Save You (Harry Styles fanfic)

Chapter 27

WARNING: Contains self harm

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**Harry's POV**

"Slade...?" I breathed after a full minute of silence. "Slade as in...the guy who wants to kill me? The entire reason that I'm in this situation right now? The one who kidnapped Niall? That Slade?"

"Yeah. That Slade."

I let out a short gasp of air, my eyes as wide as tennis balls. Was she being serious?

"Don't act so surprised." She says, slight condolence in her tone. "How else do you think he got in your hotel room back in New York?"

The memories suddenly flashed before my eyes, slowly piecing it all together.

My bodyguard Collin laying dead on the ground and the message written on the walls with his blood. 'I'm always watching.'

The officer speaking to Damien as if he knew how everything was going to end. "We've had many cases with the same shooter. I'm afraid every single one of them ended the same way."

Niall staring at the ground with confused eyes as he repeated Skyler's message. "The walls have eyes. Travelling eyes."

The three men who suddenly appeared behind me when I went back to the hotel room for my phone...

"How could you not have told me this before!?" I yelled, abruptly standing from my seat.

"It must have slipped my mind, not having emotions doesn't help much with my memory you know."

"Skyler! If I had known this I would have never suggested we try to kill him! I can't even kill a human, how am I supposed to kill a lightning jumper!? I've seen what you can do, he'll kill me in an instant!"

"That's why I said to leave the killing to me. I never said that you'll be the one to kill Slade, did I?"

"But what if you end up dying?"

"You'll die straight after and he'll be so pissed he'll most likely murder your four buddies too."

My eyes widened even more if possible. "WHAT!?"

"Relax! Keep your curls in place. It's not like I'd allow that to happen."

"But what if it does, Skyler? What if it all goes wrong!? I can't let them take the fall! I'm his target, not them!" I let out a frustrated yell and slammed my fist against the white painted walls. "None of this would have happened if I had just sat back and let Slade move on! Why couldn't I have just coped for six months!? Everything would have been fine!" My fist slammed against the wall for the second time, blood already oozing from the skin.

"Harry, calm down. You're not the only one in fault here, I knew what we were getting ourselves into and I selfishly went along with your stupid idea."

"You should have tried harder to stop me! You shouldn't have gone along with it!"

"I apologise for not trying hard enough to stop you but we've all made mistakes in the past!" She was yelling back at me now. "My lack of emotions causes me to make stupid decisions and if I did have emotions, I would known what to do at the time. I would have explained everything to you and you wouldn't have gone crazy and suggested this idea, I wouldn't have trained you, you wouldn't have gotten hurt and you wouldn't be doing this right now!"

She pulled back my clenched fist before it hit the wall for the fifth time, holding it in front of me to see the damage I was doing to it. "I've been thinking long and hard about this ever since that day and it took me until I woke up in Tokyo to realise I had made a big mistake. It's too late to turn back now, Harry. We're practically halfway through and after that mess back in Tokyo, they'll be onto us. If we stop now then we're sitting ducks and everything we've worked for these past few months will be worth nothing. And worst of all, if we stop now then I can't protect you anymore. You'll be on your own and Slade will track you down."