Hi guys! Thanks for the reviews, I love knowing that people enjoy my stories. Now here is the next chapter and it will focus on the time our favorite couple spent apart from each other, it will only be for this chapter as I don't like them being apart for to long. In this chapter Demeter and Persephone is going to have a fight while Hecate will give Sephie a solution with the help of Hermes.
A.N. To madame thome – Yes! Persephone will not be happy at all and she will make sure that Demeter knows that.
Please R&R.
Chapter 6.
When Persephone arrived at her old palace in the mortal world, she felt lost and alone. This place was no longer her home, her home was the Underworld, her home was her husband.
"My poor child. I can't imagine what that monster did to you down there in that gods forsaken place." Demeter talked about the Underworld with a disgusted face. "But don't worry my sweet Kore. He will not be able to touch you again."
"Persephone."
"What?"
"Persephone. My name is Persephone." She said touching the necklace that Hades gave her when she was 14. "That's the name I was given by the fates, the name that he called me by."
"Nonsense! Your name is Kore! My Kore!" Demeter's voice sounded crazy, Persephone knew her mother acted a bit over dramatic, but this was a whole new level. "Anyway, let us burn that dress as it stinks like death." She said composing herself and giving her daughter a 'happy' (crazy) smile.
Persephone was about to protest, but couldn't find the strength to do it, she only wanted to go to her bed, lie down and cry all night.
"I'm going to sleep, good night mother." She said standing up and walking to her bedroom, she close her door immediately not allowing Demeter to enter.
Now in her room alone, she fell to the floor and started crying her eyes out, she missed Hades already and she only wanted to be with him, to hug him, kiss him, make love to him. Persephone cried in silence for a while before standing up and removing her dress, she didn't want to, but she decided she had to do it or her mother would get mad at her and she didn't want to deal with that drama.
Now naked, she opened her dresser to get a nightgown to put on as she couldn't sleep naked as her mother always told her it was improper for a lady to do that, instead, her mother always dressed her in big, baggy nightgowns that got to hot during the night.
As she opened her dresser, she found Hades cape, the same cape he used to cover her body after Ares tried to rape her.
She took the garment into her hands and smelled the cape, it still had his scent, his warmth, it reminded her of him. She got dressed and ready to sleep, she covered herself with his cape falling asleep with the memory of the man she loved.
The Underworld. Two months after.
To say that Hades was miserable was putting thing lightly, he was dying without his love. "My Lord, you must rest, take a shower, maybe shave your face and cut your hair, it's getting messy." Hecate said while looking at the king with worried eyes.
"What's the point, my queen is gone, taken from me… she, she." Hades sulked in his desk, working triple time the usual. "My work is all that is left." He said still writing the report of the souls he judged today.
"You made a promise to her, you told her you will be together with her again. If you stay like this, you're never get her back." Hecate said trying to get her boss to do something other than work.
"I've tried OK! I've talked to Zeus, I tried looking for her at Demeter's palace, but I couldn't even get pass her forest." Said Hades standing up from his desk. "I'm Aidoneus, Lord of the Underworld, King of the Dead! And I can't even get pass some stupid trees so that I can see my wife!"
"Aidoneus?" Hecate smirked after hearing Hades us his birth name, the same name Persephone used to call him. "This could have been avoided if she had eaten the fruit of the Underworld."
"I couldn't do that to her. It would have been like keeping her a prisoner." Hades spoke the truth, he didn't want to have Persephone like a prisoner, not able to let her leave the Underworld would've been too much like her current situation with her mother. "I just… I don't know what else to do."
Hecate didn't know what to do either, she hated watching Hades like this and not being able to help him, or maybe there was a way. The goddess of magic knew that the only way for Persephone to return would be if she ate any fruit from the Underworld; she just needed a way to inform her and send her the fruit, but how?
"Lady Hecate, Hermes is here." Said a servant nymph that entered the room.
- Bingo! – she thought. "I'll be on my way."
Demeter's Palace.
Alone.
That's how Persephone felt every day since she came back home with her mother. She missed the craziness of the Underworld, she missed her conversations with Hecate, and most importantly, she missed her husband.
It was funny how she used to think that her life was not that bad before marrying the King of the Underworld, no she knows now how much it sucked. "I wish I could be back with him." Persephone said to Artemis as they picked some flowers on Demeter's gardens.
"Really? With him?" asked the goddess confused as to what her half-sister saw in her uncle. "Yes, him! He is my husband, my lover, my friend. I want to be with him and go back home." She said a bit annoyed at her sister.
"But you are home. This is your home, with your mother. Right?"
"No, this place is not my home. Not anymore."
Both goddesses remained silent for a while, just walking around the yard, they talked about everything that happened during Persephone's time in the Underworld, they talked on how her kingdom was amazing, perpetual darkness and dead people aside. They were having a great time together as sisters, but every thin came to an end when they saw Demeter carrying a black robe in her arms ready to throw it at a fire.
"MOTHER! NO!"
In less than 2 seconds Persephone summoned a vine from the ground and snatched the cloth from her mother's hands. The piece of fabric that Demeter was about to burn was Hades cape, the same one he gave her to cover herself when he saved her from Ares.
"Persephone! What are you doing?" asked Demeter surprised that her daughter took the cape away from her. "We must burn that thing, it stinks like that animal."
"That 'animal' is my husband and this is the only thing I have that makes me feel that he is still with me a night." Persephone said hugging the dark clothe against her chest. "This is the cape of the man that kidnapped you and raped you and you want to keep it because it reminds you of him? My child, you're in worse shape than I thought, but do not fret, burning this will help you." Demeter said grabbing the cloth and yanking it hard. Persephone didn't let go and so both women started fighting for the black cape.
"Let go mother, this is mine!"
"We have to burn this!"
"It's ripping apart!"
Artemis words came too late as the cape reap in half; Persephone was shocked to see her husband's cape destroyed while Demeter had a triumphant smirk in her face. "Good, now we have to throw it away either way."
"How dare you…" whispered Persephone.
"What?"
"HOW DARE YOU! This was mine, this was the only thing that I had that smelled like him, as you didn't allow me to bring any of the gifts he gave me!" Demeter was taken a back after hearing her daughter talk to her like that, she noticed the shadows forming on her daughter's feet, shadows from the Underworld that only a god from that realm could cast. "And mother, he did not kidnap me, I left with him because I couldn't stand being with you anymore, I left to get away from you."
- SLAP –
Artemis gasped after seeing Demeter slap Persephone square in the face, the young woman grabbed her cheek in pain after feeling her mother's strike and Demeter was shocked she hit her daughter.
"Don't talk to me like that. You are my daughter and you have to treat me with respect." Hissed Demeter looking at her Kore.
"I hate you. I hate your overprotection and I hate you." Said the goddess with hate in her eyes.
The silence was too thick that you could almost cut it with a knife, the three goddesses remained silent before the youngest stood up and left using her shadow powers. Demeter wanted to cry as she knew that she made a huge mistake, and Artemis was actually very impress to see her baby sister for stand up against her mother.
Persephone's Garden, Olympus.
Persephone left to her own personal garden in Olympus as this was the only place where she could come other than her mother's palace; she came here often to think and to see if she could run into her husband but had no luck. Now she was there to be away from her overbearing mother.
"How could she do that?" Said Persephone with angry tears in her eyes.
"Pss! Seph, over here!"
Persephone recognized that voice, it was Hermes voice.
"Hermes?"
"Hi sis!" said the messenger god stepping away from behind a tree, he was waving at her with a nervous smile.
Persephone's wrath came back remembering that he told Zeus that she was in the Underworld and now she was going to make him pay.
"Sephie wait!" cried Hermes after being grabbed by a vine that throw him against a tree. He felt cold now, and he noticed why as he was being covered by Underworld Shadows. "I came here to help!"
"HELP? ALL THIS IS BECAUSE OF YOU!" She yelled at him. "You told Apollo and he told father! You knew Apollo can't be trusted and yet you told him, in a bar while drinking and hitting on mortal girls."
Hermes was surprised that she knew when and where he told Apollo, and then he remembered that Artemis went with them to make sure they didn't do anything stupid. "Look, I know this is my fault and I'm sorry. But I have a way to fix this! A way for you to be with Hades again."
Hermes words made her free him before grabbing him from his collar and yanking him back and forth. "YOU DO?! HOW?!" she asked excited forgetting her previous anger towards her half-brother.
The messenger god stopped her from killing him with her excitement, she apologized right away before asking him to continue. "Here!" he gave her a box and a letter. "Hecate sent you this, she said that it will help."
Persephone opened the letter and start reading what was written by her friend.
"Dear Persephone.
I know that this couple of months have been difficult without Hades, I know cuz he has been miserable since and I'm tired of it. I know that he would never ask you to do this, but I am; in this box is a pomegranate fruit, the only fruit that grows in the Underworld. If you eat this you'll be a part of the Underworld like Hades is, you must eat twelve seeds for each of the months in the year, only that way you will be able to be with him again.
Hope you do eat the seeds, Hades misses you with all his heart, he cries every night when he believes no one is watching, and he is so into his work that he has forgotten to live. Please Lady Persephone, return to him.
Hecate.
P.S: I already kicked Hermes ass, so don't worry about it.
Persephone laughed before taking the fruit in her hands, she looked at the fruit and then at her brother who looked at her waiting to see what she was about to do. "Are you… going to eat the seeds?" he asked curious.
She looked at the fruit in her hands, if she ate the seeds she would never be able to leave the Underworld; she would never be able to see her mother again and eve if she couldn't stand her at time, she still loved her, but if she didn't eat the seeds then she would never be able to see Hades again.
"Sephie wha…?"
Hermes question was answered when she opened the fruit and took nine seeds and ate them.
- BOOM! –
Thunder sounded as the sky turned grey, Zeus knew what she did, and she didn't care. "I think dad is mad." Said Hermes afraid of what was coming. "Let him, I only want to see him again."
Zeus knows! Persephone doesn't care and Hades is going to have the day of his life after hearing what his wife did, plus they are going to receive some news that will turn the couple's world upside down, but you guys will know until next chapter. Bye!
