Syndicate ⇝ Luke Hemmings ✓

syndicate II : chapter seventeen

ily maddie

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Calum held his letter of resignation in his hand as he knocked on the glass door to Terry's office. Terry looked up and waved Calum in, so he pushed the door open and entered the office. He stepped towards his desk, placing the letter in front of him: "this is my letter of resignation."

Terry looked at Calum in surprise, "was this Michael's persuasion that made you do this?"

Calum licked his lips, "no, I just believe--okay yes it is. I love him and I don't want to lose him over this. We've been looking for them for nearly a year now, and it's gone too far."

"Calum--"

Then the air was hit with piercing screams as an explosion was heard and the building shook, then gunfire was heard. "Shit." Calum breathed, watching as Terry got up and grabbed his 9mm gun from his drawer. "What do I do?"

"Grab your gun, and find out what's happening!" Terry said and left the office.

Calum felt himself tense, he hadn't properly been around weapons and explosions since the night he killed Ashton. And the night in Shark Bay, Calum had been shot with in minutes of the fight starting and unable to actually shoot a single bullet. It felt like a terrible case of PTSD as he stood there frozen in the office. But he started moving as he heard loud heavy footsteps running, and hid beneath Terry's desk.

He closed his eyes and took in deep breaths before he heard the shatter of glass inside of the room and it hitting the floor, some sliding beneath the desk. Calum whimpered softly, seeing large black boots by the chair and then a computer log on sound. Calum let out a sharp breath, which made the person above him pause.

Then suddenly the chair was rolling out of the way and Calum was being grabbed, and shoved against the wall opposite the desk. Calum gasped in pain at the movement, his eyes widening at who stood in front of him.

Ashton grinned at him mischievously, "long time no see Calum."

Calum whimpered, feeling Ashton's hand on his throat. Ashton pressed the gun he held to Calum's stomach, "please." Calum begged, feeling it against his stomach.

"I want you to show me where all your files are kept, log me in to your computer." Ashton demanded, "be a good boy for me." Calum nodded, Ashton grabbed a handful of his shirt and shoving him, "take me to your office."

Calum was shoved forwards and they were both moving through the hallways, stepping over dead bodies, some with bullets holes in them and some from the explosion. They entered Calum's office and Ashton pushed Calum in to the chair, the maori boy logging in to his computer. "What are you looking for?" Calum asked.

Ashton then moved the chair out of the way, Calum rolling away with it. Ashton put in a USB stick in to the computer, then went searching for all knowledge on Luke and Reece, he put it all on the memory stick and then deleted it from the server. He removed the memory stick and put in another that had a virus on it.

Ashton suddenly raised his gun towards Calum who was trying to sneak out, "stop right there, sit your ass back down."

Calum gulped and sat down again, letting Ashton upload the virus on to the computer. As it loaded Calum spoke up, "I thought I killed you." Calum said.

Ashton laughed, "you're a shit shot." He then took out the memory stick when the virus was on, erasing any history of Ashton being there, and corrupting the database. He then approached Calum, "I did miss you though, you were always so good and pliant for me." Ashton smiled sweetly, stroking his fingertips across Calum's cheek.

Calum cringed away, "I have a boyfriend now."

"Oh you mean the one who doesn't like sex? Sure that'll last Cally? I knew you loved when I fucked you." Ashton smirked, gripping Calum's chin when he pulled away.

"Not anymore." Calum spat before they heard a loud scream down the hallway.

Calum was grabbed again, the two of them leaving the office and in to the main hallway where Liv sat on the floor, holding Q's dead body, who was covered in blood, with a bullet hole in his forehead. They were surrounded by men in bullet proof vests, no doubt they were all Reece's old men and now Ashton's new ones. Terry was cuffed to a metal rail, a trail of blood down his face.

"Don't hurt Liv." Calum begged as Ashton pushed him down to his knees next to the group of people they'd rounded up. "She's Luke's friend, if you're doing this because of Reece, Luke's gonna be mad, you really don't want a pissed Luke in your hands, especially if they have a kid now."

"I'm not stupid, I wouldn't hurt Luke's friends, that's why you're still alive." Ashton chuckled, before he looked down at the few people on their knees. "Do any of you watch the walking dead? Because this feels very much like the scene where Glenn and Abraham die." Ashton laughed, pointing his hand gun at each of the people, lingering on a sobbing Liv, Calum and cuffed Terry.

"Ip, dip, do." He said slowly, stopping on Liv. "I have instructions not to kill the sweet Olivia." He said, glancing at her tight grip on her dead husbands body. "You're Luke's friend and we don't want poor little Lukey mad at his husband now do we?"

He pointed his gun at Calum, "I don't really wanna hurt you anymore than I have in the past."

Then he turned to Terry, "looks like it's you." He looked at his men, "Take our fearless leader away." The men grabbed Terry and uncuffed him before taking him away.

Ashton smiled at the remaining people, "bye guys." He said before following his men out.

Calum scrambled up to his feet and ran through out the building, finding too many dead people, and two girls who were hiding beneath a desk. "It's safe, you can come out." He told them, the girls leaving their safe place.

Calum heard sirens as he went back to Liv, "Olivia, let go of him alright, an ambulance is here now." He said, slowly unclenching her hands from Q's body, then helping her stand. "It's okay." He soothed her, walking her out of the building and to a paramedic who was trying to talk to her.

Calum took his phone from his pocket and called up Michael, his boyfriend answering and sounding like he'd just gotten out of bed. "Mike, something happened."

"What's wrong?"

Calum explained what had happened, sitting down on a curb outside the building. "Fuck." Michael mumbled, "it must be a distraction from Luke and Reece."

"Or Maybe Ashton has finally gone insane." Calum sighed, he hadn't told Michael about Q or Terry being taken, "they took Terry and Q is dead."

Michael gasped, "wait what?"

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I'm sorry yall

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