Devil in a Red Dress

4

Rosie felt Lisa's presence in the other side of the palace. She found her tearing a tapestry to shreds with her sword. Rosie shook her head and sighed. She walked up to Lisa and put a gentle hand on her shoulder and Lisa immediately froze.

Rosie materialized them into Lisa's room in the palace and Lisa threw her sword into the stone walls of her room in a rage and it dug itself into the stone.

"I'm sorry Lis."

"I almost killed you!" Lisa said angrily. "I hate you! I hate her!" Lisa grabbed her chest in pain.

"I'm sorry, you needed to see."

"See what! Why the hell would the great sage reveal to satan that I would actually kill my best friend, my only family just for her!"

"She had to see you're willing to protect her, that you'll go to any lengths."

"She's pure evil Rosie!" Lisa doubled over in pain before straightening up and continuing. "She could use this to her advantage and take advantage of your power. You know how much you're worth, why would you reveal that!"

"She's not evil and you know it."

"She's goddamn satan!"

"She stopped you Lisa. She stopped you from killing me. She could have let you do it but she didn't, how can you still believe she's evil?"

"She's manipulative! That's her whole thing. Who else could posses a ring so powerful that it fakes love. She probably tricked Eros into giving it to her."

"She didn't even use force Lisa. She could have killed you. She could have stopped you with her fire and I would have owed her protection or answers for saving my life but she didn't. She asked you to stop instead, why do you think that was?"

"I don't know Rosie but I think you're being blinded."

"You're the one that's blinded Lis. It was instinct for her, you two are connected. She can't hurt you either."

Lisa laughed derisively then.

"I think all of the timelines that are running through your head are messing with your brain and you're forgetting your own past now Rosie because she literally just tried to kill me less than an hour ago!"

"Listen to me Lisa. You both needed to see this to accept each other. She didn't trust you before. Her love for Jisoo—"

"Love!" Lisa said incredulously, cutting her off. "Hades? Satan? Jennie can't love!"

That clenched Lisa's heart the hardest because the fact that Jennie could never love her back shattered her into pieces. She felt tears welling and she wiped them away angrily.

"Yes, love Lisa. She loves Jisoo. She's her only family just like I'm yours. She thought Jisoo was in danger from you. She only tried killing you to protect her. There's many things you don't know yet, and you'll never figure them out until you open your eyes and accept that maybe Jennie isn't who you think she is."

Lisa had no idea there had been two different Hades.

Time was convoluted, it didn't flow in a straight line. Lisa had lived centuries as an angel even as she had lived them as a human, there was really no start or finish to time so despite living her last lifetime as a human only a century ago in human time, she had reincarnated as an angel after her human death and was born back in the time when the original Hades was in power.

Everyone knew he was ruthless, evil. Lisa thought that same person was Jennie, having no clue about the shift in power.

As much as Rosie wished she could reveal that truth, Lisa had to find out on her own. She had to open her heart up to Jennie or they were all doomed.