Family Ties

Get Them Out

*Author's Note*

Hey guys, Wattpad has been giving me shit lately and making it hard to update, so I hope this chapter publishes properly! Please leave a comment or vote if you're able to read it so I know I don't need to reupload it! Well, that and I obviously can't wait to hear what you think about this one :)

Sarah <3

Harry's POV

"Wait, hold on." Louis said, holding his hands up as he tried to understand what I was saying. "What do you mean?"

"I mean that when Stanks approached Mitt and Deaks to take the job of kidnapping the twins, this is the photo he gave them." I said, my irritation clear. "I've been wondering ever since why it was that photo, where he would have got it, because I took it when we went to the lake and it's been sitting on my camera ever since. This copy is the only one I had printed, and it's always been on my desk."

I couldn't believe that that photo had been sitting on my desk, staring right at me every day for months, and I hadn't realized that's where it was from. It was literally right in front of my face, and I'd somehow missed it. I should have known the second I saw it, and I'd now wasted time fucking around when it was sitting right in front of me. I'd obviously let my emotions cloud my instincts, and I knew that if I had any chance at figuring it all out and keeping everyone safe I had to snap out of it.

"So you're saying the only place he could have got it is if someone took a copy of it from here?" Liam clarified.

"Yes, Liam. That's what I'm saying." I snapped.

"Okay, so who has access to your office?" Mitt asked.

"A ridiculous amount of people." I sighed. "I hold meetings in here, people are always coming in and out, cleaning staff, employees, it could have been anyone."

We all looked around at each other, knowing the possibility of hunting down the person was slim, but also now being acutely aware that someone I either work with or works for me had essentially sold me and my kids out to Stanks.

"So there's a rat around here somewhere." Liam said angrily. "And I'm gonna fucking find them."

He got up and stormed toward the door, muttering to himself before Louis stopped him.

"Uh, Payno. Where the hell are you going?" He asked. "I think we have bigger fish to fry here. The photo's already out there."

"Yeah, but we don't know what else is. If this person works for us they could have access to all kinds of information that they could use to take the kids. I'm gonna fucking find them and not only fire them but figure out just how bad they've fucked us over." He said, his anger clear in his tone.

"Well depending who it is, you can't exactly go digging around here asking questions and tip them off now can you?" Louis said, raising his eyebrow. "We gotta be smart about this. We can't trust anyone."

"Then I hope you have a better idea." Liam spat back at him. "Cause I want this person found. Yesterday."

Louis just smiled, pulling his phone out of his pocket and tapping away at the screen as he sent a text, before he shoved it back in his pocket and looked over at us.

"Who was that?" Deaks asked.

"Remember when we used to run shit for Stanks? We each had our own part to play in each operation. Harry was the point man, Brian and Liam were the muscle, I was the driver and-"

"Niall and Zayn were the tech guys." I finished for him, remembering how good they had both become with computers and surveillance.

They'd both even made a career out of it, Niall ending up the head of IT for a marketing company, and Zayn a software consultant that we'd even used from time to time for our own business. In my own scattered head I'd obviously overlooked the fact that they would be the perfect people to help with this, and I was thankful Louis was thinking clear enough to figure it out.