Fading (Larry Stylinson AU)

Chapter 16

"Um... nothing mum." I replied.  

"Ok... because I thought I heard you say you know what I love about you?" she replied.  

"Um... nope. Nothing. Zilch." I said too quickly.  

"ok." she said, still unconvinced, and went back to sleep.  

"As I was saying before I was interrupted. You know what I love about you? I love your sparkly blue eyes that are the windows to your soul. I love your childish personality but at the same time, I love the fact that you can be serious and mature when you need to be. I love your wind-swept hair that can look messy but still looks sexy." I said to him.  

"HEY! My hair's not messy!" he pouted.  

"I said it still looks sexy!" I said. He opened his mouth to say something else but closed it again as the words sunk in and he blushed.  

I shivered at the fact that I could have that effect on him. With a couple of words I could cause him to blush like that.  

"Are you cold, Haz!?" Louis exclaimed as he obviously saw me shiver.  

"No. I'm fine Boo!" I replied.  

"But you shivered!" Louis insisted.  

"Boobear! I'm fine! Ok?" I replied, staring intently at him. He stared into my eyes for a second and then said.  

"But what if you get even worse?!" Louis pouted. I could see tears beginning to form in his beautiful blue eyes.  

"If I get worse then that's one step closer to being with you. To being with my true love." I replied.  

"But I don't want you to get worse!!! I don't want you to die like this!! Please just put on more blankets, Haz!" he replied. "For me. Please do this for me." He stared at me and his face began forming a puppy dog look.  

Oh no! Not the puppy dog look. Not going to give in again. Not going to give in again. Not going to give in again.  

"Fine!" I exclaimed. Stupid puppy dog look. I reached down and unfolded the extra blanket at the end of the bed and then placed it on top of me.  

"Happy?" I asked him sarcastically.  

"Yep!" he said, childishly. I laughed as I watched him jump up and down around the room like a 5 year old kid on a sugar high. I swear he is like a 5 year old stuck in a 20 year olds body.  

I looked over at the table next to my bed to see a sandwich resting there. Must have been the food that mum went to get for me. I reached over to grab it and then changed my mind as I didn't really feel hungry.  

"Hello, Harry!" a cheerful doctor said, walking into my room.  

"Hello doctor." I said in a less cheerful voice.  

"How are you today?" he asked me.  

"I'm ok." I replied.  

"Well that's good." he smiled. "So I have both bad news and good news for you. Do you want the good news or bad news first?" he asked.  

"Good news." I replied, abruptly.  

"Well the good news is that you're able to start chemotherapy tomorrow. This will attack the cancer cells in your body and hopefully kill them so that you will no longer have any cancer cells if this is done successfully enough times." he explained.  

"Ok. Well that's good I guess." I replied. I was kind of hoping that the chemotherapy didn't work because that would mean getting better and not being with Louis sooner. "What's the bad news?" I asked him.  

"The bad news is that one of the most distressing side effects of this treatment is that you lose your hair...." he said. Oh my gosh!!! NO!!!! 

A/N So that last bit was kind of just to add a bit more humour to it but it is true that hair loss is one of the most distressing side effects of chemotherapy.  

OH!!! JUST A REMINDER!!!!! SOME OF THE INFORMATION ABOUT CANCER IN THIS BOOK MIGHT BE INCORRECT!!!! I have never had cancer and nobody close to me has so I don't know much about cancer. What I know is from the internet or from other people's knowledge! 

Another thing!!! You know this bit:  

"Have you ever tried counting the stars, Haz?" Louis asked me after a moment's hesitation.  

"No. You know that's impossible. There's billions of them!" I replied. He went silent for a while, me lying in bed and him still staring out the window.  

"That's what I was doing." he finally answered. "I was giving them each a reason why I love you." 

"You what?!" I asked him, staring at him confused.  

"You heard me." He looked me straight in the eyes. "Well, I was doing great until I ran out of stars..." 

That was originally part of @foreverxshining's one-shot Life after You!! Well I altered it a bit but it was pretty much that. So all credit goes to her for that very cute and romantic dialogue. Love you Anja! Go check out her one shots and her story Infinity to One! They're all Larry Stylinson so it would be great if you could check them out! 

Anyways, what did you think of this chapter? Not much happened really....Well they confessed some of the things they loved about each other so that's something :) 

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