Stripper (Narry)

Ten

Niall is worried. He's worried about Harry and how he's feeling. Harry hasn't said anything really since Liam rescued him Zayn three days ago. Niall understands that this isn't something Harry can move past over night he just though Harry would have said something to him by now.

Louis and Liam have been staying at Niall's because Niall hates to leave him alone while he goes to work. Niall seems over bearing and protective but it's how he shows he cares, even though he tries his best not to weigh people down. It's a flaw Niall is aware of and the one he's most afraid of. He's afraid it'll ruin his relationship with Harry. He's afraid Harry will get annoyed and want to leave. He hates this flaw because it's caused multiple fights between him and his best mates, Liam and Louis.

Liam is in the kitchen attempting to bake a cake which isn't turning out very well because he's extremely distracted by Louis' constant neck nibbling and his whispering of sexual things in his ear. Liam's moaning and he really shouldn't because Harry is down the hall in his room that he shares with Niall. "Louis I'm trying to bake this cake," Liam breathes.

"But I don't want you baking that cake. I want you fucking me," Louis whines.

"No, we can't," Liam says, abandoning the cake mix to turn and kiss Louis.

Liam and Louis' make out session gets heated when they're both startled by a deep raspy voice. "No fucking in my kitchen," Harry says rather loud.

Liam pulls away and laughs, "Wouldn't dream of it."

"You finally got out of bed. You doing okay?" Louis asks, pouring Harry a cup of coffee.

Harry takes his coffee, grabs a banana, and makes his way back to his room, "Yeah. I'm fine. I'm great," Harry calls over his shoulder.

Liam sighs, running his hand through his hair while Louis just stands there with a sad look on his face. Liam puts his attention back on the cake and just decides to clean his mess. "He's not dealing with it. Zayn's messing with his head," Louis sighs, sitting down in a chair by the bar.

Liam nods his head in agreement, throwing away his last bit of trash, "Maybe he needs more time. Maybe he needs Niall. Just somebody to talk to?"

"I don't know maybe. He really won't talk to anyone right now though," Louis sighs.

+

Niall's home and he's exhausted from work, he just wants to crawl into bed and cuddle Harry and just sleep. He walks through the front door and shuts it behind him and finds Liam an Luis cuddled up on the watch watching a movie. Niall smiles to himself because he's always found them cute. They work well together he thinks. Louis catches his eye and smiles at him. "Hey Niall."

Liam looks away from the tv and smiles, "Welcome home Niall."

"Thanks. Where's Harry?" Niall asks, throwing his bag to the floor by the door.

Liam frowns a little, pointing his finger towards the hall, "Room. He's only come out once today."

Niall nods, walking towards his room, "Thank lads."

Liam nods and brings his attention back to the movie and Niall can't help but laugh at them for come reason. Niall opens the door slowly, peaking his head through, "Harry?"

Niall opens the door some more to walk in and closes it behind him. He wonders over to Harry's side of the bed only to find him drowned by the covers, staring at the ceiling. Niall sighs and pulls the covers down to see more of Harry's drained, emotionless face. Niall feels his heart break slightly. It hurts him to see Harry in this way. Harry's hurting yes, but Niall is hurting too. He feels guilty for not being there to stop Zayn when he almost raped Harry. He wasn't there and it kills him. He knows that he can't protect Harry from everything but he feels that he somehow could of done a better job of protecting Harry from feeling used and violated.

"Harry, baby. Please talk to me," Niall begs.

Harry moves his head to look at Niall and catches his gaze of beautiful ocean blue eyes that are full of nothing but worry. "Why do you still want me after all of this? After what Zayn's done? What he could do?"

Niall's so caught off guard it takes him a few minutes to reply. He doesn't understand why Harry would say such a thing. Niall is in love with Harry. Niall feels everything all at once when he's with Harry, he feels everything Harry feels. He feels the pain, the sadness, the happiness, he feels it all with Harry around and it scares him but he'd rather feel all the emotions that come with loving someone so deeply and passionately than to feel nothing at all. Niall sees nothing but bright, beautiful, vibrant colors when loving Harry and he never wants those colors to fade.

"What? I love you Harry. I want you. No matter what happens, I'm going to want you. I'm always going to want you. I'm in love with you Harry," Niall says, taking Harry's hand in his.

Harry just stares at Niall, searching his face even though Harry isn't really sure what he's searching for. Harry doesn't understand why Niall would still want to be with him after the things Zayn has done and the problems that come with being this close to Harry. Harry's never let people get this close to him as he's let Niall. Niall's helped Harry take down the wall he's built brick by brick and Niall's almost taken it down completely and Harry's scared. He's not sure if he's ready to completely let his guard down. He knows that Zayn will never give up until he has what he wants.

"There's so many problems that come with dating me Niall. Zayn is mostly all of them. You honestly can't want to deal with him all the time," Harry replies coldly.

Niall gets up off the bed and throws the covers off of Harry and sits him up, "Harry I'm not going to let you do this to us. We've come so damn far and I'm not giving up on you now. I love you with everything in me. And I'm not going to let a bastard like Zayn tear us apart. I'm in this one hundred percent. I'm not leaving you."

All Harry can do is cry. He cries in Niall's shoulder, not caring about how wet Niall's shirt is becoming, "I love you Niall. How did I get so lucky have you?"