Louis wakes in a familiar basement, his head throbbing and his side killing him. He's been beaten, again, he can tell. The pain is intense and everything comes rushing back to him.

Louis sits up and leans against the wall trying to steady his breathing, he's about to have a very severe panic attack and can't control his breathing, he's so scared.

His hands are tied tightly in front of him and he struggles but doesn't get anywhere

"Hello there beautiful, I've been waiting to see your pretty eyes again....it's been to long" Stanley says as he walks out of the shadows and towards Louis.

Louis whimpers as he watches Stanley smirk at him, he comes to sit down opposite Louis

"We don't have much time together my beautiful, but we will make the most of it won't we" Stanley says.

"Please let me go" Louis asks innocently, as tears fall down his cheeks

"I can't do that precious, I need to finish what I started. You were the one Louis. The one I was going to let live, the one that was going to be mine forever, kept with me. Now, I have no choice but to kill you like the others. I need to start again and I can't do that with you still alive" Stanley tells him.

"Why" Louis chokes

Stanley gets up and then turns the light on in the basement. There is a metal table in the middle of the room, like last time and Louis has to suppress the flashbacks.

What catches his eye though is the pictures all over the walls. The pictures of himself, Louis is everywhere and he's terrified.

"Do you like it? It's all for you. I didn't get to show you it last time, but it's finished now. It took me so long" Stanley says as he admires the walls

"You....you've been watching me?" Louis asks, he knew that Stanley was stalking him but to see the walls covered in his pictures. Some so old, makes him so uneasy.

"I've been watching you for years Louis. Since you started at London Elite. I was at the coffee shop on campus one day, by accident actually but I saw you walk past and you took my breath away. I've been following you and watching you and loving you from afar for years. Then I had you and I needed you, you fulfilled something inside me and I needed to keep you close. I had originally planned to kill you like the others but I couldn't. I needed you. Then you were taken from me and I'll never forget the day they took you. I vowed to get you back and well....I bided my time and here we are" Stanley smiles

"I don't understand.....I..." Louis says upset

"You're not getting away this time Louis and if I have to kill you to keep you and to make you mine forever then I will" Stanley says and Louis sees his eyes turn dark.

"Please just let me go, please" Louis pleads desperately, he doesn't want to do this again. He can't be here again.

"Oh Louis, do you think I waited all this time to take you, just to let you go? My brother took the heat for me for a reason. He would do anything for me and now he's going to get off, Jeremy will go to jail and take the blame and No one else is going to touch you. Not those fucking cops, no one, you're mine, remember that" Stanley says as he leaves the basement locking it behind him.

Louis panics himself silly, he needs to find a way out of this himself, he can't stay here. He has no idea if Harry and Scott will be able to find him, they took two months last time and he can't be here that long, he just can't.

Because he has a cast on his arm, he manages to get his arm free from the rope binding his hands together, Louis is so sore but he needs to get out of the basement.

Louis gets up and walks around the room, he notices it's a different room from last time, he knew Stanley wouldn't have been stupid enough to bring him back to the same place as last time.

The room looks like it has no windows, it's just concrete walls and Louis is about to cry when he sees a small window above a window sill right at the back of the room. In this moment Louis is so thankful for his small size, he thinks he might be able to squeeze through.

Louis pushes through all the pain he's feeling, he's so sore and he pulls over a rotted out chair and a broken crate, he pushes them against the wall and climbs up on the sill, he manages and breathes himself through the pain.

He pushes on the window, tries to pull it up but it won't budge. A tear rolls down his cheek, he can see trees outside and, it looks like he's being kept in the middle of the forest. It's raining heavily but Louis doesn't care, he needs to get out.

He realises that breaking the window is his only way out, but the noise will alert Stanley. He can only hope to get out and run as fast as he can.

Louis takes a deep breath and uses his cast to break the window. It smashes and Louis doesn't even take two seconds before he's crawling through.

"What the fuck" he hears Stanley say as the door  to the basement is unlocked and opened

Louis is through the window and he's cut himself on his arm but he doesn't care, he climbs to his feet and steadies himself,

"You Fucking little shit" he hears Stanley as he exits the room

Louis knows Stanley is coming after him, so he sucks it all up and runs, he absolutely runs his heart out. He's so sore and bleeding and it's raining and so muddy, but he doesn't stop

He can hear Stanley chasing him, calling out to him but Louis runs, he makes it to the trees and he runs as fast as he can through the trees and the bushes. He can't see anything as he keeps moving forward.

"Louis,precious, where are you" Louis can hear

"I'm going to find you beautiful"

"You're not getting away from me this time"

Louis doesn't stop he just runs and runs, Louis doesn't know how long it is before he doesn't hear Stanley anymore. He can't hear anyone following him. He stops and leans against a tree and catches his breath, he leans his back against the tree and cries, he just can't stop and just cries his heart out. He's so relieved and so scared at the same time.

He decides he needs to keep moving and he does, he just keeps walking and pushing through the forrest, hoping he comes to a road or something so he can get out of this rain.

.....

"Boys, we've found something" one of the squad enter Harry and Scott's office to say

Scott, Harry, Edward and Drew have been working tirelessly over the last few hours trying to find any information about where Stanley could have taken Louis

They all get up and follow each other to the main investigation room they have set up in the conference room. There are whiteboards, police scanners, the squad, everything set up in the room to work the case non stop

"What is it?" Scott asks

He and Harry have been trying to hold in their emotions but it's getting the better of them. The thought of losing Louis getting to them and they are about to break.

"We've managed to find an abandoned house 4 miles from Louis house, through he Forrest. We missed it the first time we went over the land a few weeks ago because it's so small, but we think this is where he's keeping Louis" Jed, one of the squad tells them as he brings up pictures on the projector

"The van was last seen turning into a street - clover street, which is 500 meters from where the woods start" Noah says

"The house is about a mile and a half from the start of the woods if you go through clover street. Four miles if you go from Louis side" Jed explains

"So it leads up to Louis house?" Harry asks making sure

"It does, but Stanley must have a trail he uses because the forrest is dense and would take a good two hours to walk through it" Noah says

"We've located the Van, it's parked in the bushes near clover street" One of the other officers interrupts, as he brings up pictures of the van, thanks to patrol they sent out.

"Tell patrol to stand down, we don't want them scaring Stanley. Get a team together, we are going in" Scott says

The boys all nod and get ready to do a surprise raid.

Harry and Scott, Drew and Edward go to get changed and get ready to lead a team briefing on what they need to do to hopefully get Louis back safely.

When they pull up to the street it's dark, rainy and there's an eery chill to the air.

The team of seven get out of their van silently, a crew of four staying behind, the ambulance and fire brigade on standby down the street until it's safe and the scene is secured by Harry, Scott and the team.

Harry and Scott lead the team silently through the woods, Drew and Edward close behind.
They are all dressed in combat gear, guns at the ready. When the house comes into view they see a light on but no movement at all. Harry and Scott signal to the squad to hold.

They assess the surroundings, trying to see any form of movement or get a visual of Louis.

"Infared only picking up one person inside, second room on the right" they hear into their earpieces

Harry and Scott signal to the team to move forward. It happens quickly

"Stand Down Police" Harry yells as they break the door down. The team coming in from all angles

Stanley is in the kitchen, sopping wet, pacing the   room. He's tackled to the ground and handcuffed. Read his rights and taken away kicking and screaming, yelling profanities  

"No sign of Louis boss" Drew comes up to say as they scour the house to find him

"Shit" Harry and Scott say

"He was here, there's rope, blood and a broken window in the basement" Edward tells them

"So he's escaped" Harry says, relieved for even a small minute

"That means he's out in the woods, in the rain and cold, bleeding and hurt. Let's get a search team together" Scott says forcefully

The team nod and Harry and Scott head back to the Van to get sorted to go into the woods to find Louis.

"We need to find him tonight Scott, it's below freezing, he won't survive the night" Harry says to Scott worriedly

"Louis is strong H, there's only four hours until sunrise, we can find him, he can't have gone far" Scott says

"Scott, I don't want to do this, I need him to be okay" Harry says vulnerably.

"I know babe, I know. And the first thing we are going to do when we see him is tell him how much we love him and are never going to let him out of our sight again" Scott says smiling slightly

Harry returns the smile and agrees, they just need Louis back in their arms safe.