"Boobie bear?!" she as laughing, pushing at him lightly. "What is with men and boobs?" She shook her head. "No boobie bear. You'd probably get some questions if you called me babycakes too," she told him with a smirk. Alice found herself daydreaming slightly as she popped a few of the chocolate candies in her mouth.
"You did not ask at first- you tricked me. Repeatedly." She knew that the histories wrote their story as a rape but she didn't think of it that way. What Hades did to her daughter that was taking her will. Demeter had simply tried to hide from Poseidon- it was a part of their game. He didn't take her or trap her. He just tricked her. A part of her felt that it was what he was doing now. Tricking Alice into feeling for Jeremiah before revealing himself... She couldn't be insulted though. "Then you were rejected repeatedly," she agreed with a smirk. I would have died there, she thought sadly. "You already had someone stowed underwater, Poseidon. You sought me when you came to land," she reminded him. And many others.
As he ran his hand over her hair she felt some of that tension let out and she felt a bit more like herself, though looking into his expression she wished she hadn't said anything about money. "Hey, it's cool," she said, trying to some how fix it- though she wasn't going to apologize, what she made was what she made.
Alice laughed, falling back against the mattress. "If I was working for the government I'd hope I would be making more!" she teased. "There's something off about me? You're telling me you're the god of the sea but there's something odd about me?!" she was teasing him, her hand moving out to push him lightly.