alone in the world (with you by my side)

two steps back (but still with you)

Here´s the second part guys! I have the third part finished as well so it will be up sometime soon! Thanks for reading, enjoy! xx

It´s easier after that. Slowly but surely Louis injuries start to heal, Niall helps him a lot. He helps him to train walking on his ankle, it hurts like hell but Niall is sure he´ll be walking all on his own in no time. When they´re not doing physical training Niall teaches him about the society. He tells him how everything works these days, what happened when the omegas disappeared. Louis cries a little at  that, he wants to know though. He wants to be normal and in order to be normal he needs to know how to act and what to expect.

He doesn´t see Harry as often as he would like but still, he stops by a few times a week. He checks in on how he´s doing, if he needs anything and if Niall is treating him well. Louis knows he check in with Niall as well but he still appreciates the gesture.

Harry hasn´t touched him since that moment they shared in the beginning, he tries not to feel sad about it but t´s hard to ignore when Harry is right beside him. He can feel Harry´s eyes linger on him more often than not but that’s it, no more touches. He´s disappointed sure but he´s sure Harry´s got his reasons, he only wishes he knew them.

One thing he has learned is that Harry is a very busy person. He doesn´t really know what being a leader includes but Harry looks stressed a lot and he´s on the phone very often. He almost always looks irritated after a long phone call, sometimes Louis can even hear him even if they´re not in the same room. Louis feels bad for him he wishes he could do something but no one seems to notice how stressed Harry really is besides Louis.

Louis knows Harry has talked to the police; he gave Harry his permission to tell them his story. He has no idea where the investigation is at the moment, he hopes his story helped a little at least but he wasn´t exactly generous with the details. He just wants to forget the whole thing but it´s quite hard to forget ten years of your life, especially when you´re only 16.

It would be a little bit easier to forget if it wasn´t for the nightmares. They haunt him every time he goes to sleep. Niall wakes him up almost every night, being woken up by his screams. He knows Niall tries his best to comfort him and he´s incredibly grateful but it doesn´t work.  At the end of the day Niall is still a beta and Louis body is quite aware of that so instead of calming him down he just gets more upset.

He knows Niall would never hurt him and that he´s a genuinely good person. He doesn´t want to hurt Niall so he has told him to stop waking him up. He hates seeing that sad look on Niall´s face at night when Louis flinches away, when he doesn´t manage to calm Louis down. He doesn´t know if Niall has told Harry about the nightmares, he hopes he hasn´t because if he has it´s obvious that Harry doesn´t care. If he did care he would come and check up on him, or at least ask him about it.

It´s a Sunday when Harry bursts into his room, a huge grin on his face and a paper in his hand.

“Great news Louis, they´ve caught them!”

 Louis stares at him from where he´s sitting in the armchair by the window. He´s gotten his own room now, it´s nice, his new bed is so much more comfortable than the hospital bed.

“Didn´t you hear me? They´re caught Louis, you´re free.” Louis doesn´t really know what to say so he settles for staring. He knows he should feel relieved and happy but all he feels is dread.

“How do they know it´s them?” Is the first thing he asks and now Harry doesn´t look as excited, he furrows his eyebrows and Louis knows something bad will come out of it.