The Chase [Watty's2018]

Six

Louis

I stayed up again the night we found him.

He didn't wake up, even when Niall said that everything was healed. Liam instead that I got some sleep, so I pretended to until he slept.

I was sitting against a tree when he groaned and opened his eyes slowly.

He sat up slowly, me being the first thing he saw.

"What the-" he said, pushing himself back.

He looked at his arms and I heard him take a deep intake of breath when he saw there were no cuts or bruises there.

"How did this happen?" He asked me after finally looking at me.

"Umm, they kinda, healed you." I mentally face palmed.

"Wait, what?" He asked. "I don't know what you mean."

I bit my lip. Liam would kill me if he found out, but unless he told Liam...

I had turned to look back at Liam's sleeping figure and when I looked back, Mr. Unknown had vanished.

"Huh?"

I looked around. There was no way he could have left. I would have heard him and saw him.

"Liam," I moved over to him and woke him up.

"What, Lou?" He asked with a yawn.

"He's gone?" I said, but it came out more as a question.

"What?" Liam shot up and started looking around. "Fuck. Wake up Niall."

I shook Niall's shoulders carefully. He blinked his eyes open slowly.

"What's up, Louis?" He asked, sitting up slowly.

"The guy you healed is gone and Li told me to get you up."

He nodded, working his way to his feet. "So what's the plan?" He asked, moving to take a step then almost falling.

"For you to lay back down," Liam said.

"I'm fine, Liam, just tired."

I shook my head. "You still need to rest. Lay down." I helped him and as soon as he was down he was out.

"Stay close to me, okay Lou?" Liam said, walking straight to where he was.

I nodded and followed him, holding onto his left arm tightly.

As Liam walked by where he was, I stepped on something and someone let out a small yelping noise.

I took a step back and he was right where I was standing.

"You have invisibility? That makes sense considering the conversation we heard," Liam said.

"What conversation?" He asked.

I looked back between Liam and Mr. Unknown.

"There were these guys that were looking for someone who had gotten away from them, and one of them isn't very happy."

I saw him freeze. "Don't tell them that I'm in here, please. I can't go back to them. They almost killed me!" He said. He stood and started pacing, but it looked like he had no intention on leaving.

"Wouldn't dream of it. We escaped from a lab."

I looked at Liam in curiosity. He was never this open with anyone.

"Well, uh, I'm Zayn," he said awkwardly.

"I'm Liam, this is my brother, Louis, and Niall is sleeping over there."