Erin's P.O.V

I got dressed and kissed Zack since I needed to go home, shower and change after the sex that we just had. He pulled me in and pulled back.

"No no, I really need to go home and change. I will be back in a little bit" I said kissing him again lightly and then walking downstairs and out the door. I was oblivious to everything until I saw Matt and Brian holding Meaghan. I walked over there.

"What the hell are you two doing?" I asked them trying not raise my voice and get the other band members out here.

"We went down to see my father and he wouldn't listen so we wounded Meaghan and are using her as leverage for him to reason with us and we need to find a place to put her" Brian said trying to hold her.

"I have another guest bedroom that we can put her in and tie her up; just try not to let anyone else know yet that we have her okay" I said and they nodded following me into the house. Luckily Sarah was in the shower and Matty was gone by now so I opened up the door and they dropped her on the bed. I grabbed some cable ties and gave it to them along with some duct tape.

"She needs to keep quiet; the last thing I need is Sarah knowing right this second. Now finish this up and I will meet you at your house with Zack. Alright Matt?" I asked/stated and Matt nodded. I went into my bathroom and took a nice hot shower to try and loosen up from the fact that Meaghan was locked in my guest bedroom. After I changed into a pair of white skinny jeans and a navy camisole I walked into the other room to make sure that Meaghan wasn’t freaking out in there. When I got into the room she was awake and she looked like she was in pain from that blade.

“It fucking hurts doesn’t it?” I asked her sitting in the chair across the room. She just stared at me and I knew she was pissed still at me and at Brian for stabbing her. I went over to her and sat at the edge of the bed pulling up her shirt looking at where Brian stabbed her and it was pretty rough and nasty…

“Ah jeeze you are going to bleed on these nice sheets… I better get this patched up” I said and walked out of the room and went down stairs and got a needle and I found some of the thread that Jimmy used to stitch me up with and walked back into the room. She was really clammy and I pulled the tape off of her mouth.

“Okay so please do not scream or I will tape your mouth shut again; you look like you are going to be sick so I had to make sure that you didn’t do it with tape on your mouth; here is a trash can” I said and pulled the trash can over and she threw up in there which I knew would happen. She sat back up and just sat there breathing heavily.

“Why are you being so nice to me?” She asked me trying to hold back more of her vomit. I just put the trash can back up and blew chunks again and I just sighed. She finished and I knew she was done.

“Up to about 20 minutes ago I didn’t even know you were here till I was walking home to change and Matt and Brian were carrying you and I didn’t want anyone else to know that you were here. Now please bit down on this cloth because this will hurt” I said giving her a wash cloth for when I stitched her up. She bit down hard and I started and she whimpered and I just kept going. She thrusted upwards and I just smacked her back down.

“Stop or I will fuck up and you will hurt even more! I am almost done so just relax” I said and finished what I was doing. I heard the guys downstairs.

“I will be back later to check on you; just relax for now” I said taping her mouth again and ran downstairs and into the kitchen washing my hands. Brian came in and came close.

“Is she awake?” He whispered and looked down and saw me washing blood off my hands.

“Yeah and thanks to you I had to fucking stitch her up; what the fuck were you thinking taking her?” I asked getting irritated and he just stood there thinking of a way to break what he did to me.

"Hold that thought okay?" He said and went towards the living room.

"I am going to borrow Erin for a minute" He said and then took me into my back yard. I just stood there confused at why the fuck he needed to have me out here right now.

"So I think that we can win this" He said taking me extremely off guard.

"You do? Because we have the issue that I am vulnerable and right now I don't feel too confident" I said and his face just fell.

"You have this huge wall up Erin and you just need to let it down and let people back in. How are you doing with rebuilding the connection with Zack?" He asked and I smiled thinking of Zack; I was pretty sure that I was blushing.

"Ya know you two were soooo loud! I swear he must be really good to make you reach that high of a fucking octave" He blurted out.

"I am sorry that you heard that; we just really got into it and it was sooo good Brian" I said and he was covering his ears.

"I am so not listening to what you have to say about you and my bestfriends sex life!!!" He said laughing and I just hugged him laughing as well.

"I really think that with Meaghan we can lure Jake up here and we can either try and turn the two of them our way or we can lure my father up and end him once and for all" He said and I thought about both plans.

"So basically we have a plan A and a plan B?" I asked even though in my head I was pondering my own plan. He nodded and I sat there just thinking to myself about trying to get on the inside and taking the fight down there.... Lead his father on and then when I get him right where I want him we can end him. Suddenly Arin ran out and I knew that he had listened in on my thoughts.

"Oh seriously Arin! IT WAS JUST A THOUGHT!!" I yelled and he came closer to me.

"No, no and a million times NO. I would never let you do that nor would Zack or the rest of the guys!" He said arguing with me.

"Are you kidding me!! What do you think that you can stop me from doing it?" I said getting cocky with him. Brian was just sitting there confused and thought in my head Arin don't you dare even tell him. We just stared at each other for a moment.

"She is thinking that she wants to give herself up and trick your father and then bring the battle down there... I think that she is nuts for thinking that because of everything that he has done to her" Arin said and my jaw dropped in shock... I felt like he was completely tattling on me.

"Like any of us would let her do that" Brian said.

"You two are just UGH!" I said and stormed into the house. I passed Zack and ran upstairs into my room shutting the door and locking it. I was going crazy and I couldn't even think straight and I was so angry that Arin told Brian what I was thinking. Ugh why Arin why do you have to be such a pest right now; that is a good idea but all because I am sacrificing myself you wanna stop me? Seriously I can do this.... I knew Arin was listening to my thoughts. GET OUT OF MY HEAD ARIN. I yelled in my mind. I walked back downstairs and to the group.

"I hope you have a headache now" I said sticking my tongue out at Arin while he rubbed his head.

"Why the hell is she acting so pissy right now?" Val asked hugging me and staring at Arin.

"She is just mad that we rejected her plan" Brian said and I just glared at him. I dont think he should have gone there right now.

"Really Brian? You wanna go there?" I asked him and he just stared at me.

"Fine; then you should know that Meaghan is tied up in my guest bedroom.... Apparently she is leverage against Papa Gates... Brian stabbed her..." I said trailing off using that to get him back. Everyone just looked at him.

"What the fuck are you thinking bringing her up here?" Val yelled smacking him upside the head and he sat there in pain. I sat there and just watched as they got in his face about it. I looked over at Zack and I smiled but in my mind I was still stuck on my plan... Zack wasn't going to like my plan at all.

"Erin the answer is NO! I am not going to say it again" Arin said and Jimmy just stared at me and he got inside my head and sighed and shook his head at me.

"Please don't even consider that you crazy girl. You are better than this" Jimmy said...Great another person who didn't want to go along with this. Zack came closer to me and I just hugged him letting the idea out of my head for right now and all I thought about was him. He held me tightly and just then I felt love... there was only a little bit of feeling but it was there. I broke from the hug knowing that I needed to go check on Meaghan. Zack was going to follow me but I stopped him.

"I think that you should just stay down here; for now it is better that I am the only one who goes in there" I said and then looked around at everyone. I went upstairs and into the room and she jumped at the sight of me.

"Oh calm down; I don't want to hurt you. Believe or not I really didn't think that they would take you. If I had the choice I wouldn't have done that" I said pulling the tape off of her mouth again and untying one of her hands giving her some water.

"You wouldn't have done what they did?" She asked and I laughed.

"Please; right now I am downright afraid of Papa Gates; my father took my healing powers and I have first handedly taking a rough beating from him so I know what he is capable of" I said.

"Yeah but that doesn't tell me why you wouldn't stab me or take me as leverage" She said moving a little.

"If I were to have been the one to do that to you then he wouldn't have given me the extra time and I would have been dead. Honestly I want more time with Zack and the guys then I have although I have my own plan that I am never going to get to use because the guys are just so against me risking my life" I said and she seemed interested. I couldn't believe that I was opening up to her right now.

"Tell me" She said. I sat there for a moment and contemplated it. I got up and locked the door making sure that neither Arin or Jimmy came in. I sat back down.

"Okay so you would know if this is even possible.... I wanna use myself to take down Papa Gates... I think if I give myself up then we can take him off guard while he is vulnerable and take him down. Unfortunately the guys dont think that it is a very good idea..." I said and she just thought about it in her mind.

"I will help you" She said. And I sat there shocked....

Was she really wanting to help me? Should I even trust her?

Notes

Will she really help her?
Or is it a trick?
Will Erin go against the guys and use her own plan??
Stay tuned!
Btw sorry its so short and took sooo long to post!!