Family, Nothing More, Nothing Less

Hi! Remember how I've been saying I'd eventually write down a story in which Hades is a nice, caring father? Well, this is it! It's finally here!

This story that had been roaming around in my head, even when the idea is not totally mine, but a friend's.

How this story finally got to you is kind of interesting: this friend and I were talking and then the first plot for this story appeared, then he had a second idea that included Persephone and Hades, a little of Will and a bit of Aphrodite, and they sounded sort of similar, so I decided to join them, but when I was writing the first draft it didn't seem to be going to work, so I mixed them up but split part of the first and of part second for the other story and... Well, my life and my head are a mess, but I promise you'll have a nice story to read and I hope taht's enough for you. That surely is enough for me.

So, expect the other story in a couple of months, now that I got a cold and I can't speak and that totally makes my life miserable, but I really hope you enjoy this!

Family, Nothing More, Nothing Less

Hades had never been one to openly show affection. Never, in his long, long centuries and ions.

However, that didn't enable him of feeling it, even when people often mistook one thing with the other and didn't quite realize that they were different matters.

Another thing people commonly confused were love and affect.

You see, Hades loved Persephone, and he just barely felt affect towards his mortal lovers.

And one may ask, if he loved his wife, then why was it that he even had mortal lovers to start with?

The answer to that question was as simple as for the previous ones: it wasn't women the ones he looked for and fell in love with, but something else entirely.

It was the children. What he craved for wasn't a companion or a sporadic lover—he had a wife which he adored and he knew he was corresponded.

No, what he was looking for was something Persephone couldn't give him, something that was part of a family just as much as the very same wife or husband—children.

For those who knew better and that wanted to be rude or meddlesome enough, the truth was that Persephone had had children, centuries in the past, but it wasn't out of physical incapacity that Hades had been talking about now, was it?

It hadn't been Persephone's decision to have those children, and she in fact didn't love them. She hardly was able to stand listening to her spawns' names, let alone look at them.

On the other side, those weren't Hades' sons, but Zeus', as the almighty king of gods had decided to make his own daughter's life impossible.

Currently, Zagreus, Persephone's first son, also known as Yacus after an issue that involved Hera's jealously and giants before he'd reincarnated as Dionysius had taken a place in Olympus while Melinoe, Persephone's daughter, remained as a helper of Thanatos, living in the Underworld and completely depending on her stepfather's domain.

Hades had never been mad or even slightly upset at Persephone because of those children, and the reason that he hadn't thrown a fuss over his wife's out-marriage spawn as his sister Hera did was simple: just by staring into Persephone's eyes he was able to see how much that betrayal –that he couldn't even blame on the spring goddess as Zeus had raped her– pained her, and how ashamed she felt.

After that, having a child that was their own had been completely out of the table for the couple, and Hades had never dared bring the matter up, even when the one thing that the god of the Underworld wanted was to raise a child with Persephone.