Virus (Narry Zombie AU)

Chapter 24

Chapter 24

Well, you guys are incredible! Over 11K reads already! And 27 comments on the last chapter! SO… as a reward to my incredible and dedicated readers: cough* you guys cough* I’m updating. Hell, it’s a lot of writing and my wrists hurt but you guys are awesome, so enjoy!

Thank you all for reading, commenting, and voting!

Dedication: @thelovelynialler (that was an entertaining story ), @Zianourry_15 (because I should not have laughed as hard as I did at that joke), @1directionmyhusband,  and @ForeverUnited93 (your awkwardness must be contagious.. O_O)

Word count: 1,424

Pages on word: 5 pages!

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~Harry~

All eyes landed on the blonde boy in the far corner, his back arching off the ground as another pained scream left his lips. I cringed, putting my hands over my ears in hopes that I wouldn’t have to listen to the boy that means so much to me in pain. I cringed again as another left his mouth. Liam hurried over, tying his hands to metal poles on the walls. I gazed at him curiously.

“So he doesn’t hurt himself worse” he muttered. I nodded, and helped him grab all of Niall’s weapons from the area surrounding him.

“Guys, he’s going to attract some unwanted attention if he doesn’t stop screaming.” Zayn muttered quietly, and I knew he was right but I felt like we were torturing the boy. Like it was our fault he was hurting. Sure, in reality it kind of was. If it wasn’t for us, he wouldn’t be here, he wouldn’t have saved Louis and inhaled the toxins that were now destroying his insides. I cringed at the thought, and shook my head clearing my head. A scream ripped through the air again and I wished I was still stuck in my head. The sound was muffled slightly, and I turned to see Liam tying gauze around his mouth.

“What if he has another coughing fit?” I questioned sadly. Liam shrugged as if to say ‘we’ll deal with it when we get there’. I nodded sadly, sitting down in the corner we slept in the night before. Before he was in this much pain, before when I couldn’t hold him anymore- before he was sick. I sighed sadly to myself, gazing over at the boy who was writhing in pain on the ground. Suddenly, he stopped moving all together and I panicked. I got up, ready to run over there when strong arms wrapped around my torso, keeping me in place. I struggled, trying to get out of the strong grip.

“Remember what he said, no matter what.” Liam whispered into my ear and tears sprung to my eyes. There was nothing I could do about it. I nodded solemnly, and he released me almost cautiously. Like I was going to go ahead and run towards the blonde boy anyways. I sighed walking away and sitting down in the same spot I had occupied before, and cuddled into Niall’s jumper. I watched him intently and jumped slightly when his head jumped up and he gazed around the room. His eyes held a deep fear, and once he looked at Zayn, Louis, and Liam, his eyes widened even more fear pouring out of them like a waterfall. His bottom lip trembled slightly and when he saw me already watching him he cringed. He tugged at the restraints, getting more and more hysterical as time went on and he couldn’t break free. Tears welled in his eyes and I just watched him with utter sadness. I wanted to go over and comfort him, to help him but I knew that going over there will do more harm than good. I got up nonetheless, my bum going numb from sitting in the same position for so long. I stood up and saw Niall started to panic more. He pulled harder on his restraints, causing his already red wrist to start to bleed. I backed up, afraid that he was afraid of me. He calmed down slightly, but his gaze kept hopping between the four of us, and he continued to whimper. If any of us moved, he would become hysteric and he would panic and pull at his restraints if we came closer to him.

Eventually, I sat back down and cuddled into the jumper and went back to watching him again. It seemed that all his panicking had worn him out and soon he was sleeping again, not peacefully but at least he wasn’t hysterically panicking again. I watched him for what seemed like hours, so accustomed to falling asleep with him nowadays that I couldn’t fall asleep. After a couple of hours he began to sweat and arch his back off the ground like he was in pain. He whimpered, and somehow the gag that was around his mouth had fallen to around his neck. He started coughing violently, the black crap coming out of his mouth again but he was unable to turn to spit it out so it slowly started to suffocate him. I panicked, holding my breath and ran over to him. I quickly cut one of the restraints and he turned on his side allowing the tar like substance to flow freely from his mouth. I gagged at the disgusting sight and walked back to my place across the room. I watched as he slowly stopped sweating, coughing, and writhing in pain. Soon enough, he was lying there, shivering at the cold breeze that blew through the place. I knew he was finally done with whatever this sickness was, Louis had started it before Niall had cured him and he mentioned that once someone shivers it meant that the virus was fully out of their system. I smiled, cutting the other restraint and dragged him away from the toxic material staining the dirty cement floor. I grabbed a bucket and covered the tar like stuff so none of us got infected, and covered Niall up with the sleeping bag. I slid on his hoodie, and leaned back falling asleep to the soft snores of my Irishman.

I woke up to a moan and automatically shot up from my position to see where the walker was, but what I saw shocked me more. Soon whispers were heard as well as a ‘quiet Lou’ and then more soft moans. I giggled, then pulled a disgusted face and plugged my ears with my fingers. I glanced over to see Niall sleeping peacefully, a small smile on his features as I stroked his leg gently.

“Oi! Bunny rabbits! Keep it down would ya?!” I whispered yelled at them and I could see them freeze in their movements. I laughed quietly again, not wanting to wake anyone up. It was moments like these that I wish my IPod still had juice. But no, I had to wait until we could come across another car battery to charge it. I saw them continue and I pulled a face, and I saw Zayn’s hand go up to cover Louis’ mouth. God, they were like damn rabbits or squirrels- at it all the damn time. And I’m pretty sure that Niall told Zayn no strenuous activity when Lou woke up, well now the damn idiot is going to be sore in more than just his leg. Hehe. I rested my head back against the wall, the hood of Niall’s jumper cushioning my head. And soon I drifted off into unconsciousness.

I was awakened a second time by the light filtering in though the dirty, boarded up windows near the door. I groaned, shifting uncomfortably and bent my neck to try and get the pain to lessen. How does Niall sleep like this without complaining? I sighed, glancing over to my side expecting a sleeping Irishman to be there, but I got a shock.

He wasn’t there.

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Dun dun dun! Well, whadda think?!

Where’d Nialler go?

Is he really all better?

What bout that Zouis scene?

What do you think is going to happen?

 

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Comment: What you think happened to Niall, daddy- if you want Liam’s POV, zouis- if you want details on the zouis scene, paradise- if you want me to stop with the cliffhangers ;P ha, and AWESOME- if you like the story thus far.

 

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Xx Val