youwantitdarker

[anoixi]

King of shadows, king of shades Hades was King of the Underworld But he fell in love with a beautiful lady Who walked up above In her mother's green fields... It was like she was someone you'd always known It was like you were holding the world when you held her Like yours were the arms that the whole world was in And there were no words for the way that you felt So you opened your mouth and you started to sing...

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[youwantitdarker]

"When would you like me to be your husband?" There would be things, perhaps most dreaded a conversation with her mother among them. He respected Demeter, and always had, but their worlds were so far apart there was no path between them. "Or would you just like to come assume your throne now my queen?"

[anoixi]

Only now does she hesitate, because she also knows what will be coming. Her mother isn't a fury, but she could be as cold and implacable as any of them. "Soon," she said. "We should... talk to people first. I don't want it... dragging out."

[youwantitdarker]

Though her hesitancy rends the breath of a laugh from him Hades wasn't smiling in the least. They both knew what 'talk to people' entailed, and neither one of them seemed particularly enthusiastic about it. "Will she forbid it?" He didn't want to think about it, about having come this close to her only to have it taken away by an angry mother, but Demeter was vibrant with life, and Persephone was without question the apple of her eye.

[anoixi]

She bites her lip, afraid of the answer. "Perhaps," she concedes. She hopes she will not. That maybe once, seeing her happy with someone else will give her mother joy instead of jealousy. "I will persuade her," she told him, firmly closing the door to the possibility that her mother will refuse the match. "She'll see me happy and be unable to deny the source of it." Which was him.

(Why should you care what your mother will or will not forbid, a little voice groused in her head. An acorn doesn't ask the tree where it should sprout.)

[youwantitdarker]

Hades was quiet as she spoke, observing the expression on her face pensively as his mind worked over the arduous task of facing Demeter. "I will go with you, if you like," he didn't know if that would make things better or worse, but, he didn't want her to face this alone either.

[anoixi]

She smiles at him. "If I cannot go to her alone, she will say I am not old enough to leave her." But she hesitates again, idly stroking back his hair. "Or that if I come alone, that you should have come and spoken to her yourself." She sighs, frustrated.

[youwantitdarker]

Hades' brow furrowed as he listened to Persephone mull over the possibilities. For all his years he was as unfamiliar with this kind of matter as she. Love in the Underworld was a rare, nearly impossible thing, and he had never been the exception to that before. "Perhaps it's best to go together," he gave a decisive nod. "You're my wife, you're not going to face anything alone anymore."

[anoixi]

She smiles and kisses him briefly. Though she doesn't want to admit it completely she knows she'll be a little relieved having him with her. "Not even my mother?" she said.

[youwantitdarker]

"Not yours, not anyone's," he said, that slight smile softening his features all over again as he lifted his hand to curl his fingers gently in the soft ends of her hair, leaning down to rest his forehead against hers. "I love you."

[anoixi]

"I love you," she replied, her throat tight. "I don't know why you chose me, but... you have."

[youwantitdarker]

"Nothing else has ever made me want for light like you do," he said simply. There was no sense mincing words when it came to the truth.

[anoixi]

"Nothing?" His life had been longer than hers, stretching back into the far past, as long as her mother's.

[youwantitdarker]

"Just you," Hades smile was slight but sincere, reaching down to brush a hand over her cheek.

[anoixi]

She knows that by the time they all faded and time was over, she will have done to many things to see just a sliver of that smile on his handsome face. She raises on her toes to slip her arms around his shoulders, her warmth leaching into him. "I'm going to be your wife," she murmured, partly to herself, and partly to him.

[youwantitdarker]

"I'm as surprised as you are," he murmured gently, breathing out a chuckle as he did before he kissed the bridge of her nose, and then her forehead. "I'll make you happy Persephone," even if everything that made him who he was seemed so contrary to her, and who she was, Hades now believed that he still could, that he might already be on his way.

[anoixi]

"I know. You already have," she said with a serene smile.