Hades Doesn't Save Her (WIP)
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“Don’t do this.”
It’s the last thing she can think to say, the last plea she can make. It’s only for Hades to hear, as he cradles her face in his hands. She looks into his eyes, searching for any remaining pieces of the man- the god- she had loved, but anything left is already in mourning.
As if she’s already dead.
Her grip on his wrists go slack.
Even after all of it- after she’s thrown his engagement ring back at him, almost run from the gods completely, almost taken the deal of a titan- she still clung to the desperate hope that Hades would find that he loves her enough to defy the gods. That he would love her enough to save her after all.
But he only stares back at her, resigned, as he has since the moment the gods decided to kill her.
“It won’t hurt,” he finally says, voice cool, and his aura activates before either of them can say more. Where she used to find comfort, only dread lives, now.
His power, and the power of every other Top Tier God floods her. In the back of her mind, she barely registers when the last one joins, just a split second later than every other one. It’s Aphrodite’s and, for some reason, though it hurts in the same way Hades’ betrayal does, it helps her breathe easier for a moment.
And then the world falls away.
Nothingness surrounds her, a terrible, foreboding darkness that her soul fears on instinct. A place where people like her, young and human, are put to rest.
A graveyard that takes its people when they’re still alive.
A feral sound escapes her as she struggles against her fate, fights against the inky void that grasps onto her, sinks beneath her skin.
“No... No!” she shouts, and almost on instinct, she calls forth the power of her ring, hoping it might save her, somehow.
For a moment, nothing happens.
Then-
Tendrils of gold pierce the darkness she’s been banished to, chaining across her body akin to an embrace. Part of her wants nothing more than to struggle against them, but she knows- this is what she wanted. Her saving grace.
The most she can do is hold onto them, too, and hope against everything that it’s enough to anchor her soul when the gods would see it flushed away.
Somewhere, in the encroaching dark, she hears a voice, ancient and tired. She strains her ears to hear, pushes the roar of divine power out of her mind as best she can, and listens.
“...on’t want... this.”
The chains of gold around her tighten, ever so slightly.
“Not again... ot now.”
Her mind races from the possibilities, but there’s only one person it could really be. A voice that sounds familiar and strange, heard in dreams forgotten. An essence, that watched over her for 15 years before settling into her skin itself.
A goddess that’s been missing for decades, by her own decision, only for the gods to try taking her choice away one more time.
Hera.
She misses what the goddess says after the realization comes to her, but she has a guess as to what’s being said. One last spark of genuine hope ignites in her chest.
“Then don’t let it happen!” she shouts. It doesn’t leave her mouth, but the words scream out of the depths of her soul, echoing through the dark surrounding her until it pierces through, letting more gold spill in. It joins the other chains, wrapping around her, helping her hold on.
“...ow? ...werless ag...nst them...”
“I- I don’t know. But there has to be some way. You don’t want this, and I don’t either. There has to be a way.”
The goddess is silent.
“...Please.”
Nothing.
The hope begins to slip away, but she’s desperate.
“Please!”
Her voice cracks on the word, her last weapon, and Hera answers her again.
“...One way...”
“I’ll do anything. Anything.”
She hardly recognizes her own voice, now. It’s raw and filled with something so primal, the only thing she can even think to compare it to is Hades’ aura when its screams pierced the air. For all it should hurt to make that comparison, she feels more powerful for it instead.
She feels like she’s been thrust back to a primeval version of herself, some piece of her that has existed long before humans, and even the gods themselves. A part that refuses to die, that stays alive through any and everything thrown at it.
A piece that wills her to survive, too.
“Anything...”
“Yes.” She swallows. “Anything.”
The goddess stirs, somehow. She can feel it, in her blood, in her bones, in her very soul. More light spills out across the dark, and the goddess’ voice rings clear, the barrier between them breaking more and more.
“Then you must take my place. You must forgo your humanity, and become a goddess in my stead.” Her voice rings with something terribly sad, but it’s for her, not the goddess herself. “There is no other option, not when time is so short.”
“I...” She struggles to say anything, the thought of actually becoming a goddess, of taking Hera’s place too much to process.
She did say anything, but...
“Please.”
The goddess repeats her own plea back to her, and she knows there’s no other answer.
Her resolve hardens, sharpens.
Anything.
“I’ll do it.”
“...Thank you.”
The goddess whispers it, a soft caress- and then she’s gone.
She feels it when she’s gone.
The darkness fades away completely, and light streams down on her, a perfect reflection of the ichor that burns its way through her body, waking up at long last.
Her senses begin to come back to her, a little too strongly for her to do anything more than blink away the blinding brilliance of Olympus as she comes to.
Hades holds onto her with his entire body, and she vaguely notes that she must have collapsed when the ritual started. Slowly, her eyes move to meet his, and the moment they do, he smiles.
“Hera,” Hades breathes, and the relief in his gaze is a knife to the heart. There’s hardly any trace of remorse or guilt in his expression, and it sets her blood on fire.
She didn’t think it was possible for him to hurt her any more than he has, but in that single name- she learns he never believed there was any hope that she would survive the awakening of the goddess.
Tears form furiously, thick and golden, like the blood underneath her skin, and she’s sure her hatred must be shining through just the same, because Hades flinches away.
“Not Hera,” she whispers, seething. “Never Hera.”
She sees when understanding dawns on Hades’ face, and for once, the god is tongue-tied, stumbling over his words, trying to walk his mistake back.
But it’s too late.
Her words cut through his, for the very first time. The power in them is new, and not entirely welcome, but it’s hers now.
“I will-” she stands up- “never forgive you-” and raises her voice for all the gods to hear- “ANY of you.”
Several gods start speaking at once, outraged, confused, but she ignores them easily. Any influence they’d had over her is gone now, her blood providing a built-in immunity.
“You should have thought twice about trying to kill the woman you wanted to be your missing goddess.” Her eyes haven’t left Hades, and though the rest of the Pantheon won’t understand the full meaning of her words, he will. “Especially knowing that she didn’t want to come back.”
Power rises in her like the tide, then, brilliant peacock feathers forming on a whim. With barely a thought, they rain down on the gods, drawing out godly auras and shrieks of surprise, and she uses the brief distraction to run from the throne room.
Human agents try to stop her on the way, but one look freezes each in place until she’s already out of sight, and demigods meet a similar fate when they cross her path, even Hercules.
It’s a long, winding path to the elevators, but she makes it.
She makes it.
And she steps inside, watching golden doors close on Olympus.
The moment it starts moving, down, down, down to Earth, the tight knot that’s formed in her chest loosens, ever so slightly. She can breathe again by the time the doors open up, and it takes nothing at all to shoo away the agents on guard, called on to stop her.
“Out of my way,” she growls- and they listen, auras falling back, guns holstered. Recognition burns in the eyes of some of their faces, but it only twists the knife in further, hurt on top of hurt.
And they all thought it was an honor, she thinks, bitter as she crosses the threshold.
No one else tries to stop her.
She’s halfway home before she realizes that she’s walking in the wrong direction, and a dull sort of pain tears at her chest.
She hadn’t been heading towards her apartment- she’d been headed towards Hades’ condo.
“Not there. Never again,” she mutters, and turns away, only to stop again a moment later.
“It- it probably isn’t even safe to go there, is it?” She shakes her head. “But where else...”
Unsure of where to go now, when her life’s been turned upside down, she lets her feet carry her through the city, aimless.
“There’s always Josh, but- no, I don’t want to get him involved. I don’t want to think that they’d use him to get to me.” She winces with her next words. “He’ll be safer without me.”
It doesn’t leave her many other options.
“Not my place. Not Josh’s. Not... Alex’s. Definitely not Cerberus or the other guardians. Selene and Helios always stayed with Hades. Astraeus- he’s gone, now. So where..?”
The answer doesn’t come until she finds herself standing in front of a door, pretty nondescript, with a boar emblazoned on it.
The Boarback.
“Neutral ground. That should work for now.”
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