As You Are // H.S

Twenty Nine. *

Harry Styles.

It had been a whole 3 days since Alexis and I had been released from hospital, and we still had no word from the police so we'd decided to come to them instead of waiting for them to come to us, so we could just get it out of the way and move on from this, turn it into an old memory that we didn't want to think about.

To say I was nervous and scared for Alexis was an understatement, she would have to sit down and relive with happened to her when telling the officer what had happened, she didn't like to talk about it, she barely talked to me about it. But I'd be by her side and holding her hand while she did so.

The both of us had been waiting in a small room at the police station for roughly twenty minutes when an officer came in, tall, bald and a small beard on his chin. He gave us a small smile, "Alexis and Harry?" We nodded in confirmation and he gestured his arm towards himself.

"I'm officer Darren, just follow me this way." I got up, and held an arm out to Alexis, she grabbed my hand and linked our fingers, getting up with me as we followed the officer to a small questioning room.

He asked Alexis question after question about the night that it had all happened, writing everything down on a notepad, but also recording the questioning on a small recording device. After questioning Alexis, he asking me a few things about that night: what I did, what happened to me, and how everything went down.

"Well, I'll be glad to tell you that after receiving a warrant we searched his house, finding numerous bags of cocaine, marijuana, crystal meth, and other substances that would put him away for years, that on top of the kidnapping of you," he nodded his head towards Alexis, "what he did to you, and what he did to Harry, putting you born in the hospital, he'll be locked up for fifteen years minimum."

Alexis visibly relaxed, as did I. It was all we wanted, and it had happened; for him to be locked away.

"There will be a hearing at the local court house, for next week, but because we've got all of this recording and evidence, you really don't need to come if you're not comfortable." Officer Darren told Alexis, I squeezed her hand for reassurance.

"Oh, no I won't be going." She told him almost instantly, and for that I was happy. I didn't want her to have to see him again.

"Well, thank you so much for your time and for helping us with this, if we need anything else from you two we'll call, now I suggest for the both of you to go home and relax, because this is just about over." He smiled widely, and I smiled back, giving Alexis a chaste kiss on the cheek, earning a soft smile from her as well.

-

After we'd gotten home, I made the both of us a vegetable stir fry for dinner, and we were both say comfortable on the couch eating it.

"It's your birthday in two days." Alexis said, breaking the silence around us.

"That it is, baby."

"Well, what do you want to do for it?"

I thought for a second, humming slightly, "well, nothing really, this is all just over and it's been a long tough week for the both of us, I'll be happy to stay here with you." I told her, honestly.

"Nope!" She yelled. "Enough about my poor self, that's all over, what would you like to do, Harry?" She said sternly, earning a small chuckle from me.