Little Bird [A Niall Horan Fanfiction]

Chapter 10

I took a deep breathe and prepared the explanation.

Just as I had done with Niall 3 months ago.

"While I explain everything, I don't want any interuptions, there will be no talking until when I'm done talking." I ordered. They looked worried, but nodded. Niall just clutched me tighter, anxious for the boys' reactions. He had accepted it easily, but we didn't know about the boys, "In Nashville, when I was explaining why I didn't come, and I kept saying 'they',  they is my family. My family took me that night and did this to me. They disowned me for a reason and I kept telling you guys it was because I was different from them. I am different from them, in every sense of the word. Our morals of the same and the traditions of my family don't apply to me. When I came along, they didn't know what to do about me. Ask Bunny, she'll tell you."

They abused me for years. All the scars under these newer ones were from them, whenever I did something wrong or they just felt like punishing me for existing. My father, Tiger, would be relentless when it came to my punishments. He tried to cut my hair, it would grow back the next day, he tried to harm my other form, but it would just heal. This is the most severe punishment I have received from them." I was interuppted by Nosy Nelly, Mr. Styles, before I could say anything else.

"Wait, what do you mean 'other form'? And why is everyone in your family named after an animal except you?" He asked.

I had let that slip? GOD DAMMIT MY STUPID MOUTH. NOW I HAD TO EXPLAIN IT EARLIER THAN I WANTED TO, "I mean exactly what I say. My other form. I think you can understand it if you think about it. Other form, all of our names are names of animals, except mine is a mythical creature." I said, trying to explain it to them without really explaining it to them.

They looked confused. I sighed in frustration, "I. Am. Not. Human." I said slowly. They all stared at me, their eyes wide.

Zayn started laughing his ass off, "What? You think you aren't human? Are you nuts?" He chortled.

Hurt ripped through me, tears pricked at my eyes. I raised my hand and pushed the fire out of my veins. Fire egnited around my hand and Zayn immediately shut up, "Don't mess with a phoenix's rage, Zayn. You're just going to get burned.... literally." Bunny said, patting him on the head.

Liam looked at me in fear, but he was interuppted as I shot up from where I was sitting, extinguishing the fire on my hand. Fear rang through me, "What's wrong, Nix?" Niall asked.

 I ran to the door and held my hand against it, "Your fangirls just broke into the hotel. Why now, god damnit?" I said, bracing my small weight against the door as I heard pounding feet run into the elevator and up to our floor.

"You're not going to be able to hold that door by yourself." Liam said, standing next to me and resting his weight on the door with me.

"Try me." I said, "Go wait in the bedroom until after I handle them. Paul, can you watch them in case some of the fangirls get in?" I asked. My voice had the commanding tone I had never used with them. They were kind of shocked, if I do say so myself, but they still went into the bedroom, Paul following. Niall kissed me real quick before he joined the boys and girls. Realization hit me and I shot over to the couch, putting on my coat to cover my arm. I saw that Bunny was still with me.

Soon, I heard banging on the door and I cracked it, holding my own against them as they shoved against the door, "Open the door, bitch! We want to see our boys!" A bitchy blonde that looked like she had been gang banged by a box of crayola crayons screamed at me.

"Lauren, stop! That's Phoenix, she's still hurt! And you already punched her shoulder!" Some girl yelled at her.

Anger flashed through me, but Bunny beat me to the punch. She ripped the door open, out of my grasp. You could see her radiating anger... I backed up a little bit, "You're the one that hurt her?" She asked the girl venomously.

The girl just stared at her, chewing her gum like a cow chews cud, "Ya, why? Who the fuck are you, her.... telescope?" She asked, dumbly. She was blond, I might add.

Bunny looked EVEN MORE PISSED, "I'm her sister, you dumb bitch, now if you know whats good for you, you'll get your skinny ass out of this hotel before I beat you for hitting my little sister." Bunny said  in a deadly voice. I had to admit, if Bunny had been talking to me, I would have run in fear of her biting my head off. 

The blond bimbo just scoffed and tried pushing past us. I grabbed her shoulder, "You aren't going anywhere near them." I said.

"And why not? Afraid that I'm going to steal your boyfriend from you, slut? They would like me SOO much better than you, sweetheart." She said, as if she was talking to a special person.

My grip tightened on her shoulder as I tried to keep my anger at a calmer level, "Take her advice and leave." I said, my voice deadly. I was restraining myself very well, actually. None of my flames had been released. I knew my eyes were changing, though. Bunny noticed and broke my grip on the girl, shoving her back out the door and slamming it her face, locking it. She pushed me over to the couch and made me sit down.

My spirit was fighting with me again, and I couldn't move I was so focused on caging her. I vaguely heard Bunny call for Paul, the boys, and the girls, but it sounded kind of distant. I felt the dulled, distant feeling of someone's hands on my cheeks and heard a worried voice, I think it was Niall's, I wasn't sure. My spirit was getting stronger and stronger by the second and harder and harder to supress by the second.

Suddenly, I felt a kiss on my cheek, and Niall's voice whisper into my ear, brightening the blackness of my vision up a little, "Come back to me, Firefly." He whispered. His voice shoved my spirit back into her cage and got control of my body.... I WAS FREAKING EXHAUSTED.

I involuntarily slumped forward.... NO I DIDN'T DO IT ON PURPOSE, THATS WHAT INVOLUNTARILY MEANS.... and Niall caught me, kind of like the first time we met when I woke up in the hotel in London, "Deja vu, right?" I said weakly.

I felt him rumble with a chuckle as he pulled me up against his chest, "What was that, Nix?" I heard Perrie ask. She didn't have much of a reaction when I had exclaimed that I wasn't human.

Bunny answered for me, "That was an almost forced transformation." she explained.

"Almost forced?" Eleanor asked, curiosity waving off of her.

"My spirit tried to take over, but I didn't let her." I said weakly, burying my face into Nialls chest and using him as a pillow. I cracked my eye open and saw even more confusion written on their faces, "My spirit is what makes me non-human, residing in my soul. She is where all my powers come from and she protects me." I said, my eyes drooping.

"Go to sleep, my love." Niall whispered in my ear.

With that, my eyes closed and I slipped into the peaceful oblivion, dreaming of Niall and the boys and the future.

I was happy they knew my secret, but I didn't know if they were going to accept me yet.

I was fine with that.