One By One (One Direction Fanfic)

Nightmares

*Liam's POV*

I was suddenly awake or at least it felt like I was awake. I was in a morgue and stainless steel tables with bodies covered in white sheets glared at me from every angle. A man walked in with an evil look in his eye. He pulled the sheet off of a body to reveal Louis, in merform, who was still very much alive. He struggled against the restraints twisting and turning. I tried to run to help him and searing pain rippled up my legs from two spots in the middle of my feet. I looked only to find my feet had been nailed in place. Nails had gone right through my shoes and blood began to seep out from under the soles, my blood, the nails had gone through my feet. The man picked up a machine that had 5 tweezer size clamps on it. He attached each to one of Louis' scales. First he twisted left then right then left again the he pulled them all out at once. Every time Louis let out a blood curdling scream that made my ears lungs and heart hurt all at the same time. He repeated the process again and again until there wasn't a single scale left on Louis' tail. Blood dripped from every wound cascading down onto the shining metal table then dripping down the sides onto the floor. The growing crimson puddle was slowly inching towards me as Louis lost more and more blood. He shook uncontrollably from the pain his entire face distorted from it. He looked at me, begging me to help him, but I couldn't. The man then picked up a scalpel.

"No, no please."Louis begged in a quiet voice but the man wasn't listening to his pleas. He took the scalpel and cut a clean line slicing off one of Louis' fins. The scream that erupted from his mouth was more than blood curdling. It was glass shattering, ear drum bursting and it made my entire body quake with fear and sadness at his pain. Blood poured from the wound growing the already massive puddle of blood on the floor larger. The man didn't hesitate to do the exact same thing to his other fin and Louis screamed another one of those glass breaking screams. Almost as if he was trying to take the slightest bit of mercy on his victim the man took that same scalpel and sliced open Louis' throat. He started to make terrible choking noises that sounded like he was gurgling water or mouthwash. Suddenly the nails were gone from my feet and so was the man and the morgue. All that was left was me and Louis lying on that table bleeding profusely. I ran over to him and held his head between my hands as I knew there was nothing I could do. He made one last choking sputtering sound as his eyes met mine. He looked scared as the light slowly left his eyes. He hadn't wanted to die. I looked into those blue eyes of his, now void and empty, and remembered the mischievous glint I'd seen in them so many times before. Never again would I see that and so many times had I taken it for granted that I would.

"I'm sorry I failed you Louis."I said tears streaming down my face."I'm truly sorry, I knew I'd never be a good enough hunter. I guess the human in me made me mess everything up."

*Louis' POV*

I woke up back in that little room I'd been stuck in with Zayn just days before. This time however it was like no one could see me, Zayn was nowhere to be seen and Eleanor was strapped to the chair instead.

"Tell me freak!"A girl yelled, but it wasn't Georgie. I didn't know who it was.

"Never bitch!"Eleanor screamed spitting in her face.

"Have it your way you stupid merfreak!"The girl shouted back dumping water over her head. Eleanor's tail formed and the girl proceeded to randomly rip scales from her tail. She screamed and cried. When I tried to reach out for her I fell on my face. I looked back seeing that I no longer had legs but a tail. After ripping about 10 scales from my poor girlfriend's body the girl left. The bloody scales lay scattered around the chair as if some constant reminder of what had just happened. Eleanor's body shook violently with every sob as the tears flowed down her face.

"You're getting what you deserve bitch."The girl said her voice floating out of nowhere. A window flipped open and sunlight poured in burning my El's skin to a raw blistering point. She physically shook from the pain and she was unable to contain her screams. I couldn't reach her, I couldn't comfort her, I could only watch and that was one of the most painful things I've ever had to do.