Chapter 16 ~ Story time
~Zayn's POV~
"Don't scream." A voice whispers in my ear. "They will find us if you do."
My heart is still bouncing hard inside my chest, even though I know the voice that had just spoken.
I nod, signaling that I understood him and then the hand disappears from my mouth.
I turn around quickly and stare at Liam standing there. And in an instant I realize that I'm trapped in a hut, with no way to escape, two dead bodies that are clearly murdered behind me and the murderer in front of me, blocking my only way out.
I'm screwed.
"What are you doing here?" My voice whispers hastly through the room.
"I'm trying to keep you safe." Sounds his reply and I almost burst out laughing. Yeah sure.
"Keep me safe? If my suspicions are correct, you are the bad guy in this." I immediately argue.
"I know what it looks like, but you have to believe me, Zayn." He says.
"Little bit hard, don't you think? Especially with Tweedledee and Tweedledum there." I say and point at the bodies behind me.
"Yeah, well, I can't deny that I didn't kill them." Liam says and sighs.
My mouth falls open. Oh my. I knew it. Now he's going to kill me and no one is here to save me. "Please make it quick." I beg and close my eyes, accepting that I will die anyway. I have no weapon and no way to escape.
"I'm not gonna kill you, Zayn. " Liam says and lays his hands on my shoulders. "Just let me explain." He begs and I open my eyes again.
I can see desperation in his eyes. And maybe, I should give him a chance.
"Okay, but can we go somewhere else. I'm not really comfortable with those two." I say, meaning the bodies.
Liam smiles and nods.
Before I know it, I'm suddenly in a whole different house.
"Where are we?" I ask and look around. We are in a bedroom, there are pictures against the walls from an old couple.
"We're in my old bedroom." Liam says and now I know why the old man seemed so familiar. It is Liam.
"Oh." I say. Then I sit down on the bed. Liam takes place beside me.
"I'll tell you everything now, but remember that I'm actually not allowed to tell you this. Or anyone for the matter." He starts and I nod in understanding. "You cannot tell this to anyone."
"Of course. Not that anyone would believe me." I say and Liam chuckles.
"Okay, let's start from the beginning. As you know, I was Niall's best friend before he died."
I knew that, yes.
"Well, when I heard the news about his murder, I was basically laughing with it. I mean. Such a polite family. It couldn't be real. It had to be a joke." He shakes his head. I can see in his eyes that he must be thinking back about that time.
"I remember going to the house to check out the joke. I crumbled apart when I saw it wasn't. Police was surrounding the house. I pushed through the mass of people and ran into the house. I will never forget the second when I laid eyes on my best friends dead body. I'll never forget about what it did to me. Sometimes I wish I never saw it at all.
The police dragged me out then. I was kicking and screaming for them to let me go. I never cried as much as that day. He was my bestie. My whole world on that moment. And I lost him. How could anyone do that to him. Maiming him so terribly.
I sat in my room two weeks, not coming out and trying to process the lost of my best friend, until one day I just snapped out of it. I swore that I would find the ones who did it. I was smart enough to befriend most of the police officers who were investigating the murders. Of course they had to interrogate me, but I had an alibi, so I wasn't a suspect anymore soon enough.
Thanks to me befriending the police officers, I could follow the investigation. They gave me information that non of the outside world ever knew, but still they weren't able to find to murderers. Not three year after Niall got murdered they closed the case without finding the murderers. They were still free and in my eyes that was wrong. Unacceptable, so I contacted my best friend at the police station.
I pleaded for weeks for him to deliver me the file that included the Horan's family murder. And one day, he just gave me it. It's not like they did anything with it anyway.
But I did. On my own, I started a whole investigation and returned back to where it all happened. There I found the one thing the police missed. A piece of DNA. Then I did some illegal stuff. I broke into the police's database. I was so close to finding the murderers and I wasn't planning on telling the police that. They would just put them in jail, but for me they deserved a lot more worse punishment.
Then the day arrived I finally found them. The name. I'll never forget it. Then the second name. Immediately I searched for where they lived. Not far away from Niall's house to be honest. So I took a gun and drove to Alex' house first. He was one of the two murderers. I don't know what he wanted from Niall and his family and why he did it, and I didn't really care. I just wanted him to get punished.
I told him a lie about being there to check something in his house. The bastard didn't even hesitate to let me in. The look on his face when I pulled the gun and pointed it at me. That's when he recognized me from the news. He admitted that he killed Niall and his parents together with his friend, Walter. He was begging me not to kill him, but I shot him through his head anyway. Then I went to Walter and repeated the actions.
I couldn't let the bodies just lay in there houses. They would be found soon enough, so I moved them to the hut you just discovered. That were their bodies, the one you called after the crazy twins from Alice in Wonderland." Liam chuckles.
"I was 32 when that happened. I was relieved I did it, but somewhere inside of me I still felt guilty. I mean, I killed humans.
The rest of my life I tried to shake it off. I found a girl, married her and in the end she died. I did too, and then I was confronted with what I did again. I got the choice between working for the one that watches over Earth. Not God. He doesn't exist, but just someone who makes sure that things won't get to bad on Earth. Or my soul would be destroyed.
I chose the first option. Now I'm working for someone I've never seen before. I was assigned to do his dirty jobs. I hate it, but one day, he assigned me for another job too. He knew about Niall and his hate for humans. He sent me to protect you from Niall. I got down to Earth and took over Theo, as you know.
I talked with Niall. He promised me not to hurt you anymore, but weird things kept happening. That's why I went away for a while. I researched it and found out what the danger is that wants to hurt you and Niall. The danger you met this night."
My eyes widen. "Who is it?" I ask, but it's not more than a whisper.
"It's Walter and Alex. They're back."
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