Short Stories

Operator (Ziall/Niam)

Prompt:

"911 what is your emergency?"
"Daddy! Daddy, stop!"
"H-hello?"
"Please help me, please, my daddy and papa were fighting and my papa started hitting daddy. He's not stopping! Pleeeease!"
"Alright calm down, what's your name honey?"
"M-My name is Lucas."
"Alright Lucas, do you have any other siblings?"
"I'm getting a new baby brother."

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The woman cringed on the other side of the phone, she sometimes hated her job. Most of the time she got calls of a gang fight or bar fight, or teenagers partying too hard and the neighbors calling. But this, this specific phone call was unique, especially since there wasn't an adult speaking to her, but a scared child.

"A-alright Lucas are you hiding right now?" She asked, her whole body seemed frozen in place, like those words the little boy said were like ice injecting into her soul. There was a scuffle of the phone being moved around, the faded screams of agony probably from the child's daddy that apparently was pregnant, which again was another unique thing about this call, she never knew a man could get pregnant, but then again, this was a little boy she was talking to.
Finally, the scuffling stopped.
"Y-yes, my daddy told me to." He said, tiny voice weak and scared making her heart break just a little more. "Where are you hiding Lucas?" She asked, trying her hardest to have a strong and comforting voice. The woman always had a profession in this job, but when it came to something that she wasn't used to, she felt like it was her first day. "I'm in the closet by the front door, daddy and papa are in the kitchen... Please hurry!" The little boy suddenly screamed and the woman immediately shushed him, her heart beating frantically against her chest, like it was about to lurch out of it as soon as the boy screamed. The little boy listened, but was now sobbing on the other end, soft whimpers leaving his mouth.

For the first time ever, the woman wanted to call the ambulance and yell at them to hurry up.

"The police are on their way sweetie, I'm trying my best. Now is their a lock on the closet door?" The woman asked. She was actually leaning forward against the desk, looking into the screen that showed where the little boy and his horrible family lived. "Daddy!" The little boy suddenly screeched, the woman cringed at how harsh that sounded through her eardrums on the headset.
"Shhhh, it's okay Lucas your daddy will be getting help as soon as-"
"Noooo, papa stop!!!" And suddenly the line went dead, the creaking sound of a door being opened on the other end making the woman gasp.
"Lucas!"
"Lucas?!"
"Lucas buddy stay on the line!"
But he was gone.
"Shit." The woman cursed and then abruptly stood up, rushing towards the police screens that showed a fuzzy but clear enough picture of all the police cars and where they were headed.
Three were just turning onto the little boys street.

-x-x-x-x-x-

N I A L L

I screamed out in pain, Zayn kicked my crotch making me crumble to the floor. I could hear Lucas speaking frantically on the phone to the police, some screams for me ringing through my ears every minute that passed.
"Little slut!" Zayn screamed, picking me up by the front of my shirt, swinging his hand back and then forth to smack harshly onto my cheek, sending me flying onto the tile kitchen floor that was already dirtied with his last beatings.
"How dare you leave my sight! Go out and hang with you new boyfriend!" Zayn roared and I flinched, seeing his hands clench into fists, one flying up and connecting with my cheekbone. I felt it crack.
I screamed out and kicked my legs out, my hands too busy protecting the bump.
"He's not my boyfriend Zi! He's my best friend-"
It was like a blur, his foot slamming onto my lower leg, the feeling of it breaking against his weight made me scream out in agony, my lungs felt on fire after that. But before I knew it, Lucas came running into the kitchen, the floors caked in my own blood but he didn't seem to care, his eyes locked with Zayn's, tears falling down his cheeks.
I screamed out, trying to grab at the back of Lucas' shirt but he zoomed past me.
Zayn's hand smacked down across Lucas' head making his small frame fly aside and slam onto the kitchen floor. I wailed and tried to crawl over to him, but looked up once more to see Zayn grabbing the telephone and taking the cord, unhooking it from the charger and then rushing over to me. "Stop Zayn please!" I screeched but my airways suddenly got cut off as he wrapped the cord around my neck and violently started to choke me.
I looked up Zayn, my whole body weakening by the second as he continued to choke me.
"Zayn..." A wheezed out, Zayn's raged eyes suddenly softening into pure guilt and disbelief.

The police rushed into the kitchen, tackling Zayn to the floor, the cord already falling from his hands before they even got to him. I gasped out a breath and almost threw up, heaving and gasping for my breath. I look up and towards Lucas with a blurred vision, seeing his fragile body laid curled up on the floor a couple feet away from me, two EMT's checking him over and then setting him on a gurney.
I felt a hand on my shoulder and I flinched, looking up to see another EMT standing along side me. "He'll be fine." He said and then slowly picked me up, after securing my leg. Setting me on my own gurney and wheeling me out towards the ambulance.

-x-x-x-x-x-x-

The woman rushed through the doors of the hospital, hearing the news of Lucas being hurt, but she was also relieved that the man or "papa" in Lucas' point of view was arrested.

Walking up to the front desk, she asked where the two rooms were, the nurse motioning her over towards the right hallway, rooms beside each other.

Running down the hallway, she quickly got to Lucas' door only to see it was already opened, his little body not curled up in the hospital beds sheets. She furrowed her brows but then walked over to the other room, seeing it also opened.
She walked in, smiling at the sight of the father holding onto the little boy, pregnant belly large and swollen but still there as they both spoke in a hushed tone to each other.
The father looked up, smiling shyly at her and nodding for her to come in. "My names Ella, I was the one speaking to your son." Ella said and the father perked up, tears welling up in his eyes as he smiled. "Thank you so much, you saved us all." He said but Ella shook her head with a small smile across her face, she knew that the man would say that, but she already had an answer.
"No, your son saved you." Ella said with pride and the man smiled even wider, letting out a short chuckle and leaning down to kiss the top of Lucas' head, the boy staring at Ella intently. She smiled and slowly walked towards the boy, putting her hand out for Lucas to shake, but to her surprise, he jumped up and hugged her.
"Thank you." He whispered into her ear and Ella teared up, croaking a "no, thank you" back to him and then letting him lay back against his father.

-x-x-x-x-

Ella hung out with the family for a while until suddenly a man burst through the door, he had brown eyes and a prickled beard that matched the color of his short hair styled into a quiff. He was very handsome, broad chested and tall. His faced showed concern but once he saw the family together, he smiled and slowly walked over.
Ella got up, looking over to the group to see the father smiling up at the man, love in his eyes that also looked guarded. "I was so worried." The man said but the father shook his head and leaned forward to kiss the mans cheek. "We're okay Liam." He whispered and set one hand on his bump and the other on Lucas' shoulder hugging the little boy on the side.

She walked out of the room, quietly closing the door and then walking down the hallway. She didn't want to ruin such a beautiful moment, so she decided that she might as well get back to her crazy job.
But suddenly, a shout and little pads of footsteps made her stop and slowly turn around, surprisingly seeing Lucas running-with a small limp-towards her.
"Please come and see us again." He begged and she smiled. "Of course I will," she pulled out a piece of paper and grabbed a pen from the counter, writing down her number and address and handing it to Lucas. "Give this to your daddy." She said and Lucas nodded, stepping forward and leaning up to kiss her cheek.
"I should call that phone more often if I get to talk to you!" He said cheerfully and before Ella could protest Lucas was rushing back down the hallway, trying to hide his small limp as he more like skipped towards his room.

And Ella didn't say this to Lucas' father, but she might have gotten close to be fired twice after getting a meeting with her boss saying that there was two 911 calls of a little boy asking for her.

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A.N:

Sorry this took so long and that it is so short, but again some of my stories are long and some are short.

There will be no part two, I'm pretty sure you all know what happens to Zayn and what happens to Niall and Liam. I'm sorry if you wanted a happy ending but really, when you voted for this you could probably tell just by the sneak peak that it wasn't going to end well for Niall and Zayn.

I will try and update my books more often now, hopefully I'll update this book again and get the next short story posted.

Hope you enjoyed, sorry again for it being short but I guess the rest is for your own imagination :)

- Direction_Minx -