“The Rise of Zeus – Chapter V (Pt 2)”
Author’s Note: This is a Take Ten to Write story and has not been proofread for errors. If I feel inspired or if there’s interest in the story, I’ll post a revised, edited, and extended version at a later date. Happy reading!
ZEUS (cont.)
I take a deep breath. It’s now or never.
I stand up. “Hey,” I say, immediately silently cursing for sounding so pathetic. ‘Hey’? That’s seriously the best that I could do? Not an authoritative ‘It’s me, Lord Zeus, your king!’ Nope, just ‘hey’. I’m such an idiot.
Hera rolls her eyes. “Oh, it’s you.” She turns back to her cutting board and picks her knife back up. Because of course she’s chopping vegetables with a scary big knife right now. “You’re trying to get into that meeting, aren’t you?” she adds, her voice slightly raised to be heard over the sharp clicking of the knife hitting the cutting board.
“Nope,” I say with a dry chuckle. “I’m just picking up a snack.”
Hera stops chopping and turns to face me with a sigh, her knife still clutched in her hand. “Honestly, just how stupid do you think I am?”
“I don’t think that you’re stupid,” I say, trying my best to look confident as I stroll through the kitchen. “I am hungry, though.”
The package feels uncomfortably heavy in my pocket. It’s not like I have any reservations about throwing a bomb at Hera—count this as part of my payback for her cheating on me—but I still feel like I’m doing something wrong. Of course Hermes would say, ‘Suck it up, and just throw the bomb, you big baby!’ But Hermes isn’t here. Unfortunately.
Hera’s eyes follow me as I walk beside the counters. A sudden rush of panic overwhelms me and I grab the first thing that I see.
“Butter?” Hera asks, arching an eyebrow. “Out of all the things in this kitchen, you choose butter for your snack?”
“Mhmm.” I swallow the lump of saliva that rose into my mouth as soon as my stomach realized what I’d picked up. “Yum, butter.”
She stares at me. “Well?”
“Well what?”
“Are you going to eat it?”
Final Comments: I’m still trying to figure out Zeus’s personality and character traits… So please bear with me while he goes through some strange behavioural changes hehe…
Overall Rating: 😅
