Merman In The Water - Larry Stylinson AU Merman!Louis

Chapter 30

[E/N]: There have been tears shed. There are probably more tears to come.
[S/N]: Such tears. Much mermans. So wow.
[F/N]: IS FINNA, HAI EVERYONE. I watched the chapter be typed and I messed with it a lot and it was fun.

Louis remained clinging onto Harry, nearly on Liam's lap as well since that was where Harry's head was. He was simply holding onto Harry and sobbing, didn't know what else to do. His human boy was dead.

"Maybe..." Zayn croaked. "Maybe we can start up CPR again, maybe-"

Paul shook his head, however, "I know he most likely already had some water in his lungs, it's called noncaradiac pulmonary edema. And then when he fell in again, well... it was too much for his lungs. I tried. I tried so hard..."

Paul's voice cracked, and Edgar spoke softly, "You did. You all did everything you could."

"We need to- to take him somewhere other than this boat," Liam sniffled. "We can't just keep him here on this boat, we need to tell Anne and Gemma and give Harry what he deserves."

Louis peeked up then, "What? Can you... if you take him somewhere else will he come back?!"

"He's gone, lad," Edgar replied sadly.

Louis simply cried harder then, pressing his face back to Harry's damp shirt, "I'm so sorry, Harry... I love you, my human, I'm so sorry."

And then the grey clouds that still loomed over head began raining once more, not a downpour like before, but a saddening drizzle. Niall quietly spoke, "Louis, I think you're... it's raining."

"I'm not meaning to!" Louis wailed. "But I didn't mean for anything bad to happen to Harry either and it did and now..."

"It really sucks because the king stopped, now... but it's too late for Harry," Niall sniffled.

Louis straightened up his face growing dark, and he gave Harry's cold forehead one last kiss before he wiggled, tail and all, to the edge of the water and leaned over so he could dip his head in the water, bellowing out, "Mark! Come to me. No guards."

Niall winced, "He just called his father by his first name... I don't know what he's doing, but-"

Louis pulled his damp head back up from the waves, scrubbing at his red eyes and sniffling, "He's coming."

Liam tightened his grip on Harry as the others looked at Louis in terror, "He's what?"

"He's coming to the surface, he has to," Louis huffed. "I made it seem like a challenge for the throne by telling him to leave the guards."

"If he hurts anyone else-" Zayn began with a warning. "Harry. Harry's done nothing to anyone and he- your father..."

"I want him to see what he's done," Louis hiccuped. "I want him to see what a monster he is for killing someone so innocent and perfect. My fairest human... he killed my fairest human in all the land."

Louis burst into tears again, wiggling to grab Harry's limp hand to hold in both his own. Niall pulled himself into the boat as well, gazing sadly at the broken merprince and his lifeless human. Niall barely knew Harry, but he already loved him like a brother. He couldn't even imagine how his family was feeling, how Louis felt. He wanted more than anything to go back in time and find Harry before it was too late. In a way, it had been all his fault, too, and yet Louis wasn't blaming him like he was blaming himself.

Paul fixed the blanket where it was slipping off of Harry, and Zayn turned away again as the tears that hadn't ever really stopped dripped faster down his face.

"He'd been so worried about you," Liam whispered. "When you went to talk to your father. He said he didn't want anything bad to happen to you, and we were all so distracted by what he was saying that we didn't see the wave before it was flipping us over."