Mute Me

Three days of rain, three days of the girls setting up in the rain, they had multiple umbrella things for the stage so the boys stayed mostly dry but after a few days it was clear the rain was taking a toll on both the girls. The guys didn’t realize how bad the rain had affected them until they went knocking for their sign language lesson and instead of being met with one of the girls opening the door they were met with the harsh sound of coughing and Lou opening the door looking a little frazzled.

“Everything ok?” the whole group practically asked at the same time. They all shared a look between each other before looking at Lou. She sighed and ran her fingers through her hair.

“The girls are pretty sick. They started to get sick yesterday but it’s just gotten ten times worse they aren’t even signing to me just texting when they need something. I’d let you in but they look awful and there’s not enough room in here for all of you,” Lou babbled looking at the boys. Worry immediately over took their features.

“Here’s the deal, we’ll take the girls off your hands,” Harry smiled “you go let Paul know that they won’t be able to help take the stage apart tonight,” Lou smiled and nodded eagerly not wanting to leave the sick girls but not wanting to get sick herself. “Ok Louis, Zayn and Niall head back to the bus, get lots of blankets and get tea going, Liam and I will bring the girls over,” He instructed and Louis looked proud of his younger boyfriend taking action.

“Thank you,” Lou mumbled stepping off the bus and through the crowd of boys heading in the direction of the security tent. Harry looked at Liam and nodded and they both walked into the bus a little shocked by what they saw the girls looked absolutely awful, Kitten was curled up at one end of the small couch and Princess was curled up at the other end. Both wrapped in blankets, both very pale, all in all they looked pretty miserable.

“Oh no,” Harry frowned as he moved towards Kitten who fussed and tried to push his hands away wondering where Lou had gone. The last thing she wanted was for Harry to see her like this. Princess wasn’t being much better, she’d used the blanket wrapped around her to cover her face and whined high in the back of her throat. “Lou had to go take care of some stuff, come on we are talking you two back to our bus so we can take care of you,” Harry’s voice was a little firmer than normal and he was more than a little surprised that his firm voice had gotten Kittens attention in a good way. Princess on the other hand pulled the blanket down and stuck her tongue out at Liam.

“I’m going to take care of you missy, you can stick your tongue out all you want,” Kitten reached out and kicked Princess in the butt giving her a disapproving look and the two had what looked to be a silent argument before Princess huffed in defeat and looked apologetically at Liam and signed ‘sorry’ sending a dirty look towards kitten. Liam stifled his laugh not wanting to upset either girl.

Kitten was about to stand up when Harry swept her up into his arms bridal style and carried her off the bus, Liam following in his footsteps and sweeping up Princess into his arms and carrying her off the bus as well headed towards their bus. “ the guys are already making tea and everything, it’s the least we can do,” Harry frowned as Kitten let out another harsh sounding cough, She pressed her fever ridden forehead against his neck whimpering slightly. Harry held her a little tighter as he arrived at their bus thankful that they’d parked the buses closer this time around. They were at their next stop of the European tour.

“We got everything ready, here give her to me,” Louis practically whined as Harry and Liam entered the bus. Liam looked at Louis curious but handed him Princess none the less. Princess looked a little uncertain but smiled and curled into his body any way looking around the room at all the boys fussing around her. Niall had taken kitten from Harry and sat down with her on the floor her placed in his lap. She was the sicker of the two, but she insisted on trying to take care of Princess even when she was sick.

“I’m so pissed off at Paul,” Harry huffed not happy ‘his’ girls were sick. He stopped in his tracks and reviewed his thoughts just then. He’d called them ‘his’ girls and they hadn’t even agreed to anything yet. He shook his head and looked to Liam who looked equally upset that Paul had let them be in the rain and set up by themselves so many days in a row. He should have watched them closer should have switched crew members every day so they didn’t get sick. But no he hadn’t done that, instead he’d run these girls into the ground and made them miserable.

“He should have watched them better,” Princess cleared her throat not appreciated being talked about while she was sitting there. She always did have a thing , she liked to be talked TO not talked about especially when she was in the room even if she couldn’t participate in the conversation she needed the attention at least some of the time.

‘I’m right here’ She signed weakly and Harry just smiled at her, he knew she was there but he was trying to have a conversation with Liam about how man he was he’d assumed she didn’t want to be involved.

“You need to rest,” Zayn hummed gently as he watched Louis start to stroke her arms in an attempt to sooth the girl back into submission and a sleepy state.

‘what if I don’t want to!’ She accused looking pointedly at Zayn and Kitten let out a grumpy noise and pushed her face away from Niall’s shoulder knowing exactly what he girlfriend was doing not even needing to be looking at her. She reached out and tugged at her girlfriend’s blanket giving her a look but not even that seemed to be settling Princess down. ‘I’m fine Damnit!’ She coughed and Kitten rolled her eyes.

“Stubborn thing isn’t she?” Harry questioned looking at Kitten who simply nodded as Princess struggled to get out of Louis’ lap wanting to go pout now because she was sick of resting. Well she hadn’t been sick of resting until Zayn told her she had to. She always did have a problem with authority.

“How about we play some FIFA instead?” Louis suggested picking up on the girl’s distress in his lap. Princess turned around rubbing her nose on her sleeve and looked at him cautiously. She had no idea how to play video games but playing video games was better than resting!

“Louis she needs to rest, She’s sick as a dog,” Liam tried but Princess face scrunched up as she stood up out of Louis’ lap and stomped one of her feet much like a child throwing a fit would. Kitten rolled out of Niall’s lap knowing exactly what was coming.

‘You don’t own me! You can’t tell me what to do!’ She signed angrily and Kitten shook her head standing up she tapped Princess on the shoulder looking at her. ‘What! He’s not my father!?’ but her hand motions were more desperate than angry when Kitten looked at her.

‘Go play video games with Louis, but drink your tea and listen to Louis if he says you have played enough or need to rest, or you are finding some where else to sleep tonight,’ Harry was trying hard not to pay attention to what they were singing but even he was shocked by her threat. It was a completely empty threat because kitten couldn’t SLEEP without someone by her side. Princess jutted her bottom lip out looking ready to protest. But Kitten simply challenged her pout with this scornful look that everyone on the bus understood.

‘Fine, but not because you told me to,’ She huffed and Kitten did her best not to smile as she watched her lover grab Louis by the shirt and drag him towards where she wasn’t sure but she was getting out of this room.

“She always like that?” Harry question as Niall practically raced after the couple wanting to play FIFA too. Kitten looked at Harry and smiled slightly shrugging her shoulders.

‘She hates being sick. She hates being told what to do. She’s a firecracker what can I say? Wouldn’t have her any other way though” Harry just looked at her and then towards the back of the bus. Their relationship really was a beautiful thing and the more Harry and the other boys watched the two girls interact the more they fell in love with them.

“Let’s get you some tea, and we can watch a movie while she plays FIFA,” Liam instructed and Kitten was more than compliant as she crawled up onto the couch Zayn taking the place of Niall and cuddling her close letting her lean on him as Liam handed her the tea he’d made.

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Meanwhile in the back room things were not going so well. The boys had only have a few days of sign language so they’d handed the girl their phones and had her put her number in so she could just text instead of sign. She did quickly as Louis dug through the games finding FIFA he put it in. Princess stared at the screen as she was handed a controller a confused look on her face because she’d never touched a video game in her life how the hell was she supposed to play this? She looked at Louis who looked over joyed at the game and Niall looked pretty excited too. She could fake it. She was Princess after all she was good at everything!

Turns out after a few minutes of the game she maybe Princess, but she was not good at this FIFA game. She didn’t even know what buttons she was pressing or how the game worked. She couldn’t focus either because she had to pause and cough and there would be a score or a goal or whatever you called them. She wasn’t sure but it was frustrating her she just wanted to play this stupid game and be stubborn but she honestly had no clue how to play. She wondered how long she could keep this charade up. The boys didn’t seem to be picking up that she was completely clueless. It took her getting frustrated and pushing as many buttons as she could at once for either of them to notice something was wrong.

“Love,” Louis let out a small laugh as he reached over setting one of his hands on her thigh. She glared at his hand for a moment before looking up to his face the glare fading. He had no intention of touching her if she didn’t want that he was simply trying to be tender and loving. “you don’t know how to play do you?” She looked at him for a moment and then at Niall and a small blush rose over her cheeks.

“It’s ok Princess! We can teach you! You are teaching us Sign language the least we can do is teach you how to play FIFA!” Niall buzzed from her other side setting his hand on her knee a much more neutral place. Princess turned to look at him because she’d love to learn how to play this despicable game but she really doubted that she could learn that quickly. She picked up her tea and sipped at it not wanting to disobey Kitten’s orders.

“Maybe we should take a break, she still needs to finish her tea,” Louis looked at the tea cup and then towards Niall who was frowning and shaking his head.

“Don’t be a downer Louis! Let’s teach her,” Niall encouraged but Princess just looked at him skeptically for a moment because maybe she was tired and maybe Kitten and Liam had been right. Maybe she needed a rest but she was rest because she wanted to not because someone else told her to.

‘how about I just watch and finish my tea?’ she texted them both and they reached for their phones bumping heads as they did so causing the sick girl to let out a stuffy giggle. Louis read the text and looked towards her biting down on his bottom lip because he’d much rather take her back to the bunk and cuddle her until she fell asleep

“I suppose I could play one more game,” Louis caved as he looked at his younger boyfriend’s eager face and admittedly had a hard time saying no. Princess kicked back, nudging her way under Louis’ arm as he played and she sipped her tea. Louis watched in love as she nuzzled up under him. He really was falling for this girl quicker than he had intended to. Then again none of the guys had seen this coming. None of them could have predicted this.

Princess watched, slowly moving away from Louis because the game quickly got heated and he kept jerking her around and in the motions he was spilling her tea. She felt a smile tug on her lips even though she was sick and miserable as she watched the two boys compete frantically trying to beat on another on the silly video game. Louis seemed a little less into it than Niall was because he kept glancing over at Princess to make sure she was doing ok. She knew the game was close to ending but she was caught off guard by the celebratory move Niall pulled when he won.

“HA I WON FUCKER!” He shouted towards Louis grabbing Princess face and pressing a kiss to her lips in victory. It took both of them a second to figure out what was going on and when they did Niall pulled away and looked absolutely mortified. Princess didn’t look displeased or upset simply caught off guard. Niall was not the first one she was expecting to kiss her. She thought Liam would be the one to lose his composure first and kiss her while she was talking.

“Niall!” Louis scolded looking towards Princess shocked face. Niall looked like he was ready to burst into tears.

“Please don’t be upset. Oh god. Please you can hit me if you’d like!” He started to ramble and Princess cocked her head to the side as she watched him completely panic over the fact that he’d just totally kissed her without asking permission or anything of the sort. She let him go on for a moment before grabbing the hem of his shirt and pulling her against him to get him to calm down. She pressed another small kiss to the side of his lips to get him to shut up before picking up the cell phone.

‘Calm down, I’d kiss you back but I don’t want you to get sick,’ the text read and Niall physically melted into the carpet in relief that she didn’t want to punch him. Louis pouted out his bottom lip jealous that Niall had gotten to kiss one of the girls.

“I on the other hand am totally tattling on you Niall Horan,” Louis huffed standing up and making his way into the other room. Princess looked at Niall curious to see his reaction before climbing up to her own two feet wanting to know what he girlfriend’s reaction would be to what had happened. Niall groaned and finally got to his feet following the two out of the back room.

The sight the three were met with was…sweet to say the least. Kitten was curled up peacefully against Zayn her eyes closed her head nuzzled into the juncture of his neck. Her feet spread out off his lap and Into Liam’s who was sitting curled up next to Harry and all of them were asleep. Zayn’s arms wrapped protectively around Kitten one hand on her arm the other wrapped around her waist and his head was resting against the top of hers.

“Come on maybe we should leave them,” Niall urged but Louis had other plans. He looked at Niall and then at the sleeping people on the couch before he grabbed the remote and shut the TV off. That woke up Harry who looked around confused before spotting Louis.

“EVERYONE WAKE UP NIALL KISSED PRINCESS,” he suddenly belted out and Princess had to cover her mouth because part of her was amused part of her was kind of pissed he was waking her girlfriend up so rudely but the expression on their faces was priceless. All but kitten who looked watery eyed and ready to start crying.

“Did he ask her if he could?” a tired Liam was now sitting up and rubbing the top of his head and Zayn (who had shoved Kitten off him on accident) was now looking apologetically at Kitten who was resting on the floor.

“No! He victory kissed her because he won FIFA!” Louis huffed angrily and Harry looked midly irritated about the whole situation and Kitten didn’t seem to be upset in the least bit about her girlfriend getting kissed by one of them.

“Did she mind?” This came from Zayn who moving to stand up and help kitten off the floor but Louis was doing it before he could. Kitten rolled her eyes at Louis antics but couldn’t help the small ache in her heart he cause. She moved over towards Liam and crawled into his lap just wanting to go back to sleep.

“No, she said she’d kiss him again but she doesn’t want to get him sick,” Louis whined “but, Me and Zayn were supposed to get to kiss them first!” Kitten climbed off Liam’s lap and walked over to Louis grabbing him by the cheeks and pulling his face to hers. She pressed a soft kiss to his lips before trudging back over to Liam and curling up in his laps.

‘Now let me sleep’ Harry laughed as he translated while Louis just stood there unsure of what to do next he had wanted to get kissed. He hadn’t been expecting any one to actually do it. Princess let out a soft giggle and tugged Louis and Niall back towards the back waving goodbye to the others.