Clash

I drunk in his appearance. His muscles, his radiant green eyes, his tattoos, his posture but his expression was dark and not the dark I was use to but it was even darker at least that was what it looked like from my position. He was looking right at me even though I was sure he couldn’t see me because I was hiding. I was literally lying on my stomach so that nothing was showing, just in case the moon was going to be a bitch.

He didn’t look tortured at all. He looked healthy and that made me worry because it meant that he had joined Bradley’s gang. I was aiming my gun just in case he did see me but eventually he turned around and walked back to the house. I let out the breath I was holding and not long after I began to tremble and not the normal kind. I was really shaking with fear and panic.

I got up from my position and ran back to the van and I almost fell right into the van, scaring the crap out of Niall. I had my anxiety pills here somewhere. I needed to take them like right now before I shattered. “Anna, what is wrong!” Niall’s voice was laced with worry and something else that I couldn't place but I just put my hand up to silence him.

After what felt like hours I finally found my pills and I took two of them and sat down with my head between my legs. Niall was rubbing my back softly and kept quiet so I could calm down again. After a few minutes I got my breathing back under control. I lifted my head and looked up at Niall who was wearing a worried expression on his face.

“I saw him” was all I could say but he got it right away, as his eyes went big and a smile appeared on his face, full of hope but I but I shook my head slowly to let him know that it wasn’t a good thing. “There was something off, he didn’t look like the Harry we know.” I looked up to see what Niall was thinking but when he wasn’t saying anything I continued. “He looked darker, he looked like he would kill on commando, without thinking it through. It wasn’t something we know and he didn’t have one single bruise, he was in perfect health.” I was rambling by now and I knew it.

Niall had stopped rubbing my back and pulled his hand through his hair. He only did this when he got nervous and the last thing I needed right now was a nervous Niall. This had always been one of the differences between Harry and Niall. Harry was the one who had too much confidence and Niall just acted confident but wasn’t in reality.

“We have to report back to everybody, this means he has joined Bradley.” He said whilst pacing trough the small space of the van. “I think they know we are here, that’s why they let us see Harry.” He grabbed his phone. “What are you doing?” I asked as he dialled one of the lads. “I’m going to abort this mission.” He told me without emotion. I shook my head as if he had lost it and since when was he making the shots but I also knew that I would be in a lot of trouble if I interrupted him now because he had learned from the best, which meant if I tried to pull something like that he would literally put a gun against my head and as I didn’t want to risk my life I decided it was for the best if I stayed here.

“Louis? Yeah it’s Niall, we have to abort this mission.” I just listened and played with my phone whilst looking at the screen when something suddenly came into view. There were people walking straight to us, there were a lot of people and the one person we were trying to catch was in front of them. “Niall?” I said absentminded apparently something stopped him from talking when he heard me call out his name and as he followed my eyes, he immediately came into action and jumped into the front seat.

“Shut the back door now!” He yelled at me as he started the car. He put it in reverse and as he slammed the breaks I fell hard on the ground but I didn’t have time to get up because he put his foot on the gas as he drove us away from the shed. Luckily for us he knew where he was going. The thing was though we had to drive through the large crowd and that meant they were going to shoot at us.

Bullets literally flew through the van and I let myself fall again. The floor was the safest spot right now. “Niall are you okay?” I yelled as soon as we were in the clear. “I’m okay and you?” I checked because I did feel something hit me but I didn’t know if it was a bullet or if it was just me hurting myself when I let myself fall onto the ground. “I’m fine, just get us home please.” I said as I sat up again. We didn’t have to drive that long but right now it did feel forever and I also discovered that I was hit by a bullet but I just kept my mouth shut and ripped a piece of clothing and tied it over the wound. I pulled the hoodie back over my head so that no one would see it.

Harry had spot me, that was the only explanation and to think we were trying to safe him. How stupid were we? He didn’t want to be saved at all and if he did need us to safe him than he wouldn’t have betrayed us like this. This also meant we had to get another house because this house wasn’t going to be safe anymore. I now just had to tell a lot of people that we had to leave Harry alone and just move on for awhile. We had to lay low, which meant picking up our old lives and when the time was there we would come together and get our revenge on Bradley.

We arrived at the house and all the light were on. Niall slammed the brakes again, this time I was prepared. I opened the back doors and ran with Niall into the house. Every one was waiting for us and when they saw us, they were in shock. I couldn’t blame them because I looked awful not only because of the shooting and the falling but also because I had to lie down on the grass for several hours.

Niall looked like he was going to be sick and that wasn’t the only thing I noticed. He was bleeding at the side of his head and his shoulder didn’t look really good. “Niall I thought you said you were fine?!” I walked into the kitchen and pulled out my emergency box. I got out the scissors so I could cut open his shirt and he was hit with two bullets in the shoulder. I began to sanitize the tweezers because I had to get out those bullets, “Louis, Liam hold him down please?” I asked them and they immediately did what I asked and the others just stood there watching us.

“Yes please stare at my hands.” I said with thick sarcasm and luckily for them they got it and moved away. “Please be sure there is no one attacking us!” I yelled after them. When they all disappeared I put the tweezers in his shoulder and pulled out the bullets pretty quick. I cleaned the wounds and stitched him up.

“Niall you need to go see the doctor because I don’t want you to end up like Zayn okay?” he nodded but I wasn’t sure if he was fully understanding this. We had given him a sedative so that he would fall asleep. Liam hoisted him over his shoulder and walked up to my bedroom. He put him on the bed and I looked at his head and I was happy to see it was just a graze, which only needed to be sanitized and cleaned. I put a bandage on it before leaving him sleep.

I made my way down stairs and called everyone into the living room. I waited till they were all sitting. I took a deep breath before I could continue and as I looked around I felt my heart getting heavy with emotion because this was it. This was the end of this gang as we knew it and I feel like I had failed everyone in this room but in my eyes there wasn’t another option. I scraped my throat before telling them. They looked worried, afraid and impatient.

“Harry is still alive”

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