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Harry and Louis lay in the latter's bed in a comfortable silence with Harry's head on the shorter man's chest as he plays with his curls. Their legs are tangled with each other as they both just lay there and enjoy the other's presence. They can faintly hear Leilani and Gemma laughing in the living room while Lynn and Lyra argue about something.

"It's grown quite long. Looks beautiful." Louis whispers, petting the taller boy's curls, making him purr like a kitten.

"Yeah.. thanks." Says Harry. "I wish I could say the same about your height..." He trails off, earning a pinch to his nipple. "Owww!"

"You're an asshole!" Louis says making Harry raise his eyebrows.

"Oh really now? I am the asshole?" He sits up and narrows his eyes at his lover while speaking. "You ran off, leaving me to think you died. You were alive, yet you didn't contact me, like I have a phone for fuck sake. Then two damn years later, I see you and you've changed your name, changed your looks, changed your profession and adopted a daughter. Then you have the balls to say I'm an asshole?" He let's out a frustrated sigh and stares at Louis angrily. "Did you even think about us before leaving like that?" He whispers after a long moment of silence. "Did you even think about waiting to see if everything was okay? If your friends were okay? If your family was okay? If they survived? If I survived?" His voice cracks and Louis sits up, pulling the taller boy in his lap and kissing the side of his head.

"I did." He whispers back. "I had kinda passed out in the smoke and..."

*Le flashback*

[Louis]

"L-lou, we-w-we fou-nd a w-way." I hear someone gasp out the words. I try to open my eyes, but I feel like I can't breathe. "L-lou" they slap my my cheek, making me force my eyes open to see Andy's face hovering over me as tears run down her face, some falling on mine. "Lou, g-get up, we found a- a way. Let's get o-out!" She says and while struggling to do so, I sit up and see Harry lying on the floor beside me. I shake him hysterically, trying to wake him up.

"Harry! Baby, wake up! H, please!" I try, but he doesn't stir. I look at the door as it falls down with a loud thud, some firefighters rushing in.

"Louis, let's get out t-the other way. C'mon get up!" Andy pulls at my arm and leads me the other way, hiding from the firefighters' sight. I see Zayn already waiting near the open window and I go over to hug him. "C'mon Lou, get out of here." Andy says and I pull back from Zayn to look at her.

"After you." I say and she shakes her head.

"No, I'm not coming. The police is here and they're gonna arrest the Tomlinsons. I don't want you to get arrested because you did not choose this life for yourself, he dragged you into this when you were naive and by the time you got mature enough, you had grown comfortable with it. None of this was totally your fault, so you don't deserve the life sentence they'll give you. So... run." She explains, but I frantically shake my head.

"No, I'm not leaving alone. Zayn, go with me?" I ask the boy hopefully, but he sadly shakes his head.

"I got to stay here for.. Liam.. and for... for myself. I can't leave." He says as we hear the firefighters yelling for people to make a sound if they are trapped or anything.

"C'mon!" I whisper yell. "I'm not Leaving alone. Andy, please." I cry at her. She thinks for a moment before looking at me. Her features softens as she sighs in defeat and nods. She hugs Zayn, kisses his cheek and whispers for him to take care of himself before climbing out the window. The window is a bit higher, considering she had to get a push from Zayn to climb it. He helps me climb by giving my bum a push and giggling to himself, earning a kick from me.

"Put your hands up, Malik!" Andy and I hear just as I climb down to her side.

"I surrender!" Says Zayn and Andy gives me a sad smile before motioning me to follow her. She leads me to a set of stairs and I realize we just got out of the basement of the warehouse through an emergency
exit. We run and hide in the woods, observing the police and Ambulances around the warehouse.

*Fin du flashback*

"I didn't leave until I made sure you were alright tho.." Louis say, now tears running down his cheek. "I immediately came to know that mum and fizz, they... I was in the hospital, dressed up as a nurse. I may or may not have given you a goodbye kiss without you knowing." He smiles through his tears. "Once we confirmed that Phoebe and Daisy are gonna stay with you, we left. We got to Heathrow, where we met up with a friend of mine, who makes fake passports and certificates. I didn't make fake certificates thought, just retrieved my own with a change in the name. He also payed back all the money he had taken from us before, in order to help. G and I couldn't decide where to go, but after a while we ended up choosing Japan. We stayed in Tokyo for probably a month and ... I don't know, it didn't feel right."

"What do you mean 'didn't feel right'?" Asks Harry, furrowing his eyebrows.

"I can't explain it really.. but like.. I felt like something is to happen and it wouldn't if I stayed there. There was this uneasy feeling I had you know.." Louis tries to explain to a confused Harry.

"Umm.. Okay. So, you left Tokyo?" He asks.

"Yeah. We left Tokyo and flew to Amsterdam, but G or I couldn't find jobs or a place to stay there. And one night..."

*Le flashback*

[Louis]

Andy and I walk under the night sky, her hands buried in the pockets of her jacket as I puff the cigarette smoke out. It's quite cold out here considering the white puffs of breath coming out from between Andy's lips. The streets are completely silent due to the weather and night time.

"What do we do now?" She asks quietly. "We can't stay at the hotel forever, we'll end up spending all our money and we don't have jobs." She sighs.

"We'll leave." I answer just as quietly and she stops walking.

"Are you serious right now?" She asks and I look over my shoulder to nod at her. "How many times do we move, Louis. We're not hippies." She says as she starts walking again.

"I never said we were. But as you can tell, this place can't help us settle down, it's too busy." I say and she nods in agreement.

"So, where do we go now?" She asks and I think for a while.

"I was thinking The Stat-" I stop speaking when I notice a small brown carton in an alley as we reach it. At first I had overlooked it, thinking it to be trash or abandoned pets, but what made me stop talking is the tiny hand that's poking out of the box.

"What?" Andy asks, realizing I wasn't walking either.

I don't answer and I run in the alley before throwing my cigarette and kneeling down at the box to see a little girl sleeping soundly in there. Her red hair is a mess and her clothes are dirty, making me wonder for how long she had been living in this box.

"Oh my god.. Is she alive?" Andy asks and I nod my head.

"Yeah. She's shaking from cold." I say, noticing her red cheeks and red nose that had a beautiful dusting of freckles. I take my coat off and put it over the shaking girl as Andy does the same. Andy moves to sit down and pulls the girl out of the box. She wraps her in the coats properly and cuddle her into her arms. The girl stirs at the movements and open her eyes to look at me. I feel a tug at my heart as I stare back in the shade of green that I've grown to love.

"Hi." I wave at her and she blushes before looking up at Andy who smiles at her.

"Hello, love." Andy says. "My name is Gemma and this is my brother, Louis. What's your name, sweetie?" She asks sweetly.

"Leilani." The girl whispers. "I'm five." She continues shyly and I smile.

"That's a beautiful name, darling. Why did a pretty little doll like you sleep in the box though?" I ask and her bottom lip wobbles.

"Mommy left me." She says and tears brim her eyes.

"Maybe she lost you?" I try, but she shakes her head.

"She left me so the bad uncle would love her." She cries and my heart breaks at the sight. Maybe it's her eyes, so familiar to Harry's, or just a general attachment, but I don't like seeing the girl cry.

"Where's your dad?" I ask.

"A car hit him and he died. Mommy got the bad uncle home. He beat me and yell at me and told mommy to get rid of me. She brought me here and told me to sleep in the box. When I woke up, she was gone." She cries on Andy's shoulder, who rocks the girl to calm her.

"When was that, love?" I ask and she thinks.

"Two nights ago." She concludes.

I sit in silence then. Her mom abandoned her for some dude after her husband died? What a bitch. I sit and contemplate if I should speak what I think I want to do. What if Andy doesn't want it? What if she thinks I'm crazy? What if she'd think it as a burden? My questions die down when Andy speaks up.

"She can go with us, Lou, stop torturing the pretty little mind of yours." She snorts and I grin.

"Go with you?" Leilani asks and I nod, motioning for Andy to pass her on. I hold the burrito, which is little Leilani, and sit her on my lap.

"Yes. Me and my sister are going away and seeing your mum left you, we want you to come with us, so we can take care of you." I say and she smiles.

"Like my daddy?" She whispers, her big green eyes filled with hope and Andy smiles, giving me the courage to nod.

"Yes, like your daddy."

*Fin du flashback*

".. And we left Amsterdam with Leilani in my arms the next day." Louis sighs, smiling at the memory of finding the little girl.

"Then you came to New York?" Harry asks, but Louis shakes his head.

"No. We went to LAX and that's where I met Lyra in the hotel. She told me she was there for her brother's surgery. I told her how I needed a place and job and she was up to help. She brought us to New York and helped me get a job in a rehab center for teens. That's where I got the experience to work with lost teens and became friends with one of the police officer. That man just called me up one day and told me about this boy they arrested, who had some mental issues and wouldn't confess if he killed his own girlfriend or not. I helped them with the case and the police force was quite impressed I guess because they offered me to join them permanently." Louis finishes and Harry hums.

"Is the job dangerous though?" He asks, sneakily sliding his hand under Louis' shirt, feeling the hot skin of his tummy.

"Sometimes yes, when the kids are a bit violent or something. But it's fine, they aren't big criminals, just lost kids." Louis smiles as Harry reaches higher to place a kiss to his neck.

"You're doing a good work, I'm proud of you." He says and Louis lowers his head to kiss Harry, but the boy moves back. "But I'm still mad. You could've called.."

"Yeah.. as if your phone isn't always under your parents' spying monitors." Louis rolls his eyes.

"Yeah but-"

"But what, Haz? It wasn't safe to contact you at that time, baby. But I was here and I was planning to get you back and I did and that's what matters for now." Louis says and Harry sighs in defeat, but nods.

"I've missed you, a lot." He breathes, cuddling closer to Louis and the shorter man smiles.

"I've missed you too, my Dimples." He says and as of cue, Harry grins with his dimples on display.

Louis look down at him as he leans in and Harry doesn't pull away this time, instead he reaches up to connect their lips.

Louis gasps as Harry pinches his nipple as a revenge for earlier and giggles in the kiss, shifting to move on top of him and deepening the kiss.

"I love you, Dimples." Louis mumbles against the taller boy's lips.

"I love you so much more, Freckles." Harry smiles, his inside bursting with happiness that this was all real and his heart was right all along and Louis was right here in his arms, kissing the life out of him.

And no one talks about how all the pieces fell right back in place again even when they were apart for two years or how none of them forgot the way the other likes to be kissed or how they didn't feel even a bit less of love than they felt two years ago.

"Stop biting me, idiot!" And they giggle.

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Hi!!

There, y'all know what happened now. Let me know if I'm still missing out on something.

So I finally got to listen to Heartbreak Weather and my favs are heartbreak weather, black and white, everywhere, still and dear patience. And obviously the all the singles (duh!)

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