Them. | The Final Installment of the Him Series | Joe Jonas Fanfiction

Twenty Four.

What the fuck? Not again.

My vision is blurry, making me squeeze my eyes shut before blinking them a few times, trying to get them to focus on my surroundings. Am I back in the hospital? I'm definitely not back in the hospital.

The solid concrete walls are a dark grey and it's cold as hell in here. Going to sit up, a clank catches my attention, noticing my wrist cuffed to the gold railing of the bed I'm lying on. I furrow my brows. This looks familiar. Like... too familiar.

My body aches, my lungs struggling to bring air in and out of my lungs as my brain starts to swirl with thoughts. I promised Joe I'd be more careful. I told him I was alert and being aware of my surroundings and careful and now here I am in a fucking concrete room that looks exactly like one of the rooms in the bunker. Is it the bunker? I'm not sure. It looks all too familiar but also different enough to not be ours. Then again, I assume Charles has changed it since taking possession of it. Does Jaclyn even know he has? She didn't know he had a kid; I highly doubt he's let her in on him taking over the bunker David used when we were children. Why would he? What other secrets is he keeping? And why is he doing all of this?

Pulling on the handcuff and hoping for the best, I hiss at myself, using my free hand to rub at the tender, red skin.

"Son of a bitch."

Sighing, I carefully sit myself up, looking around the room to find... nothing. It's emptier than I remember. But I guess that's more because I'm locked in here, not being kept for protection. I'm on the other side of things this time around. Now... how to get out.

*No One's POV*

"Okay, so, where could she have gone?" Jaclyn asks, looking over to Hope, Victoria, and Stella, all of them sitting at Hope's kitchen counter.

"That's the thing, I don't know. I don't think she'd disappear, either," Hope sighs.

"Unless it was necessary, but I don't-"

"I kind of haven't told you guys something, because I was nervous." Stella cuts her off.

"Honey now is not the time to be keeping information," Jaclyn tells her.

"Londyn's been talking to Joe."

"What?!" they all exclaim.

"I don't know how long, okay, I just found out today that they've been talking because she had information that only Joe would know."

"What do you mean?" Hope asks.

"Addie saw Joe last night."

"What?" Jaclyn asks, confused.

"She was following a lead and Joe showed up. From what I assume he wanted to check on her because Londyn has been keeping him updated on Addie and he found out about the accident and incident afterward," Stella explains.

"Which would make sense. He's probably worried sick about her," Hope sighs.

"Even more so now that he knows she's missing," Stella shakes her head, annoyed.

"You think he does?" Victoria asks.

"If Londyn's told him about everything else, I don't think she'd keep this from him. Something told me while we were on the phone that he was right there. I wouldn't doubt it."

Jaclyn sighs. "So, if she was following a lead, him showing up distracted her, put her guard down and allowed her to be taken."

Stella nods. "Exactly my thought."

"So, do we reach out to Joe? See what he knows?" Hope asks.

"No," Stella knocks down the idea. "I'm sure Addie's already annoyed with Londyn talking to him, we don't want to do it too. We want to stay in her good graces."