Hello. So enjoy (Sorry this chapter is very dialogue heavy and tells a story in the middle. If confused PM me).
"We can travel the world, Pony," Draco sighed in my ear, "You can finally leave this awful town. Away from the separation of the rich and the poor, the bad and the worse, the good and the bad. Isn't that what you've always wanted? Isn't that what Darry and Soda and the rest of the gang and your parents wanted for you?"
I looked Draco in the eyes and frowned, "Well yeah but I don't know about this…What if I never see them again?"
"Aw, my little colt is worried about his family. You are really loyal to your family aren't you," He slowly kissed up and down my collar bone.
"I'm just worried."
"Don't be. I'll protect you."
"You promise?"
Draco stopped what he was doing and looked at me. His eyes turned black. An endless void that made you nervous if you stared to long. But when I stared at him, I felt calm, "I promise. Now eat."
He lifted his hand with the remaining seeds that were in hand.
And I splurged.
"So wait wait! You're telling me that innocent Ponyboy once cussed a storm to Darry," Draco (Romeo) laughed.
"Innocent? Are we talking about the same Ponyboy," Johnny laughed and the rest of the gang joined in.
"After that incident, I put a bar of soap in Pony's mouth and he had to have it stuck in there for an hour."
Draco's hand gripped my leg underneath the table and he squeezed it. While upstairs, Draco told me he didn't like anyone in the gang.
"You have to get over that," I whispered in his hair as he was biting my chest. We somehow found our way onto my bed. He bites a little harder on my stomach, "I'm only going to 'getting over it' because I," he kissed my chest, "love," kissed my navel, "you" he crawled up my chest and kissed my neck, "so," kissed my forehead, " much," and he finally landed his beautiful lips on mine.
"Oh I bet he deserved it," Romeo laughed bringing me back to the present.
"Harharhar," I sarcastically laughed, "You're supposed to be on my side."
"Oh don't worry Pony I'm always on your side," Draco chuckled but his eyes told another story. As in I'm always there for you. "If I cussed mia madre she would've hit me with a wooden spoon."
Soda looked at me and nodded, approving of my new friend. He elbowed Darry lightly and pointed to us with his head. Darry smiled. Well that was easy.
"So Romeo, tell us about your family. I assume you got an ear full from Ponyboy," Darry smiled nicely at Romeo.
Romeo smiled and let go of my leg. "Mio papà is the new AP history teacher. The one who replaced Ms. Lancaster. His name is Draco Cesar. Mia madre is a nurse for the hospital. Her name is Isabelle Cesar."
Johnny opened his mouth, "But you-"
Romeo smiled, "Well mio papà didn't want me to get special treatment at school from the other teachers and students so we put my mama's ...um... nome da ragazza…wait no maiden name on my student id."
"I actually have lots of siblings but I'm the oldest boy. Overall there are sei of us," Romeo picks up six fingers, "three girls and three boys."
"That's a lot of siblings," Steve said surprised, "Did your parent's not believe in wrapping it up or is it really a Catholic thing?"
Steve and Dally started laughing. Darry glared at the guys and they shut up. Darry looked back Romeo and smiled, "Sorry about that. Can you tell us what's their names are."
"Oh well there's me, then Agnese and she's 12, Laura is next and she's 11, Eva is after her and she's 10, and then after her is the boys. Alberto is the second oldest boy in the family and he's 8," Draco light smiled turned to a frown and a shadow formed around his face, "and then we have the mistake in our family. His name is Abramo. He's literally an annoying brat and he gets in everyone's way."
"Well how old is Abramo?'
"Ugh he's 5."
"Aren't 5 years supposed to be annoying," Steve chuckled, "I remember the little brat when he was five. He was quite the handful. Two-Bit isn't your sister five? Six at the most?"
Two-Bit looked up from his food with a startled look in his eyes, "Um yeah she's five."
"It's to be expected. Don't worry when you two get older, you guys will become super close," Sodapop smiled.
Draco looked over at Soda with a dark expression, "I highly doubt that. Thanks for the advice though."
"What's wrong with you Two-Bit? You've been quiet lately. Are you okay," Johnny looked over at Two-Bit with concern in his eyes. Two-Bit's eyes turned milky once more and nodded towards Johnny, "I just think this Romeo kid seems real interesting."
I look over at Draco. He's wearing an unimpressed look on his face.
I tried to distract everyone, "Hey Darry?"
Darry looked up from his food, "Yeah?"
"If you don't mind, Romeo and I wanted to know if we can go to the ice cream parlor."
"I don't see a probl-"
"No you can't go," Soda interrupted.
"Why not," Darry raised a questioning eyebrow.
"The closes ice cream parlor-that's open- is Big Freddie's. Which is also in soc territory."
Darry looked at me with his eyes bulging out of his eyes and he dropped his cup on the ground (luckily it was a plastic one or we would have a really angry Darry), "Nope. You can't go."
"But…but…"
"I don't know if this changes anything but my house is actually by the parlor. If you don't want Pony out so late he can stay at my house."
Darry looked over at me and sighed, "Fine go Pony. Call me if anything changes. Take your backpack just in case you stay over there tonight."
I smiled and jumped out of my seat, "Thanks Darry," and ran upstairs to grab my backpack. When I came back down Romeo was leaning on the front door. He looked up at me and he smiled. His eyes glistened over at me. "Okay Darry, I'm leaving now."
"Okay see you tomorrow."
"See ya."
Draco and I left the house in a hurry. Draco started laughing. His voiced changed from a boy going through puberty to baritone boom.
"I'm surprised he even allowed you to come out at all," Draco chuckled.
"Yeah. I need to thank Darry again."
"No no no," Draco smiled and leaned down and kissed me on my lips, "You're going to be spending the night with me."
"Oh really," I smiled, "How do you suppose that's going to work?"
Draco's eyes darken with lust. His lips touched my ear, "What do you Americans say? I'm going to turn your world inside out."
I laughed, "It's upside down."
We stopped at the ice cream parlor. I asked for a double scope of chocolate with fudge topping. Draco looked at my ice cream cone and scrunched up his nose.
"What?"
"Don't you think that's a lot of chocolate?"
I looked back at my cone, the ice cream already melting. I looked back up at Draco and winked and slowly licked the running cream, "Nope."
Draco blushed and ordered one scope of strawberry and one vanilla. "What do you have for toppings?"
"Uh…we have cherries, nuts, whip cream, and this new topping for a limited time, pomegranate seeds." Draco's eyes widen and he asked for the pomegranates.
"That's an odd choice of topping," I said, still licking my ice cream.
"Yeah but there my favorite fruit. Have you ever had one before?"
I shook my head, "Tulsa doesn't cultivate those. And we don't import them from other states."
"That happened to Italy. We were the leading providers of the fruit supposedly during the Roman Empire. Then it started to break apart and the country Iran now grows them."
"Oh."
"Yeah. My family started to import them from California and Iran and then we started growing them in our backyard. Well until recently… The pomegranate actually has a rich history. Especially in my family's ancestors. Do you mind if I tell? It's Greek mythology."
"Yes, please I love mythology."
"I guess pomegranates got big and popular because of Persephone and Hades 'holy' matrimony. It goes like this Hades was separated from his Olympian family, he was lonely and very much wanted a wife to fill the void. One day, he spotted a young goddess named Persephone, the daughter of Zeus and Demeter, whose incredible beauty and tender countenance won his admiration. Hades fell deeply in love with Persephone. Every day he would secretly spy on her while wearing his Helm of Darkness. Hades wished to take her as his bride despite his estrangement with her parents (and his siblings). He knew that Persephone's mother would refuse to even consider the marriage, so decided to speak with her father instead.
Shortly thereafter, Hades mustered up enough courage to visit Olympus, and begged Zeus to allow him to marry her. Zeus advised his lovesick brother to kidnap Persephone, and even helped him. Hades succeeded in kidnapping his beloved Persephone, but she did not want to stay with him, and wished to be rescued. Over time though, she came to admire Hades' power and wealth, and gradually fell in love with him, relieved to finally be free from her mother. Hades was very kind and patient. He very much wanted her to reciprocate his great love, and tried to buy her affections with many magnificent gifts at first, but then took to spending all of his day with her, desperately trying to make her happy. Eventually Hades' empathy and kindness won Persephone's heart.
Meanwhile, a distraught and grief-stricken Demeter soon caused the earth to become barren when she learned of the abduction, and furiously blamed Zeus for allowing Hades to court Persephone behind her back. Pressured by mortal prayers and the other Olympians, Zeus finally demanded that the Lord of the Dead return his daughter, and sent Hermes to deliver the message. Hades was devastated at the prospect of losing his new found wife, but was forced to submit to the will of Zeus. However, while Hermes delivered the message, Hades tricked Persephone into eating six pomegranate seeds, so she had to stay with Hades for six months of the year. This came at a cost, as Demeter never recovered from her daughter marrying Hades. Demeter's nagging increased with this action, but Persephone got to stay with her husband this way. This effected the seasons on the surface. The six months Persephone was with her mother, the mortals had spring and summer, and when she returned, autumn and winter."
"Well that's interesting," I said. I glanced over and saw six pomegranates left in Draco's cone. Draco looked down in his cone and pulled out the seeds. He smiled, "Ha. Want to see if these things can make you stay with me forever?"
I chuckled and grabbed one from his hand. I looked at him dead in the eyes and put one in my mouth. I chewed on the pulp and the juice squished out and onto my tongue. The fruit tasted sweet and tart. The seeds were sweet, juicy and bursting with flavor.
"How is it," Draco asked scooting closer to me.
"It was good. Um…can I have another one?"
"You can have all of them if you like."
I ate another and another. I ate about 4 total when my stomach started churning. The seeds started to taste bitter and I felt sick.
"Sorry," I covered my mouth, "I don't think I can eat anymore."
"No, you need to finish."
"But my head is hurting," I started to whine, "I'm getting really sick from this."
"I need you though, Ponyboy. My special colt listen to me." Draco kept talking and talking. His words sounding like music in my ears the way he said my name and the way he held eye contact to me. The outside world seemed to fade away and it was just me and Draco sitting on a park bench eating seeds. His eyes changed colors from the usual emerald green to the yellow-green color and gleamed with energy. "We are meant to be together. Fate or Destiny or hell your God has told us we need to be together. I've been searching centuries for you and now that I have found you, I need you to stay with me. We can travel the world, Pony. You can finally leave this awful town. Isn't that what you've always wanted? Isn't that what Darry and Soda and the rest of the gang and your parents wanted for you?"
I looked Draco in the eyes and frowned, "Well yeah but I don't know? I just want to make sure I'm making the right decision."
"Us being together is always the right decision," He slowly kissed up and down my collar bone.
"I'm just worried."
"Don't be. I'll protect you."
"You promise?"
Draco stopped what he was doing and looked at me. His eyes turned black. An endless void that made you nervous if you stared to long. But when I stared at him, I felt calm, "I promise. Now eat the seeds."
He lifted his hand with the remaining seeds that were in hand.
And I splurged.
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And then I fell into darkness.
P.S I used the story from the wiki page for Hades on the Percy Jackson site. Don't sue me. I literally tried to think of my own version of it (which will actually be in the next interlude or two) but I realized half way through that it was too long and would take away from the real story. Other than the myth lesson, I had this chapter done like months ago. Whoops.
P.P.S The last part of the story is Pony being kinda in a trance.