Larry Stylinson//Fluff One Shots

Light behind your eyes

Summary: Louis goes blind, Harry is there for him.

Everyone is aware of the risks that come with driving a car. Everyone does it anyway. Accidents happen, no one thinks they'll ever be involved in one. Some are careful, some are confident about their driving skills but some are careless, driving drunk. Some of them are lucky, some are not. And some people are careful, confident and end up in an accident anyway.
Unfair, some might say. That's how life is, isn't it?

Things happen, people change. People live and people die. One way or another. There's nothing you can do about it. One might think it's careless to think that way, rude even. And for some it's the only way to cope.

The fact that there's a decrease in car crashes in England and Wales over the past years, doesn't mean no one is getting hurt. It doesn't mean that you're 100% safe when going by car to visit your family or return back to your boyfriend, who hasn't been with you because there's things he needs to do too, even though you both would love to spend every second of your lives together.
And you miss him, so you drive and sing to the music on the radio while your eyes are focused on the road to get home safely.

It's dark and you wish you were at home already, but there's still a long way ahead so you settle in your seat and drive.

But what you don't expect, is a car speeding towards you, the lights so bright they hurt your eyes. You try your best to just get out of the way, you jerk the wheel violently and you have no idea what's happening because everything is so fast and bright until you feel pain and you black out. And if you've got time for a last thought, it's maybe about your boyfriend who you wish would be there to hold you when you wake up from this horrible nightmare.

Louis Tomlinson had never thought something like this would happen to him.

Not when he had signed himself up for driving lessons, not when he first drove a car, not when he got his license, not when he first drove alone or took others with him. Not when he had been in his car listening to the radio while driving and heard about an accident on the radio. Not when he kissed his boyfriend goodbye and was told to take care and not when his mum told him to get back home safely and he said bye to his family back in Doncaster. No one would have suspected it, honestly. People usually try not to focus on the risks of being alive and driving a car or riding a bike or going by a bus or even just walking across the street. But what people expect the least is a celebrity getting hit by a car because of a drunk driver. Or maybe they just hope they are never going to read the news and find out about their idol's accident or – worse – death.

The thing is, nobody can do anything about it, you can't stop the things from happening, so people talk.

The press is always hot for news, especially news on celebrities. So it's no surprise that the news and the internet are flooded with the words "Louis Tomlinson" and "accident". The fans are shocked mostly, because who could have ever expected this to happen. Most are sweet about it though, send Louis and his family and the lads love and hope he'll be okay soon. Especially the Larry Shippers are exceptionally sweet to Harry on twitter.

That is until One Direction officially takes a break and people find out something even worse than Louis having had an accident.

People talk, it's inevitable.
They don't know what's actually going on though.

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When Louis wakes up after the accident, he doesn't even know where he is. The bandage around his head gives him a clue as to why he can't see anything and the sounds around him as well as the way his whole body hurts makes it clear where he is. Not kidnapped, not tied up in a basement of some freak. Luckily.
He's at a hospital. And with that, the memories are coming back. It's horrible, thinking about how the other car's been speeding towards his own and Louis hasn't been able to do anything about it. He remembers how the lights dazzled him, how it crashed and everything was too fast for him to take in. He remembers the pain and blacking out and wishing that he was at home in Harry's arms. It's a horrible feeling.