Stockholm Syndrome |n.h

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ANONYMOUS POV

"Mason!" I yell, running past the people at the front desk who are supposed to check me for any 'dangerous items'. This is too damn important to be wasting my time in medal detectors. "God dammit Mason! Where are you?!"

"Hey, calm down. Are you alright?" He emerges from his office in the police department and grabs onto my shoulders, bringing my pace to a stop. "Wait, what are you doing here?"

"I came here to visit Evy after I heard about what happened to her. But that doesn't matter right now." I groan. "What matters is that I know who took her away and it's going to be really hard to get him away from her." I say out of breath from running. Masons eyes shoot open and he pulls me by the shirt into his office and closes the door.

"Who." He demands. "When did you find out? How?"

"Well, me and Ev have been good friends for a while so I let myself in like I would normally. I couldn't find her in the house so I went upstairs to check her room. I wanted to scare her, like jump out at her or something so I took our my phone and took a video. I stopped when I heard two voices in her room. It was him. He confessed. Listen." I pull out my phone and hand it to Mason and he presses play on the video.

It takes a few seconds to get to their conversation because I was walking there but soon enough, Masons eyes grow wide in anger as he hears Niall's confession.

"'What about Ireland?'

'My mum lives there.'

'Y-you want me to meet your family?'

'Why wouldn't I?'

'I don't know.. sometimes I just feel- I- Do you ever regret kidnapping me? Do you ever feel like you would have been better off without me?'

'I would do it again. Now don't you ever think like that. I loved you when I was sixteen and I love you now, no other girl or rumor, or anything will be able to change that. Okay? I love you.' "

"And that's where I turned my camera off and left the house."

"When was this?" Mason throws both his fists down to meet the hard wooden desk.

"A few days ago."

"Why the hell wouldn't you come to me as soon as you found out?! My daughter is alone with him in a different country right now!"

"Evanna is my best friend!" I yell right back at him. "She has been for years and I couldn't just turn him in like that! She loves him. But I knew this was the right thing to do. I'm sorry! It took me a few days to even consider turning in my best friends Love!"

"God dammit!" Mason stands up as laces his office, leaving me sitting in the chair awkwardly. "You just did what River was supposed to do."

"I know." I breath. "But now we know who it is for sure, so you can stop paying River and use that money to get Niall behind bars."

"I just got my relationship back with her." He sighs. "She really loves him doesn't she?" I nod. "Fuck."

"Yeah. Fuck."

EVANNAS POV.

"Bye! I promise I will come back to visit." I laugh at Maura, who has tears streaming down her face.

"You keep her safe now." Bobby pokes Niall in the chest. "Don't let her go, she's a keeper." I catch the smirk on Bobby's face and the blush rising on Blondie's cheeks.

"I won't let her go for the world." Niall says and wraps his arm around my shoulders with a kiss to my temple. I lean into him and stare back at Greg, who hasn't said a word. I shrug Niall's arm off my shoulders and walk over to him.