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Rhiannon Dash had grown up backstage with One Direction, a little girl swept into the whirlwind of fame while her mother managed the boys. She laughed with Louis, teased Niall, confided in Liam, and shared quiet moments with Zayn-and with Harry, older and magnetic, whose presence had always carried a weight she didn't fully understand as a child. Together they were chaotic, loud, and close, and she trusted them as part of her family.
But when the band split, Harry vanished abruptly from her life, leaving a wound of anger and betrayal that lingered even as her bonds with the others endured.
A month after Liam's sudden death, her world fractured again. An assault left her teetering near death, her body and mind shattered, and every encounter with men now set off a sense of fear she was unfamiliar with.
And then Harry returned. Older, careful, impossibly gentle, he entered the fragile space of her life with patience, awareness, and quiet steadiness, offering support without pressing and care without expectation. Across the distance and age gap of a decade, he helped guide her through grief, trauma, and the slow, tentative path back to trust.
Through whispered conversations and hesitant gestures, she learned that even the most guarded and fearful heart could lean on someone-and that love, fragile and careful, could bloom again.
Harry Styles x OC
Childhood closeness, sudden absence, and trauma meet his careful, tender return as he comes to terms with who she is now.