Mrs. Hawke's lecture left me bored, scared--terrified really--and made me feel like I was in high school again. She sure didn't lose her English teacher charm.

After the long speech of punctuality, Mrs. Hawke had me travel to the back of the store and sort out the old books that no one had bought, which was a lot sadly. I had to sort them by alphabet, and by serial number. Dewey Decimal stuff.

I was halfway done with the books of various science fields when my phone rang from my jean pocket. I picked it up and saw Zach's name flash across the screen. I rolled my eyes before answering him.

I said in a low, bored tone. "Hello?"

He surprised me by sounding panicked, and I heard small bleeps and bloops along with distant voices. I raised an eyebrow in question as he spoke. "Babe!! O-oh my god Abby!"

I crinkled my eyebrows together, it didn't sound like Zach; it sounded like Zach with a broken nose lying in a hospital bed.

"Zach?! What the hell? Are you in the hospital?" I almost shouted, my hand going up to cover my open mouth.

"Y-yes..L-listen there was this gu-aggghhhhh!"

"Zach?" I whimpered as soon as I heard him utter the weird gurgling noise. I bit my lip after uncovering my mouth. At least he had a good excuse for not answering me earlier.

His normal--well mostly normal--voice set me at ease. "Just come here Abbs..please?"

I nodded and started gnawing on my fingertips, a nervous habit from putting my gross fingernail biting on hold. "I will, what hospital?"

"The one right in town.." He mumbled before he let out a loud groan.

"Ok baby, I'm on my way ok?"

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Louis smirked, staying hidden in the glass mirror right beside Zach's room door. Only a few lone nurses inhabited it beside Zach, but they were busy and chatting away on the other side of the room, like Zach was the least of their problems, which he wasn't any longer. They had him sticthed and all fixed up, only finding out he had a broken nose and a few cracked ribs, nothing that couldn't be fixed. Zach on the other hand thought he was near to dying.

Once he spotted Louis he started shivering, only seeing his reflection, which creeped him out more. He started yelling, shouting and calling the nurses over, but when he looked to see them they were frozen in their own conversation. He blinked, and saw Louis now standing at the foot of his bed. Louis was pleased he had this human in a blubbering and whiny bundle of fear, it was good to know he could still put fear in people's hearts. He would be a pathetic excuse of a demon if he couldn't.

"What-what the hell are you doing here?" Zach mananged to swallow and say with a bandaged nose and stitches above his eyebrow.

Louis only sighed contenly, slowly making his way over to the side of the bed next to Zach.

"I only came to see if you kept your word like you said.." Zach watched as the man studied him, sending shivers through his whole beat up body. His eyes turned dusk for a second, then back to blue the next.

"I-I" Zach started to say but Louis's hard and cold as ice glare cut him off.

"You almost breathed a word about this to Abby...I had to stop you somehow..we can't let her know about this little..incident..can we?" Louis leaned closer to Zach's face, observing the way his skin was healing from the incident last night. Zach laid there terrified and whimpering, shutting his eyes tight as if it would make Louis go away.

The demon curved his lips into a grin. "I'm the devil Zachary...only children believe that if they shut their eyes, he and their sins will fade. But that is far from the truth.." Louis stood flat back on his feet, but still hovered over Zach who stared at him wide eyed.

"Your sins will not be so easily forgiven..you piece of shit excuse of a human man.." He hissed and narrowed his eyes at the sniveling boy, giving frightened glances at the nurses, hopeless though it was--they wouldn't pay attention thanks to Louis.

"Cheating on a goddess of a woman that you have, or..had." Louis's expression lightened and became soft, but it was still creepy to Zach who was about to piss himself and jump out of the bed. "But I am glad...it only means she'll come to me more easily..you don't realize what a treasure she is Zach.." He sighed and facaded sadness.

"What do you mean?" Zach whispered, his heart still beating a mile a minute.

"A coward like you would never understand..you're also a mortal. Why do you keep her only to drug her and pretend to make her happy?" Louis's raw anger was now peaking, he clenched his fists, but he didn't know how long that would hold his inner energy. "How can you live with yourself being that fucking low of a person..you be with her, yet you clearly don't have a shred of love for her if you cheat on her with a fucking whore, and trust me. I know whores.."

Louis was really close to busting up Zach's nose a second time, but he held his arm back. His voice was already making Zach tremble and stare in fear and shock. Louis breathed in deeply, closing his eyes as he brought up his hand to rub the bridge of his nose. He breathed out and let his arm drop after calming the bubbling volcano of rage that stirred inside him. He opened his eyes and stared at the boy laying hurt and afraid because of his doing.

"Now.." He realeased a smirk and traced his fingertips down the unmoving arms of Zach that were covered in white hospital sheets. It nearly scared Zach to bits.

Louis had the same evil smirk glued to his face as his fingers aimlessly traveled around Zach's sheet covered body. "I realize I may have been a bit too cruel to you the night previous.." Zach's eyes widened as big as an owl's when Louis's fingers walked their way up his chest. It made him shiver unpleasantly. "But I just wanted to get a certain point across..and the only way it seemed reasonable for me was to beat the idea into you see?" Louis's hand cupped Zach's chin, making him bite his lip.

"I don't want you to breathe a word of me to Abby..capische? Or I'll make sure you won't breathe again.." He leaned and whispered into Zach's ear, stunning him.

Louis chuckled and removed his hand from Zach, watching his horrified eyes. "I'm glad we understand each other!" He clapped his hands together and rested them by his chest, grinning as he rubbed them together. "Oh! And if you don't break it off with Abby, just remember that I can do it for you.." Louis's eyes started pooling from blue into dark black, and his toothy grin became wider. He spoke in the demonic voice as last night, and Zach was too scared to know for sure but he thought the bed suddenly became moist. "And it will be very...very painful.." A ring made both of the boys stare at Louis's pocket. When Louis looked up he smirked at the fearful boy. "If you'll excuse me, I have a call.." He winked at him and plucked his phone from his pocket, opening it.

"Hellooo?" Louis said with a grin.

"Louis? It's Abby!"

"Abby?" Zach sat straight up at the sound of her voice but with a snap of Louis's fingers he was flown back against the metal headboard, groaning softly in pain.

In a flash, Louis faded from his view, his evil grin and eyes imprinted in his mind.

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"Thank you so much Louis...oh my god I wonder what happened to him?" I whined and moved my legs nervously up and down as we neared the hospital in Louis's car.

"I don't know..I'm so sorry Abby. Give him my regards yeah?" I looked to see him frown at me as I placed my hand firmly on the door handle. I nodded and placed my bag on my shoulder, looking back at Louis.

"I will. Do you mind waiting here for me? If not it's al-"

"Nono! I can wait love, no troubles.." I smiled when Louis did and nodded.

I sighed happily. "Thanks!" I gave him a quick smile before shutting the door and running straight for the front doors.

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The receptionist buzzed me in, and a brunette nurse led me down a hall with many open rooms on both sides. She stopped and gestured to the door right beside her. "He's in here sweetie.." I gulped and nodded, biting my lip to prepare me to see Zach.

As soon as she opened the door, I came running in and threw my bag aside, throwing myself onto Zach, who groaned at my touch.

"Oh my god Zach I am so sorry!!" I pulled away to frown and check his condition. His nose was bloody and bandaged up, his lips were glossy and looked swollen, and I saw fresh line of stitches above his eyebrow. I felt a tear slip from my eyes, swallowing the sour feeling welling up in my throat. Zach only stared at me with lowered, tired eyes, a weak smile on his busted pair of lips.

"Baby what happened?" I whispered and gently raised a hand to cup his cheek, which he leaned into a little. I smiled at the gesture but looked at him in confusion when he took my hand and moved it away from him.

"It was just a stupid...uh..I fell from the stairs of the front doors of our apartment building, scraped me up pretty bad...falling from those.." I furrowed my eyebrows when I saw Zach's eyes flicker around, like he was looking for someone.

"Zach?"

"He just has a broken nose and a few cracked ribs..nothng a few more days here can't solve!" A nurse smiled from behind me. I turned to smile back at her, then at Zach. I placed a kiss on his red pale cheeks, trying again to cup them with my hand. He sighed and let me, my thumb stroking the smooth bone under his eye.

"Zach.." I sighed and shook my head. "What am I gonna do with you..babe..are you..what's wrong?"

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Zach's eyes dilated, looking past Abby's sweet gaze to see Louis standing there again, next to the puzzled nurse. He gave Zach a blank stare, his eyes lowered. Zach felt his whole body freeze when he watched the demon tilt his head up, and slid his index finger across his throat slowly.

"What the hell do you want from me?! Leave me the fuck alone!! Please!" Zach shouted at Louis.

Before Abby and the nurse could turn to see Louis's mischievous grin, he was gone. Zach shook his head and kept mouthing, "No. No. No. No."

"Zach? Zach what is wrong? No one's there.." Abby stood up and stared at the spot where Zach swore he saw Louis. He was sure of it.

A/N: I just wanna take this moment to recognize how proud I am of the boys. I don't even remember my life without them. It's like they've always been there for me, for everyone. They have proved that dreams really can come true. They were all 5 strangers, taking a chance on a singing show, and they came together to be the 5 bestfriends we all know and love dearly. I love them so much and I am beyond words proud of them. #4yearsofonedirection