Abigail's POV

The next morning came with the sun shining brightly in my face. Moving my hand to block it I realize my pillow is actually really hard. That's when I remember where I am an who I am with as well. Opening my eyes I try to look up but feel pressure on my head and right shoulder. Judging by the clothing I was pretty sure that Ares had his head resting on mine while Hermes was using my shoulder as a pillow, doubt it was comfortable though. Feeling me move must have woke Ares up since he lifted his head and rubbed his eyes.

"Morning already." he whispered to me.

"Yeah, I just hope this plan works." I comment as I now feel Hermes lift his head and repeat the same action as Ares.

"If it doesn't so what, fatso was just a little man compared to General who will be here within the next few days." Hermes said and I am pretty sure I felt my heart stop. "That's when he will pick who goes to the arena. We're in the running well at the top I guess you would say right Ares?"

Just then someone banged on the door. We all jumped up but Ares ran and hid behind a screen in the room as the door opened. The guards came in and didn't say much, until they went to check on their master. Something told me this wasn't going to end well for anyone in the room. One guard checked the fat man and then looked over at us as if we slapped god himself.

"He's dead...which of you did it?" the guard said as another guard grabbed me and while a different guard grabbed Hermes. "Speak or I shall take the tongue from your mouth."

Oh come on! What is with the weird things these people say? I went to the Salem Witch Trials and even this wasn't one of their threats! The questioning guard came over and took a dagger out and put it against my throat. The cold steel against my skin made me want to scream for help but I tried to remain calm and steady.

"Talk boy or the whore gets it." the guard demands as he looks to Hermes.

Whore?! Oh I know that idiot did not just call me a whore. Then i felt the dagger against my skin again. What the heck was I going to do now? Hermes just stayed silent as the man decided my skin was going to be put to the test. No offense to Hermes but I was fed up having a dagger against my throat.

"I did it, I killed the pig." I tell the guard who looks at me and just laughs.

"A young innocent lamb like you, I doubt that." he says in between laughs.

I could feel him pull away the dagger just enough that I was able to push myself backwards into the guard holding me giving Hermes and Ares a chance to attack. They didn't disappoint either. Hermes grabbed the sword of the guard holding him and easily took him to the ground but didn't kill him. Ares apparently had found a sword as well as he took down the guard that asked too many questions. As for me I turned around and grabbed the guards head who was holding me and had it connect with my knee, all the guards were knocked out but not dead.

"Why didn't we just do that last night?" I asked as Hermes and Ares stood up and looked at me.

"Everyone is busy now so no one will know they went missing for a while, had we have done it last night everyone would have known this morning." Hermes says as he walks to the door.

"Come on, we have to get out of here before they wake up or someone else finds us." Ares says leading us out the door.

"Fred if you can somehow hear me, erase those guards memory pretty please, I would like to live." I whisper not loud enough for even Ares or Hermes to hear me.

Walking forward we had almost made it to the stairs that took us to the cells for the gladiators. Main word was almost. Just as I stepped on the first step I heard someone behind us and it made my skin crawl.

"You three, what makes you think you can get out of duties, Ares your excused but your whore and Hermes are needed." the lady of the house said and once again I struggled to keep the food in my stomach.

"Enough, they worked last night and need rest my love, after they rest you can use them however you wish." the master said as he walked up beside her with a smug look on his face. "After all we know how the General loves red heads we must save her now for him."

Red hair, apparently no matter what time period or place there was always a few men out there that loved red heads and somehow I managed to run into every single freaking one of them. The lady of the house nodded and we were allowed to walk downstairs. Hating this place was something that was very easy. No freedom for anyone and there were things that happened in the cell I never wanted to see let alone hear. Still Ares did his best to shield me from it.

"I grow tired of being that woman's baby maker." Hermes hisses as we walk through the cells.

"You should not have to do what she makes you do Hermes and for that I truly am sorry, we know her actions will be dealt with at the proper time as will her death." Ares said confidently.

Hermes cell was just two down from our own and watching him walk into it as we walked into ours was like watching someone put a beautiful rare bird in a cage. That was the same feeling I had when entering our cage as well as Ares I am sure. Sitting on the rack that they dared call a bed I just wanted to yell.

"Abigail, don't let them break you for if you do then they have won." Ares tells me taking my face in his hands. "Be the strong woman I know is in there."