Infinity //1D AU ✓

Chapter 4

~Stuck in motion, but the wheels keep spinning 'round,

Moving in reverse with no way out~

Z: I gave Luke your address, he's coming to pick you up.

L: What, why?

Z: Wants to talk...

Louis hurriedly got dressed, made a pot of tea, and almost tripped over Liam on his way out the door. This was of course, after he contemplated not going. Maybe Zayn had given him the wrong address?

But, Luke was sitting in a car in Louis' driveway. The passenger seat was free, but there were two people in the backseat. "Perrie. Palmer."

"Hello, Lewis." Perrie said in her New York accent.

"Long time no see." Palmer said, smiling uncomfortably. He adjusted in his seat uncomfortably.

"Leg still good?" Louis asked. Palmer nodded, tapping his prosthetic. "Good. Now what is this about, Luke?"

"Let's take a drive and you'll see."

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"Since Simon didn't want our skills anymore, we took them somewhere else." Perrie started. But, she left out the bit in which Simon wanted her but not the others. "All Star Security. In London."

"Paul's a little bit more I'll kill you if you don't get me my money compared to Simon, but all is well."

"Simon wouldn't hurt a fly. Makes him weak." Luke states.

Louis laughed. "He killed a partner of mine. Overslept a robbery, and I did it alone. Guy disappears off the face of the earth."

"He probably just did that to avoid Simon." Palmer laughed. "No way he's dead." Louis thought otherwise, but he let them carry on with the speech.

"So it's not a security firm?" He interjected quickly.

"No, no. It is. But it's not." Luke laughed, running his hand through his hair.

"What are you into then? Robbing old ladies and convenience stores?" Louis was on guard against the others, and he knew that he would most likely survive if he threw himself out of the moving car.

"I would never stoop so low. It's money laundering, Louis." Louis made a noise. "And I'm guessing you want in."

Louis laughed out loud. "You have never been so wrong in your life, Luke. I'm out. I'm not the same man who needed cash to save his dying mother. I've got cash. And I'm out. Done with crime. And what exactly do you want with Zayn? Is he part of a mission? Gonna money launder him?"

"Why? Has he got money? No. Idiot. I love him. We're really getting married."

"And he doesn't know that you worked for Simon?"

Luke sighed very loudly, and Perrie did as well, from the backseat. "Why would that matter to him?"

"Because he worked for Simon too?" Louis yelled. "How did you not know that?"

Luke pulled the car over abruptly and turned to Louis. "He's involved with Simon? Is he out? Has Simon contacted him for any more jobs?"

"You'd have to ask Zayn? But I think he's out, like the rest of us."

"What was your job? What happened?"

"I'm not telling you. You could incriminate me!" Louis unlocked the door and climbed out of the car. "And don't think I won't be telling Zayn about what I just learned."

"I hardly think he'll care." Luke laughed, getting out of the car.

Louis flipped him off. "I've known him longer than you, genius. I think I know him better than you. I lived with him for a month."

"Did you use your flirting techniques on him?" Luke asked. "Like you did with me?"

Louis froze in his spot. "Never." He turned then. "He was in love with someone else, did you know about that?"

"What? Liam? The straight boy who smashed his head into a shelf? I know about Liam. Zayn is over him."

Louis knew that he was about to do something he would regret later, so he picked up his phone and called Harry. "Please come pick me up. Side of the highway going North. Can't miss me." He hung up. "Why are you still arguing with me? I don't want in on your little money laundering scheme and nothing you say will make me approve of your marriage to Zayn."

Luke shook his head at Louis. "I knew I hated you for a reason. And I'm sorry. I was wrong about no one ever loving you, because obviously that tall glass of stupidity loves you or something. Or did you bribe him with money and penthouse apartments? And does he know about your baby mama?"

Louis took off his jacket then, leaving his phone and his cigarettes on the ground. "That's it. You can disrespect me all you want and I will take it, but you can't disrespect Harry and expect to walk away, you wet sock. Or Eleanor, who doesn't deserve any hate in this world, no matter who she is or what she's done."

"Wet sock. How original." Luke said. Perrie got out of the car, filming the prelude to the fight.

"Unnecessary movie sequel."

"Okay, first of all - how dare -" Louis cracked him across the face.

"Inconvenient fire drill."

"Tell me how you really feel, why don't ya?" Luke said, and Louis dodged his attempt to punch back.

"I'm going to call you a cold bowl of soup, and then I'm going to mess you up." Louis said. Fueled by anger, Louis started relentlessly attacking Luke, who was on defense mode, until he punched Louis in the stomach and sent him to the ground.

"Well you're an itchy sweater, if we're going for original insults." Luke said, waiting for Louis to get up.

"Cops on on the way." Palmer shouted. "Time to skedaddle."

"I'm not leaving until you say sorry." Louis said, tackling Luke and shoving his face into the ground.

"Louis Tomlinson!" Harry shouted, pulling up next to the fight.

"How'd you get here so fast?" Perrie asked him.

"I'm the getaway driver." He said, flipping her off. "Louis Tomlinson, let Luke go right now."

"He called you a tall glass of stupidity, babe. I'm defending your honor."

"Okay, Louis, but there's a fine line between defending someone's honor and murder." Harry wrenched Louis off of Luke, and then pushed him into the car. "Don't come round anymore." He said to Luke, before pulling out and speeding away.

"I called him an unnecessary movie sequel." Louis said, assessing his wounds.

"Awe, love you too babe."