A/N: This chapter will bounce between Oli and a new person who will be introduced, but will be dubbed ‘Unknown’ (once again), till a certain event, That occurs in this chapter. In the description I mentioned that Austin has an ‘interesting’ background, well this will come into play as this story unravels even more. So just a warning C; hope you enjoy mwahahahaha
*Bold will be past events

Oli’s P.O.V

“Cheers to Austin and Oli!” Matt exclaimed, rising his glass, the others followed suit.

“Cheers!”

With a quick clink of our glasses and a sip of beer later, we were once again, submerged in our conversation. Tino, Aaron, Austin and Phil discussed sports, and I quietly rolled my eyes and sat my glass down on the coaster. I for one, wasn’t fond of sports, and wasn’t fond of the pub I was stationed at. But seeing Matt laughing and bonding with the guys was lifting my spirits. I was thankful I had quickly broken the news to Matt at the house; Phil said he had already pieced it together, yet they both were quick to hug us. Matt made the occasional comment on how he ‘could have sworn I was straight’ which earned several laughs. Telling the rest of the group was quite easy, especially since Alan wasn’t amongst them, he had claimed he was feeling ill and didn’t want to go out, I was glad.

“Oi Olober! You seem to be in your own world over there, you alright?” Matt’s words snapped me back to reality, where the group of men were boring there eyes onto me, I nodded slightly. Matt didn’t seem to be convinced though, he got up from his seat and whispered into my ear,

“Come have a smoke with me?” I sighed but slid my chair back and stood up. Walking past the guys, and ducking down to kiss Austin on the cheek, muttering “ I will be right back, im going outside” into his ear, he blushed and nodded; earning ‘Aw’s’ from the other men, I rolled my eyes and playfully flipped them off before following Nicholls outside.

He offered me a cigarette, I didn’t often smoke but I took one anyways, he lit it for me and I took a long drawl, the slightly familiar feeling of smoke filling my lungs. It calmed me down instantly.
“What’s on your mind Ols? You seem, out of place.” Matt puffed on his cig, and blew smoke out before his eyes returned to mine, I grunted out of annoyance.

“Matt I’m fine! For the love of god will you shut up about tha-“ a look of hurt flashed in his face, he spat on the ground before smiling coldly,

“jeesh thanks Oliver. Excuse me for being concerned about my friend, but apparently that doesn’t matter, maybe I shouldn’t have even have come here.” He shoved his free hand in his pocket and turned as if to walk away, I ran and grabbed his arm. He halted his walk but didn’t turn back to face me, I looked at the back of his jacket through teary eyes before throwing the smoke that was in my hand, on the ground and wrapped my arms around him. He stiffened at first, but instantly relaxed when he noticed I was choking back a sob, I had never felt so overwhelmed by things, it was like it hit me all at once, the fear, the agony, the sadness, everything consumed me.

“Matt I’m so fucking sorry, please don’t leave me! Please don’t leave…” I could no longer choke back the tears and a horrible sound emitted from my throat, he spun around as best as he could in my grip before encircling me in his arms. My head found its way to his chest and I gripped at his shirt, holding it in my hand as I cried, this was the most helpless feeling in the world, I just didn’t want to lose him right now.

“Oli, please don’t cry, I’m sorry, okay? I know your just tired and scared and honestly I am too, I’m terrified for you and what has been happening! I haven’t slept right in weeks, and every day I don’t get a call from you is gut wrenching, I fear the worst on those days, but everything will be okay. I’m not leaving you! I love you, you British bastard.” I laughed softly, my body stopped shaking as violently as I regained some composure,

‘fortheloveofgodOliver. You’refuckingweak.’

I swallowed those thoughts and smiled up at Matt, who graciously returned it. I climbed out of his arms, and I wiped my face with my sleeve.

“I love you too Nicholls, sorry I’m such a twat ‘mtimes.” He laughed and made a comment that sounded like ‘Your northern twang is showing again’ I scoffed at him, and plopped down on the lone bench outside. As soon as I made myself comfortable the door of the bar swung open, revealing Austin who sat down next to me as Matt excused himself back inside, shooting a grin and a wink my way, I groaned.

“What’s wrong, love?” Austin snaked an arm around me, and I leaned into his embrace. Shaking my head, I didn’t want to talk about it, and I think he got the hint. I watched him crinkle his nose,

“Ew you stink! Did you smoke or something?” I nodded sheepishly.

“I just took a few drawls, I don’t smoke often, just when I’m stressed out.”

He bit his lip and shook his head quietly, before leaning down and pecking me on the lips, my face heated up and I grabbed onto his torso as he pulled back, burying my face in his chest. He laughed quietly, and pulled me partially into his lap; he buried his face in my hair and held me close. It was so amazing how this man could have such a weird impact on my being, he was beyond amazing and it never failed to make smile like a mad man. I couldn’t even believe he was mine, not even as I raised my head and he raised his and our lips clashed together again.


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Unknown P.O.V

I grabbed my cell phone from the empty spot in the passenger seat, quickly dialing Alan’s number, and relaying the information he had asked for.

“What do you want me to do? Look I want revenge just as much as you do, Ashby. I cant exactly just walk over there and get it though, can I? You know what Carlile is capable of…” I growled lowly into the phone, holding the small device in a death grip.

“I know, I know. You just have to catch him by surprise, he will not be expecting that, he has been on edge with the things that I have done, so his guard will be up slightly more, keep that in mind. You really don’t even need to get him, just that Oliver freak! If you can get him then you will be golden, then we can reveal Austin’s true motives, and past; I am sure he has kept that much a secret. Once we do that, Oli will want nothing to do with him, Austin will not be able to justify himself, and that leaves Oli out of the picture and Austin for me. And you will get your revenge.”

“Fuck, fine! Do I always have to do the dirty work myself? You just get to sneak into his house and fuck shit up, but no! You leave me to do the hard part.” Alan was becoming increasingly more agitated, and it was setting me off.

“Calm yourself, we are in this together. Remember?” he sounded exasperated, and frankly I wasn’t in the mood for an argument.

“Fine Ashby, I will go get that Oli guy, right now though?” I asked curiously, running a hand through my hair.

“Yes, you have a gun, that should be enough protection wise and use it to get him away from Austin.”

“gotcha, ill call you when we are on the way to the warehouse.” I sighed and slid on the black ski mask, and zipped up the black jacket I was wearing.

“See you soon.” With the click from the other line, I was on my own. I kept the car running as I slipped out, and walked quickly to the back of the van, unlocking it., before hopping back in the drivers side. I pulled up next to the bench, quickly hopping out and approaching the pair of men. I pulled the gun out and a look of shock caught Austin’s eyes, he growled protectively as Oli spun and caught attention of the small device. Luckily no one was outside the shady pub, and I walked closer. Grabbing Oli’s arm and dragging him up, Austin jumped up and grabbed his other one, the small British man was shaking heavily and Austin wasn’t making this easier, I used all my force to pull the tattooed male into my arms and placed the gun at his temple.

“Don’t you fucking do it! Take me if you want someone, I don’t know what you want! I will give you anything! Okay? Please don’t take him!” He was beyond angry, he looked furious and I was honestly scared that he would kill me before I could defend myself. Then a realization hit me.

Austin’s screams where loud enough to arouse attention, people would be out at any moment, I slung the thin man into the back of the van it locked it up, gun still pointed at Austin as I slid back into the driver’s seat, and drove off. This had gone rather smoothly, I dialed up Alan’s number as I sped off the main roads and took the short drive to the secluded warehouse.

“It’s done.” I recited into the phone before he could speak.

“Okay I’m waiting, did it go smoothly?”

“Fortunately, you should have seen the look on Carlile’s face!”

Alan chuckled, “I bet it was priceless, I will see you soon. Be careful.”

“Will do,” I hung up and drove the remainder of the distance and pulled into the Garage, I saw Alan as shut the door and slid the bars on it down, he was wearing the same thing as me, if Alan didn’t speak this poor sap in the back wouldn’t know who we were, oh I bet he is terrified.
I turned the engine off and made my way out and to the back doors of the white van, slinging the doors open and revealing a man in a sorry state. He was huddled in the far right corner, knees pulled to his chest and crying quietly as he rocked back in forth, pathetic.

I motioned for him to come forward and when he shook his head I held the gun up, and did it once again, spitting out "NOW." . He reluctantly complied, and I took his arms and placed them behind his back, as Alan cuffed them. He then slid a piece of tape over the tattooed mans mouth, and shoved a blindfold around his eyes. We escorted him to the back room where a chair was waiting In the small soundproof area, we slid him onto it, and used rope to tie him down, he was a fighter, but was no match for our combined strength holding him down.

We left the room and collected the projector before retreating back into the small room that housed our captive, I lifted the small bag from his head, revealing red swollen eyes, filled with terror, I ripped the tape off of his mouth and he screamed, I couldn’t suppress the laugh.

“Don’t even try, its soundproofed.”

He frowned and quickly averted his eyes, “What do you want from me?”

“We just want to show you the truth.”

I gave the thumbs up to Alan, who started up the little movie we put together, I had shadowed Austin at one point and filmed everything we did; this was going to be good.

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Oli’s P.O.V

I was shaking like a leaf that was for sure; I wasn’t sure what had happened, it went by so fast. My eyes were directed to the large screen my captors had hung, and suddenly Austin’s image came on the screen.

“I really like this new AR-15; it shoots fast, and kills even faster.” Austin chuckled as he showed it off to the camera.
“So you got the hit order, right?”A deep voice echoed.

I was confused as to where this all was going, but I did recognize the voice as the man who had spoken to me moments ago,

“Yep, Daryl Walker, age 43. Order was taken out by his Ex-Wife, because he was raping and abusing their 17 year old daughter.He is roughly 6’4, 220 lbs, dark hair, tan and wears glasses; his picture is in the file. He will be leaving his office promptly at 4 pm, he works at Farmer’s Insurance company, So we need to leave now.” Austin finished talking and shoved the file back into a black bag.

I couldn’t believe my ears, Austin was going to kill someone? Tears poured down my eyes, was this his side job? A hit man! What else has he lied to me about?

‘Toldyouhewasaliar,heneverlovedyoueither.’

Austin was clad in black and laying on the roof of a tall building, looking down the scope of his gun, he made of noise of acknowledgement before the gun jumped back, no noise was made. He slipped back from the edge, and panicked screams could faintly be heard in the background. The person behind the camera peered over the edge quickly and zoomed up on the still form of a man, blood pooling everywhere. It swiveled back to Austin who was grinning like a mad man,

“Well that’s done, and that 50k is ours.”

“PLEASE STOP! I’VE SEEN ENOUGH, PLEASE!”

I screamed, tears pouring down my eyes, this explained so much. Why Austin was so good at the shooting range, why he had such a nice house, why he and his friends had such nice cars, and he had his own shop and studio. Why he was able to pay so much money for everything, I wonder if when I met him if he had just been on the way home from killing someone. I was sobbing hysterically, the man I thought I loved was living a lie, and he never told me this. Not once, this is why all these horrific things had been happening, someone was out for revenge. These people were out for revenge.

The duo before me didn’t move, and the screen showed more and more images and videos of Austin shooting people, I felt like I was going to puke. I gagged at a particularly gruesome scene, and I sobbed even harder as Austin laughed after it.

“Did you see that? His brains were everywhere! He got what he deserved! that's for sure! ” he cackled like a mad man, laughing so hard tears sprung from his eyes.

After what seemed like forever the machine was off, but I still sobbed.

“Why would he do that? Why would he lie to me? Why?” I managed to make the words out, I watched the pair approach me,

“He is a compulsive liar Oli, I know that was hard to watch…but you had to see it…” the same man from earlier and the videos explained to me.

“WHY! WHY ME?” I spat out, I was furious, enraged and in all honesty, hurt.

“Because he did the same thing to me,” The smaller man slipped his mask off, earning wide eyes from his partner and myself, before me stood none other than Alan Ashby.

“He didn’t tell me until we had started dating, he told the guys too…we were horrified, but he was still Austin, ya know? He bought us all cars, and got a shop and hired the guys who couldn’t find work, so he basically bought us out. I loved him still, he was still the man I wanted to be with, but he was a liar; a killer, and I was naïve.”

I nodded and he continued, “Don’t be like me Oli, don’t be stupid. He left me cause he said he wasn’t good enough, but he choose this path when Gielle divorced him, he has been in this business since he was 19 years old, he will only hurt you in the end. Please forgive me for all the scares at the house, I just had to do it in order to try and scare you away before you got to close to him. your a lot like me, ya know? I don’t want to see you get hurt by not knowing the truth.”

I shook my head, I didn’t know what else to do, I wanted to hate Austin, and part of me did. He was a murdering liar, but I can recall how gently he would kiss me, how much I depended on him, how much faith he had in me when he took me in, I hated to admit this but I still fucking felt so strong about him. I still…loved him.

But I had to play this off, I didn’t want to let them know I felt this way because I know they would only try to convince me otherwise. I just needed to talk to Austin and figure out what the fuck he was really like, maybe then I could get closure and leave these emotions behind.

As if on cue a loud rumbling came from outside, Alan and his companion who was yet to reveal himself jumped up and left the room, I was stuck to my own devices. Which were slowly eating away at me, as time slowly ticked by the door opened again and instead of Alan and the other guy, it was Austin. Drenched in blood, gun in hand and tears pouring down his face, he untied me and lifted me from my seat, escorting me outside the room, I was to horrified to speak. The unknown man was dead on the ground, blood pouring from a huge hole in his head, Alan was on the ground next to him, shaking his now dead companion.

“JERRY, NO! Please come back! This wasn’t supposed to happen! None of this was supposed to happen! Jerry…I’m so sorry! Please come back to me…please!” he shook the man, but it was obvious he was far to gone, my heart lurched forward. I moved as best as I could with my hands still cuffed, towards a small trash can and threw up the beer and small remnants of food.

“Austin! Why did you kill him!? WHY!” Alan shouted harshly, I wanted to be anywhere but here, back at the pub; painfully unaware of everything. Ignorance really is bliss.

“Shut it Alan, I cant believe YOU were the one behind this! I thought you were over this! You knew what you were getting into after I told you the truth, why couldn’t you leave Oli out of this?! I fucking love him Alan! Does that not even matter to you? Why did you have to tell him! You didn’t even give me a chance! You ruined everything!” Austin’s shouts turned to growls, and I would have seriously been turned on if it wasn’t for these circumstances.

“Austin I love you! That’s why! I want you back! I want Oli out of the picture, that’s why! Austin please I love you! Take me ba-“

“Enough!” Austin growled lowly, “I don’t want this Alan! I moved on, you need to do the same! I cant believe you went to all this trouble when you knew how I felt! Cant you be happy for me? NO! You had to do all this-“ he motioned around the room and in my general direction, I sunk to my knees and hung my head low, I felt pathetic, stupid and I just wanted to be dead instead of the man who was unfortunate enough to have lost his life.

Their screams went on for an eternity, and then I felt a strong grip on my arms, clicking the cuffs off, I fell to all fours, shaking violently and crying harder then I ever had. I wished Matt was here, so he could just take me to Florida, to start over, to forget this had ever happened, this was ALL my fault. A guy was dead because of me, Alan was heart broke because of me, and Austin was a two faced liar, it was all too much.

“KILL ME!” I screamed as loud as I could, “FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, JUST FUCKING SHOOT ME! I CAN’T DO THIS! PLEASE…” the room grew dead silent, and I continued to sob, I wanted to have a bullet in my skull, I wanted to be gone forever, I couldn’t handle this.

“Oli, please let me explain…” Austin began but I cut him off, sitting up and growling violently in his face.

“NO. did you ever even care about me? Or was that all just a lie too? Were you going to kill me? Was that your initial plan?! Answer me!”

Alan was ever silently, crying quietly next to the corpse of his friend, Austin’s face came level with mine, and he broke down. I wanted to reach up and wipe the tears away but I couldn’t bring myself to do it, I still hated him partially, and I needed answers.

“No Oli! I would never ever fucking hurt you! You were just so god damn beautiful, and I was so drawn to you! I wanted nothing more than to protect you, and I knew I could! I knew I could offer you a security the streets couldn’t, I knew I could offer you everything you would ever want, and I couldn’t bring myself to let you leave that bus on your own! Oli, I LOVE YOU. Im so sorry I lied, I want to stop, I really do, but the money is what always draws me back to it, I would have told you eventually! I promise that much! Please Oli, I will stop! I will stop for you, I swear, I can fix everything.” He sobbed hysterically, his hands covering his face as he muttered, “What have I done?” over and over again, I sat back in shock.

I really didn’t know what to say, after everything that had happened Austin was still Austin, but he had lied to me, what’s to say he isn’t lying now? I didn’t have time to think before I saw Alan holding a gun at me, I blinked harshly.

"Still want to die, Oli?"

Soon after the words left his mouth, a loud pop echoed into the room, and a searing pain tore through my chest, I gripped down and felt a warm liquid squirt onto my hand, I heard another loud pop, and felt myself falling backwards; I hit the ground, hard. My chest was on fire, I couldn’t see straight but the last thing I made out was Austin hovered over me, I vaguely could hear him screaming my name, and begging me to stay with him, but then it became dark. My mind froze, and then went blank. I smiled as I let the darkness consume me. Did I finally get what I Wanted?

Notes

DONT HATE ME.
I told you it would get wild, but fear not, this story is not over! There should be at least 5, maybe more, chapters after this! So yeah C; dont say i didnt warn you in the beginning that this was going to be a crazy story, sorry if my hit man info is off, i am not one, nor do i know one. anyways!

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