Alone H.S.

Chapter 18: Morning After a Nightmare

Lily -

"Why doesn't Louis and Eleanor have a family?" I ask, rolling onto my side, to face Harry.

We're currently lying in bed, supposed to have gotten up a couple hours ago, but decided on being lazy today.

"Eleanor was pregnant once before." Harry starts to explain. Talking even more slowly than usual. A trait of him waking up in the mornings.

"But something went really wrong and she miscarried. She was told to never try to have pups again. It's too dangerous for her. That's the reason she's always taking suppressants, she can't risk getting pregnant." He rolls onto his back and stares up at the ceiling.

"That must be terrible for her." I say, but Harry only continues to stare at the ceiling.

"How did you meet Louis?" I ask, hoping to get Harry talking again instead of staring the the ceiling.

"Hmm? Oh, he uh, I grew up with him. We've been friends ever since I can remember." And it's back to the ceiling.

"What's on your mind? It's not here." I tell him as I sit up, my back against the headboard.

"I'm just thinking. Actually, I think I'm going to check on Dylan and maybe go fix some breakfast." He says as he gets out of bed and put on a pair of pants, so he's not wandering around in his boxers. He walks out of our room, without another word. Something's up.

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Harry -

I dreamed last night. Something I don't do often. It was something I don't think I'll be forgetting it anytime soon either.

Lily and I married, she became pregnant soon after, and we soon had a large family and the pack was doing well also.

In the night, as the sun disappeared, no moon came out. A disappearing dark painted the night. When the sun returned in the morning, the entire pack had been wiped out. The packhouse was left in flames, crashing to the ground. The bodies of every pack member laid in their own blood. Lily and our family was slaughtered as well. I was the only one left alive, standing there wondering what happened to everyone.

I don't understand anything about my dream. It was a totally freak thing to happen. It scared me though.

I open the door to Dylan's room and saw him splayed out across his bed, arms hanging over the edge, and face buried into his pillow, snoring softly.

I walked over and gently lifted him up, laying him as he should lay in bed. He mumbled words I couldn't understand as I moved him, but he soon settled down. I felt of his head to find that his fever had thankfully disappeared during the night.

I left him to sleep, and went downstairs. I wanted to go back to bed and sleep beside Lily some more, but I'm just to afraid that the nightmares will return. I don't want to see my whole family laid out soaked in their blood. My Lily. My pups. All dead.

It sends a chill down my spine just remembering how clear everything was in the dream. I hated it.

When I'm downstairs I head for the living room, sitting on the couch, hoping to rest, but not sleep.

I fail.

When I wake up, clattering can be heard from the kitchen, and when I walk in, louis stands by the fridge.

"Oi, what're you doing down here? I thought you were upstairs sleeping with your blonde baby?"

"My what?" I question.

"Lily." He answers as he rolls his eyes.

"I just thought I'd come down here and...check on...things." Lazy, pitiful lies.

"Uh huh. You're a rubbish liar, by the way. So...what's happened? Has she kicked you out for misconduct under the covers?" He smirks as he bites into an apple he seemed to grab from nowhere.

"No. I had a dr- I just couldn't sleep."

"You were going to say dream." He raises an eyebrow.

"No, I wasn't."

"Whatever. By the way, yesterday I gave Shiloh 24 hours to get out of he pack. She was not impressed." He scoffs.

"I expected that. But I don't want her around. She was standing outside watching the house the other day. Just watching it. How weird is that?" Louis only shrugs his shoulders to my question.

"Also, want do you want to do about the HalfMoon territory? Technically it's yours. We've run them out, so if you want it...nows the time to claim it." Count on louis to have to remind me that we drove a pack off their own territory within the last few days!

"I don't want it. The few that are left of the HalfMoon are welcome to it. But they ever try to take Lily back, or they set foot on my territory, I want every single one of them destroyed."

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Lily -

I change out of my pajamas and head downstairs to find louis and Harry talking.

"Boys, having fun without me?" I ask as I walk to Harry, who's quick to wrap his arms around me, almost being able to cover every part of me with his long arms and big hands. I always seem so small when he's wrapped me up in his arms.

"Yeah, we're doing great without you." Louis rolls his eyes and Harry pulls me closer against him and growls softly at his Beta.

"He's lying. I missed you." Harry whispers quietly in my ear, causing me to smile and giggle.

"Oi, you two! It's disgusting have to watch you be all mushy like that." Louis groans with disgust and Harry gives him a deadly glare.

"I've had to watch you and your mate practically eat each other's tongues out of the other's mouth for how many years? Oh, and how many times have I walked in on you two having sex in random places in this house? And-"

"Alright! Alright! Enough said. Just please don't do the tongue thing in front of me!" The Beta squeals and Harry smirks. Oh boy.

I'm turned around so I'm facing Harry, or rather his chest. Due to his unfair height advantage over me. He lifts my face so out eyes meet and we kiss. At first I'm expecting a nice, normal kiss, but when Harry's tongue slips past my lips and runs against my tongue I know he's doing this to antagonize louis.

I'd never kissed a man other than Harry, and is certainly never kissed with tongues, so this is very new and strange to me. Not sure what to do, I push my tongue against his, and run my tongue over Harry's lips. Causing him to moan loudly, though it might also be just to get on Louis's nerves.

Either way, it makes me want to do it more, and I wrap my arms around Harry's neck, and tangle my fingers in his long curls, pulling him closer to me.

My legs are suddenly lifted up and wrapped around Harry's waist and I'm being carried upstairs by my handsome and very sexy mate.