Infinity //1D AU ✓

Chapter 6

~And everybody wants you,

Everybody wants you~

Louis sat in front of his computer screen in his office at home, Liam on the couch behind him, finishing his cookies from earlier. "Pick up, damn it." Louis shook his computer, and then Simon's face popped up on the screen.

"Louis! How are you? Is that Liam back there?"

"Yes, sir."

"I heard that Zayn's getting married? That's cool. Ready to be a married man, Liam?" Liam choked on his cookie.

"Simon. No. Zayn's marrying Luke."

"Luke?" Simon looked disgusted. "Sorry, Liam. Didn't know." Liam was bent over the trash can in the corner of the room now, coughing up his left lung. "Wow. Luke. Wait, why did you call?"

"We need guidance. And yes, it involves Luke. He reached out to me, and tried to get me to join him at his new job. He works at All Star Security UK."

"I think I've heard of them. Why would he want you to join up, though?"

"They are into money laundering." Louis sighed, getting up to give Liam a water bottle.

"I'm fine. Just went down the wrong pipe." He kept hacking, sounding like Wheezy from Toy Story.

"Money laundering?" Simon switched screens and started pulling some stuff up. "Do you have evidence of this? I could make a fortune suing them if I get someone to give testimony."

"Not yet. We wanted to know what we should do next. We want to help shut them down, in some way." Louis eyed Liam, who was now chugging the water bottle. But he coughed unexpectedly, spilling the rest of the bottle on himself. "Luke told me that they're trying to get money from Tom Holland at the moment, their current client."

"Don't go after him. It's a lost cause. You need receipts of money transfers into off-shore accounts. You'll need Zayn to hack that kind of stuff."

"Zayn can't know about this." Liam said. "He's in love with Luke."

Simon sighed. "Then you need to find someone else. I can't help you beyond that. I've got to go Louis, but this was nice. Sorry for the confusion, Liam!"

Simon hung up then, and Liam screamed primally.

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"Hello, Louis." Eleanor said, as the front door opened. She was laying on the couch, eating crisps and watching the latest episode of Riverdale.

"Hey, El." He said. "How are you?"

"Same as always. Baby girl is kicking my bladder and spine constantly."

"A footie player. Got that from me. Sorry." Eleanor laughed, looking radiant.

Her eyebrows furrowed when he shut the door behind him, however. "No Harry?"

Louis shrugged. "He's busy."

"Get me some water." She handed him her stainless steel bottle, and he filled it up for her, bringing it back to her. "What's new with you?"

"Have to become a computer hacker overnight, but that's just the easy stuff."

"You need to hack something? Sounds mysterious and spy-like."

"Yeah, and my computer friend can't know about it, so I have to become a hacker, and I don't even know how to turn the brightness down on my laptop."

"Louis, that's easy."

"Everyone says that, but it's really not, Eleanor." She laughed, and Louis patted her belly.

"Wait. Wait. My friend told me about this guy." She laughed, sitting up. "This sounds like an urban legend, but there's this guy. He wears a beanie in a weird shade of green, and he hangs out in this bar in London in every night, and by day, he works at the Peace Corps headquarters. I don't know what he does there, but my friend said that she met him at the bar, and he bragged about being a hacker."

"This does seem like urban legend."

"Go anyways. So that you don't injure yourself trying to learn about computers."

"Okay. Thanks, El." Louis smiled, kissed her cheek, and left then, off to find this urban legend.