G U A R D E D | Tom Hiddleston

P A R T 2 | Chapter 30

You ever love somebody so much
You can barely breathe, when you're with them

"Colin?"

"Colin!"

"COLIN!"

Both men were standing over me screaming for me, I shook my head to break me out of my daze.

"Frankie told him?" I managed to croak out, finally after silently sitting down on the bed again.

"To be fair, Colin, no one told Frankie that Stephen was fired. Hell, not even the media has been aware" Claude said sternly.

I shook my head in shame, I definitely should have told Frankie as soon as we landed.

"Do we know what are Stephen's whereabouts?" Tom asked Claude as he continued to look at me in worry.

I pulled out my phone to scroll through my Twitter feed to see if any news has come up about anyone seeing Stephen.

"Not quite. Frankie said the last time he talked to him, he was just leaving his hotel room to go back to England, but now we do not know" Claude responded.

My eyes fell upon a news article, it was more like TMZ posting paparazzi photos and videos of Stephen being seen without me in LAX with only a rolling luggage. I clicked on the video and leaned forward to focus on the video. The caption read, Actress Mystique's Bodyguard has been seen without her for the first time since their pairing.

"Stephen! Why are you not with Mystique right now!? You are always with her! Has something happened to her!?" The one recording asked Stephen frantically. Stephen looked up at the recording device with a glare "I am not answering any questions" he simply stated as he walked past the person recording.

I paused the video before Stephen stepped out of frame to see a Plane ticket in his hand, but due to the poor quality it was illegible.

"What is it, Colin?" Claude asked me for he had heard voices from the video I had just watched.

"It seems that Stephen was caught in an airport with a plane ticket, I can't quite read what it says" I explained as i rewinded the video.

Claude approached me to slip the phone out of my hand to see it for himself, as he did that I looked over at Tom that seemed to have a very worried expression on his face.

Before I could say something to Tom, Claude cussed under his breath.

"The flight board behind him indicates he may be taking a trip to us" Claude said.

I stayed silent as I looked at Claude with a frightened expression, "Colin?" He asked to attempt to get me to say anything.

"Claude!" A voice called from behind Tom, into our room my father ran in with Joseph.

"What's going on?" My father demanded.

"Stephen is coming, sir" Claude blandly responded.

My father's eyes widened slightly.

"Stephen is kind of crazy but you don't think he will hurt them, do you?" Joseph asked Claude.

Claude shook his head slightly which gave me a sense of relief, until he spoke again. "We don't know what Stephen is capable of, he was a soldier for a brief moment in his life"

We all froze, I thought I knew Stephen like the back of my hand, but now I'm being told he was a soldier?

"—Honorable discharge, there was an accident he got in to, and then he became useless to the military. And in Shame, he changed his name, well, his last name at least" Claude explained to my father who seemed to have asked how we could have not know this about Stephen.

"How exactly do you know all of this?" My mother asked as she walked into the room, clearly she over heard us.

"And why did you not tell us before?" I turned to Claude.

Claude sighed "I do research on every person I work for, and work with— I after all do have connections to the FBI. From what I was told, Stephen Alcazar— that's his real name, was a war soldier, one of the best of his team. But the accident left him with no purpose, except as a killing machine, a killing machine that could be useful to help protect"

There was a heavy silence upon Claude telling us the truth "What was the accident?" I asked in hesitation.

"He went on a rampage— due to a type of mental breakdown, he harmed a few of his roommates" Claude said hesitantly.

"Jesus, Claude— why did you keep this from us!?" My father snapped.

Tom seemed to have gotten closer to me for now I could feel the warmth of his body closer to me.
Joseph looked between everyone in silence, he clearly had no idea about this.

"Okay, Frank is not an idiot, he wouldn't set up my daughter with a psychopath bodyguard, plus he's a British man" my mother practically shouted which caused my father to attempt to calm her down.

"If I am understanding, Claude, Perhaps it is that Stephen moved to Europe in attempt to create a new identity. With that new identity, any agency will see a clean record" Tom finally spoke, we all looked at Tom, he understood better than all of us.

My dad clapped his hands loudly "Then let's relocate, let's go to another hotel" 

Joseph shook his head "Everything is book from what I am seeing, sir" Joseph was already looking on Forrest websites to get us out of this location.

"Check again, Joseph. I'm going to the front desk to ask for other local resorts" my father said and with that he walked out of the door, but not without Joseph trailing behind him like a tiny assistant.

"Mrs. Knight, we are going to need you to contact Frank" Claude said to my mother.

My mom shook "This is absolutely insane"  my mom exclaimed as she walked out of the room with Claude trailing behind her.

Tom and I looked at each other, he gave me a reassuring smile before it quickly dropped.

"Where's Jeff?" He asked, I frowned as well for I haven't seen him either.

Tom quickly turned around to leave the room, and my instincts kicked in, "Tom!" I shouted as I chased after him.

My feet began to hurt due to wearing flip flops, they are definitely not the best to be running in. I noticed Tom stopped running and froze on the spot, before I could catch up to him he put his hands up and that's when my stomach dropped when I saw a gun being pointed at Tom. And the one holding it was the person we feared would find us.