Persephone Hadley

Persephone Mira Hadley is a

She is the daughter of Jasmine Hadley and Kamal Hadley and younger sister of Minerva Hadley. She is also the half-sister of Yaro Hadley-Baloyi.xx

 

Sephy's best friend Callum McGregor is a Nought (white-skinned ). Throughout their life, they have had to face many challenging obstacles due to their race. The two later have a child, Callie Rose McGregor-Hadley, though Callum is executed before their daughter is born.

Sephy has a fairly successful music career working with Sonny, who she later dates, though the two break up. She later begins a relationship with her boss Nathaniel Ealing and the two are set to marry at the end of Double Cross. As of Crossfire, Sephy has taken over his club and Nathan has died. The two have a teenage son, Troy.

 

Early Life Sucks
Callum was born eighteen months before her. His mother, Meggie McGregor, worked as a nanny for Minerva and later Sephy. She and Callum grew up together. Meggie was fired from the Hadley household, after not providing an alibi for Jasmine. Callum and Sephy were expected not to meet up with each other. But every day, Callum went to her private beach or they met somewhere else.

Heathcroft High School
When Sephy was fourteen, Callum and three other noughts were finally accepted into a Cross school, Heathcroft High, but most Crosses are against it. The entrance to the school was blocked by Crosses, chanting "No Blankers in our school!" They threw stones, one hurting a female nought. Sephy bellowed "ALL OF YOU! YOU'RE BEHAVING LIKE ANIMALS! NO, WORSE THAN ANIMALS, LIKE BLANKERS!"

Sephy makes an effort to be friendly towards the white students, however, this angers some of the Black students and she is beaten up by three Cross girls. Callum tries to visit Sephy at home while she is recovering, but Jasmine refuses to allow him to visit.

When Sephy heard about the death of Callum's sister Lynette, she attended the funeral at the McGregor home, but was not welcomed.

After the bombing of the Dundale shopping centre, Sephy testifies at the trial of Ryan McGregor, and her testimony, along with that of a retired Cross police officer, is instrumental in proving Callum's innocence. Ryan is to be hanged, and she is forced to go to his execution. But Ryan is saved at the last minute and sentenced to life imprisonment instead. Ryan is later killed touching the electric fence trying to escape.

Callum comes into her bedroom a few days after these events, angry with her, but they forgive and fall asleep in each other's arms. Her mother's assistant, Sarah Pike, spots Callum's trainers and kicks them under the bed before her mum Jasmine saw. Sarah tells Sephy to get Callum out of there.

Sephy convinces her parents to send her to Chivers boarding school, and writes a letter to Callum, asking him to run away with her, and that if he doesn't come by the time the car comes to take her to Chivers, she knows what the answer will be. She asks Sarah to deliver it, but Callum didn't read it until the next day and ran to her house, but in despair watched her leave as he didn't arrive in time.

Noughts & Crosses Ending
2 years pass.

Callum has now joined the LM and Sephy is still at Chivers boarding school. At some point, Sephy returns and is soon kidnapped by Callum, Jude, Leila, Megan and Pete. After beating her up, they bring Sephy to an undisclosed safehouse in a forest in the middle of nowhere. The LM take videos of Sephy and attempt to sell her to Kamal for ransom. Callum tries to tell himself that Sephy is just a "dagger" but he realises that he loves her. Sephy and Callum make love to one another whist the other members of the LM cell are out. Sephy cries afterwards because she knows she'll never be able to live a full life with Callum.

Jude hears Sephy crying and assumes that Callum raped her, which he did not. Sephy manages to escape, which is bad news for the LM since she saw the faces of everyone, including the second in command. Turns out, Sephy is pregnant with Callum's baby.

Sometime after, Callum tries to visit Sephy at her house, but since Callum's last visit, security was tightened. Callum was arrested whilst talking to Sephy. They decide that if their child is a boy, they will call him Ryan, after Callum's father, and if she is a girl, they will call her Callie-Rose. Callie because it is similar to Callum, and Rose because this conversation takes place in Sephy's rose garden. Since Callum was part of the LM and everyone assumed he raped Sephy (which she confirmed he didn't), he is sent to prison. Sephy and Callum were given 2 choices: Callum gets a reduced sentence but Sephy must get an abortion, or Sephy keeps her baby but Callum is hanged. Callum decides to hang, so he dies. Sephy and Callum call out to each other saying that they love each other seconds before Callum hangs.

An Eye For An Eye
Shortly after Callum's death, Sephy moved out of the family home and into her own apartment in a predominantly Nought area. When she was six months pregnant, Jude followed Sephy to her apartment. Coincidentally, Minerva came to visit her too. Jude came in, blaming her for Callum's death, and Sephy said "Go on, kill me. Put me out of my misery." Jude realised that he could make her suffer through her child. Minerva tried to escape, and Jude shot her in the arm and ran away.

Knife Edge
Sephy gave birth to her daughter Callie Rose in a nought hospital. She met a woman called Roxie who had just had a baby boy. Roxie was visited in hospital by her brother, Jaxon. Jaxon had his guitar with him and Sephy encouraged him to play Rainbow Child, for all of the mothers and babies there. He did and Sephy joined in, Jaxon realised what a good voice Sephy had.

Later, Sephy's mother, Jasmine, came to visit her daughter and granddaughter. Jasmine had split up with Kamal, and Sephy and Callie were invited to stay, Sephy accepted, and Jasmine went home. But to her shock, Meggie visited, and asked Sephy to stay with her, not realising thatJjasmine had already offered. Sephy decided to stay with Meggie, as she realised Meggie would otherwise be completely alone.

Shortly after coming home from the hospital, Sephy is visited by Jaxon. He offers her a job as the lead singer of his band, but she turns him down.

Callum's letter
While living with Meggie, Sephy was visited by Jack Labinjah, Callum's prison guard, who delivered the letter Callum had written for Sephy while awaiting his execution. Jack seemed uneasy and apologetic while delivering the letter, but Sephy was just delighted to have one final message from Callum. However when she reads the letter, she is shocked at the harsh words in it - Callum claims to have used her, never loved her, to have slept with her only to get revenge on her parents. Sephy's entire world is shattered by Callum's letter.

The Midges
After Callum's letter, Sephy decides to take Jaxon up on his offer after all. His band, originally called The Cockroaches but renamed by Sephy to The Midges, consists of Jaxon, Rhino and Sonny. At her first band practice, Sephy discovers that the band already had a lead singer, Amy, and that they contract and money and she performed with the rest of the band. She walked away after one song since she already had the money. They were stopped by Mr Kosslick and his goons, but Sephy told them that her father was the vice-prime minister so she and the band couldn't be touched. They were banned from his nightclub consequently.

Two weeks later The Midges played in a nought club, Russell's. Sephy was not very popular there because she was a Cross. While changing in the toilets, she was confronted by Amy, who insulted Sephy and tried to hit her, although Sephy blocked her. She tried again, only to be blocked again and pushed onto the floor by Sephy. When Sephy started to sing the crowd, led by Amy, booed and shouted racist remarks. Then the noughts in the club started throwing things at her. Sephy sung Rainbow Child to remind her and the audience of Callie Rose and everyone was silent. Then Sephy fainted.

Murder of Cara Imega
Sephy hears of Cara Imega's murder on the news. She and Meggie are shocked when Jude is named as the main suspect. After he is arrested, Sephy accompanies Meggie to visit him. Seeing how upset Meggie was at the prospect of losing her last living child, Sephy visited Jude alone and told him she would provide him with an alibi for Cara's murder. As a result of this alibi, Jude is found not guilty, and Andrew Dorn is outed as a traitor to the Liberation Militia and killed. Public reaction to Sephy is overwhelmingly negative - most noughts believe she should have come forward sooner with Jude's alibi, while most Crosses believe she has just helped a guilty man go free. Jaxon tells Sephy she is out of the band until the heat dies down.

At home, Sephy holds Callie Rose tightly against her chest. She then realises Callie Rose has stopped breathing.

Checkmate
After being treated for puerpe

Sephy took a job singing at Specimens, a club owned by Nathan Ealing. One day, crime lord Jordy Carson and his thugs come into his bar to demand payment. Nathan was expecting them, and he told Sephy to hide. Jordy and his thugs beat Nathan up, Sephy ran and told the police. Later, Nathan and Jordy arranged to meet, some detectives hid a wire in Nathan's cap, and the police were able to gather solid evidence against Jordy Carson. After this Nathan and Sephy began to go out. When Callie was fifteen, Nathan proposed to Sephy, and she accepted. Later that day, Sonny reappeared in her life, telling her he wanted to get back together.

Callum's real letter
Jack Labinjah, Callum's jailer died of an illness, but he made sure to tell his daughter to deliver the first letter Callum had written. Five months after Jack died, his daughter Celine Labinjah, delivered the real letter to Sephy. In this letter, Callum declared his undying love for Sephy and their child.

Cellar
Jasmine locked Sephy and Callie in her wine cellar to force them to talk to one another, as their relationship had become untenable. Callie, who had been shown Callum's hate-filled letter, believed that her dad was a rapist and a murderer and that her mum hated her. She tore up the last picture of Callum and Sephy together. But Sephy showed her Callum's letter of love, and the two were reunited. Sephy told Callie about Nathan's proposal and Sonny's reappearance. Callie told Sephy of her own confused feelings between Tobey and Lucas. As Meggie opened the cellar door, the two hugged.

Double cross
When Callie is shot at the borderlands, Sephy is incredibly disappointed that Tobey refuses to tell the police who shot her. She becomes angry when she sees Tobey kissing Rebecca Dowd. She tries to stop Tobey from seeing Callie but eventually lets him see her, possibly recalling that Jasmine had done the same to Callum after she was attacked at school.

At the reading of Jasmine's will, Sephy and Minerva discussed Sephy and Nathan's forthcoming wedding. In her will, Jasmine leaves Sephy her two houses, all their contents and all attached lands.

Crossfire
Sephy and Nathan had a son together, Troy. Nathan has passed away by the time Troy is seventeen and Sephy has taken over the running of Nathan's club. In Crossfire, Tobey claimed that Sephy murdered Dan Jeavons, but it has not yet been revealed whether or not this is true.

Trivia

 * The name Persephone means "bringer of death" which could be a reference to Callum and Nathan's deaths

Appearances
Noughts and Crosses

An Eye for An Eye

Knife Edge

Checkmate

Double Cross

Crossfire