Episode 17- Serenade

"I'll get it!" Niall offered, smiling brightly at Zayn before jumping of off Zayn, heading towards the front door. He peeked through the peep-hole, fearing that it might be Louis and to his surprise, it was him, but he was with Harry, and in front of them, are two tall police man. Feeling something was gravely wrong, he immediately opened the door. 

"Nialler," Louis breathed out anxiously. 

"Mr. Niall Tomlinson?" one of the officer spoke in a lazy voice "You are hereby arrested for using false citizenship document and being a citizen of the United Kingdom illegally. Please come with us and bear that anything you say will be used against you in court," 

"W-What? T-T-This has got to be some misunderstanding," Niall stuttered as his heart beats faster and faster.  

"Don't worry Niall, I will get you out of this mess," Louis piped in.  

"What do you mean my husband is here illegally," A deep voice spoke beside him, wrapping his arm around Niall's waist, bringing him closer.  

"Husband?!" Harry and Louis shrieked in unison. 

"Yes,.."Zayn replied calmly "Husband,"  

*** 

"Remember, make sure you'll be there three weeks from today, or we'll come get you, and trust me, that won't be pretty," The slightly plump police officer warned him. 

"Got it, officer," Zayn replied on Niall's behalf because he still couldn't find his voice, stood frozen behind Zayn's tall figure, gripping his t-shirt tightly. After Zayn ushered the two officers out of the apartment, closing the door abruptly and immediately turns around, hugging the trembling boy. 

"Wha,..What's happening Zaynie?" Niall asked shakily, burying his face in Zayn's chest. First and foremost, he didn't understand what the hell just happened, secondly, Louis is in Zayn's apartment, and thirdly he learned that if doesn't show up at the court three weeks fro now, they're going to ship him off where he 'belong'. 

"This has to be a mistake,...we'll fix it babe," Zayn replied, as he wraps his arm around Niall, kissing on top of Niall's hair. 

"I-I'm your husband now?" Niall squeaked. 

"Don't you remember your own husband?" Zayn asked teasingly, earning a groan from Niall. 

"I'm serious Zayn!" 

 "It had to be done babe. Come on,....I think your brother wants to talk to you," 

"But I don't want to talk to him," Niall grunted "M'not ready yet," 

"He's worried about you,...and I'm sure he misses you," Zayn coaxed as he lead them back to the hall of the apartment. Harry was pacing around the hall while Louis was studying the court papers on the sofa. He had to squint his eyes a tad because he didn't bring his glasses but when he saw his little brother entered the living room, he immediately pushed the papers away. 

"Nialler,..." Louis spoke softly, looking at Niall straight in his eyes but somehow managed to send a small glare at Zayn who has on arm wrapped around Niall's waist. 

"I'll uhh...I'll leave you guys to talk...I'll be in the kitchen if you need me," Zayn spoke the second sentence at Niall and slowly  made his way to the kitchen. 

"I need something to drink so I'm coming with you," Harry spoke, swiftly following Zayn to the kitchen, leaving Niall standing awkwardly in the middle of the small hall. Louis stood up awkwardly, not knowing how to approach his brother. He cleared his throat awkwardly before talking. 

"Hey," Louis began, and Niall had to suppress the urge to roll his eyes. "Nice place your friend got here," 

"Well apparently he's my husband now," Niall breathed out, smirking on the inside. He could see that Louis was clenching his fist and biting his cheek in attempt to suppress the urge to go on a rant on how shady and dangerous Zayn is.  

"This has to be some sort of mistake,...Mom and Dad has your papers, we'll contact them and I'll fix this Niall. You don't have to worry about anything," 

"What you think I can't handle this on my own?" Niall asked sarcastically. He knew he was being a bitch about this but he wants Louis to suffer a tad for what he did. His intention was not to punsh his brother, but mere to convey the massage that he need Louis in his life, but no to dictate him around, but to be there for him.  

"You're still mad at me," Louis said, defeated, bowing his head down.  

"Of course I'm still mad at you Lou," Niall scolded but keeping his tone appropriate. "You gave me no chance to explain, you try to control who I'm being friends with and the awful things you said about Zayn that aren't true pisses me off. I mind if you slap me beca-" 

"Please don't remind of that," Louis mumbled, cutting him off. "I just...each time I think about the time I slapped you, my head and my chest hurts. I know that....I know that I can be a little bit overwhelming sometimes but...but you know I mean well,..I just want the best for you. That's what every brother in this world wants for their little brother. I just...I was so damn worried and mad, and I wasn't thinking straight. It was wrong for me to slap you,....and it was wrong for me to judge Zayn. So, I'm asking you...please forgive your stupid big brother brother?" 

Instead of answering him, Niall tackled his brother in a bone crushing hug, Louis laughed a bit, returning the surprise hug.  

"I'm going to get you out of this mess  Niall," Louis said, hugging Niall tighter. "No one is going to ship off my brother away from me," 

*** 

 "Drama queens," Harry smirked playfully when he hears the two brother's laugh emitting from the hall not far away. Zayn didn't hear what he said, since he was furiously texting Paul on his phone, asking him to find out who is sabotaging Niall. This has to be a sabotage because something like this wouldn't just popped out out of no-where, and something like this would've have been dealt years ago, not when Niall's already grown up.  "So,...Niall's husband," 

"Huh?" Zayn asked, looking up at Harry. 

"Very clever of you to do that,....faking to be Niall's husband," Harry smiled, sipping the tea he made himself whilst Zayn was busy texting. Zayn was amazed how Harry knows where the mugs, tea, and other stuff when this is his first in Zayn's apartment. 

"Not sure if Louis likes the idea though," Zany replied, his voice was slightly emotionless because he's still texting Paul. He had ordered Paul to hire five private investigator to find out who's behind this and when he does, he's going to rearrange that person's face with his fist. 

"Oh he hates it of course," Harry replied bluntly "But I'm sure even he can't deny that it was brilliant for you to say that," 

"I didn't know that Niall has enemies,..I mean, who would want to do that to Nialler?" Harry asked "I just hope that this has nothing to do with his work place," 

"Why would you guess that?" Zayn asked, finally looking up to Harry straight in his eyes. he wanted to know why Harry came to that conclusion. 

"Well, I have a fishy feeling about Niall's boss. I mean, I know he has a few enemies, being a huge shipping company and all, and they're most like likely to target the assistant for information and stuff,.y'know, the cliche moves. There are quite a few cases in which the assistant is used against the boss," Harry spoke professionally, tuning into his lawyer side. 

Zayn was silence for a few seconds, processing Harry's words in his head and then, realization hits him; before this happens, Liam asked for Niall's help to get some information from Mr. Malik and after that, his sister was murdered and now this happened. It's not a surprise that Liam has the power to pull something like this off. He sent a small text to Paul to personally spy on Liam for a while, and find out what has he been up to the last few days. If Liam is the culprit, Zayn was a tad relief that he didn't do anything drastic or dangerous on Niall.

"You don't talk much do you?" Harry commented, looking at the black haired boy with a smile.

"I prefer to listen Mr. Styles,"

"Ahh,..something that Louis fails to do,..no wonder Niall likes you," Harry chuckled.

***

Work was a dread for Niall the next day, because he was scared that in three weeks, there's a chance that he will be sent off back to where he came from -wherever that is- because apparently, he wasn't an officiall British citizen. But luckily, Mr. Malik didn't come in today, sending him a small text saying that he won't be coming in. Still, reports piled up on Niall's desk, and he had to cancel a few appointments with the client to meet up at the shipping dock because he can't go there without Mr. Malik's permission.  

Niall was also exchanging cute texts with none other than Zayn Brooks, who had to work out-station today. He spent the night at Zayn's apartment again last night, despite the fact that he had mended his relationship with his brother, he insisted to stay with Zayn because it beats sleeping alone in his own bedroom. Louis was against it of course, but didn't dare to say anything. They avoided talking about the whole 'husband' thing, because it was extremely awkward for Niall but a completely acceptable idea for Zayn.   

Louis on the other hand, only had two hours of sleep because he was trying to solve his brother's court order of fake citizenship. Harry tried to help, but fell asleep after forty-five minutes on Louis lap. Even when Harry's asleep, he still helps in Louis' perspective, because the sight of his boyfriend sleeping is the cutest thing ever, with his small purr-like snores, and Louis would carve his fingers through Harry 'luscious' locks, calming him down. Louis is trying to find a loops hole for this arrest, but he couldn't find any, so at 5.30 a.m, he decided to call it a night -or morning, whatever- and carried his boyfriend bridal-style back to their room 

Niall giggled at his phone screen, re-reading the small joke Zayn sent that was attached to a picture of a woman attacking a guy while she was 'enthusiastically' listening to songs in her headphones. Niall still has two reports to finish up but with Zayn constantly sending him texts, he'll probably will never get the reports done.

Whilst he was busily relying to Zayn, he didn't notice a tall bulky figure walking towards his cubicle. The man's stench and condition surprised the most of the workers but none dared to stop him. He was wearing a white tank top with yellowish-brown stain on the front, ripped jeans with dirt stains, an old baseball cap and his face was covered with thick stubble, eyes, blood-shot. Niall could smell something fishy, but decided to ignore it. That was, until the source of the smell stood in front of his cubicle, with a big bottle of vodka in his hands. 

"L-Liam?" Niall stuttered after a few seconds because he could barely recognized the once very handsome young man. Truth be told, Niall sort of forgot about Liam, which was not really gracious of him  "L-Liam,..W-What...is everything okay?" 

"Is everything okay?" Liam's raspy voice repeated the question sarcastically, then he proceded to take a huge gulp of vodka, managing to spill some on the floor. "You-You're asking me,....is everything okay?"  

"Liam," Niall spoke softly, standing up.  

"Don't...Don't act all innocent Niall," Liam grunted, "It sickens me. You- You killed my sister Niall...You! Murdered my sister," 

"W-What?" Niall asked, completely thrown off and offended by the accusation.  

"You do know that they're going to ship you off out of England right?" Liam chuckled darkly. 

"Huh?" 

"You heard me,...I was the one that set you up with the whole fake citizenship thing," Liam whispered in Niall's ear, causing shiver to run up his spine "You should've help me when I asked for it Niall,...I've make sure that you won't get away with this. Not even your lawyer brother can save you from this one,"  

"Liam," Niall gasped, at loss for words. 

"I said...stop FUCKING act INNOCENT!" Liam roared, throwing the nearly emptied bottle of vodka at Niall. Luckily, he managed to dodge it. but his heart feels like it wants to explode. Seconds later, Niall's body was tackled to the floor, hitting the floor head first.  

"Liam please!" Niall pleaded, tearing up a bit as he tries to push Liam's muscular and larger body away but of course, it was in vain. 

"Please what? I want my sister back Niall," Liam spoke, and Niall didn't have to look up to see that Liam was crying. "I want her back!" 

"Liam...wh-what ever I did,...I'm sorry! I didn't know...what I did to cause-" 

"SHUT UP!" Liam roared, cutting him off, then proceeded to punch Nial;'s right jaw. White searing pain spread through his jaw and cheeks, making him cry out in pain. Liam managed to blow another punch to his nose, making it bleed excessively, before two huge bodies pulled him away. Through his blurry vision due to the tears, Niall could detect that it was Josh and Paul, holding a struggling Liam on the wall. Paul muttered something to Josh, then the brown-haired lad pulled away and kneel beside Niall, pulling out his phone to call for an ambulance. 

Groggily, Niall tried to sit up, even though his head was spinning. He saw that Liam managed to push Paul and swiftly ran away, with Paul hot on his heels. 

*** 

"Are you sure your okay?" Louis asked for the ninth time, holding his injured brother close. They were sitting in at the reception desk counter, where there are two cops talking to a few workers and Josh whom had witnessed the incident, and two paramedics that patched Niall's face up. Niall was lucky that he didn't suffer any major injuries, nor a concussion, just a few small cuts and some very large bruises. 

"I'm exactly okay," Niall smiled, wrapping his arm around Louis's torso. "But I'll live,"  

"Fuck I still can't believe Liam did this," Louis sighed in regret and anger "He's so..Ugh, I just....," 

"He blamed me," Niall said sadly "For his sister's death," 

"He's drunk and crazy Niall," Lois tried to calm him down "But that's not good enough of a reason for him to touch my brother. I'm going to tear him from limb to limb when I see him,"  

Crazy enough to set me up with an arrest for fake citizenship, Niall thought to himself. He wasn;t ready to share this information, because deep down inside, he knows that Liam did this out of anger and sadness from losing his sister. And Niall couldn't comprehend on how by helping Liam would've saved his sister. All of the puzzle pieces doesn't seemed to fit.

"He's twice your size Lou," Niall smiled "I think he'l be doing the tearing," 

"Way to ruin my supportive and protective moment Niall," Louis huffed, making Niall laugh.  

While Louis was busy talking to the police officer -while still holding him- Niall suddenly saw a glimpse of black hair amonst the crowd, and realized that it was Zayn, talking to Paul. Niall could visibly see the anger in Zayn's eyes and the way he was clenching his fist and jaw. The next thing he saw was Zayn walking away from Paul, who was calling out for him. Niall realized that Zayn knows where Liam's house is, and he has a hunch that Zayn is about to do something really stupid. He quickly got out of Louis grasped and ran towards Zayn. It took him a few groggy steps for him to run properly because he was still slightly dizzy from the previous incident. 

"Zayn!" Niall called out at the bloke that was currently speed walking. Somehow, Niall's voice managed to calm his anger a bit, and when Niall finally reached him, he saw the damage that Liam did. Paul was suppose to be looking after his angel, but he failed. Zayn slowly moved his ahnd towards Niall's face, who was panting heavily from the short run. He run's his thumb iver the cuts and bruises, feeling his anger rising up again.  

"Zayn,....w-where are you going?" Niall asked between gasp "I thought you have to work out-station?" 

"I finished early," Zayn lied simply when the truth was he was at his real apartment trying tto solve Niall's case. 

"Where are you going then?" 

"Beat the living fuck out of Liam Payne," He replied simply. 

"Why? We have a wedding to plan," Niall said, his voice wavered a tad because he himself wasn't sure of this decision. 

"W-What?" Zayn choked, not believing what he had heard. 

"I said.....," Niall took a deep breath, there's no turning back now "We have a wedding to plan,...our wedding,"  

He's not going to let Liam win. 

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