Swallow your pride

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This wasn't supposed to happen. If she were to have ever found love, it should have been with someone who was a villain, or at least someone who had no ties to her father at all..  But no. She had to go and start being drawn to one of the people who she should have been against. Emotions that Persephone had never felt before were flooding her and it was over whelming. She didn't know how to handle any of this.  This is the part where a young girl would go cry to her parents and ask advice, but she had Maleficent and Hades. Any advice from them would be dangerous at this point. 

And so, the only words of comfort that were in here ear right now, were those of Sky. He sure did paint a pretty picture.. Speaking of how evil is made and not born, and how she had a choice.. Yes, she did have a choice, and she had made it. What was she to do? Forsake her family and be a hero? "Why couldn't there be something in between?" She asked desperately, hating those tears that were falling from her eyes. "Why do I have to make a choice? They're all I ever knew, and I can't tell you that in a war i'd fight against them.. But I can tell you that I wouldn't be against you, or anyone you love. Sky, please.. Don't make me choose. I can't..." She closed her eyes, and lifted her hands to her face. 

This was pathetic. If only Daddy Dear could see her now.  She had only just developed a 'relationship' with her father, and she was being watched, and studied. Was she good, or bad? Was she worthy of being the daughter of Hades? Or was she to be an outcast? "Your family is good.. and kind. You don't know what it's like. You're not judging me Sky, but he will. My only family wants me to be like them, and to be good is to forsake them. Would you do the same for me? Would you do dark, horrible things in the name of love?" She paused, and looked in to his eyes again. "No.. you wouldn't. Because I'd never ask you to." It wasn't him. It wasn't who she.. It wasn't who made her happy. Who brought out this side of her.

"You are the brightest, shining creature I've ever met. You're my light.." She knelt down on the ground, still holding his gaze. "Let me be who I am. ..I would never hurt you.. I will do everything in my power to make my father leave you, and your friends alone. Just.. don't.. don't push me away." She reached out and took him by the hand, feeling as though she had reached a new low by begging. "Please." But it was needed. She couldn't lose him before she had him. He was the light to her darkness. 

[Sky Zephyros]

Pegasus Tag: Persephone outfit: standard one words: 704 notes: the darkness to his light!

Something in between a hero and a villain. He supposed there were those who had no alliance to either . . . but that wasn't an option for them it seemed. He knew he was a hero, and Persephone was linked to do notorious villains. She had even described herself as such earlier and he hadn't believed it; a part of him still didn't believe it. But, somehow finding out that she was related to Hades and Maleficent put things into perspective. Mostly the fact that this wasn't going to be at all easy. "Some villains have the mentality, that if you're not with them, you're against them," he began to say. Throughout his adventures with Hercules, he had come to discover this. "Can you honestly tell me that Hades and Maleficent wouldn't have this mindset?" He was genuinely curious, for she knew them both well. He knew Hades only through his limited -- thank god they were limited -- experiences with him, and the stories he had heard of him. Maleficent, Sky had no idea about. "I don't want you to have to choose," he told her truthfully, unable to keep the tone of sadness from his voice. She had spoken of how Maleficent had raised her, how she was her family; how Hades was her family. He couldn't ask her to go against them . . . but would her family ask her to go against him and Hercules? "I wouldn't make you," he added on. "But . . . would they?" Would her family make her decide? Would . . . Hercules make him choose? He never wanted to do anything to endanger his brother of heart and while he felt compelled to trust Persephone -- and perhaps already did despite their short time together -- it was her father and adoptive mother that he didn't trust. She then asked him a question that deep down, he had the answer to. He couldn't do dark and horrible things. He wanted to do anything and everything for her . . . but he couldn't foresake his title as a hero, just as she couldn't so easily forsake ehrs as a villain. It made everything so much harder. "If they truly love you, they wouldn't judge you or want you to be unhappy." He didn't know the dynamic between her and Hades or her and Maleficent. But he liked to believe that family wanted to see each other happy. That was after all, how he had come to terms with Hercules loving Megara. He saw that she truly made him happy. Her next words of how he was the brightest thing in her life, that he was her light . . . made his heart swell with emotion -- both joy and pain. "I haven't known you for long, but I feel like . . . if we could find a way . . . I could be happy with you." He could find happiness with her and in her. But, that road was not going to be an easy one. He was asking her not to push him away, and he could see the desperation in her voice. He didn't want to give up on them so soon after finding each other. He wanted to be hopeful and optimistic. "I don't want to," he said in a quiet but strongly sincere voice as he took a step closer to her. "I care about you Persephone, but I also care about Hercules and . . . after what Hades had done . . . " He paused, her words of how she would do whatever she could to ensure he didn't hurt them. "Could you really do that?" He asked, a gleam of hope in his eyes. "I don't ever want to be against you. I . . . don't want to choose either. It shouldn't have to be that way." For either of them. Yet he was well aware that a lot of this, was easier said than done. He gave an ever so slight smile as he looked at her. "I won't give up on us," he confessed. He was not just saying it to appease her; he meant every word.

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It was all too much. What Sky was saying made sense, but on the other hand, she had been raised by a villain who honestly seemed to love her.. and her father was also a villain. Perhaps he loved her too, in his way. But now, everything she had once thought was being turned upside down. She was trying, so very much to hear Sky out.. but it seemed that he was only willing to look at his side. Maybe heroes weren't that good after all. Trying to change everyone around them..trying to reform them.. was she just a project? Was he trying to crumble Hades using her?! The thought was pulling her anger to the surface, and she was having trouble stopping it.. But she managed to fight through. To shove it down. At least for now.. but it was scary, because she was far too confused, and scared. 

She listened to his words, and even as she sat there, begging him, pleading with him to let herself, she still kept telling herself that he was lying. That he wanted her to choose. Deep down she heard his words.. That he'd fight for them.. but still, all she could hear was 'choose, choose, choose'. She closed her eyes, and took her hands away from his. She remained quiet for a long moment, and finally, she started to speak. "I can feel the darkness inside of me, Sky." She admitted quietly. "We've only just met.. and I can say that I never, ever want you to be hurt.. I want to fight for us too.." She spoke softly.. still unsure of what she was trying to say. "And yes, my family would make me choose. But it looks like I  have to anyway, doesn't it? It all boils down to you, or my father." This wasn't about Hercules.. He wasn't here. And it had nothing to do with Maleficent, because he didn't know her. 

"Hades and his family had a horrible past.. and Hercules was caught up in that. And i'm sorry that my father is so against him..and so jealous...and so bitter.. but his choices are not mine. I pledged my loyalty to him once.. but that was before I knew you. Now.. I'm so confused..and i'm feeling emotions that I never have before." She slowly rose to her feet, not caring that her  knees were now covered in dirt. "Nothing has ever made me cry before. ...I... I think.. I need time to think." As she stood there, wind started to blow strong around her, and she began to lift off of the ground.