Bullies To Brothers *{{*ON HOLD*}}*

~ELEANOR'S POV~

I excused myself silently from the small, controlled argument to use the bathroom. I reached the top of the stairs and was about to go to the toilet when a gloved hand covered my mouth and a gross breath hit the side of my face.

"Scream and this gun will fire ten rounds of metal through your body." The voice of the person spoke and I knew at that instant that it was Joe. My whole body froze and I didn't know what to do.

"Now, do as I say and I won't kill everyone downstairs while you watch." He began and my breath hitched in my throat so I nodded.

"Good. Walk downstairs slowly and stop at the door frame." He instructed and I did as he said, not wanting myself or anyone else being hurt.

"Now address them, get their attention." He whispered.

"W-why?" I asked quietly.

"Because I said so." He glared and jabbed the gun in my stomach and I turned and walked a few steps to the doorframe and he moved the gun to my back, hiding aside and out of view.

"G-guys?" I stuttered my words.

"El? Why are you stood at the door? What's wrong?" Perrie asked.

" Uh-I-um-" My pathetic stammering was interrupted by Joe himself who wrapped an arm around my front stopping me from moving and he held the gun to my head and I couldn't help the tear that ran down my cheek. I'm being held at gun point and I'm defenseless, who wouldn't?

"Surprise." Joe smirked.

"Let her go. Right fucking now." Louis demanded walking towards us but Joe pressed the gun even harder in my head and I whimpered.

"Would you rather have her brains all over this floor or Nelly's?" He asked and everyone stood speechless and I decided that now is my time to speak.

"Who are you pointing the gun at? If you wanted to shoot her you would have her in this position threatening us. Not me." I said. The rest of the group looked at me in disbelief and I winked to show that I have a plan.

"Oh, your right. Move bitch." He spat and shoved me. I stood starting shocked right past his head.

"Camera." I said looking ahead and Joe looked confused and turned around, I took that opportunity to take his gun from his hand and threw it to Harry who was directly in front of me. I know that Joe will attempt to hit me now from watching him with Nelly so I was ready to dodge the first punch he threw and ran to Louis.
"You fucking bitch. I told you to do as I say or I will kill everyone in this room and make you watch." Joe growled angrily.

"With what gun?" I asked smartly.

"Who said I would have to use a gun?" He questioned and my heart raced and I brought my hand to my face. He pulled something from his pocket and held it facing Nelly.

"Ring any bells?" He grinned sickly and Nelly's eyes filled up and she gasped gripping Niall's tshirt and he wrapped an arm around her protectively. The weapon of choice looked like a small army knife and its edge was sharp and pointed.

"What do you even want from me Joe?" She asked and her voice croaked slightly.

"Well a number of things; one of them though is because I thought that our special evening could be repeated. In a week it'll be our anniversary! Yay! By the way your all free to come along. Now come on Nelly, you've grown into more of a woman in the past three years and I want to see what your hiding." Joe sneered and Nelly collapsed to the floor and started crying; he was probably talking about the night he raped her. The sicko keeps dates and marks anniversary's!

How can he talk about something like this in such a proud manner? Niall knelt down next to Nelly wrapping his arms around her, trying to not let Joes words get to him, and tried to console her by whispering something into her ear.

"How many times have we chased you out of this house before? You have a fucking knife and we have a gun. No match." Niall spat.

"Its empty. Good try." Joe laughed advancing towards Nelly and him.

"Thought so." Niall said and reached behind him under the too of a small table pulling another, more impressive gun out.

"That's why I've got this. Now, do you have to be told to get the fuck out of my house again?" He said holding the gun up to Joe, an arm either side of Nelly still.

"You wont shoot me. You don't have the balls." He dared.

"Ha, sure. Why don't we play a little game? I'm going to take all but one of these bullets out, so you have five chances to get out before I actually shoot you. Okay?" Niall said and took five bullets out of the gun putting them in his pocket and spun the side of the gun back in place.

"Ready?" He challenged Joe. By the way, the rest of us all just stood there, speechless; we've never seen Niall like this. He's like a completely different person. I guess it's his love for Nelly which drives him to new levels.

"They aren't even real bulle-"

-CLINK- Joe was cut off by Niall clinking the trigger, he wasn't kidding, and we all jumped.

"That's one chance gone, four to go." Niall said, Joe never took a hint and flicked the knife and Nelly whimpered backing away. Niall stood up in front of Nelly's traumatized frame blocking Joes view of her.

-CLINK- "Three more chances. Get out." Niall threatened while guarding Nelly and the other eight of us, standing aside, went to go comfort Nelly behind Niall.

"Hey, come here, he doesn't stand a chance against Niall. Look: I don't know what he has done with that knife but its so fucking small compared to Niall's big ass magnum. Joe is old, Niall is still young and smart, Joe is dumb." I said quietly to her and she nodded.

"I'm sorry." She said to me.

"Why? You haven't done anything." I replied pulling her to me and the rest huddled around creating a protective, I don't know, fort I guess around her in our attempt to make her feel safe.

-CLINK- "Two more chances. Get. Out. Or get shot. I'm not joking, this-this is self defense. You put a gun to one of my best friends backs then you pull a knife on my girlfriend. We have a reasonable alibi, mate." Niall informed Joe.

"He held a gun to your head and back then tried to hit you. Its my fault. All I've done since I came here is bring trouble and put you all in danger." Nelly said quietly through her panicking tears.

"Fine. I'm gone, for now but I will come back and when I do that fucking little bitch his coming with me." Joe glared and jabbed his finger in the direction of Nelly before turning around and hoping out of the front door, slamming it behind him.

Niall threw his gun onto the sofa before dropping to the floor to join us in consoling his terrified girlfriend in our huge huddle on the floor behind him .

~NIALL'S POV~

I don't know what came over me, but a few minutes ago I was pulling the trigger on my gun firing no bullets leaving one round for last. But, then again I would shoot someone for Nelly. In good reason obviously and this was as good a reason as any.
I tossed my gun aside onto the sofa after putting the safety lock on it an dropped to the floor by Nelly, who was shaking like a leaf in the wind with tears down her cheeks. I wrapped my arms around her and pulled her to me.

"He's gone now princess, won't hurt you." I whispered to her and kissed her head then stared at the door where the prick left.

"Do you know why he always leaves, Nelly?" Ally asked and Nelly shook her head and turned to her.

"Because he's too much of a pussy to actually do anything, the gun and the knife were for show. That's why his gun had no bullets in." She smiled and Nelly returned a small one back.

I can sense that something's on Nelly's mind and its not to do with what Joe was saying a few minutes prior.

"I'm sorry." Nelly said in small voice.

"What for?" I asked furrowing my eyebrows.

"All I've done since I came here is bring trouble. I've put you all in danger more than once and to do it once is selfish enough." She said wiping a tear from her eye and sat up a bit. Why would she think that?

"What sort of friends would we be if we never went through your problems and troubles with you? How selfish would that be?" Dani fired back.

"Yeah, but not problems like...psycho uncles... who are trying to destroy my life bit by bit putting my best friends in danger as he does so. El had a gun to her head for god sake. He even broke in here. And I've woke you all up more than once because I can't control my mind."

"It-" "You-" me and El interrupted eachother by accident.

"You go first." I said and she nodded.

"Its not your fault, you didn't know he was up there, he just appeared. God knows how he even got in here but its not down to you. Nothing he's done is your fault, he's fucked up and there's nothing you could do to stop it. So don't beat yourself up about it because he is to blame." El said to Nelly and rubbed her arm.

"And I was going to say no one can control their mind. They can control their thoughts and most of their feelings, but their dreams and nightmares are influenced by things that happen in their life, like you. And it can't always be helped. And about him breaking in, I guess we'll have to put extra locks on the doors and windows." I said smoothing her hair against her back.

"I'm still sorry though, if you never met me you wouldn't even know about him. You wouldn't need extra locks." Nelly said and everyone muttered in disagreement.

"Hey, we met accidentally for a reason." I smirked and she smiled back, though i could tell it was only half there.

We all stayed in our spots on the floor not wanting to move. The most we would is to get more comfy, and even them it'd be a small shuffle. We stayed like this in almost silence, thinking of what happened beforehand.

"Hey, should we stay here tonight? And keep you some company. We know you have the boys but you can't beat the good ol' fashioned girl company." Perrie suggested not looking to me or the boys for consent knowing we wouldn't having a problem with it. Nelly looked from the girls to me and I smiled letting her know I had no problems with it and she nodded.

"Sure, that'd be great." Nelly said.

"Good, were just gonna call home a sec." El said and got up, with Dani, Ally and Perrie following her, they went to the kitchen.

"And just so you know; take no notice to that dick because your going nowhere with him or near him. He'd have to use his gun, which has no bullets, to kill me and the lads first." I said quietly to Nelly and she smiled snuggling more into my chest if that's even possible. The lads were lounging around in thought when the four girls came back in.

"They said we can stay. We'll just have to go home for our clothes." Perrie explained while they sat back down on the floor with their backs against the sofas.

"Okay. I'll be back now, I'm just going to the bathroom." Nelly replied and stood up. She stopped for a moment and motioned for one of the girls to go with her, remembering what happened when El went to the bathroom.

Dani got up and went with her and they left to go upstairs. When they were out of earshot I spoke up.

"I was this close to actually killing that bastard." I said through my teeth using my finger and thumb to show how close I was.

"I know, why would he even say that? And sound so proud about it?" Harry said pissed off.

"I cant even imagine how Nelly feels right now." Ally sighed and brought her thumb to her lips.

"He basically brought every memory of what he did to her back." She added.

"I wonder why she panicked so much when she saw that knife, did you's notice?" El pointed out. Come to think of it, she really seemed even more scared when he pulled it out.

"He must have done something to her with it. I don't even want to think of what he did to her." I grimaced.

"I know you said you don't want to think of it, but do you want us to ask her later when she's a little calmer and its just us girls? She might open up to us about it." Perrie suggested. That doesn't sound like a bad idea and given the fact that Perrie has been through something similar, she might tell her.

"Yeah, it just makes me sick to think of what he's done to her, him saying it himself makes it even more real." I said. Just then, Dani returned with Nelly who was in her pajamas and seemed a little better than before.

"You alright?" I asked when she sat back down next to me.

"Yeah, just needed to sort myself out." She replied and I nodded.

"Well, we better go get our shit from our houses." El said looking at the clock which read almost 6:30.

"See you soon." Nelly said and sighed, the girls left and shut the door behind them. We sat in silence for a short while before Nelly broke it.

"I'm just going to my room for a little bit."She muttered and we nodded. I let her go from my arms and she went upstairs.

~NELLY'S POV~

I-I just didn't know what to do. Joe basically said that he wants yo rape me again, how am I supposed to respond or react to that? I just want to cry, punch a brick wall to release my anger, then cry some more. Oh and the knife, your probably wondering why I reacted the way I did. To cut a long-ish story short, I have cuts at the top of my thighs. And they're from when he sexually assaulted me, but I missed that out when I was telling the others about it

I flopped pon my bed and let the tears flow freely in silent sobs while I thought of everything he did to me.

*FLASHBACK*AGE 9

Joes over to mind me and Wes while mom and dad go out for lunch together. I don't like Joe, he's really mean to me and leaves me out of games which he plays with Wes. Why doesn't he like me too?

"What's wrong Nelly?" Wesley asked me concerned.
"Uncle Joe won't let me play with yous." I pouted.

"He said you didn't want to play. I will go and tell him off for you." He said and went over to Joe. I smiled at him before he went. Joe came over a few seconds later and he wasn't very happy.

"Have you been telling lies again? You know what happens to liars don't you?" He asked gripping my arm very tightly.

"They get punished. But I'm not lying Uncle Joe, you said that I can't play with yous because I'm bad. But I didn't do anything wrong." I said to him and he hauled me up by my arm and dragged me into the next room away from Wesley who looked at me guiltily. Its not his fault though, he was only trying to help.

He let go of me roughly and knelt in front of me, still towering my tiny height. His big rough hand connected with my cheek and I whimpered.

"That was for your lies," he began and hit me again.

"That was for being worthless," he continued and hit me once more.

"And that, was for being here." He finished and walked away. Wesley came running in to see me and frowned when he saw my red face and tears.

"I'm sorry big sis, I was only trying to get him to let you play too." He said and hugged me.

"I know, its not your fault. He's a big bully." I said and he smiled and took my hand in his and we went to his room to build forts.

*FLASHBACK OVER*

I don't know what I ever did to be hated by him. I'm sure its because my real surname is Peers and he has something against the Peers family, which I'm no longer part of.
I want to break something, out of anger. I can't contain my hatred against Joe. I got up, took my pajama pants off and looked at my three year old scars in the mirror next to my wardrobe. He did this to me. For god knows what reason. Then and idea came to mind. Harry goes to the gym to release his anger, why can't I?

I pulled my hair up into a ponytail then got some leggings and a vest top from my wardrobe, since my proper work out clothes still haven't been retrieved from my old house, and changed into them and point on some deodorant before getting my headphones and plugging them into my phone then went downstairs.

"Where you going?" Liam asked.

"Downstairs. Be back in an hour or so." I smiled and went down and the gym.

I entered the door and one thing in particular stood out to me. The punching bag. I went over to it and inspected it, perfect. I left the gym and crossed to the games room for a pen, a piece of paper and some sticky tape. After searching well, I found it and went back to the gym. I wrote on the top of the paper 'JOE' and in the middle 'Everything this bastard has done to you' then at the bottom 'This is him' before ripping each section so its three strips of paper. I then taped each strip to the punching bag as motivation to help me release my anger then plugged my earphones in and clicked shuffle on my music and began beating the shit out of 'Joe'.

*1HOUR LATER*

I'm sweating and panting as I punch, kick and dodge the punching bag, but I'm starting to feel slightly better, and I still have a fair bit of energy in me. No one has come down as far as I know which I'm thankful of since I don't want them to see me in this state; angry, sweating and just purely a hot mess. And to be honest I wouldn't be grateful if they interrupted me right now. I'm in the zone.

I stopped for a moment for a drink and realized I don't have one down here with me. Ugh, I'm going to have to go all the way back upstairs again, looking gross. I grabbed a towel off the small rack at the side and dried the sweat away and tried to make myself a little more presentable before going upstairs.

I reached the kitchen to find no one here or in the living room, must be in their rooms. And where are the girls too? I shook my head and got a bottle of water from the fridge and went back downstairs. I decided to check the games room since I took no notice to it before. I opened the door quietly, making sure I don't disturb whoever is in there and found Eleanor, Louis, Harry and Ally in there playing Mario Kart on the Wii. Everyone else must be in their rooms.

I shut the door and went back to the gym opposite the games room and got back to work.

~NIALL'S POV ~

Nelly came down from her room about an hour after she went up there and I could tell she had been crying; her eyes were red and she was sniffling a bit. She had on leggings and a loose vest top with her hair tied back and her headphones were plugged into her phone.

"Where you going?" Liam asked reading my mind.

"Downstairs. Be back in an hour or so." She replied with a small, slightly reassuring smile before heading down.

"Why is she going to the gym? Strange." Louis commented.

"Probably to release her anger like I do. Must be a lot of anger and upset after what just happened." Harry said.

"True." I said and there was a knock at the door. I got up and went to it and let the girls in.

"Where's Nelly?" Dani asked realizing her non presence.

"Gym, I'll go get her..." I said and went through the small door by the kitchen which led to the stairs to the gym and games room.

I cracked the door open to find Nelly throwing killer punches at the punching bag. There were rectangles of paper taped to the punching bag saying something like 'JOE' and another said 'This is him' I think. So she's thinking of the punching bag as Joe, not bad. I decided its best to leave her to it and went back upstairs.

"We better leave her to it." I suggested when I got back to the living room.

"Whats she doing?" El asked.

"Beating the shit out of a punching bag." I replied and everyone raided their eyebrows.

"Yeah, she's written 'JOE' and other little notes on it too." I added and Liam widened his eyes.

"Not actually on the punching bag, she writ them on pieces of paper and taped them to it. Calm yourself." I chuckled.

"Well, I'm going upstairs." Liam said and went up, Dani to!lowed him.

"I think I'll go to my room too. You coming?" Zayn asked Perrie while he stood up and she nodded following him.

"Well, we have six game controllers and there's five of us; you up for it?" Louis suggested. Eleanor, Harry and Ally all nodded but I couldn't be bothered.

"Nah, I'll pass. Harry, knock Louis out on whatever game your playing." I winked and headed to my room.

I pulled my notebook from under my bed and got a own from my draw by my bed deciding that now is a good time to add to the song I'm working on. I'm still undecided in the name for it.
'I figured it out, saw the mistakes of up and down
Meet in the middle, there's always room for common ground.

I see what it's like, I see what its like for day and night
Never together, cos we see things in a different light
Like us, they never tried like us.

You and I, we don't wanna be like them
We can make it til the end
Nothing can come between you and I
Not even the gods above, can separate the two of us.'

About two hours had passed before I changed into sweats and went down to the living room to see what everyone was up to. Nelly was changed and her hair was a little damp so I'm assuming she had a shower, and everyone was in pajamas watching 'The Heat'.

"Guys, what are we going to do about school?" Zayn asked suddenly a few moments after I sat down.

"I don't think I'll be able to go in. The posters have been passed around to god knows who and someone in school is bound to have one." Nelly pointed out.

"Cant we bribe them or tell them something? I don't mean to sound like one of the teachers or something but you shouldn't have to miss out on your education because of him." Dani suggested.

"I guess we could try, but what if they don't believe it or don't go along with it? I'll be royally fucked." Nelly said.

"If we never try we'll never know." Harry said and Nelly nodded.

"Okay, I'll do it." She said and leaned into me and I wrapped my arm around her; I've noticed she likes cuddling a lot. I ain't complaining though.

"I just really hope for everyone else at school that no one pisses me off; I'm not being held responsible for my actions." She mumbled.

"Hey, guess who was asking about 'Hot Lips' today, Niall." Ally grinned sideways.

"What? Oh who, Hunter?" I asked.

"Yup, he was asking why you all weren't in and he was talking about how he can make Nelly feel more good in the bed than you can." El and the girls laughed while the lads joined in. Me and Nelly were trying not to.

"What did you s-" Nelly cut me off by putting a finger to my lips and she gave me a look.

"We said that she/you both had better things to such as fucking each others brains out which is miles better than whatever he could do with Nelly." Ally said and Nelly looked at me with an 'I told you so' expression and I was speechless for a moment before bursting out laughing which then caused Nelly to also.

"Ah, I can imagine how ashamed he was, seeing as he isn't used to girls shooting him down." Harry smirked to himself.

We made small talk for a few minutes before the girls all decided to go upstairs to Nelly's room.

Notes

:O Shit. Went. Down!!! O:
Sorry the chapter is late too. I dont think i will be able to update in my usual routine because of my shitty wifi :( But i will obviously update as often as i can which should be at least once a week, im not sure what days it will be though... :/<3