Written for the Lovers Day Event at Hogwarts (Orpheus AU)
For someone who has the ability to charm all living things, you are a failure. You used it to charm people into better moods, animals into a healthier life, but when Andromeda called for you, needed you, you were too late to help.
How foolish could you have been to let her go alone? You knew what she was like, eternally haunted by those who thought she was unworthy.
But the thing is you never expected it, not at your wedding. She wore silver and was beautiful, dancing among her people. You never saw any of it coming, the satyr or the nest of viper biting at her heel. How could you have, foreseen a betrayal as big as this one, her own family of snakes sacrificing her to appease hungry gods who do not care?
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When she dies, you weep but carry on. You play the lyre so sorrowful that all the nymphs and gods weep, and then you take their advice and hike down to the underworld. You can do this: you've drowned out sirens and made the earth shake with your sadness. Surely you can rescue the maiden you love?
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You are so caught up in your desire to save Andromeda that you miss it, the smirk on Hades face and the mischievous smile Persephone tosses at her husband.
Once again, you never see it coming.
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You can't help yourself, to turn around once and make sure she's okay, that she's alive. Sadly, you live to regret it. You wish it could have been you instead of her, for you are unworthy to live when does not.
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This time around, when you crumble to your feet in sorrow, not even the gods can help you. You are alone again and it is all the result of your own mistakes.