Secured Sevenfold

Brian’s POV
The banging got louder and the ringing won’t stop.. hell what was this about?!
The closer I got to the door the more I didn’t want to open it, I could hear the voice clearly now, knew who it was so I stopped before the door and sighed loudly.
I should have figured knowing that he would show up here sooner or later…
And I really wasn’t in the mood to deal with this guy, not now not ever…

“OPEN THE FREAKING DOOR! JACKY! JACKYY!” He yelled again and I heard a chuckle behind me.
“I bet he won’t leave before you talked to him…” Matt said and I shot him an annoyed look.
“I know that… but that doesn’t change that I don’t wanna talk to him. What am I supposed to tell him anyway…” I ask Matt while the banging on the door continues.
“Hell if I know, that’s your girl’s best friend, so it’s your job, Haner.” Matt said grinning and I flipped him off.
“So you want me to let him in?” I ask Matt with a raised brow.
“I don’t see another way, he won’t leave.” Matt says shrugging and I give him a smirk.
“If I punch him, it’s not my fault, just so you know.” I said, bridging the last distance to the door.

I let out a frustrated groan and open the door with one swift move.
“About damn time!” Dean gets in my face the second the door opens.
“SHE NEVER BEEN WITHOUT TALKING TO ME THAT LONG! Where is she? JACK?!” Dean turns away from me and I breathe deeply in and out.
“She is not here.” I say and Dean stops dead in his tracks.
“What do you mean? Where is she? She sick of you already? I need to talk to her…” Dean says looking confused and amused, which made me take a step forward.
“Gates, stop it.” Matt puts a hand to my chest, pushing me back, he already guessed my intentions.
“She is not sick of me.” I grind out between clenched teeth.
“Then where is she? And why didn’t I hear from her for days? We are at least writing messages every day, so what happened!” Dean says and I frown.
“Every day?” I lift my eyebrow and saw Matt holding his hand up to his mouth, trying to hide his snickering.
Asshole!

“So where is she?” He asked again since I didn’t answer his question. The thing was I just didn’t know how?! He turns slowly towards me, his eyes searching my face for any signs and damn I wish I could just turn away but this was still Jacky’s best friend, if I liked it or not, he deserved to know.
“What happened, Brian?” He takes a step towards me, leaning into my personal space, my hands itched to push him away, but I stayed put.
“WHAT HAPPENED!” He grabbed the collar of my shirt, and I lifted my hands up to push him away, but Matt was between us already.
He held both of us on arm length away, looking at Dean first. “Calm down, okay? We will tell you what’s going on, right Brian?” Matt turns towards me, shaking my shoulder and I nod.
“Okay, I’ll let you go and you go sit at the table. No fighting, got me?” Matt motioned towards the living room and I put my hands on my shirt, smoothing it.
I sat down on the table I saw Dean glaring at me, so much to not fighting I guess… anyway I opened my mouth to start telling the story on how I lost my girlfriend when this time again the ringing of the doorbell interrupted us.
What the hell was going on today?!

Matt’s POV
I wasn’t too sure I could leave Brian and Dean alone, but the ringing wouldn’t stop and I had to get rid of the person quickly before-
“HOW DARE YOU NOT LET HER ANSWER THE PHONE!” Liv punched my chest, just when she walked into the open door.
“Ouch.” I look down on her small figure and she just walked past me.
“JOSE! JOSEPHINE THOMPKINSON, YOU BETTER GET YOUR ASS OVER HERE QUICKLY!” Liv yelled and I cringed, oh shit, not only Dean was searching for his best friend but, Liv too.
I didn’t know who got the worse job of telling their best friends what happened, Brian or me.

“Dean?” I heard Liv say surprised and quickly head into the living room.
“Hey Liv, you searching for Joe?” He asks confused and I closed my eyes briefly, maybe they will get it before we even have to say something.
“Yeah, I am. She hasn’t been answering my calls or messages in days. That’s not her, we speak daily. I know everything that’s going on… I think that this Neanderthal of a man is keeping her away from her friend!” Liv says pointing at me and I lift my eyes brows while Brian can only hardly hold his laughter.
“I.. what?” I ask her but she glares at me, shooting daggers and I hold up my hands in surrender.
“So where is she? JOE!” Liv yells again which makes finally Arin, Johnny and Zack come out of Arin’s office looking at the scene before them and all three walking backwards to the room, and closing the door quietly.
“Awesome friends we have.” Brian mutters and I nod.
“She is not here, Liv. I am sorry.” I say finally and Liv turns fully towards me, “What do you mean? She is not here? When is she coming back?”
I sigh and point her towards the table where Brian and Dean were sitting and glaring at each other.
Liv took the chair next to Dean giving him a small smile which he replied but then both turn their heads to us and the smiles are gone.

“So you are telling us that both Jacky and Joe are gone, do I get this right?” Dean asks and I see Liv looking at him confused.
“Yes, that’s correct.”Brian confirms, his voice cold, I knew he was trying to shut the emotions out.
“Why are they gone and when do they come back?” Dean asks again and I sigh.
“We don’t know when they will be back… We are-” I say but got interrupted from Liv.
“WHAT?! Wait a second, do I get this right? They are gone, but you don’t know when they will be back… okay stop the fucking around. What is going on and where are our best friends, and quit lying or beating around the bush, all of it on the table, now!” Liv says and I look at Brian, we didn’t have much of a choice did we?
“Okay, listen, you both know we are in a serious situation, both girls were in danger, hell, are in danger. We tried everything to keep them safe… but-” I swallow thickly remembering just how Joe and I left things off, fuck, this would haunt me forever.
“What Matt tries to say it, we had a weak moment and they took them.” Brian finished, his voice sounding sad and I knew he must be thinking the same.
“Took them? Who took them? Weak moment? What the hell?” Dean yells and gets up from his chair, pointing at Brian.
“YOU, you were supposed to take care of her, protect her, how can she be gone?”
“I did, I tried…” Brian shakes his head but Dean wasn’t done with him.
“You tried? You tell me you TRIED, well… as we see trying was not good in enough! If Jacky happens anything I will have your head for it, believe me! How could you let this happen?!”

I knew we had to do something, say something, so I began to tell the story, but I left some of the details out… like the fight Joe and I had and why she was alone in the living room, I couldn’t stand to hear from another person yet again just how stupid I had been, I knew that myself… so I finished off with,
“It’s not Brian’s fault… it’s just that during the anniversary, a lot was going on and… fuck… we-”
I trailed of, and kept it at that, not wanting to tell more because in the end they were right, if something happened to Joe and Jacky it was indeed our fault. Brian and I let our guards slip, we were blinded by jealously in my case and lust in Brian’s.
We were thinking it was safe, hell we were having this party in our home, how could we not think it was safe.. but we were taught another lesson… and now we had to pay the price.

“We know it, alright… We fucked up, we let our guard down… We should have paid better attention, but don’t think we don’t know that… I would do everything to get her back, to change what I did, to stay with her, but I can’t… hell I just can’t…” Brian says but both Liv and Dean didn’t buy that, and I could understand them…
I couldn’t stand myself at the moment, I mean… if it wasn’t for me and my stupid jealousy Joe would still be here… Joe would be safe and we didn’t have a fight, I didn’t have to worry…

“Alright, I heard enough of this, it’s easy to blame someone else, alright? It happened, and we can’t change that, how about we talk about what we can do and what Brian, Matt and we did to get them back, we have a lead!” Arin’s voice sounded from behind me and I frowned, I didn’t even hear him approach, but he must have been standing there for a while already.

Arin’s POV
Zack, Johnny and I had listened in to the conversation Matt and Brian were having with Dean and Liv. The guilt was dripping off their story and I couldn’t stand it anymore. Of course, this could have been handled better, but they weren’t the only ones to blame. We had to trust we would get the girls back, in once piece. The minute we lost our faith it would be the end of us.

“Stop it, okay? We have a lead on how to find them. Joseph spoke to their abductor. The girls are fine”
“Joseph is here?!” Liv let out surprised and looked at me.
“Yeah, he came back as soon as he heard the girls were gone”
Liv put her head in her hands “Shit, this is serious, isn’t it?” Dean put a hand on Liv’s back, giving her some reassurance and I heard Zack snort next to me.

“Look, Matt and Brian have been nothing but good for these girls, they love them and the girls love them back. We’d better work together. We want them back badly, so do you”
Before I opened my mouth again, I already knew I would be pushing the boundaries and I just hoped Matt and Brian wouldn’t be too mad about it.
“What if you guys stay here too? I mean, Joseph has taken one guestroom, but we have two left, you can stay here, help us until the girls come back? What do you say?”

Both Dean and Liv nodded at my proposal and stood up to head home and pack an overnight bag. Matt and Brian stood up too, shooting me angry glances and then looking at Dean and Liv leaving. Just before they reached the door Liv turned around.
“Matt, you need to find her, she is all I have” her voice was quiet, but the fighting woman we had seen before was still there, I could see it shining through.
Matt just nodded and they finally stepped outside, Dean closing the door behind them.

The door wasn’t even closed yet when Brian grabbed me by my arm.
“What the hell were you thinking?! I can’t even stand to be around the guy for a few hours, let alone having him here all the time!”
I sighed “Look Brian, he and Jacky have been friends for a long time and he is worried about her. Can you blame him? I mean, we just told them their best friend’s lives are in danger and they don’t know how to handle these things, not like we are. It seemed like the best thing to do… And you know the girls will be so happy to have their friends here when they come back”

Brian still looked angry, but I could see he had settled with the situation, we had other things to worry about. This was a fight we didn’t have any energy for at this moment.
“You are right Arin, but I wished you would have consulted me first” Matt sighed, letting a hand run through his hair. “Are the guestrooms clean?”
I nodded “We had them cleaned after the girls moved into your rooms”
I could see the two men shutting off from us, probably lost in thoughts again. They both moved to the living room as I headed back to my office, joining Zack and Johnny. We needed to get this done and get a rush on bringing these girls home, everyone was reaching their breaking point.

Notes

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