The second after my revelation in hogsmeade my smile fell. I thought back to will and how if anyone had tricked me into hurting him much less killing him I would be shattered.

I felt someone watching me but knew it was just fred watching my return to the castle it was part of all of hades information jobs to keep his son safe.

Thinking of fred brought the image of his broken eyes and felt tears begin to roll down my cheeks. I had just thought of them as objects. Nessectiys to get the job done.

I felt like I was about to throw up. I felt like one of the thousands of monsters I had cut down.

How could I crush a soul and kill the other event if it is to stop the end of the world and the dead rising up in rebellion.

"Will. What do I do" I whispered into the window tears now openly rolling down my cheeks as the rain poured down onto me.

I needed to talk to will. I know what he would say to me.

" you cant Nico, there Innocent's. You can't just kill them."

Although he knew this he also knew that if he didnt and the dead revolted in large numbers.. It would be the apocalypse.

He shudred as he imagned half rotted corpses and Skelton's riding from graves and people never doing just rotting away as there body's decomposed and shut down.

Although terrible why can't I kill one person to save millions. I let Octavian commit suicide basically killing him. But then again Octavian had no one who truly loved him. And its much different to weild the blade yourself.

I rose from the mud and walked back to the castle not notcing the tremors in the earth behind me.

I walked through hogsmede looking at the warm windows of the shops and whispered to shadow travel back to the Apollo cabin. I knew I couldn't due to the question it would raise but my heart aches to see will.

Just as im about to melt into the shadows I hear voices rounding the corner. I desperately try to exit the shadow state but ron catches me just comming out of it looking like I had just appeared in a cloud of shadow much like the death waters.

"I knew it!" Ron yelled and his wand out at me. "I always knew that you were a death eater. Just like malfoy." He spat at me.

I was angry but kept it under check aware of the Skelton's right beneath my feet ready to burst up out of the soul and attack. I couldnt let him see that. If he did the operation would fail.

"Ron please we can tal- "

"Sectum sempra!" He yelled and a blade of red magic came hurting at me. I just managed to roll out of the way.

i felt the ground begin to shake and white hands began to push up through the earth I wouldn't be quite so annoyed if he had used stupfiy or another stunning spell but he had just tried to kill me.

Just as I was about to unload my skeltons a figure jumper from the shadows and decker ron right across the jaw knocking him to the ground. The hood fell back reveling fred.

"You dumb ass!" Fred yelled at his brother and slapped him across the face. "you would kill someone on a assumption!" He yelled at his brother beneath him. "I can stand and say that child in front of you is no death eater!"

He quickly regathred his cloak around him and appeared away into the night after throwing one last glare at his brother. I had never felt more satisfied in my life. OK except that time will kissed me for the first time.

Will.

I remembered almost every waking moment with him. And I realized no matter what I could not let him turn into a shambling corpse as his body shut down and rotted away with him in it. Or any of the other people I cared about.

Filled with a new sense of purpose to protect those I loved I stalked away from Ron from laying in the snow torwards hogwarts filled with new determination.