Sorry it took me so long to update the last chapter! Here is another one of Clive's flashbacks. As you know there was about to be a giant fight, and so Clive is reminded of another time he was fighting alongside Laura. Anyway enjoy the chapter!

~Clive's Flashback~

I threw a punch at the soldier to my left, while dodging another's roundhouse kick. In the corner of my eye I saw Laura sweeping the legs of the larger soldier, causing him to fall on the floor. I then heard the sickening sound of Laura's fist making contact with his face. A small white chip landed in Laura's palm.

"Put it under your pillow." Laura winked, pressing the tooth into the man's palm. "C'mon Clive, lets go." Laura yelped, grabbing my arm as she ran past. I hadn't quite knocked out the soldier yet but it would be a good twenty minutes until he got back up and chased us again.

"Why won't they just leave us alone? They only get beaten up all the time!" I groaned as I swung my leg over my motorbike and revved up the engine.

"They caught one of us before-" Laura glanced at me as we raced across the roads on our way back to HQ "-They probably think they can do it again." We were silent after that. I was lost in deep thought, trying to remember clearly what happened before I found myself chained to a wall and facing my worst enemy. But as hard as I tried I simply couldn't remember. We were coming up to the turn we were supposed to turn down to get back to Headquarters, but if Laura hadn't cleared her throat loudly to remind me, I probably would have zipped straight passed it. We slowed our motorcycles down to a gentle speed and carefully eased them into the HQ garage. "This office always reminds me of Batman." Laura thought out loud as she swiped her elite card in the elevator scanner. Laura was at quite a high rank in the SAVI and could go pretty much anywhere she wanted in the building.

"Batman?" I choked laughing.

"Y'know, its a giant secret HQ for an anti-government association pretending to be an ordinary office." Laura explained as the elevator shot up to the 76th floor. I laughed again and looked at Laura, who was smiling back at me innocently.

"I often forget that you are a scary, ninja nineteen year old who could potentially kill me and frame it on somebody else."

"Well, don't judge a book by its cover." Laura smiled stepping out of the glass elevator into her bright, sky high office. I was about to turn and press the button to go back to my regular floor 34 office when Laura stopped me. "Do you wanna hang out here for a while? We can order pizza." Laura smiled, shrugging carelessly.

"Yeah, Ok." I grinned. Another one of the reasons Laura can do whatever she wants is because her granddad owns the SAVI. And her granddad is as rich as I was before I blew all my cash on building a giant replica of London and a mobile fortress. I often wonder where the hell he gets his money, and pays most of the people who work here (I get a small pay too, but I still work as a reporter for more money and resources). I reckon he probably sells some of the information to other organisations, and probably gets some anonymous donations. But still. Laura woke me from my trance by dropping the phone down onto her glass coffee table a slumping next to me on the leather black sofa.

"I just ordered two margaritas, some garlic bread and some wedges. Is that Ok?" Laura yawned, stretching out slightly.

"Yeah that fine." I nodded "Are you tired or something?" I worried. Laura's been under a lot of stress since I was captured,and I know there's a lot of things she isn't telling me. The truth is she's still a teenager. Sure, she's almost twenty, but a teenager at heart. And being a high ranking member of an anti-government organisation, while multitasking about three other jobs, is way too much for a teenager to be doing. To much for anybody to be doing.

"Wha-what? oh.. yeah. I'm fine?" Laura grumbled, her eyes fluttering sleepily. after a few minutes of silence it was evident that Laura had drifted of to sleep on the sofa. I sighed and put a blanket around her shoulders, she looked perfect sleeping there {A/N don't start singing 5SOS except if you really have to.} (Even if there was a little dribble on the corner of her mouth). Soon the buzzer went off and I quickly answered it as not to wake Laura.

"I have your pizza?" The pizza guy stammered. I pushed the button that would allow him into the elevator and send him up to Laura's room. About a minute later he had appeared by my side, eagerly holding out the food. "That'll be £14.85 please." He grinned cheesily. No pun intended.

"Oh, right..." I mumbled, pulling out a ten pound and five pound note from my pocket. I also gave him a couple of pound coins tip and told him to keep any leftover change.

"Cheers." he nodded "Looks like your date's fallen asleep then?" he glanced towards Laura.

"Oh no were just-" I began to explain, but do we really have to label everything as friend, or girlfriend? "-Never mind." I smiled and shook his hand. I watched him scoot off on his little delivery bike. I turned to the sofa, where I noticed Laura had stirred. "Awake are we?" I laughed at her puzzled expression.

"I just awoke to the smell of pizza..." She mumbled. stretching out her arm trying to grasp a slice.

"Right." I smiled and picked up the TV remote, I began to flick through the channels when a sudden image came to mind:

I noticed she dropped a scarlet envelope on our way out...

It was a memory from when I had been rescued about a month ago. "Laura?" I asked

"Mhmm?" was Laura's response as she bit into the hot, cheesy pizza.

"What was in that red envelope you dropped when you were rescuing me?"

"W-well..." She stammered, carefully putting down the slice of pizza. "In the envelope... there was a copy of the pictures of... They were pictures of-" a tear trickled down Laura's cheek. I leaned towards her and wiped the salty tear with my sleeve, I held her closer to me so I could feel the beat of her heart on my chest. "They were the pictures of the victims... And the prisoners... His prisoners."

"Sshh. Its okay..." I rocked her back and forth in my arms "Can you tell me what you mean by victims, Laura?" I questioned gently

"He tortures people Clive. Bill hawks tortures people and then he brainwashes them." She buried her face in my shirt "He tortured you, Clive... And I only just got there in time, in time to stop you being brainwashed... I'm sorry I couldn't get there in time to stop you being tortured." She looked up into my eyes apologetically "I dropped a note that said if they ever attempted to hurt you again, I would immediately have these published... But then I got a letter back." Laura uncrossed her legs and pulled herself up from my clasp, I watched her pad other to the other side of the room and leaf through some draws. She came back and sat next to me again, holding a dark red envelope. she handed it to me and nodded, gesturing for me to read it. I opened it and read in my head:

Laura,

If you think we intend on harming Clive deliberately, you are mistaken.
I only did what I did to get to you specifically, seeing as you appear to care for each other quite a bit.
Why else would I have bothered sending you all those sound recordings?
But seeing as you insist, I shall no longer harm Clive.
I think it best if we torment you... Directly, shall we say?

Sincerely,
Bill Hawks

I put my arm around Laura once again.

"They want to hurt you?" I stammered, trying to comprehend the huge mess. Laura nodded solemnly "But.. Why? I-I won't let them!" I yelled slamming my fist on the coffee table. I took a second to re-compose myself, as Laura looked slightly scared by my outburst. "Can I hear the sound recordings?" I turned to Laura, who nodded in quiet response. She walked up to her voice mail machine and pressed the play button. The machine whirred and the message began to play. It was a single long distinct scream, A scream that I knew was none other than my own.

"We have to stop him, Clive." Laura whispered, gazing out the window. I walked up behind her and gently put one hand on her shoulder. I looked out the window at the starry sky, which seemed to shine a little brighter tonight.

"We will." I nodded. And our hearts glimmered, with the little bit of hope we had. A bit like the first star out; in the wide, dark spread of the sky.

Flashback over! Next scene is another action-packed fight scene, so prepare yourselves. It'll be quiet the change from the cute fluff you just read. I think my dog really inspired this chapter (She was snoring away on the sofa while I wrote this). And yep, I really was listening to 'She looks so perfect' when I was writing this... So I really couldn't help but slip that in. I was also listening to the Vamps and R5, I wonder if any of you like them? Well, c'ya next time ~L xx