Just a Kiss Goodnight

Just a Kiss Goodnight (22)

Hades’ P.O.V

My little girl… that’s all I could think about.

I felt Georgiana’s prayer to me and reacted immediately. The girl may well be a new Demi-God but I should think even she should know better than to send a prayer to the Lord of the dead for no good reason.

I travelled through the Earth’s shadows to arrive in the field Georgiana was in and instantly I could feel the energy vibrating around the place that only Zoe could have controlled. My eyes found her instantly and I saw her black eyes and panicked. She’d taken her power too far… she’d let it control her rather than control her power.

I strode over to her as quickly as I could without running and terrifying the sky Demi-God any further. I could smell the fear radiating off of her and making me stronger and it was, no doubt about it, thrilling but I needed to help my daughter.

I pushed my stupid, weak boy out of the way and took Zoe’s face into my hands. “Come on, Zoe… take control back baby girl, you can do it. You’re stronger than this darkness… pull the energy back to you to give you strength… you can do it.” I whispered to her softly. I felt a subtle change in the energy around the two of us and Zoe’s eyelids fluttered open. She looked at me briefly before passing out into my arms.

That last look she gave me showed me just how scared Zoe was of herself. She knew she couldn’t control her powers and it seemed she needed more lessons with me to help her. Whilst I carried Zoe back into the Demi-God house the smell of death filled my nose and my eyes widened. One of them knew how to raise the dead. And that’s not good. Considering Zoe was in such a state and it was obvious she’d just used to much energy it had to be Zeke. And that posed a problem for me.

I’d never taken to the boy. In all honesty he was too much like me for my liking. He was hard to reach and too emotional at times. He was full of resent and hated the world around him and I didn’t know how to handle him. Zoe was so.. bright even though she was genetically part of death. She could make a day seem brighter just by walking in whereas Zeke was the opposite. He didn’t seem to know what to do when someone was happy around him, he seemed to shy away from happiness and he seemed to resent anyone that was happy because he couldn’t find a way to be happy himself.

I blame myself for him being like that… It was obvious I favoured Zoe, right from when she was born. I’d always wanted a little girl to protect and when I heard that Eva was having twins I couldn’t be happier. But when the two of them started to grow up Zoe was always the one wanting her daddy and Zeke seemed to fall into the background all the time.

I resented the boy for everything even though none of it was his fault. I used him to carry out my missions. I didn’t know what else to do with him. I didn’t know what to talk to him about because I’d never really spoken to him before in his life.

I was just a terrible parent to be honest. Parents aren’t supposed to pick favourites and yet that was what I’d done from their birth… I’d chosen one over the other and now I don’t know if I can make any of it better in time to save Zeke from his own power.