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They're watching television on a Thursday night when Lily disappears right in front of their eyes. It happens quickly; one moment, she's there, and the next, she's gone. Harry is inconsolable for awhile, and Louis invites the boys around to try and cheer them up.
"Future Louis and Harry are probably very happy to have her back," Louis tells Harry, at one point. "And really, her job here was done."
Harry's eyes shine with tears. "She was our daughter," he says, and Louis shakes his head.
"She's their daughter Haz, she wont be ours for years. We'll see her again though, that's how this works, remember? And it'll be a lot better, because this time, we'll have all the time in the world to spend with her," Louis comforts, and Harry smiles softly, kissing Louis's cheek gently.
"Except for the two months when she has to come back here, and kick your butt into action," he teases, and Niall's loud laughter rings from the kitchen.
"I'm honestly surprised it only took two months," Zayn says, resting his head on Liam's shoulder. Liam's still frowning, annoyed he was the last one who figured out that Lily was Harry's daughter as well as Louis'.
"Really," Harry begins, sharing a fond smile with Louis. "This has been in the works for years."
*
They tell their families a week later, when they finally emerge from Harry's bedroom. Liam laughs for about twenty minutes at Louis' persistent bed-hair, and Niall takes great pleasure in poking all of Harry's hickeys and bruises. Zayn sighs, and rings Perrie.
"Guess I owe you that 40 quid," he says, and Louis laughs when he hears Perrie gloating loudly.
"Congratulations love," she says, when Zayn passes on the phone. "And thank you for sorting this out now; if you'd waited any longer, I would have lost," Louis laughs again, and Perrie promises to come visit as soon as she can. "I can't wait to see Lily again," she says, and Louis sighs.
"She's gone back with her mum, actually," he lies, and Perrie makes a small hurt sound.
"Oh, that's awful. Surely you'll still see her though?" she asks, and Louis bites his lip.
"They've moved to Australia, actually. When we can find the time we'll meet up, of course, but she needs to be with her family right now," he explains, and Perrie hums.
"At least you've got the rest of your family around," she says, soothingly. Louis agrees, and then Perrie sighs. "Jesy's calling me babe, I've got to go. We'll catch up when I'm back in the UK, yeah?"
Louis agrees, and then gives a disgruntled Zayn his phone back. "So that's the story we're going with then?" Harry asks, and Louis shrugs.
"We only have to keep it up for a few years, I figure. Then everyone else will find out about the time-portal things, and we'll have Lily, and they'll figure it out, I guess," Louis answers, and Harry nods. "How'd Gems and your mum take it?" he asks, and Harry's face lights up.
"Mum's already planning a wedding," he laughs, and Louis grins. "And Gem said to remind you of her last words to you?" he says, eyebrows furrowing in confusion, and Louis gulps.
"She may have threatened my life if I hurt you," he tells Harry, who laughs.
"She's right scary," he says, and Louis nods in agreement. "Speaking of scary sisters, how did yours take it?"
Louis rolls his eyes. "Lottie said she was happy, but she's mourning her crush on you I think," he says, and Harry blushes. "Daze and Pheebs only concern was about Christmas presents, and would they still be getting one each from us, or will we double up," Louis says, and Harry snorts out typical. "Fizzy was ecstatic, actually. I told all the girls on speakerphone and her response was 'oh good, because I have a girlfriend and I've been wondering how to tell you lot for awhile now.'"
Harry's mouth falls open in shock, and Louis laughs. "Well, I didn't expect that," he says, and Louis laughs again.
"Nobody did, apart from the twins, apparently."
"How'd your mum take it?" Harry asks.
"She was furious," Louis says, gleefully. "Fiz has had this girl sleepover heaps of times, and mum was so angry that she was 'doing god knows what under my roof Felicite Tomlinson,' that all she told me was congratulations, and to tell you hello."
Harry smiles. "Well," he says, kissing Louis gently. "Now we just have to tell the world."
Louis makes a face. "I quite like keeping it quiet, for now," he says, smirking. "I think Fiz had the right idea, about being able to hide the obvious right in your bedroom."
Liam groans. "Keep that to yourself, please."
Harry winks at Louis. "I plan to," he says, dragging Louis towards their bedroom.
*
LARRY STYLINSON WEDDING OR CELEBRITY AWARD SHOW?
14th May 2016
By: Jessica Bolton
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Louis Tomlinson and Harry Styles officially tied the knot this past weekend. They originally wed in secret in Vegas in 2014 with only their bandmates and an Elvis impersonater in attendance, but decided to have a proper wedding this past Sunday, after the news of England finally legalising same sex marriage. In attendance were the million and one sisters Louis has, the rest of One Direction, and countless other celebs. The wedding was kept extremely private- which we understand, if we were dating Harry Styles, we'd want to keep him locked up behind closed doors as much as possible too- but we at Sugarscape can exclusively reveal that Ed Sheeran sang the first song the newly married couple danced to.
"Yeah, the boys asked me a few weeks ago if I wouldn't mind, and since it's already a forgone conclusion that Kiss Me was written about them, I figured why not?" Sheeran says. "Plus, I got free booze, so it was a win-win situation."
Also in attendance at the Wedding of the Century, as we've now dubbed it, were Taylor Swift, Kendall Jenner, and Eleanor Calder, all past flames of the couple. Taylor Swift recently released a new song after the announcement of Harry and Louis' relationship, and her consequent 'bearding' and wished the couple all the best.
"They're definitely one of my inspirations," she revealed. "Not only for my latest single, but for love in general. I'd almost given up hope on finding true love until I saw them together- they're truly soulmates. I've got to believe that there's someone out there that will love me as much as Louis loves Harry."
Eleanor Calder and Kendall Jenner were unavailable for comment, though Kendall posted an artsy snap on her Instagram of the wedding cake with miniature Harry and Louis' statues on top. Eleanor recently announced in an interview that she was dating a photography student she met at one of her modeling shoots, and in a few of the photos from the wedding reception, her and Sophia look awfully sweet. It's rumoured that Harry and Louis recently went on a double-date with the stylish couple, and that Louis in particular keeps in contact with his ex-girlfriend.
Harry and Louis are currently on a worldwide trip to celebrate their wedding. "Our whole relationship has essentially been a honeymoon," Harry says, in true charmer-fashion. "But I figured that Louis deserves a proper one anyway, so we're going travelling to see all the places we've missed when on tour."
When asked about starting a family, the smile on Louis' face grows. "We can't wait to have children," he reveals, holding Harry's hand. "We've been looking into surrogacy, and we think we've found a lovely woman to help us out. We definitely want a huge family; we're financially stable, obviously, and we're on a break with the band, so we might as well get started as soon as possible."
Harry wore a blue patterned suit for the wedding, while Louis opted to go for the more traditional black and white. Zayn Malik stood for Louis, as well as his childhood friend Stan Lucas, while Harry had both Niall Horan and Liam Payne on his side.
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*
They go to see Hayley while the nurses are looking after the baby; it’s only fair, after all, to thank the woman who carried their child for nine months. Her door is open, and she’s lying on her hospital bed, looking absolutely wrecked, but somehow she’s still smiling, and still has a glow about her, and Louis is strongly reminded of the reason they chose her to carry their child.
“Thank you so much,” he tells her when they’re close. She smiles up at him, brown eyes shining.
“Your baby girl was beautiful,” she responds, and Harry’s throat makes a choking sound.
“I- Louis I’ve got to-”
“See her, I know,” Louis completes. Harry nods, and Hayley pats his hand.
“Go,” she tells them. “Your daughter needs you.” Harry beams, and leans down to kiss her on the cheek.
“You did a wonderful job,” he says, and she smiles.
“I know. Now, seriously, go!” she laughs, and the boys nod, before hugging her and leaving the room quickly. They make their way to the nursery, and Harry grips Louis’ hand tightly before they go inside.
“Which one is she?” Louis murmurs, and the nurse on duty points to a baby not far from them, a happy smile on her face.
“You can pick her up, but be careful, obviously,” she tells them, before checking on another child, giving them at least an allusion of privacy.
When they reach the baby- their baby, and Louis can’t believe he even gets to say those words- tears start welling up in his eyes. “She’s beautiful,” he chokes out, and Harry smiles at him, eyes shining with matching tears, before leaning down and picking her up.
“Of course she is,” he responds. “She’s your daughter Lou.”
(Louis won’t admit it in front of the other boys, but that’s the moment he starts bawling like a- well, he’d say like a baby, but theirs is actually reasonably quiet, so.)
Their daughter is beautiful, is the thing. Louis knew that, obviously, because he did spend two months with Lily before she was technically even born, but- she’s beautiful, even as a very newborn baby. Her eyes are blue, and ten times more striking than his ever were as a baby. Her hair is a light brown, and though it’s short, and still in little tuffs, Louis knows she’s gonna get Harry’s curls, and he knows they’ll be beautiful. She’s tiny, and she has ten toes and ten fingers and she’s perfect, basically.
“Do you have any ideas for a name yet?” Anne asks them later, when they’re all in a hospital room with their baby. Harry looks up from Lily, to Louis, and nods, go ahead.
“Lily Anne Styles-Tomlinson,” he replies, and Anne’s eyes fill with tears.
“That’s beautiful,” she whispers, grasping Louis’ hand, and squeezing tight. “Thank you.”
“Is ‘Lily’ after your other sister?” Stan questions, having just arrived down from Doncastor, and Harry and Louis smile.
“Yeah, basically,” Harry replies. “She was the one who got us together, in the end, so- it’s only fair, we think.” Harry shrugs, softly, as not to jostle the sleeping baby in his arms.
“She does look a lot like Lily did. Same eyes and all,” Stan comments, and Louis nods while ignoring his bandmates’ quiet laughter.
“She does, doesn’t she?” he smiles.
“She’s perfect,” Jay whispers, beaming at Louis. “I can’t believe that our babies have one of their own!” she wails to Anne, and Louis and Harry both roll their eyes.
“Mum, stop it,” Louis whines. "We're grown men, we're not babies."
Anne rolls her eyes, looking exactly like her son. "You cried for an hour last week when we watched E.T.," she reminds Louis, who scowls.
"You're awful," he tells her. "Absolutely terrible, and we don't want you anywhere near our child, lest you corrupt her."
"Oh hush," Jay scolds him, a wicked grin growing on her face. "She's already corrupted, just by sharing your DNA."
Harry lets out a loud laugh, and Lily stirs in his arms, her little hands flailing around. "Oh, she's awake," Harry says, as Louis kisses her gently on the forehead.
"Hi baby," he whispers, and Lily blows a bubble of spit in his face; Harry laughs so hard he almost drops her, and then passes her over to Louis while he composes himself. Looking at Louis holding their child, it's hard to remember there was a time when they weren't in love, when they weren't together. Harry barely remembers the days before Louis, or the days after, where Louis wasn't entirely his. I've been yours since the day we met, Louis argues, most times. Harry's inclined to agree, if only because it makes their story that much more romantic.
*
Later, when they're at home with baby Lily snoozing in her crib next to their bed, Harry kisses Louis softly.
"I love you," he tells him, and Louis' eyes crinkle. "Thank you for our beautiful daughter."
Louis tangles his fingers with Harry's. "I didn't really do that much," he jokes, and Harry rolls his eyes.
"You let me love you," he says, and Louis smiles. "And you gave up a lot, to be with me. I know how terrified you were back then."
Louis bites his lip. "Once I admitted that we had a future, it wasn't so scary," he says, softly. "Once I knew that we were going to end up together, and you weren't going to hurt me, it was a lot easier to admit it to myself, and to you."
Lily lets out a small yell from her crib, and Louis jumps up instantly, scooping her out and rocking her gently. "Once I knew that we'd end up with a little baby as perfect as this, I didn't really have a choice, did I?" he says, slipping back into bed.
Harry looks at his husband, and his daughter, and his heart could just about burst with love.
*
"Daddy, where's Lily?" Melissa asks, tugging on Harry's pants to get his attention.
Harry puts his tea down and swings Melissa up into his lap. "I don't know sweetie, I thought you and Mason were playing outside with her?"
Melissa shakes her head, her dark brown curls bouncing. "Mason pulled her hair so she said she was going to ring Tyler, to- plot revenge." Melissa looks confused for a moment. "Is revenge like lasagna Daddy? Is Lily and Tyler making a dinner for us? Also Tyler and Lily is allowed call phones, but me and Mason are not and that is not fair Daddy because we is all brothers and sisters and cousins so me and Mason should get a call phone too Daddy and we can even share it because we are not mean like Tyler and Lily is."
Harry pauses for a moment, staring at his youngest daughter. "I'm not even sure where to begin with that," he tells her, and Melissa frowns at him. "First of all, why did Mason pull your sisters hair? He knows that he's not allowed to do that."
Melissa reddens. "It's mine and Mason's birthday month, and Lily was being mean!" she complains, and Harry laughs.
"Sweetie, your birthday isn't for another three weeks, you don't get to have everything for the whole month," he tells her, and Melissa pouts. "How did Lily be mean to you?"
Melissa frowns. "She scored a goal in the football game and told us that we lost," she accuses, and Harry hides a grin.
"Oh sweetie, I'm so sorry, that must have been upsetting," Harry says, kissing her cheek. Melissa nods her head in agreement.
"Mason was very angry," she admits, quietly. "He kicked the ground hard and grass got ripped out, like when Dad does it."
Harry sighs, and makes a mental note to tell Louis off for that later. "And then he pulled Lily's hair?" he asks, and Melissa bites her lip, but nods anyway.
"Only a little bit came out," she say, quietly. "But Lily yelled at him anyway."
"She shouldn't have yelled," Harry agrees. "But Mason shouldn't have hurt her. She's your older sister, Mel."
Melissa sighs. "He's very sorry," she says, looking earnestly up at Harry. "He tried to tell her but she's got mad cause he said it in twin talk."
Harry stifles a laugh. "I thought your Dad and I told you; no twin talk around other people, it's rude."
Melissa looks very put out. "But Auntie Phoebe and Daisy taught it to us! And they're adults, so it must be allowed."
"Adults are allowed to do things that kids can't sweetie. I know it's unfair, but it's the way it is," Harry explains. Melissa ponders this for a moment.
"Is that like how we have to go to bed before Lily because she's older, but Kaleb has to go to bed before me and Mason because he's littler and you and Dad go to bed later than everyone because you are old?" Melissa asks, and Harry nods, even though he's offended at being labelled old.
"Exactly like that," he agrees. "And like how Lily is allowed a cell phone and you two aren't yet," he adds, and Melissa frowns.
"Is Tyler also allowed because he's older than us?" she asks, and Harry nods.
"Also, because he has different parents," Harry explains. "Uncle Zayn and Aunt Perrie can do things differently to Dad and I if they want."
Melissa thinks this over for a moment, and then apparently decides she'll allow this. "When will the revenge be ready? I'm hankering for a dinner," she responds, and Harry vows to destroy the ridiculous 'word of the day' calendar that Lily had received from Liam as a gift.
"I can make lasagne for dinner, I think I've got some in the freezer I can heat up for you and Mase," Harry tells her, and Melissa beams at him. "How about you go and make sure your brother isn't angry still, and put the football things away? I'll go see if Lily's with Dad and Kaleb," Harry suggests, and after kissing him on the cheek, Melissa scrambles down off his lap, heading towards their backyard. Harry heads up stairs, and finds Louis is Kaleb's room, rocking to him and singing softly.
"When he's a bit older, I think I'd like another one," Louis says, when he notices Harry.
"We've already got four," Harry replies, snuggling up to Louis on the small couch. "We've only had Kaleb for a year now, you might feel differently in a while."
Louis pouts. "I feel bad, that he's the only adopted one. And we've got so much to offer, I thought we could help out another child."
Harry ponders this. Staring at little Kaleb's face, it's hard to think that he might be their last child. "I finally hired a nanny, of sorts," Harry says, a few moments later. "She's from the same little village in Uganda; she's going to teach me how to cook some traditional meals for him, for when he's a bit older. She'll also link him up with other people from the same country, so he doesn't lose all his culture or anything.
Louis smiles. "He's only thirteen months old Haz, he doesn't really have a whole lot of culture."
Harry rolls his eyes. "You know what I mean, Lou. It's important for an adopted child to still have a connection with their roots."
"I know, I know," Louis mumbles. "When he's old enough, we'll take the whole family back to Africa. I think the twins especially would love it."
Harry grins. "Lily would hate it; food that isn't plain? She'll starve." Louis lets out a loud laugh, causing Kaleb to stir slightly in his arms. "Speaking of Lily," Harry says, as Louis hums softly to Kaleb. "Have you seen her? The twins were antagonising her, so she apparently is enlisting Tyler for a revenge plot."
"I heard her stomp up to the attic about an hour ago," Louis says, grinning. "Muttering under her breath about twin talk, which I understand, having had two sets of twins in my family before we were blessed with Mason and Melissa."
Harry laughs quietly. "Speaking of Melissa, she's hankering for a revenge for dinner," he says, causing Louis' eyebrows to furrow in confusion as he rocks Kaleb. "After Lily announced her plot for revenge, Melissa apparently decided that revenge was like lasagna, so I'm heating up some for dinner," Harry explains. "Are you alright with that, or did you want me to make you something else?"
Louis shrugs. "I'm good with whatever everyone else is having," he says, before his arms still. "Wait- a hankering?"
Harry rolls his eyes. "That stupid word of the day calendar that Liam gave Lily for Christmas. I'm considering burning it, to be honest."
Louis is silent for a moment, staring at Harry with wide eyes. "Haz," he says, softly. "Remember when Lily came to us, in the past? She had a hankering for pizza with pineapple, back then."
Harry nods slowly. "Our kids like weird foods and weird words," he says, before his mouth falls open in shock. "No, you don't mean-"
"Go check the attic," Louis instructs, and Harry jumps up. "I'll ring Liam, and find out if she's already gone, or if we can stop her."
Harry stops, hand on the door handle. "Wait," he says, frowning. "Louis- we can't stop her."
"Oh yes we bloody well can," Louis argues, placing a sleeping Kaleb in his crib. "She's our daughter, she's not about to go jumping back through time by herself."
"No, Louis, if we stop her, we might as well be giving up all of this," he says, hand gesturing around Kaleb's nursery. "She's the entire reason we got together, you know that."
Louis huffs. "I like to think I would have got there eventually without our daughters help," he says, and Harry rolls his eyes.
"Do you really want to test that theory?" he asks, and Louis sighs. "Look, we know that we took good care of her when we had her back then, and obviously we know that she comes back okay. We've really got no reason to stop her, and all the reasons to let her go."
Louis frowns. "I still don't like it. And I'm going to call Liam and yell at him for helping her."
"I wouldn't expect any less," Harry says, fondly. Louis looks gleeful for a second. "Oh no," Harry says, intimate with this particular gleeful smirk of Louis's.
"You have to tell our mums where our daughter has gone," Louis says, and Harry groans.
"You'll end up a widower," Harry promises, but Louis just grins. "I'm going to get started on dinner while you call Liam, I'll ring mum and Jay after."
"What if she's still in the attic? Shouldn't we at least go say goodbye?" Louis asks, and Harry frowns.
"She told us that she didn't get to say goodbye, remember? She leaves us a note, apparently. Check her room, while you ring Liam," Harry suggests, flicking Kaleb's baby monitor on as they leave the room, shutting the door behind them. Louis disappears upstairs to Lily's room, dialing Liam's number as he goes, and Harry heads downstairs to start heating up their dinner. He checks on Mason and Melissa before he turns the oven on, and finds them watching television happily.
"Can we have some garlic bread with our revenge?" Mason asks, when he spots Harry.
"We're having lasagna," Harry corrects, smiling. "And sure, I'll make some garlic bread too." Mason turns to Melissa and says something in their twin-talk, causing Melissa to roll her eyes. She looks extraordinarily like Louis, at that moment.
"Daddy, it's called revenge," she says, frowning. "You told me so before and now you're making me look wrong in front of Mase."
"Sorry Melly," Harry says, leaning down to kiss her on the cheek, his long curls tickling her face so she giggles. Mason demands kisses too, and it's ten minutes and a full on tickle war later that Harry gets around to starting dinner.
Louis stomps in the room as Harry's pulling the lasagna and garlic bread out of the oven, carrying baby Kaleb on his hip. "Liam's a dead man," he announces, and Mason cheers.
"She's gone then?" Harry asks, sadly. Louis nods, frowning, and Melissa takes notice.
"What's wrong?" she asks, as Harry plates up their food, and Louis straps Kaleb into his baby-chair.
"Where's Lily?" Mason asks, as Melissa wipes away his milk mustache. "Did she not come back from plotting with Tyler?"
Harry smiles softly at his and Louis' children as he sits down. "Well," he says, reaching over to hold Louis' hand. Kaleb's happily munching on his teething rings, and Melissa and Mason are eating as they stare up at their dad's with wide eyes. Harry already misses Lily with every bone in his body, but he's so proud of her that his heart could burst. "Have we ever told you the story of how Daddy and I fell in love?"