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Forty-Nine

// Trigger Warning : Violence and gore. \\

Harry's POV

"Tell us what happened Audrey," I say, standing beside her hospital bed where she lays, wearing a hospital gown and her head wrapped in a bandage. Niall stands on the other side, her hand in his, the worry he once had gone and now settled into pure rage.

I eventually got up off of Zuri's bedroom floor, got out of my crying slump, when Louis had ran into the apartment, straight past Rhys and a trail of other officers following. He came right to me, fell to his knees and lifted my head.

"We're gonna get her, I promise, we need to now though." I had looked into his blue eyes, looking for same strain of hope but I couldn't see one. I felt hopeless for them for moments. Imagining my life without her. But then he slapped my cheek, not hard enough to do damage, but hard enough to snap me out of my funk and relight that anger within me. "Right now Harry, we've gotta go."

With that we had both left, walking straight past all the officers asking questions but Rhys managed to keep them at bay. I knew the investigative teams would be there any minute now so I really did need to go. But I made sure to bring her letter, the one she wrote to me, with me. I folded it up and tucked it into my back pocket. Zayn and Liam were downstairs, well outside still at the barrier tape, it seems they had played distraction to get Louis in to come get me. There was still a crowd gathered around the road blocking but I ignored their stares and went straight over to my friends.

"Audrey is at the hospital with Niall." I said, my voice sounding detached and distracted.

"I know, we saw them go." Zayn pats my shoulder trying to look me in the eyes. I avoid them however, I need to channel my anger not my heartbreak. And knowing Zayn with his wise words, he will just bring me back down into a ball of sadness. So I straighten my back instead and walk off to my car that is still half parked in the road, doors open, just how we left it.

"I'm going to go to the hospital, see what Audrey remembers." I nod to myself climbing in, Zayn immediately climbs in the passenger seat and Liam in the back. I notice how Louis doesn't climb in so I roll down my window to speak to him, "You're not coming?" I frown.

"I'm going to go see Rose, I presume she's going to want to know about this."

"Shit." I slam my fist in the wheel. "Fuck!" I curse again, I fucking forgot about Zuri's mum. I'm so used to be alone, I forget that not everyone has deadbeat parents. She's going to want to hear about this from me and not the police, for all I know Rhys might not mention about Zuri being the other person there, it depends on how much information he can withdraw. But, she is going to notice when her daughter doesn't call or text especially after she left the other night in a hurry.

I only know that because my men had told me how when Zuri had left, she had been crying, as had her mum and she had left without any shoes on. I found it odd, I wanted to go around there and hug her, kiss her and make everything better. But if something happened between them, who was to say I wouldn't make it worst after everything I had done? Well, now I have read that letter, I know better and I should've gone around. None of this would've happened if I had just been stubborn, like my usual self and gone to see her. But here we are, Zuri missing, her mum unaware, Audrey in the hospital, and Max fucking Michaels off galavanting around probably celebrating his win.

Well, not today motherfucker.

My knuckles whiten from how hard I'm clenching the wheel, my blood boiling and I'm ready to fucking kill whoever I have to, to get to Zuri. That is what I will do.