One By One (One Direction Fanfic)

Love

*Danielle's POV*

I knew she would cry but that was worse than I thought it would be. She broke down and just couldn't control her tears. I knew mermaids cried a lot and it was just a side effect of being them but I'd never seen Eleanor cry like that in my entire life. The sobs that came out of her mouth were truly gut wrenching and I'm glad that Louis wasn't awake to see or hear it. He wouldn't have handled it well at all.

*Louis' POV*

"Shh love, you crying isn't going to help."Eleanor said to poor Lottie still quietly sobbing.

"I can't stop, it hurts too much."Lottie sputtered out through her tears.

"I know love, I know."Eleanor said stroking her hair. Every sob that escaped Lottie's mouth, every tear that trickled down Eleanor's cheek only to be quickly wiped away felt like someone was twisting the dagger they'd already stabbed into my heart. I just wanted to help, but I couldn't. No one seemed to know I was there at all. I was an invisible entity that had nowhere to go and no way to help.

"We won't tell them will we?"Lottie asked and Eleanor shook her head quickly.

"We'll never tell them what they want."I really wanted to know what this thing they were hiding was. What were my little sister and girlfriend getting beaten over? The girl burst through the door again.

"Aw, look how sweet this is."She said staring at Eleanor's arms wrapped around Lottie."Freak comforting freak, are you ready to tell me yet?"Eleanor glared at her and Lottie spit at her feet.

"I'll take that as a no."She smiled darkly."We'll see about that."I wanted to scream every profanity I could possibly think of at this evil woman but I didn't. There's no point to scream if no one can hear you.

*Clarissa's POV*

I couldn't help but stare at Harry. The fact that I might never see him again brought up feelings I'd pushed down for years. When we were kids I had the biggest crush on him ever and I convinced myself that it wasn't real, but it was. I knew I couldn't tell him ever because it would make it awkward. That was something I definitely didn't want. I didn't know if he returned the feelings or not. All I knew was that when I looked at him sleeping standing up in the corner I willed him to wake up so I could tell him. Maybe it might make things awkward but if this was teaching me anything it was that our time is short. We should never waste any of it on figuring out whether we should or shouldn't tell someone something. I'll tell him that I love him in a more than a friend way when he wakes up. I promised myself I would do it so do it I would.

*Harry's POV*

Suddenly it was years in the future from the time my Mum died. My sister and I were the proper ages again and we were all we had. Well, almost all we had. Clarissa burst through the door of the modest place we called home that both Gemma and I worked our butts off to keep.

"Hi Harry!"She said cheerily like she had so many times before. I don't know what came over me but I wrapped my arms around her waist and kissed her. She kissed me back wrapping her arms around my neck.

"I come bearing bad news Harry."She said breaking away even though I didn't want her to."They've found you. You have to run."

"You're coming with us."I said pulling her tighter to me. Clarissa shook her head.

"I can't, my parents."I cut her off.

"So what, don't you love me?"I asked. Clarissa studied my chest and refused to look up into my eyes.

"I'm not sure I do Harry, I mean you're kinda weird."I grabbed her chin gently lifting up her face to look at mine.

"So you don't love me or want to come with me because I'm not human?"I asked and she didn't answer, she didn't need to. I could tell from the look in her eyes the answer was yes and that cut deeper than any knife ever could.