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They ended up sitting in the car for two hours or so when the front door opened and out stepped the girl in red hair.

"I see her." Harry said.

Amos and Louis put their binoculars up to their eyes and looked towards the front door. Kelly had changed from the clothes earlier and put on something new. Her keys were dangling in her hands.

"She's going somewhere." Amos said. Then he put the binoculars down and started to climb over to the driver's side again.

"Where do you think?" Harry asked.

"Who knows at this point. But she's our only lead and we cannot afford to lose her. So I'm going to follow her."

Harry started to panic. "What if she sees you? You're going to put Zayn's life in danger."

"She won't see me. And Zayn's life won't be in danger either. I've done this many times before. I just have to stay back and not follow so close. I do recall following you all morning today and you didn't even know it until we both got to Louis' house."

"I just... I don't know."

Amos looked at him in the rear view mirror. "The conversation we had earlier. We're doing this my way. Remember?"

Harry quieted down a little bit. "Yeah. Your way."

As he said that the engine started up and the car began to move.

"By the way, I was just looking at the clock. It's just after seven. She's likely not going anywhere too far since you haven't given them the cash yet. So when we get there, I want you to drop a pin on our location and save it under places to go. That way, we can always come back later for surveillance."

"Come back later? Later might be too late. What if she's about to meet up with her partner right now?"

"She might be. I can't say that she's not. I also can't say that Zayn isn't at the location we're headed to either. But right now. We have bigger things to worry about. You need to be somewhere quiet where you can take that call and listen carefully. If you're not and something ends up going wrong, then you heard what he said he'll do to Zayn. We both were there."

"I know. He'll kill him."

"And we can't let that happen. So let's take care of the phonecall first. And after that, we'll worry about what comes next."

Deep down inside, Harry knew he was right. But he couldn't help but still be as anxious as he was before. Just as the feeling of being overwhelmed started to wash over him, Louis reached over and patted his shoulder consolingly. Right then, Harry felt something inside him wish to draw away. That was a friendly and familiar touch he hadn't felt in a long time. But even now, five years and one sincere apology later, he was learning how to trust Louis fully all over again.

For fifteen mintes, they drove through the city from one end to another, on into the suburbs. Kelly continued on until suburban streets slowly began to turn into country winding roads with houses deep in wooded areas. At first, they were beginning to wonder if Kelly suspected she was being followed and was making an attempt to throw them off her trail. Then suddenly out of nowhere, she put on her signal, slowed down and turned left into a long driveway leading to a house back up in a wooded area.

"Well, there is no way we can completely stop here at this bend without getting hit or being spotted so go ahead and drop the pin." Amos said.

Harry did.

"Dropped it and saved it. Now what?"

"I'll turn around in someone's driveway up this way and park, Harry, I want you to get out and sit in the front seat so you'll be on the side where she turned in and get your phone ready to record video when we pass. Louis, I want you to take as many pictures of the place as you can as we pass. I will just use my eyes and memory since I'm driving. When we get back to your place, we'll pool everything together and see what we come up with. Okay?"