D E A D O R A L I V E

A The WANTED fanfiction.

Based upon the Behind Bars Tour plotline- The 5 boys have been convicted of a crime they didn't commit. With the world looking for them, can they find each other- and possibly dangerous, love- and clear their names before its too late?

PROLOGUE.

One Year Ago

Jay's POV.

The fresh air and sunlight hit us and we instantly gasped, all five of us at the same time. Relief coursing through our systems.

We were free.

We started running immediately, the walls of the prison either side of us loomed with their grey brickwork, regular. The stretch of tarmac we were running on seemed never ending, but the gate was at the end. When they knew we were out- soon – they'd start to shut the automatic gate and wed be shut in forever with the timer of an hour on it, but we needed to be the other side. We had to run, fast.

I heard voices, not our own, behind me and I turned without thinking. I saw that Tom was struggling to keep up with us with his bad leg, and Siva was slowing down to help.

Mistake.

"Siva, no!" I screamed, Tom would understand, if we had to get out and he had to go to prison so be it. But we would be free and safe to clear our names, I wasnt going to prison for a crime I didnt commit.

Of course the Irish idiot didn't listen.

They grabbed Tom's arm. Panic twisted his features and his hazel eyes gave a soundless plea as a reflex for help even though he didn't need it, he knew we weren't allowed, that was what we had agreed with each other.

Siva tried to hit back with a poorly aimed fist that hit nothing. I had a decision to make. Max hadn't looked back for his best friend, in fact, he had gone, and Nathan was slowing down like me, fucking hell.

I was torn between helping my best mates and living.

Siva won.

I tore backwards with the wind blowing in my curls and I heard Nathan shout a "don't" at me.

I grabbed Siva's tanned arm and started to drag him from Tom. He wasn't letting go.

"Siva mate, you cant do anything!" I shouted in his ear as I pulled him. Tom's eyes kept their pleading but he didn't say anything, not to tell Siva to go or to stay, as the person behind him was forcing him backwards, where we had come from.

Nathan was here now, helping me drag Siva back as a gunshot went over his head and his brown hair rippled. The guard holding Tom tightened his grip as Siva started to lose his hold.

"LET GO!" Nathan screamed in Siva's face.

Siva went instantly limp and gave up, knowing there was no point to his useless effort to save one of his best friends. If he left it longer the gate would shut and we would all be trapped. If they had one of us then the other four could continue. He didn't shut up though.

"TOM!" he screamed as he ran backwards with us, to safety and through the gate just as it closed, locking Tom in and us out. "TOM!"

Tom looked up at us just in time to get a butt of a gun to the back of his skull, and he fell to his knees, then to the floor, out cold.

I closed my eyes.