Imaginary (Niam, Ziall, Ziam, Larry fanfic)

Part 26

Zayn

They made it back to Liam's house by sundown. Zayn and Niall put Liam down outside his front door then him and Niall flew into Liam's bedroom and waited. They could hear the yelling of his mother from downstairs when Liam walked through the front door.

"Tell me about Liam's family." Zayn prompted Niall.

"Well he lives with his mom and his dad and he has one older brother named Harry who's moved out now."

"Is he close with his family?"

"He's fairly close with his parents but he doesn't see or talk to Harry much. Harry was originally going to school to be a medical doctor but then he changed his mind and became a psychiatrist I think partly because of Louis."

"Louis? As in the guy who help me find you and who I may have punched at one time?" Zayn said rubbing the back of his neck.

"Yeah that guy, who by the way did not deserved to be punched he's a nice guy." Niall lightly punched Zayn on the arm.

"I know, but what does he have to do with Liam's brother?"

"Liam's brother Harry was dating Louis when he died." Niall said softly. Zayn covered his mouth in surprise.

Just then Liam walked into the room with an annoyed look on his face. He slammed his door shut and locked it then fell back onto his bed.

"I take it she's pissed?" Niall said jumping onto the bed next to him. Zayn laid on the other side of Liam and propped his head up on his elbows so he could look down at Liam.

"Oh she's beyond pissed. I think I just want to call it a day and go to bed. My nerves are shot."

"It's been a crazy past few days, you're probably exhausted." Zayn said stroking Liam's cheek.

"Go to sleep babe, I promise Zayn and I aren't going anywhere."

"Ugghh...I have to many clothes on to go to sleep." Liam huffed out. Niall and Zayn laughed and started helping him strip his clothes off of him. No one tried to initiate anything, Zayn and Niall both wanted Liam to sleep. They still felt awful about dropping him earlier.

Liam crawled up to the top of his bed and pulled the covers back slipping his legs in-between them and pulling the covers up to his neck.

"Goodnight love." Zayn and Niall said as they each placed kisses to his lips. Niall turned off the light and emerged into complete darkness. Not five minutes later Zayn and Niall could hear the soft snores of Liam sleeping.

Niall opened the window of Liam's bedroom and climbed onto the tree outside. He ushered Zayn to follow him and he did closing the window behind so Liam wouldn't get cold.

"We can talk out here without waking Liam up." Niall said sitting against the trunk on the branch propping his body up. Zayn jumped to the branch above Niall doing the same and letting one of his legs dangle over the branch.

"Good because there's something we have to discuss." Zayn said looking down at Niall.

"Is this what I think it's about?"

"Well if it's about the inevitable future and Liam turning nineteen in a month then yes."

"What do you mean?" Niall asked looking up at Zayn and meeting his eyes. He had seen that look before, his eyes said it all. He knew what Zayn was about to say.

"Now that he's been saved from his suicide attempt you know when he turns nineteen he won't be able to see or feel us anymore. Hell he might not be able to remember us either."

"You aren't suggesting..." Niall trailed off.

"Niall you know it's the only way, that's why you're here with me today."

"You just saved him from killing himself and now you want to go suggest he retries it and succeeds this time? Are you bloody crazy?" Niall half whispered half yelled at him.
"What did you think was going to happen when he got older? That we would just do this whole relationship while it lasted then you and I forget about Liam when he couldn't see us anymore?"

"Of course not! But I also wasn't thinking right after we agreed to this relationship about our human's death!" Niall was getting red in the face and was now sitting fully up on the branch with his legs dangling off on either side.

"Why do you think I approached you about dying when you were my human? Why do you think we came up with that plan? It was all so we could be together for eternity and now there's another person in the equation who's also human. Niall if we don't figure out something now while we can then there will be nothing we can do once it's too late." Zayn didn't understand how Niall wasn't seeing this was the only option.

"What if Liam says no? Then what would we do?"

"Well then we would make the best of the time we had with him, but we have to at least ask him and let him know that the options there." Zayn hopped down to the branch Niall was on and sat facing him with his legs on each side of the branch. He could tell Niall wasn't happy with him at the moment. Niall was doing everything he could to not look at Zayn and he kept huffing with his arms crossed over his chest.

"Okay Zayn, say hypothetically Liam does kill himself and becomes a guardian angel and gets assigned a kid somewhere. How will we ever find him again?"

"Well I found you again didn't I?" Zayn said smiling softly to himself.

"What if he's in love with someone else when we find him?" Now Niall was looking Zayn directly in the eyes and Zayn could see the fear and uncertainty that his eyes held.

"No, we'll find him way before that ever happens. There's nothing to worry about with that." Zayn reached out and took one of Niall's hands in his. He brought it up to his lips and pecked the back of it before intertwining their fingers together.

"Zayn If I go along with this and Liam decides that's what he wants, and if when we find him again and he's in love with someone else we can't interfere. We have to let him be."

"What do you mean let him be? Then all of our searching would be for nothing." Zayn rubbed his thumb over the smooth skin on the back of Niall's hand.

"If he's happy we have to let him go Zayn. We'll still have each other but we have to do what's best for Liam."

"So then you'll at least agree to both of us talking to him about the possibility?"

"I suppose but when are we going to do it?" Niall was watching his feet as he swung them back and forth through the air. Zayn knew Niall wasn't fully on board with this idea but he knew it was the best way for all three of them to remain together.

"We need to talk to him tomorrow first thing when he wakes up. His birthdays a month away but we must have less time since he's already been saved. And if he says yes we have to plan it all out."

"Okay...tomorrow then." Niall said scooting forward on the branch so his and Zayn's knees were touching on the branch. "Just remember Zayn you're not alone anymore. No matter what happens I'm not going anywhere." And with that Zayn was kissing Niall in a tree under the stars and the moonlight while their boyfriend slept peacefully inside and for once everything felt right again.