On Learning the Ways of Forgiveness
Title: On Learning the Ways of Forgiveness
Fandom: Original.
Prompt: Antapology
Rating: K+
Summary: For the Taming The Muse Community. Prompt #167.
Antapology
Definition: A response or reply to an apology
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Haydn will never know that it is Persephone’s forgiveness he is seeking.
The reason for this is because Persephone does not know it herself.
She doesn’t know why his touch excites and sickens her; she is unaware of the reason for the fear that strikes her heart with a whip of heartache with every whispered promise. She doesn’t understand that it is the part of her that remains human that can never forgive the horrendous injustice he has committed.
Because she believes that it is justified. The rational mediator in her knows.
Persephone believes that her feelings for her former-sire are simply unhealthy. That the love she holds for him isn’t good for her. Because he isn’t good for her.
Their relationship is complicated and abusive.
And so very very addicting.
For thousands of years they have found each other time and time again. And no matter how she fights it, she always comes back to him.
There have been countless in-betweens, innumerable chances at love with another.
Neither has taken a single one.
Because it always comes back to them. To each other. To the Haydn and Persephone of Greece and Egypt, France and England, Finland and Turkey, The New World.
The Titanic.
The turning point which Haydn does not understand. What made her leave him for good.
The title of wife and wife is meaningless to them, more so than it once was.
It had only happened once, that first time before the grief. And since then they have had nothing but the shadows of almost moments of the broken life they could have had together.
So he learns to apologize.
Say his sorries about things he isn’t sure of.
He will never know because even she doesn’t.
But eventually they may build a bridge between with all the ‘I’m Sorries’ and ‘Maybe’s’ and the ‘We Could Be Great’s’.
And she might actually forgive.
Fandom: Original.
Prompt: Antapology
Rating: K+
Summary: For the Taming The Muse Community. Prompt #167.
Antapology
Definition: A response or reply to an apology
---
Haydn will never know that it is Persephone’s forgiveness he is seeking.
The reason for this is because Persephone does not know it herself.
She doesn’t know why his touch excites and sickens her; she is unaware of the reason for the fear that strikes her heart with a whip of heartache with every whispered promise. She doesn’t understand that it is the part of her that remains human that can never forgive the horrendous injustice he has committed.
Because she believes that it is justified. The rational mediator in her knows.
Persephone believes that her feelings for her former-sire are simply unhealthy. That the love she holds for him isn’t good for her. Because he isn’t good for her.
Their relationship is complicated and abusive.
And so very very addicting.
For thousands of years they have found each other time and time again. And no matter how she fights it, she always comes back to him.
There have been countless in-betweens, innumerable chances at love with another.
Neither has taken a single one.
Because it always comes back to them. To each other. To the Haydn and Persephone of Greece and Egypt, France and England, Finland and Turkey, The New World.
The Titanic.
The turning point which Haydn does not understand. What made her leave him for good.
The title of wife and wife is meaningless to them, more so than it once was.
It had only happened once, that first time before the grief. And since then they have had nothing but the shadows of almost moments of the broken life they could have had together.
So he learns to apologize.
Say his sorries about things he isn’t sure of.
He will never know because even she doesn’t.
But eventually they may build a bridge between with all the ‘I’m Sorries’ and ‘Maybe’s’ and the ‘We Could Be Great’s’.
And she might actually forgive.