Wheels Within Wheels (Larry Stylinson AU Mpreg)

Chapter Five

HARRY'S POV

"Promise me one thing, Harry?" he whispered to me, encasing my hand in his smaller one, smiling beautifully up at me with a hopeful gleam in those gorgeous blue eyes.

"Anything,"

"We'll be together always? And we'll move somewhere amazing together that's not as boring as Cheshire," he requested with a chortle.

"Of course we will. And of course we can," I spoke back, tittering with him.

"Good. I love you,"

"I love you, too. With all of my heart,"

"You sure know how to make a lad feel special, don't you, Styles?" he laid his head on my lap, and I embedded my fingers in his soft, black hair.

I shrugged, "I guess I know a thing or two,"

He chuckled at me, leaning in closer. But his expression shifted as he neared my face. He whispered in a low tone-almost a hiss. "It was your fault,"

Before I could do anything to stop it, he burst into flames right before my eyes. His entirety was engulfed in red and orange as I kicked at the ground, backing as far away as I could as his melting corpse stumbled towards me, arms outstretched and continuing to repeat the same venomous words consecutively.

"I was your fault, it was your fault, it was your fault,"

Tears streamed down my face as I begged for forgiveness as I had so many times. I begged for the fire to cease, I begged not to be harmed.

But his body was still ablaze, and his beautiful blue eyes only reflected the burning-

I woke with a start, drenched in sweat, breathing erratically.

I scanned the room for a torched kid as my chest rose and fell rapidly. I only gasped louder when Niall came barreling though the door with a vexed expression on his baby-face.

"Alright, lad?"

I allowed my body to go slack against the head-board. I weakly nodded, "Just a nightmare,"

"Jesse again?"

I wiped my brow of perspiration, breathing out a 'yes' for confirmation. Frowning, Niall stumbled over to my bedside, relieving his feet from his weight.

"You have to let that go, yeah? There wasn't a thing you could've done. These nightmares are freaking me out."

"Yeah, they're freaking me out, too, mate. But I deserve it, alright? I could've been there. I could've stopped it-"

"Haz, you were at school, there's no way you could have possibly stopped the-"

"It is my fault, Niall, and you know it. Admit it,"

"I'm not admitting shit. This is about that Tomlinson kid, isn't it?"

I swallowed hard, pushing the duvet off my legs and walking to my bathroom. With Niall hot on my heels, he wouldn't allow me to enter the door.

"Talk to me, Haz! You're like my brother, man, and I'm worried sick about you. This is the Louis thing, isn't it? You're feeling guilty for what you did and now you're having these nightmares about Jesse again." Niall was working up his own sweat at this point. "It's not heathy,"

"There's nothing I can do to stop these damned nightmares! Nothing! They come and go regardless of Louis, but feeling this shitty about what happened triggered them. I haven't felt all sorry since that day. I haven't felt anything since that day, and now Louis comes along with those beautiful blue eyes and that perfect smile that's even more perfect than Jess' was and it's like he's making my heart beat again. I don't like it,"