Louis's p.o.v
I was really upset at the way that Elle had been acting towards us at dinner. Liam and Niall seemed heartbroken but Harry seemed plain angry. Zayn looked ... guilty?
Mmmm...
When Elle left the room, almost in tears, I felt a little bit guilty for all of the boy's behaviour at the dinner table.
We left her alone in the kitchen for 5 minutes before Harry angrily stood up and stormed towards the kitchen door, slamming it open.
As I saw Harry disappear through the doorway shouting, I felt sorry for Elle. But she broke her promises to us. We deserve to know what the hell is going on.
After some shouting from Harry, everything went silent. We all listened from the dinner table to see what was happening.
The sound of shattering glass brought us to our feet. Is harry breaking things to scare her?
Reece was about to go in there but Sam stopped him.
Sam's p.o.v
I held Reece back by the arm and said something in his ear that nobody else could hear.
"She isn’t speaking to him so she isn’t breaking the rules Reece."
He glared at me before going upstairs.
"Zayn, why the hell didn’t you tell them?" I loudly asked.
"I don’t know. I guess I didn’t really want to tell them."
"Tell us what?" Liam intruded.
I carried on talking to Zayn,
"Why not? Now everybody is against Elle. Mate, just tell them. I am going to check on Elle and Harry anyway."
I went to the kitchen hoping that nobody was hurt by the glass but I was surprised to see Elle being held in a hug by Harry? Okay...
They turned around when they noticed my presence and straight away I noticed blood on Harry’s shirt.
"Oh god, whose blood is that?" I said loudly which caused the others to rush into the room.
"Blood! what?" Liam panicked.
"Its Elle’s blood." Harry said, fully letting go of her now.
"I just cut my fingers on glass. Well my hands as well... don’t worry Sam I’m fine."
"He’s upstairs Elle. You can speak to them." I said
She shook her head before walking out taking one last glance at harry.
"Zayn, fucking tell them or I will." I said forcefully to Zayn once Elle was out of the room.
He looked to the floor.
"Guys I’m sorry, but I couldn’t tell you earlier. I don’t even know why. I guess I have to now though. Elle is only allowed to speak to Sam and me. The new guy, Reece, basically controls everything that Elle will do from now on. She said... she said that she has to do it to protect us. I don’t know what this guy can do but he has already done some awful...things. She just didn’t want to chance disobeying him. She really was telling the truth when she said that she would do anything for us..." he dragged out.
Everyone was silent for two seconds. All of these mixed emotions- anger, regret, sadness- meant that no one knew what to say.
Liam looked so guilty. His eyes squeezed shut and his eyebrows furrowed
"It wasn’t your fault Zayn. We were mean to her without knowing what she was doing. It’s our fault. My fault."
One by one, the boys sat down, taking in what they had just heard. Nobody spoke.
Harry looked the guiltiest. He had been rude to her and now she is upset.
Our thoughts were interrupted by a sound that we hoped we would never hear again.
Her scream.
Eleanor's p.o.v
I made my way upstairs to my bedroom. I couldn’t deal with this right now. Reece could be watching me on a camera and if he sees that I talk to the other boys, they would be in danger.
Footsteps are approaching behind me. I quicken my pace along the landing but soon I feel warm breath on my neck. A hand snakes around my waist and pulls me closer.
My breaths get shallow and the hairs on the back of my neck stand up.
I truly am terrified of what these people can do to me.
What they already did tore me apart. How much more before I break.
I turned around in the man’s grip to realize that it wasn’t Reece. This is one of the men who... who raped me.
"Follow me bitch. Don’t make a sound."
I shivered and followed him into a room I was never allowed in. James' study. Now occupied by Reece.
Reece was sitting at a desk smirking at me as I entered the room. The man’s grip on me tightened as a tried to stay as far away from Reece as possible.
"Eleanor Daisy Browning." He grinned, using my full name. He turned his laptop around showing the screen. It looked like live footage of the boys in the kitchen. There must be cameras all over the house.
"The boys doubted you. They thought that you had gone against them. Now they know that wasn’t the case they want to apologise." He leant forward and came close to my face.
"Shame they won’t get the chance."
I gasped and backed away from him. Reece walked to the back of the room and opened a door that I hadn’t yet seen. I was pushed through it and I fell down some steps. A short but loud scream escaped my lips as I tumbled down about 7 stone steps. It was pretty dark in this room, and cold.
Light flooded the room and I inspected my body for injuries. Just a few scrapes from the steps. Phew.
I looked up at Reece. He obviously noticed my fear and seemed humoured by it.
"Eleanor, you shall not see the boys until I have that money paid in full. People are aware of the ransom and are getting the money but it is just not fast enough. Therefore, I decided to get some people to find a way to broadcast a ten minute slot on the TV every day, showing people how you are suffering. It will make them pay the money faster to get them out quicker. I do not care for any of you. I simply want money and this seemed a relatively good way to earn it."
"I get that. But what makes you think that people would pay money to get ME out? I realize that you will probably torture me in some way, but wouldn’t it be more useful to film the boys more and get money from fans?"
"I have several videos of nice moments between you and the boys and if the fans see you as someone they care about, they will want to help. I will also broadcast videos of the boys seeing footage of you being tortured and once again, the fans will see their hearts breaking at the sight of you almost dead and will give money. It WILL work. You will stay down here and be tortured by my men until I have the money in full. It is important business."
Did he say the sights of me almost dead?!?
I was already terrified of these men. I don’t know what else they can do. Let’s just hope we get the money soon.
