A/N: this is a part of a double update so read 30 first if you haven't.
Harry's POV
2 weeks.
It's been two weeks since I last saw her blue eyes.
Two weeks of being haunted by nightmares.
Two weeks of guilt.
Two weeks of wishing I got there sooner.
Two weeks since our lives were changed.
Hope has been in a coma for two weeks. The damage done to her body was so severe that she's lucky to be alive. As I sit here with her, my mind keeps going back to everything that happened. What I could've done differently.
I hear shouting as I get closer to the end of the hallway. As I turn the corner I see Andrew pointing a gun at Hope and Louis and Liam are pointing theirs at him.
"Maybe I just might." Andrew says before firing his gun. At that moment we all fire at him, and I see Hope go down.
"Hope!" I scream running towards her hunched-over body. Blood is pouring out of her stomach and she tries to put pressure on the wound but is failing.
"Hey, you're okay, Hope." I whisper, putting my hands on top of the bullet wound. I look up and see Louis staring at us and I yell at him to get the car ready so we can get her out of here.
My head goes towards Hope when I hear her whisper my name, a slight smile gracing her face. Her head drops to the ground and I press harder onto her wound.
"Hey Hope, stay awake for me bubs." I plead, giving her a light smile. "Niall! Come put pressure on her wound!" I yell at him and he comes running over putting his hands where mine were, as I scramble up to Hope's head, picking it up and putting it into my lap.
My blood-stained hands were stroking her hair and cheeks trying to keep her awake. I whisper sweet nothings to her and I can tell that she's losing consciousness as her eyes start to flutter.
I start to tap her cheek to keep her awake. I can tell she doesn't understand what I'm saying to her and I look up screaming at the boys to hurry up. I look back searching her face before our eyes connect and she just looks at me searching me as well.
Her eyes start to flutter and her breathing starts to slow, my frequent taps against her cheek doing nothing. Her eyes finally shut and I can feel the tears forming in my eyes.
"Come on Hope, wake up. Come on baby. You're okay. You're going to be okay." My voice whispers and I look up to see Louis running back telling us everything is ready.
I pick up Hope in my arms, following Louis to where the car is. I put Hope in the back seat before climbing in and putting her head in my lap. Niall comes in after me lifting her legs and sitting down before putting pressure on the wound again.
Hope's breathing is shallow and we're nowhere near a hospital. Where Hope was being kept was about an hour and a half from our base and I don't think she has an hour and a half.
Louis is driving as fast as he can, the scenery blurry from how fast he's going, Hope's breathing begins to cut out and I look up at Niall in fear.
"Liam call Zayn." I tell him and he just nods before calling him and he picks up.
"Did you get her?" he asks immediately and I begin to rant.
"Yes we got her but she's been shot. It's really bad, her breathing is shallow and she's lost a lot of blood. She's unconscious right now." Zayn takes a deep breath before telling me that all I can do right now is make sure she's comfortable because there's not much we can do until we get back.
I nearly explode at him but I calm myself down knowing that there isn't anything I can do. We get back to the base in an hour and Hope is barely hanging on.
We run to the hospital wing and give them Hope and they immediately take her away and start working on her.
Hope was in surgery for 8 hours and the doctors said that she flatlined twice during surgery.
Currently, it's a waiting game to see if she wakes up. The bruises on her body are now yellow and blue finally healing, and her side is still badly bruised from her broken ribs. She's breathing on her own which is good and the doctors say she can hear what's going on around her, it's just on her now to wake up.
Everyone has been coming to see her. Athena was in shock at first when we first told her what happened and she demanded to see her. We didn't want her to see Hope like that but she insisted. Athena broke down seeing Hope, hugging her like there was no tomorrow.
She's usually here with me all day before we force her to leave at night so she can go to sleep, but as soon as she wakes up she comes back down here and greets me, always trying to get me to go and do something.
Dean was harder to control. He was angry and sad and he would snap at the smallest things. He wasn't too happy when he found out Hope and I were together and I got the 'if you ever hurt her I'll kill you' talk and then he ended up saying he was happy in a way it was me.
He pops in every day but he hasn't been able to spend too much time as he's been trying to take down The Superiors since Hope was shot. Andrew was dead. He was killed in the gunfight but Gabe got away. We know he's the new leader but we don't know where they have relocated. We lost a good amount of men in the fight but they lost more.
Currently, it was just me and Hope alone in this hospital room. I was looking over her face, seeing the scabs starting to heal and her face returning to normal.
Even all busted up, she was still beautiful. I take a deep breath before letting it out, figuring out the words I wanted to say.
"I don't know if you can hear me Hope but I just need to tell you something." I whisper, looking around to make sure we were alone.
"When I first saw you I hated you. I didn't like the way you were so confident, I didn't like how everyone loved you. And I hated you for that. I don't even really know why I did. Maybe it just reminded me that I wasn't good enough for someone to love me and that was why. Then when we bumped into each other in the hallway I knew I was in trouble. I became infatuated with you, wanting to know you. I knew that I couldn't let my feelings get in the way of my mission so I pushed them down. I was a dick to you because I thought if I could get you to hate me that I would lose what I felt about you. But I was wrong." I take another breath in as tears fill my eyes and I blink letting them fall.
"I love you, Hope." I look up to see her face but it's blurry from all the tears.
"I love you so much that it hurts. The most beautiful part was I wasn't even looking when I found you." I silently cry holding her hand waiting for a response I know will never come.
"It's okay if you want to let go, Hope. I won't hate you for it. Just know that we'll be okay. I'll be okay. Think of yourself for once and if letting go is what you need to do then that's okay." I whisper, bringing my hand up to stroke her cheek.
"If you let go just know." my voice is interrupted by sobs escaping my lips, as I try to utter out the next words. "I-in another life we'll meet again. A-and I'll try my best to find you." I whisper letting the tears stream down my face as I stand up and kiss her forehead.
I let my lips linger feeling the warmth of her skin and I pull away looking at her face. I stroke her cheek again admiring the beauty in front of me.
"I love you."
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He said it first 👀 don't hate me she's still alive...