Virus (Narry Zombie AU)

Chapter 47

So, another chapter? Anyone else excited?

Also, I am so, so, sooo, sooo, sorry for the late update. Life has been hectic.

Happy belated birthday to @_Specter_ (and thank you for the ideas as well)

I have recently gotten some feedback- you know who you are- and I'm incredibly thankful for it, so I will be working on the things presented to make this story the best it can be.

Thank you all for reading, and I hope you guys enjoy this chapter.

Dedication: @_Specter_, @Alex5342, @SmilingNiallxxx, @BriannaThornton6, @narryismylife101, @KingCommenter, and @Oliva7890!

Words: 4,296 <<<< @_Specter_ I told you I was competitive XD

Pages on word: 13

I have 3 siblings! (Congrats to all of you who got that right :))

~~~~~~~~~Important A/N at the end. ~~~~~~~

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~Niall~

The room was silent; breathing was all that was heard. I held on to Harry tightly, his back pressed to my chest, our breaths synchronized. The silence in the room was deafening, the tension palpable. We were all lost in our heads, a dangerous place to be for all of us at the moment, but that didn't mean we could change anything, it didn't mean we could escape ourselves. The air was tense, the silence awkward, the pressure building, and soon one of us would explode.

We were all ticking time bombs, and I was curious as to what will happen the longer the clock ticks down to the explosion. I could practically hear the ticking in my ears, taunting me, teasing me, trying to make me explode first. Tick, tick, tick, tick. The silence was deafening, the stillness crippling, the stares blinding. It would drive us all into insanity, if we hadn't already been there to start with. You don't have much sanity left after you watch the only life you had ever known destroy itself in front of you, after you've watched your world turn to nothing but death and murder and darkness.

Kelly Clarkson was wrong, not that she was alive to know it, what doesn't kill you doesn't make you stronger. It drives you crazy, to the brink of insanity where you are holding on by a thread so you don't fall off that cliff and into the unknown abyss. But the string isn't just helping you, its cutting your hand, slowly feathering off and soon it will break... because it had no interest in saving you from insanity. It was just another thing to help you get there. What doesn't kill you now, may just kill you later. Slowly taking over your body without your knowledge, it starts with a cough and ends with your heart stopping, but then again it doesn't always go like that either. Sometimes you survive, but you don't live. And sometimes, what doesn't kill you blisters and festers. You pick at it, unintentionally, before one day you just snap and end up ending your own life- the thing that didn't kill you being the last thing running through your head, but that's the funny thing because it did actually kill you just not the way it was expected to. It used you, you were the weakness. You are your own weakness.

Tick, tick, tick, tick, tick. I wondered if anyone else could hear the bomb nearing its death. If anyone else saw that we were all bombs and that we all will be the cause of our own deaths. And then it happened, when my mind was wandering my arms had gone slack, and Harry had finally snapped.

"This is all your fault!" he had practically growled, leaping out of my arms racing towards Zayn with a feral look in his eyes. And then he was on Zayn, fists flying while Liam tried to get him off, Zayn was trying to protect his face from the blows, and Louis was just like me: frozen because of the outburst.