The One-night Stand

13

They had a lazy morning. Harry gave Lee breakfast and ate a toast himself.

They had just started potty training and it was going well. Usually. Harry wiped a pool of pee off the floor and put Lee on the potty to teach him. After that, he gave him a bath.

He had just changed out of his pajamas and put Lee to bed for his nap when there was a loud banging on his front four. He furrowed his eyebrows. Louis knew Les's sleeping schedule. Why would he bang so loudly? He hurried to open the door just to be face-to-face with Louis' girlfriend.
"Eleanor?"

"I don't know who the fuck you think you are but let me tell you that Louis only feels sorry for you, the slutty omega who spread his legs one night and was stupid enough to get pregnant. He doesn't like you. You can drop the charade. Louis loves me! Understand? I'm tired of you hogging him like a useless piece of shit. You decided to have a baby alone, fucking deal with it alone. You're ludicrous if you think that Louis would ever want you." Eleanor spitted out, eyes full of hatred.

Harry just stared at her in shock. His mouth hung open and he had no idea how to respond to all the things she just threw at him.
"Oh, and that bastard child you have? I'll make sure he'll be miserable at Louis' place as soon as he's old enough but trust me, I'll start right now. That kid isn't gonna destroy my plans for the future. Louis will lose interest soon. Stay away from us!"

With that, she turned around and walked away. Harry watched her get in her car and drive away. His eyes teared up. Of all the horrible things she said, how she talked about Lee really hurt him. He closed the door and started to cry for real. Soon he was hysterical. His inner omega was in distress and he lay down on the floor and hugged his knees against his chest.

Suddenly the door burst open and Louis came running inside.
"What's wrong? Where's Lee?"

"He's fine." Harry sobbed.

Louis got down on the floor next to him.
"Why are you in distress? Are you hurt?"

"No. I can't tell you. You wouldn't believe me. Just leave me alone." Harry wailed.

Louis picked him up and carried him to the living room. He kept him on his lap as he sat down and wrapped his arms around him. He let out pheromones until Harry had calmed down enough to be able to talk.
"Tell me. I'll believe you. I know you, Harry."

Harry sniffled and nuzzled Louis' chest for a moment before he took a deep breath and sat up. He couldn't be in Louis' lap if he was gonna tell him what just happened. He shouldn't be anyway. He got up and sat next to him on the couch instead. He pulled his knees against his chest and held his arms around his legs to comfort himself.
"Eleanor knocked on my door."

Louis furrowed his eyebrows.
"What?"

"I understand why she hates me and I can take that, but she said some really nasty things about Lee and..." Harry said and burst out crying again.

Louis stared at him in disbelief. His jaw was tense and he looked angry.
"What did she say? Word for word."

"I don't want to tell you. She's your girlfriend. You love her. I'm just worried for Lee's sake. I don't want her around him until she changed her mind. I hope you can understand that?" Harry sniffled.

"Harry! I need to know exactly what she said. Now." Louis said, almost using his alpha voice.

So Harry told him. He had never seen Louis more furious.
"Are you angry at me?" He whimpered.

"No, of course not." Louis sighed and pulled him in for a hug. Harry allowed himself to breathe in Louis' alpha scent for a moment.

When he had calmed down again with the help of Louis' pheromones the apha let go of him.
"I know this has been really tough for Eleanor to accept but that doesn't give her the right to lash out on you like that. I will talk to her. Just so you know, I don't feel sorry for you or think you're slutty and you're definitely not alone in raising Lee. I love the little lad and I would never let anyone hurt him especially not the people I love."

There was a lot of talk about love, but Harry wasn't included. Got it! It wasn't as if he had thought that Louis suddenly would express his undying love for him but it hurt anyway. Harry pulled away. The baby monitor went off. Saved by the bell!
"Lee is awake. I'll get him." Harry said and stood up.

"I'm gonna go talk to Eleanor right away. I'll be back later. Tell Lee I love him." Louis said and got up as well.

"Okay." Harry replied.

Louis left and Harry hurried upstairs to get the baby. He hugged him for several minutes until Lee started to protest.
"I love you, dad too." Harry said.

Lee smiled and gave him a kiss on the cheek. He took him downstairs and made him a snack.

A couple of hours went by. They had dinner and played with Lee's toys. Louis showed up at seven. He didn't look happy. He picked Lee up and hugged him until he started to protest.
"Are you okay?" Harry asked.

"We broke up." Louis informed him.

That shouldn't make him happy. Harry put on a blank facial expression.
"I'm sorry. There's no way to fix it?"

"No." Louis replied.

They played with Lee until it was time to put him in bed. Louis sang to him and as soon as Lee was asleep he was on his way home. He hadn't said much at all. Harry figured he needed some time to process.