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Hades Stravopolous | 25 | Owner of The Underworld

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xx-nutmeggg‌:

Meg had tons to tell him, tons to tell about Hercules. “Not really. I mean still working on getting our lover boy to inch just a bit closer to me. He’s gotta really trust me if we’re ever going to finish out your plan with him.” Holding her breath she watched him carefully. Hoping her lies were believable. 

Hades hummed, looking at her intensely. It felt like, at least, she wasn’t telling him everything, like she was hiding some detail. “Right...” he drawled, and wondered if what he was like would keep overpowering the little crush she so obviously had. “Remember, he’s the one who’s supposed to be doing the inching. Not the other way.” And the way he said it, she should be hearing that he would find out, and it wouldn’t go well.

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xx-nutmeggg‌:

Raising a brow she waited - surly he was going to have some sort of snap back to her comment. When nothing came out she hated to admit she was slightly surprised by something from him. Smoothing out her shirt she smiled towards him. “Well if I’m ever feeling lucky enough maybe I’ll test out those vacation days you’re talking about.” 

Well, he thought he saw a flash of surprise, which was something. Keeping her on her toes, if nothing else. “Make sure you’re feeling pretty damn lucky,” he warned, glancing down at his phone. “Besides wanting a vacation, is there anything else you might wanna tell me? Work-wise?”

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xx-nutmeggg‌:

“Pushing for a good cause.” She reminded him, pushing a sarcastic smirk to his face. Crossing her arms she looked at him. “ And vacation days would have to be approved by you - something tells me that’s not as easy as writing up a little form to have your approval to any sort of freedom.” 

Hades half pointed a finger, just barely biting back a comment about ‘pushing for an uprising’. Didn’t need to give her ideas. “Yeah, they would have to be, and that depends. Plenty of people have done it before.” But he didn’t have to mention that everyone who’d gotten vacation days wasn’t exactly in on the important side of the business.

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xx-nutmeggg‌:

As he snapped back she shrugged her arms innocently. “I’m not up to anything. I’m not your biggest fan, and that shouldn’t be new news for you. You being gone would be a vacation for me too.” She added with a cheeky grin. 

“See? Now it’s less than a fifty-fifty chance for you. ‘Cause you’re pushing.” And even in the littlest ways, nobody told Hades what to do. It just wasn’t how it worked. “Maybe if you earn some vacation days, huh?”

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perse-sideris‌:

“If you say so.” She smiled and shook her head. Perse would be surprised if he actually followed through and turned off his phone. It was practically always with him. Though it would be nice to see him without it. “Yeah, and I’ll be the Queen of England. But it is nice to think about every once in a while, isn’t it?” That soft smile was still on her face and she knew she was making a mistake. But her insides were mushy again in a way only Hades seemed to be able to do. “Do you? I feel like I haven’t seen this side of you in a really long time.” She laughed and twisted some of her hair around her finger. “Now Hades, was that you asking me to come with you?”

“I do say so.” And really, that made it final, didn’t it? Hades said so, so it was so, and all of that. It was a fun image, even if it did involve him disconnecting from business, all the stress and planning taking a backseat. Relaxing was fine, sure, but most of the time, Hades just...wasn’t suited to it. “Yeah, imaginations are good for something.” He could at least give her that, though Queen of England was...well, you could do better than that, as far as being a queen went. “Well, doing what I do really takes it out of me, but...” he trailed off with a small shrug, noting the hair twirl. Well, this was working. “If you think you could stand it, sure.”

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helenaofhecate‌:

“Then get them out of here. Who are they? I’ll do it myself,” she told him. “Do something different with the club. Advertise new specials and take away from competitors.” She rose an eyebrow. “Anyone that describes their appearance as ‘cool’ needs a makeover.”

“Do you think if I knew who it was they’d be around at all?” he questioned bluntly. Honestly, he wasn’t upfront about all of his business, but he thought he was very obviously the type to get rid of his damn problems. “First off, cool is a feeling, and second, I’m very obviously not a mess, so what’s the idea?”

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xx-nutmeggg‌:

“Exactly, Greece. The wonderful Greece, you should go. I mean after everything with Halloween you earned yourself some sort of a vacation, don’t you think?” Meg would push this into the ground if she had to. Rolling her eyes she nodded. “I guess the others are questionable.” 

“See, you keep pushing it like that, and I’m gonna start thinking you’re up to something,” Hades drawled, a fair amount of his good mood tone dropping from him in one swoop. Sometimes...most times...it didn’t take much. “Yeah. Highly questionable.”

[helenaofhecate]

@underworldlylord​

“Since someone snitched on you in October you haven’t been your normal self. Come on and pull yourself up by your bootstraps. Do you need a drink or something? A punch in the face? Oh, I know. A makeover! Tell me, what will get you out of this funk.”

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Hades figured that at some point, he’d just stop agreeing to talk to people. All people. But until then? He guessed he could play along. “Need to get the wrong people out of my damn business,” was his first answer. “And need someone else’s to fail. Might make me feel better.” The drink? That didn’t sound bad. “And what do you mean ‘makeover’? I look fuckin’ cool.”

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harrowharlequin‌:

“Well if you’re avoiding the weather why not leave now?  Why wait until February?  It’s already cold.  You could get a lot more time in the sun and possibly the sand too.”

Hades shrugged. “Can’t just leave. Got a business I run, so I’ve gotta make sure nothing goes to shit. Like...gotta see if they’re gonna stop being dumbasses for a while.” He figured it was like making sure your kids were old enough not to burn the house down before you left them alone, but with a lot more kids and a lot more than a house at stake.

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xx-nutmeggg‌:

As much as he was a tick under the skin. Meg was pleased enough with his words to crack a smile. “You don’t think I know how to handle them? We’ll be just fine with you for a few days or whatever.” She shrugged a little. “So I say go - while you’re in a decent mood. It’d be a shame to take a vacation in one of your shit parades.” 

Hades waved a hand dismissively. “Maybe a few days, but this is Greece. That’s not gonna be less than a week.” He knew how jet-lag was, when you crossed an ocean. Some stupid shit. “Like I said, we’ll see. It’s not just your behavior I gotta watch out for.” It would have to be everyone else he employed, and some he didn’t.

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In a surprise to everyone, including himself, Hades was in a good mood. This wasn’t uncommon, not after New Year’s Eve, at least, but the amount of money he’d made? He just needed to figure out what to get with it, since the club didn’t need more improvement.

“Serious question: long vacation in the Mediterranean or beach house in the States? Gotta figure out where to spend February.”

[eldesttavoularis]

Demeter rolled her eyes. He was bold to talk to her, even if it was just to be polite for Persephone’s sake. Demeter wasn’t into being fake. Especially at trash like Hades. 

“I don’t care where you go as long as you never ever come back. And leave Perse here.”

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Hades grinned, the smile definitely not reaching his eyes. Demeter didn’t like him, and he didn’t like her, but he had long since learned to act civil in public. At least for the sake of his image.

“Oh, see, I was planning on taking her with, actually. Get her a change of scenery,” he replied evenly.

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pounddog-peg‌:

Peggy huffed with a smile, “I suppose that’s true. You’ll never meet more interesting people anywhere else. This city is one of a kind.” As he continued his words, Peggy turned and looked at him. “You’ve been?  You know you’re being quite the dream crusher right now,” she said with a soft smile. Paris was always someplace Peggy wanted to travel to… eventually. “You travel often then, don’t you? I don’t what kind of business you had in Baltimore but I can tell you one thing, your version of Paris sounds way better than my version of Baltimore. I don’t think I’ll ever go back there. It’s just one big… cage.” Peggy wrinkled her nose at the thought of it and took another sip of her drink. She chuckled at his question. “I guess you could say that. I perform down at The Lady and The Tramp, so music is definitely a part of it. But I came to this city for the same reason most people do. Freedom and chasing a dream.” 

Hades shrugged a shoulder. People weren’t interesting to him in the regular sense of things, and he couldn’t exactly say he based many of his judgments from usefulness. “Yeah, I’ve been, but it’s a lot easier to go to places in Europe when you start there.” Greece as a kid, England as a young man, he ended up getting to go to the usual spots that Americans liked to dream about. None of them had been quite so fun as New York to Hades, though. Never as easy to exploit when you never really had to try. “Well, that’s just what everyone thinks of the place that they’re from, if you want to leave. Grass is always greener, or whatever.” He waved a hand absently. New Englanders were his preferred breed. “Well, there you go. It’s always either here or LA.”

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xx-nutmeggg‌:

“I think I’ve worked under your wing long enough to handle a week or so without you around.” That and she’d do nearly anything to have him out of town for a bit. Rolling her eyes, Meg’s arms crossed in front of her. “I’ll handle it just fine, if not better then the previous months.” 

“Yeah, it’s the other ones I’m worried about.” And, of course, he didn’t want to give Meg the satisfaction of running everything and having him be away. That was another thing entirely, even if she was the only one who’d get the job done without complaining he was gone. “Guess we’ll see.”

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xx-nutmeggg‌:

A small smirk cracked over her features, a light shoulder rising to shrug towards him. “Who doesn’t enjoy rubbing dirty in the faces of the non believers. That alone should seal the deal on where you plan to leave. February you said, right?” She asked. A small hint of curiosity, and hope that maybe she could try and mend whatever mess she made between her and Hercules. 

“February if I can swing it,” Hades confirmed, because who knew if he’d actually be able to do what he wanted? Historically, he didn’t have too much luck in the way of travel plans, especially not since he started all this. “Guess we’ll have to see how all of you handle this month, first.”

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perse-sideris‌:

Though she came at him as sassy and blasé as she always did, something in her chest gave a soft thump. Not the usual thing her heart tended to do when she was around him. Now a days it was more like a cornered rabbit in a cage. For a moment she was stunned into silence, a smaller, softer smile pulling at the corners of her lips. Hades in a good mood was something rare, but in a good mood not because he had ruined someone else’s? Even rarer. “You deserve to have time to yourself without anyone bothering you.” The soft smile stayed on her face and for a second she felt like a younger version of herself. Softer and more naive. Though she knew that Hades hadn’t changed, wouldn’t change. Perse wished that he showed this side more often. She could feel herself get softer the more she saw the man she thought she had once known. “Yes, of course you are. You just usually aren’t is all. It’s a good look on you.” She said truthfully and gently. Perse sighed, running a hand through her hair. “I like it when you’re happy like this.”

The moment of silence was easiest to notice, and the little smile was close behind it. Well, wasn’t he just on his way for at least a stretch of no arguments? Grinning at her, Hades shrugged. “Maybe I do deserve it, but that’ll be what airplane mode is for.” And at least nine hours on a plane, ignoring most things...didn’t sound bad, especially if he paid for first class. “You know, maybe one day everyone will get their shit together and I won’t get frustrated so much, huh?” Honestly? He doubted it. Since he felt like being nice? He’d say it to keep her hopes up. “I like being happy like this, too, Perse, trust me. You know, maybe going somewhere nice with someone nice would help my temper out some.” Not that it...had to be Persephone, but he’d figure he’d leave the hint out there for an option.

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sinkingseas‌:

He wanted to disappear, now more than ever. If his life wasn’t already complicated enough his brother had to start talking to him. Si knew it was a rare occurrence for any of his family to ever speak to him and not just walk by as if he wasn’t even in the room. ❛ Um… I-I don’t know… I would go to the Mediterranean… But I miss it there a lot. ❜ He kept his eyes down as he spoke. ❛ Whatever you want to do, I guess. ❜

Hades thought for a moment, looking at his brother. Yeah, he was a bit too busy to go and constantly check on Si, but the kid was the better sibling. Better relative full-stop, really, even if Hades never really...got him. “Yeah? You know, I made enough that if I go, you could go. If you think you could stand being around me.” He didn’t know what answer he was expecting. Hades only really knew that Si was one of the few people who didn’t actively bother him, and didn’t know if it extended the other way. “Could even bring some other people along, if you’ve got someone you’re interested in.”

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perse-sideris‌:

“I say get as far away from work as possible is your best bet. You never know when someone might annoy you to come back.” Perse raised an eyebrow, a grin spread across her face. “But a beach house away from other people isn’t too bad either. Depends on your mood. Which is surprisingly happy today. Did you ruin someone’s life earlier?”

Well, that sounded fairly like a challenge, but Hades...would wait a bit to take it that way. At least while his good mood lasted. “Oh, they’ll be annoying me as soon as I get to the airport,” he responded easily. “Aw, don’t be mean, I’m allowed to be happy for other reasons than life ruining and my brother fucking up. New Year’s money. Feel like I should spend some of it.” And this last bit, he left hanging, because he was even in a good enough movie to get her a little something, if she wanted.