Animals [z.m. || a.u.]

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A/N: Hello there people!! Wattpad is playing with my hard work so dammit it! They deleted the whole goddamn chapter! Like how could they? Anyhow, I have re written the chapter so it won't be as good as the one earlier. Sorry.

Ben Barnes as Benjamin Gray.

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All Zayn could remember was blaring sirens and blurred sights of a curly haired lad pushing him into a ford and lastly, being thrown into some dark room with an icy cold and stone grounds.

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"Wake-up Zayn! Godammit!" a high pitched shriek made Zayn wince. His head was pounding as though there was an elephant stampede in his head.

Hangover.

His eyes opened a tiny crack to let the light in. His eyes met a familiar facial structure. Louis' face seemed troubled, like he was afraid of something. His eyes begged Zayn to wake-up but Zayn was exhausted.

His eyes closed again pulling him back into the tiny hibernation phase. Drifting back in sleep he left behind a tensed and troubled Louis, bitting on his nails of fear. Never had he handled a situation alone. He always did what Zayn asked him to, causing most of his work to be a spoon-fed order to be followed silently and seriously. But now that Zayn lied there partly unconcious he couldn't help but fret about what the future held for them.

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Bang!

The tan lad's body was thrown against the wall. His back hitting the wall followed by his head. His eyes opened and he winced of the pain in his body. It seemed as though the joints in his body were creaking of being in the same position for hours together. Pushing the cold ground away, Zayn groaned standing up.

"What have you done, you worthless brat!" a voice which haunted Zayn since a long time growled shoving Zayn back against the wall. Zayn's stomach churned with anxiety, evidently not remembering what he had done.

The police! I was caught! Fu.k this life!

"I had fu.king told you, you as.hole, I do not want any attention towards the activity!" Benjamin Gray growled anger and jealousy boiling inside him. Eversince Zayn was introduced to the boss, his amount of gut and ability to handle things had impressed the boss, conquering Benjamin's place as the boss' favourite. Benjamin just wanted one chance where Zayn would go wrong and he could prove himself back to the boss. Now that Zayn was caught by the police which was against the boss' convenience, there was no backing-off for Benjamin.

He had tackled Louis before Zayn woke up with a few puches leaving Louis with a black eye. Now he had Zayn's throat right under the plams which longed to strangle to death.

Benjamin jabbed his hand into Zayn's stomach making Zayn huff and wince in pain. Zayn had acted impulsively over the decision of getting wasted yesterday. A decision as feeble and small as that, never in Zayn's anticipation, could have resulted into such a series of events. But whatever the result was, the question that seemed to engage Zayn's thoughts, apart from the pain in his head and his stomach and the constant worry about Louis' absence, was that who had informed Benjamin about this. Zayn trusted that Louis would not do anything as reckless, the poor boy would've waited for Zayn to wake-up. It wouldn't surprise Zayn if Benjamin had some sort of 'spies' to track Zayn around considering the amount of hindrance Zayn had created in Benjamin's life.

Ben was a 30 year old who had served the boss eversince he was fifteen. The dark brown hair that curtained his considerably haunting face had intimidated everyone around him. In the wake of his presence people dared not to go wrong or against his wishes. Things either went his way or down to hell. He, surely, was secondary to the boss but the terror in his presence was almost equivalent to that of the boss' presence.

The boss' 'lads' could be most evidently and vorrectly compared to a pack of werewolves where the boss - most obviously - was the alphaand Benjamin and Zayn strived to be the beta.

Just as Benjamin was going to plant yet another punch on Zayn, one of the youngest boys came running.

"Sir? It's.. Uh.. The boss." thr boy said his body shaking as much as his voice in fear as he held an iPhone in his outstretched hands. Benjamin let go of the bunch of Zayn's t-shirt which was in his hand, as he held Zayn strangled against the wall. The sight just might have made the tiny boy's heart thump louder.

"Hello." Benjamin's voice rasped into the phone. Zayn cleaned the edge of his lip of blood before looking at Benjamin's confused face. He said a tiny 'okay' before setting the phone on the speaker completing the boss' wish to talk to Malik.

"Malik, lad, I'm deeply disappointed in you." the boss' gruff voice made Zayn's skin go in goosebumps at the thought how bitter this conversation was going to turn. As Zayn palpitated and sweated of fear, Benjamin could feel his lips curl to make a smirk.

But the next words by the boss seemed to turn the tables to 180 degrees.

"But I'm willing to overlook this incedent considering you had drunk your asses off." Zayn couldn't believe his ears for the boss was never willing to let things and mistakes like these slip. As Zayn internally rejoiced the moment of relief, Benjamin's fists clenched together crackingling in the process. To say that Benjamin was enraged would be a pure understatement. The boss in every other scenario equivalent to the current one had made sure the person commiting the mistake regretted their existance and be damned the rest of their life. It truly boggled both the youthes how the boss could be so considerate.

"Your mission, Zayn, would be informed to you soon. And you, Benjamin are responsible to make sure Zayn and his fellow mate reach home safely, get that?" the boss stated sternly.

"Yes, sir" Benjamin sneered through his gritted teeth,"the car-"

"I don't give a sh*t." The line went dead and so did the tension in the room.

Benjamin sighed picking up his jacket from the ground. Zayn stretched his arms and his back, hissing as the muscles extended knowing his body would be too sore to move in the near future. As benjamin was about to leave the room, Zayn asked, "Where is Louis?"

"In the next room. Get him and get the fu*k outta here, Malik. It was for the boss or else I could've kicked you butt really hard today."

"Like I give two flying fu*ks" Zayn retroted making Benjamin bang the rotten door hard enough for it to break at one of his hinges.

Little did Zayn know that this encounter had left Benjamin determined to ensure Malik's place in hell.

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A/N: Some part of this chapter got deleted as I mentioned before so this is actually re-written. Sorry.

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