Oh my goodness, I can't believe we're actually here at the final chapter of this story. I know I say this all the time with stories but I honestly didn't think I would make it this far with this one due to only a few people being interested in it. So thanks a lot for letting me write this story all the way to the very end! :) ;)
I know it's been an emotional rollercoaster & after this story I actually have no stories left, BUT it doesn't mean I'm stopping ;) Not yet anyway. There are 3 more stories left that I'm dying to write which is two more BRRAL ones (the prequel & last one) & the sequel to My English Love Affair (points for me saying the full name & not just going "MELA") an then we'll see what happens after :)
I got to here writing the authors note for this & my internet crashed & deleted everything from here onwards that I wrote & I can't remember what I said other than one of them 3 stories will be coming a lot sooner than you think.
& that thank you for reading & letting me write this story till the very end :) I appreciate it & I love you guys!
Enjoy the final chapter!
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snozberriesme: No, he does like Samara I never said anywhere that he didn't :) & awe thank you! & I think the reason why not a lot of people aren't reading is bc most of my readers are American & they have important stuff with school or something. Whereas in England (where I'm from) That doesn't start till next week. Which is why I'm really glad I got this story finished before then bc god knows when I would have updated!
Disclaimer: I do not own R5, The Vamps, 5SOS, or YouTubers Dan Howell (danisnotonfire), Joe Sugg (ThatcherJoe), Caspar Lee (dicasp) or the song "The Weight of Us" by Sanders Bohlke, all rights go to Hollywood, Mercury/Virgin EMI/Universal, Capitol Records, YouTube & Sanders Bohlke bc idk what record label he is signed to bc nothing comes up when I search.
Chapter 29
One Last Warning
Ross knocked on Dan's door, waiting for him to answer. Dan got up from where he sat in his dorm and opened up the door, letting Ross in. He walked into the middle of the room, looking around where he noticed two beds. He became confused "You have a room-mate?" Ross asked.
Dan shook his head "No. But I used to."
"Oh..." Ross said, knowing who he meant. Dan walked over to his desk and sat back down at it and Ross stepped towards him "So um... Did you hear about Samara escaping?" Ross asked, Dan nodded "do you know who helped her?"
Dan shook his head "Nope. She was close to a lot of people here so it could have been anyone."
Ross nodded, not saying another word. He took a glance around the room and over at the bed that looked like nobody had slept in for years – which is true – and over to the wall and Dan's desk where there were a couple of photo's of other people who Ross didn't recognise, friends and obviously one of him and Phil along with a photo of Joe with some girl he has never seen before in the entire time he's been at the base.
Ross took it down from where it was stuck "Who's this with Joe? I've never seen her before."
Dan motioned for Ross to show him "Er... Someone called Stacey. She used to work here."
"Fair enough," Ross said, putting the picture back where it belonged. He diverted his thoughts away from that and handed Dan the letter Rocky had sent him this morning. Dan took it off him "What is it?"
"Just read it."
Dan opened up the letter and began reading. His face had fallen by the end of the letter "Oh... So that's where he is..."
Ross nodded "Yeah... I was er... wondering if you could do anything?" Ross asked.
"I can't... I'm sorry... I wish I could. We barely have any mini Epoch's left and if any more go missing I'll get it in the neck. But if I think of something I'll let you know." Dan said, reassuringly.
"It's fine, thank you," He said. Ross sighed and watched as Dan looked away from him, looking sad and fed up "are you alright?" Ross asked.
Dan nodded "Y-yeah... I-it's just... ugh... These past few days... They brought back so many horrible memories." Dan said, putting his head in one of his hands and rubbing it.
Ross nodded with a small frown, trying to hide it "Yeah... I know... Same here."
Dan furrowed his brow, looking up at Ross in some form of confusement "What do you mean? Nothing bad has ever happened to you whilst you've been here apart from the last few days... Well, not that I know of."
Ross let out a soft laugh "Exactly. Listen, Samara, she's escaped, I know. That doesn't matter. Whoever helped her I know they probably had a good reason to."
Dan stared at Ross, being confused as to what he meant by that. Cos if he's trying to insinuate that Dan helped Samara escape...
He's wrong.
He hasn't been anywhere near the cells since she got arrested and Joe told her, her fate.
"I never said this in the Epoch room when you told me but, I'm sorry about your friend. It must be horrible for you that he can't remember you." Ross said.
"Just a little. I mean... The worst thing about it is that nobody understands what it feels like to have that happen to you. It's the kind of pain that I want nobody I know to experience." Dan said, staring out into space as he thought about that day and the following days after.
Ross sighed, letting a very small smile form on his face "Well... I can assure you one thing. I understand in a certain way."
Dan furrowed his brow "You do?"
"Yeah. You think it's bad having one friend not know who you are any more after the things you've been through? Try two—technically three cos... It's a long story. Never mind."
Dan sat up on his chair, becoming very confused "W-what... The only friends you have here are Brad, Ashton, Luke, myself, Joe and Caspar... And I'm pretty sure they all know who you are still."
"Have you ever had a dream when you're sleeping?" Ross asked, making Dan fight back the urge to reply with a facetious comment "one that seemed too realistic that you thought you were awake and when you woke up, you could barely remember that dream. Any specific one?"
Dan thought for a moment "Yeah... It was a while back. About a year ago I think? Maybe a little bit more. Um... It was after we all went home for a short break but I think Luke, Ashton and Brad all went with you and Rocky back to LA because they didn't want to go home for just a week. I went back to England with Joe, and Caspar went back to South Africa. Only... we didn't come back in the dream and Ashton was dead... I think... I'm not sure, it was that long ago. I think some sort of apocalypse happened... I'm not sure... I can barely remember it. It was a year or so ago but it was so realistic! Why..?"
"And lets just leave it at that."
Luke, Ashton, Joe and Caspar all sat in the canteen on their break from the armory, security and technician unit whilst Ross went to go see Dan and Brad was elsewhere. Caspar sighed "I can't believe Rocky's gone," Caspar said, sort of sadly "it's gonna be weird not having him there when I'm working... Threatening to hit me with a spanner every time I did something wrong or that he didn't like... And to think... It was going to be me who had to put the baby—well, Brad—"
"Tell you what, when you're talking about the baby and say 'the baby' and then decide to say Brad instead, either just stick with 'the baby' or just call it Brad." Ashton said, being slightly irritated.
Joe's eyes widened by his little outburst "Whoa, calm down..." He said. He had noticed today that Ashton didn't look like he was in a particularly good mood but he wasn't expecting him to lash out quite yet. He rarely does. He normally just stays quiet.
Ashton sighed "Sorry, it's just... Everyone's been saying it – that knows – for the past few days and it's really annoying me. Like, pick. One or the other! It's not that hard, they're both the same person!"
Luke stroked Ashton's back "There, there..." He said, pausing "are you pregnant again?" Luke asked, only making Ashton turn round and glare at him "Obviously not..." Luke said, being slightly frightened by the way he was looking at him. It was almost like he was going to rip his head off and feed it to the dogs outside.
"Why? Why would you even think that I was?"
Luke shrugged "I don't know... You're very... short tempered today and easily irritated... Kinda like before."
"Well, if you are, you better not give birth to one of us," Joe said, only to receive a glare off Ashton and sympathy off Luke as he knows that Ashton could literally take his head off at any moment "sorry..." Joe looked away from him.
"Sorry," Ashton said, sighing and realising how he was lashing out at everyone "I didn't really sleep last night, I was too worried about Rocky."
"He'll be fine, Ash, honestly. It's Rocky. Who knows? Maybe he'll find a way back." Luke said.
"Maybe."
"Listen, you back to our dorm and go to bed, okay? I'll finish off in the Armory because... I don't want you carrying a bomb and passing out."
"Are you sure?"
"Yes. Now go."
Ashton smiled and quickly kissed him before getting up to leave, leaving Luke, Joe and Caspar alone. "Love makes me sick." Caspar said. Joe let out a soft laugh, agreeing to a certain extent.
Luke rolled his eyes "Oh, quit your whining, it's just cos you have no one. Yet. Wait till you do, I guarantee love will no longer make you sick."
Joe's smile faded from his face and he looked down sadly, beginning to play with his food rather than eat it and having his hand support his face with his elbow resting on the table "I know..." Joe mumbled incoherently, suddenly looking miserable.
"How would you know?" Caspar asked, to Luke.
"Well, I think it's a little obvious how I know."
"True. Still, I don't get how two people can go from being close friends to being in love with each other. I don't... I don't get it."
Luke nodded, agreeing in a certain way "Yeah, it's weird. Sometimes it's better if you're blind to it."
Caspar furrowed his brow "To the love?"
Luke nodded "Yeah. I mean, it's happening now."
Joe looked up at Luke, confused "What?"
"I have two friends – well, one technically – who are clearly in love with each other but are too blind to see it. So do you two. I'm just scared of what will happen when and if they realise it," Luke said, making Joe and Caspar glance over at one another suspiciously and curiously as they may have a slight clue as to who Luke might mean. Luke rolled his eyes in some sort of disbelief "Oh come on. Don't tell me you didn't know or can't see it? It's so obvious even a blind man could see it! It's hilarious. Think about it. They're always there for one another, protect each other, are very close and are easily hurt when something bad happens to the other one. You don't do that if you're not in love. Sure they were enemies for a short while, but come on... It didn't last very long and... they weren't really enemies."
Joe and Caspar really didn't know what to make of this at all and weren't sure what they should say towards it. They were taken back.
"Dan and Samara?"
"Ohh yeah!" Caspar and Joe said, like it obvious and it made sense. Because lets face it, it was very obvious now that they thought about it.
Luke furrowed his brow, looking between them both "Why? Who did you think I meant?" Luke asked.
Later That Day
Ross walked into Will's office, seeing Luke, Ashton and Brad where he let out a 'phew' in relief when he seen that he didn't only call him to go see him as he was quite scared – and still is – when he heard that Will wanted to see him and that he didn't sound or seem very happy when he said it. Ross shut the door and walked in "Are we in trouble or something?" Ross asked.
Luke shrugged "I don't know... And I'm a little scared to find out."
Suddenly the door opened and Ross immediately jumped into a seat that was next to Luke. The boys all turned their heads to see Will stood at the door, looking very annoyed and angry which concerned them as Will has always been quite a nice and laid back person with them. He's never looked like this towards them at all. "Where's Rocky?" Will asked, sounding like he was trying to bite back from any snappy comments and raising his voice.
"He's not here." Ross said.
"Well, where is he? I need to speak to him, this does include him too you know. Or did his smart-ass forget that?" Will asked, harshly as he walked over to his desk and sat down.
Everyone became silent, being scared of the way Will was beginning to speak to them. Almost like he was beginning to lose his temper. "He's gone. It's a long explanation..." Brad said.
Will looked over at Brad "Yeah, well, you can give me that long fucking explanation after what you've caused these past few days," Will said, making everyone silent as they realised he knew what had happened "that's right. I know about the events that occurred yesterday thanks to my friend called CCTV and my boss' coming to find me at the early hours of this morning asking me what the hell you were all playing at. Especially you two!" Will said, pointing at Ross and Brad as he began to raise his voice "now what on Earth possessed you both to fight like that? I've never seen anything like it and I want to know why now!"
"W-well um... You see—" Luke said, nervously.
"I asked Ross and Brad," Will said, cutting him off. There was a silence as Ross and Brad were too scared to speak by the way Will was acting and looking at them. "TELL ME!" Will shouted, standing up and slamming his hands down on his desk.
Brad jumped "I'm Luke and Ashton's son lets just started there!" He said, quickly as he felt his heart begin to pick up pace. He breathed deeply.
"Samara kidnapped their baby because she saw some future happen on this machine that Dan got her to test out and she seen Brad killing her as well as us – and she claims she did it because something worse would have happened if she didn't – and when she told them two that if Brad found out he'd turn against us all, starting with me. And being the little bitch she is, she told Brad purposefully and well... You obviously saw the aftermath of that on the CCTV..." Ross explained.
Will looked over at Brad "And why is that so bad that you had to turn against your friends?"
Brad shrugged, being nervous and having absolutely nothing to say "I-I don't know... Nineteen years of living with parents who don't have the heart to tell you you're adopted and then your friends keep it from you... it hurts a little."
"And manipulation from Samara too." Ross added quickly.
"And where does Rocky come into all this?" Will asked.
"Well, he had to take the baby back to 1995 in order for Brad to still be here etc. and we got a letter today from him telling us that when he got there, his time travel thing—whatever it's called—broke so he's trapped there..." Luke said, finally being able to speak up – nervously – without being told to shut up.
After a very long silence fell in the room that lasted for at least a minute whilst Will sighed and shook his head, looking down, he finally spoke again "I have tried my best to look out for you guys ever since the situation with you four and Rocky got arranged. I've made sure that you got in to no trouble with the boss' who run the entire place and decide who comes in and who goes out, dead or alive, working or retirement, who gets arrested and who walks free, who gets what job, who doesn't and who gets the special secretive jobs. That last one being only you five—well, four now. Only you five have that throughout the entire base because nobody trusts you more than I do and nobody trusts me more than my boss' and that trust almost got broke because of yesterday!"
"I'm sorry..." Brad said.
"Sorry doesn't cut it, Brad! You don't know how much damage and how much distress you have all caused! They brought me in and questioned me on why you were all acting like that for, especially you Brad, and for once in my life of knowing you all, I didn't have a reason. So I told them that something major must have happened for you all to be like that and that you wouldn't do it without a good enough reason but this isn't a good enough reason! If you all had a good enough reason I could save all your ass' but now I can't!"
"What do you mean by 'save us'..?" Ashton asked, nervously.
Will stayed silent for a short while "The boss' started talking about what to do with you five – including Joe, Caspar and Dan cos they were involved too. They were deciding if they should have you all thrown in the cells for a while, have you all shot dead or have your memory wiped and be sent home or just walk away with a warning. Or even worse, a mix of all four."
"A-and..?" Ross asked.
"You all get to walk away with a warning. Except for Brad. You have one last warning."
"What..?" Brad said, his face falling in disbelief and fear. Mainly because if you're on your last warning at the base it doesn't take much for you to blow it.
"Yes, Brad. One more strike or outburst – no matter how big or small it is – and you're out! Whether if it's shot dead or memory wiped, you're not walking out of here alive or with any knowledge of the place. The incident that happened before you started working here? One strike. What happened yesterday? Two strikes. One more and you're finished. You're gone. Done."
"Who decided that? Them..?" Brad asked, referring to the boss'.
"No. I did. Now get out all of you."
The boys all got out of their seats as quickly as they could and left the room, Brad being the first to go. Neither of the boys said a word to one another until they were out of the offices where all the boss' were. They were petrified out of their minds after that.
"I'm a dead man walking..." Brad said.
Everyone looked at him, not bothering to disagree as they knew it was true. The chances are Brad was not going to make it to the end of the year.
Ross sighed shakily:
"After that... I think we all are."
Wow... it feel weird not having any other stories left to update... it's like a big weight has been lifted off my shoulders (no pun intended I swear).
So yeah...
That was The Weight of Us. Never thought I'd get to the end of this story without having to delete it due to people not being interested in it & even though there were only 3 people who were, thank you so much for letting me write it till the very end! And bc I'm nice & bc this story put you all through an emotional rollercoaster, I'm gonna tell you something that may excite you all. Cos, I know you all loved this story:
May 27th or 29th (or just some time at the end of May) = the MELA Sequel getting posted ;)
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