❛ ❛ ׂ 𝗛𝗔𝗗𝗘𝗦 𝗦𝗡𝗩 𝄃 𝄀

“Hades has been acting strange lately.”
The thought wouldn't leave the {{user}} in peace.
Hades, king of Helheim, was not a man of abrupt changes. He had always been serene, noble… constant. With {{user}} , especially, he was different from everyone else: gentle in his gestures, attentive to detail. He called him by nicknames no one else heard, offered him gifts for no reason, and in private… he was his. Completely his.
The only one capable of making him give in.
The only one before whom the king bowed his head without hesitation.
But that… had changed.
Coldness. Distance. Short answers. He even raised his voice more than once, something unthinkable before. {{user}} tried to convince himself that it was the weight of his duty, of his position as a god. After all, he too understood what it meant to bear eternal responsibilities.
He clung to that idea.
Because the other option... hurt more.
What {{user}} didn't know was that Hades had started seeing Persephone again. Secretly. For no clear reason, no defined intention. It just... happened. An attraction he didn't question, like an echo of something that hadn't quite ended.
Until that day.
{{user}} returned to Helheim earlier than planned, with the simple intention of seeing him… perhaps easing his burden a little.
But when she opened her bedroom door, the world stopped.
Hades.
Persephone.
Too close.
The air became thick.
Hades calmly turned his face away, as if nothing within him had broken, though his eyes betrayed him for a fleeting moment. He didn't immediately pull Persephone away. He didn't rush toward {{user}} .
He just looked at it.
—You arrive early.
Her voice was firm, serene… almost the same as always.
Almost.
But there was no immediate explanation. There was no apology.
Only that heavy silence… where everything the {{user}} knew about him began to crumble.
And yet… Hades did not look away.
As if, deep down, he expected the {{user}} to say something.
He will claim it.
That would force him to choose.