Louis looked around, confused. He was standing in an open field. Everything around him was so realistic, even though he was asleep- the grass tickling his bare feet, the sky around him clear except for a few clouds, and the sun beating down on his back and making him sweat. He felt like he would wake up with a sunburn.
"Louis?" A voice behind him said. Was someone else in his dream? He turned around, wondering if that person would be realistic, too. He was. He was so real that Louis almost sobbed, because Harry Styles, his dead boyfriend, was standing- real and alive, a few feet away from him.
"Harry!" Louis shouted. He ran over to Harry, who held his arms up and out, waiting for Louis to crash into them. WHen he did, the two of them almost fell down, but Harry steadied them, holding him tight.
"I missed you so much, Boo." Harry said, pressing a kiss to Louis' temple. Louis was crying too much to say anything. "I'm coming back for you, Lou. I'm gonna be alive again."
"Wh-what?" Louis stuttered, pulling back to look at Harry properly. Harry had a wide, crooked smile on his face- the same one Louis remembered he wore almost every day.
"Nine more days." Harry said as if he were promising something. "Every night for nine nights, I'll be right here in your dreams. After that, I'll be a ghost for twenty days. Then I'll be human. I'm gonna be human again, Boo."
And Louis was too struck by hope and that thought to question it at first. He smiled really big. "You're coming back?"
Harry was surprised by how well Louis reacted- how he didn't try to say that was impossible or anything like that. He didn't realize Louis was just shocked. "Yeah. I'm coming back, babe."
That's when Louis frowned. because Zayn crawled back into his mind. "But-but Zayn. And that's- Harry, that's impossible. You can't be human again, Harry, you-you died."
"Don't you worry about Zayn." Harry said, deciding to address that situation first. While he'd been going insane back in the black hole he was in, he had discvoered a few things that the voice was saying to him. "He's in love with someone else."
"What?" Louis asked, hurt. Harry felt bad, suddenly, because he was smirking as if he solved everything. He hadn't even considered how Louis would have felt about that- hadn't even thought about the fact that Louis was moving on, and he felt so selfish.
"Boo, I'm sorry." Harry pressed a kiss to Louis' cheek. "Zayn still loves you, I promise, but he loves someone else, too. He's not going to leave you, I promise."
"Harry," Louis whined. He pulled away from Harry, slipping out of his arms. Harry felt so awful until Louis said what he said next. "I know Zayn doesn't love me as much as you did, but-but you still can't come back, it's not possible."
"Don't worry about possibility. Nothing's impossible, baby." Harry stepped back close to Louis, taking his small hands into his own.
"Nothing except for this." Louis said. He leaned his forehead on Harry's closing his eyes and sighing. "God, you feel so real."
"I am real." Harry said, making another momentarily unnecessary promise. "I'm real, Lou, and I'm coming back for you."
"Harry," Louis whined again. Harry shushed him softly, leaning in and pressing a soft kiss to Louis' lips. Louis leaned back, quickly, though. "Zayn-"
"Don't." Harry said, opening his eyes to see Louis staring into them. "I've waited too long to feel you again, okay? Whatever you do, don't wake up."
"Wake up?" Louis asked. He suddenly felt the sun beating down on his neck, again, and he realized he'd asked himself if he was asleep a few minutes ago. "So this is a dream? You're not actually real."
"I am real, but yeah, this is a dream." Harry said. "I know it doesn't make much sense right now, but it will, I promise."
"Will it?" Louis asked. He decided to stop arguing with Harry, because this was his own mind he was arguing with, here. It wasn't going to go anywhere.
"Yes." Harry said- promised. So many promises, so many he wouldn't break. "So just stay asleep, and stay here with me."
"Okay." Louis decided to say. Harry leaned in and pressed their lips together again. Louis didn't pull back this time.
"Louis." Someone said, but it wasn't Harry, because his lips were occupied. Louis pulled away and looked around, confused.
"Louis!" Someone said again, and Harry was saying something, but Louis couldn't hear it. His lips were moving, but there was no sound. Louis tilted his head, confused.
"Louis!" Louis sat up quickly. Harry was gone, and Zayn was standing right next to him, his hand on Louis' bicep.
"Zayn?" Louis asked. He blinked for a moment, confused, then he realized he'd just woken up. Zayn had just woken up.
"Yeah, hi babe." Zayn said. He pressed a kiss to Louis' lips. That felt nothing like how Harry had kissed him. It felt so real, too, Louis was beginning to feel scared.
Zayn announced that they had an interview to go to then left Louis alone to go take a shower. Louis got up and hopping into the shower, glad he could, because he had a lot to think about.
-Meanwhile-
Harry was sat back in this black nothing, thinking. Louis' gone. Fuck! I hardly even kissed him, and I wanted to do so much more. I just wanted to rip his clothes off and love him like he deserves to be loved- the way I loved him.
Harry sighed and ran his fingers through his curls, frustrated. He tried not to think about Louis, not now, not when he'd been so close to loving him again.
Don't be mad Harry. The voice came back, comforting him. You'll see him in the next dream.
"Yeah, but I hardly kissed him." Harry said. Better than not kissing him at all, he thought. "I wanted him more." I'm selfish when it comes to him.
You'll be able to do that when you're human again. The voice assured. You warned him right?
"Yeah, but I don't think he believed me." Harry said. Louis never, ever dropped anything unless he was sure about it- especially not something this major, and Louis had dropped it.
He will eventually. You just have to keep convincing him.
"I know." Harry said. He pulled his hands away from his hair. "I will."
The voice didn't respond after that. It must have gone. Harry was left alone to his thoughts- sitting in silence. Harry didn't mind being alone, now, because he'd been alone for a long time- lost and worried. But not that he'd seen Louis again, he felt like shit. He wanted to see Louis again so bad already. He knew he was going to be in absolute agony for the next nine days.
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Okay, question time (comment your answer, please).
A). Ziall (Danielle will be in it, too)
B). Niam (Perrie will be in it, too)
C). Ziam
If you pick Ziam, please also answer-
A). Ariana Grande
B). Demi Lovato
C). Cher Lloyd
Quick side note, this sequel was not my idea at all. I didn't even plan of writing one, and I wouldn't have if @iheartlarryhp didn't 'demand' one. So yes, I give her loads of credit, because all I'm doing is writing the story.
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Can't Move On [Larry]
FanfictionSecond book in the "Things I Can't," duo. || Harry can't stand being away from Louis, much less to see him hurt, so he decides to put a stop to all this dying stuff.