fire | harry styles

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>> a team of monsters <<

[JAMES]

It's been years since I've been inside this building but I still remember every single inch of this place.

After sneaking into the basement, which wasn't easy due to all the security around in the building, I wondered around with only a flashlight to guide me. The cold basement was poorly lit and the flashlight was only giving me minimal view of the large area.

I snuck around until I finally made it to the back wall and my eyes landed on a white plastic box that was hanging on the brick wall with some metal tubes coming out of it. I placed the flashlight onto the ground, facing up but away from my face and removed the black ski mask I was wearing.

I carefully opened the box to reveal a whole bunch of different colored buttons and wires. Fortunately for me I've done this before so I know exactly what to do. I glanced over my shoulder one last time before pressing a red button in the middle of all the wires, lights are out. Then I rushed to the top of the stairs and pulled the fire alarm. Loud and obnoxious waves of the sound echoed throughout the whole building.

I leaned my head against the wooden door and I heard a couple of screams coming from the floors above. Perfect.

I made my way to the main floor to see all the lights went out and all the employees of Styles Inc. rushing to get out the nearest exit. With all the commotion no one noticed me or even glanced at me. I smirked as I pushed myself through the crowd in the opposite direction, heading for the stairs leading up.

Once I reached the top of the steps there were less and less people until eventually there was no one. I made it to the floor where I remember Harry's office being located. I peeked my head around making sure there was absolutely no one around in the dark halls.

I went up to the the office door, ready to pick the lock, but to my surprise the door was already unlocked so I just pushed it open. The office looked cleaner than I remembered and the late afternoon light coming in through the glass wall was enough for me to see what I was here for.

I looked at the computer screen, from behind his desk, and it was all black since I had shut the power off. I continued opening every drawer and skimming through all the files until I came across a folder with Angel Solis written on the tab. It wasn't what I was looking for but I pulled it out anyway.

I opened the folder to find a whole bunch of news articles and photo copies of contracts filled with too many words.

There was nothing to my interest so instead I took her folder and walked out his office, making sure to leave everything exactly how it was before. I closed the door and walked out to find his assistant's desk that I hadn't noticed before. I smirked to myself and went behind her desk to begin opening all the drawers. There were plenty of files, all with dates and times that I guessed organized future meetings he has.

Just as I was about to pull out a folder I heard clicking against the floor and I froze. The clicking sound continued to get closer to me. I bent down a bit to look under the desk to see a pair of red heels walking towards my direction. I hastily looked around for something I could use as a weapon but before I could a blonde woman towered over the desk and looked down at me with a confused expression.

"...James?" She whispered. A cocky smirk grew upon my lips when I realized she still remembered me.

"Hello Vanessa, lovely seeing you again." She rolled her hazel eyes at my sarcastic tone. Her body swayed as she walked around the desk to look at what I was doing. She raised her eyebrow at me, waiting for an explanation.

"I lost something," I jokingly lied. She made a more stern face and I huffed through my nose as my fingers continued to graze over the files in the cabinet.

"Are you still trying to take down this company?" She mocked.

I rolled my eyes, "Are you still trying to sleep with Harry?" Her face dropped when the words left my lips and I could tell she was getting mad. I ignored her and continued my search through the endless amount of folders, trying to find something that would be to my advantage.

It was quiet for a couple minutes until she took a couple steps closer to me and my eyes roamed up her exposed legs and all over her body until I locked eyes with her. She had suspicion written all over her face.

"What?"

"We team up together to take Harry down..." She lowered her voice even though there's no one around us. How serious she sounded surprised me and caused me to stand up and take a good look at her expression.

"Are you serious? I thought you had a thing for him-"

She cut me off, "Forget that. Deal or no deal?"

I narrowed my eyes at her and hesitated before nodding and we both shook hands.

[HARRY]

"The power was shut off so the cameras didn't catch anything that could've happened." The firefighter shrugged before walking away and the employees started to fill up the building again. I stayed outside, running my hand through my hair in frustration when Louis placed his hand on my shoulder.

"Mate, what happened?"

"They weren't able to figure out what happened... apparently someone shut off the electricity and then pulled the fire alarm. All they found was this ski mask," I held the black material that was in my hand up for Louis to look at. He examined it without touching it.

"Do you think it was..." He didn't finish his sentence and didn't have to. I nodded my head and a sigh escaped his lips.

A/N :

another crappy chapter after over a week of not uploading... i'm sowwy
i apologize for this being so short and rlly bad but ily guys :))

- n.a.