Title: Aphelion
Fandom: Hadestown
Rating: G
Length: 100
Content notes: No warnings apply.
Author notes: Pin/Pen, and Mythology on my bingo card. This ended up reference-heavy! The third and the parts of the last two lines are taken, respectively, from "Way Down Hadestown", "Hey Little Songbird", and "Nothing Changes".
Summary: Hades writes down work orders and schedules, contracts and commands -- and every spring, he writes letters to his wife.



Hades writes down work orders and schedules, contracts and commands — and every spring, he writes to his wife.

I miss you, he writes. The way the diamonds glimmer like stars in your hair, how you spin when you dance, the fights we have. Spring lasts too long.

The train takes his words up to the world above.

Join me up here then, Persephone writes back. There’s nothing keeping you down there.

Hades answers, I’ve got a new factory to plan.

There’s always something — a mine to open, an order to fill, another wall to build.

And nothing changes.