I Know Places - Ziam AU

24. Liam..?

After two days staying in the hospital, Zayn was moved to his new room although he had not woken up yet, but some of the machines were no longer attached to his fragile body. Dr. Smith said he was getting better and Trisha couldn't be more relieved.

Trisha stayed, never left his side. She had to forget about her job, house chores, and everything for a while now. Zayn was the only one in her mind right now. Trisha rested her head against the hospital bed, her hand holding her son's hand. She couldn't help but feeling tired at the moment, she hadn't have a proper sleep since the first day after all, even for short hours.

She had fallen into a deep sleep when the fingers in her hand moving slowly. The tan skinned boy fluttered his eyes open, which made him whine quietly from the brightness above him.

Zayn was confused from his strange surrounding. It was all smelt clean.. Like a hospital. And then he winced from the pain running all over his body, a memory of flashback washed over him.

"Zayn.." His mum was confused at his sudden movement. She got up as well to pull him back to her arms. But Zayn stepped back.

"I'm sorry, mum.." He sniffled. "I love you, so so much, but me and Liam need time to figure everything out." And with that, he grabbed his car keys and handed them to Liam.

Zayn dragged Liam out of the house and into the car with him. Liam started the engine, and before he hit the pedal, he intertwined his fingers tightly with Zayn's smaller ones

Liam then started driving through the night with Zayn sitting by himself. He gritted his teeth, tightening his grip on the steering wheel. He once threw a glance on his sobbing husband. Zayn was sad, he was almost on his breaking point.

Zayn couldn't stop biting his nails, then replaced them with his bottom lip, and back to his nails. He was shifting in his seat every now and then. He had rub his face with his palms twice, was trying to brush his sadness and confusion away. He was pulling at his hair now. He groaned quietly, only to cry again.

Suddenly Liam hit the pedal with anger. He couldn't help but driving the car too fast, going through the tall buildings and those street lights. He closed his eyes, tried to collect himself together.

That was until Zayn realized they were going too fast, so he shouted for his husband. "Liam, slow down!" He gasped when he saw Liam was driving with eyes closed.

Zayn shouted again, "Li, open your eyes! What are you doing?! Please, slow down!", but it seemed like Liam wasn't listening. Liam smiled. It was the widest smile that he had ever have in these past months. And Zayn couldn't help but cry harder than he was before, he tried shaking Liam's arm.

"Please, you're going to kill both of us!"

And that until Liam hit the road and the car was spinning like, forever. Zayn felt his body got stuck between the seat and the dashboard, he screamed but it was all in vain.

He was gone numb, and everything went black.

Zayn panicked, "L-Li..am?" His eyes were roaming, searching for his dearest husband. He cried, tried to trash around but it was no use at all since his body was hurting too bad that he couldn't move any muscle.

Trisha snapped awake when she heard the ragging breath and felt the rough shuffle. She gasped when she met with a pair of scared, hazel eyes. "Oh, sunshine you're awake!" She leaned forward to hug him carefully and kissed his head. Zayn relaxed a bit at the touch.

"Honey, what's wrong?" She noticed the still tensed up expression of his face. "Are you hurt? I'll call the doctor for you." She pressed the help button, telling that her son's already awake and asking for Dr. Smith to check him up. The nurse that was speaking on the speaker telling them that the doctor will be there shortly.