my love, in this world and the next.'

We broke apart but our gazes stuck. 'And now I declare you bonded by right and decree of The Light,' with that, Eros unwraps our hands and walks backwards, out of sight as we continue to stare lovingly.

I love her, I love this member of the homo-sapiens and nothing my brothers, my sisters…not even Jupiter could take that away from us.

When I was young, I was taught to believe that love, liberty and time were so disposable to people like us—to immortals. I now see that time, liberty and most importantly—love, are precious in any form…and must be protected. Now I worry as I look at my beloved. How do I save her? How do I save us all?

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AUTHOR'S NOTE…This is a bonus Chapter that I intend to put in the end of every fic tied to each other. I hope you enjoy it and will follow on.