Harry’s POV

I lay with Dakota close wanting to protect her. She reads her book intently as I watch her. She looks so at peace reading; I wish it was like this all the time. The door opens slowly and she holds onto me after putting her book away. The doctor walks in and chuckles. “Hello, sir. I see Ms. Campbell is awake. How are you?”

Dakota tenses against my body and talks in my chest so no one comprehends. “Um, Dakota is scared of new people,” I smile awkwardly and kiss her head. “Hold on.” I gently pull away from her and walk outside with the doctor. “Hi. I’m Harry Styles, Dakota’s boyfriend.”

“I assumed,” He smiles kindly. “How long have you two been dating?”

I smile proudly, “About two months.”

He nods, “Alright, well, Mr. Styles, Ms. Campbell has no serious injuries, but her head might hurt a little, but nothing Advil wouldn’t solve. Other than that, she’s fine to go tomorrow. Feel free to relay the message.”

I nod and head back into the room where Dakota was waiting for me. She looks up from her book and behind me. "What did he say?"

"You can leave tomorrow," I say getting under the covers with her again. She always stiffens for a moment before relaxing. I feel her hug my torso and bury her face in my flannel. "You know that means?"

"More people to call me useless?" She grumbles. "Just like always."

I pull off so I can look in her eyes, "You are not useless."

"Yes I am," She says.

"You are anything, but. They're just envious of us. They can stand not being the one that gets to do this," I lean in and kiss her softly. I pull away and look in her sad eyes. "And that I'll never say I love you to them like I tell you. Or that I'll always have you and they'll only see me in magazines or the internet. Or the fact I'm not single anymore because I found the love of my life."

She looks down to the blanket, "I'm pretty sure it's not only that. People naturally don't like me."

"Not me," I say. "No Zayn, your best friend, Louis, your other friend, Niall, your soon-to-be friend, Liam, the boy who was kind as a kid, Perrie and Eleanor, the too excited girls, or my parents. We all love you. I love you more than anything. I just know one day we will be sitting hand in hand watching our grandkids happily as husband and wife."

She smiles once I say wife. "You want to get married?"

I kiss her lightly, "I can't imagine marrying anyone else."

*~*~*~*

She checks out of the hospital and I take her through the ambulance dock. We had to surround the hospital with guards to refrain from any mobs. If we have to go through the previous events, I will murder the guards myself. I don't even get how they managed to get past them.

I take her to the car where Niall is in the driver's seat with Louis beside him. "Hi guys," Dakota says softly.

"Hey Kota," Louis smile slightly. "I see you got our gifts."

She plays with the bracelet Niall got as Lou's necklace hangs underneath mine. The rest of the ride is silent except for the radio playing that Katy Perry song. "That was Roar by Katy Perry. Now, I have new gossip for all of you. Apparently, two days ago, Harry Styles' girlfriend was beaten-"

Louis turns to another station, but it seems like the media in the area is obsessed with the fact that my girlfriend was mauled by our 'loyal' fans. He turns it off altogether and we settle for silence.

Niall stops the car and we head into the hotel. In the elevator, Louis and Niall get off at their floor and we get off at ours. My surprise should still be in there if Zayn kept it alive. Hopefully, it is breathing and trotting around happily. "Ready for my surprise?"

She smiles kindly up at me and nods, "As much as I'll ever be."

I take out the key card and open the door for her. "Sit on the couch and I'll get it for you."

Dakota's POV

"Shh," Harry whispers to someone in the bathroom. "You're making this harder than it should be."

"Ruff!" Something barks. Is that a...

"Not right now buddy! C'mon," Harry peeks his head from the bathroom. "Close your eyes and take your hands off your lap." I laugh and do as he says. I have a weird boyfriend. He rushes over to where I am where I manage to hear small animalistic breathing. He places something on my lap. "Open your eyes."

I open my eyes and laugh in disbelief. On my lap was a blonde Labrador Retriever puppy that looks only a month old. "Awe!" I pick him/her up and kiss the nose. I've always wanted a puppy when I was young just like every other kid. They wanted it just because. I wanted it because I wanted a friend to protect me. I notice the dog is a she and place her on my lap.

"Since I'm not going to be around all the time, I want to make sure someone's going to protect you and be your friend," He tells me wrapping an arm around me.

"What's her name? How old is she?" I ask petting the eager little girl.

"She's only a month old and doesn't have a name," He says. "I figured we could name our puppy."

I kiss Harry's cheek and place the little girl on both our laps, "What should we name her?" She licks Harry's hand and barks playfully. Thank god the hotel allows pets or people might complain.

He shrugs, "Whatever you want."

"Duchess," I smile.

“Book character?” He asks.

“Stark’s dog in the House of Night that he brought from Chicago after he transferred to Tulsa,” I say. “She’s supposed to be both Jack’s and Stark’s after he turns into a red vampyre until Jack dies.” As you can tell, I absolutely love the books.

“Does that make me Stark and you Zoey?” He asks.

I nod, “Zayn would be Stevie Rae, Liam would be Damien, Louis would be Shaunee, and Niall would be Shaylin.”

He laughs, “I should learn some House of Night references so the next time I go to a interview and they ask about you, I can bring one up and confuse them.”

Duchess barks happily lay down on Harry’s lap. “You start by swearing to be my Warrior. To protect from everything and never stop loving me.”

He chuckles, “I think already swore to be your warrior when I promised to love you forever."