Main Stage (Narry AU)

Main Stage Chapter 4 - A Day Off in LA

When the tour arrives in LA the next day, Gray has thoroughly trounced Harry at the new FIFA game as well as several others. As predicted, he's telling everyone in sight. Harry is first off, helping the driver open the luggage compartments and hauling bags onto the pavement outside. After Niall checks in with everyone to confirm arrival times at the venue the next day, he and Harry catch a ride to his house in Laurel Canyon. Niall wants Harry tucked away from all the hoopla surrounding the tour at the hotel and any TMQ reporters that might be lurking about.

He leaves Harry lounging on the couch, scrolling through his phone while he walks next door to see his neighbor who's been checking his mail. Opening the back door he hears "Oof," before a ball of fur streaks past him out the door.

"Holy fuck, what was that?"

"That was Mully, you're on his bed," Niall laughs, picking up a pillow that Harry knocked to the floor in the scuffle.

"You named your cat after the X Files?"

"That was Scully donut. I named him after me hometown, Mullingar," Niall shakes his head. "He just turned up one day lookin a bit worse for wear, so I fed him and made him a bed. Turns out the cheeky bastard was connin m'neighbor too She and I look after him, get him to the vet for checkups. She takes him when I'm away." Walking back into the room he stops short when he sees Harry's shirtless body draped across his couch and has to silence a groan. "M'going for a hike, Need t'move after the bus. Wanna go?"

"Sure, you better look at this first, though."

Harry holds out his phone, showing Niall the TMQ post, while he searches through his suitcase, now lying open on the living room floor.

"You can put that in the guest room, ya know," he murmurs as he reads. It's a TMQ report about Harry and the model in Las Vegas, but it also mentions Olivia. Is the leak someone on the bus?

"At least it's not negative. Should make Mikey happy," he announces, standing and pulling a tank over his head. "But why mention Liv, it's not like we're a thing."

"You do see she likes you, right?"

"Does she? Huh," Harry ponders this for a moment. "Thought she was just bein nice."

"Ya think she could be the leak?" Someone on the crew either contacted them directly or told someone who did.

"Maybe," Harry shrugs.

"Everyone on your crew has an NDA right?" Niall packs water and towels while Harry laces up his trainers.

"Yeah, course they do."

"You talk to Michael or Reece?" Niall asks as he leads Harry out to his car.

"Not since I told 'em t'fire ya in Phoenix," Harry grins. "Mikey's been callin, but he just wants t'know if I fucked Diamond. He'll tell me how hard he worked to set that up and I don't wanna hear it.

"He always this involved in your relationships?"

Harry shrugs, "I don't consider that a relationship. He left me alone with Marion but I think that's cause she told him everythin. The people I ask out, he usually doesn't wanna know about."

After stowing their stuff, Niall drives them to a popular hiking trail near his house.

"It has t'be someone involved with the tour." Niall can come to no other conclusion after going over all the possibilities in his mind.

"Been sayin that all along, but who?"

"Dunno," Niall shakes his head as he walks toward the trail entrance. "We'll take the short route today, it's too late to take the longer one and I don't know how fit y'are."