malefaction : awsten knight

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Awsten and Laura sat in his closet holding each other for hours, neither one of them bothered to check the time or how long they had been there for. 

The two of them thought they were hearing things at first when they start to hear movement downstairs and the front door closing, "Awsten whose here?" Laura asked him shakily. 

He shakes his head not knowing the answer to that question, pressing his ear to the door when he hears footsteps up the stairs. 

"Wait in here. Don't come out until I say and don't make a sound okay?" he told her, cracking the closet door open when she grabs his wrist, her eyes full of tears. 

"Don't go out there, please don't go. I don't want you to leave." Laura pleaded with him, practically begging him to stay with her. 

Awsten leant down, kissing her forehead gently tucking her hair behind her ear. 

"I'll be okay I promise, I'll keep us both safe. Nothing is going to happen to either one of us ever again, just stay here." he assured her, closing the door behind him and walking over to the dresser reluctantly grabbing the gun that was laying there. 

A tall man walked into Awsten's room, dressed in suit looked like it cost more money than he could ever imagine spending on one outfit.

"Hey kid, you do that to your parents downstairs?" the man asked him curiously, rolling up his sleeves casually, his eyes glancing down at the gun in Awstens hand. 

He took a step back, looking at the man in confusion. "Are you a cop? You don't look like a cop." Awsten said, "No offense if you are a cop."

The man let out a laugh shaking his head, "No I am absolutely not a cop, your turn to answer my question." he said calmly. 

Awsten didn't know how to feel, he figured that cops would eventually show up and help him and his sister. He had never seen the man standing in front of him before and if he wasn't a cop, who was he? Why was he here?

"I didn't hurt my mom, my dad did that and he was going to shoot us too so I shot him first so he couldn't hurt us anymore." Awsten answered nervously, not wanting to get himself in trouble. 

"That's not illegal, I was just protecting us. I did the right thing." he rambled, wanting whoever this man was to know that he was just doing what he thought he needed to. 

"Us? Who is us?" the man repeated, looking around the room for anyone else. 

He glanced nervously back over at the closet without even meaning to, Awsten was so focused on keeping Laura safe he didn't even notice that he did it until the man started moving over towards the closet door. 

Awsten lifted the gun up, holding it in both hands trembling. 

"Take another step towards that door and I'll fucking kill you, I promise you I will." 

Awsten jumped when the door to his bedroom flew open, and five men dressed similarly to the one he had been talking to barge into his room all with guns pointed directly at him. 

"Are you all fucking stupid? Put those away he's just a scared kid." the man yelled at the rest of them, each of them glancing between Awsten.