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Hades Acheron would eat the toughest of Gotham for breakfast before picking his teeth with Batman's bones.
Ariadne gagged but held onto her stomach contents as she relieved the bodies of their guns, a large hunting knife, and two extra bullet magazines that she shoved down the front of her bra. "Should I ask why you’re hiding them there?" Asterion said as he watched her. Ariadne gestured to her blood-splattered sundress. "I have no pockets because of the patriarchy, so where else am I going to put them?"
"Is she fucking smiling right now?" Asterion said incredulously, leaning over the edge of the balcony for a better look. She was. A big fuck you grin now stretched from ear to ear.
Hades's phone binged. "Medusa is offering two million drachmae for her." Asterion glared at the Serpent Queen's cameras above him and lifted his middle finger. "Not for sale, you red-haired witch," he said. He knew Medusa would've been roaring with laughter, but it didn't matter. He wasn't going to let them haggle over Ariadne like she was a slab of meat.
"Medusa says, 'If you kill her, I'll turn you into the world's ugliest birdbath' and what looks like a smiling poop emoji."
"Good luck to you, boss. I don't know what you see in that harpy," Vin said but gave him a wink where Ariadne couldn't see. Vin knew precisely what he saw in her. Asterion would be surprised if all his men weren't a little in love with her now, not to mention Erebus. Like he needed that headache.
"From what Hades has told me, she already does backtalk. Big ovaries on her to sass the boss, but she did. I'm so in love with her. We are going to be besties in no time. Though I think I'm going to have to fight Erebus for her. The boys are all quite impressed with her."
"Look upon me and despair, mortal!" Medusa shouted theatrically, making Asterion jump in surprise. "Can I despair after I have coffee?" Ariadne murmured sleepily from behind him. "Is there more?" "Fresh pot in the kitchen," Asterion said, trying not to laugh. "Thanks, I'll be back to despairing in a minute," she said and shuffled off with a yawn. "Wow, not even a nibble. No wonder Hades was pouting that his supreme awesomeness didn't affect her," Medusa chuckled.
"If you still had something to lose by that stage, you were on top of the pile, and so
now you've seen how the other ninety percent live, you are going to try to overthrow the gods that made sure we didn't all fucking kill each other?" Ariadne shook her head. "Fucking spoilt rich kid pouting because he's got to work like the rest of us."
