what happens? // one direction

Chapter Eight.

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*Danielle's POV*

"How long have we been in here?" I asked El weakly, licking my sore, chapped lips.

"I don't know..feels like months," Eleanor answered, gazing out towards the small, rectangular window that sat on the upper part of the wall across from us.

Suddenly, the door burst open, revealing the man that we all feared, and the person that I had been wanting to see ever since I opened my eyes to find myself in this place-Liam.

The man then forcefully threw Liam to the floor, a quiet thump filling the silent room as his head made contact with the concrete.

"Liam!" I gasped, struggling to get out of the chains that kept me from the one I loved.

"Dani.." Liam mumbled, as he slowly rolled over to look at me, a purple bruise starting to show on his forehead near his left eye.

"You're gunna be okay, LiLi. I'm right here," I told him softly, while I was freaking out inside.

What would our kidnapper do to him?

Who knows?

He can do anything he wanted, since none of us could fight against him because we were stuck in these chains, and Liam was probably too weak to fight back while the man did whatever he wanted to him.

"Dan..ielle.." he murmured, as he tried to get up from the cold, wet ground, while the man began to stalk creepily towards him.

"No! Please, don't hurt him! Please, hurt me again if you have to, just don't hurt Liam! I am begging you! Please, please!" I pleaded, as tears flown freely down my cheeks.

"Dani, no," Liam protested from his spot on the floor, as he slowly and carefully stumbled to his feet, just to fall back down to the ground again.

The man ignored Liam's protests, and began to walk my way. I closed my eyes, getting ready for the pain that would come, but was suprised when I heard Eleanor scream, "No! Get away from me!"

I opened my eyes to see the man unlocking El's chains, then grabbing a fistful of her wavy brown hair, and beginning to drag her out of the room.

"No! El! El, you're going to be okay! El!" I shouted, trying to comfort her, but I couldn't when I couldn't even comfort myself.

"Take care of Louis for me, Dani!" El shouted back, just as the door slammed and locked on Liam and I, El's screams fading as he dragged her further and further away to wherever he was taking her.

"No, no, no...El.." I sobbed, my quiet crying filling the room.

"Dani, love, did..did he..." Liam began softly, gazing deeply into my brown orbs, and then flickering his eyes to my still naked and sweaty body.

"He..he raped me, Liam," I choked out, a lump forming in my throat, more tears running down my face. "I t-tried to s-s-stop him, but I-I couldn't."

"Oh my god, Dani.." he whispered, looking down at his lap as salty tears began to stream down his bruised cheeks. "I can't believe he'd do something that terrible, and I didn't..I didn't stop him.."

I gasped, shocked that Liam would try and blame this on himself. Its not like he could've stopped it from happening. He was locked up in a room somewhere. He couldn't of stopped it even if he wanted to. Don't he dare put the blame on him.

"Don't even say that, Liam. You know you couldn't of done anything to stop it! Don't you dare blame this on yourself!"

"But it is my fault, Dani. I'm supposed to protect you, baby, and I couldn't even do that. I let that psycho hurt you, love..It is all my fault," he said quietly, as he wiped the tears away from his cheeks with the sleeve of his neon green jack wills hoodie.

"Liam..I just want to go home," I whimpered, and I sniffled.

He slowly stood to his feet and wobbled over to me, and wrapped his arms around my naked body, his body warmth warming me up instantly.

"I'm going to bring you home, baby. I promise. I love you, Dani," he whispered in my ear, sending chills down my back.

I snuggled my face deep into the crook of his neck, taking in his familiar scent of One Million.

"I love you too, Liam," I whispered, and he held me closer to his body, not caring that I was fully nude in front of him and my wrists were chained to the wall.

Yeah, it was awkward, but at the same time it felt right, because I was safely in the arms of the man I loved.

I was finally safe...for now.

*Zayn's POV*

"Come on, Kris..wake up, baby. Please, wake up," I whispered, as I held Kristel's limp body in my arms, her wrists still bleeding out terribly from when she was thrashing about, causing the metal chains to dig deeper into her skin until they were down to the bone.

I managed to get the chains off of her wrists and legs, by carefully sliding them off, since her hands and feet were tiny enough to do so if someone helped. Sadly, I couldn't do the same with Niall, as his hands and feet were too big to slide through the metal chains.

"Zayn, she's not going to wake up. She's bleeding to death, and if you don't get her medical attention soon, she's..." Niall croaked, breaking down into tears before he could finish, as did I.

"She has to wake up..she has to," I said weakly, my tears falling from my face and onto hers.

"Its all my fault..If only I had stopped her from pulling at the chains, none of this would've happened," he whimpered, unable to look at Kristel's motionless body that lay in my arms, her wrists still pouring out blood at an incredible speed.

"Don't say that Niall, its not your fault.." I said quietly, wiping a stray strand of her blonde hair from her expressionless face.

I looked down at her chest, which was now barely rising and falling, indicating that her heartbeat had slowed..she was really dying. She was really leaving me, and there was nothing I could do to save her.

"It is, though, Zayn. I was supposed to protect her for you, and I couldn't even do that..She was one of my best friends.." he sobbed, tears pouring freely from his ocean blue orbs.

I continued to cry silently as I watched her chest moving slower and slower as each second passed..

Then, the thing that I had been dreading happened..

Her chest stopped rising and falling.

Kristel's heart had stopped beating.

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