One By One (One Direction Fanfic)

Twenty-Four Hours

*Harry's POV*

"Harry wake up!"Gemma yelled at me. We'd found a place to stay for the night in a cave nearby but I could hear the villagers approaching. How could they be as ruthless as to kill innocent children? It wasn't our fault we were born this way. There was really nothing any of them could do about who we were.

"Where's Mummy?"I asked sleepily then it all came rushing back to the front of my memory. The scene replayed through my head of the bullet going through my mother's back and out her chest over and over again.

"Harry, snap out of it. We either have to run or stay here and hope they don't find us."She said."I would vote for the last one since I think I sprained my ankle."She rubbed her front leg around the ankle joint and I wasn't sure what to do. She was my older sister and with my mother gone I knew I would have to depend on her for everything. I was still just a colt in centaur terms.

"What do you do when you sprain an ankle?"I asked stepping closer to her.

"I don't know Mum always knew what to do but now Mum's gone."Gemma said rubbing her ankle some more. Tears gathered in her eyes but she quickly wiped them away. It hurt me to see her crying like that and I wanted to be the strong one since I was the boy, but I couldn't. I missed my Mum. I felt a tear slip down my cheek and I turned my face away from Gemma so she wouldn't see. I didn't want her to cry because I was even though I was crying because she was.

"Aw Harry don't cry."Gemma said patting my shoulder."It'll be OK, I promise."I wasn't sure whether I really believed her or not to be honest with you. It just all seemed too bleak to ever be OK ever again.

*Louis' POV*

It hurt me to see Eleanor in so much pain but then they brought in another girl. She was being dragged in kicking and screaming. Her hair was flying everywhere so I couldn't see her face. I recognized her when I finally did get a good look at her and it took a minute before it clicked. It was my sister, Lottie, and I clenched my fists in anger. They'd better not lay a finger on my baby sister.

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"So, are you going to tell us?"The girl who had tortured Eleanor before asked. Lottie simply glared at her.

"I'll tell you when I'm dead."She hissed. The girl smirked."Fine, have it your way."She said picking up those damn tweezers again. They were still covered in Eleanor's blood and as they approached my sister I yelled as loud as I could.

"Stop it! Don't you dare hurt her you monster!"I screamed but no one could hear me for some odd reason. The girl dumped a bucket of water over Lottie's head and she fell flat on her face.

"What was that for? You could've at least told me you were going to do that!"Lottie yelled rolling herself over into a sitting position. The girl laughed menacingly.

"Now what fun would that be?"She said laughing even harder at her own joke. If you could even call it a joke and it was really more like cackling. She squatted down and gripped one of my sister's scales. Lottie grimaced and gritted her teeth as the girl twisted her scale around. She cried silent tears of pure pain that made my big brother's heart ache. I really just wanted to make it stop but I couldn't because no one seemed to know I was there.

"One last chance merfreak."She said and Lottie shook her head.

"Not in a million years."She said her voice shaking. With that statement the girl ripped my baby sister's scale from its rightful place on her tail where it should've always stayed. Lottie screamed and cried and my heart shattered more than it already had with Eleanor. I thought for sure I couldn't feel any more pain than I already had with Eleanor but I was wrong because this hurt just as badly. The girl pulled out about five more scales before standing up and leaving Lottie a sobbing, bloody heap on the floor surrounded by her own scales. Eleanor shuffled closer to her and wrapped her arms around her.