17.

Danny slammed the door behind him when he came back home after another search for Tom. Angry and frustrated he paced through the room wondering where else Tom could be. He walked to the town's map that was on his desk and scraped another part that had been searched.

'Come on Tom, feel something for me' He said through his teeth. Until Tom feels something extreme, like pain or fear, Danny can't know where he is. Even though he doesn't wish any of those feelings on Tom he just wants to save him fast. Because the longer Tom will stay there the more damage it will do to him.

For the last three days he had been searching day and night, without taking rests and without any sleep. It seemed to take the upper hand of him as his eyelids were getting too heavy for him to keep them open.

He looked at his bed which became more and more attractive with the second. 'Maybe just 10 minutes' He said to himself and looked at the clock. It was 4.50 pm.

'At 5 pm I'll start looking again' He said while crawling into his bed. 'Just.. 10.. Min.. Minut'

Danny couldn't finish his sentence and drifted away directly. Whilst sleeping he dreamt about Dougie and how they got together. It was like their story was told all over again but this time he wasn't himself, he was watching himself.

Everything that has happened he saw himself doing: the inner battles, the decisions he has made over the past weeks but most importantly how he fell in love.

Pictures of a happy and smiling Dougie now flashed through until it suddenly stopped and Dougie now looked at him sadly.

"If you don't find Tom, don't bother coming back" Dougie said

Suddenly Danny shot wide awake feeling really fearful and a picture of an old factory flashed before his eyes. He knew exactly what it meant: Tom.

He looked at the clock and saw it was already 7pm. So much for 10 minutes.. But without wasting any more time he took off his shirt and flew through the window not caring if anyone would see him or not. This was the fastest way of travelling.

Only a few minutes later he arrived at the factory. Danny immediately began his search for the room where Tom was hidden which he found pretty fast.

Standing in the doorway Danny saw Tom crawling into a corner while his father came at him with a knife in his hands.

'STOP!' Danny yelled.

Tom's father looked shocked around. 'Not you again!'

'Not happy to see me are you? Well I can say it's mutual' Danny replied

Without any kind of warning Tom's father suddenly started running towards Danny with the knife in his hands ready to stake him. But Danny narrowed his eyes and decided it was time to use his powers.

Just before the man could stake him Danny held out his arm towards him which froze everything in the room. Calmly Danny took the knife out of the man's hand and threw it across the room. And while he was at it he called the police to give them a tip on their location.

After hanging up the phone, he took back his place before the man and set time back in motion while pushing him back. Danny smiled with the confused look on the man's face.

'Want to try that again?' Danny asked smirk. And surprisingly Tom's father redeemed himself and attacked again.

Danny rolled his eyes and sighed. 'They'll never learn' He said and casually moved his arm which made the man move with it until he was knocked out against a wall.

Danny immediately ran to Tom and freed him from his chains.

'Danny? What are you doing here? What just happened?' Tom asked with widened eyes.

'I'll explain later, let's just get out of here shall we? Take my hand.'

Tom laid his hand into Danny's who pulled him back on his feet. Looking at Tom from head 'till toe Danny was happy to see Tom didn't have any kind of wounds. He then pulled Tom closer to him.

'Close your eyes' He said

'What?'

'Do you trust me?' Danny asked.

'Yes' Tom said without hesitation.

Danny smiled 'Then close your eyes'

After looking in both Danny's eyes Tom closed his and suddenly felt his feet coming of the ground and wind blowing in his face. He wanted to see what was happening, although he did have an idea, but he didn't because Danny said to close them.

'TOM!' His name suddenly was called ecstatically by Dougie and from that moment he couldn't keep them closed any longer knowing he was back home.

Already standing back on solid ground and in his room he hugged his brother long and tightly.

Danny watched to two of them with a smile on his face but that smile disappeared when he heard God's voice in his head.

'Hell is waiting for you'

Danny swallowed hard but he knew the consequences from the beginning and can't chicken out now. After one last look at two persons he loved the most he turned around to fly to his new home.

'Danny I don't know how to thank y..' Dougie said smiling wide but stopped when he turned around and Danny was gone. He ran to the window to see if he could get eye of him but it was already too dark.

'You're not going to believe this' Tom started. 'But I think Danny can fly!'

Dougie looked at his brother and decided it was time for him to know the truth, the whole truth.

'Come sit down with me, I have to tell you something' He said

Tom frowned with the serious tone of Dougie's voice but carefully sat down next to his brother and listened.