"So Persephone." Bruce Wayne leaned forward as he spoke. His cane was leaning against the side of the chair, and his mutt was sleeping on the couch next to me. "I learned about you through the Bat-computer. Apparently you were using it."
"That's right," I said, trembling, still not sure why I even came here in the first place. I hated Bruce and Wonder Woman so much, so why would I come here?
"There was no information about you after you disappeared from the other universe. How did you disappear?"
Why was he asking me when he could've asked Terry?
"I thought you would've asked Terry instead of me." My fists curled.
He leaned back. "I wanted to hear it from you instead."
I swallowed, then leaned forward. "I decided to leave." Then I told him the exact same story I told Terry. Everything.
"It's hard not to see why you would leave with how your parents back at home had treated you." He leaned forward again, and for some reason it seemed like he understood me. There was a sadness in his eyes, and it almost looked as though he experienced the exact same thing I did, but at the same time didn't.
"I want to ask you something: How did Hades treat you?" He seemed interested.
I wrinkled my nose in annoyance.
"Why would you ask that?"
"Your mother and I fought against him before. He treated your grandmother badly, he treated her soldiers badly, and Diana said he claimed she was his daughter. There's no way I would ever believe that."
I relaxed myself then looked back at the old man. "He treated me like a granddaughter. He even kissed me before I left. I remember he'd wake me up by telling me he loved me."
Dad looked surprised for a moment, and curious.
Wait. Did I just call him Dad?! The man I hated of all people?!
Finally he stood up and began walking, relying on his cane.
"Get some sleep. We'll talk later. You can stay in the room you did when you first came."
He was telling me to go to sleep even though it was two-thirty in the afternoon?
Well, I kind of was tired. I walked up the crazy grand staircase and went into my bedroom. I shut the door and tore off my clothes, except for my underwear, then climbed into the bed and slept. I fell asleep the moment I hit the bed.
While I was sleeping, I had a dream about Hades and Dad. In the dream, Dad was walking in the middle of Tartarus, and his clothes were melting off, only to reveal him wearing the Bat-suit underneath. At the end of Tartarus, Hades was sitting on a throne, and he was beckoning him forward, saying it had been a while. Just when Dad was about to talk to Hades, I woke up.