Emma's Custody

AN: Hello guys, sorry for the delay of updating this fic, but I'm very busy. I believe that this story will only have three more chapters :(It's Megan in the picture. Remember her? The girl who Zayn " betrayd" Alison .. I hope you like this chapter and please leave comments;) x

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Two days before Emma's custody trial.

Zayn was no longer so hopeful, at least not after Isaac had confessed about the photos he had taken of him and Harry. Harry, on the other hand, had faith in the man. At first he had not thought it a good idea for Isaac to be Zayn’s defense witness, but then he had realized and admitted to himself that having Isaac on their side would help in defeating Lindsay.

"Have faith, Zayn, you have Harry, you’ve got your family back, you have Louis, Monica, and you will always have me. Have faith. Emma belongs to you."

"Alison." Zayn yelled for Emma's mother.

"What is it, my love?" Harry asked getting up in fright, hearing Zayn's scream.

"Alison was here, Harry. It was real, I could smell her." Harry hugged him, seeing the disorder he was in. "It was the first time I dreamed of her, she told me to have faith."

"This is a sign that Emma will come back to us, I believe it." Harry smiled at him. Zayn pulled him into a kiss.

"I love you. Thanks for everything."

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"I was looking for you." Louis said. Liam was sitting in the chair in front of the pool.

"I thought you wouldn’t come today...I didn’t even make your milk with strawberries. You said you had to go to Brooklyn. Did you change your mind?" Liam asked getting up from the chair.

"I didn’t change my mind, I just kept thinking..."

Louis didn’t know how to put his thoughts into words. It was still hard for him to stay in Liam's presence without feeling the nervousness in his legs, voice, hands...

"I came here to ask if you would like to go out with me. I thought it would be good for you." Louis finally managed to say.

"Oh. Of course I would." Liam replied with a wide smile.

"Don’t misunderstand this, Liam. It's just one day out of this mansion." Louis said, smile creeping up at the corners of his mouth.

"Whatever you want, my boy."

"I told you not to call me that." Louis lifted his finger, pretending to be angry at him, which Liam knew was not true.

"Okay, my boy." Louis smiled, feeling his cheeks flush. 

As he watched Liam leave the pool, Louis was thinking that he could no longer lie to himself. He never ceased to be in love with Liam Malik.

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Isaac arrived at the mansion promptly. Zayn agreed that everyone would go to the hearing together, including Isaac. Zayn now had more faith, faith to have his daughter back, to live with Harry happily ever after. He even had faith that Liam and Louis would be together, happy.

At the courtroom corridor, Lindsay smirked as if to show how confident she was in her victory. Isaac did not appear in the hall at the request of Zayn's lawyers who wanted him to be a nasty surprise to Mrs. Scott. Emma held on tightly to her father's legs, which upset her grandmother who was trying to pull her close.

"You can come in now." A tall gentleman with slightly greying hair told them.

They all entered the room. Louis could not move. Liam stopped when he noticed that Louis was not walking.

"What’s wrong, Louis?" Liam asked crouching in front of the chair where he was standing.

"I can’t watch it. I'm trying to be strong for my friend, but it's hard for me, Liam."

"I know that. Emma's always been like a daughter to you, hasn’t she?" Liam smoothed Louis's hair, who for the first time did not care for his fondness.

"I've always wanted to have kids, and since I first saw her in the maternity ward, it was as if I had gained a child, understand? I watched her grow up, I saw her first steps, the first time she spoke. I love her so much. I cannot take it…Emma with Lindsay, that’s me…"

"I know how hard this is for you. For Emma you will always be the best godfather in the world, you will always be the uncle that she loves the most. Godfather is second father, Louis. And so, you need to go in there. She'd want you to be there. She needs our support, she needs to know how much we all want and need her back home. "

"You're right. Lindsay can’t win that easy."

"Let's go?" Liam asked, holding out his hand to him.

"Let's go." Louis replied slipping his hand into Louis’.

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"Order, order!" The judge said, tapping the gavel to start the hearing.

On the left, Zayn was sitting with his two lawyers. Lindsay and her three lawyers stood at the table on the right.

Harry was behind Zayn, sitting in the front row with Trisha and Alisha at his side. Monica, Louis and Liam were sitting on the other side of the row along with Emma's nanny, Celine.

"Well, as the current guardian of Emma is Mrs. Scott's, we will start with you." The judge said looking directly at Lindsay. "You can sit here." The judge gestured to the chair next to him.

Lindsay made the oaths, and Harry rolled his eyes in unbelief.

"Mrs. Scott, I have in my hands your grievous lawsuits against Mr. Zayn Malik. Why do you want your granddaughter's custody so much?"

"Well, your honor…since my daughter died, I visited my granddaughter regularly, and every time I left my ex-son-in-law's house, I felt a deep sadness inside me. Emma was always sad, she did not play with other children, and Zayn would always be drunk, every day....very drunk indeed." One of Lindsay's lawyers smiled sneakily, seeing how insightful her client was. “The last straw was when I discovered that he had a boy he barely knew living with them, putting my granddaughter in danger. Soon after I discovered that they were lovers, and I did not support the idea of Emma growing up around that, it's too much torture for a little girl. "

"And how did you find out that there was something going on between them?" The judge asked.

"I saw it with my own eyes."

Zayn rose angrily, wanting to move forward. Harry put his hand on his shoulder.

"Calm down! Don’t worry, Isaac will put an end to her lies." Harry whispered into his ear, and made him sit down.

"They were kissing in the living room while Emma saw everything."

"Your testimony is already good, Mrs. Scott." The judge said, and Lindsay joined her lawyers. “Mrs. Scott's defense witness can enter now."

The door opened, and everyone looked curiously to see who Lindsay’s witness was. Zayn's face fell. Everyone knew the famous actress.

Louis looked at his best friend's face but did not understand the nervousness in his eyes.

"Megan Spinelli? Is she the one you kissed?" Harry asked seeing how Zayn's face had turned white. Zayn nodded. "Oh my God." Harry exclaimed.

Zayn could not believe what he was seeing. Since the day she kissed him—the day Alison died—he had never seen her again. And now there she was, as his mother-in-law's defense witness.

Megan made her oath while Harry prayed softly that she would not ruin things for them.

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AN: Well I know that a custody trial is not like that chapter. But this is fiction and I wanted it to be that way hahaha .. Thank you for who has been here since the beginning of this fic, and for those who arrived later too. I love you <3