When I woke up I'm in a house. Or at least I think I am. The walls are painted some weird shade of yellow and the carpet is a faded gray. I'm facing a I wall without any windows.

"Boss," I hear someone say "You'll never believe what we got to real the Reaper in."

I hear footsteps from behind me and wonder if I should act passed out.
I do at the lat second.

"Are you fucking kidding me!?" A familar voice growls out.
The sound of heels rush towards me.
"Presephone." The voice says, a soft hand is on my right cheek "Sweetie wake up."

I act like I am. Holy shit. It's Hera.
My eyes go wide.
"Don't freak out honey. We're gonna get you out of here."

She begins to untie me, the goons behind her don't ask any questions.
"You have eight seconds to leave." Hera said glaring at the men behind her.
They froze up for a moment and then left the room.

Hera helped untie the ropes off of me.
"Where are we?" I signed.
"My house," Hera sighed. "Zesus and I were a in a gang, it's how we met. We left a few years ago after we heard that Hades got himself a nickname, he and Posiedon are the youngest as you know and that life is something I knew his mom wouldn't of wanted for them. Then we got an order to kill them. We never thought they would follow us here."

"So you did leave us!" A thick Greece accented voice saidm we looked at the doorway and saw a few goons.

One female one was holding the door handle with a look of betrayal on her face.

"You know what happens to betrayers." She shut the door.

"Shit." Hers mutters under her breath.
We both stand up trying to look any form of dangerous. For a second I think it's working because the woman just glares at us.
"Theseus." The woman calls out "Pirithous."

Two men come in and something inside me gives off a million warning bells. I have a feeling that these were the two who kidnapped me earlier.

"Per." Hera says to me "Get behind me. Now." It isn't a request and she knows I can fight but I do it anyway.

Suddenly there was a soft knock on the door.
"Pizza." I could hear a voice that me froze.
It was Hades voice.
No. No. No shit. Shit. Shit.

One of the other Goonies here must have opened the door but the woman left locking the door behind her.
I looked at the two men. The darker skinned one on the left, Theseus, looked more hesitant, the paler one on the right looked at me like a cat looks at a mouse.
He liked his lips and I gave him a disgusted look.

The sound of a struggle was growing louder outside.
"Should we go check?" The pale one asked.
"No." Theseus said "They've got this."

With that he ran over and pulled Hera away from me, she kicked blindly for a moment. Then round-housed the man on his left side.
He groaned but remained strong, holding Hera by both of her arms tightly.

The pale one came over to me and grabbed my throat. I gasped and grabbed onto the hand over my throat.
"I wonder if they'd sell you to me for a pretty price." He said with a smirk. His eyes were filled with something that made them glassy but not enough for him to look high.
I used my thumbs and pushed them into his eyes sockets. He yelled and let go but only for a moment.
I ran over to Theseus (who was struggling to keep Hera in his grasp) and pushed down on a pressure point in his neck. He let go of Hera and went on his knees.

Then someone grabbed my wrist and turned it to the point where I knew if I tried to move they would break it.
"Fiesty little thing." Pirithous said into my ear.
Hera punched Theseus in the face hard enough to where I heard his jaw break.
"Let her go." Hera said her back was to the wall now, leaving his to the door.
"You're not in the room to make demands."
"I am." Hades voice said. I knew he was holding a gun to the other males head.

"Let her go. Now." Hades said.
I felt relief flood my wrist and I ran back over to Hera and then I saw Hades.
He was in all black, jeans and a hoodie that were splattered with something darker.
"Hera keep her eyes closed." Hades said it almost sounded like a plea.

"Don't hurt Theseus to bad." I signed "He doesn't want to do this, he's to hesitant about everything."
Hades nodded to me and then moved his head towards the door. The older woman nodded and kept her hand over my eyes as we walked out.

I didn't need to look, the smell of death and metallic fluids were everywhere, we reached the door when the faint smell of cheese, bacon, pepperoni hit my nose.
"He actually got them pizza." Hera chuckled out.
The squeeking of the door indicated we were going outside, when she closed the door, then she took her hand off of my eyes.

Poseidon was sitting on the tailgate of a red pickup truck that looked so beat up that it wasn't possible the 1980s weren't even its strong point.

Zesus was pacing and when he saw us come off the stone steps he ran to Hera and picked her up in his arms. He set her down and looked at her arms to where the bruises from Theseus were already forming.

He gave her a concerned look but she directed his attention back up at her and kissed his nose.

The door opened and closed again and Hades came out.
"We'll need an ambulance here for about eight if them." Hades stated.
"Eight?" Poseidon said.
"Children in the basement make six and two that I let live but they'll have some brain damage."

He looked over at me for a moment like wanted to ask me something but kept on moving.

Zesus stopped his brother from walking past him and turned him around.

Hades gave his brother a look that held some form of telepathic communication but walked over to me.
"You're okay right?" He said like he had been holding back the words.
I nodded and then began to cry. I don't know why but I did. I cried even as Hades put his arms around me.
I clung to him my body still racking in sobs.
"You're okay." Hades said softly "I got you now it's okay."
"I thought you were gonna die." I signed out "I-I heard you and then I was scared."
"Have more faith in me sweetie." He joked a chuckle finding a way into his voice.
"We gotta go." Posedion said getting into the drivers seat, "Ambulance is coming." He started the truck.

We all got into the truck and went back to Heras home where she told my mom that I was spending the night with her.

Hades went to go change and then came back down to sit beside me on one of Heras couches. She had already curled up with Zesus while watching Mr. Iglesias on Netflix.
"Stay?" I signed to Hades.
He nodded and wrapped his arm around me. I curled up closer to him.

For us it went without saying we were together but Hades was a gentleman and asked my mom if it was okay to go out with her.
At first she freaked out and said no but came around eventually and gave in.

Hera and Hades both taught me to fight a little more to protect myself better. I became closer with them, Zesus and Posedion. It felt like home to be with them.

Being with a guy known as the Reaper wasn't hard. I was with Hades not the Reaper, I didn't mind that side of him too much.
We're life and death. It's what we do.