prompt as you requested friend, hades and persephone spending time with Cerberus
WHOLESOME. I LOVE IT.
“----would you get the hell outta my hydrangeas?” cerberus, guardian of the gates to the underworld, only yapped back at her before he continued whatever fool mission he was on to dig to the root of her flower beds. frowning, persephone took the hose in her hand and shot him with a fine mist of water - which only really did more damage as it muddied the soil he’d turned up and it began to stain his white fur.
“να σταματήσει!“
“i think you’d be better threatenin’ to take away those lemon cakes you sneak him.” hades drawled from the path, watching the scene unfold with some amusement. “that i’m not supposed to know about.”
“dog’s gotta eat and all.” she murmurs, and sprays the hose again at the dog - it deters him for the moment, and he trots off in another direction. persephone lifts her head to meet the gaze of her husband, smiling as he lifts his dark shades to better see her. “hi.” “lover.” he greets lowly and closes the distance between them. persephone tilts her head up to kiss him before he’s even close enough, and he chuckles faintly before greeting her properly. “missed ya.” “mhm. missed you too. up for the night?” “‘fraid not. on business. takin’ the dog around the boundaries and makin’ sure they’re good.” “kings usually do that themselves?” she teases. hades’ lips twitch; he’s been caught. “and i wanted to see ya.” persephone smiles, and glances back as a blur of brown streaked white darts into some of the bushes at the garden’s edge with another little yap. so fearsome, their guardian. he’s in a good mood. “i’ll walk with ya. along the boundary. i’m almost done here.” she promises. “two minutes.” hades nods his assent, and persephone leans up to kiss his cheek. good at waiting now, her man. usually. another bark, and the dog darts back out from the bushes chasing after a rabbit - this time their little beastie sporting three heads instead of the one he usually kept for the sake of being in the mortal realm. eyes blazing, he seemed intent on catching the rabbit - until hades bent to scoop him up in one fell swoop as the rabbit and his predator darted by. “you’re a menace.” persephone coos softly, reaching out to brush her fingers through his fur; she’s met with a trio of tongues and hades struggles to keep a firm hold on the dog, at the cost of his muddied paws leaving streaks of dirt across his master’s front. “and lucky you’re cute.” “i shouldn’t have brought him.” hades mutters. “thought it’d be good for him to get the walk.” “he’ll be a good, won’t you darlin’?” she presses a kiss to each of the three heads before cerberus resumes squirming and trying to get back down to the ground again. hades huffs, but relents now that the rabbit is out of sight; only to lament at the streaks now left on his suit with a heavy sigh. persephone bites her lip, then lifts the forgotten hose to spray at hades in a fine mist. he makes a noise of protest, but it’s drowned out by persephone’s cackling. “look! you’re clean now. no harm done.” “you’d best watch, wife. should think that warrants a fight back.” hades’ eyes seem to almost glint in the fading daylight, and persephone only smiles. “that’s the idea. we got a long walk ahead of us if we’re doin’ boundaries. could be we get distracted along the way. you gonna make me pay?” hades moves toward the hose connection to kill the water, clearly eager to cut off any further attempts to muddy or dampen his person. persephone only gives the best innocent smile she has, coiling the hose semi-neatly and tossing it to the side. “might.” he finally answers, and takes her hand when she holds it out. “when you least expect - cerberus!” his last is directed over her shoulder. she turns, only to see the dog attempting to chase one of the squirrels further up a tree. for all the things the dog has seen try to get through the gates of hell, he’s still not impervious to the standard creatures that live on the surface. they were gonna have to see about training if he came up top too many more times. “---so, how ‘bout that walk?”
