Merman In The Water - Larry Stylinson AU Merman!Louis

Chapter 23

[E/N]: HELLO ONCE AGAIN AUDIENCE.  We have finally got through the most stressful week ever! SO ITS TIME TO WRITE! This is dedicated to DanielleRyannX0 for making the BEAST TRAILER IT'S SO AWESOME GO WATCH.
[S/N] I DID NOTHING FOR THIS CHAPTER BECAUSE I SUCK. :) But yes! Go look at the righteous trailer. It's fucking awesome.

Louis hadn't even been gone for an hour and Harry was already miserable. Granted, he was glad he had one of the best uncles and two of the greatest friends, as they bundled him in blankets and sat him on the couch and forced things upon him. Paul made him soup, Liam tried to give him left over brownie, and Zayn was dumping literally every movie Paul owned onto Harry's lap and asking him to pick one.

"Guys," Harry sighed sadly when he was covered in movies and seconds away from being spoon fed soup by Liam. "I appreciate it and all, really, I do. But can I just... I just need to wallow for a little bit."

"He's coming back to you, Harry," Zayn plopped down on the couch next to him, slinging his arm around the younger boy. "And you two can go back to doing whatever it is that you two weirdos do. It's all going to be really good. Louis can come back to the UK with us when the summer is over and we'll just visit for Christmas and then again in the summer  Liam and I will probably adopt Niall."

Harry knew Zayn was trying to get a smile out of him, but he didn't feel like smiling. It was gloomy and rainy out and Harry only wanted to cuddle with his merprince. Liam sank down on the other side of him, patting his knee, "Zayn's right. Louis will be back in a few days, or maybe even tomorrow. He went back relatively early. He can apologise to his dad and then he can come back."

The younger boy shrugged, and Zayn and Liam shared exasperated looks. Harry stood, shrugging off the blankets he was wrapped in and carefully moving the movie cases onto the couch, "Thanks guys. I think I'm just going to take a nap. My head hurts."

"Need anything else, my boy?" Paul asked gently. "Tea or something? It's probably not the tea you'd be used to, but I won't put ice in it or anything."

"No thank you, Uncle Paul," Harry gave his uncle a forced smile, and then trudge down the hall to the bedroom. The beds were still pushed together, but he fell on Louis' side and nuzzled his face down against the pillow. Sadly the sheets only had the salty, tangy smell of the ocean, and while it did remind Harry of Louis, it also reminded Harry of where Louis was.

Once Louis had left, Harry had stood on the rocks out in the rain for a good fifteen minutes with his friends standing helplessly behind him, and the first five were spent sobbing into Liam's shoulder. He was hoping that Louis would pop back up out of the water and announce that he was coming back with Harry, he and Niall both. But Louis never did pop back up, and Harry was left feeling like his heart had sunk to the bottom of the ocean with his merprince. His friends and uncle had eventually gotten him back to the house and into dry clothes, but that still didn't fix the ache in his chest and the knot in his stomach. Because what if Louis didn't come back? There was a lot of land and a lot of ocean, and Louis didn't know much about land, nor could Harry search the oceans. So how would they find one another again if Harry left Florida before Louis returned?

Harry pushed his face into the pillow with a moan, simply laying there even though his shoulder was bent awkwardly and his legs were hanging a bit off the bed. He felt the desire to cry more, but it was as if his body was refusing to leak the salt water that would only further remind him of Louis.

"Fuck you, body," he grumbled.

"Are you trying to smother yourself?" Liam's muffled voice reached Harry's pillow covered ears.

Harry peeked up, "Yes."

"I don't think Louis would be very happy with us when he returned if we let you do that," Liam sighed, coming over and flopping onto the bed that was pushed against Harry's. "What would we tell him? 'Sorry, Lou, your human suffocated in a pillow'. Only you could drown on land."