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one hundred fifteen

as soon as harry wakes up suddenly, his eyes are wide and bewildered and that's when he starts to freak out. he let's out a fearful noise, scooting backwards onto the bed frantically, until he accidentally falls into the floor in a full panic. he moves back towards the corner of the wall like he's being chased, looking around with wide eyes and feeling around on his neck and face. his breathing is shallow and quick, damn near hyperventilation.

"harry!" zayn jumps up immediately, his heart racing and pounding harshly in his chest. his eyes were wide and nearly tearing up at the sight of harry as the boy curls himself in the corner feeling all over himself for injuries, not seeming to have realized that zayn was there with him yet, in his panicked state of mind. zayn rushes over to him, startling harry slightly. harry cries out loudly, eyes wild and wide, not knowing what is going on.

"i-it's okay, h-harry, it's me baby, it's zayn." zayn says softly, trying not to get emotional as he reaches out to calm him down, grabbing his face gently forcing harry to look at him. harry stares at him with wide scared eyes, and confusion, it takes him a moment to realize who zayn is. his bottom lip begins to wobble as he stares up at zayn. "it's me." zayn breaths softly, carefully wrapping his arms around harry and pulling him in. harry sobs, throwing his arms around zayn's neck, holding him there tightly as he sobbed into his neck, he was clawing at him in complete distress and desperation. "it's okay, it's okay, i've got you." zayn cooed, feeling his own eyes burn, trying his hardest not to let himself break down for the sake of harry.

harry on the other had doesn't even know what happened to him. all he could remember is seeing his ex boyfriend's face and himself being manhandled violently, unable to protect himself, and screaming in torment. everything after that was a blur. harry woke up thinking he was still being attacked. his heat was tight with fear. harry couldn't contain his emotions. he was still very much afraid of what just happened to him. when he saw zayn, an enormous amount of relief filled his body.

he couldn't control his breathing, or his tears as he held onto zayn with all his might, squeezing his eyes shut, sobbing heavily into his neck. zayn is whispering sweet nothings in his ear, rubbing soothing circles on his back to help calm his trembling body. harry breaths heavily, softly crying, and it takes a good while to get him calm. but after a while, when he was breathing somewhat normally and his cries reduced to just little soft whimpering here and there, zayn slightly pulls away to adjust his position. he sits down and pulls harry onto his lap, touching their foreheads together. zayn kisses harry's lips.

"fuck, you're awake." zayn whispers. harry's shaky hands reach to grab zayn's face, staring into his eyes, breathing slowing down. a moment later the door to zayn's room is bursting open, liam and niall are both alarmed, having heard all the commotion. niall's eyes widen when he sees harry, a wave of relief washing over him and he feels tears spilling as he starts to run towards him.

"harry!" niall exclaims. however, liam grabs him by the arm, pulling him back roughly, just as zayn puts his hand out to stop niall as well.

"niall, no, stay back!" liam says sternly. niall frowns, wondering why they weren't allowing him to go to his friend, but zayn gave him a look, that said he'd explain later. niall still couldn't help but cry to see his friend is alive. or somewhat, alive. he doesn't exactly know what zayn did to harry or what this meant for harry, he was just happy that he was here.

harry grips zayn, as if he'd disappear the second he let go. "w-what h-happened?" he asked, his voice is dry and cracked, but also hoarse from the crying. zayn strokes his hair gently, looking back at liam and niall silently asking for some privacy with his eyes. liam took a hint and took a reluctant niall out of the room once more. zayn turns back to harry once the door is shut. he didn't want to freak harry out more than he already was, but he wouldn't conceal the truth from him neither.

"you were attacked," zayn mumbles, continuously stroking through harry's hair. he looks into harry's eyes, biting down on his lip harshly. "you didn't make it.." zayn murmurs quietly. harry's eyes widen.

"w-what?"

"you died harry... you were dead." zayn breaths. harry stares at him in complete shock and confusion. if he was dead, how was he here right now?

"h-how? how am i-i.." harry trails off.

"i bonded us." zayn says, "it was the only way to save you harry, please don't be mad at me. i didn't want to lose you, i couldn't live the rest of forever knowing that i could've saved you and i didn't." zayn explains, reaching down, squeezing harry's hands. harry swallows thickly, listening to zayn.

"w-what does this mean..."

"it means, you're my soulmate now." zayn whispers, "you're immortal." harry bites his lip, feeling as if he's in a dream of some kind. one moment it's a normal day, and the next he's being told that he died and is now immortal. he remembers zayn telling him that he'd become immortal once he gave up his soul, but everything was happening so fast and he didn't know how to feel or how to react. but one thing he knew was that, he didn't want to be angry at zayn. he couldn't be angry at zayn. after all he did just save harry's life, and harry did say he wanted to be his soulmate. but this just isn't the way he wanted it to happen.

suddenly, it felt like a ton of bricks just hit him as he remembers something. oh god, his mum, his fucking mum. flashes begin to play in his mind, when she's lifted off the ground and all he can hear is the sound of her bones crushing, and her limp body lying in the corner of the room. oh fuck, oh fuck. harry's eyes widen as he stares at zayn when it hits him. his breathing begins to pick up again and he latches his hand onto zayn's arm tightly.

"z-zayn, what- my mum, what about my mum?" harry asked, voice cracking. zayn looks him in the eyes, sorrowful, biting his lip lightly, briefly shaking his head.

"i'm sorry, harry." zayn replies, sadly. "i'm so sorry, i couldn't save her. if i could've i would have harry, i promise, but it was too late, i'm so sorry." zayn tried explaining as he sees the build up of tears rushing to harry's eyes, falling down his face. harry grips zayn's arm tighter.

"no..." harry whimpers. "zayn, no. p-please tell me this is some kind of sick joke, please." harry cries. zayn cups harry's cheek, his own heart hurting to see harry in this state.

"i'm sorry.." zayn whispers. harry then bursts into a while new wave of tears. harry covers his face with his hands, his body starts shaking with sobs. zayn lurches forward to pull harry into his arms. harry gripped the front of his shirt, sobbing loudly. zayn holds him right, feeling his heart break all over again. harry just didn't deserve this, he didn't. and after having slept for two weeks, harry ended up crying until he couldn't anymore, and fell to sleep.

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poor harry... he's in for a big change.

what's gonna happen?