One Mistake & No Survivors

Disclaimer: I do not own anything or anyone from Big Time Rush. The girls belong to their creators. I only own the plot.

Chapter Ten

Wrong Things Always Feel Right

James's POV

I lean my head against one of the many glass windows at Rocque Records. Kendall is in the studio with Gustavo and Kelly recording solo parts, while Logan and Carlos are back at the Palm Woods, as it wasn't their day to record. I have to wait for Kendall to finish before I can go in and record.

Cars speed by below, their headlights adding more light to the city at night. Car horns blare, and I close my eyes, memories of New York playing like music in my ears.

"Hi."

I open my eyes and turn around, and nearly pass out at the sight of Amanda. She looks just the same as I remembered her. Her dark brown hair is up in a high ponytail, and it was curled, mixing in her blonde and red highlights together. Her brown eyes sparkle in the lighting of the building, and her diamond nose ring stud gives off a little shine. She has on dark blue skinny jeans on, a dark purple sweatshirt, and black lace up boots.

"You're back." I stutter.

"Not for long." Amanda says. "We have reason to believe that you, Kendall, Carlos, and Logan may be in danger of past threats."

"We?" I ask.

"Erika and I." Amanda says, leaning against the arm rest of a chair.

"What about Elena and Kameryn?"

Amanda sighs and blows a bubble with her gum. It pops and she resumes chewing. "Erika and I haven't had any contact with them for the past year."

"What exactly have you been doing for the past year?" I ask, sitting down in the chair Amanda is leaning on.

"Stuff that you can't know about." Amanda replies. She takes her gum out of her mouth, and throws it across the room, where it lands in a garbage pail. "James, I'm not here for anything romantic. I will just be observing from the shadows for the next several days to make sure you and your friends are in no danger."

"So why are you telling me all this?"

"I just wanted to forewarn you so you can be on the lookout for anything suspicious." Amanda says. She stands up to walk away, but I grab her wrist and pull her down into my lap. She is laying across me now and I pin her wrists down.

"James, do you not remember I'm a spy?" Amanda says, clearly anger at me. "I can break you in two right now if I want too."

I lean in so close to Amanda that our noses are touching. "But would you do that?" I whisper. "Could you bring yourself to hurt me like that?"

"What we had is over James." Amanda whispers back. "We are nothing."

"Then why don't we make something now?" I say, before I kiss Amanda. She doesn't pull away. We just sit there, kissing.

"You still sure you don't want to make something?" I ask as Amanda and I pull apart.

"We're not allowed too." Amanda whispers, wrapping her arms around my neck. "Stop pulling me back into something that I'm not allowed to be in."

"You make it sound like our love is a crime." I whisper.

"It is."

Amanda unwraps her arms from around my neck and rolls off my lap. I stand up as she too stands up. We just stand there, looking at each other.

"What if something happens that can be consider a threat?" I ask. "How do I contact you?"

"You don't." Amanda says, fixing her sweatshirt. "I'll know."

"So you'll be watching me?" I tease. Amanda rolls her eyes and crosses her arms across her chest. "You wish." She replies, before opening the window I had previously been leaning against, and jumps out it. I rush over to it, leaning out it. I can't stop Amanda in the massive crowd of people below, and I drop my head to my chest.

"Hey James, it's your turn." Kendall says behind me. I pull my head back in and walk into the studio, angry at myself again for losing Amanda when she was so close.

Elena's POV

The world comes spinning back into my view as I wake up. My head is pounding and something stings my side. I take a sharp breathe, and I hear Caleb mutter an apology.

"Caleb, what happened?" I ask, re-shutting my eyes.

"The weapons trade went horrible." I hear Caleb say. "They figured out we were trying to stop and they attacked. It was five against two. You had taken down two guys and I had taken down one, and was working on my second when the fifth guy came from behind you and just destroyed you. Hit you in the head with a pipe and beat you till you almost a pulp. I got us out of there in time."

"How bad am I?" I ask, moaning as Caleb puts more medicine on one of my wounds.

"You're just really cut up." Caleb says. I wince again but Caleb keeps applying medicine. "What about you?" I ask. "How bad are you?"

"I escaped with minimal damage." Caleb replies. "Okay, I'm about fix up your last cut, but it's a big one." Caleb places a piece of towel in my hand. "Bit on this."

I place the cloth in my mouth and brace myself for the sensation. Moments later, Caleb begins to clean the wound. I bit down on the cloth, but scream anyways. It's muffled, and my leg feels like it's on fire. I feel darkness creeping up on me, and I succumb to it.

Carlos's POV

I walk down the hall to my apartment when all of a sudden I'm on the floor. Someone is on top of me, and I open my eyes, that I didn't know I had shut, to see Erika on top of me. She places her hand over my mouth, telling me to be quiet.

"Carlos!" I hear Stephanie scream. "Carlos, I have to tell you something."

I try to pull Erika's hand away from my mouth, but she keeps it firm in place. She leans down towards my ear and her breath is warm against it. "I just saw her cheating with another guy." Erika whispers. "She is going to break up with you."

I look at Erika with wide eyes and she releases her hand. Erika gets up off me as Stephanie gets closer to us. Erika slips into a supply closet, and I sit up, angry raging inside of me at Stephanie's betrayal.

"Carlos!" Stephanie says as she makes her way towards me. "I've been looking all over for you. Why are you on the floor?"

"Uh, I was looking for a button that fell off my shirt." I lie.

"Carlos, I really need to talk to you about something." Stephanie says, guilt written all over her face.

"I want to break up." I blurt out. Stephanie seems rather relief and shocked by this, but she doesn't say anything. She just nods her head and walks off down the hall, out of my life. The door to the supply closet creaks open and Erika pokes her head out.

"You can come out now." I sigh. "She's gone."

Erika slips out and sits on the floor next to me. "You okay?" She asks.

"This is the second time I have lost someone important to me." I say.

"Who was the first?" Erika asks. I turn my head and I look at her. "You." I whisper.

Erika blinks then we're both leaning on. Next thing I know, Erika and I are kissing. "This is wrong." Erika whispers as we pull apart for a moment.

"But it never felt so right." I whisper back before Erika and I are kissing again.