Chapter 12 Get away!

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Some time has passed since Nico and Will had disappeared and all search efforts came back empty handed. It was looking like the same case as before, some people wondered if this time the boys would be lost for good.

No one knew what to do, so as an attempt to keep dark thoughts away most people carried on with their everyday lives. Leo and his friends had gone to camp like they had planned but with the whole thing with Will going on they were having a hard time enjoying camp like usual. How were you expected to have fun at summer camp when your friend or friends were missing and possibly in danger?

The mood of the group had been pretty gloomy so the councillors had suggested a camp out to get everyone's minds off of recent events. Leo wasn't about to put it out of his mind though, he had brought along some tools and parts with him to camp and had used them to put together his own radio to pick up any news on his missing friend.

He didn't tell anyone about it until they had gone off in search of a site to pitch their tents for the outing. He was in a group with Percy, Jason, and Frank. Frank hadn't really been a part of their group before but when they found out that he was a friend of Will's they invited him into their group.

They would sit together and listen to the radio Leo had rigged up whenever they got the chance but even after a week and a half there was nothing new. It was so frustrating but they couldn't do anything to change that.

"Man I can't believe that someone from our area was a sicko who steals kids." Percy said.

"I can't believe we never bothered to check out the house again after seeing someone in the window, what's even more unbelievable is that it was someone we're related to." Jason said.

Soon after the news of Will's disappearance being linked to that of Nico di Angelo got out Percy and Jason realized that the reason Nico had seemed so familiar was because he was their missing cousin. Granted they had never met in person but it had sent a huge shock through the families when news of the car accident and abduction had reached them.

"Hey it's not like you could have known, you guys had never even met before. How would you have recognized him?" Leo said trying his best to make his friends feel less guilty, he felt bad too, he had seem reports of the missing kid on t.v. before but hadn't made the connection either.

"Yeah but if one of us had told our families about him before maybe we could have helped him out of there before this happened." Percy said.

Everyone knew Percy always wanted to help people, but you couldn't save everyone right? Leo wasn't going to say that to him though, he wasn't ready to give up either, none of them were.

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Will couldn't be sure how much time had passed since he had tried to get Nico away from his fake dad, all he knew was that a few days at least had passed by and whatever the creep was giving them to make them sleep was making him sick.

That creep, as Will had taken to referring to him in his mind, cared more about keeping Nico under control so he didn't bother as much with Will so Will was awake more often to take notice of what was around them. He had been semi-conscious on the night they had been taken, he knew that the creep had been working with someone who worked with his dad at the hospital, and that he had been the one giving the creep the drugs he used on Nico and now Will too.

Will had noticed the sleeping pills that got mixed into the food, that would explain the tiredness he'd felt the time he had dinner at Nico's, it had been an effect of the drugs mixed in. At least some of it had, he assumed that since all of Nico's meals were prepped like that they must have had smaller doses in them to keep him feeling drowsy all day, leading him to believe that he was weak from some kind of illness.

Will couldn't believe the lengths this creep would go to just to make sure that Nico didn't run away while he was away, doing something else illegal no doubt. Well Will wasn't going to just sit by and let the creep get away with whatever evil plans he had, he would get Nico out of there no matter what. But first he had to get them out of this cellar they were locked in.

Will had seen the shape of a house or something in the woods they were in when they were first brought here, and they had been locked down here for days, Will only knew that because the creep would bring down food for them now and then and then he would make them go to sleep for a while again.

Will was thankful that at least they weren't tied up or anything but Nico was always so groggy from the drugs that he couldn't move around as freely as Will could so he wasn't sure how they would get out but he wasn't going to give up.

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Will's opportunity came one evening when the creep had come down to bring their dinner for that day, he had gone over to where Nico lay on an old mattress in the corner while Will sat against the wall, he had seen a loose board on the stairs and had been working it looser over time and waited until the creep wasn't paying attention to him and grabbed the board he then used it to hit the creep over the back of the head. There wasn't time to check what kind of damage he had done, all that mattered was getting out of there and getting Nico to safety.

But Nico is still too out of it from the sleeping pills and couldn't run, he couldn't even stand on his own so Will pulls him onto his back and starts running with Nico as best he can in his weakened state.

He carries him up the stairs and out of the cellar into the darkening woods, it must be late he thinks to himself. He pushes all thoughts out of his mind for now, he needs to find help, maybe there were other cabins nearby or some hikers though given the time that was unlikely.

Will did his best to avoid trees and roots and rocks as he ran, Nico was trying his best to hold on but he was still feeling the effects of the drugs and his grip was loose so Will had to try and reposition him as best he could and not drop him.

"Hold on Nico, I'll get us somewhere safe where he can't get us." Will said as he ran, his lungs burned like he was breathing in fire but he knew he had to keep going.

His heart almost jumped out of his chest when he heard someone behind them catching up fast. "Uh oh, looks like I didn't hit him hard enough." Will said as he dodged a tree.

They manage to keep their distance but then Will trips over a root and they roll down a steep hill.

Nico lands against a tree barely able to move as he watched Minos gets closer, Will hits the side of his head on a rock and is dazed for a moment, his vision swimming as he tries to blink it away he hears the sounds of footsteps getting closer. "Don't you dare touch him you creep!" Will yells as he tries to focus. His head hurts but he still manages to get shakily to his feet.

"Did you really believe that you could get away? You stupid brats." Minos ignores Will completely as he goes to grab Nico.

Will tries to keep Minos away from Nico by grabbing onto his arm and trying to pull him away. "I said don't touch him!" he says again while digging his heels into the dirt trying to hold the man back.

Minos just pushes him off and knocking him to the ground, but Will keeps on trying to keep him back, this time by grabbing his legs and trying to cause him to fall so Minos gets angry and kicks Will away as hard as he can.

Will rolls in the dirt and fallen leaves but stands back up again, Minos swings out at him and Will tries to dodge it but stumbles back and trips over a raised root and ends up falling off a ledge that they hadn't seen there before now. Will falls down into water down below. He surfaces and gasps for air but the pull of the water is too much for him and he goes under again.

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Minos watches as the boy is swept away by the current down below. "Well that's one problem dealt with." he says coldly as he grabs Nico who had crawled over to the ledge when he saw his friend fall, by the back of his shirt and pull him to his feet. Nico's mind has gone blank; he's in shock after seeing Will fall over the cliff into the water below and has no energy to fight Minos off.

"I hope you have learned that running away is pointless, let's get back to the cabin now, it's getting late." Minos shows no sign of having witnessed a child fall from a cliff affect him in the least and Nico's only thoughts were if Will could still be alive after that.

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