Chapter 12
Harry and Niall were on their way to make yet another delivery, but this one being relatively big and important. That day another bodyguard was with them, he had a weird American accent. Niall was in the back of the truck and Harry was with the other man in the front seats. The man was quite quiet and only answered Niall's questions with monosyllables, with which the blond concluded that he didn't want to talk, so he got into a conversation with Harry about how sudden the delivery was, how it was weird that everything happened so fast, and how far they were from the meeting point.
"The next time someone makes an order of this size so suddenly, I don't care if it's the queen herself, I swear I'll say no to them." The blond complained, leaning on the driver's seat, where Harry was.
The car stopped in a quite remote and lonely place, it was a huge field where the only thing that stood out were two black trucks that were already waiting for them. Niall had a bad feeling about it all.
"We'll go down first to check that everything is in order." The bodyguard spoke in the direction of Niall, who nodded without much choice and watched both men go down.
"Now!" Shouted someone who Harry couldn't see. The bodyguard took the omega from his arms and pushed him into one of the trucks.
Many men wearing dark clothing and masks appeared on the scene, weapons in their hands and moving quickly while shouting things Harry didn't understand to each other. The trunk of one of the cars was the last thing the curly man could see before he felt a strong hit to the head that left him unconscious.
Niall got out of the car as fast as he could when he witnessed the scene, several men looked at him with smiles on his face, the blond couldn't identify anyone. One of them took a chain from his pants with a ring hanging from it, after a mocking smile the man dropped the chain and the car Harry was in left the place. Niall pulled the gun from him and fired with no success, as the remaining men quickly got into the other car and left the scene.
The alpha felt his heart stop for a second. They have him. They kidnapped Harry.
"FUCKING HELL!" He yelled as he approached the place where the men were, and bent down to pick up the chain from the ground. "K.C..." He said in almost a whisper, he stared at the ring hanging from it and smiled emotionlessly. "Those fucking bastards."
He put the chain away and ran to the car. His heart was pounding and it was hard for him to breathe. What the hell had just happened?
His first thought was to chase the cars, but they were already too far gone, and that wasn't the smartest thing to do. He hit the accelerator and headed home out of muscle memory. His mind clouded over as he drove, Harry, he thought, he had lost him, he had lost Harry. Just thinking about the horrible things they could do to him when the scent-blocker effect of his pills wore off made him shiver and want to go back for the curly man, but he had to keep himself with a cool head.
His hands were trembling, with what face would he tell them what happened? How will he tell Zayn? How the hell was he going to tell this to Louis? He clenched his jaw and pressed harder on the accelerator at the same time his hands tightened on the wheel, he felt the oxygen clogged in his chest.
Zayn. He needed to tell Zayn. The memory of Harry's voice telling him to keep his eyes straight ahead and not use the phone behind the wheel came to mind as he pulled out his cell phone and called the omega.
"What happened, Niall?"
"Zayn, I need help, they took Harry." He spoke quickly, as he increased his speed and put the call on speaker. A tear fell down his cheek as he realised what he had said.
"WHAT DO YOU MEAN THAT THEY TOOK HARRY?" He yelled from the other end of the line.
"I don't know what happened, we arrived at the place and..." He tried to analyse what had happened, he remembered all the movements, the cars, the people he saw, and that was when the memory came to him. "There's a spy in the house, Zayn, call Liam! NOW!" His alpha voice showed a little as panic started to grow bigger inside of him.
He heard Zayn shouting the alpha's name desperately until he joined the call. He tried to breathe but couldn't, it felt like his chest was being crushed against the seat, he was having a panic attack.
"What's happening?" He asked, sensing his omega's concern.
"Liam, someone broke into the house. It's happening again, it must be the security guy who accompanied us. Find out who it was, I've never seen him before." Niall spoke quickly and Liam ran to follow his orders.
The house was now in code red, which hadn't happened since Zayn's parents died.
"Get here as fast as you can so we can talk more calmly and see how we're going to find Harry." Niall ended the call and sped up even more.
He cursed not getting out of the car before, he cursed having gone with that bodyguard and he cursed the one who had kidnapped Harry. The tears in his eyes did not let him see the road well. Several times he was about to crash into something, but he somehow managed to reach home in one piece.
Louis walked into Zayn's office to find him standing in front of his desk flipping through some documents next to Liam.
"What's wrong, why is everyone outside going mad?" He asked, in total obliviousness to the news. Zayn looked from Liam and back to Louis, fully knowing that telling him what had happened would hit Louis harder than to anyone else.
"It's Harry, something went wrong in the delivery and..."
"Is he dead?" He interrupted with a million feelings flooding his chest. .
"No, worse." Niall said entering the office, completely alone. Louis turned around and approached the blond alpha, annoyed. He grabbed him by the collar of his shirt and lifted him off the ground, carrying him to the wall and slamming him against it.
"WHERE THE FUCK IS HARRY?!" He yelled furiously, Liam walked over and pulled him away from Niall.
"We were making a big delivery and in less than two seconds they put him on a truck. I swear that if it had been in my hands I..."
Louis stopped listening to the blond's words, and he felt like his heart stopped for a few seconds, a strange pain in his chest began to be present as his vision blurred and the floor moved. Liam had to hold him tight to keep him from falling to the floor, Zayn pulled one of the chairs over for him to sit on, and Niall closed the office door to have a little more privacy.
"What exactly happened Niall?" The omega said with his voice full of concern.
"It all happened too fast... we got to the drop off site and Harry and the other guy got out first and..." His voice got smaller with each second, until no sound came out.
"And what?" Liam asked.
"I ...I don't remember...it happened so fast..." Zayn sighed and laid his face on his hands.
"Has anyone found out who it was yet?" Louis interrupted, his voice was calm, and that worried the others far more than a broken or angry voice.
"Not yet, we are looking for who works here and who..."
"I TOLD YOU!" He interrupted using his alpha voice, Zayn startled and hid behind Liam as if on impulse. "I TOLD YOU NOT TO HIRE SO MANY PEOPLE!"
"We don't know if it's someone new, Louis, it could have been anyone. Don't blame it all on Zayn." Liam defended.
"You shut your fucking mouth!" Louis was seeing red, he was furious, and stormed off the office "I WANT EVERY SINGLE ONE OF YOU OUT IN THE GARDENS, RIGHT NOW!" He ordered in a roar, the nearby guards nodded and ran to signal all the staff to get out.
Minutes later they were all out in the garden, Louis pacing back and forth as he watched each person with fury flooding his eyes. Zayn, Liam and Niall stood behind him in silence not knowing if they should interfere or not.
"No one, absolutely no one is going to leave this place until we find out who the fucking spy is!" He yelled. "So you better start talking before I kill you all!"
"Louis, we don't know..." Niall started, but the brunette glared at him, making him fall silent. "We'd better go inside so we can keep an eye on all the staff and the security cameras." He whispered to Zayn, who nodded and they both went inside.
Niall remembered the man's face, but they didn't know if it was just him or if he had accomplices inside the house, so they reviewed everything they could, recordings, documents, diaries.
"What if this is connected to the lost merchandise of the other days?" Niall asked. "What if it's connected to...?"
"No, it can't be. Not again." Zayn interrupted in a deep voice. "Don't say it, Harry needs to be found now, and that's it."
Niall nodded, not wanting to confront Zayn at that exact moment. But they both knew the blond was right.
"SAY SOMETHING!" Louis yelled once more, making everyone jump.
"None of them did it, Louis, otherwise they would have already confessed, they know perfectly well that it's not good to mess with us."
"Then why did they do it, Liam? Huh? Because if they were so afraid of us, like you are saying, Harry would still be here and none of this would be happening."
Liam sighed, it was true. Although most of the workers had been there for years, even decades, there was a possibility that they would betray them. The alpha continued to separate the employees into groups to make it easier to rule out possible accomplices. The housemaids were mostly omegas, so he left Barbara in charge of them. Security had been there forever, and Liam chose the most trusted ones to help him look after the group of newcomers and a few other employees.
Louis spent the entire night questioning each and every alpha, omega, and beta who worked in the house, drawing his conclusions on which ones looked the most suspicious, and once Zayn and Niall got the name of the bodyguard, he separated those who were the closest to him and led them to the basement with Louis.
"How is he?" Niall asked.
"Like a maniac, although that was to be expected." Liam replied. The blond alpha sighed and stretched a little, they were all completely tired and they knew that in that state they wouldn't get anything. "You should go to sleep, take Zayn with you and lock yourself in his room, it's the safest place in the entire house, and only I have a copy of the key. I'm going to try to make Louis go to sleep." Niall nodded and walked to Zayn's office.
"Zee." He called. "Liam told me to sleep in your room tonight, let's go."
"Okay, just let me finish organising these documents and that's it."
Niall nodded and went over to help him. There were pages everywhere, Zayn's office had never been so messy, but given the circumstances it was understandable. Both started looking for information in all the contracts they had of each person who worked there, as well as each file they had of personal information that helped them to run a better organisation.
It was six in the morning when Liam was finally able to persuade Louis to go to sleep, after insisting for so long. He was able to convince him by telling him that the more rested he was, the faster they could find Harry. But Louis did not go to his room, but found himself going to the floor of the employee rooms, more specifically in front of the door where a curly-headed beta lived, hoping that, by magic, he would yell a 'pass' at him from inside and be able to talk with him using whatever stupid excuse that came to their mind.
But no one would give him permission to enter, and he would not find any green eyes waiting for his entrance. No one would give him a dimpled smile and he confirmed it when he entered to find nothing but Styles' super organised room, the perfectly made bed and some of his things arranged on the bedside tables, photos of his family, and hair ties, which from what he had told him, were always lost everywhere. He sighed and took one of these between his hands, then passed it through his right hand to place it as a bracelet on his wrist, now he regretted not having told Harry how much he thought of him every day. Who cared that he was a beta? After all, they could adopt a baby one day. It wasn't until then that Louis realised how far the curly man had grown in his heart.
The saddest thing was that he didn't realise it until he lost him.
He lay down on Harry's bed, burying his face in his pillow. It still had some of Harry's curly hair and was full of that sweet smell that had been very present in his home lately. What if that was the perfume Harry was wearing?
He looked at the nightstand that was next to the bed, there was a photo of him together with Jane and Stella in what seemed to be a picnic, he estimated him to be about 18 years old at that time, his smile shone and a traitorous tear it rolled down Louis' cheek, and he hugged the photo to his chest, as if he wanted to melt it into his skin. He opened the first drawer of the bedside table, although it was wrong to check his things, he needed to feel the green eyed man close to him. He began to see the small papers and some anti-stress toys that Harry had saved, Louis couldn't help but laugh and roll his eyes between his crying, always so childish.
But a white box at the bottom of the drawer, next to a small black notebook, was what ended up stealing his attention. He took it in his hands and carefully read what it said on the front in blue letters. Birth Control Pills, Louis frowned. Why would Harry want suppressors if he was a beta? It didn't make any sense.
Then he understood; the sudden smells of fruit and cinnamon, that time he fled from his room with the worst excuse he could make, the nerves in the restaurant, his heat anticipating because of that sweet aroma in the curly-haired family's house.
Harry was an omega, all this time disguised as a beta.
He opened the notebook, tears clouded his vision a little but he wiped them away with the side of his hand, the first few pages were phone numbers, reminders that he had things to do. And it wasn't until he got halfway through that he began to notice that the beta wrote more important things than just numbers and reminders.
He is the only one that I haven't told yet. Harry's perfect handwriting was the only thing he could focus his eyes on.
Louis's heart clenched harder at all the scenarios Harry could be going through, the effect of the suppressors wearing off and a bunch of alphas hurting him. Could they even make it in time before that happened?
The times that Louis ignored those sudden scents came to his mind. How was he so stupid not to realise that Harry was the owner of that intoxicating smell that was always in his thoughts before sleeping? And why did he never tell him? Didn't he trust him? Was he afraid of him?
Will he look at me differently when I tell him the truth? That some poor naive omega was watching his back all this time? I'm afraid, because I don't want his eyes to look at me differently, with disgust, judging me. Because if Louis Tomlinson is going to look at me differently, I hope it's how I look at him.
He still remembered how his alpha began to jump euphorically when those forest-green eyes looked at the sea-blue of his for the first time, that time he brought him dinner because they had started on the wrong foot, a melancholy smile was drawn on his face, he remembered those stories of his mother that one day he would find his destined omega, that he would know it in his chest when he had in front of him the person he wanted to spend the rest of his life with, mark him and have many children. Once he did, but he was wrong.
Like, he always knew that Harry was that omega, but he didn't accept it until that moment. With some sad pills in his hand and the pain in his chest at the thought that he was in danger. But it all suddenly started to make sense.
His heat started before it was supposed to and all those times his alpha yelled at the top of his lungs to protect him, to grab his cheeks and kiss him until he was breathless.
Harry wasn't just any omega.
Harry was his omega.
My eyes look at you as the strongest and bravest man of them all, my omega, because I would tear my eyes out first before they looked at you with anything other than adoration.
He left the pills and ran to Zayn's office, where the other two alphas and the omega were already going through papers and talking about Harry's case. They all looked at the door as soon as Louis stormed in, making a scandal.
"We have to find Harry, and we need to find him fast." He yelled with the breath he had left from running.
"That's what we are trying, Louis. You have to calm down." Niall said, desperation could be read in his eyes.
"It's just that you don't understand, Harry is an omega." He shouted again in desperation, none of those present seemed surprised by the confession.
"We know." Zayn answered, still looking at the document he was analysing.
"BUT HE IS MY OMEGA!" He roared before collapsing on the floor with a heartbreaking sob that surely had been heard throughout the whole house. Niall rushed to hold him as Zayn and Liam got up to help with what they could.
He's my omega, Louis repeated over and over between sobs, feeling the touch of Niall's palm on his back and clinging to Harry's suppressors, which were already more than pulverised. Zayn cried a little seeing his best friend, his brother, so affected, and Liam was simply trying to maintain balance in that situation, that although he was affected by Harry's kidnapping, as head of security he couldn't allow himself to feel it too much, especially with an omega to help.
Louis fell asleep between his tears, at that point they didn't even find the point of taking him to his own room, so they laid him down on one of the sofas in Zayn's office and tried to solve everything they could in silence so as not to wake him up. He had already reached his limit, he wouldn't let go of the pills and he dreamed of finding Harry and taking him to see all those places that the curly-haired boy dreamed of.
I'm going to find you. My omega.
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