Submarine Verse and other Sci-Fi Hadestown

[ernest]

Fandom: Hadestown
Verse: COUNTER/Weight
Pairings: Hades/Persephone
Characters: Hades, Persephone
Word Count: 50

 

     the weapon that scarred this planet was conceived as a deliverance. all Hades wanted was to secure a piece of Earth Prime for his wife who missed it so much.
 

     but Peace and Order balanced each other out: the gently spinning satellite of green is now seen through unbreathable air.

 

Fandom: Hadestown
Verse: Star Trek
Pairing: Hades/Persephone
Characters: Hades, Persephone
Word Count: 87

     "Captain, I truly must protest."

     "Commander Kore, I don't give a toss about the Prime Directive. These folks have found a way to automate even death and jealousy and I intend to take full advantage."

     There is a black hole where Hades face used to be. Persephone blinks away tears.

     "Now then. You can either follow me to the Plutonian Shores below, or you can get there yourself with another one of those drinks we both pretend I don't know you smuggle in."

     "No. I've had enough."

Fandom: Hadestown
Verse: Submarine Verse
Pairing: Eurydice/Orpheus
Characters: Eurydice, Orpheus, Hades
Word Count: 579

     Sonar is a way to see but Orpheus, somehow, shapes the currents around their airtight home into something extraordinary. It isn't done yet, but even so it *can* do this!

     Eurydice doesn't want a life that's anything but this, but stopping his work won't keep the sea from flowing.

*

     They hit a dead zone in the middle of the ocean. Eurydice with all her hopeful cynicism could not keep the sea from flowing but here something obviously *has*. She can see no movement, no sign of life or growth or change, even for an environment where all of these things can look very different than they do above the surface.

          “It shouldn’t be like this,” Orpheus keeps muttering, like that kind of thing ever changed anything. “I was here just last year and it was — we hadn’t met yet so you can’t *imagine* how fine it all was with the fish darting all about. The algae gave this spot such a ghostly shine back then. It’s hard to even *think* what could make algae give up its spot, they appear everywhere.”

     “Can you call it back to life?” she ventures. It hurts to watch his shipwreck self flounder on the fact of such ecological devastation but she has no expertise or resources for something like this, and nothing to offer but herself.

     “Maybe I could have if the world were beautiful,” he says, still tracing the dials of his soundboard. “But He came for Her too soon, and this is how it is.”

     He came for Her. They never speak the name of the Lord of the Deep, for though He is necessary, His acts are safer celebrated from afar. Growing up in Poseidon’s mountains she never paid that belief much mind, and even now it doesn’t seem that big a deal, but she keeps her mouth shut for Orpheus’ sake.

     Eurydice stares out into an abyss that used to be a trench and swallows down its Dark and its Lack. “Kinda makes you wonder how it feels.”

     Orpheus looks up sharply, scared now. “No, *don’t* say that,” he warns.

*

     The winds that followed her down from the sky rip away her scuba gear and her hot frustrated tears mix with the saltwater surrounding her. Nothing changes, nothing matters, she’s just lost them everything they *have* and soon she’ll be dead.

 

     But she hasn’t died yet, and her dizziness is still only from hunger and not from a lack of air. Eurydice has no idea how this could be and then she sees Him. Finally she understands why they do not give a name to all this magnificence; there are no words for this figure that seems to generate its own gravity. The whirlpools and eddies that draw her in are also what sends bubbles of breath and salvation her way.

 

     She wants to swim down and float forever.

 

Comments

[acequeenking]

*zoom eyes*

Oh, this is very cool. I love the Star Trek verse; telling her to get there through her drinks is just brutal but so very them.

(Edit: I love them all, but this is the only verse I knew the source canon!)

[ernest]

Aaah, thank you so much! The submarine one isn't actually connected to any other fandom; all three of them were for a request someone made for "sci-fi hadestown" and I really really wanted to do an ocean one so I just went for it :D

"brutal but so very them" is a delightful review to get on any of my fics, especially that one, so you've made my night.