Special [Zianourry]

Chapter 10

A/N: I've hit 5k reads on Freak! Can you believe it! Woo!! I'm so happy for you all doing this for me. Only (about) ten weeks, love you all ^.^ chapter to celebrate!!!!
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I'm really sorry how long this is taking to write... I'm suffering from a dreaded, awful disease called writers block. At most, I only manage one sentence every time I try to write this... Sorry :(
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"Morning." Liam kissed me awake as I stirred. When I blinked my eyes open, I noticed we were the only ones awake, the rest of our boyfriends sleeping peacefully.
"Uh... 'm still tired." I mumbled, snuggling back into his chest.
"I know, Lou." He let me doze against him for a while. Eventually, Harry stretched, and opened his eyes blearily. "Hey, Haz."
"Li?" He muttered, squinting against the morning light at us. "Boobear?"
"Morning." Rolling over, I leant forwards and kissed him. Soon, though, he was dozing again.
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When we were all awake, Finn knocked on my door. "Yeah?"
"Just saying, it's almost eleven. Get some food or don't." Finn called, before I heard him walking away. We all went downstairs, sitting at the dining table.
"Louis! How are you?" Lela swept into the room, already looking wide awake.
"Fine, thank you." I said politely, as food was placed in front of us.
"No need to be polite. Morning, boys." She smiled at my boyfriends before leaving us to our breakfast.
"Any plans?" Liam asked us.
"Nah." Zayn nudged him. "Take some time off school."
"That is a plan." I rolled my eyes, as Harry and Niall giggled.
"We could always go see that new place that was built." Harry offered.
"It's too far away, Haz." Niall shrugged.
"You could always fly, Sir." One of the people milling around said.
"Awesome."
"Or I could fly myself." I grinned. "What would people do if they saw a dragon flying around?"
"It's not that uncommon, Lou." Zayn smiled. As I pouted, I watched them all melt. "I'm sorry." When I didn't move, Zayn got up, picked me up and sat down with me in his lap. "Sorry, Lou!" He kissed me, but I didn't stop pouting.
"Louis, quit it." Liam laughed, forcing my lip back with his forefinger. A smile crept onto my face as I leaned against Zayn, getting comfortable.
After we finished our breakfast, we went back upstairs to my room to get dressed. As I was brushing my teeth, I could hear Finn talking to his friends on Skype, and went to say hi.
"Morning!" I leant around the door.
"Hi, Louis." Finn smiled at me. "Going out?"
"Maybe. Will you be okay?"
"I'll be fine." Finn laughed. "Shoo." With that, I went back to my own room, seeing my boyfriends were dressed.
"Where do you seriously want to go?" Niall asked us as we went downstairs.
"Maybe we could go down to the lake?" Zayn suggested, and I bit my lip, not saying anything. Water. A great expanse of it.
"Boobear doesn't want to." Harry pouted, taking my hand.
"Sorry, Louis." Zayn glanced over at me apologetically.
"We could go build a treehouse or something." Liam laughed.
"That'd be fun!" I perked up.
"Really, Boobear?" Harry rolled his eyes.
"It'd be amazing, though!"
"I was joking." Liam smiled, and I pouted. "Lou, is that all you can possibly want to do today?"
"Pretty please?" I begged.
"If we have to." Niall giggled.
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Soon enough, I was leading them through the woods, knowing the area well. "How come you know every single tree?" Zayn smirked, as we all vaulted over a pile of logs.
"I spent hours and hours in here every day as a kid. Nothing to do but explore." I shrugged.
"It's a wonder you didn't stumble across the school." Liam hummed.
"I didn't go that far, Li."
"This is what you were talking about?" Niall asked as we reached a clearing, a towering oak tree in the middle.
"It's quite good." Harry inspected it.
"It was too far away from old-home to build a hideout, but I liked it." Swiftly leaping up the tree, I came across a perfect starting spot. "There's a flat bit of branches here, and across the tree, which we could use."
"I can't believe we're doing this." Zayn shook his head, as they all climbed up after me.
Over the course of the day, we shifted branches and sheets of material and plastic to make the perfect treehouse. It took ages, but the basic frame was done in a few hours.
"That's pretty sick." Liam sat back against one of the walls.
"It's awesome!" I exclaimed excitedly.
"We know, Lou." Niall grinned breathlessly.
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Two weeks later
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"Movie!" I called, running into my room, and landing on the bed with a quiet 'thump'.
"What do you want to watch, Lou?" Liam asked me, as my boyfriends sat down next to me.
"Hunger Games."
"Which one, Boobear?" Harry got his laptop out.
"Second, obviously." I rolled my eyes, reaching over to the remote control on my bedside and clicking the up arrow. A TV slowly rose from the bottom frame of my bed, and Harry got the USB lead, plugging his laptop into it. 'The Hunger Games: Catching Fire' played on the screen and I sighed happily, getting comfortable under the covers.
We all settled down as it started, me mouthing the words until Niall put his hand over my mouth. When Katniss went flying into the water as the arena spun, I shuddered, then feeling Liam tighten his arms around my waist, and Harry nuzzled his head into my chest.
All of us giggled as we jumped at the mutt jumping out at Peeta. "Yes, Finnick." I muttered as he saved Peeta's life.
"Ssh." Liam breathed in my ear, and I sent him an apologetic look. When Finnick and Katniss were facing the mutts screaming at them, I glowered at the thought of being stuck with that.
Harry sucked in a breath when Katniss blew up the forcefield, and I kissed his forehead, keeping my eyes glued to the screen. Liam was behind me, arms around me, and Harry was snuggled into my chest. Niall was on the other side of Harry, Zayn behind him, one arm draped across Niall and Harry's waists.
"Do you ever want to swim again, Lou?" Zayn asked me once silence settled after the movie.
"Probably not, no." I sighed. "I'd just have a panic attack."
"Not if we were there." Niall looked over at me.
"I would for a while, by which time we'd have gone back to school and we wouldn't have a chance."
"How about tonight? Literally, one hand in the water?" Harry tilted his head back to meet my eyes.
"I'd drown, Haz." I kissed him gently.
"No, you wouldn't, Boobear" He murmured against my lips.
"I might."
"I'm sure you wouldn't." Liam assured me.
"Maybe." Silently thinking what a bad idea it was, I saw them all grin happily, and sighed, knowing it'd make them happy.
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"Where's Finn?" I asked Lela as we sat down for dinner.
"He should be here any minute, Louis, he was out at the archery centre all day." She looked at the clock.
"Probably devising methods on how to torture us." I muttered.
"Bang on, Louis, we were going to try a thousand ways to kill you and the team. Actually, I'm thinking of going for the individuals as well this year." Finn walked into the room in just a pair of denim shorts, his hair messy, looking tired.
"You'd be good." Niall said thoughtfully.
"Probably win." Zayn pointed out.
"I doubt it, there's some real good archers." Finn sat down, drinking a glass of water quickly.
"You're one of them." I said flatly.
"Maybe you should try, Louis." He smirked.
"I don't stand a chance." Shaking my head, I thought of how badly I'd loose.
"With a bit more practice, you would." Finn said seriously.
"Maybe in a few years."
"It'd be good. If you got good in that, maybe you'd have a chance at Head Student when we get to year six, Boobear." Harry nudged me.
"It was surprising the five of you all were in the same year." Lela said lightly. "I mean, I know students who go to the school before the seven years tend to be moved up, but, still."
"It was just Haz and Lou who fell out of place, but you'd been there, what, two years?" Liam looked at Harry, who nodded. "So, you were moved up, and then they put Lou with you because you found him, and he'd struggle more in an higher year when he was new."
"I would tell you rude, but you're right." I frowned.
"Shame, missed out on an insult, there, Lou." Zayn said dryly.
"I'd hope you wouldn't want to insult." Liam rolled his eyes. After we'd eaten dinner, my boyfriends persuaded me outside, where I looked into the still water of the pool.
"Come on, Louis, you can do this." Zayn wrapped his arms around my waist from behind so there was no way I'd fall, before making me take a step forwards.
As he slowly took more steps forwards, I felt myself start to shake, remembering the water gushing into my lungs, the agonising pressure of the lack of air in my chest and head.
"It's okay, Lou." Zayn took me away from the pool again, and I relaxed, still terrified.
"It's fine, Boobear." Harry wriggled through the group hug that had developed, allowing me to cling onto him, hiding my face in his shoulder. The others surrounded us as I gradually calmed down.
"I'm okay." I mumbled.
"We know." Niall smiled brightly. We spent the next hour with me shakily approaching the pool, until I was sitting about a foot away from the side, watching the water carefully.
"See? We wouldn't let anything happen to you." Liam assured me, sitting with me in between his legs, his arms holding onto my waist comfortingly, so I knew I wouldn't fall in.
"I know, Li, but it was scary. I'd just learnt to swim, sort of, then I couldn't, and the water just choked me, and I could feel it filling my lungs up, and it hurt." I whimpered.
"I know, Lou, I know." He murmured, kissing the side of my neck.
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Later that night, we were all cuddling in my bed, talking softly. "What do we want to do tomorrow?" Niall asked quietly.
"There's a forecast for rain." Zayn warned us.
"We could always watch a movie or something." Liam said.
"Sounds good." I agreed happily, watching Harry struggling to remain awake where he dozed with his head on my chest, my arms wrapped around him. Slowly, we all fell asleep, pressed close together comfortingly.
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"Hey, Hazza." When I woke up, it was just the two of us, with a bedside note off Liam telling us they'd gone to get breakfast after they woke up, but they'd bring snacks for us.
"Hey, Boobear." Harry murmured cutely, stretching, his curly hair falling into his face, bright, green eyes still hazed over with sleep. We were tangled together, and I made no move to get up, or dislodge Harry from his position curled into me.
As we lay silently, sleepily, I could hear faint voices, and knew our boyfriends were coming back. Soon enough, the door opened, and they spilled in, chatting loudly.
"Shuddup." Harry mumbled against my chest.
"Sorry, Haz." Zayn ruffled his hair as they all came over to us, sitting around.
"We can watch a movie if you want?" Niall prompted.
"Hunger Games?" Liam said.
"Mockingjay. I watched Catching Fire with you lot recently." I yawned, starting to wake up. We settled down, or, rather, Harry and I took care not to be moved as the others lay down, the TV appearing from the end of the bed. When Liam set the movie up, two people came in, setting two trays of drinks and snacks on my bedside table. "Thanks!" I called as they left swiftly.
"Black your window out!" Finn yelled at me from his room as Harry caught me in a kiss while we waited for the movie to start. The others burst out laughing as we drew apart, blushing bright red.
"Sorry!"
"You better be!"
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Over the next two weeks, the five of us, and sometimes Finn, spent a lot of time exploring the grounds, getting me closer to the pool, exercising in the gym, or Finn and I in the huge archery centre, or visiting our treehouse we'd built.
"Back to school in a few days." Liam sighed as the five of us sat in our treehouse one day.
"I don't want to go back." Harry rolled his eyes.
"We've got to get work, right?" I prodded him.
"You don't. Lela's filthy rich." Zayn shrugged. "We have to, though."
"I can't just use her money." Frowning, I watched a squirrel fall out of a tree and land on another squirrel with an inaudible splat.
"Use it a bit. Don't go getting a great, fat job, there's no point." Niall nudged me.
"S'pose." I shrugged.
"We should go back soon." Zayn checked his phone. "We've already overran. It'll be nearly ten by the time we get back."
"I could fly back."
"You sure, Lou? The four of us'll be heavy." Liam looked at me sharply.
"It'll shorten the journey at least, if I get worn out." My logical side crawled forwards from the deep, dark depths of the forgotten mind.
"Fine." After we scrambled to the floor, I concentrated, before shifting into a large, black dragon. They grinned, quickly climbing onto my back, and clinging on. Once I was sure they wouldn't fall off, I took off into the sky, hearing them shouting out in joy as the wind rushed past us, my wings carrying us faster and faster towards Lela's house.
A good twenty minutes later, and my back was burning with exhaustion, my wings becoming sloppy, but I could see her house. "Lou, land, before you crash!" Niall yelled at me, so I dived through the air, neatly pulling up and gently fluttering onto the ground, at which point I collapsed, turning human again.
"You okay, Boobear?" Harry asked me.
"Fine." I slurred. Liam carried me back, Zayn taking my backpack. We were about two miles away from the house, so they started to jog, treating it like a run at school. Because of his super strength, Liam wasn't slowed by carrying me. "What time is it?"
"About seven." Zayn told me.
"We'll just get back for dinner." Niall checked his watch. Finally, we arrived at the top of the drive, and Liam waited as the door opened, until he put me down in the foyer, winding an arm around my waist.
"You look shattered, Louis." Lela frowned slightly.
"I'm okay." I yawned widely, before tucking into the food.
After dinner, the five of us ran upstairs, showering and getting changed swiftly, before I dived into bed, curling into a tight ball in the middle.
"We won't fit, Boobear." Harry said gently, forcing me to uncurl by snuggling into me, his legs entangled with mine, head burrowed in my chest.
"Love you." I murmured as we all fell silent, slowly falling asleep.
"Love you, too, Lou." They all mumbled, before I faded into dreams.