Too Busy Sinning™

What the Actual Hades

    A/N: In the first two paragraphs there is a panic attack involved, so if you are prone to that sort of thing, feel free to skip it, I know the attacks suck :)

    "Dad! What the-" Nico stopped himself right there. Hades raised his eyebrow, but other than that he seemed to ignore the comment. Even so his face was pinched into a sneer, and his empty eyes were that of a madman. With most, this look killed. Literally. Nico had always been immune to his father's fear factor though, and right now his rage was infernal.  He stood there, shaking on the steps that led to the thrones of Persephone and his father. His eyes were fixed right on Hades, giving him a fully intentional death glare. "HOW DARE YOU!" He screamed. "WILL IS IN TROUBLE AND NOW I CAN'T HELP HIM AND IT'S ALL my fault and he's probably-" Nico's rage quickly turned into panic and his breaths began to shorten, his words stringing together. "so scared no he is  scared and I can't help him and-" 

    "WOULD YOU SHUT UP." Bellowed Hades, and Nico obeyed. But he was panicking now, and there's no stopping it once it starts. He curled inwards on himself until he was crouching on the floor. He dropped the glittering Aztec mask, then was crying hysterically and rubbing his hands through his hair, over and over and over again. His deep brown eyes were wide and even though he was aware it was happening, he could not stop the attack. The whole thing was horrible. He hadn't had one of these for over five years, since after the war with Geaea.  Hades just stood there quietly regarding his son for the full twenty five minutes. 

    When Nico finally broke out of it, he looked up from the floor and cried at the top of his lungs, "WHY?!" And with that he fell to the floor in a loose sitting position, exhausted. It was a fairly obvious question, but Nico's anger had to go somewhere. 

   "Why do you think?" said Hades, taking the pause as an invitation to approach his son. "Can you imagine if MY SON was thrown in MORTAL Jail? The shame? Neither of us would never hear the end of it!" With this, his hand shot up in a dramatic gesture. But then he hesitated for a second and murmured, just slightly, "Plus, I- Well I didn't want my son to get hurt..." Nico stood up shakily, so that he was inches away from his father. He whispered then in such a fierce manner that his father, god of the underworld flinched. "Yeah? And how did that work out?" Within less than a second, Nico was gone and Hades was left to stare once again at empty air. He really wished his son hadn't managed to figure out how to shadow travel.