When Darkness Met Her

The Lion

"Come on Persephone, this place is always hoppin!" Hecate said dragging Persephone along as they dashed across the street towards a tall building with no windows, but the boom of the music could be heard a block away. Joining them was Artemis who was tall, slender, strawberry blonde and dressed to impress as her dark purple dress clung to her body while gold earrings, bracelets, and high heeled shoes made her glow in the streetlight. Then there was Nike all dressed up in orange and yellow with her dark brown hair piled up high on her head while a big necklace hung down her neck in big chunks of silver and black. Hecate had chosen a dark green skirt and white top, her black hair loose down her back as her cunning eyes winked at Persephone as they entered the club without trouble.

Persephone could feel the music boom in her body as they entered the club, the dance floor packed on the bottom floor while people danced along the upper floor with drinks of many sizes and colors in their hands. The strobe lights bounced around the industrial looking theme of the club while Persephone followed her group steadily through the crowd. Mortal boys looked at the four with lust filled eyes and Persephone suddenly felt very exposed as she looked down at her scantily dressed she had picked out.

"Maybe this wasn't such a good idea" she thought to herself as Nike handed her a large drink with a big orange cut into the side.

"Don't worry!" Nike said over the music "It's not that strong!"

"Nike always picks the best drinks!" Hecate said next "and Artemis always finds us the greatest spots to hang out in between dancing!"

Artemis gave Persephone a wink that made her slightly smile. In a way they were related, both being the offspring of Zeus, but Persephone was never given the chance to talk to her half sister, either by influence of Demeter or just the simple fact that Artemis always stuck close to her twin brother Apollo.

They moved through the crowd once more till they found a nice spot by a post that held up the upstairs that was filling up with more people by the hour. Persephone watched and laughed with the others, but a growing panic was in the back of her mind for some reason. It was a bad feeling, a feeling that she was being watched...

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Hades walked steadily in the shadows, watching carefully as people passed him by unnoticed. Although he was very good at walking around undetected, tonight he decided to bring along his invisible helmet he kept for emergencies. This wasn't a life or death situation, but the wrath that was growing in his heart warranted he take some extra precautions just in case some mortal man decided to get a little too close to his wife who was sipping a very prominent looking drink in her hands.

Even though he was on the other side of the club he could still make out the highlights of her face, the way her eyes soared over things, the nervous twitch in her fingers as she lay her cup down. It almost felt like a predator watching his prey, but wasn't that always them? Persephone out in the open in the sunlight, Hades in the shadows watching her from afar. That had been their story for centuries, and now they were together in reality, and here he was watching with...was it jealousy? Suddenly he heard her laugh like the ringing of bells that sounded out over the music. Someone had made her laugh, and it wasn't him. The thought sent rage up his spine and into his eyes when he caught himself suddenly.

 Yes, it was jealousy.

Quickly he stopped and thought about what he was doing. She had goated him on...his own wife had known how he would have reacted when he saw her in that dress, and now here he was spying on her!