stockholm syndrome // h.s

fifteen.

(A.n: I swear I won't be changing the story cover any more aha)

Jackie's Point of View

"how long we're we asleep?" I weakly chuckled, stifling a yawn as I playfully pushed "Harry's slightly-more-sobered" limbs away from mine.

"Fuck." Harry retorted as he massaged the temples of his head.

"Fuck isn't an amount of time harry" I teased, poking him jokingly on his tummy.

"No I mean fuck like fuck I shouldn't have drank so much" Harry grunted in displeasure, ignoring my joking mood.

"Not my fault" I tested him once again, this time poking his left dimple and receiving a forced chuckle
in response, before hopping off the motel bed.

I glanced around the tasteless motel room looking for nothing in particular. My wandering eyes eventually settled on a remote control lying in front of a small TV in front of the bed. I grabbed the remote and jumped back onto the bed, settling myself next to Harry.

I pointed the remote towards the TV, flicking it on with ease.

After several moments of silently flipping trough endless soap operas and movies I've never heard of I decided to give up.

"Here, you pick" I placed the remote gingerly in the palm of Harry's hand, causing him to jump a little, as he was lying on his back resting his heavy eyes and trying to regain full soberness.

Harry groaned loudly before propping his body against the head board and turning the remote around in his hand.

"You know if you let me pick than I'm going to wind up choosing porn" Harry threatened, smirking.

"you wouldn't" I teased him, grabbing the remote back from him and flicking through the channels for the second time.

I finally settled on an old Star Trek movie.

Harry sneered at my television choice, "You're a secret nerd Jackie" he stated slowly, watching me blush and shrug.

"Guess i am."

Several minutes of nothing but the actors voices echoed around the motel room, and suprisingly Harry, judging by the focused look on his face, seemed to be enjoying the "nerd" movie, he would never admit it though.

I looked towards him, ignoring the movie and just taking in the scene, recollecting everything that has happened in the last week, this very eventful week.

"Harry"

"hmm" He hummed in repsonse calmly, not even diverting his eyes away from the television.

"Do you remember the-

I started to stutter and eventually paused mid sentence, fearing his reaction to my subtle question, even though deep down I knew Harry was about as intimidating as a puppy.

I started up again, gaining a random boost of confidence i didn't realized existed "Do you remember the reason I'm here." it ended coming out more as a statement rather than a question.

*** Harry's Point of View***

A pang of guilt shot through my body as I remembered why Jackie was with me at all, it was like we both tried to forget what I did.

I turned away from the movie and caught her eyes, not suprisingly she was already looking straight through me awaiting an answer.

"Jackie" I started, quickly grabbing the TV remote and flicking off the sound to offer her my full attention. "I didn't have much of a choice" I swallowed harshly expecting her to run away and leave me by myslef in a empty motel in Vegas.

"It's okay really, I just can't seem to accept that a human being could want me so badly that he would just physically take me" Jackie retorted, fiddling with her fingers and looking anywhere but my eyes.

"I"m glad you stayed, anybody else would have been out the door by now." I whispered, placing my thumb and forefinger under her chin and lifting her face up to meet my eyes.

"You know, I can still make a run for it" She whispered, holding still under my touch.

She knew I saw through her expression, teasing increasingly evident.

"I can outrun you" I smirked, playing along.

"I would hide" She retaliated, backing away from my hand as she quirked an eyebrow at her response.

"I would find you" I mumbled, lacking the joking tone in my voice this time. "I would always find you, because I'd have too"

"Why" Jackie questioned, drawing her face blankly at me.

"Because I need you"

You could practically hear her heart thudding at the depth of my words, because maybe, just maybe, she needed me too.

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(a.n: And here we go......

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