Clash

The moment I stepped in the door, the guys literally came running to see if it was me. They didn’t look happy and I’m not sure what they thought I was doing because they looked angry. I put my hands in front of my body in surrender. This made them stop immediately. “Where the hell have you been?” Louis asked in his I’m-trying-to-be-a-leader voice, which annoyed the crap out of me.

“I went to get some coffee in town, why?” I shrugged out of my coat and hanged it in the closet. I walked passed them and made my way into the living room and I was happy to see that everyone had showed up. The room was full of people I hadn’t seen since that night. Sophia was the first who got up and hugged me ”Are you okay?” she whispered to me and I nodded. She let go of me and I was hugged by Ollie and the others followed as well.

Niall, Liam and Louis came walking back into the room and they took a seat. “Please sit down everyone.” I smiled at them but I wasn’t planning on sitting down, I mean that would look weird as I’m trying to lead them.

“Thank you all for coming on such short notice and I’m sure you all know why you are here.” I paused to see if anyone was confused but they all smiled at me except for Liam, Niall and Louis that is. “It’s time we are getting revenge on that bastard and that’s why I have made a plan. Please gather around the table, because that will make it a bit easier.” I saw them all gather around me and I never thought they would be willing to listen to me in the first place.

“Alright, so this is the plan. We will wait Bradley out because at a certain point he will feel safe and thus leave his house alone and that’s when we strike.” Taking a deep breath before continuing, I looked around to see if anyone was upset by this but they never let me show anything more then a smile.

“I know that this sounds like a crazy ass plan and it is because it can take a long while before Bradley ever leaves the house alone so that’s why we need to be patient.” Ashton scraped his throat, which made me look up. “Yes?”

“Why are we waiting? I mean what if he never feels safe?” he had a point a valid point because I had already thought about that. “You’ve got a point there and that’s why I’m giving him not more then two months.” Immediately there was friction as they were shocked to hear about that amount of time I was willing to give. I immediately shushed them by raising my voice. “Look I know it sounds ridiculous but he isn’t going to let his guard down anytime soon and this way he maybe thinks he has won.” I explained but there was still discord.

“Alright say we give him two months, what are you going to do when this doesn’t work?” Rosie asked and luckily after what I had seen today I had the perfect answer for that. “Then we will get him at his pub.” It was dead silent in the room and that was prove enough that they didn’t know about his own pub.

“Today I went for a walk and stumbled across one of his men. I followed him and he entered a pub, so I watched through the window to see if I saw someone I would recognise and sure all Bradley’s members where present and they were celebrating something, not sure what but who cares.” I told them with a shrug. They all looked at me as if I had gone crazy, which made me smile.

“They never saw me, stop worrying but it is the best option we have if plan A fails.” I looked at Liam for some back-up but he was shocked. I sighed and pulled my hand through my hair. “If no one has anything to say then I would go over the details.” I saw a few nods so I continued.

“The plan will go in motion tomorrow, this means every night there will be a stake-out at Bradley’s house and I want to know everything he does and who visits him. We will take turns and the moment you guys see him leave the house alone, you can shoot him but do know I want him alive.” This made Louis smirk especially when they all began to talk at the same time, it was more like protesting but given Louis reaction to my plan yesterday I had already expected this.

“Everybody shut up!” I yelled and as I never really cursed at anyone they knew I was being deadly serious. “Look I know how this must all seem but trust me I do have an explanation why I want him alive.” That settled the crowd a bit but they did not look happy at all.

“The reason I want him alive is because we need to find out what happened to Harry and he is probably the only one who knows.” I sounded like a school teacher by now and that annoyed me. “We are going to torture him into telling us where he has Harry captured, that is if he isn’t dead but I have reasons to believe he is still alive.” This shifted the attitude of everyone, even my guys were stunned when I said that.

“Explain!” Liam said whilst getting up. His eyes were burning with rage and it made me want to take a step back but I couldn’t because that would make me seem weak.

“I think I heard him laugh, while I was outside that pub.” They all looked like I had lost it and I couldn’t blame them because that was what I thought myself. “I know this sounds crazy but I know Harry’s laugh and what I heard inside that pub sounded like his Laugh but I can’t be sure until I have prove and Bradley is the only who is capable to tell us and that’s why I NEED him ALIVE!” I urged them and this is when the understanding was hitting their faces.

They nodded and looked at me for more instructions. “I have a schedule for the stake outs. Niall will start us off and I will be the one who will release him the next day” This wasn’t something they expected.

“You can’t do a stake out, what if Bradley finds out, who is going to protect you, I mean you are our leader and that means you have to stay put.” I sighed because I really didn’t want that but I could tell by the looks on their faces they were not going to budge at that one so I quickly made an alternation to my schedule.

“Okay I will start with Niall and Liam will be the one who will release us the following day. Does this sound better?” They nodded and I told them who would take over everyday. They didn’t object, which was a good thing and after that I made sure I had everyone cell number.

“Michael and Niall I need you two to tell me what we should use to register everything. “ I dismissed the rest and wished them a good night and good luck. “Alright talk me through it.” I motioned for the two to go on.

“We need a van and I will take care of the rest. This isn’t my first time around and I’m sure Niall here can agree to that.” Niall was nodding but that was all he was doing. “Okay we have a van outside, we just need to paint it in a cover up colour.” I explained and Michael was already there.

“I know that is why Ashton is doing that right now. We know the spot you want us to be in, so we also know the colours and with Ashton here it’s going to be really easy, as he knows a lot about the house.” I nodded and was happy to have such a good team but now I was only praying that this would end up well without losing anyone.

“Thank you Michael.” I dismissed him as well but not without him promising that the van would be ready to be put in position tomorrow morning. Luckily for us it was winter by now, which meant it was dark outside longer then it would be in the summer. This really worked in our advantage.

“Niall can I talk to you?” I walked out of the living room and into the kitchen, pouring myself a glass of white wine. “Do you want a beer?” I asked him knowing he wouldn’t turn that down. “Sure.” He shrugged but didn’t really look at me. “Niall look at me please?” after handing him the bottle.

He did and I couldn’t read anything in his eyes, which freaked me out a bit because normally I could see exactly what he was thinking. “Do you want to tell me what has been bothering you? I mean you have been quiet from the moment I walked into this house.” He kept looking at me and the emotion that he showed me was one of pure exhaustion.

“Why Anna?”

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