"Good morning, Your Highness." She heard someone called. When she opened her eyes just to feel the sunlight, she ground and closed them again.

"Go away, I want to sleep more." she demanded but the servant was stubborn.

"Lady Hera, it's been already morning, and Lord Zeus is on his way, I have to inform you. He could be angry when he finds Your Majesty still sleeping."

This time, Hera opened her eyes and huffled as she got out of the bed. So the bastard is finally coming, she thought as the servants brought her water to wash her face. Let him come, Hera, and you will give him he's done to you for centuries.

"Which dress you want to wear today?" her favorite helper and friend Celestia asked and she turned to look at the options. A perfect, swallon red dress was covered with diamonds; and the other was blue, it was a little bit bare compared to the other one, but it was still perfect, with beautiful golden ornament and for its perfect color.

"Hard decision to make, dear." Hera smiled as she looked at Celestia. "What do you think?"

Celestia smiled as she observed the dresses. "Red, my queen. Shine like a rose."

Hera smiled again and nodded. Seconds later, she was beautifully fit in the red dress, and Celestia was fixing her night black hair. She sighed as she was braiding Hera's hair.

"What will you do, my Queen?" she asked quietly, as Hera sighed back. Then, Celestia saw something in her eyes that she had never seen before.

Desire for revenge.

"I will make them pay," she answered, still holding her head high. "He will pray for release, but won't get it." Hera was looking so unforgiving, so Celestia flinched.

"You don't love him anymore?" she whispered, hardly could believe it. Hera took a deep breath before answering and she looked at the mirror, into her now cold eyes.

"There is a very slight line between love and hate, I've learned, though." Hera kept looking at the mirror. "Zeus broke that line years ago. There is no turning back now."

And at that moment, the second she finished her sentence, the doors opened and Zeus came in.

Celestia opened her eyes in horror, and quickly bowed with everyone else in the room. Zeus's eyes were locked on the beautiful queen. It was the death silence in the room. Did he hear that, the question was runiing in all the servants's head. Zeus and Hera were looking each other what felt like eternity. Then, Hera bowed slightly, more like mocking.

"My King," she said, a nearly-smiling expression on her face. "Welcome back to home."

Zeus opened his mouth to say something but then he changed his mind and greeted her. "Thank you, my Queen. You look beautiful."

Hera smiled, but it felt like a dead one. "As always, Your Majesty."

Zeus nodded, but his eyes were still on her. He turned to servants. "Leave. Let me stay with my queen."

All of them bowed and got out of the room quickly. Hera looked at him. "So, you saw rest of your family?" She asked, leading him to the sofa. Zeus shook his head as they sat. "No. First, I had something to talk with you. It's important."

If Hera didn't know what was the 'important' thing Zeus was going to talk about, she would pay attention and hope that maybe he will swear on the River Styks to never be with other women anymore. Now, she wanted to punch his face for she exactly knew the real matter, and she was cursing him inside.

Gods, she has always hoped. She has always believed that their relationship was going to turn right. She has always believed in love, and maybe, maybe for the love's sake his husband would change and be loyal to her one fabulous day. What happened to that love now, Hera's inner voice questioned her. Don't you love him anymore?

Then, she remembered the hell she lived inside the moment she saw Zeus proposing to Leto, and she felt completely disgusted as she looked at the man before her.

No, she convinced herself with rage. That love was over a long time ago.

"So, what's the matter?" she asked trying to keep under control, what she had mastered for thousands years, and she was very successfull as always. Zeus smiled at her but Hera could see he was very nervous. Then he held her hand.

"Well, how are you until, you know, the fight we had before I've gone?" he asked. Hera raised an eyebrow. "So, is it what you wanna talk about?" Zeus shook his head. "No, not completely. I just, worry about you." Hera smiled bitterly. "Then don't. You see. I'm pretty fine without you."

Zeus took a deep breath. "Hera, look, we fell for each other millions years ago, and it was the pure love, at least that was what we thought and we, immediately got married."

"Don't use 'we'." Hera demanded, Zeus looked confused for a moment but then he nodded.

"Okay, well I loved you Hera, I really did but... You know we changed. Not only me. You changed too. You became bitter, jealous, bad-tempered and not the woman I fell in love with." Zeus said in one breath, but Hera was looking into his eyes now, his electric blue eyes, but in a very...sad way, but before Zeus could acknowledge, it disappered quickly and her feautures hardened.

"And I just... I mean maybe if we... I mean we have so many arguements too, and it's not good for a marriage. We can't hold this together like this."

Hera laughed bitterly. "You give me lecture about marriage?"

Zeus was puzzled once again, but he quickly collected himself and coughed.

"No, no, of course not and I'm just here to tell you that this bussiness does not keep go-"

"Zeus, stop." Hera snapped, making Zeus breathe finally. Hera looked at him. "I saw you."

"What you mean, I don't understa..." Then his breath flinched. "You... What did you say?"

Hera sighed again. "I say, Zeus, I saw you with one of your sluts, what was her name, ha yes Leto," she mocked. ",and proposing her. I know what will you speak to me. You don' have to consume that much effort."

Zeus was frozen. Then he sighed.

"Hera I'm... I'm just..."

"Zeus, I understand you, you're freaking about all women in the universe, but proposing her when you're married to me, to the goddess of marriage, it means betrayal. And do you know, it hurt much more than all of your affairs because you know why? You betrayed to our love several times, and it hurt, because I loved you so much, but now, you betrayed to my soul. You betrayed to my values, to my immortal being, to my loved ones, you betrayed the you in me! I thought, I thought you respect to the things that I protect! For heavens I really thought of that! Could you survive if they ripped off the sky? Could you even breathe if someone you have loved so much once did it? Marriage and loyalty are my own sky, Zeus. You will not be the one who destroys them. I will never let you do that! Zeus, King of Olympus, you're over to me." Hera said in one breath but her eyes were full of hardness.

Zeus was completely shocked by now. He wasn't expecting that much from her. Then, he took a deep breath to go on. To him, Hera was always weak.

"Hera, I'm truly sorry that you saw us in that position but it's a real. I don't love you anymore, and I love her, I wanna marry her. I understand your reaction, I know it hurts now that I love another woman but you will get used to it, I promise."

It was nearly the same talk that he did to Themis, his second wife, and the other lovers of him. They had all cried before but finally agreed with him, then time had healed them. Zeus knew the time was the cure for the love loss. But that words, instead making her cry, made Hera just laugh loudly with a hollow sound.

"You're wrong." Hera murmured, still looking at somewhere else. Zeus frowned.

"What do you mean? Where am I wrong?" Zeus asked, her laugh had made him angry a little bit. Suddenly, very suddenly, Hera turned around to meet his eyes. And his heart stopped.

This eyes, this intense hazel eyes, had made him kneel before them once. They, when he looked into them, his whole world would change once, and when she laughed, a unique sparkle used to dance in the hazel colour of her eyes, and Zeus would look into them for hours, days, years... They would take his breath out of his lungs once, and he would feel so loved.

And now, after centuries and centuries, he was looking right into them again, yes they were still matchless, but that sparkle, that light was missing. It was already so dead, and he didn't feel loved this time. He only felt horror.

"You're wrong," Hera said, still not pairing her eyes from his own ones. "Because I don't love you anymore." She snapped, and the sky thundered. But it was a mystery that which one was causing this.

"What?" Zeus hissed, he was feeling like an idiot. But Hera was still holding her head high, eyes still locked on him, and deep inside, he knew that she wasn't lying.

"You heard. My love for you is over right now, just like yours. I don't get hurt, I don't get sad because you love other woman, that you already ripped all of my love away from me, that you already loved other women, already abandoned me and although you were not aware, my love was already finished years and years ago!" Hera shouted, rage running down on her face. Zeus was not in a different case, however.

"How dare you to speak to me like this?! I'm the King!" Zeus yelled.

"And I am the Queen!" Hera yelled back.

"You will not be in no time and I swear Hera, after you Leto will be the one who will wear your crown!"

"You just said that it is my crown! I am the Queen and always will be!"

"Oh, didn't you said that you don't love me anymore? Then what the fucking problem about the crown?!"

"Yes, I don't bear any love for you now but I still bear that crown, I raised the Olympus with you, I'm bound to it and I have my children to protect as the Queen!"

"It's only bound to my one word, don't forget this! I say, and you are no longer the Queen!"

"Do you think that I am that easy to strip off? Then you're very very wrong again!"

"Before insulting me, take a look of yourself Your Highness!" Zeus mocked heavily then went on. "You think you love your children? What about Hephaistos, remember? The most beloved that is thrown off the Olympus and by who? His mother!"

"You, you made me do that! You made me bitter, you made me evil, I wasn't thinking right because of you! His father!"

"It doesn't change anything! You threw him away!"

"Yes,it does change something! He forgave me! Yes, maybe I would never replace something but you also threw him away! I love him! I love all of my children but you? You don't see anybody expect your beloved daughters and sons from other women!"

"It is because all of your bastards are like you, disrespectful, hopeless, and evil! I wish them dead already!" Zeus said, but Hera was too angry right now.

"If you dare to try my children, if you even dare to touch them, I will murder you on my own! Don't underestimate my glory and power, you bastard!" She sent the insult to her children back to him, she was very angry. Then, suddenly Zeus became very angry too, and he lifted his electricity-filled hand in the air, ready to slap her. Their eyes were full of hatred and rage.

"You dare to touch her, and you find me fighting against to you." A calm, but rough voice said, and Zeus felt his hand was captured by a more strong hand. When he looked at the hand's owner, he found his son's rough face, Ares.

"What the fucking hell are you doing here?!" Zeus yelled, but Ares squeezed his hand more. "This does not bother you!"

"No, and it does bother me very well!" Ares shouted back, his calmness disappearing slowly.

"Ares, he's right, this is about me and him." Hera said calmly, but Ares turned her with a rageous face.

"Stop talking because I said that it is completely about me too!" He shouted again, his eyes burning. Suddenly, Hera felt two arms wrapped around her waist.

"Sister, come on, we should get out now." Someone said and Hera realised it was Poseidon. "Your daughters and Hestia are waiting for you in the garden. We should go." Poseidon was whispered to her ear in a very soft, very comforting tone, so Hera felt she relaxed.

"Mother GET OUT OF HERE!" Ares shouted and Hera realised Hephaistos walking in too.

"Sister, we need to go." Poseidon said again, and they immediately walked to the door. When the door closed, Hera realised someone locked it. But it was already too much to bear. His son's screams were in her head and she inhaled, then they slowly became all black...

"Sister? Hera? Hera!" Poseidon said before holding her in his arms, she had passed out. He took her to his arms and started to walk to the garden.

No one had realised Leto waiting outside the room, just waiting her future husband to invite her in the room, after convincing Hera to divorce.

WELL, IT WAS A TOUGH CHAPTER, THOUGH! BUT I THINK HERA IS NOT WILLING TO GIVE UP ON THE THRONE, WHAT YOU SAY? WE'LL SEE TOGETHER, THE NEXT CHAPTER WILL BE A LITTLE BIT SURPRISING, I THINK ;) HOPE YOU ENJOYED!

PLEASE R&R, THEY MAKE ME HAPPY, AND I WANT NEW IDEAS FOR THE REST OF THE STORY :) THANKS EVERYONE! LOVE YOU ALL!