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“Who are the others? How were we unaware there were others?”
“Time will tell… time will tell…” the Moirai began to chant.
“Oh, for the love of…” Hera growled. “Here they go. That’s all we are getting,” she said, her voice only loud enough for the sisters to hear her over the Moirai’s chanting.
Persephone looked to Devon. He looked as lost as she did in that moment.
“We will figure this out,” she whispered as she reached out and squeezed his upper arm. He gave her a small smile.
“Well, thanks for that nonsense, you old crones. A fortune cookie would’ve been more helpful,” Hera shouted and left the room in a flash of light. A flicker of a dying spark was all that was left in the space she had occupied.
***
Persephone hesitated outside of Devon’s room, her fist held up to knock. She knew everything was in a tailspin, but she needed to speak with him. She needed to reassure him, maybe even herself. She also could not stop thinking about his words, his look, when he was lit with Godfire in the basement of Cerberus Financial.
As if he finally recognized her. Recognized her in the way she needed him to. To see all his past lives and the affection she knew he had to feel for her as she felt for him.
Without allowing her thoughts to stray any longer, she knocked on the door.
“Was wondering how long you would stand out there. Come on in,” Devon called through the
door.
She stepped in to see him sitting on his bed, his elbows on his knees and his head hanging
between them. He didn’t look up as she shut the door and leaned against it.
“I know it’s a lot,” she started and his low chuckle followed her words.
“Understatement,” he muttered.
Sighing, she pushed from the door and went to sit next to him on his bed. Crossing her legs, she folded her hands over her knees and looked out his window to the forest of his home. She hoped it brought him a small amount of comfort in the chaos surrounding them.
Looking back at him, she watched him worry his hands, his eyes locked on the ground. She moved her hand to rub his back, hesitating a moment before pushing forward. She ran it over his shoulders, feeling that was a safe place to give him comfort. He stilled for a moment, his breath caught, before he released his tension and allowed her to continue.
She wondered if telling him the truth of their past, their passing timelines in his mortal lives, was the appropriate thing to do now after all the stress and shock of the day. Her hand halted a moment, her conscience pushing her towards disclosure, when he looked up at the window across from them.
“I was jealous,” he stated.
“What?” she responded, her thoughts trying to catch up.
“At Cerberus, when Thanatos was all over you, it drove something inside me mad. As if the fact that he was unaware that you were…” his voice trailed off as she removed her hand from his back and placed it back in her lap. “I don’t know why I reacted that way.”
She froze, unsure if she should tell him now. It was a perfect opening.
Why yes, Devon, your attraction has been there over the past eras and it is mutual. Kiss?
Shaking his head, he looked up at her.
“There is something inside me, something that I can’t understand or control. If… if I let this thing out, if I am a God… what happens? How do I get control?”
She smiled a little, taking his hand in hers and interlacing their fingers. Why she felt the urge to do this, why he allowed it, she did not know but she was grateful.
“You will control your powers. You will wield them as well as I do, with time. It is not the matter
of controlling your powers as much as how you use them.” She glanced away.
“That’s reassuring,” he stated, his hand squeezing hers. “Seems like you and your sisters
