Daisies [louis-centric]

10

Things didn't exactly get better.

They didn't get worse, but they didn't get better.

After Liams act of defiance retaliating against management so Louis wouldn't have to go to the club, they'd had him going to bars, clubs, etc- almost every night.

He can't even count how many ads and magazines that have pictures of him with random models, always asking if they were dating.

He just wants to make a statement that no, he is, in fact, not dating any of them.

The only person he wants to be with is the one person he isn't allowed to be close to at the moment.

Speaking of which, the one and only thing Liam is grateful for that came out of his own situation with management is the fact that Louis is getting better.

He's still attached to Nialls hip, almost never letting the blue eyed alpha let go of his hand.

Of course Liam had gone through his bouts of jealousy -he'd seen Harry throw enough fits for the both of them- but he knew this was best for Louis.

None of them knew the full story yet and they weren't going to push it until Louis was ready, but they weren't stupid. They could take a pretty good guess at what had most likely gone down.

And it made Liams blood boil.

He wanted to hunt down and kill whoever had hurt his Louis.

His omega.

Zayn had been in the most contact with Louis' family, who had said the police were on the hunt for this Carter guy.

He'd appeared and then disappeared again without a trace and it had everybody on edge.

Louis was never allowed to leave the tour bus unless he was with one of the boys and several security detail.

Tour had practically been postponed -even though it was almost over anyways- but Liam(and he loved his fans he truly did but there were things in his personal life that were most important that tour) probably couldn't care less.

Management was pissed, blaming Louis for things the omega couldn't even close to control.

With that in mind, none of the other band members -not that they even would to begin with- left Louis by himself, for fear of an employee of the management team coming to talk to him alone.

"You going out tonight?"

"No. They said that 'I need to calm down' even when it's not my choice. Too much bad publicity I guess" Liam scoffed, answering Harry's question.

"I think Niall wants to try and get Louis out of his shell around us because he is still a little skittish around anybody but him" Harry put a bowl of onions into a pan, filling Liams nose with the scent of caramelizing onions.

"What are you making?" The buff alpha asked, waking forward towards the small kitchenette.

"Louis wanted some French onion soup so I'm making him a bowl"

"Doesn't that take a while? And require ingredients we don't have?" Liam peered over Harry's shoulder.

"Well, good beef stock was hard to find in the short amount of time I had but I think it looks okay. I had Paul pick up some onions and we already had sugar" Harry, as Liam had noticed, had gone into was is referred to as 'mom mode'.

It's scientific term was not one Liam was looking to pronounce but it was basically when an omega -or in some cases like this one, an alpha- would sense their soulmates (or someone they've spent a long time with and are very close to) sadness or grieving or any unwanted, long periods of time, emotions and would essentially read what they were feeling and do whatever they could to get that person out of their foggy headspace.

"We had all the salts and peppers a surprisingly we had garlic. We obviously had the wine and the brandy that is involved too since we all used to drink quite a bit of both." Harry's eyes never strayed from where he was working.

"Okay... I leave you to it then" Liam backed away slowly as Harry started grinding the black pepper very harshly.

"Is he at it again?" Liam jumped when he bumped into someone behind him, a sigh of relief leaving his lips when he saw it was only Zayn.

"Yeah. I think he's got it pretty bad. This is like the fourth or fifth soup he's made Louis that has been complicated" he followed Zayn to the couch. "Not that it's a bad thing! Louis deserves to get whatever he wants but I've heard the stories about alphas who go into 'mom mode'. The deeper he gets, the harder it is for him to get out" Liam laid his head in Zayns lap, letting the darker haired alpha play with his hair.

"Harry is fine" Zayn hummed, scratching at Liams scalp, pulling a shiver from the bigger man. "My mum used to be a nurse and she delt with plenty of alphas and omegas that went through this. As long as he comes back slowly and not to quick, everything will be fine"

Liam made a noise of acknowledgment at Zayns words, his eyes drooping dangerously.

"Just go to sleep Li"

Liam wished he could say he tried to fight off the sleep that crept into his bones but he is not a liar and he doesn't plan on starting.

The soft strokes of Zayns hands and the delicious smell of Harry's soup finally lulled the tired alpha to sleep, giving his brain a break from everything that has been going on and finally taking all the stress and worry out of Liams bones, leaving him victim to one of the best sleeps he's going to get for a long, long time.