Chapter 20

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Harry’s head was pounding when he awoke, groping out for Louis. He wanted the omega close, he could remember that much. However, he couldn’t smell Louis or feel the boy. Someone was whimpering, however, and Harry suddenly realized that the last thing he remembered was being in wolf form. He’d just felt about with fingers and a thumb, something his wolf form shouldn’t have. Almost instantly he opened his eyes, gazing up at the ceiling fan in the pack house living room.

“He’s awake,” a voice that Harry recognized as Zayn’s called to somebody.

Harry turned his aching head to the side to look at Zayn, prepared to ask how he had ended up in the living room, until he could remember it all. Checking the pack borders, the other wolves, Louis.

“Where’s he at?” Harry croaked out, flinging off the thin blanket someone had draped on him as he scrambled into a sitting position and clutched at his throbbing skull. The skin was slightly swollen under his hand. “Is he okay, they tried to-”

Zayn wouldn’t meet Harry’s gaze, and Harry looked to the next person in the room, Niall. Niall was the source of the whimpers, as the boy was quietly sobbing into his hands.

“Harry…” it was his own mother who spoke, standing a few feet away from where Harry was sitting on the edge of the couch. She was staring sadly out the window, and Harry felt like he was going to puke.

“Is he downstairs? He has to be, he just doesn’t want to come out of his little nest, I’ll-”

“I tried Harry, I’m so sorry…” Zayn whispered.

“Stop.”

Harry stood, stumbling for the steps to the first floor, but Zayn only continued speaking, “I followed them for as long as I could but I lost them when they cut through a pack territory… or maybe it’s even the territory they were taking him to, I don’t-”

Stop!” Harry bellowed, pressing his palms over his ears. Harry had sworn to the omega that no one would get him, and that no one would get their babies. Taking both from Harry seemed like some sort of cruel joke. Zayn should have been able to make it; Harry had tried to hold off the other wolves. But Harry had failed. Harry hadn’t even been able to stay conscious long enough to save his omega.

The beta had flinched at the rise in Harry’s voice, and everyone else in the room was cringing as well. It took him a few moments to realize that he had alpha voiced them and that they were petrified to even speak out again. Niall did, however, wiping at his eyes, “We- we could try? To go on the territory where Zayn couldn’t follow anymore and-”

“Please,” Harry begged. “Please just tell me he’s downstairs and that you guys are kidding-”

“Don’t you remember?” Zayn asked sadly.

The alpha remained standing in the doorway to downstairs, but then he swung his fist out and connected it with the wooden dorm frame. “Yes! Yes I remember that I told him to run, and he fucking didn’t, and then he couldn’t and I couldn’t protect him like I said I would. Now I don’t know where he is and I can’t even- I can’t think.”

Harry could feel heat rising to his face, and it only worsened the throbbing in his head. They had Louis when only hours before they’d showered together, eaten lunch together where Louis had continuously stolen chicken nuggets from Harry’s plate and Harry had let him.

“They have him, Harry,” Zayn said softly.

Harry had to grab onto the door frame to keep his knees from buckling. They didn’t even know where Louis was; there was no way of telling if the omega and the babies were even okay.

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