Nico and Hazel take a nap

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It was pure coincidence that Will always lagged behind the two death siblings. Either from window shopping, coincidence, or the pure protective instinct that came with taking care of his siblings, he never knew.

Usually he would feel pretty happy with just looking out for his boyfriend and his boyfriend's sister. Now though, he can confidently say that he might have a hard time with lagging behind.

Especially since whoever lugged him had used a god awful vehicle that made him too aware of his organs for comfort.

He can't tell for sure why everything seemed so murky and numb, or why the trip seemed so short.
'Did they drug me or something?' He pondered as his eyes finally adjusted to see his two fellow victims who were in a much different state of awareness.

Let's just say Will was having the worst slumber party in his life/kidnapping ever. It seemed like the usual enthusiastic energy of Hazel was seeped out of her, leaving her a motionless heap at the corner. The only indication that she wasn't in a coma was that she was casual mumbles and whimpers escaped her lips.
Nico was wrinkling his nose a bit, but other then that didn't seem to stir at all.

He would have looked cute, finally relaxed and sleeping, if it wasn't for the fact that they were still being dragged across a wooden floor.

Right now should be the time for Will to panic about getting hauled up from his place on the floor and being put on a chair. He could faintly see movement at the corner, like a small gremlin child wearing rags, before he saw light.
The blonde let his eyes drop and strained his ears as far as he could hear, which was pretty far considering how sensitive he was to sounds.

He could hear at least 3 other people in the room. Talking over each other as if they were arguing over releasing them or killing them.

Will's heart was pounding in his ears as the shouting started veering into the latter option. A near crazed voice shouting how they had to kill the grandson of the dark lord.
'Dark lord? Like Hades? But he only had two kids and they were teens! Or did they mean Kronos? Were they coming for both Nico and Hazel? Holy hell in heaven, are they going to kill Nico and Hazel?!'

Will's thoughts suddenly freezes when he heard a groan and the swish of several wands.

"Frick, why does my head hurt so much?" Hazel slurred out. Her voice sounding like she just woke up from a little nap, and hadn't just been knocked out unconscious. Her eyes still seemed clouded by sleep, and her shoulders stayed relax despite something being waved around. Will could only pray to his father that it was a gun that was put on safety-

"That's a re-ally nice stick, mister," Hazel started laughing at her joke, her head bobbing side to side lazily as she started waking up more, her movements seeming sluggish and sleepy. The other inhabitants of the room did not seem as amused.

"Who are you and what is your connection to the dark lord!" A man's voice shouted, slightly gruff, very angry, and Will prayed wasn't getting any angrier.

"Dark lord? What fricking dark lord? My brothers the only emo lord I know, I haven't gotten out much since the- yawn- since that place I stayed in-" Hazel's voice, still heavy with sleep, responded. Her brow furrowing before taking another slow yawn. "The next thing to that is my Father, but he's lord of riches or something. I don't wanna talk about him-"

Hazel yelped as someone grabbed her across the face, and it took everything in Will to stay relaxed as he hears someone force a drink into her throat. 'Gods, are they tired of waiting for us? Are they just going to poison us now?' Sweat was slowly forming on his brow as the chilly air of the room turned bone cold as Hazel continued to hack and cough.

"Moody! That's a child! You can't just feed her veritaserum like that!" The slightly gruff angry voice from before shouted, seemingly being held back from attacking the man.
"Shut it, Sirius, diluted veritaserum is an Auror must have these days! Constant vigilance even with underdeveloped brains is important!"

Hushed whispers and apprehensions filtered into the room, before a stern woman's voice cut through it all, "Moody's methods are questionable, but there's nothing we can do about it now. We must continue on with this."

And just as the room was bone chilling before, now it was freezing, as Will felt a familiar cloying presence in the room, a sharp darkness that hissed and snapped at anything close enough that wasn't familiar to their master.

"May I ask what the Hades you're doing to my sister?"

A/n: I'M BACK FROM THE UNDERWORLD! And let me tell you it wasn't cheap getting a device to work down here. The service is crappy too. Sorry for the long wait, hopefully hell-that-is-school won't keep me buried for so long! Personally, I feel like Sirius' trial might have involved some misbrewed veritaserum that left him a teensy bit hesitant towards the potion, it might not be canon, but my story threads are not to be frayed! And yes, I do think a less potent version of a truth detecting drug should exist in this world, sue me.

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