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The next morning Harry was taken to the ICU for surgery in a wheelchair. They made him lie on the bed and as he waited for the doctors to arrive, his fear grew larger by the minute. He was terrified, thinking about the odds, thinking about what if he never woke up again or if his lungs stopped working while in the surgery when the door opens, he turns his head to see who is it, he sees someone wearing a surgical gown and glasses enter. The moment the other person turns around Harry notices a set of blue eyes and instantly recognises Louis. "What are you doing here?", Harry asks with concern because he knows if someone finds Louis there he'll be in deep shit. Louis looks at Harry not breaking eye contact and says, "I know this is your first surgery without Gemma, I wanted to be there for you." Harry smiles at this and questions, "How do you even know this?" "I have watched all your videos on youtube, you could even say I'm your biggest fan.", Louis says with a smile. Before Harry knows what's happening he hears Louis sing the song Gemma used to sing to him, ♪ I love you, a bushel and a peck, a bushel and a peck♪ he continues to sing and Harry smiles and chuckles every now and then. They both look at each other and honestly if you would ask Harry he wouldn't agree but he did feel something he couldn't explain, maybe he didn't even want to explain it just feel it. 

Soon someone walks in through and door and Louis quickly gets up and rushes to hide behind the curtain, escaping through the door behind the curtain. Once he's outside the room he tip toes to the exit of the ICU. Once he's there he peeps outside to see if someone's there, he notices Amy sitting outside with Harry's parents, he quickly gets out of the ICU hoping she won't notice him but well you could say that didn't work out for him. As he quickly walked towards the lift trying his best to ignore Amy she quickly jumps into the lift with him. Louis internally groans because he knows what's coming, he knows about the huge lecture she was gonna give him but she doesn't say anything, just stands there giving him dirty looks every now and then. Finally Louis breaks the silence, "I was just trying to do something nice, he was scared." As he says this the elevator comes to a stop and Amy angrily walks and Louis groans, "Oh come one, he is in more danger under that anaesthesia than he is with me.". At this Amy turns around to look at him and said, "Stuart Richard, thats who remind me of." Louis looks at her in confusion, she continues, "Stuart Richard and Kirsty Hall, oh were they love and I even let them break a few rules so they could be happy." Louis just looks at her and says, "Let me guess, they died." Amy chuckles with tears in her eyes, "Yes Louis they died. On my watch and I live with that everyday and I will do anything for it to not happen again no matter what the cost." As she says this, she walks away to go back her quarters leaving Louis alone in the hallways.

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Back in the ICU as Dr. Malik comes to the room, she makes small talk with Harry trying to calm him down because she knows it's hard for him. A few moments later a few nurses enter the room and start the procedure. As Harry comfortably lays down on the bed and looks to the ceiling he notices the picture of the lungs Gemma drew for him stuck on the wall, he smiles as one of the nurses puts on an oxygen mask and slowly he counts from ten to one, feeling sleepy. As the anaesthesia enters his body he feels the painting on the ceiling spread across the room, the colours floating in the air until slowly he drifts off to sleep, only seeing darkness around him.

The next thing Harry knew was his head throbbing in pain as slowly opened his eyes feeling as if he woken up from the dead. He looks around and finds himself in his room and theres a gift on his table. He reaches out to the gift and pulls the ribbon open and finds a cute pen drive with a note that says, "Hopefully you like it, love xx" Harry smiles at this and quickly puts the pen drive in his laptop playing the audio. He feels Louis sweet voice surround the room, he plays it again and again because it was absolutely beautiful. He never knew his boring story could be put into such a beautiful song.

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After his conversation with Amy earlier, Louis seemed off, he was scared that whatever happened with Stuart and Kirsty might happen to him. He had somewhat come to terms with his feelings for Harry but right now he was scared about Harry's health more than anything. He was sitting in his room with his laptop in front of him, reading all about the cross infections between B.cepacia and CFer and honestly there was a lot more danger they both had predicted. He was scared, he felt tears building up. He angrily shut the laptop and started writing in his notebook, he tried to work but all he could think of was the danger he had put Harry in. Suddenly his phone starts to ring and he sees Harry's name on the screen, he goes against his will to pick up the call and throws it on the bed. He works for some more time but all he could think of was Harry and the call, he thought to himself, "What if he wanted to tell me something important? What if he needed help? What if it was an emergency?" He groans in frustration and picks up his phone opening the voicemail, he hears Harry's voice and feels himself calm down. "Hey, call me when u get this, but dont call me cuz i just got out of surgery. Call me though because ! miss you and ur fluffy hair but dont call me because i have to sleep.", he hears Harry rambling because of the drug but he wouldn't have been surprised if Harry wasn't drugged because well Harry rambles a lot. He chuckles at Harry's voicemail but soon his mind fills with thoughts about what he had read earlier.

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Harry slowly opens his eyes and reaches out for his phone to see what time it was. He realises he had been asleep for about four hours, He lazily gets out of bed and the first thing he sees is the pen drive Louis gave, he has a wide grin on his face, he walks to his closet to find something to wear. He was excited to meet Louis and he wanted to look presentable. He picked out a white t-shirt and skinny jeans, before getting into the shower he texted Louis asking him to be at the atrium in ten minutes. He then walked to the bathroom and stripped out of his clothes, getting into the shower slowly lathering his body with vanilla scented body wash. Once he was done with cleaning himself up he got out of the shower and dried his hair, putting his clothes on and a bandana to keep his hair out of his face. He put his phone in his pocket, reached out for his breathing tube and left the room.  He quickly walked to the atrium with a giddy feeling in his stomach, he felt like a schoolgirl with a crush. He waited for about ten minutes but Louis still didn't show up, he didn't want to leave though. After a few minutes he saw Niall walking into the atrium with a frown on his face, Harry gave him a questioning look and Niall spoke, "Louis' not coming.", Before Niall could say anything else Harry rushed to Louis' room and started banging on the door.

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a/n: Yes i know i havent updated in two days but i had exams, im done now so ill have more time plus i had little to no inspiration at all so... Anyway ill try to update more often but im working on another fic so it will be a little hard. Anyway i hope u liked it, dont forget to vote and leave your feedback x


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