Taken (h.s.) **EDITING**

Taken: Ch. 2

 First Draft. Will be changed. Once so,  the following chapters will not make sense nor correspond with this chapter. You will be alerted when each chapter is redone.

**A/N: I'd like to dedicate this 'chappie' to an awesome friend @boho_babe88. Go read her shtuff and shtuff! Luff yoo forevs! ~Me

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[Thursday, 9:14 p.m.]

I stare into the dark alley and grip his hand tighter.

"You sure this is a shortcut?"

"Yep," he says distantly. I'm unsure of the alley but I can trust him. Right?

He walks into it, pulling me along. I almost drop my bag but manage to grab it an instant before it splooshes into a puddle. Whew.

Of course, I had to let out a scared squeak. He stops abruptly and turns to face me. Worry shows on his face. At least, I think it does; it's so dark.

"You okay?"

"Yeah."

"Okay." He turns and pulls me along again, but going relatively slower than before.

He stops again, this time with no apparent reason.

"What's wrong?" I say quietly. He turns and leans into me.

"Nothing," he breathes. It tickles my skin. He lifts his hand up, trailing his finger down my cheek. I fight the urge to pull him into a deep kiss.

I guess I don't have to fight it, he pushes in and his lips meet mine. I press myself close to him, breathing in his warm scent. Mmm, he smells so good. And his lips are so soft... and he's so gentle. He licks my bottom lip, asking for entrance. I let him in, and let his tongue explore. He stops and just kisses me for a long while. He holds me close, even after the kiss ends, and he looks into my eyes.

"They're amazing."

"What is?" I try not to sound breathless but I don't think it works.

"Your eyes. I've never seen eyes like yours before. Ever." Ever? He says that like its a long time, 19, 20 years. I guess it is, but still. The way he says 'ever' is different. I just can't put my finger on it.

You see, my eyes are ice blue rimmed with a darker shade. I guess they're pretty. I don't know. And my hair is naturally black, though I like to dip-dye it light blue. Yes, I do it myself. Obviously. I eat McDonalds regularly.

He exhales, sending a shiver down my spine. "I guess we should go."

"What place is open this late?"

He smirks, "You'll see." We go farther and have to turn a corner. Harry lets me go first, and when I round the corner I scream.

Four guys are standing a little farther down in the light of a street lamp, and one of them has his mouth locked on a girl's throat. He drops her still body when I scream.

I get ready to run, but Harry grabs me from behind. "Uhhg!" I say as I step forward, leaning towards the ground, so quickly that he goes flying to he ground in front of me.

**A/N: That actually works! My grandpa was a police officer and he got flipped by my aunt, who was eleven at the time! Please use it in real life situations it can be helpful.**

I pause for about two nanoseconds then bolt. From behind me I hear Harry yell, "Get her!" I run faster, faster than I've ever run before.

"Unh!" Someone grabs me from behind, partially by the neck, and before I have time to react I'm smashed against the wall of a brick building. The forearm of a guy is pressed against my neck, starting to strangle me. I make some garbled sound like 'Urk!' I feel a warm bit on my forehead and smell blood.

He looks at my forehead with a strange hunger. It sends a creepy shiver down my spine.

The guy has black hair; and he looks like maybe he is Muslim, considering his skin and hair colour; (A/N: not being racist but it's true Zayn is Muslim, and I mostly mean it in the sense of cultural origin btw) with some stubble. His eyes have a strange colour, I think. But that might just be red spots in front of my eyes. I can't tell.

"Zayn! I said get her, not kill her!" Well, that's nice to know, they don't want me dead. I think.

I'm instantly let go with an angry snarl from the guy named Zayn. I slide against the wall to the ground weakly.

Harry sprints into my line of vision, along with three other guys. One has a buzz cut and a strong jaw, and looks extremely strong, like Zayn does.

Another one is cute and blonde, with a panda tank top, and perfectly straight teeth. Hmm, he probably would've looked cuter before braces (because that's obviously what he used to get them so straight).

The last one has dirty blonde/brown hair and is wearing a beanie. He's wearing a tank that has blue stripes, and has red jeans on. Hmn. People have their own styles, I guess. (A/N: see what i did there lol)

Harry has on a greenish-brown jacket with a black T-shirt underneath and dark blue jeans. I'm fading fast, so I can't take in what Buzz Cut and Zayn are wearing. I can just tell that all of them except Blondie have tattoos of some sort, Zayn with the most.

All of this ran through my mind in the matter of a few seconds.

"Zayn, you idiot!" Blondie growls.

Harry looks at me with pity and snaps into action. He picks me up. Wow, he's warm. Or maybe I'm cold. Shoot....

He runs so fast that everything is a blur, but that can't be right, I'm probably just dizzy. Haha. Crap, yeah I'm dizzy. Delusional too, because I'm not actually seeing Harry's bright-green-rimmed-with-darker-green eyes shift to a rusty red. Yep, deluuuuusionaaaaaal!! Heehee.

My vision darkens again. I start falling asleep.

Harry notices, looks down at me, and coos,"Sleep, beautiful. I'm here. I'll be here when you wake up too."

I'm going to wake up? Well that's a relief. Oh, wait, is that a llama? No, Maybe it's a bird. Or a plane! Ahahahahaahahhahaha yeah!!!!

I'm going to sleep now, yeah that sounds good... really good. I like the sound of sleep. Peaceful.... Yeah.

I black out.



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**A/N: Is Maya going to die? Or is something more destined to happen? You'll find out in five more votes OR ten more reads!!! It's not much to ask for, so please? And character suggestions are still open. I have 3/8 of possible character suggestions for here. For semi-main characters anyways Haha!

BTW this chappie is really long compared to any other chapter of mine. I'd also like to know which of my books to focus on: Howler, Lightbulb, or this one! Tell meeeeeeeee

@boho_babe88 you've been waiting for this a while, like two hours or something, so here it is!!

Luff you all <3 xx.


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