More Scales- Larry Stylinson

Chapter 1

Harry was lying in a large king-sized bed. Three months had passed since he had begun to date his roommate, and also owner, Louis. Things had started off rocky, but now the pair had settled into a routine.

Right now, Harry was laying on his stomach, almost asleep as he let the heat of his warm heated blanket envelope his body. All nine feet of it. Harry was a hybrid. He was born with a snake tail attached just below where his human hips would be. From the belly button up, he was just a normal curly haired man. But below that was nothing but feet of pure snake muscle.

His scales were beautiful. He was able to keep much better care of himself living at Louis' house, as opposed to the shelter he called home for so long before. His tail was brown, with a random smattering of black connected blobs. The black on his tail created what looked like a lava lamp effect on his brown scales. Then he had white along his soft underbelly as well as white around the black spots on his tail. He was not venomous. He was a normal ball python hybrid.

Well, as normal as a ball python hybrid was.

Right now, Harry was digesting. Digesting food was difficult for him. Harry could recall spending nights with agonizing stomach aches, shivering in his cold, empty room at the shelter.

But everything was okay now. He had his heated blanket; he had a wonderful home and a sweet boyfriend. One of his best friends lived with him, and he saw his other best friend practically every other day. Niall was a puppy hybrid, who couldn't be left alone while his owner, Liam, was at work. So, he would hang out with Harry and Louis. Harry's roommate, Zayn, was a cat hybrid. He and Niall did not get along, to say the least.

Harry was almost asleep, feeling warm and loved, when he heard the door open. At this point, it was almost expected to have someone climb into bed with him whenever he tried to lay down. Though, Harry didn't mind.

He had spent enough time in his life being alone.
"Hi baby." Harry hummed, turning, and looking back at the person climbing onto the bed.

"Not baby." Zayn huffed, taking it upon himself to wrap himself up in Harrys long brown tail. Harry let him, laying back down on his stomach. Zayn settled in beside him, holding his tail close.

"Why aren't you napping in your room? Theressss a ssssun beam in there." Harry pointed out. Even after living with Louis all this time, he couldn't get over his hissy lisp.

Zayn shrugged. "I got lonely...and Louis fell asleep on the couch even though he promised we'd play FIFA!" Zayn huffed; his tail puffed out behind him irritably.

"Give Louis a break." Harry chastised. "If he fell assssleep, he needed it." Harry said simply, feeling a pang of guilt. He knew that his nightmares had been keeping Louis up at night. Harry couldn't help it. He was terrified to go back to the shelter. Or do something that would make Louis no longer want to date him. A fun new dream he was having was Louis would drop the act of caring about him and would give him back to his previous owner. No matter how much Harry would beg him, Louis would just laugh at him and Harry would wind up back with Dr.Cowell, the man that had adopted him just to try and cut him in half. And he would have succeeded, if not for the police.

Harry felt his hands drop down to his hips to feel his scar line. It was right at the base of where his human half and snake half started.

"Harry?" Zayn snapped Harry out of it when he put his hand over Harrys. "Are you okay?" Harry blinked and shook his head, pushing those thoughts away.

"Uh..Yeah." He said, pulling himself up to a sitting position. Zayn pushed his way to curl up in his arm pit. The cat hybrid purred, pressing his face into Harry's shoulder.
"Do you want to play FIFA with me?" He asked, purring louder. Harry sighed a bit, pulling the corner of the heated blanket over his middle. He knew Zayn wasn't going anywhere any time soon.