Highs and lows [Imagine Dragons Fanfic]

What now?

Platz:

By the time Ben and I got us some food from Taco Bell, Dan already woke up. As we enter the room, we find them sitting on the bed, talking and laughing.

I exchange looks with Ben and can read relief in his face. He could probably read the same in mine. After such a long time, it's good to see Dan sleeping and laughing again. We may still not solved the problem, but I guess we're going to do that after we eat. However, Dan looks much better than he did the past weeks and that just brings joy to my heart.

The others only see us as Ben closes the door and we walk up to them. I'm fine with that, at least they had fun in the meantime.

"How did you sleep?" I ask while sitting down next to Dan. "Great thanks," he answers. "What did you get us?" I grin: "What? Already hungry again? We went to Taco Bell, so you wanna take a guess?" He shakes his head, we always eat the same when we buy something from Taco Bell.

"We should probably inform our security about it.." Wayne breaks the silence after a few minutes of eating. "I mean, if your father is planning on doing something, we should increase our security during the shows and on our way to a show and so on.."

"You think he is planning something big?" I respond. He shrugs his shoulders. "I'm just saying that we might be more careful now." I nod. "And we have to tell Mac too." Ben adds.

Dan just lets out a sigh and we all turn towards him.

"We can't just double our security and live in fear. I don't want a life like that. Not for me, for you, our crew, or our fans. What if he is planning to let it out on our fans? You know that he wants to hurt us. Wouldn't that be the best thing to do?"

We don't answer. He just made a point there. We can't just increase our security.

Ben clears his throat: "You're right. Our fame puts other people in danger. The fans and our crew. But all of us also have families and friends and among them are many other famous artists.. There are lots of ways to hurt us. So many people are in danger, but what should we do? We can't just say: Hey guys, you are all in serious danger, watch out for yourself. You know what I mean?"

Now Wayne says: "You're both right. But we can't just do nothing. As you said, your father is dangerous and we have a lot of fans all around the world. God, that's the first time, I wish we weren't famous. Everything would be easier."

Dan nods. "Yeah, he is a good at making your life miserable..."

"But we shouldn't give up because of that," I utter, "we can't just let him control our lives." "But we can't do nothing either." Wayne replies.

Suddenly there is a knock on the door. I think everyone jumped, because we're all lost in our thoughts. I stand up and open the door. It's Mac.

"Hey guys, we have to leave, you know that, don't you?" I look at the others who shoot me confused looks.

"Did you really forget about that? The AMA's are tomorrow? We have to catch our plane!?" "Oh." Is the only thing I respond. We totally forgot about that.

"Yeah, oh." Mac says with amusement in his voice. "Pack you'e things, we're already late." "We'll be ready any minute!" I declare and close the door in front of his nose.

We normally don't unpack our things because we usually don't spend more than one or two nights at a hotel. That's why we are pretty fast with getting our stuff and five minutes later we stand in the lobby, ready to check out.

We head to the airport and on our way we discuss what we could do. "I actually have an idea." Ben states. "What?" The three of us respond at the same time and start to laugh.

"I know how to inform people, and I mean all of them. The thing is, that we have to talk to someone if it's even possible and if you, Dan, are okay with sharing it with the whole world."

Dan clears his throat. "By "it", you mean, the abuse and that stuff I assume. I would have to do that anyways, so what's your plan?"

Ben nods. "Okay, listen...