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Post by Peter Pan on Mar 10, 2009 17:42:27 GMT -5
Peter opened his arms wide to protect Jane and took a couple of steps backwards as a tall figure of a woman appeared beside Hades, her arms crossed and looking angrily at the two of them. She was very real and by her dangerous gaze, seemed a good match for the Lord of the Dead.
"Ah," said Peter, no longer smiling. "Rightio then, we believe ya now." He paused however as a sudden thought occured to him. Taking a step forward he added a little cheekily, "She's not ya sister is she? 'Cause that would just be weird."
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Post by Jane Porter on Mar 12, 2009 13:04:20 GMT -5
Jane's jaw automatically dropped when she saw the beautiful woman in tow with Hades. No way! It couldn't be! She had to have been his .... slave or something. Though, she did seem to have the same glare that he did. And she did look as angry as he.
Oh goodness! Maybe they were married! "Umm ..." Jane started, her voice trembling.
"Well ... I, I thought that - well, you see. You - you're .... and - PLEASE DON'T SET ME ON FIRE!"
Of course, Jane had turned into a wreck. She never should have tried to stand up to the Lord of the Underworld.
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Post by Hades on Mar 12, 2009 14:57:10 GMT -5
("Well ... I, I thought that - well, you see. You - you're .... and - PLEASE DON'T SET ME ON FIRE!" Oh god, Jane, that cracked me up!!!!!! And Peter, too, with your "She's not ya sister is she? 'Cause that would just be weird." You guys have me rotfl-ing! ;D )
Hades and Persephone exchanged glances. Neither was sure if Jane's 'please-don't set me on fire' cry had been directed towards him or her (Persephone didn't set people on fire, but it was kind of understandable if Jane thought she did).
Persephone sighed. She was mad, yes, but she didn't feel the need to be hostile towards this mortal girl. The red-headed boy was a different story... 'She's not ya sister is she?'
"Sorry, babe, no such luck," said Hades, answering Peter's 'question' before Persephone could say anything, "That's Zeus' thing, not mine..."
She rolled her eyes, and walked over to Jane, who was clearly very frightened of both her and Hades.
"Relax, I'm not going to hurt you," said Persephone dryly, "While some people, *ahem* Hades, maul people as a hobby, I try to avoid violence. Unless absolutely nessecary." She paused. "So...nice to meet you. Jane."
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Post by Jane Porter on Mar 16, 2009 7:42:19 GMT -5
[['That's Zeus' thing, not mine....' XD! I love you Hades!]]
Jane was bewildered. What had just happened? All Jane could do was sit there, with her eyes wider than ever. This place was a madhouse! Jane had to admit, she was still intimidated. If not terrified, that is.
"Er, well it's nice to make you-your acquaintance .... too," she said lamely.
Tere was no way this woman could be Hades' wife. As discreetly as possible, Jane whispered into Persephone's ear. "Now's your chance! Get away where he won't find you!"
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Post by Hades on Mar 16, 2009 16:08:31 GMT -5
Persephone blinked.
"I see. You're one of those people, I guess...I'm not looking to escape from Hades. We've been married for eons--if I wanted to run away...well, I would have by now," she said, "I know it's...um...hard to believe." She vanished in a curl of pink smoke and flowers and reappeared next to Hades, who all but beamed. "But believe it," she added.
Hades couldn't help himself--he smirked at the obviously stunned Jane and Peter Pan.
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Post by Peter Pan on Mar 16, 2009 17:53:32 GMT -5
((Aaah sorry for the late reply lovelies! Great posting you two ;D))
Peter held out a protective arm in front of Jane as she began to lose her composure and Persephone began to walk toward them. To his astonishment however, Persephone turned out to be a lot nicer than Hades - she was quite polite in fact, and didn't even threaten them! Peter was not to be fooled so easily however, and continued to look at her suspiciously, afraid she might suddenly turn after giving them a false sense of security.
When she vanished and returned to Hades' side, Peter glanced sideways at Jane to see what she thought of all this. "So ya actually wanna be with him?" He asked her slowly, as though he couldn't quite believe it. He couldn't really understand why she'd want to be with a grumpy God like Hades.
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Post by Jane Porter on Mar 17, 2009 16:48:59 GMT -5
Jane was absolutely astonished. That, that woman - or was she a goddess? Jane couldn't really tell. Never the less, she was actually in love with Hades!
"Unbelievable!" Jane said, throwing her hands up in the air. "How in the world can somebody like you - who seems to enjoy hanging innocent women from the ceiling after they only try to defend themselves - have somebody who loves them, when I can't even get one person to stay around?!"
The flying boy took the words right out of Jane's mouth. She just wasn't going to believe that she really wanted to be with Hades.
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Post by Hades on Mar 17, 2009 17:59:50 GMT -5
Hades glanced at Persephone, who was trying (failing, but trying) to hold back her grin.
"Figures you wouldn't tell them," she muttered to hades, who just shrugged.
So Persephone stepped fowards and explained, "I didn't want to be with him at first. He kidnapped me."
In mortal years, she had only been about 14 when she had first 'met' Hades (a family reunion on Mt. Olympus--she had yelled at Hades when he began to insult the flowers Persephone had put up). Demeter (mom) had warned her not to go near him; of course, when he all but cornered her in a field and brought her to the Underworld, she couldn't really not go near him anymore...and the situation had only gotten worse when he forced her to marry him.
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Post by Peter Pan on Mar 18, 2009 16:25:55 GMT -5
"I knew there had to be a catch!" Exclaimed Peter happily, clicking his fingers and lifting up off the ground. He sat crossed legged in mid air, as if sat on some invisible chair and grinned at the two god's opposite.
"So he - " he pointed at Hades, "- kidnapped you - " He then moved his finger along to point at Persephone, "- and then you somehow ended up actually wanting to stay with him?" Peter exchanged a look with Jane again before continuing. "How did that happen?"
This was getting stranger by the minute! Never had Peter heard of a victim being captured and then actually wanting to stay with their kidnapper.
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Post by Jane Porter on Mar 19, 2009 18:29:15 GMT -5
Jane looekd back at the boy with the same skeptical look. This just sounded so ... wrong! There was no way on Earth that something like that could have happened. Could it?
"Well," Jane began. "Seeing that she was kidnapped, there was obviously some mutiny involved."
Jane turned and whispered to Peter. "She's obviously under some sort of spell, don't you think?"
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Post by Hades on Mar 19, 2009 19:44:54 GMT -5
"I am NOT under any spell," snapped Persephone, for she had heard Jane whisper to Peter, "That's what my mother thought--she was wrong. And so are you."
Hades stepped backwards, saying, "I'll let you explain this time...."
"My mother was a real nutjob--actually, she still...kinda is. We had gotten into a huge arguement about marriage--she wanted me to get married to someone suitable, and I refused, claiming that I wouldn't marry someone that I didn't love. On that same day, she forced me to go to Mt. Olympus with her for one of Zeus' family reunions. WE had gotten there early so we could decorate. I'm the Goddess of Spring, so I set up flowers everywhere," said Persephone, glancing at Hades, and letting him know that he should talk now. He did so.
"At the same time, I was in the Underworld, scowling over my brother's invitation to the same family reunion Seph was going to. I wasn't going to go--Bolt Boy's 'parties' are always lame, I don't mix well with others, and all they ever do is get drunk on nectar and stumble around like a bunch of brainless idiots...which they all are anyhow, but..." He shuddered at the thought of his extended family, then continued. "And then (of course) guess whi shows up? None other then the three walking liverspots called the Fates. They said, and I quote: "You must go to this family reunion. You will meet someone. A girl. You will meet a girl at this party. And you will—" Of course then they cut off, leaving me with one heck of a cliffhanger, and I ended up going to this unbelievably stupid party anyway."
Persephone started in again. "While he was heading up to Olympus, my mom informed me that I was now engaged (against my will no less) to Apollo. I was really, really, mad at her--it had only been that morning when I had insisted I wouldn't marry if it wasn't for love, and now this? I threw a total temper tantrum, yelling at her, and eventually starting to cry... Demeter (my mom's first name) wasn't going to do anything, but then...then Hades walked in, everything stopped, and she locked me in her arms, refusing to let me go. She never liked Hades much...still doesn't like Hades much..."
Hades muttered, "Understatement of the year," to that last comment. Persepohne continued,
"I didn't pay much attention...until he stood and started to rant about how all these flowers strewn about were hideous and disgusting, and I was furious. I stood up and began to yell at him."
Hades looked almost embarassed as he spoke next, "And then of course, the pieces all fell into place, in that incredibly cliche way of things. Persephone was quite obviously the girl I was s'posed to meet, and when I met her I was supposed to...I figured it out in about 15 seconds. I was supposed to fall in love with her." He grimaced, then looked at the floor. "And I did. In fact, it took me by such surprise--what, I had never been in love before--that I just disappeared and went to the Fates to find about more about her."
(wow, so long! So I guess this'll be a compressed version of my disney Hades/Seph story, the REAL Cosmic Couple... ;D ;D it DOES explain everything!!)
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Post by Jane Porter on Mar 21, 2009 15:29:46 GMT -5
The skeptical look on Jane's face still remained. Their story was very, very convincing. But Jane was still utterly stupefied! All of it just sounded so out of the ordinary! So, Hades, the unlikable Lord of the Underworld, fell in love with the Goddess of Flowers? It was just so ... mismatched!
"So," Jane began. "It's true?! So, you don't mind the .... erm ... fire. Or the fact that he hung me from the ceiling for no apparent reason?!"
Jane just couldn't help bringing up the ceiling incident. XD
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Post by Peter Pan on Mar 22, 2009 16:26:33 GMT -5
Peter had begun to laugh until Persephone had cut across them angrily, hearing Jane's whisper. She then began to go in to a full blown monologue of how her and Hades had come to be.
Lifting an eyebrow, Peter lent back lazily, putting his hands behind his head. He often switched off when things like this happened - he was much more about the action than the talking. Granted, he had heard the first few lines of Persephone's story and the occasional sounds of Hades' chiming in here and there but he soon began to drift off in to a daydream, gazing out in to the distance.
He only managed to tune himself back in when he heard Jane's voice speak of her hanging from a ceiling. "Huh?" He said as he came out of his daydream, "Who hang ya from the ceiling? When was this?"
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Post by Hades on Mar 23, 2009 21:07:28 GMT -5
Persephone turned to Hades. "You did WHAT to her?!"
Hades shrugged. "She was asking for it...come to think of it, I'm not sure WHY I did that...something about tea and cross-dressers."
Persephone opened her mouth and found that all words failed her as she stared at her husband in disbelief.
He only shrugged.
So she turned to Jane. "Actually, I couldn't stand him at first. Not only had mom warned me that he was 'dangerous,' he had just kidnapped me! He kept me--" She turned to glare at him, "--locked in a room 24/7; the only time he willingly let me out was the day after I was kidnapped. It was the climax of his big plan. I was forced--" She glared at him again, "--to marry him."
Hades tried to look nonchalant.
"The 'relationship' that never was...well, never went anywhere...until Pain and Panic decided to help out...they managed to knock me out and hang me in a cage in the middle of Phlegethon river so Hades could 'play Superhero.'"
Hades looked at her and raised an eyebrow. "...It worked."
Persephone thought back, then said decidedly, "I think that was when my feelings for him started to change a little....he eventually made me a necklace--" She held up the little black crystal (diamond) skull hanging from a chain around her neck, "redecorated my room/cell, and made me a throne. After the room thing, I realized that...well...y'know. And then after the throne I just came out with it. We kissed, blah blah blah, happily ever after."
"Quite," said Hades dryly, "Becuase getting re-kidnapped and then forced into the Pomegranate Agreement is your typical storybook ending."
Persephone just said, "The Pomegranate Agreement forces us into a half and half thing--for six months I'm in the Underworld with Hades (that's winter and fall), and for the other six months I'm on Earth--that's spring and summer."
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Post by Peter Pan on Mar 24, 2009 17:27:12 GMT -5
"You'll pay for that one, Hades!" Cried Peter, brandishing his sword from his belt and pointing it toward Hades. His other hand raised behind him, Peter glared at the God suspiciously in case of a sudden movement - he would not have his sword melted again!
Perhaps they found it an over reaction, to something that happened such a long time ago, but Peter had been wanting to teach him a lesson for quite some time now and what better way to do it but with an innocent victim that Hades had tormented, and was still doing so to this day? Who knows, maybe he could even teach the grumpy Lord of the Dead to have a bit of fun.
"So... Why can't Hades come visit ya on Earth?" Asked Peter slowly after a few moments, stunned silence filling the air again.
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