#cantonin

AU: In which Death Eater forces take one the Prewett brothers captive instead of killing them both on the spot...but are happy to keep that information from the surviving Gideon, allowing him to think his brother is alive as leverage for Order information.  

When Gideon Prewett regained consciousness, he was strapped to a chair in the center of a leaking, windowless basement room, and he could not remember where he was. The memory issue was enough to scare him at first more than the setting. Hadn’t Vince been complaining about that lately, more frequently and more urgently in recent weeks? But Gideon had never heard Vince complain about any associated pain. The pain Gideon felt, seeping along the base of his skull and handicapping him – no telling how temporarily – in one leg, was bad enough that he couldn’t see not complaining about it.

Slowly, Gideon’s memories came back to him. He thought they’d be a relief, or at least help him assess his way out of this shady situation, but they did neither. In flashes, he could remember the patrol. It was supposed to be a simple, quiet night. Nobody paired up both of the Prewett twins together unless there was excessive firepower needed, or if things were so low-level that they’d be allowed to play off one another, crack their jokes, blow off their steam. It was supposed to be the latter, the evening, and Gideon had actually been looking forward to it – in a different way than he’d begun looking forward to other meetings, in that itching, desperate-to-take-a-hit sort of way.

Nobody had expected the ambush. Once it began to happen, Gideon had not expected to be taken alive, either.

But here he was: alive and bound.

The only thing he cared to notice was that his brother was missing.

“FABIAN?” he called out. Instead of hello, instead of help, it was his brother’s name that burned at the back of his throat.

Fuck repercussions or secrecy at this point, right? There was no denying that Gideon was in a bad situation. Whatever was going to happen to him wouldn’t be prevented by waking quietly. Whichever Death Eaters had taken the twins had to know that, once they’d refused so violently to come quietly.