Adopted by Luke Hemmings

25

When I woke up, my phone was going off the hook with phone calls.

"Hello?" I answered sleepily.

"Hey mate, we're about to leave, c'mon," Michael spoke into the phone.

"Alright, I'm coming now," I said as I hung up.

I gathered what we had and I picked Emma up, carrying her downstairs. I walked out the back door of the hotel and went to the tour bus. I lay Emma down in my bunk and I sit on the couch with the others.

"Sleep well?" Calum asked me as I close my eyes and lean my head back.

"Saying I slept we'll is an understatement," I spoke tiredly.

"What's wrong?" Michael asks.

"I feel like crap," I commented.

"So does Ashton, that's why he's the only one not out here besides Em," Michael said as the bus turned into a gas station.

Our driver gets off the bus and was gone a while, too long. I get off the bus and he's standing there.

"Everything alright?" I asked as Michael and Calum stood behind me. Ashton just came from his bunk to see why we stopped.

Our driver turns and there is a gun, pointed to the back of his head.

"Shit," you hear Calum whisper.

"Inside, all of you," I said as I look at them.

"Luke, no," Michael said as I walked a little towards the gunman.

"Inside," I spoke again as they walked in.

I look back and Ashton is pacing back and forth, crying his eyes out.

"Why?" I heard as I look forward.

"I'm sorry?" I said as the gunman looked at me.

"Why did you not help her?" he asked me again, letting our driver go.

I rushed him to the bus and I looked back towards the gunman.

"Sir, I really don't know what you're talking about."

"My daughter was at one of your concerts a few weeks ago, she was shoved around and got brain damage. She died and you didn't do anything!" he roared.

"I didn't know, I'm sorry," I rambled sadly.

"You have a child?" he asked.

"I do, a 4 year old."

"Girl?"

"Yes sir, Emma Grace is her name," I said scared.

"Tell her you love her," he said, "It'll be the last time you do."

"Michael!" I called.

"What? Luke, please get on the bus," he called.

"Get Emma," I said as he nodded.

"Daddy? Are you playing games?" she asked me tiredly.

If only she really knew what I was doing.

"Yes sweet pea, daddy is playing a game. But, I wanted to let you know I loved you," I called to her.

"I love you too daddy," she spoke back as Michael pushed her head into his shoulder so she wouldn't see.

"Luke!" I heard Harry scream loudly as they're bus came and stopped.

"Luke no!" Ashton screams as I was shot two times; one in the stomach and one in the arm.

I fall to the ground and Zayn runs past me to beat the shit out of the shooter.

Ashton comes to me and drops at his knee's. His hands find my wounds and he put pressure on them, me crying our in pain.

"On the bus!" I heard Paul tell One Direction as the gather Zayn from his 'fight'.

"Luke!" Niall screams as Paul shoves them in.

"Oh my god," Michael says as he runs and drops to his knee's before me.

"I love you guys so much okay? You take care of her, got it?" I told them as Calum arrived.

"Stay with me dammit!" Ashton screams as I cough.

"I just can't," I whisper as I close my eyes and my vision goes black.

Am I going to die?