Love Amongst A War ↦ H.S a.u [FINISHED]

*Chapter Thirteen- Subterfuge

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'Melony's POV'

I really do not want to go down there, I'm wary of doing it actually, but I don't have a choice in the matter. After the sniper rifle was slung across my back I pulled out the micro uzi from my right holster and stood up carefully on the high ceiling beam. I didn't glance over my shoulder at Harry, but I did signal him to follow me. We carefully weaved through the metal beams, the exact same way we did when we were heading towards our watch position.

"There may be some people up here now, so just be careful." I warned as we climbed up a few feet more towards the hole in the wall we made earlier. "Do not hesitate, Styles."

I pressed my back against the wall and leaned slightly to my left to try to hear if there was anyone waiting for us on the other side. It was hard to hear over the continuous crackles of gunfire from below. I honestly could not tell if there was anyone there or not, so I quickly ran across the small hole to the other side. I signaled for Harry to stay still before I slowly crept my face around. Jerkily, my eyes scanned the room, and just like I'd thought, there was two guys chilling up here against the adjacent wall. The shorter one with black hair suddenly snapped his head towards the hole, as if he'd heard me, and I tried my best to move my head behind the wall before he could see me. I don't think I was quick enough though, because in the same second I heard the two start talking.

"Hey," A familiar voice whispered. "I saw something."

"Yeah, yeah. Just like you heard something earlier, right twinkle toes?"

"Uh, I did obviously hear something earlier. Do you not remember the fact that we're trying to rid our place of these roaches?" The first guy challenged, and I think his name was Mac, but I don't know because I'm bad with names.

"Oh, yeah." The other guy whispered. "Well, you go check it out!"

I pressed myself against the wall as I quickly, but silently slid down the wall on to my hands and knees. Crawling as hurriedly as I could underneath the hole, I barely made it to the other side when I heard heavy foot falls maybe a foot or two away. I pushed Harry away into the shadows created from the tall wall that was blocking out any light.

I almost sighed out of frustration when I couldn't get both of us to fit in the dark corner, side by side. Without warning, I felt Harry's vast, hot hands on my hips harshly pull me forward into his chest. I didn't have time to object what he had just done because abruptly a head poked out the hole and looked around. Harry and I, without much of a conscious decision, both squeezed further into the corner. Our bodies were pressed against each other so closely that I could feel his pounding heart against my chest, and I could hear his raspy breaths in my left ear as I continued to stare at the man who is finally retreating back into the hole.

Harry was sliding against the wall away from me, back towards the hole, and I hastily pulled him back in front of me in the protection of the shadows. His face contorted into one of confusion and I shook my head at him and placed my index finger over my lips. Just as I knew would happen, the Mac guy popped his head briskly out the hole again, giving one last look around before finally disappearing. Harry looked down at me again with a questioning gaze and I shook my head again, we still couldn't move. The trust between the two men on the other side of the wall was very thin, so the other guy would most likely come check almost immediately afterwards.

"I can't see anything, Joe." Mac explained. "You go check."

"Fine." Joe grunts and I can immediately hear his heavy boots moving swiftly across the small distance, but I also hear the clicking of a gun being cocked.