- Trigger Warning - Non/Con -
Nadri's eyes fluttered open drowsily, her vision blurry from the deep sleep she had slipped into. She looked around, raising an eyebrow as she felt the cold, empty side of the bed next to her where Killian had previously laid snuggled closely into her body. Her hand reached out, feeling nothing but the fabric of the duvet and she rubbed her eyes, still trying to wake herself up. Nadri sat up carefully, under the impression that Killian had been called down to speak to the others and had left her to sleep.
"Oh you are gorgeous when you are sleeping." Her eyes snapped up to the figure in the corner, eyes widening like a deer caught in the headlights as the voice trembled throughout her body. "You snore a little bit, but still, gorgeous." Hades arose from the armchair in the corner of the bedroom, approaching Nadri as she sat up on the bed, shaking with fear. "Did you really think you could run?" Nadri looked around, the room suddenly dropping into darkness.
"Where's Killian?" Nadri quivered, Hades holding the powerful crystal in his hand tauntingly. Hades refused to answer her as he stepped closer to the bed, Nadri attempting to bring together any magical force that she could but there was nothing. It was like going to fill up your car at a petrol pump only to find the pumps were completely empty, nothing was fueling her magic. "What have you done? What's going on?"
"Oh, poor little lost girl." His black eyes targeted her from the end of the bed, twirling his cane in one hand whilst still eyeing the crystal between his fingers in the light that streamed through the windows of the bedroom. "Did you really think you and the pirate could do this domestic thing? It's cute but come on, Nadri. I thought we were great together. Power couple." Hades proclaimed, feigning jealousy towards Killian with a cruel laugh. "I guess I can get rid of him, right? Then you'd have nothing to run for."
"If you touch him I will shout you out of this Universe." Nadri threatened but it was only met with hysterical laughter.
"You and the pirate are always so threatening." Hades appeared on top of her, pinning her wrists down roughly as she struggled against the bed. "You're not so threatening when you're on your back, I wonder if he knows that?" Hades held a sick, evil, twisted grin on his face as Nadri's wrists were tied to the frame of the bed. She struggled, twisting her body and trying to pull her hands free but nothing was working, it was as if her whole body was refusing to anything that she commanded it to. "Done the deed yet?"
"This isn't real." Nadri shook her head. "I'm dreaming. You're not real!" Nadri shouted into his face, Nadri tried to bring her legs up to kick the God from on top of her but again, nothing was working. Hades' cold hands were free to do what they wanted to her, running down the sides of her body making her arch her back to try to get away from the unwanted contact. "Please." She begged, still thrusting around to get out of Hades personal space but her body was lacking strength.
"I thought this wasn't real, Nadri. Just stop it." Hades' hands at the top of the skinny, black jeans he had placed her in before, unbuttoning them and pulling them down roughly, straight down to her ankles to reveal her thin, lace underwear that Hades had deliberately picked for her. "They suit you, I thought they would. That's why I made you wear them." The smile still sat on his older face, pressing his icy cold, thin lips against her naval and Nadri felt the urge to puke where she laid, ceasing up underneath his touch. She couldn't stop it, she kept trying to close her eyes and imagine herself out of the dream but it wasn't working. She couldn't wake up.
"This isn't real." Nadri whimpered, Hades' fingers traced the top of her underwear before moving down to her mound of warmth, desperately trying to clench her thighs together to deny him entry.
"Have you thought maybe this is just reality? That I can control you however I want, even now." Hades shifted further down, forcing her legs apart with brute force and Nadri yelped, Hades violently ripping her underwear away from her to relish in what he had uncovered. His hand moved down, his fingers caressing warmth as Nadri recoiled at the touch, playing with her. "I can make you do anything like this, Nadri. I still own you." He slipped his fingers inside of her forcefully, Nadri clamping around him as she cried out painfully. She was unprepared, frightened, his fingers digging and clawing at her.
"Stop!" She cried, tears streaming down her face continuously as she pleaded, begged and screamed out for help. Her eyes glanced for the doors, she couldn't hear anything apart from her own crying. Where was everyone? Where did everyone go? Where was Killian?
"Oh but you know how much I love to play with you." Hades continued to pump his fingers inside of her roughly, stimulating her without her consent. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to think of everything and anything that wasn't Hades, trying to stop her body from tricking itself. Hades pulled his fingers away from her, feeling the sticky wetness that had begun to gather between his digits. "Look at that, you really are the whore I remember." He licked her sweetness of his fingers, she tried to kick at him but Hades pinned her legs down, fingers beginning to bruise the skin at how violently he was holding her down.
"For the Gods, stop, Hades please!" Her voice became hoarse through the crying and screaming, sobbing as Hades began to unzip his trousers, staring hungrily as Nadri pulled her knees back together again. Nadri whimpered and begged as Hades pulled his length out, lowering himself down onto Nadri, pressing his face into her shoulder as he forcefully tried to enter her.
"That's it, keep saying my name."
"Hades!" Nadri gasped, jolting up with a shaking breath so hard that she fell from the bed onto the wooden floorboards. The sweat that had poured from her head was saturated in her hair, sticking to her face as she crawled away from the bed desperately. She put her arms over her face, still in the trance and she felt hands clutching her shoulders, shaking her. Nadri felt the burning pain between her legs as she kicked out at the person in front of her. "No, no, no-" She struggled against the hands trying to hold her still. "Get off me! Get off!" Nadri screeched at the top of her lungs, but the hands wouldn't leave her body.
"Nadri!" Killian yelled at her again, unheard the first time. Nadri looked up at Killian, shocking Killian at the state of fear and terror that was across her features, her skin a yellowy-white. She stopped thrashing around, gasping in relief and threw her arms around Killian so tightly that she may as well have been super-glued to him.
"You're okay, you're here." She cried into his shoulder, her body shaking hard against the pirate. Killian putting his arms around her and rubbing her back soothingly, feeling like he had been knocked sideways by the sudden change in Nadri. It had felt so real, as if it had happened seconds ago. Nadri could feel the ache and pain between her legs that her mind had thought to be Hades, her knees shaking as she felt like she travelling between a cold and hot fever. "By the Gods, I thought-"
"You were thrashing around, you almost knocked me out, love." Killian told her but still held a tone full of worry in his voice. She continued to mutter away into his chest, half-sobbing. "Hey, I'm here darling. I'm here."
"I thought you were gone, Killy." Killian heard clearly this time as she unburied herself from his chest, keeping his arm wrapped around her as she looked up at him, he face wet with tears. "I thought you were gone." She repeated tearfully.
"Hey, I'm here. I'm not going anywhere. I've been here the whole time."
"I don't want to go back to sleep. I don't-"
"Okay, no sleeping, just breathe." Killian agreed, still looking at her as she struggled to take a breath. "You were dreaming about him, weren't you? I heard you say his name." Nadri sighed, beginning to catch her breath. There was no one else she was more afraid of, Nathaniel hadn't been alive long enough to cause her the amount of terror that Hades had. Even now that she was away from him, she still dreamt of him, of what he used to do, what he could do again.
"He just got in my head." Nadri breathed out, putting her forehead back into Killian's chest. He cradled her on the floor. "The nightmares come and go…I wasn't expecting it to feel so real." Nadri still felt the uncomfortable ache, her mind playing tricks on her. "You're real, right?" She mumbled and Killian half-smiled, hearing her adorable mumbles through his shirt.
"Yes, love." He hugged her tightly, sighing himself knowing that she was safe. Rushed footsteps were heard running up the stairs, Nadri pulling away from Killian as the door opened wildly and David and Robin burst into the room, Robin's bow drawn back as he aimed at the location the screeching and screaming had come from, both expressions were held with pure determination to take down the source of the commotion.
"What the hell is going on?" Robin pointed the arrow around the room, heading further in as David came down to Killian and Nadri's level, fearing for their safety.
"It's okay, put your weapon down." Killian ordered, Robin waving it around and flinching every time the arrow was pointed in his direction.
"We heard screaming. Are you okay?" David questioned Nadri intently, Robin lowering his bow and arrow behind as he held his hand out for Nadri to take as Killian helped himself up from the floorboards. Nadri carefully took his hand, David could see the woman had a terrible fright and that she was still shaking and frightened from her dream.
"We heard someone shout Hades, so we came as fast as we could." Nadri's cheeks blushed, embarrassed that the whole house had heard her fitting out in her dream. It felt so real.
"It was me. Zu'u los krosis." Nadri apologized quietly, running a hand over her face. "It was a hahnu…a dream."
"Don't be sorry. We can only imagine what you've been through down here, Nadri." David was sympathetic to her, giving her a warm smile that he hoped would let her see him as an ally and not as an enemy. "Is there something we can do?"
"Best not bombard her, ay mate?" Killian was protective of her, keeping close to her. Nadri couldn't only smile at his overprotective nature.
"I honestly think I just need to take a shower." Nadri admitted sheepishly, feeling the sweat becoming uncomfortable to sit with. "I'll be okay, don't worry." Nadri told Killian, seeing his face become unwary. "I can't slip and die."
"Um, guys? There's a man in the garden." Robin's voice came from the window, staring out at the front garden that surrounded the porch steps.
"What?" David knitted his eyebrows together and joined Robin at the window, Killian indicating Nadri to wait by the door as he also joined his friends.
"In the garden, there is a man." Robin reiterated again, peering past the curtain to see there was in fact a man in the garden. The three men peeked around the window to see a tall man of an average build standing in the middle of the green, his hands comfortably in the pockets of his jacket and he stared at the house as if he was waiting for someone to come out of the front door. "Do you know him?"
"No I've never seen him before."
"That's my brother." Killian interrupted, finally getting a word in between David and Robin. He whipped around quickly, heading back to Nadri. "Get in the shower, love. I'll meet you downstairs, there's someone I want you to be meet." Killian kissed her cheek lovingly before disappearing from her sight and out of the room.
Nadri came over to the window where David and Robin were still nosing outside as if the neighbors had an argument and they wanted to know what it was all about. Nadri watched as Killian came out of the house, his arms wide as he embraced his brother happily, both of them hugging and patting each other on the back.
She guessed that she was about to meet the Brothers Jones.
Nadri rested her arms against the tiles of the shower as the steaming water poured down her back. She lifted her head, letting the water run down her face and she rubbed her hands over her cheeks, trying to wake herself up from the nightmare that she had suffered through. She let the droplets run down her body, her skin reddening at the temperature of the water steaming off her skin. She needed the feeling of Hades creeping along her skin to be gone, even if it meant scrubbing her skin so hard that it would be red raw.
She just wanted the feeling gone.
Nadri stepped out of the walk in shower and back into the bedroom that the three men had left her in, patting her hair between the towel's fabrics to dry it as she stepped in. Her long, curly black hair was still damp as she wrapped it up tightly in a chignon. She took a deep breath, looking at herself in the mirror on the wall before closing her eyes, still controlling her breathing. Her eyes opened again, her body now covered in the almost see-through, scaly material of the long purple dress that she had died in. Nadri felt comfortable being in the outfit that brought her comfort from the moment she had been turned into this being.
Nadri left the bedroom and headed out into the hallway, gracefully walking down the staircase, a new voice slowly coming into earshot as she made her way down and heading in the direction of the dining room.
"Liam, what about you? Why are you down here?" Emma's voice was heard first and Nadri knitted her eyebrows together, slowly down before she came into the view of those in the dining room. She knew that voice, listening closer.
"I wish I knew. I spent countless years trying to figure out a reason." A very well-spoken voice was heard next and that's when she had realized that Killian's brother had already come across Nadri's path when she was searching for Nathaniel all those years back. She smiled, another soul that she had known.
"There is no reason. Hades has the game rigged so no one can leave. My brother's-" Killian stopped when he saw Nadri walk into the room, smiling at her now that she was looking a lot better than she did cowering on the bedroom floor. She was now wearing the dress that she had on when they first met, she looked so elegant and powerful that Killian could have showed her off on his ship for all of the world to see.
"Nadri." Liam sat up, greeting the woman that had entered the room, almost knocking the glass of water that was in front of him. "You look-"
"Eyes off, brother." Killian chuckled, taking Nadri's hand as she came and sat down next to him. "How are you feeling, love? Better?" Nadri nodded, Killian still holding her hand as she sat down with him.
"You're together?" Liam couldn't have sounded more dumbfounded if he tried. Nadri raised an eyebrow at Killian as he dipped his head, nervously laughing. Emma just sat there at the table letting the conversation exchange between them with an awkward expression. "Don't be bashful, Killian. If you are with a strong, beautiful woman you should make it known."
"Now isn't the time for the big brother talk, hm?" Nadri could see in Killian's face that he was silently praying his brother would stop embarrassing him. "I didn't realize you knew each other.
"He runs the er…club?" Nadri raised an eyebrow and Liam nodded, smiling. "The club in town. I met him not long after I came to this realm. He was very helpful." Nadri praised him and Killian kept the great grin on his face, clearly proud of his big brother.
"That's my brother. He's always been helpful. He's never did a bad thing in his life. He even died nobly, stopping a treacherous king from poisoning the realm." Killian endorsed his brother incredibly.
"Stop it. You're making me blush." Liam held a timid smile, Emma smiling greatly beside him too. "Besides, I want to know about this."
"I'm bringing her back with me." Killian said with certainty, holding Nadri's hand. "Nadri helped me while I've been down here. She saved me. Its only time I returned the favor. The only way everyone will get free is if we defeat Hades once and for all. Liam, Nadri, you've been down here a very long time. Surely you must know something that can help us." Killian asked the room and Nadri thought to herself. She knew that Hades was very private and personal with his own belongings but there had been very few that had ventured into domain they'd usually get thrown into the Pit for trying to overthrow Hades.
"Anyone who came into the domain would usually get sent to the Pit. I've heard of a book but not for a few hundred years now. It became irrelevant." Nadri answered Killian, not thinking that the book that was spoken about in passing would have been of any relevance to them.
"I think it's a Storybook." Emma finally spoke after sitting there for so long.
"Storybook? Oh, I wager it would take more than stories."
"No, no, no, no, no. She's onto something. In our world, there's a book like this."
"Everything up there has a version down here. There has to be one in the Underworld." Emma explained to Liam and Nadri raised an eyebrow.
"You think a story book would truly help us? Hades is a God, Emma."
"Henry knew your story when no one else did, that's how he got everyone to trust you. If there's something we didn't know about you, there must be something we don't know about Hades."
"If you believe in this, Killian, I'm with you to the end. This fiend trapped me and tortured you. The day you push your sailors too far..."
"…Is the day the mutiny begins." Killian finished, smiling at his brother. He turned to Nadri, looking down at the young woman sitting next to him at the table. "What say you, love? Are you with me?" He flashed her a smile. She remembered what he said.
"Always, raaviir."