How Dare You?

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Our weekend long date eventually had to come to an end, we returned home the Monday evenig. Today is Friday and Hades has been working like crazy the entire week. I don't have a book to read, it's too early to start cooking, too cold to go for a swim and i can't leave the house. I'm bored, so I get up from my place on the couch and start walking around the house.

After a while I find myself standing in front of a closed door. This is the room I was in when Hades told me about his past. Helen's room.

I push open the door and look around the spacious bedroom. Cream walls, floor to ceiling glass wall, big bed with fluffy pink bedding, a desk with a laptop, tv, couch and a huge white rug. A cute room, it's obvious that it was made for a girl, it doesn't look like Hades comes in here much. This is the same room that she hung herself in.

"I'm so sorry for what happened to you." I mumble out loud as I walk around the room. I open the drawer on the bedside table and find a photograph. A guy? That looks exactly like Hades, just a lot younger. He looks around 25 or 24 in this picture and there's a girl with him. She looks a lot smaller, maybe around 15 or 16, with long blonde hair and sparkling green eyes. She's wearing a white dress, a big smile is plastered on her face and her hands cover her stomach. She looks so familiar, as if I've seen her somewhere before.

This must be Hades and Helen.

I look through the drawers on both sides of the bed with the picture still in my hand. I don't even know what I'm looking for but I'm looking for something. As I make my way back to the bed my shoe gets caught in the rug and i fall face first into the carpet.

"Mother fucking shit." I mumble with a groan at the impact. Just as I'm about to get up something under the bed catches my attention.

A book?

I pull it out and sit up on the carpeted floor. A thick book with nothing on the cover. I open onto the first pace and an elegant handwriting catches my attention.

Helen of Troy.

I page further and see more writing.

"Dear diary

Hi, it's me again, Helen of Troy, the face that launched a thousand ships. It's quite ironic actually, Helen was kidnapped by that one prince even though she was betrothed to another. She fell in love with the man who stole her but all good things must come to an end. In the legend, the love of Helen is killed in the war for her but in my story I'm taken away from the man that I love. It's sick and twisted I know but I fell in love with Vladimir, Hay-Hay would kill me if he found out but I can't help missing him. It's been three days since I got here and i stole this book from Hay-Hay's office since I don't have a diary of my own anymore. This will just have to do.

Thought of the day: missing Vlad."

I read with shock, this is the diary of Helen. She was in love with the guy that raped her? I find myself paging and reading the next entry.

"Dear diary

It's kinda weird seeing Hay-Hay after all these years, he doesn't look the same either, he's grown now. He doesn't treat me the way that he used to, it's like he's afraid to talk to me so I just shut up too. I asked him where dad was today and he froze, he told me that he doesn't know but I know that he's lying, he always rubs the back of his neck before telling a lie. I wonder why he won't just tell me. He's different, bad just like Vlad, hopefully he doesn't sell girls, Vlad stopped after him and i started dating. I got a phone today, Hay-Hay bought me one, I'll try calling Vlad tomorrow while Hay-Hay is gone.

Thought of the day: Hay-Hay is different."

This is wrong, i shouldn't be reading this.

My phone ringing pulls me out of my thoughts. It's Hades, i take a deep breath before answering.

"Hey." I greet.

"Where are You?" He asks with clear anger in his voice.

"At home, where else would I be?" I ask.

"Where exactly in the house are you Evangeline?" He asks.

"On the second floor." I mumble and quickly slide the book back under the bed before jumping to my feet.

"Oh, okay come down, we need to talk." He says and hangs up.

I scurry out of the room and hurry to the library. I pick up a book that i read a while back and turn to a random page before hugging it to my chest and running down the stairs. Hades stands with his hands in his pockets while looking at the lit fireplace. He's home early, still in the grey and gold suit from this morning.

"Christmas is in two weeks, can we just stay in bed?" He asks and plops down on the plush couch.

"I want to spend the day with my family Hades, i don't get to see them a lot and i bought each of them gifts. If you want to stay home then just send me to their house, I'll be back before dark." I say and he sighs.

"I killed a lot of people today, it wouldn't be wise for you to go anywhere. Word has gotten out that I'm engaged and all of my enemies will want to get to you. I can't let anything happen to you." He says.

"So I can't spend Christmas with my family?" I ask.

"I'll send a car for them but they'll need to stay the night and leave early the next morning." He suggests and i immediately nod.

"That would be amazing." I say.

"Do you want kids?" He suddenly asks.

"I can't have kids Hades." I whisper.
"I thought you found out when you did a background check on me."

"I know but it doesn't look like your family knows." He says.

"I couldn't find it in myself to tell them. I still haven't even made peace with it." I say and a tear rolls down my eye.

"I was thinking of adoption." He says.

"You want kids?" I ask and he nods.

"I'll probably be a shitty father but I know that you're going to be an amazing mom." He says and i roll my eyes.
"I met someone today. A little girl, she tried to rob me." He says with a chuckle.

"Really?" I ask.

"Yeah, she couldn't be more than 10 years old. I took her to eat a burger and found out that she lives in the orphanage that isn't far from where you lived. Her name is Eloise, she has these big beautiful eyes that remind me of yours and long golden hair just like Helen's." He tells me.

"I wanna meet her too, she sounds lovely. Are you ready for a kid Hades?" I ask.

"I'm not getting any younger and i just felt an instant connection to this little girl. Like she was already family." He says and i see nothing but pure love in his beautiful eyes.
"I understand if you don't want kids though." He mumbles.

"I have always wanted a kid, i just never thought that I'd have the opportunity to have one of my own." I tell him.

"She's a little firecracker, she'll be a strong woman one day, just like you." He says.

"Can we go down to the orphanage? I would like to meet her." I say

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