Adopted by Luke Hemmings

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Ashton Irwin

I can't even think straight. My best friend, my brother, was just shot. I have no words.

"Luke, please!" I screamed as my hands were still on his very bloody wounds.

"Ambulance is on it's way," Niall screams as he runs for us, falling to his knee's when he reaches us.

"Where's Emma?" I ask as I look around.

"Hey!" Zayn and Harry scream as you see the gunman fixing to grab her.

The ambulance arrives and they quickly load Luke and leave, Paul and Calum and Michael riding with him.

"Let her go," I scream as I take my shirt and rub my bloody hands on them.

"What are you going to do about it?" he screams as he now holds the gun to her head.

"Emma!" Harry screams.

"Let her go, Ill do anything," I pleaded as I started crying.

"Stop, put your hands in the air to where I can see them!" a cop screams from behind me.

He kicks Emma to the ground and runs, but the cops catch him. I run to Emma and pick her up as she cries. I start crying.

"You're okay baby, Uncle Ash has you. You're going to be okay," I whispered to her through my tears.

"Ashton," Harry says from behind me.

"Oh my god, y'all are okay," he cried as I turn.

He runs and hugs us tightly as we all cry.

"I want daddy," I heard Emma softly cry.

"We do too, we're gonna go see him," I told her.

We pile on One Direction's tour bus, leaving our for Paul to get when he comes back. He'll drive it to the hospital.

"Give me her, go get cleaned up," Louis softly speaks as he tries not to cry.

I give her away and go to their shower, where I quickly get in and wash off, changing into a pair of Zayn's sweats and a t-shirt of Niall's.

"Is this real life?" I ask as I stand behind them.

They turn and face me and Liam nods.

"No it's not," I shook my head as Niall stood up.

"Yes, Ashton it is," he spoke calmly towards me and my bottom lip trembled.

Niall comes and hugs me tightly.

"He has to live," I cried as Emma heard me.

"Shit," Harry says as he picks Emma up from Louis and they sing to her.

I hug Niall tighter as if he's a tree branch holding me from falling off a cliff. He just holds me close as we cry together.

We get to the hospital and we run inside, Emma in my arms asleep. Michael and Calum approach me with tears in their eyes.

"He's in surgery. They say it's a 50/50 chance Ash," Calum spoke.

"Where's Paul?" I asked them.

"To get the bus. He doesn't want our stuff to get stolen," Michael said.

I'm speechless. I may not be able to see him again.

~

I sit in the waiting room, it being 2 a.m. I can't sleep. Harry and Niall took Emma to a hotel for the night, Zayn tagged along. Liam and Louis are here with Calum, Michael and I, but they're all asleep.

"Mr. Irwin?" a doctor spoke as I look at him.

I walk to him and he smiles, "Mr. Hemmings is going to be just fine. We almost lost him in surgery, but he's now in recovery. He should be able to leave in 5 days."

I sighed in relief, "Can we see him."

He nodded and I woke everyone up. We rush to Luke's room and I open the door, him waking up.

"Ash," he spoke tiredly.

Liam and Louis went to call his parents and Michael went to call Harry. Calum just had to pee.

"Yeah, I'm here," I spoke as I stood at his bedside.

"I'm sorry," he coughed.

"For what?" I asked him as I sat in a chair.

"For not getting on the bus," he cried, "I should've protected Emma. Is she okay?"

"She's gonna be just fine, Harry took her and Niall to a hotel to calm her."

"What aren't you telling me Ashton?" he asked. He knows when I'm hiding stuff.

"He got her and ran with her, put the gun to her head. But I saved her Luke, she's gonna be fine. She doesn't even have a scratch."

"That son of a bitch," he screams.

"Oh my god this is all my fault," he said as he calmed down and began to cry.

"I should've been there."

"No, Luke it's okay. She's fine, she's okay," I said as he was crying to me.

"Daddy?" we both hear as I turn and see Emma in a rather large t-shirt that looks to be Harry's. It swallows her whole.

"Oh my god baby come here," he spoke as he wipes his tears away.

She crawls on the bed and lays down, not touching his wounds.

"Hey," I whispered as Harry and Niall walked in.

"How is he?" Harry asks as we stand in the doorway.

"Tired, scared, but he's gonna be fine," I told them.

"Yeah, you're not going to be too happy about what were about to tell you," Niall said as we leave the room.

Luke and Emma had fallen asleep. I shut the door and turn to the 7 boys in front of me.

"What?"

"He escaped from the cops. They can't find him."