Alright, here's chapter two of Zelena's Heartbreak... Have fun
"You will regret this, Zelena."
At the time, she'd taken it as a threat. Now, standing in front of the fallen clock tower, she wondered, not for the first time, if she'd taken it the wrong way.
Maybe it hadn't been a threat.
Maybe it had been a fact.
Either way, he'd been right.
For years, she had played "what if" in her head. Thinking about what might have happened had she let her walls come down. If she had let him kiss her.
But if Zelena had learned anything over the years, it was that feelings were messy. Certain ones, that is. Love, compassion, trust, they all turned a person into a mess.
No one loved her. No one ever wanted to help her. No one trusted her.
After all, who could feel anything for a witch?
Zelena woke up, disoriented. Sunlight streamed through the cracked window of her room.
Fiyero was supposed to have come at dawn to get her. So they could leave this place and never come back.
So where was he?
She threw the thin covers back and slid off of her bed, wincing as her foot hit an old board that gave a loud creak. She froze and listened intently, and when only loud snores from the next room, reached her ears, she crept out of her room and for the door.
Ske kept an eye on her father, who was passed out in a drunken sleep, alcohol fumes emanating from him. Zelena felt her lip curl in disgust as she shut the door behind her. Turning to the woods, she took a deep breath and headed for Fiyero's house.
Zelena was confused. He wasn't there. She'd looked all around the village for him. He was gone.
He wouldn't have left her.
Would he?
Maybe he forgot.
He wouldn't forget her.
Maybe something happened and he had to leave as soon as possible.
That had to be it.
She knew the path he was taking. She could catch up with him. He could have been waiting for her at some point. This idea restarted the flame of hope within and she set off for their path.
"Wouldn't it be nice not to be alone anymore?" Hades asked, his tone almost pleading as he reached for her hand. "After all these years, I still choose you."
His words bring even more tears to her eyes. She still remembered Rumplestiltskin taunting her, telling her that he never would have chosen her to cast the Dark Curse. Hades saying this to her means more than she'd ever admit.
"What better revenge is there than having it all?"
She had to say something at this point. "But I had it all," she said, her voice cracking. "And I gave them back my baby because I thought you wanted to hurt her-" She broke off with a choked sob.
"Well, then, we'll just have to go back and get her, won't we?" he said firmly. He took another step forward.
He was much too close. She could feel her heart pounding and her head reeling with mixed emotions and as a memory came flooding back, she reached her breaking point.
Zelena had finally caught up with Fiyero; she could see him ahead on the path.
She called out his name and started hurrying toward his figure. She saw him go still and turn.
"What are you doing?" he demanded as she came within earshot.
"You were gone," she said breathlessly.
"You weren't supposed to follow me," he snapped, his gray eyes hard and cold.
Confused, Zelena stammered. "But..I thought-"
"What? That I really would run off with the town drunk's daughter? That we'd have a future?" he sneered. "Please. Don't flatter yourself."
Zelena was trying to process the meaning of his harsh words.
"You-you said-"
"That I loved you? How could you expect anyone to love you, the drunk's daughter? And a witch to boot," he said viciously.
Zelena nearly collapsed out of shock. "How did you-"
"You should be more careful," Fiyero countered. He paused, then said "Scratch that. Then they'll burn you at the stake and we'll all be rid of you."
Her eyes stung with tears. "How- how can you say that?"
"Don't delude yourself by thinking that anyone will give a damn about you Zelena, because they won't. I sure as hell don't. You were just a bit of fun, nothing else." He shifted the pack on his shoulder.
"Now, I'm leaving. Don't be stupid and follow me."
He turned to leave.
"None-none of it was real?" Zelena asked tentatively.
"No. Now go home, Zelena."
Fiyero continued down the path, leaving a stricken Zelena behind.
She couldn't risk it. There was no way she'd ever let her heart be broken again.
So she pulled her hand out of Hades' hold, tears streaming down her face as she could only gasp the word "No."
She apologized, and felt even worse as Hades only gazed at her sympathetically, and said his reassurances.
"I know you don't want me, or need me. But if you change your mind, I'll be waiting for you...at home."
And with those words, he disappeared in a cloud of blue fire.
Home. Zelena had never found a place that felt remotely like home. A part of her dared to wonder if it was possible to have a home with Hades. But that same part of her was the one that clouded her judgement with sentiment, and led her to make decisions she quickly regretted.
It wasn't possible for anyone to love her.
Was it?
Ah, Zelena. Have faith.
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