Short Stories

Depart (Niall Centric)

So, I'm starting to have some ideas for short stories and I seriously want to just wing it and write them but please send my prompts still, this book is going to be turned into a prompt request's and my own ideas.


Summary:



Christmas is coming and One Direction are ready to go home. All the boys flights get postponed, when they leave, Niall is left behind waiting. Finally, when he gets on his plane and it flying off towards Ireland.
It never makes it.



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"You have got to be fucking kidding me!" Louis yelled at the service station. The signs that showed the flight times and boarding times just said that all flights from England and Ireland are postponed till the winds ease.
To say the least, all the lads were pissed.
Zayn was looking out the window at the snow blowing roughly with the wind, it was quite windy out there, and Zayn probably needed to call his mom telling her he'll be late.
Liam was already calling his mom, telling her about the high winds. He seemed very pissed as he rolled his eyes and glared at the service station lady.
Harry sighed and sat down on the chairs in the waiting area. They all had different flights but they decided to stay in one place, their flights were beside each other. He didn't like having to tell his parents that he wasn't going to be coming around to their Cheshire home till late at night.
Niall, well he was just leaned back on his chair, thinking to sleep the hours off.
And Louis, well, you know what he was doing.



-x-



"Flight to Bradford now boarding." A ladies voice came from the airports speakers. Zayn groaned in happiness and got up off the chairs.
"Bye lads!" He yelled and hugged every one of them, only yelling a goodbye to Niall because he was sleeping like a rock.

-x-


"Flight to Doncaster now boarding." Again a ladies voice came up from the airports speakers an hour later and Louis cheered and got up off the chairs. "Bye boys!" Louis yelled and hugged all of them, giving Niall pat on the back because again, he was sleeping like a rock.

-x-


"Flight to Wolverhampton now boarding." For the third time in three hours the woman's voice came through the speakers. Liam sighed in relief and hugged Harry, rubbing Niall's head of hair because... You know why.


-x-


"Flight to Cheshire now boarding." The woman's voice said and Harry stood up, patting Niall and shaking him awake.
"Bye Nialler." Harry said and Niall grumbled a goodbye and hugged him. Harry vanished into the crowd of people.


-x-


Two long hours and finally Niall was heading onto his plane taking him to Ireland.
He hated waiting, and he was glad he got that couple hours of sleep. Even though he didn't say goodbye to Louis, Zayn and Liam. He will see them soon. Niall got onto the plane, walking on and sitting beside a man that looked to be in his late twenties.
The plane started to move and soon enough of was off into the clouds and off to Ireland.



-x-x-x-




The clunk was first, then the loud scream and just in the blink of an eye the plane was plummeting to the earth.
Niall screams and put his head done to his knees, crying loudly like all the other people.
It ended in seconds.
The airplane didn't smash against hard ground, no, it smashed into the Irish Sea. It was so silent in the airplane Niall was sure he was dead, but then someone was shaking him awake. He slowly opened his eyes to see that same man that sat beside him looking down at him, a bloody deep gash started at his eyebrow down to his right ear.
"Come on lad! The planes sinking!" The man screamed, but Niall just stayed their, he only saw the mans lips move, not the words coming out of them.
The man sighed in frustration and took Niall's seatbelt off, picking the Irish lad up bridal style and rushing f out of the plane, stepping over dead bodies.
Niall hissed as the cold winter air smacking his cheeks as the man jumped onto something. He opened his eyes to see that they were on one of the wings of the plane. About thirty people were on their side of the airplane all struggling to stay on the wing and not falling into the icy cold water.
The man never let him go as the screams increased as people started to fall off the wing, the plane tipping downward, sinking fast.
But again, it was like a blink of an eye and knives shot through Niall's body and a howl of pain came from the man as they slipped off the wing. The plane now fully underwater.
While the plane sank, the pressure increased and now people were getting sucked down underwater. Niall screamed as the man got sucked in, Niall dove under and grabbed him pulling him up and holding him tightly. "Don't let me go!" Niall screamed and the man didn't answer but his grip tightened around Niall.
The population from the amount of people was down to twenty people in all, the caption of the airplane was floating dead above water, the air hostesses were all alive but barely from his they shivered in their formal skirts.
The man suddenly let out a gasp and started to swim with one arm, the other wrapped around Niall.
People were clawing at Niall now, screaming and cursing. But when Niall refocused his gaze he saw people putting on life jackets that seemed to float above the surface from the plane.

There was only about ten that actually made it to the top.

The man was putting his on, Niall was panicking though, he was going to drown of he had to hold himself above water for who knows how long.
But the man grabbed onto Niall and held him tightly to him.
"Don't let me go." Niall whispered.
"I won't, I promise." The man whispered back and rubbed Niall's back as they floated above the water.


-x-



The call came in the morning...
At 2:00 in the morning to be exact.
Louis groaned and picked up his cell phone and put it to his ear. Mumbling a "hello?"

"Oh my god Louis! Is Niall with you?!" A very scared and shaky Maura asked on the other side and Louis furrowed his brows.
"N-no." He said and Maura let out a loud sob and started to cry. The phone was passed over and Bobby came on.
"Louis, Niall hasn't come to the airport and its been almost 14 hours since his airplane was supposed to land." Bobby said his voice sounded shaky too.
"Maybe he's still at the airport, all our flights for canceled..." Louis said and Bobby sighed on relief. "God, can you please check for us?" Bobby asked and Louis winced. He just got back.
"U-uhm... Alright." He said and said his goodbye to Bobby and hung up. He decided to drive to Bradford, pick up Zayn and go. He might as well.


Louis picked Zayn up and they drove to the Bradford airport, Zayn wasn't too happy having to leave home again on his Christmas holiday but his friends safety was more important.
"I told them his flight was probably postponed for a while." Louis said and Zayn nodded.

They both got onto the first plane to the airport they last departed at and for off, going towards the terminal that took people around Europe, them stopping at the Irish airlines.
No sign of Niall.
Louis walks up to the service station, the women seemed bored off their arses standing g around there.
"Do you know if the flight to Dublin Ireland departed?" Louis asked and the woman raised an eyebrow, she remembered him.
"Yes, the flight was hours ago. If you wanted to go on that flight you were seven hours too late." She said and the woman beside her chuckled.
"O-okay." Louis said and glared at the woman before walking back over to Zayn.
"I'll call Maura." Louis said and got out his cell phone.
"Did you find him?!" Maura's worried and frantic voice came instantly from the phone as she picked up.
Louis sighed. "No, the plane left seven hours ago. He should be there by now."
Maura wept and handed the phone over to Greg.
"Look Louis, he isn't home and we're looking at the news to see if anything happened to that plane." Greg said and Louis' heart rate pumped faster at that. They were really worried. And now, so was he.
"Alright." Louis said and Greg hung up.

Zayn looked at the row of flat screen t.v's over the seating area, a place to wait and relax.
He watched the news and sighed, he really wanted to go home and spend time with his family. Niall was surely okay, his flight could have landed right at this very second.
He stared at the news until all of the t.v's suddenly went blank and a message from the watch tower popped up onto the screen.

"Attention all travelers. All flights going across see are canceled from high winds and sudden airplane crash Irish airlines flying to Dublin."


Zayn froze and punched Louis in the arm, Louis who was concentrating on his cellphone, looked up and growled at him. But stopped once Zayn pointed a shaky finger at the screens.
Louis gasped and dialed the Horan's number.
"God, the plane, the plane!" Louis yelled into the phone as Bobby answered.
"What's wrong with the plane?!?? Wh-what happened?!" Bobby said and Louis started to cry.
"Niall's plane, it-it crashed into the sea. God he might be dead!" Louis screamed and his knees buckled. Zayn fell with him and they held each other. The two women at the desk rushed over and helped them into a seat.
Maura was screaming now, her cries punctured Louis' heart as she wept her sons name over and over again.
"My baby, my baby!" Maura screamed and the line went dead.

Louis called Liam and Harry, both of them were already out the door once the heard him crying. And when Louis told them Niall might be dead in the middle of the Irish Sea. They were crying.
"They'll be here soon." Zayn croaked out.


-x-


Hours, many many hours of hearing people weeping, some screaming, some dying.
Niall was still holding on to the man, but his grip was so weak. His body was frozen, his lips were purple and he was paler than snow. Those blue eyes shone a tired, dull grey.
The man was holding onto Niall tightly though, the man had the same look as Niall. Tired, frozen, and hopeless. The screaming and whimpering was only faded now, only small whimpers and people sobbing to their selves. The airplane was also long gone, no place to stay afloat without using your body, and the many people who didn't get a lifejacket have already drowned or were struggling with little energy left to stay above water.
Niall whimpered as a cold gust of wind smacked across his face, he knew he was getting frost bite or that he already did, he was numb all over. If someone did save them, Niall surely ether was paralyzed or had lost all feeling in his body.
"Shhhh" the man whispered shakily into Niall's ear, his hot breath was now crystal cold and made Niall whimper again and tighten his grip-as much as he could-on the man.
"I-I never got the name of my hero." Niall said, his voice was a raspy whisper, the cold had gotten to his lungs and now his voice was ruined.
"E-Elijah." The man croaked out, his voice wasn't any different, when he spoke his teeth clacked together they both were shaking uncontrollably in each other arms.
"I never got your name ether." The man said, his voice was getting shakier and shakier.
"Ni-Niall." He said and closed his eyes as another cold breeze swept across the ocean bed.
"Well Niall, if I die first, take the lifejacket off and let me drown okay? I don't want me floating around while your suffering." Elijah said and Niall looked up at him, it took him a lot of effort, his head felt like a weight attached to his body.
"Yo-your not going to d-die." Niall stuttered out, he was going to lose his voice any second now.
"And you aren't ether." Elijah mumbled and then rested his chin on Niall's head of hair which was now frozen and crispy from how cold it was outside.


-x-


Liam and Harry rushed into the airport, running around like crazy and scanning the airport for any sign of their other best mates. They both had tears falling down their face, trying their best to hold them back as they ran past confused people giving them glares as they bumped into them.
"God, I can't fucking stand this airport." Liam growled and slammed his fist against the wall as they stopped for a break.
"Wait, Irish airlines!" Harry shouted and pointed a long slender finger at the sign on top of a entrance that read, "Irish Airlines."
Liam sighed in relief and grabbed his small duffle bag, Harry grabbing his backpack and following after him as they rushed into the entrance.
They noticed both of them right away.
Louis and Zayn surrounded by four women, all of them rubbing their backs and handing them bottles of water.
"Lads!" Liam shouted and both boys shot their heads up and shouted in happiness as they bolted towards them and hugged both of them tightly.
"Wh-what happened?" Harry asked as they parted and sat down, the women leaving them alone. "Maura called and was crying asking if we knew where Niall was and I said no, she was so worried so I went here with Zayn to see if Niall was here... and-and Zayn saw that all the flights were canceled because-because-oh god." Louis started to cry again, Liam rubbing his back and hugging him, tears now falling down his cheeks. Harry was holding back the tears, his lip wobbling as he stared at the screens seeing the vibrant message that read.

"Attention all travelers. All flights going across see are canceled from high winds and sudden airplane crash Irish airlines flying to Dublin."

The message suddenly flipped to a new one. Harry couldn't hold the tears back anymore.

"Attention all travelers. Flight to Dublin has crashed landed on sea. MIA we repeat MIA."

-x-


The helicopters searched for hours up above, rescue boats from Ireland and England were out searching for any survivor's. The pilot flying one of the two helicopters that were following the airplanes flight pattern from the watch tower, was having doubts on finding any passengers that were on that plane, it was night time, the Irish Sea is fairly big, and that it had been three hours since the crash, in about two more hours those people would be frozen to the core.
He didn't expect to be coming home with anyone.


-x-


The Horan family couldn't get to England, the flights there were delayed also. So, right now everyone was preying to god that their little brother, son and best friend was alive and  was going to stay alive.
The four boys had stopped crying, but their broken faces and hearts showed pure pain and worry. Their brother was out their, the one they shared everything with, had been traveling the world with, was dying out in the middle of the fucking sea. Days before Christmas.
They had all callen their parents, telling them what had happened, their parents were worried for Niall and their babies, they were just waiting to pick up the broken pieces as they heard their sons cried into their phones.
No one was ever going to be okay unless they have their Irishman by them, no one.


-x-


The helicopter swooped across the ocean, the lights reflecting off the water as the pilot searched for the lost airplane. But he saw nothing. He was cold and was losing belief every minute. He was debating on turning back. It was now almost two hours of searching.
That was when he noticed the small specks of movement.
He flashed his light and shouted in happiness.


-x-


It was complete silence now, no one was whimpering, no one was crying or calling for help. It scared Elijah as he cracked his eyelids open, them sealed from his crispy frozen eyelashes. He was pretty sure his eyebrows were frozen also. It had snowed and he was covered in it, his lifejacket was completely frozen, he felt trapped and suffocated in it. He was also pretty sure he had about ten nose bleeds.
As he moved one of his hands from Niall's body he gasped as he heard the cracking of ice underwater, his sleeve and hand was frozen against Niall's clothing.
And as he let go Niall body slumped backwards, Elijah gasped and put his hand back onto Niall body as their bodies almost tipped underwater.
The cracking of frozen ice scared him, their bodied were frozen together, Niall's hands were frozen against his lifejacket, his one hand now was frozen solid and numb against Niall's waist.
Elijah suddenly gasped as much as he could from his ruined lungs and vocal cords as he looked down at Niall.
It was something from a horror movie.
Niall's face was deathly pale, as pale as fresh white paint, snow covered his limp fringe that was solid and crystal. Niall had frost bite over his face, to the right side of his nose and down to his right ear and right side of his mouth and jawline, even a small part of his left eye had frost bite, he also had blood oozing from his nose, dripping down and slipping past his chapped, purple lips or drizzling down his chin and dropping onto his chest or throat. It looked sickening.
"Niall?" Elijah rasped out.
Nothing.
"Niall?" Elijah said as loud as possibly could.
Nothing.
Elijah tried to shake Niall but failed, him deciding to part Niall mouth. The cloud of breath washed over his face. Niall was still alive, but barley.
Elijah cried out and rested his face into Niall's crispy hair. He didn't want to get of this alone if he ever did, he wanted to die first if he had to choose, not this poor boy.
He suddenly saw a shimmer of light reflecting off the cold water, he gasped and looked up seeing his saviour as a helicopter hovered over them.
He was the door to the helicopter open and a person descend down towards them, he smiled and kissed the top of Niall's head, they were going to be saved.
The person had a harness over them, an extra for another survivor.
Elijah watched and struggled to keep his eye opened as he watched the person shake their head, and call up saying something that Elijah couldn't make out.
Suddenly the medic was being lifted again, the person didn't see them.
Elijah took every ounce left in his strength and lifted his arm spreading his frozen fingers apart after being frozen together and waving at the medic.


-x-


The man yelled at the back of the airplane at the four air paramedics.
The paramedics all shot to their feet, one of them buckling themselves into a harness and opening the door to the helicopter, then slowly descending towards the water.
The medic scanned the bodies, all of them looked dead, some had their eyes wide opened but were dull and had snow and ice in them. Hell, all the bodies were covered in a thick layer of ice, snow, and bellow freezing water.
The medic shook his head and looked up at the helicopter yelling at the other medics to pull her up. She looked back down at the bodies as the medics pulled her up and gasped.
A man holding onto a teenaged boy was waving at her. They have someone alive.
She hollered at the medics to lower her back down, they looked down at her with confused faces but then saw the arm.
She hit the water with her full body suit and swam over to the men.
"Your here" The man said weakly and rubbed the teenaged boys back.
"Please save him first!" The man said and she shook her head. She needed to get them both out.
She grasped the harness and dived under water, the freezing water piercing her skin as she pulled the harness through the man and the boys legs hoisting them up wit her. She then hooked them so they were attacked to her harness and called up at the medics to hoist them up.
She stared at the man as his eye's slowly rolled to the back of his head, going limp with the teenaged boy still frozen into his grip.


-x-


"Boys!" A woman yelled and rushed towards them she was clasping a phone in her hands.
"Niall Horan was found near frozen to death and their flying to the hospital to save his life! They found him frozen against another man." She said and the four lads sprung to their feet and thanked the woman, asking for he hospital name and address and taking a cab to the hospital, Louis already on the phone with Maura.

They bolted into the hospital rushing to the front desk, but stopped dead in their tracks. The doors to the emergency part of the hospital where they were burst open, medics wheeling in two bodies on one stretcher. But the one body was their Nialler.
Niall was frozen against the man, the man had his hands around him frozen against Niall's ice layered clothing. Their hair was glistening and shinning with ice and snow. Niall's and the mans noses were bleeding. Everything was ice, everything about that image made the boys want to scream.
They zipped past them and rushed into another set of doors that they weren't aloud to go into.
"Are one of those men a family member of yours?" The woman behind the desk asked and they all shook their heads. "Friends, his family can't be here." Liam said and the woman frowned and nodded over to the waiting area.

Hours and hours of waiting till a nurse walked up to them.
"We managed to stabilize one of them, the teenager is on life support." The nurse said and they all cried out and thanked the nurse as they cried in a group hug. Niall was dying.

They hugged each other closely in that group hug, never letting each other go as they whimpered Niall's name. They knew they couldn't be able to go through life without their happy Nialler.

But  they faced the truth and realized that they might just have to.


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A.N:

 

Part two?

(Merry Christmas and the man on the side is Elijah I randomly picked him because he looks Irish)

~ Direction_Minx~