Hometown Preferences

Iona X Dean One Shot

Ten minutes.

All you had to wait til he got back home.

You Hadn't seen him in two weeks, but your car broke down this morning, just as you were leaving to see him at the airport.

But he said he'd come over as soon as he'd dropped his luggage home and now you were counting down the seconds. You found yourself going in and out of the sitting room of your tiny apartment, fixing a pillow that was already perfect, picking a piece of fluff off the carpet.

He said he was bringing over some films, and he was tired as hell so that's what's happening. A movie night was absolutely ideal.

You pulled some slipper socks on over your feet and turned the heating on the house, screw Irish weather. When the knock on the door finally came you were about to burst.

The door was opened within seconds.

"DEAN!" You screamed, before jumping up into his open arms and wrapping your legs around his waist.

"IONA!" He laughed in reply, before pushing his lips down on your own.

"I missed you so much!" You smiled, by letting go of him.

"So did I" he laughed, kissing your cheek, "but I'm about to drop all these bags"

You removed yourself from him hastily then, taking one of the bags seemingly half full of food.

"I brought Nemo, The Jungle Book and Mean girls?" He told you setting his bag on the floor again while you hopped around the room after following him to the sitting room.

"I think you know the answer" you giggled taking the mean girls disc out of his hands and turning on your telly. When you turned around again he ready had the bag emptied straight onto the coffee table which was now covered in food and sweets of all sorts.

You set down a few bowls and separated them out, OCD senses kicking in while he closed the curtains and put a whole pile of blankets on the couch.

This was almost routine by now, the amount of at home cinema sessions you'd had together. From watching insidious and unfriended to the one direction film and Robots.

You popped a jolly rancher into your mouth before sitting down on to sofa next to him, curling up against his side as he wrapped his arms around you.

Within the space of two films, you already had the food gone. And you were now lying sideways, head on his lap while he played with a piece of your hair and Nemo played in the background.

You were just smiling, not really taking in anything but his presence again. You missed him so much, every time they went away, sometimes for weeks on end. And they were going more and more often now too. It scared you how quickly they were rising, you were nervous but excited.

You didn't want him to go again either. You weren't even sure how long he was staying for this time.

Obviously he had noticed the smile drop from your face, a frown taking over because a moment later he was asking what was the matter.

You shrugged first, sitting up so your head was against his chest. His heartbeat was steady, nothing as fast as yours went every time you were near him, but not far off either.

"I don't want you to leave again-" your voice cracked at the end, and he pulled you into a tight hug. Wrapping his arms all the way around you, and resting his chin on your head.

"I hate going away too" he sighed "but it has to be done and you know I'll always come home again" you nodded against his chest, closing your eyes as the rhythm of his breathing pushed your head up and back down.

"You know Liam said, if you like... Well next tour, Cian's bringing his girlfriend so I don't know if you even want to like-" he stumbled looking for words.

Your face lit up predetermining what he was about to hopefully say.

"Well maybe you'd like to come along too?" He finally finished. A grin took over your expression, the previous sad look gone.

"Of course I would!" You replied immediately before pressing your lips onto his again.

He smiled against your mouth. "then I won't have to miss you"

"And I'll get to see every performance, an every one of your solos" you giggled, imagining what it would be like. Touring with those six idiots you loved so much. Especially this one, the one with the Dublin accent and blond highlights. The one with the pierced ears and blue eyes and perfect teeth.

The one you'd give anything for.

"So you'll come then?" He asked hopefully.

"Absolutely" I'd all you'd whispered in reply. before exhaustion took over

You found yourself drifting away still in your favourite place.

Wrapped in his arms and right by his side.

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Okay I'm so sorry if you didn't like this? It took so long too cos I had a lot blocked up and loads of study but this Is for Mullingar_Horan So my lame excuse is because it is half eleven rn and i haven't slept properly in too long. so basically your allowed to me angry of it's shit.

But maybe on some insane wavelength you actually enjoyed this and if so that's cool but I'm really sorry if you didn't xxx 💕