Ashton's point of view

"Sir, you are both well aware that everything you say is being recorded. Everything you say can and will be held against you in a court of trial." An officer said to us and I nodded.

"Of course."

"Yep."

"Mr. Irwin, do you know this man?" An officer asked me as I glared at the man cross from me. I didn't want to be here and if it wasn't for him, I wouldn't have to be.

"Unfortunately I do."

"Who is he Mr. Irwin?" The officer asked and I grimaced at the nickname. "An old friend?"

"My father." I spat, the word burning my mouth and making an unquestionable anger fill my veins. I hated him. I have a valid reason to hate him.

"Is this true?"

"Indeed." The man said, a smirk tugging on his lips. "That's my son. The girl was my daughter, and the boy was his best friend."

"Sir, what was your motives with the two?" He asked and I looked at the wall, unable to keep my eyes on the man in front of me. He disgusted me to no end.

"The girl was my daughter and she had ran away. The boy, well, he was just fun to keep around. I liked messing with him." He said and I refrained myself from jumping out of my seat and repeatedly slamming my fist into his face.

"Why did you take them sir? You did not answer the question."

"You want the truth?" He said and the officer agreed. "I needed money and their bodies were young, desirable, and perfect. Got hundreds flying in each week with them."

That was it.

I jumped out of my seat but before I could lay a finger on the man in front of me, cops had me pulled back. "You're fucking disgusting!" I shouted at him. "That's your daughter! Your daughter! And you sold her body against her will! And Calum! My best friend whom you had no business with aswell! You're sick!" I said and the cops forced me back into my chair.

"Why, my son, so are you." He told me and leaned forward. He had his hands cuffed against he arms of the chair and mine were now cuffed aswell. "You're sick aswell."

"Says the man who kidnapped his daughter and beat her! Says the man who turned his own daughter into a prostitute! Says the man who ruined two perfectly innocent people by forcing them into something so-so disgusting and so inappropriate." I said and he laughed while the officer told me that was enough.

His laughed sent chills down my spine and made my heart beat faster. It was cold and it was humorless.

"You're sick too, maybe just not in the same way." He said and looked me right in the eye. "Why do you perform onstage Ashton? For your own benefit yeah? You like doing it and you only put a good show on so you can continue doing it. You're greedy, you're selfish. You do this for your own benefit and to fuel your own needs and satisfaction." He said.

"That's sick." He said. "You're sick. Everything you do is for yourself. You want and you need and you have to do something, anything. You're just as bad as me. You're my son, of course you are. The apple doesn't fall far from the tree you know." He told me.

"I'll never be like you. I'm not like you." I spat and he laughed. "You're fucked." I told him and he gave me this sinister smile.

"You're the one who shot his sister." He said and my breathing stopped. "Trying to be the hero of the story just backfired buddy. You just hurt the ones you love." He told me and I gulped.

"It was an-an accident. You were gonna hurt her." I said, my eyes filling with tears as I looked at the table. The officer shouted at us, telling us that we have yet to answer the questions he needs answered.

"Mr. Irwin," I looked up but the questioned was being directed towards him. "How long has Autumn been under your custody?"

"About twelve years."

"How long as this been going on?"

"Why don't you ask her?" He said and the officer told us that she and Calum had already had their interviews while in their hospital beds. "She was fourteen when her body started developing in all the right ways so... about four years."

"You're sick." I spat and the officer told me to be quiet. He wrote something down on his paper and I grumbled under my breath.

"She said she was thirteen. Mr. Irwin-"

"Ah yes, that wonderful number when a child is finally thrown into their teen years." He said and chuckled. "I'm going to jail anyways so fuck it." He said and I closed my eyes, not really wanting to hear what he had to say.

"I taught her everything she knows."

I grimaced at the taste of vomit in my mouth and I squeezed my eyes shut. I think the officers were disgusted by him aswell. That's his daughter, my sister, that he touched inappropriately when she was thirteen. Thirteen. She was still a child then.

"Ashton," the office said and I looked at him. "When did Autumn go to you? How did she get to you?"

"A few months ago, about four to be percise. Her ex brought her to us as a present for her eighteenth birthday because she hadn't seen me since we were children. It was like a small family reunion and she stayed with us since." I said and he nodded.

"Has she ever talked about this?"

"No sir." I said and he write it down. "We didn't find out until the day she had been taken." I told him and he nodded.

"You were the one who filed that missing persons report?" He asked me and I nodded.

"Me and my... best friend, Michael had." I said and he nodded. He asked how I got ahold of the address and I looked at the table.

"I got a call from Autumn and she gave me the address because Calum had an infected cut and she was scared. She wanted me to help him because she thought he was going to die." I said and he nodded.

"How did you get ahold of the gun? Or into the house for that matter?"

"After I had been punched in the nose by some man, I threw a flower pot at the window to break it because I heard screaming and yelling. I saw the gun after looking around the house and then I had found them all." I said and he nodded.

"What happened then?"

"He hurt Calum amd a gun pressed to Autumn's head." I explained and he nodded. He asked me some more questions and I sighed.

I'm so tired of questions..

-

I ran out if the interrogation room and I immediately saw Michael, Luke, and Taylor. I scowled a bit as I saw the two blondes, but it was Luke who was the one who spoke first.

"Ashton! Are you okay? Are you hurt? What happened? Are you going to jail?"

"Ask me one more question Hemmings, just one more, I swear to god I'll rip your tongue out." I said because I'm sick and tired of questions.

"O-Okay, I'm sorry. No more questions." He said and then pulled me into a hug. "I'm so glad you're okay Ash. I was scared that you'd get hurt." He said and I nodded.

"I'm fine." I said and rubbed his back. "Thanks though, I've treated you like shit and yet you still care so much about me."

"Of course I do, you're my best friend. I'll always care." He said and I smiled as I gave him a tight little squeeze.

"Ashton Fletcher Irwin."

"Michael Gordon Clifford."

"You're in so much fucking trouble." Michael said, immediately pulling me in front of him after Luke let me go. "Do you know how worried I was? You left and went to this phsyco's house without any weapons, without any police to help you, with no one. You could have died."

"Are you going to give me a lecture or are you going to kiss the shit out of me and then tell me we'll continue this later?" I asked and he cracked a smile.

"Come here." He said and I wrapped my arms around his neck. I pressed my lips against his and he kissed me back. "I'm so glad you're okay."

"I'm sorry Mikey." I mumbled and he set his hands in the back pockets of my skinny jeans. "I love you." I said and he chuckled.

"I love you too, and we'll continue this later." He told me, giving my bum a small smack. "Right now, we need to go check on Calum and Autumn."

"Autumn can't have visitors at the moment, she's undergoing a bunch of tests and stuff." I said and he nodded. "Calum can though, so let's go see him."

"Yeah." He said as he laced his fingers with mine. We left Taylor and Luke standing at the police station and we went to the car. "I'll drive us, Luke and Taylor can ride together." He said and I nodded.

"Sounds like a plan." I said and leaned my head on his shoulder. "You're the best Michael."

"For now. When we get home, you're getting spanked for being a bad boy." He told me as he opened the car door.

"God, you are the best." I told him and he laughed ad we got in.

-

We walked into the hospital and went up to the lady at the desk. "Uh, what room is Calum Hood in? We're his best friends and bandmates." I said and the lady looked at us.

"Take the left hallway, make a right, and it's room ninety-three." She answered and I nodded. Michael thanked her and we followed the directions she gave us.

I opened the door slowly and Calum was laying on the hospital bed, Green Day playing out of some radio that sat on a chair. We walked in and then closed the door, catching his attention.

"Hey Cal, how are you feeling man?" I asked softly as Me and Michael walked up to him.

"Everything hurts, especially my ass." He said and chuckled a bit. "How's Autumn? Is she okay? She took the most damage... sexually and like emotionally." He told me ands he tried sitting up a bit.

"I was told that she wasn't allowed visitors due to the tests and stuff she's undergoing. We can see her in a few days, but not today." I said and he nodded.

"Ashton, Michael, how can you like gay sex? It hurts." Calum said and we laughed. "The after math is painful."

"Clearly they didn't care if they hurt you or not bud, it doesn't hurt much of you do it right." Michael said and I nodded. "Enough about that though. Are you okay?"

"Physically? No, not really. Mentally and emotionally? I'm a bit scarred. I saw things I didn't want to and I heard things I wish I didn't." He said and I nodded. "So, I guess I'm doing just fine, don't worry."

"No sarcasm Cal, now is not the time." I said and he nodded as I took and seat on his hospital bed. "Fans are surrounding the place man, you should are how many people are tweeting you to get better."

"Like that will heal my cuts and sore ass." He grumbled and Michael laughed. "Where's Luke? Did he not want to come?"

"He's with Taylor, we made them share a car." Michael said and he nodded. "Probably took a detour down Taylor avenue-"

"Hey Calum, how are you doing? Are you okay?" Luke's voice rang out, cutting Michael off. "These two left me with Taylor and she kept telling me to take her somewhere, so I dropped her off on a corner and left. I'm sorry I'm so late."

"You did that for me?" Calum asked and Luke nodded. "Isn't she like your girlfriend though?"

"Yeah but like you're my best friend, I'm not going to just ditch you for some chick. Come on man, give me some more credit." Luke said and smiled.