Ian Hecox: The Man Who Saved My Life (Smosh)

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Ian's P.O.V.

We hopped in the car and sped out of the drive.

"So where are we gonna look?" I questioned a miserable Anthony sitting in the passenger seat.

"There's gotta be something we can do to trace this letter. There has to be something. This can't be a dead end."

"Well, maybe we need to look a little farther out of town. If that letter wasn't sent, then it was placed in our mailbox personally. They can't be far. And this person knows who we are."

"Millions of people know who we are." Anthony replied, looking unconvinced.

"But only so many can get to our house. They don't truly know our address, nor would they show up."

Anthony just turned his head away, looking out the window. Normally I would've told him to stop moping, but that's what I'd done. It was his turn and I had no right to stop him. He'd been there for me, he'd held it in for so long just for my sake, so that's what I'd have to do in return. I couldn't give up at a moment like this.

In all my thinking, I'd become distracted a bit. Out of no where I turned my head back to the road and a person had appeared before me, arms stretched in front of him in a stopping stance. He wanted me to stop where I was, so I quickly hit the brakes just before I'd hit him. With a screech, my car slid fast and stopped side ways along the road. The guy didn't even flinch, like he'd know what would happen. I'm glad the road was nearly deserted. The only other car honked and drove around.

"What the hell?!" Anthony roared beside me. He had noticed why I just did that and looked at the guy outside the car like he was stupid.

I took a good look at the guy for the first time. He looked to be only in his mid twenties, but not dumb enough to want to play 'dodge the car' anymore. Brown hair, average body size and build. Basically an average guy. Not a crazy psycho or anything. I slowly opened the car door, ready to find out what he wanted, and placed one foot outside, followed by the rest of my body.

"What do you think you're doing?" I asked him after we'd started at each other for nearly an eon, it seemed.

"Helping you." He replied.

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Xhex's P.O.V.

I rushed to Kalel's side, shaking her limp body until her eyes barely peaked open.

"Xhex?" I barely heard the peep come from her raged breathing, "Xhex? Xhex!" she quickly sat up and hugged me with all her power, which wasn't much. I hugged her back and tears formed in my eyes as my smile broadened, as well as hers. "I missed you so much! Ian is so upset."

As soon as I heard his name the happy tears turned sad and finally fell from my eyes. I had tried my hardest to not think of him just because I'd known this would happen to me. Depression hadn't hit yet, but now I feel as if it just did.

"Oh, Xhex, I'm so sorry. I shouldn't have said.... that." She looked remorseful for what she'd said.

"Kalel, it's fine. It's not your fault. I've been repressing my feelings and I've actually been kind of emotionless. I just missed everyone so much and didn't want to face the pain."

"I get it. I so get it. But I truly want you to know he loves you, so much, and he's been doing all he can to find you."

"But it's not gonna happen! I've been here for who knows how long. How far have you guys even come? I doubt it was far, because I'm still here and now you are." My voice died out towards the end. My emotions just hit me.

"Don't say that. You've gotta believe in them." I didn't have much to say so I didn't reply.

We sat for about another hour in silence. This gave me a lot of time to think, which was bad. Not only would I have to face thinking about Ian, but I also had to face my newly brought on emotions. I silently stared at the wall and at that moment I actually felt like I wanted to kill myself. Not like random people would say because school wasn't going well or they felt sick, but literally wanted to die. To be off this planet. I know it sounds bad, suicidal even, but that's not it. I just didn't feel a need to be here any longer other than to be here for Kalel. Maybe I could choke down a couple paint chips. Starve myself. Something to end this shit.

It sounds bad that after not seeing each other for this long we'd given up on talking already, but Kalel finally spoke up.

"What's going on? Do you know anything?"

"Not really. I don't know who did this or why, nor do I know where we are. The only person I know here is this guy named Axyl. He can be a dick sometimes but he really is nice to me. He doesn't want to be involved with this but he has to, so he helped me as much as he could, even if it wasn't much."

"Hm." Her reply was short, but showed she was partly still in thought.

She started up again after a minute, "Everyone has basically shut down now that you're gone. The guys have stopped making videos and your dad hasn't been around since the news. I even took time off of work to look for you."

"I'm so sorry. I'm the reason that the world took a one-eighty and nothing has been the same. You guys shouldn't give up your lives for me, especially since you guys hardly know me. We've only known each other for a few weeks now."

"Xhex, we might not have known you for long but we all love you. We'd die for you. Don't say things like that." Her voice was hoarse and she sounded like she could barely talk.

"What were you doing before you were kidnapped?" I questioned her.

"I don't know, I think there was a knock at my door. I had gotten up to go get it and that's when my memory ends."

"That's the same thing that happened to me. What kind of idiot knocks on the door? Why wouldn't they break in the house?"

"Xhex!" a voice came from the opening on the door. I looked over to see Axyl.

"Hey Axyl! What're you doing here? Anymore news you can tell me?" I crawled to the door to listen to what he had to say.

"Xhex, I've got some good news for you."

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Ian's P.O.V.

"Helping me? What do you mean helping me?" I was completely confused. Anthony must've heard this too because he had gotten out and stood next to me, looking at the guy like he was an idiot.

"I know where Xhex is. I have information, but I need something from you, too."

"You have my Xhex?!" I yelled before charging at him, knocking him down. I fell on top of him, punching his face until blood spewed.

Anthony finally pulled me off, "Ian let him answer before you piss him off too much."

"You should listen to your friend." The guy looked at me with anger on his face as he stood up, wiping the blood from his face.

"Give me all the information you have. Where is she? She better not be hurt or I'll kill you!"

"She's not hurt and I'm not the one responsible for all this. In fact, you should be thanking me. I'm the one who's been taking good care and watching out for your precious little Xhex."

"Then tell us where she is. All we want is to have her back and safe." Anthony was the one who spoke up this time.

"Then come with me."

A/N: Thank you guys so much for reading. I'm sorry my updates are slow and short. Some of you guys get a little cranky but I can't update that often with school and stuff. You know how it is.

P.S. Irritable comments like 'omfg update' don't make me want to update.