A/N: edited 06/21/2015

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Harry drops Louis off at his house later that night, after Harry's mother insisted she cook him some dinner, and Louis couldn't say no. He leans over the console and kisses Harry softly, pecking his cheek before he gets out of the car and into his house. He slumps against the now closed door and slides down to the floor. Louis slips his beanie off his head and his ears perk up as he heard his mother in the kitchen.

"Lou? That you?" She spoke loudly as she walked in and looked down at her son on the floor, waiting for the reason why.

Louis looks up and smiles wide, "Hi Mummy."

"What's got you all giddy like a schoolgirl?"

Louis blushed deep, "Well, how do you explain this to a mother?"

His mum chuckles, "Don't tell me, Harry kissed you, right?"

Louis looks down at his hands in his lap, "Yeah, and he even asked me to be his boyfriend! Mom, it's finally happening! Harry is finally with me, and I couldn't be happier.

His mum pulls him from the floor and takes him into her arms, "I'm so happy for you Lou, but don't tell your father. You remember what he did when he found out you were gay?"

Louis stiffened in her embrace, remembering that moment like it was yesterday. It was also the reason why he was out of school for a month.

Louis came down the stairs as his mother came home from work, and he was already trying not to cry. He waited until she set down her purse before he spoke up, "Mum, please don't get mad at me."

Jay looked up, frowning in confusion, "What's wrong sweetie?"

Louis twiddled his thumbs before he blurted it out, "I'm gay."

Jay lets out a low chuckle, making Louis frown, "Why are you laughing?"

"Ohh, nothing Lou, I was actually waiting until you came to terms with your sexuality."

"What you knew?"

"It wasn't that difficult for me to figure out. I didn't think it would of taken you this long to come to terms with this. Even Harry questioned me about it you had and he frowned when I told him no."

"Wait, Harry knows?"

"Like I said, it's not hard to see that you are love." Jay kissed his forehead and smiled," So, have any boy in mind?"

Before Louis was able to say something, his ears perked up as he heard his dad come into the house.

"So, the little freak is now a bigger freak?" He sneered as he grabbed Louis by his ears, making him squeak from surprise and pain.

"Dad...please...stop...please..."

"No I will not. You are going to get what you deserve you little freak of nature."

Louis looks to see Jay in shock, tears running down her face. Louis and Jay have tried to leave, but he threatened to expose Louis' secret to the whole family. So, they stopped trying after the last time Louis got his hand broken because of it. Louis lets his father beat him so he won't have the energy to do anything to his mum.

"You think you would have been able to hide this from me?" He yells as he throws Louis against the wall and then proceeds to kick him with all the power he could, making Louis mouth and nose gush out with blood. Louis then starts to cough, making more blood come out, but it only fuels him to kick harder. He picks him up by his shirt, and holds him up against the wall. He smirks as he takes his arm and rotates it backwards, chuckling evilly as he heard the arm snap.

Louis groaned from the pain, he knew this was going to be a tough one to get over.

He lets go of Louis' arm, letting it hang, "Look at you, so helpless. Just taking my beating." He spits on him, kicks him once more before he leaves the house. Louis slumps to the ground as he blacks out, only waking up a week later in an arm cast, head and whole upper torso wrapped up and eyes almost swollen shut.

Louis tried to move, when a soft hand stops him, "No, Lou don't. Let me go get your mum, give you some medicine to help with the pain, okay?" Louis nods up at Harry, squinting at the bright light, which Harry turns off. He returns moments later with Jay who has medicine and water.

"Sweetie, do you remember what happened?" Jay asked as her and Harry help sit Louis up, who winces at the pain in his ribs.

Louis could only nod, not trusting his voice and then smiled as Jay gave him some medicine and Harry fed him some warm soup.

Louis was shaken out of his thoughts by his mum, "Lou, you alright?"

Louis nodded, "Yeah, why wouldn't I be?" Jay only nods, kissing the top of his head before he went upstairs to his room to await the nightly beating. Louis contemplated about telling Harry his secret, but he doesn't want to get him upset. But, all he knows is that he needs to do something before his father does something about the secret first. Louis winces as he hears the front door slam and heavy footsteps retreating up the stairs.

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Harry got home to his mother's car in the driveway and he quickly went inside. "Mummy!" He smiled as he found her in the dinning room reading a book and some tea.

"Hey honey, how was your day?"

"You know, the usual." Harry smiled wide, hoping his mother would catch on.

Anne sighed and set down her tea and book, "Okay, no spill, what's got you all excited?"
"ImayhavekissedLouisandthenaskedhimtobemyboyfriend," Harry said so fast, all of the words were jumbled together.

"Excuse me, could you repeat that repeat that?"

"Fine, I may have kissed Louis and then asked him to be my boyfriend," Harry says quietly, but loud enough for her to hear.

"Ohh honey, I'm so happy for you!" She runs over and engulf him in a hug, "My little baby is all grown up."

"Mum!" Then I hear two pairs of footsteps coming into the room.

"Mum, why are you crying?" Gemma asked as both her and their father come into the room.

"Well, it looks like little Harry here has a boyfriend."

"Ohh, who? Is it Louis?" Harry blushes, and they all aww in synch.

"Finally." Was all his father said and they all got into a group hug.

Harry sighed, why couldn't Louis' family be like this? Then Harry got an idea and he hoped that it would work. He just needed to talk to his mom. He hoped it would work because if it didn't someone had better be able to hold him back from punching Louis' father in his face. All he wants is for Louis to be safe. He doesn't want to the one I love, He loves him, he always has, always getting hurt. He wonders what was happening right now at Louis' house, he hopes nothing bad is happening. After dinner Harry decided to pay someone a little bit of a visit.