His Princess, Without Him [Book 2]

#04 The Night And Day In Hospital

Niall's P.O.V.

"Lauren?" I looked worried when I saw tears appear on Lauren's face while she slept.

"Baby calm down, daddy is here, you're with me and nothing will ever happen to you again. I love you and will never let you go" I rocked her softly and wiped the tears away, gently and carefully, afraid to wake her up or scare her with my touch.

"Daddy will always be here for you, for the rest of your live. Nobody will take you away from me. Maybe one day someone will share you with me, the man you love. The one that you love and who loves you. You'll be happy again baby, but I'm always here." her breathing became stable again and I laid her down, covered her tiny, with bruises covered, shivering body with the thin blanket that was laying next to her.

I smiled and kissed her forehead, but directly regretted it when I felt her body shivering and saw a new tear on her cheek. This was going to be a hard task, winning her trust back, but I had time and I'd use the time she needed to recover her trust in people. But everything was up to her.

The rest of the night was restless, and exhausting. I drank about ten times more caffeine than that's good for a human being but screw my body! I had to stay awake and make sure that Lauren could sleep through the night. 

Every single time I felt her shivering or shaking I cuddled her, kissed her forehead or whispered soft and calming words in her ear. And believe me... that happened a lot last night.

When Emma woke up it was around eight o'clock in the morning she shook her head, obviously seeing the dark circles under my eyes and the bottles coke and the coffee cups next to me on the nightstand.

"You seriously haven't slept Niall? You should have woken me up so you could sleep for a while and I'd watch Lauren" I laughed and kissed her cheek.

"No baby, you were sleeping and you look so cute when you sleep that I enjoyed watching you too much. It wasn't that hard. I didn't slept much anyway in the past months" she nodded and stood up "I'm going to give this bed back to the nurses, do you want breakfast?" I nodded, of course I wanted breakfast, and she left, pushing the bed in front of her.

"Mister Horan?" I nodded and shook her doctor's hand when he walked in. "That's me doc! What do you want?" it came out more rudely than I expected and wanted. I guess it's the lack of sleep and the emotions? Does that make sense? Well it all makes sense to me!

"right, we checked all the test results and I don't think that there is any reason that she needs to say here much longer. We have a couple of results that we need to give a second eye before we can say for sure that nothing really bad it wrong in her body, except her arm and chest-" I nodded, not exactly knowing what he meant most of the time that he continued talking about diseases that she might had or ways that I'd suspect that something was wrong. But I understood that she could go home today!

"Yes! I mean- thank you sir, I eh- It's good to hear that. Do you need me to wake her up now?" he shook his head "I don't think so sir. We'll go and check all the results once again and after that we need to see how she had acted trough the night. But that won't take very long" he patted and the monitor next to Lauren's bed.

"Okay sir. I'll see you then" I said awkwardly and he left again.

"Have you heard that princess? You can go home with me, and see uncle Lou and Haz and Li and Zayn again. They missed you so much just like me" I stroke her hair out her face and kissed her nose.

"and now we have you back. I'll contact with Paul and Simon to ask if we can stop touring after the arena tour. We have that one left and after that I'll make sure that we don't go anywhere far. Just the UK and maybe Europe" her arms wrapped around my neck and I saw a little smile appearing on her face. I didn't know if she heard it but she was happy, maybe only in her sleep but happy.