You'll Never Walk Alone

Niall's POV

Well, we're actually sticking to Louis's 'brilliant' plan.

Tomorrow we're flying to America. To the state of California where all of this happened four years ago.

Ok, this time I was nervous, because the last time I was on a mission, I had almost all my life beat out of me. I felt a little reassured that the boys and Nataly's parents were going to be there, but I went down that road and I don't want to go that way again.

Unless of course, it would save Nataly's life. It wasn't until today that I found out how crazy that Reynolds guy is. He wants to kill her. Not just test little things on her but actually end her life. I'd take that dart any day just for her. Or I could just take it and inject it into him...

That was my plan to get rid of Reynolds. I didn't tell anyone. I called dibs on getting rid of Reynolds.

I stayed up pretty late. I just layed there. I would steal glances at Nataly, but she was sound asleep.

I stared up at the ceiling. I closed my eyes.

Suddenly I hear a noise.

Kind of like a window opening...

I sit up and watch as that big dude from the warehouse steps towards me. He's being quiet, trying not to wake anyone up. He grabs my wrist and pulls me from the bed. He pins my arms behind me back again and pushes me to the ground. He ties a gag into my mouth so I can't make a noise. I squirm and struggle and try to scream but my voice hadn't fully recovered so I wasn't able to make a sound.

"Stop squirming!" he growls softly, slamming my head into the floor. He ties my hands with some sort of rope. He hoists me over his shoulder.

"Nataly!" I try to scream.

As he makes his way towards the window I look at her face, peaceful and beautiful while she sleeps.

He props me against the window frame and pulls out a note. He puts it underneath her hand.

"Let's see how strong she is without her armor," he growls at me. He punches me in the face and I lose conciousness.

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I'm in the room again. The same room where they had been beating me. I look around. There was no way I could get out now.

I try to move but I can't. I look down and see I'm strapped into a chair.

I try squirming around. I hear the door open and close.

"Nice to see you again," I look up and see Reynolds standing in front of the door.

Red started to tint my vision again.

"You know, boy, you're not hard to catch. But you're hard to break," Reynolds smiles.

I do nothing but give him a deadly stare.

"Why are you doing this?" I get startled by my own voice. It was covered with venom and hate. It sounded more like a growl than my usual chipper voice.

"Niall, is it? You love Nataly, do you not?" Reynolds takes a step in my direction.

I stare at him.

"I know you do. I loved a woman also. I gave her my everything but she took me for granted. She took my love and gave it to someone else. She was my world. She meant everything to me, and now she means nothing. She fell in love with the poor family that my family was friends with. It was utter betrayal. She is still married to him to this very day. They had a little girl. A little girl with a destiny so great. Her destiny: to become one of my labrats. Niall, the most effective feeling in the world is love.

"It can build you up to tear you down. It can help you, make you successful or it can give you a reason to make that one person suffer," Reynolds is right in front of me. He's looking maliciously down at me.

"Nataly's love for you is going to make her suffer," he says. He kicks me in the stomach.

"Nataly's love for you is going to bring her to me," he says. He punches the side of my face.

"Nataly's hate of seeing you get hurt," he continues as he punches my chin," will make her crawl here," he kicks my stomach so hard, the chair collapses to the floor," and have her pleading to inject my poison into her, just so she can save you," he says stepping on my wrist.

I yelp in pain. I look at him. He's smiling, enjoying every second of it. Amused by my pain.

He steps off my wrist. He grabs a fistful of my hair and brings my ear to his mouth. I whimper.

"Nataly never lets her guard down Niall. You're her chink in her armor. You are the key to Nataly. And this time, she's not getting away from me," he growls into my ear. He shoves me away from him, letting my hair go as he did. He walked away, leaving me lying on the floor in the dark.

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The next day, I was pummeled and beaten 3 times. Once in the morning, once in the afternoon, and once in the evening.

Instead of waking up to Nataly giving me sweet hugs and kisses, I wake up to fists using my face as a punching bag.

Instead of my usual lunch with Nataly, where we share our strawberries and joke around, a man is feeding me his fist.

Instead of falling asleep with Nataly by my side, a man made me fall asleep instantly by knocking me unconcious.

I was barely fed. They gave me a bottle of water and a bowl of tasteless oatmeal in the morning and nothing else for the rest of the day.

The day after that it was the same exact thing. I was starving and injured. And it had only been 2 days.

I wondered if they had left to America without me. It was better that way wasn't it? Reynolds had no idea where she was. It would be at least 2 days 'till they came back. And she was with the boys. She was completely safe.

Everyday, the beating got worse. They would spend longer periods of time beating me and their punches seemed to get stronger.

I felt myself weakening again, day by day. I felt my strength slowly fading as the beatings got worse.

How I wished my Nataly was here.

But I didn't do anything. I just sat there, letting them beat away at me. Each blow hurt more and more, but I let them do it. There was no point in trying.

After 3 days of being held prisoner, the men started to beat me while I was bare chested. No shirt. Just blow after blow to my skin.

Sometimes I'd struggle. I'd squirm and try to get out of there as fast as possible only to find that my attempts were futile. I hoped they would get back soon and come find me. I mean surely they know what happened. The guy on stereiods left a note.

Liam. He probably kept Nataly from coming. He probably told her to wait until they were fully prepared first. That sounds like something Liam would do.

All I have to do is man up and take the blows.

~Author's Note

I hate writing the chapters where he's being hurt. But there's no story without them :( well update: Niall's captured again. boo. Keep reading! I assure you I won't be writing a lot of these chapters...