#side:niam

Niall falls in love five times before he finds the one, and Harry? Well he's been there all along.

Or the one where Harry and Niall are best friends who fall in love.

Omega Niall goes into heat, but it will be hours before Liam, his bond mate, can get home and knot him. Alpha Harry needs to step in before the pain drives Niall insane. Now if Harry can just remember he has to give Niall back at the end of his heat, everything will work out fine...

As soon as he said it, Harry stopped stirring, standing still for one, two, three seconds, then he turned, leaned over the counter, hands on the edge of it to support himself. “Niall, you can’t.” He paused, breathing heavily, and looked around the room, sliding his lower lip between his teeth. “You can’t.” He stopped again, mouth open, speechless. His face wasn’t hiding his emotions anymore; he was open, exposed in front of Niall. He was hurt, furious, angry, frustrated, filled with regret, and tired. “You left, Niall.” He stopped again, a trembling breath leaving him, eyes piercing into Niall’s. “You left me, without a goodbye, without an explanation, without a single note. You have no idea what I went through. I thought you were dead, Niall.”

Niall may have traveled the world and found love everywhere he went, but there was only one he would always return to