1| WAKE UP LITTLE ONE ( zalfie)

Chapter 26

Author's Note

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Alfie's POV

I rubbed Zoe's shaking back when she gave a yelp of pain. It was then that I noticed her pale, waxy face, bloodshot eyes and hair and clothes streaked with dried up blood.

"Z-Zoe?" I said. "Wh-What happened?"

Zoe told me the whole story of how Jack came to comfort her and pick her up and she hugged him and he stabbed her in the back. She had a panic attack when she was finished telling the story and I had to hold her in my weak arms until she calmed down.

I was ready to kill Jack. How could he do that? She trusted him! She chose him over her friends, loved him purely with all her heart after a terrible breakup with her old boyfriend and he stabbed her in the back! Literally!

"Guys, are you all OK?" I asked my friends, who had slowly crowded around Zoe and I.

All the girls were cuddled into their boyfriend's/fiancé's/husband's chest, and the single men were huddled together, trying to look brave.

"We're fine," Marcus spoke up at last. "Well, I am. Joe recently got shot in the arm-"

"I know," I interrupted. "Jack and Finn projected everything they did to you guys on the wall over there. It was torture watching it but I had to. Every night I cried myself to sleep, hoping he didn't hurt anymore of you."

"That's so sweet Alfie," Caspar said. "Jack and Finn took my wheelchair. I can't even walk."

"Oh God, guys what are we going to do?" Jim asked.

"I guess there's only one thing to do," said Zoe, surprising us all.

"What is it, little one?" I asked her softly.

"Wait for Jack and Finn. Wait for our fates. It's over. There's nobody out there who has an idea of what happened. Look at the projector. All our families are captured, the policemen we talked to were shot yesterday, all our bodyguards are dead... There's no one else to help us," Zoe said, tears streaming down her face.

"W-Wait a second," Joe said. "What about Elise? What happened to her?"

"She was in the hospital cafeteria when we got kidnapped," Marcus said. "There's nothing on the projector about her. I think she may still be alive."

"But then she'll know what happened to us!" Joe exclaimed excitedly.

"Yeah, but she's no closer to discovering where we are," said Tanya miserably.

"She can tell the police," Joe suggested.

"And what can they do?" sniffled Niomi. "The whole of America's on lockdown."

"She's right," Chai said. "Police are trying their hardest but they don't know what they're looking for."

"All the files on you guys have been destroyed according to the projector," said Louis. Nobody knows what's happened, except police are shot and some YouTubers are missing."

"Elise knows!" Joe protested.

"Joe, let's face it," said Dan. "We're sick and tired of looking for hope and having it destroyed. It's time to give up. Elise can't tell the police."

"Why?" Joe asked.

"Because if she does, it's likely Jack and Finn are tracking the police station, they'll see she has connections to us and what's going on and kill her and the police she was talking to," Phil said.

"Oh my God," Joe said. "This is bad. I know Elise. She won't stop at anything to get what she wants. She's in danger. She won't care if she's risking her life, she will try her hardest to save us. She'll kill herself. Oh my God..."

Zoe's POV

I sidled up beside my brother, putting a hand on his shoulder.

"Joe," I murmured. "I know you love Elise. It's obvious. But she's not stupid. She'll be OK. She's a strong girl-"

"Guys? Guys! You might want to see this!" Troye called.

We all grouped around the projector. We saw Jack hiding in a bush beside the police station. The police had just released Tyler. Jack positioned his gun to shoot Tyler.

"NO!" Troye yelled.

I grabbed his hand soothingly. We watched the projected images. Tyler was going to die.

But then a figure in black jumped on Jack and wrestled him to the ground from behind. He didn't even see them. They grabbed the gun, hit Jack on the head with it, and it looked like he passed out.

Then they ran over to Tyler, grabbed his hand, shot a bullet at the camera that was recording and got it in one shot. The skill level was unreal. Someone was on our side.

Then the screen went black and fuzzy.