With Animal Ears

One day, Persephone was in town, having just had tea with her mother in the local teahouse. She was just on her way home when she encountered a group of children who were giving out free toys to passer-bys on the sidewalk.

"Well, what's all this?" she asked some of the children curiously with a kind smile, watching a little girl give out a small cute doll to a woman who accepted it with a gracious smile of thanks.

The little boy who heard her immediately replied, "We decided that today would be 'Free Toy Day'! We get a bunch of our good old toys and give it out to strangers, so that they have a toy to play with! We don't need money in return. We just want to see them smile, because a smile is just as good as money. Maybe even better!"

At that, he then gave Persephone a pink hairband with hot pink furry cat ears attached to the top. She willingly knelt down so that the boy would be able to place the hairband on the top of her head. Exchanging smiles, Persephone thanked the boy for the lovely toy and also the rest of the children for coming up with such a lovely event, and then bidding them good luck and goodbye before she continued on her way home.

When she returned home, she was excited to tell Hades about the children and their made-up holiday, but then realized as she was closing and locking the door that he did not realize she was home. He was wearing his earphones and listening to 'Radioactive' by Imagine Dragons at full blast as he was engrossedly reading one of the new novels that he picked up from the bookshop at the mall, which meant that he did not hear or see her come in.

This gave Persephone the opportunity to do something quite mischievous.

Without a single moment's hesitation, she ran towards Hades, pulling the hairband off her hair, and surprised him by putting the hairband on top of Hades' head, revelling in how her husband jumped and yelled in utter shock, with even his earphones being ripped out of his ears and his book being dropped to the ground.

"Persephone! What the – " Before he could say anything else, his hand had flown to his head, immediately coming into contact with the furry cat ears. "Seriously, Persephone?!" he asked in a loud, sceptical tone of voice.

She paid no attention to Hades' ranting about scaring him and making him wear something stupid, too caught up in laughing over and over again.