Will (POV)
A couple hours after we had returned from visiting Snuffle. I walk into my dorm to see Kat lying on Nico's bed, reading a magazine.
"Kat." I begin, studying her. "What are you doing here?"
"Reading." She answers, not looking up.
"Can't you read in your own room?" I ask her.
She pulls down her magazine. "Ugh no, they're talking about Lockhart's smile again." She says, pretending to vomit.
I chuckle, before sitting next to her. "Where's Nico?"
"He is currently living out a live action lord of the rings role playing experience deep in the New Zealand wilderness. I believe he is serving as an admirable of an elvish navy vessel." She answers with a smirk.
I roll my eyes. "Fine, don't tell me then."
Later that night at dinner when Nico doesn't show I turn to Kat. "Do you know where Nico is?"
She gives me a guilty expression. "I'm not actually supposed to say this, but Malfoy got him pregnant." She tells me, barely holding in her smirk. "He's gone to a community for elder men in a similar situation."
I notice Draco giving her a confused glare as he walks by.
I bang my head against the table.
The next morning I was freaking out. Nico hadn't shown up at all last night, and some of his things are missing.
"Kat!" I exclaim when I see her in the common room. "Where's Nico?"
"He is at home recovering from a state of the art procedure where he swapped faces with Nicolas Cage." She explains, before adding with dramatic gestures. "THEY TOOK HIS FACE, OFF!"
I face palm and walk away. Maybe he's just visiting camp.
When we arrived at Transfiguration Nico is still not there.
"Do either of you know where Mr Di Angelo is?" McGonagall asks.
"Nico is currently off performing a David Blaine like stunt where he spends seven straight days not attending school." Kat tells her with a grin.
Hermione scoffs.
McGonagall raises her eyebrows, before turning to me.
"I haven't seen him since yesterday afternoon." I answer before glaring at Kat. "Someone has been telling me ridiculous lies since then."
"What are you talking about? Only the truth comes out of my mouth." Kat tells me, with mock offence.
"When was the last time you saw Mr Di Angelo?" McGonagall asks.
"Yesterday afternoon when he told me to tell you where he's going for the next week." She answers.
McGonagall glares at her. "And where is that?"
"He was out hiking and now has his arm caught under a boulder, but don't worry, I have sent a rescue team to give him a Swiss army knife so he can cut it off by the end of the week."
"10 points from Hufflepuff for lying." McGonagall tells her before storming off.
The next day it continued in a similar fashion with even more ridiculous lies.
A day later when we arrive in Potions Snape is waiting. "Where is Mr Di Angelo?"
"He is spending the week undercover posing as a high school student in order to bust a drug ring. Shit I think I just outed him. RUN REBECCA! RUN AS FAST AS YOUR HAIRY LEGS CAN CARRY YOU!" She yells.
Half the class bursts into laughter, falling from their seats.
Two days had gone by and I was really worried. What if something happened to him? He isn't exactly the most careful person.
The next day after class Harry approaches us. "Where's Nico? The truth please."
"He has been kidnapped and is being kept in a cave in the Middle East where he is constructing his own Iron Man suit." Kat answers, mimicking hammering metal.
We both groan.
The next day when Lockhart once again asks her where he is.
"He is currently competing to be America's next top model where-" she begins before pulling out her phone. "OH NO THEY VOTED HIM OUT! DON'T LISTEN TO THEM NICO! YOU'RE BEAUTIFUL ON THE INSDIE! And there is no shame in being more catalogue than editorial. That is a fact." She yells.
Lockhart seems to be the other person to understand what she just said. "That's such a shame. I had high hopes for him."
We all burst into laughter, hoping he's joking,
A few days after Nico had disappeared we are brought to Dumbledore's office to tell him where Nico has disappeared to.
"Miss Williams, where is Mr Di Angelo?" Dumbledore asks.
"Due to a mix up he is currently at Pig Pimples. A hospital for pigs with skin conditions." Kat answers, looking a little worried herself.
By the end of the week Kat still hadn't told us where he is.
"KAT! WHERE IS HE?!" I yell, getting upset.
"He is filling the terms of his crazy uncles will by spending the whole week in a haunted house. HE DOESN'T LIKE G-G-GHOSTS!" She exclaims, making me roll my eyes.
"STOP WITH THE DAILY SHOW REFERENCES!" a random muggleborn shouts from across the room.
I face palm. That idiot better be back tomorrow like she said.
Nico (POV)
After a few days of helping my father attempt to return the spirits to the underworld to no avail, I decided to go through with my plan to bring Bianca back. When I discovered that she had moved on without telling me, I was heartbroken. I will never see my sister again. When I had found Hazel, for a moment I felt like I had her back. I know she's not Bianca, I don't want her to be, but she is my sister.
After Father learnt what I had done he was furious, but decided to turn a blind eye, explaining the different Camps to me and making me swear to keep it a secret.
Once I had brought Hazel to Camp Jupiter under the lie of being the Ambassador of Pluto. I began my journey to Hogwarts via shadow travel. When I arrive I pass out in my bed instantly.
I wake up a second later to the scream of "NICO!"
"Go away!" I grumble into my pillow, getting a sense of dejavu.
"WHERE HAVE YOU BEEN?!" Will yells.
I turn over to glare at him. "Didn't Kat tell you?"
He raises his eyebrow. "Oh she told me. How's the iron man suit coming along? Or the G-G-Ghosts?"
Huh? "The ghosts are bloody menaces." I answer truthfully.
"What about the face transplant? Or the Elvish Navy? And when's your baby due?" he asks, folding his arms.
"I am going to kill her." I decide.
'I'll help." He mutters. "You need to tell McGonagall where you are. We've been looking for you everywhere."
I groan. "In an hour, shadow travel really drained me." I tell him before passing out again.
When I wake up I am dragged to a meeting with Madam Sprout, McGonagall and Dumbledore where I was lectured for three hours and 100 points removed from my house, as well as detention until Christmas.
"I blame you." I tell a smirking Kat when I finally leave.
"I'm not the one who ran away." She points out. "Besides I have detention too for lying so at least we'll be together."
"I told you to come up with a lie, NOT FIFTY!" I yell.
She just rolls her eyes. "Where did you go anyway?"
"You lost the privilege of knowing when you told them I was living out my lifelong dream of being a nude model." I glare.
She chuckles. "That was a good one. And you're telling me, I didn't get detention until Christmas so that you could go back on our agreement."
I groan. "Fine. My father wanted me for something."
"How vague." She mutters. "I WANT DETAILS!"
I just glare at her before going to find Will.
Will gave me an expectant look when he sees me, crossing his arms.
"I was in the Underworld." I whisper. "Hell has gone to… well hell. The doors of death have been opened and spirits are escaping." I half explain. I can't tell Will about Hazel or Camp Jupiter, Father had forbid me, and what would Will thinking of me resurrecting the dead?
His eyes widen. "WHAT? Can't Hades just fix it?"
I shake my head. "Thantos usually guards the doors, but he's so busying gathering the spirits he has no time. I think someone else is causing this."
"Who?"
"No idea." I answer.
We fall into a thoughtful silence.