Caught || Larry

Twenty-one:

The Captain listened as the screams of the Prince echoed throughout the top of the ship. He clasped his hands over his ears, trying his best to mask the sound of Harry begging for his help.

'You don't care. You don't care. You don't care..' Louis kept chanting in his mind.

Harry's yelling finally stopped, causing him to lower his hands from his ears.

Louis dropped his arms down to his side, letting out a large sigh when he felt something in his pocket.

Louis shoved his hand in his pocket, pulling out the Prince's journal labeled 'Harry's Thoughts.'

The pirate placed his hand upon the cover, running his thumb along the word Harry.

"What have I done!?" Louis shouted at himself.

Louis dropped the book from his hand, running out of the brig as fast as he could.

He sprinted across the upper deck, stopping where Niall and Liam were.

"W-Where is he!?" Louis screamed, looking for the missing Prince.

"We threw him over board like you said!" Liam yelled, pointing to the water below.

"You, what!?"

Louis wasted no time before diving into the open ocean.

"Captain! What are you doing!?" Niall shouted, causing everyone to gather around.

The Pirate King frantically swam around the open ocean, looking for the Prince anywhere.

He almost gave up hope when finally he saw a silhouette of a body in the water beneath him.

"I'm coming, Harry.." Louis whispered to himself as he took a large breath.

He dived under the water, swimming toward the body beneath him.

He finally reached the Prince, grabbing him by his shoulders and swimming to the surface.

He breathed in deeply as he held onto Harry tightly with one arm.

"Captain!!" Louis heard Niall scream from the upper deck of the ship. "Grab the rope!!"

A large rope fell from the top of the ship, flopping into the water. Louis reached for it, holding on as tightly as he could.

"Hold on Captain!" Liam shouted. "We're gonna pull you up!"

The Pirate King held onto the rope tightly in one arm, desperately clutching onto the unconscious boy in his other arm.

"Pull!" The crowd of pirates yelled as they tugged on the rope as hard as they could. "Pull!!"

Finally his crew of pirates pulled them onto the top deck, causing Louis and Harry to flop onto wooden deck of the ship.

Louis coughed out the water from his lungs before noticing the Prince wasn't doing the same.

"Shit!" The Captain crawled over to Harry, pumping his chest up and down. "Breathe dammit!"

Harry's lips were blue and his eyes were closed.

He wasn't breathing.

"I said breathe!" Louis shouted once again. "Come on!"

"I think he's dead, Sir.." One of the pirates chimed in.

"Shut up!" Louis continued to pump his chest. "He's not dead!"

All of his crew looked around in disbelief.

Why did he even care?

"Come on!" Louis yelled one last time before placing his lips upon Harry's, breathing air into his mouth. "Breathe..."

Finally the sound of loud coughing admitted from the Prince's lungs as he sat up, struggling to breathe.

He was alive.

"There ya go.." Louis helped him sit up. "Just cough it out."

"You.." Harry looked over at the sopping wet pirate beside him. "Y-You saved me.."

Louis shook his head.

What did he just do?

"Uh- Yeah.." Louis started to stand up. "I guess I did.."

Harry's coughing continued. "W-Why.."

The Captain looked down at the sopping wet boy below him. He didn't know why he just saved this royal.

"I.."

Everybody stared at him, waiting for an answer that he didn't have.

"I.."

Louis cleared his throat before abruptly stomping away and out of sight.

"What do we do with the Prince!?" Niall tried to shout to Louis but he was already gone.

They all looked down at Harry with an angry expression.

"Um.." Harry sat up, looking up at the multiple pirates above him. "Hello again.."