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Nouis ~ Parasite (4)

Louis's POV
It was a few days before our two week break, and we were in an interview with Jimmy Fallon. Niall hadn't managed to get a diagnosis for his hallucinations, and the medication that he was on was playing havoc with his moods. Some days, he would laugh and be jolly all day, while others he would just be at a constant low.
"Niall," Jimmy said half way through the interview. "Are you doing ok? You seem sad."
"I'm good Jimmy, it's just the medication. I'm in a strange mood today, that's all."
"Ok. Is everything going ok with that? I know that you boys want to keep it private, but are you doing alright at the moment Niall?"
"I am Jimmy, yeah. I haven't had any hallucinations for two weeks."
"Oh that's good," Jimmy said before he continued the interview. I glanced at Niall as I knew that that had been a lie. He hadn't had any big hallucinations, but he knew what were and weren't hallucinations now and he would tell us if something felt off.

The show soon ended and we left the stage. As he got out of sight of the audience, crew and Jimmy, Niall stopped and winced in pain. He brought his hand up to the shoulder and squeezed his eyes closed. Harry, Liam and I moved over to him.
"Niall? What's wrong?"
"Is it your shoulder?"
"What's going on babe?"
"Argh!" Niall screamed before he went pale and all our hands shot up to catch him.
"Niall. Woah!"
"Shit. What's wrong?"
"Shoulder... my..." Niall gasped as we began to take his weight.
"Niall... stay with us."
"Who screamed? What's going on?" Jimmy asked as he appeared.
"Niall, it's his shoulder."
"Argh! Argh!" Niall screamed again, but this time he looked at his arm.
"Niall. Talk to us," I said as I took a gentle hold of his arm.
"There's something... it's..." Niall said as he pulled his sleeve up. "Urgh. Argh," He groaned loudly as he buried his head into the wall.
"Do I need to get a medic?" Jimmy asked.
"No, give him a second," Harry said as I inspected Niall's arm.
"Babe, your arm's fine."
"No. No. Argh!" Niall screamed again before he tensed up his arm and stared at it. "Louis! Louis!"
"Niall. Look at me. You're fine. You're ok."
"No. It's moving! Can't you see it!" He screamed at me and I took his face into my hands.
"Ni. There's nothing there."
"There is, there is. Urgh," Niall said before he got out of Liam's grip and walked briskly backstage, gripping his arm tightly.
"Niall. Niall. Calm down," Paul said as he reached him.
"Scissors... I need scissors Paul... or a knife... just anything sharp!" Niall shouted as he looked around at us. My blood ran cold. Niall's eyes had gone wide and he looked scared. Paul went to grab Niall, but he dodged him and started running.
"Niall!" We all shouted as we ran after him.

Soon, our entire entourage was chasing him, but he was dodging our grips and going into every room to find something sharp. I tried not to imagine what he was going to do when he found something. Then, he gasped and ran into our dressing room. No. Harry had left his swiss army knife in the bathroom.
"Fuck! H!" I screamed as I ran after Niall, sprinting with everything that I had.

Niall's POV
I reached the bathroom, slammed the door closed and locked it. Then I pushed the stone table in-front of it and undid my belt. I whipped off my jumper and top before I used my belt as a tourniquet around my upper arm.

This wasn't a hallucination. I really was in pain and there really was something moving underneath the skin in my arm, and I knew that I had to get it out.
"Niall! Niall!" Everyone screamed outside of the door as I pulled the tourniquet tight with my teeth and got the knife out of Harry's swiss army knife. They were banging and hitting their fists hard on the door, but I hoped that it would hold until I could get this thing out of my arm.

Steeling myself for what was about to happen, I looked in the mirror and told myself,
"You're not crazy Niall. You're not crazy."
"Niall! Open this door! You're going to hurt yourself!" Paul shouted but I brushed the words aside as I rested my arm onto the sink and began cutting into where this parasite thing was.
"Argh! Argh!" I screamed as I half watched what I was doing and tried not to throw up.
"Niall!" Came the screams as my family panicked.
"Argh! Argh!" I kept screaming to deal with the pain. The parasite was wiggling around near to the surface and it fucking hurt. My blood oozed out into the sink in this deep red colour before I forced myself to look at the wound. It was deep. Very deep. But I couldn't see any patches of white bone, so that was good.
"Get the fire axe," Someone ordered and I knew that my time was running out. I could hear someone starting to cry outside the door, but I had to finish this. I could see the parasite and I forced it towards the wound.
"Urgh... gurgh..." I groaned as I tried to control the pain as the thing moved.
"Niall... Niall please," Louis said from the door but I gasped as I saw a grey end of this parasite. I reached inside of my arm and grabbed it.
"ARGH! ARGH!" I screamed at the top of my lungs as I pulled the parasite out of my body and I heard the axe hitting the door.