"Yes, of course it is your office, Cora" the beautiful goddess of love smiled. Apparently irritating the woman by calling her by the name of her youth.
And at the same time the chicken - well, wavered perhaps describes it best - and turned into a medium-size (except around the hips, which is empress size ...) middle aged woman whom Johnny recognized as the witch out looking for Anubis earlier.
And some other vague memory stirred itself deep down in Johnny´s mind. But before he could get a hold of it "Cora" started to tell Aphrodite where to "get off"
At first the love goddess just smiled. But as the comment became more personal - a lot more personal - she started to look angry and retort.
The human chicken moved quietly - and given the goddesses a wide berth in doing so - over beside Johnny and whispered urgently "Let´s get out of here while they fight, honey sweet. ... you too, Harry! Don´t stand there gaping like a depp! Tshee ..."
Johnny thought of asking her who she was. But his instinct told him he could trust her without questions so he turned and would have walked quickly out the door if a man in a dark suit hadn´t been standing in it.
Looking very much like the late lamented David Niven down to the small trade mark moustache.
"Ups!" the chicken - erm, woman mumbled. Then said aloud "How do you do, my lord Hades. How are the party preparation going. Anything I can do, Sire?"
A moment Johnny thought the Greek god of the death would kill the woman on the spot. But then same god said quite civilized and polite "No, thank you, Miss Magpie. I think you have done enough already. ... wonder if any serious matter is ever save around you. But why don´t you two mortals - oh, and you too, Compton - go outside and leave this to us gods"
And so they did - happily and quickly!
Harry soon left the two mortals alone though mumbling something about having work to do and hoping everything would turn out for the best. 
So there they sat - Johnny and the human chicken - on a hard marble bench in the corridor outside the office of Cora/Persephone, the queen of the dead - and looked a bit nervously at each other.
"Maybe you better explain ..." Johnny said and look sideways at the embarrassed woman. Then got very embarrassed himself because she suddenly started to bawl out loud.
At first Johnny didn´t know what to do. Tried patting her shoulder with his hand. But then some half remembered memory took over and he hugged her close and whispered silly, but very soothing small endearments into her ear.
And strangely enough - considering the volume of her bawling - she did hear his mumbling voice and stopped crying after some minutes.
"Sorry, sweetie" she sniffed and blew her nose rather vigorously. "I really thought I had lost you too ... Oh, why the He.. did I start on the reconstruction of that Halloween story! Couldn´t I just had left it alone - but oh, no, I wanted the applause for a good story and HAD TO risk your life!!" Here she hit herself hard and Johnny hurried up and held her hands tightly so she couldn´t do that again.
"Why don´t you start with the beginning, pet? Your name is ... Meeps? And - I am not really the American actor Johnny Depp, am I? ... it´s like I am playing at being him - wanting to go back to Vanessa Paradis and their cute little children. But in reality I want to go home to you and ... We both have children and don´t - right?"
"Yes" Meeps sniffed with a little smile "All the neighbours´ kids come over to our house and love to play with their adored uncle Johnny - sometimes they don´t want to go home again. But I am too old for having babies myself so you and I don´t have any little ones of our own. But yes, I better begin with the beginning - with Ms. Paradis"
So Meeps settled herself in Johnny´s arms and started to tell the whole sorry mess of a story.
"A little under a year ago I wrote a very short and rather sketchy story about the real life Johnny Depp getting "killed" in a car accident. But it turned out in that story that he wasn´t dead after all - it was all a bureaucratic mistake -and he wakes up again and hurries home to his family" Meeps started - sighing happily because she was back with her Johnny again - then continued "But unfortunately that story got lost in cyber space by another dumb accident. So this year's Halloween I went to ask if I could borrow the real life Johnny Depp for another try at telling it"
Here Meeps stopped for a moment and smiled wickedly - or as wickedly as a human chicken dare smile - and then continued "But my imaginary version of Vanessa did not want me to borrow her Johnny. Claimed they had friends to see that night. I got the expression though she had become jealous of Mumsy - Aphrodite, you know - that time I claimed Johnny was the love goddess´ son. It seemed Johnny - the real Johnny - talked a great deal about the gorgeous goddess when he came back from that production"
Meeps hesitated. Then added earnestly. "O.K. I can´t blame her for wanting to keep Johnny for herself. I want very much to keep you after all. So I shouldn´t make such malicious fun of it - sorry ..."
"I think he went on and on about a certain Miss Meeps too when he came home and that was what she was jealous off" Johnny said quietly. Hugging and kissing a beaming, but embarrassed Meeps who hurried up and say "No, I am sure it was not that, sweetie! You only say that because you yourself love me - and for that I am eternal grateful to the same bubbly love goddess. But the real Johnny wouldn't touch me with a ten foot pole even if he could find one ..."
That earned her a loving kiss more. But then Johnny said sternly "I can understand how I came to be drafted into this. But why - oh, why - didn´t you just tell me about it? Why make me all screwy in the head so I thought I was the Depp one himself - wanting to go back to same Mademoiselle P.??"
"But I didn´t do that ... You thought that?" Meeps asked and leaned away from Johnny to look closely into the two most wonderful brown eyes in her Universe.
And when Johnny nodded seriously and even looked a bit angry - he didn´t like being play for a fool - Meeps at first looked bewildered and then slowly looked like she now understood quite a lot more than before.