Infinity //1D AU ✓

Chapter 7

~How many nights does it take to count the stars?,

That's the time it would take to fix my heart~

"Hello, Simon." Zayn said to his phone, sitting on the floor of his hotel room. Luke was asleep on the bed, and Harry was in the chair, near Zayn.

"What do you want? I already talked to Louis and Liam today."

"What?" Zayn started pacing. "What did they want?"

Simon paused abruptly, thinking of a good lie. "Louis had a question about Niall."

"Well that's what we're asking about. Niall's missing, as far as we know."

"He didn't bring that up. He was asking about other things involving Niall, but okay. I can send a team of people to his house in Chicago. Give me a couple of hours, and then I'll report to you. Congrats to you and Luke." Simon hung up then.

"Nothing." He said to Harry, who heard the whole conversation anyways.

"And Louis is up to something. I know it." Harry narrowed his eyes. "I'll talk to him later."

Zayn kicked a suitcase. "What do we do now? Wait?"

"Nothing left to do."

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Simon called back two and a half hours later. "I'm going to patch you through to the guy who went and took a look at Niall's place."

The phone switched over. "Hello, Zayn. I'm Kyle. Me and my crew went into Niall's house. There's signs of a struggle, but we can't pull any prints off of anything. None of the neighbors saw anything. There were lamps knocked over and furniture moved, etc. But nothing to say if he was hurt or where they took him. Hope this helped. Patching you back to Simon."

"Did that help?"

"Not really. But now we know that he was kidnapped. So there's that."

"Good luck finding him."

"You aren't going to help him?"

"I'm a very busy man, Zayn. I don't have time to find people like Niall. I'm working on bigger projects. Bye."

Zayn slammed his phone into his leg, wanting to scream. "Okay, so he was kidnapped. Can we get footage of it?" Harry asked. "Do some computery thing."

"Yeah. Yeah."

"Hack into street camera footage." Luke said, laying on the bed and watching Breaking Bad. "Does he live on a busy street?"

"Simon sent me the address." Zayn said, getting onto his computer and typing it in. "Fairly busy." Zayn started doing his thing, hacking into cameras and such to get a good view.

Luke watched Harry watch him. "Do you want something to eat?"

"I'm good." Harry said, looking at his black eye, which he had told Zayn was from an unruly fan of someone he was protecting.

"Look. Look at this." Zayn said, just a few minutes later. A black SUV pulled up in front of Niall's house, and then ten minutes later, a girl with brown hair and an unidentifiable face dragged Niall out of the house and put him in the car. Then she drove off. Zayn tried to follow the car using other cameras, but eventually it was pointless.

"Did you get the license plate number?" Luke asked, being so casual it was irritating to Harry.

"I can run it through the system!" The pair worked together well, he had to admit it, and Harry was back to being happy for them.

This took longer to do, and Harry took to messaging Louis, asking him about his day.

H: how's your day goin' babe?

L: good, i think i might spend a couple of days in london w/ liam

H: leave tomorrow?

L: yeah, and be back friday afternoon. It'll be fun -little boys trip

H: is he okay

L: [image]

H: yikes

Harry then took to watching Breaking Bad with Luke, sitting on the end of the bed. "I got it. I got an address. It belongs to one Evelyn Rodes, and she lives in Galway. In Ireland."

"Fitting. The Irish one is in Ireland." Luke laughed at this.

"We have to go up there." Harry exclaimed. "Check it out."

"I'll book plane tickets. Babe, you wanna go?"

"Got work." He said, smiling.

"Why aren't you at work right now?" Harry asked.

"Day off."

"It's Tuesday." Harry replied.

"I'm not scheduled today, numbskull." Harry wanted to punch him really hard, but he refrained. He sighed instead. "We're going to Ireland, then."