Persephone rubbed his temple for a fifth time before sighing.

Today had been a tough day for the dead and he was more than ready to call it quits and relaxing. Unfortunately, he hasn't learnt how to use a portion of his conscience to continue working. Ruling the Underworld was a 24/7 hour job and he hadn't got used to it yet, which forced him and the souls to take some rest between meals.

"Thanatos, could you please tell everyone that I see them in a few hours? I need to rest..." Persephone stated, practically sliding down the throne in tiredness. Thanatos nodded and left the room, leaving him alone "What to do, what to do..." he wondered to himself. He glanced outside. He could go out to tender his garden, but he wasn't up to the hard work today "What would Hades do?" he ended up asking himself.

He pulled himself up from the throne and walked decidedly towards Hades' room. Unlike mostly of married couples, Hades and Persephone had always had separated rooms to live in, mainly for the claim that Hades wasn't like 'her sister'. Persephone used to spent awful lot of time inside of his, attacking the walls and destroying everything in sight. Of course, that was only the first decade...

When he reached Hades' door, you could hear loud music and nothing else. Persephone looked around, as if trying to decipher from where else could be coming the noise, until he realized that came from Hades' room only. Sighing, and praying he wasn't making a mistake by coming by, Persephone knocked the door really loud. More like he was thumping the door. The loud noise stopped and went down drastically, surprising Persephone with the loud noise he was making against the door.

"What?!" Hades' voice was heard with a lot of annoyment, as if she was being interrupted from the discovery of the century "The music wasn't too loud, stop complaining and live a little, you whoever is on the other side of the door!" Taken aback, Persephone took a while to respond, but did it just in time before the music was loud again.

"It's Persephone, Hades" he called. He could hear the silence and the ruffling of feet on the other side. Indecision? What was she thinking about? Suddenly, the door opened wide, surprising Persephone. He also got surprised by Hades' look. Dressed in full black, Persephone noted that Hades was wearing black eyeliner, making her pale complexion look even paler and her black obsidian eyes even more dark "Nice... look"

"Urgh, what do you want, Persephone?" Hades rolled her eyes and Persephone opened his wide. Hades never had acted that way with him. It was always the other way around!

"I'm- I mean, am I interrupting?" he cleared his throat, unsure of what to say.

"Kind of" Hades replied, but opened the door wide open and let him in. Inside the room, as Persephone could noticed, were posters of different mortal bands around, all of them could be catalogued as 'emo' or 'punk', though Persephone could not see the difference. He could swear one of the bands could fit into the 'rock' category "What are you doing here?" Persephone stopped staring at the room and turned to face Hades, who was with her arms crossed over her chest and her hips to the side, giving her that air of 'rebel'.

"I, um... I decided to take a break from the ruling..." he admitted, looking at her "I didn't want to do gardening, it's too heavy work for now and... well, I wanted to know what you did to relax and stuff..." Hades raised her eyebrows in surprise. Evidently, she hadn't expected that question. Sighing, she relaxed (or, at least, stopped being defensive about the situation) and sat down on a couch.

"I didn't do much before..." she confessed, closing her eyes "You could say that I'm making up for the missing time..."

"But, there must be something you had in mind to do..." Persephone encouraged her, not wanting to believe what she was saying. Hades opened her eyes and stared at Perseohone, serious.

"When I, um... took you away from your mother..." Hades began, a little uncomfortable "...I was hoping that you would be my distraction-"

"Your distraction?" he interrupted, not believing what he heard. He could not be her distraction, she had never spent time with him- no wait, I pushed her away... She tried for centuries, she still tries... And, what do I do? I pushed her, I still push her away... "Guess that I owe you an apology..." Hades snorted, smirking.

"You can call it that..." she half mocked him "Though, I'd suggest to stop listening to the rest of the gods and their thoughts of me..."

"Oh, trust me! I had my eyes opened about what you do and who you are..." Persephone smirked back at her "I guess your 'rebel phase' right now, is because you never had time to be a teenager...?"

"Oh, I don't know..." she argued, with a thinking face "I thought that the rebel phase would go perfectly with the music..." Persephone couldn't help but to chuckle, making Hades giggle with him "It was like it fitted the image of the Goddess of the Underworld..."

"I think that you should keep the rock side of this..." Persephone suggested, more relax about everything. He couldn't believe that his thought about the whole situation had been so misguided "I'm sure that everyone would accept your 'rock' style... when Athena finds a solution to all this mess... I'm sure he will find one"

"Oh, I'm not trouble about that..." Hades smiled at Persephone "I'm just enjoying the moment, while it all happens... I only regret that you had to take over..." Persephone waved his hand as if saying 'don't worry'.

"Thanks" he thanked her.

"No problem... Now, get that cute behind of yours back to the throne... I'll be here if you need to clear your mind..." Hades winked at Persephone, who blushed a little before walking out the door, without closing it.

Everyone could live with a little rock.


Question of the Day: Though I think the movie killed the story, I think Nathan Fillion and Steve Coogan played Hermes and Hades perfectly... Who would play your favorite god/goddess?

Question of the Chapter: Do you want to see a development in Hades/Persephone relationship? Or go back to the beginning?