Protect Me (Harry Styles)

Chapter 24

Harry's POV

Studying Bailey's calm face, I see that her wounds have healed remarkably fast.

I trace my thumb gently over her forehead where a huge gash once was. Now, there is only a little scratch mark.

"Do you want anything to eat?" Louis' voice sounds, bringing me out of my prior actions.

Without looking up from Bailey, I shake my head no.

Her arm, that once showed her bone, is now a mere scar.

How has she healed so quickly? It doesn't make sense.

"Harry, you have to eat. Have you eaten anything all day?" Louis' voice breaks my train of thought.

I shake my head no again, and focus back on Bailey.

"You need to eat, mate," Louis' says.

I tune him out as he begins to talk about my nutrition and shit, and observe Bailey more.

The bruise around her neck is completely gone.

I take her wrists into my hands and look at them. 

The raw skin that was once there is now entirely gone, leaving her wrists wound free.

"Damn it, Harry. Are you even listening to me?" Louis frustratingly asks.

Ignoring him, I lift her shirt up to reveal her side that once held a large stab wound.

Where the injury once was, there is now nothing except a small scab.

"Harry-"

"Shut up, Lou. Come here," I cut him off.

He huffs, but walks over to us anyway.

"Look," I say, gesturing to Bailey's healed injuries.

"What am I supposed to be looking at?" Louis asks, obviously not understanding 

"Bailey's wounds. Look, all of them are either fully healed or close to it," I say.

I watch as he leans closer to her motionless body.

His eyebrows furrow together, as he leans away and looks at me.

"How?" He simply asks.

"I have no clue. I thought maybe you would know," I reply, running my hands through my hair, perplexed.

"Boys!" Louis shouts, ushering the boys into the living room.

'What is it?" Niall asks.

"Look at Bailey," I say.

"What is there to look at, Harry?" Zayn asks, giving me a questioning look.

"Her injuries. More than half of them have already healed. With the injuries she had, it should have taken her at least a month to be healed completely," Louis answers for me.

"How is it possible that she is in such good shape then?" Zayn asks again.

"We don't know," I say, shaking my head.

Silence fills the entirety of the room.

Each one of us thinking about possible solutions for her healing.

"I think I might know..." Louis finally says.

The boys and I all sit silently, waiting to hear what he is about to say.

"When I found her in the woods, I asked her what happened. She told me Tony had hurt her. I then continued to ask her where he was. Her response was that she killed him," Louis explains.