Your Lucky Day in
Hell
Draft_2
Part 5
By: Chase L. Currie
Thanatos sat down beside the fire staring at her waiting for
her to the same. A moment after the magic of the light faded back to a normal
sight as if she had seen all this a thousand time before; she sat beside him.
“How
long have you been here?” He asked.
“A
night, I believe,” she told him.
“You
plan on staying?” He asked.
“I
don’t know,” she said. “Hades is mad at me.”
“My
bother?”
“He
tricked me in a dream,” she said looking into the fire seeing herself sitting
in this same spot lifetimes ago.
“You
think you would learn by now,” Thanatos said with a smirk, “and you think Hades
would be more forgiving over all this time.”
“You
would think.”
“Ah, oh
well, the one key thing to remember is he loves you,” he said. “At the end of
the day, that’s all that matters.”
“Does
he love me?” She asked. “It feels like it
should be true. In fact, it feels more real than anything before, but how do
I do know it to be true?”
“You want
the hard or easy answer,” Thanatos said with a smile.
“Easy?”
He
nodded and then calmly said, “Faith.”
“Faith?”
She asked cocking an eyebrow. She didn’t much believe in God or anything that
people of faith had to offer her in the human world.
“Yup,”
he said. “You have to have faith that he loves you like no other.”
“What’s
the hard answer?”
Thanatos
laughed. “Faith.”
Paige
sighed deeply not sure if she likes him
or not, but he was quickly growing on her.
“I
could tell you Hades spent all his time painting pictures of you,” he said.
“Saw
them.”
“And I
could tell you he never took another soul as his wife or even thought of
another person. That you were all he cared about and cared for,” he said. “I
could tell you all of this and more, but it would mean nothing without the
faith behind it.”
“That
easy huh?” She asked holding her chin in her hands.
“And
that hard.”
“He
said I got lost in the human world,” she said. “Is that right?”
“Yes
and no,” Thanatos said. “My brother tricked you after he got angry at Hades.”
“Over
what?” She asked.
“Hades
bested him a game of cards.”
“You
have to be shitting me?” Paige asked. “All of this over a game?”
“Men
have done worst for smaller infractions,” Thanatos said.
Something
never changed even if the men were gods. She stared at the fire a little longer
watching herself in flames. She could
keep feeling sorry for herself or change her satiation, she picked the latter
and jumped to her feet.
“Good
to know the gods are assholes.”
“More
than you’ll ever know.”
“Alright
tell me how I get my memory back?” She asked the god of death.
He grinned up at her and told her, “We have to
find Gabriel, he would know.”
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