Gone

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"Louis?" Edward calls as he watches Louis run out of the station and down the sidewalk, he brings his fingers to the bridge of his nose and sighs, trying to calm down.

"Where's Louis?" Harry asks as he sees Edward at the front of the station.

"He's run off" Edward says upset.

"Fuck" Harry replies, he feels awful for being so hard on Louis but he had to be.

Harry goes to grab his keys out of his pocket.

"What are you doing?" Edward asks.

"Going after him" Harry says like it's the most logical thing in he world.

"Just let him cool down Haz" Edward tells Harry.

"There is a possible kidnapper on the loose and I don't really want Louis going missing on my head" Harry says pointedly.

"That's the only reason?" Edward smirks.

Harry growls.

"Just let him go Haz, he'll be fine, just let him get his head around this all. He will go to George's or Rhys no doubt, I'll call to double check in a few" Edward says.

Harry Is anxious to let Louis go, normally he wouldn't care but it's Louis and he's upset. Harry covers his concern.

"Fine, but it's on your head" he says sternly and walks off to find Scott to get ready to leave.

Louis runs all the way to George's house, he and Rhys are upstairs in George's bedroom when he walks in.

"What happened to you?" Rhys asks as they take in the dishevelled boy in front of them.

"Detective Styles" Louis deadpans.

"Oh yeah that asshole, glad he didn't interview me" George says.

"Who interviewed you?" Louis asks curiously.

"I dunno, but they were cute" George says laughing.

Louis rolls his eyes and moves to the bed.

"You okay Lou?" Rhys asks.

"No not really, I just want to know what happened" Louis says.

"Yeah me too, it's kind of scary, like it could have been one of us" Rhys says.

"Yeah, I wish I had of watched him go in but like...we're 17, I've never had to watch him ride four houses down" George says.

"I know, maybe he's playing a joke?" Rhys says.

"I thought that too but he would have told me at least, I dunno, I wanna go out and look for him" Louis says.

"Yeah, but what if we like....find something?" George asks.

"Don't be a pussy he's our friend, we need to at least help" Rhys says.

"I'm in let's go" Louis says standing up.

The boys grab some flashlights for when it gets dark and they set out, George with a backpack full of snacks. They venture past Jax's house and see police cars out the front. Louis heart aches, he wishes none of this was happening. They then venture into the woods behind Jax's house, obviously the search party has gone through the area already, but the boys have hiding spots in the woods and they can search there, where the cops don't know about.

They successfully avoid the search parties out in the woods and search the four places the boys know of, where they've ventured once or twice over the years. It's quickly turns to dusk and with no luck they decide to turn around,