Give Me Love

Protection - Part 12

"You did what?!" Zayn says, raising his voice at Haley causing her to flinch. Harry puts his arms around Haley to calm her down. Zayn notices this sudden physical contact at it upsets him even more. "Get your arms off my daughter Harry." Harry retracts his arms and lets them rest at his sides. Haley glares at her dad. 

"Why couldn't you just trust me Haley, really after everything I've done for you, I thought I at least deserved your trust but I guess I was wrong, now you've gone and put yourself in danger." Zayn says softening his voice some. Haley tries to walk towards her dad, but he puts his hand up to stop her. "Don't, I can't be around you right now, I need to go figure out how to keep you safe." He says turning around. Right as he's about to walk away he stops in his tracks and he turns back around to lock eyes with Harry. 

"The reminds me, Harry, I will do anything to keep my daughter safe, no matter how much she angers me some times, I still love her, so that means I need you to stop seeing her." Haley gasps at her fathers words and she feels her self grow angry as well. harry looks down and closes his eyes trying to stay calm. Zayn continues to speak. " She was the perfect daughter, almost never broke my rules, never went looking for danger, until she started sneaking off with you, that's right I know about that I'm not dumb." He says glancing to his daughter. "She was safe before she met you, so if I'm going to keep her safe, then you will never see her again and if you know what's good for you, you'll listen to me, do not forget I'm very powerful and close friends with you boss, do not mess with me styles." Zayn says, finishing his rant. 

Haley can't believe what she just heard come from her own fathers mouth. He threatened to use his power and connections to end Harry's carrier if he didn't stay away from me, how could he do something like that. She was so angry that she felt her blood boiling from the rage. "Who are you?!" Zayn looks at her with a cold expression on his face, making Haley's heart break at the sight. The man standing in front of her was not the man she loved, or the man that took her into his home and gave her everything she had. The man standing in front of her was a cold emotionless robot, the man he used to be before he adopted her. 

"You might think this is unfair and hate me, but that's OK, at least you'll be alive and hating me, not a corpse. Leave Harry, now."  Harry goes to turn around but Haley grabs his arm and stops him. "You want to protect me, what about him dad, he is now in as much danger as I am, HE ALMOST GOT SHOT TODAY!" Haley couldn't believe this was happening. 

Zayn keeps his cold expression, he didn't care how much of a bad guy he might look like in his daughters eyes, he would do anything to protect her, even if it means taking away her first love. "I don't care about him Haley, all I care about is you and your safety, he is not my problem." Haley can feel tears threatening to spill out of her eyes. Harry gets out of Haley's grasp and exits her house, him being there was just making it worse, and he needed to leave before he said something he would regret. As Harry walks outside Zayn also exits the room and heads to his office, he can't let his anger with Haley distract him from what he needs to do, keep her safe, there's a lot of things he needs to get done. 

When Zayn leaves the room Haley darts for the door to chase after Harry. She's desperately hoping he hasn't left yet. Her dad was good at intimidating other people, but it never works on her. She rushes outside and sees Harry opening his car door. She got here just in time. 

Harry hears footsteps rushing towards him so he looks up. When he sees it's Haley he relaxes and shuts his door rushing to her and wrapping his arms rightly around her the second their bodies collide. "Please don't listen to him, please I can't stand to be away from you, he's just angry, please Harry, I- I think I'm in love with you." Haley mutters out quickly. Harry breathes in a sharp breath when he hears Haley say she loves him. He admitted to himself awhile ago that he loved her, he just never said it, he didn't want to pressure her into anything. 
"Sh sh, it's OK babe, he said some hurtful things yes, but I understand him, he's just trying to protect you, I would do the same things if I was in his position, me and him would do anything for the people we love." He says pausing and looking into eyes. He sees her eyes light up at his words even with the tears that are spilling down her face. "I'm in love with you too... I have been for awhile." 

They crash their lips together and move them in sync while holding each other. At that moment they felt safe and happy in the middle of all the pain and darkness that was happening, they felt like they could get through anything as long they had each other. And for that reason, they couldn't be apart. There was no way Harry could stop seeing her. It was risky but she was worth the risk. Zayn wants to protect her, well so does Harry, and nothing will stop him, not even her powerful, scary father. They can make it through the dark. 

They break apart from each other and catch their breath. "I'm not going anywhere I promise, you are worth all of this." Harry says brushing away some wet hair that was stuck to her face. "What about my dad, it'll be even harder to sneak around him now, even though apparently we weren't doing a very good job in the first place if he already knew, so what are we gonna do." She says turning her head to look back at her house. "It won't be easy, and we won't see each other as often as we would like, but it can work and once this is all done with, we can go back to normal. He just needs time and you safe." Harry says pulling his keys out of his pocket. "I better go, I'll go see Louis right now and fill him in on everything he missed." He says. Haley nods her head and they share a quick kiss before he get in his car and takes off and Haley goes up to her room and takes a hot shower. 

While Haley is washing away all her problems, Zayn is in his office searching through all the papers he has that are related Haley. He's trying to figure out who this mysterious man that's been following her is. There is no mans name or anything in her papers that might give him a clue, just her birth mom, but she wouldn't be any help. She died a year ago. He hasn't told Haley, it's not important for her to know, she didn't really know her mom anyways. Zayn feels himself get frustrated. He picks up the papers he was looking at and throws them across the room. "Fuck." He says under his breath. He has no idea what to do and it kills him, he hates feeling helpless, there are only two people in this world that he has ever loved, his mum and his daughter. And now one of them is at risk because he didn't protect her enough. He feels emotionally beaten down. 

He slides down onto the floor and leans against his desk. Right as he feels himself about to break down there's a knock at the door that stops him. "Come in." He says loud enough for them to hear. When the door opens Zayn sees the concerned face of his mother. She looks around the room at the mess he's made and then looks at him with pity in her eyes. 

She closes the door and sits down next to him. She heard the whole fight from the other room, so she knows what's going on. She reaches over and grabs his hand. "We'll figure it out together, I won't let anyone or anything harm my granddaughter, you aren't alone in this son, remember that." She says to him softly. Her words cause him to break and finally lets all the tears out that he had been holding in. He mom wraps her arms around him and they just sit there on the ground while he cries. 

After about an hour long shower, Haley walks back into her room in just a towel and feels the nice cool breeze hit her skin. She left her window open because of the nice weather. She walks to her closet and pulls out an old T- shirt and some shorts to change into . She walks back in to her bathroom to get dressed since she left the window open. 

When she finishes, she walks to her bed a lays down. She reaches her arm to grab the remote to her TV but when she moves she hears a paper crinkle under neath her. She didn't see anything when she laid down. She gets up from her bed and pulls the blanket open. 

There was a folded piece of paper sitting on her bed. "What the hell." She whispers to herself. She slowly reaches for the paper and unfolds it so she can read it. 

"I wish you hadn't gone into the bathroom to change, I was really looking forward to seeing what you had hidden under that towel, no one can protect you from me, princess."

She read the note three more times making sure her eyes weren't deceiving her. She felt extremely violated and scared.  She ran to the window, slammed it shut and locked it and also closed the curtain. She dug through her desk in her room until she found what she was looking for. A lighter. She took the note and the lighter and went back into the bathroom. She didn't want to see this anymore, it was giving her the creeps. 

She held the paper open and in front of her. She lit one of the corners on fire and watched as the message slowly disappeared. She threw it in the sink before it could burn her hand and then she went back to her bed and sat there watching TV all night not sleeping. She's afraid to sleep, he could come back.