… Hades contacted Iris
Need help.
He had no other ways, and he knew it. After he found out that maybe Zeus was the responsible of what happened to him, he wanted to contact him.
All he needed was an explanation, and maybe some help. Because he had to be honest with himself, there was a chance that his brother wasn't the one who cast this spell on him.
So, he had to talk with his brother, but, as he hated him, he had no good relationship with him. There was just one way to contact him.
Through Iris, of course, and he didn't really want to do that. He would appear as someone weak, asking for help to figure out what had been made to him.
Many times, he thought about giving up this, and just stay absorbed by his revenge. He really, really tried, but every time he told to himself to give up, there was something in him that told him that he was wrong.
Maybe Zelena didn't need his help, and maybe that she could defend herself, but he had to admit it.
He needed help.
He didn't tell that to Iris when he convoked her in his palace. He almost ordered her to come in and she obeyed.
Here she was, facing him, with her beautiful wings, and her eternal youth. She didn't seem so unhappy to be here… just neutral. Apparently, Hera let her go, even if she surely wasn't pleased by that.
Or maybe she also wanted to reconcile with her brother, as he became a pariah since so long time.
Maybe she missed him. And maybe she hoped that Hades missed them too.
But Hades wasn't thinking about it, he was just observing Iris. She didn't really look like Persephone, but just looking at her reminded him of his dead wife.
Another strange though came to his mind, that she didn't look like Zelena.
And, then he remembered the reason why he brought her here.
"What do you want from Hades ? Asked Iris to the god of the Underworld.
I need your help.
Surely, it was what the god should have tell her, but he couldn't. Because he had too pride, so he just wasn't able to be humble, and he would have feel humiliated to ask for help.
Furthermore, to ask help to the people who were his former family and that he hated (almost) completely, it wasn't something pleasant.
Iris looked at Hades with interest, and looked at the place where they were.
The Underworld. Hades' palace, more precisely, a place no one liked, especially since Persephone's death.
- I want you to deliver a message to Zeus, my "dear" brother.
The irony was so not hidden that Iris couldn't help but rolling her eyes with annoyance.
Oh, they really bored her, acting like this !
Well, the only one who did act like this was Hades, but the fact that he still hated Zeus and so showed it each time he faced a god who wasn't from the Underworld was… really, really boring.
He appeared like a child, even though Iris understood his pain, it happened almost two thousands a year ago. And Zeus never intended to kill Persephone ! Even Demeter forgave him, as she wasn't someone who forgave easily.
She was wrong, and knew it but she just wanted the gods stop hating each other.
- What sort of message ?
- I want to see him, in Greece, soon. Me and him we need to talk."
It was just that, and Iris frowned an eyebrow, as surprise took her.
"Nothing else ? About… the reason why you want to see him ?
- No.
- But… Zeus will probably ask me questions, concerning your strange demand.
- Well… you'll tell him that you don't know.
I terribly need help.
He still wasn't ready to say it, he wasn't even ready to think it, or to admit it. He really preferred being alone.
Oh, truly ?
That's why you desperately search for a woman that may not exist in reality but just in your mind ?
Or who now doesn't exist any more ?
And you don't even know her, or if you did love her, if you were together, or something like that.
You should be working on you project of revenge, just as you did during the centuries…
That would be better for you, trust me…
For the first time, he didn't listen the little voice in his head. He wasn't interested in revenge, not now.
Not yet.
All he cared about just now was to find what happened to the woman he forgot, and that he should never have forgot.
"All right Hades, I will do what you asked me too."
Just for a moment, she saw a sort of relief in Hades' eyes, as if he thought she wouldn't agree to accept his request.
He didn't thank her, and it didn't surprise her, but he really seemed to be concerned by this (probably) next encounter with his brother.
And as she went from it and in direction of Mount Olympus, she hoped that things could get better between him and his brother.
She had no idea of how badly he needed their help, even though he wasn't ready to admit it.