*Perrie's POV*

We were sleeping under the bridge when muffled sobs started to echo around us. Zayn got up to go see who it was.

"Stay here."He said, but of course, I didn't listen. I followed him and saw a man sobbing over the bridge. A friend from Zayn's living days was standing over the bridge crying his eyes out.

"Jimmy."Zayn whispered in disbelief. I stood beside Zayn as he stood wordlessly beside poor Jimmy.

"My wife doesn't know I'm here. She thinks I should move on, but how could I? You were one of my best friends Zayn and I'm the reason you're dead."He said and Zayn shook his head.

"It wasn't your fault I stepped off this ledge."He mumbled running his fingers over the cold, crumbling stone."I was the one who decided to jump."

"It's burned into my memory, having to put you into the back of that car."He sniffed his fingertips turning white as he gripped the weathered rock. I could tell Zayn didn't want him to be upset.

"Come on Jimmy, it wasn't your damn fault."He mumbled and I rubbed his shoulder. I could feel the tenseness in his muscles under my fingertips.

"Relax Zayn, you need to remain calm."I whispered. He looked at me and gave me a dreamy smile.

"I'll try for you, Perrie."I smiled back at him.

"I just felt like I needed to come say hello Zayn buddy."Jimmy said sniffing."I hope you're happy wherever you are, because I'll be joining you soon."He placed a foot on the ledge and Zayn jumped grabbing his ankle.

"No!"He yelled and Jimmy looked from left to right.

"Zayn, it can't be."His eyes widened looking as big as saucers.

"Don't do it Jimmy."Zayn said and by the look on his face I knew he heard him."Go home to your wife and kids. Being dead isn't what it's cracked up to be. It isn't peaceful, it’s painful Jimmy, to watch life go on. To sit there and watch your family grieve. They cry for hours and you can't help them, all you can do is helplessly watch them. Go, kiss your wife and give every one of your kids a big hug. If you can't do it for yourself do it for them. Do it for me. I never got to be a father Jimmy, I always wanted to be one. I would do anything to be able to hold a child in my arms that is a part of me. I would give anything to have that."Jimmy looked close to tears and he slowly removed his foot from the ledge.

"I'm going home now, thank you Zayn."He got in his car and drove away. Zayn looked at me and shook his head.

"Did you really mean all of that?"I asked and he nodded.

"I meant every word with every fibre of my being."That's the thing about being a ghost. You're young forever, but at a very high price. The only currency that the afterlife deals in is the human experience and keeping you from it so you can watch, but you can't touch.

*Misty's POV*

I lay awake after Harry's nightmare. He kissed me, he really did. I ran my fingers over my lips still not believing what my brain was telling me was true. I felt him stir beside me and I closed my eyes quickly. I didn't want him to know I was awake. He always said the cutest things when he thinks I'm asleep. I felt him move to hold himself up on his elbow. I felt his skinny fingers brush over my arm and shoulder tracing star shapes into my skin. He brushed my hair out of my eyes.

"You're so beautiful."He whispered pressing his lips tenderly against my temple. He wrapped his arm around me again still propped up on his elbow.

"I know you're awake, Mist."I opened one eye and he laughed at me."Go to sleep."

"Only when you do."He sighed lying back down and tightening his arm around me. I felt the heaviness of sleep clouding my vision. I snuggled back into him and fell asleep.

*Eleanor's POV*

The day had finally come, it had been months. We'd all waited so long for this. I stood in the back of the courthouse with Louis. People buzzed all around me filling in the empty wooden rows. I could tell it was going to be packed for this trial. Louis creeped his arm around me gripping my waist firmly and suddenly jerking me closer to him.

"Lou, be gentle."I said stumbling over my own feet and falling into him.

"Sorry."He mumbled his face completely expressionless. He was cold, stony and emotionless. Where did my bubbly Louis go? This wasn't the man I knew and loved.

"Lou, what's wrong?"I asked and he ground his teeth together.

"I want to scare him into a heart attack."He replied."The only thing that will keep me from losing it is if I'm holding you."He looked at me and I didn't know what to say.

"Hey guys!"Danielle yelled running over passing through some people in the process."This is exciting."Liam sauntered in behind her looking around at the weathered building.

"It looked a hell of a lot better during my murder trial, but there weren't as many people at my trial."He mumbled absentmindedly throwing his arm around Dani's shoulders. Zayn and Perrie came through the wall.

"Was the door too mainstream for you?"I asked and Zayn liked confused while Perrie laughed.

"Definitely too mainstream."She replied. Niall and Kathryn pushed through the crowds towards us.

"Holy Mary that’s a lot of people coming out for you four."Niall said as he got within earshot. He gripped Kathryn's hand firmly in his own as if afraid of losing her to the crowd.

"They're not her for us; they're here for the show."Perrie said sourly and Zayn kissed her cheek whispering something in her ear that caused her to smile.

"Guess what guys, I found out I have a daughter a month ago. I kept forgetting to tell you."We all stared at him.

"I thought you would be killed for premarital sex in 1920."Louis said and Niall shrugged.

"Only if her father caught you."He said winking."She was born a few months after I died."That was the end of that conversation. The only people missing now were Harry and Misty, what could be taking them so long? The trial was going to start soon and they were going to miss it. We'd waited so long and they were going to miss it.

*Harry's POV*

I felt her stir beneath my arm draped lazily around her waist.

"Good morning babe."I said kissing her cheek and she moaned.

"I don't want to get up."She mumbled rolling over into my chest. I rubbed circles in between her shoulder blades and she wiggled closer to me.

"I wish we could do this all day."She said. I agreed with her, I never wanted to get up. Her eyes popped open and she looked up at me. She looked to have remembered something.

"Very sneaky Harry, but you haven't fooled me."She said pulling out of my arms and running towards the shower. I let out a high pitched whine.

"What am I being sneaky about? I don't understand."She turned to me.

"You really don't remember?"I shook my head no."Today's trial day."I groaned and hopped out of bed. I grabbed her spinning her towards me. Her hands flew out to grip my arms as she tried to regain her balance.

"You're coming with me, you said you'd let me go."She said."Not that I need your permission. This is the 21st century not the 19th."She reached behind her and pried my hand off her waist twirling away from me. She walked slowly into the bathroom and I watched her.

"I wish it was the 19th century sometimes."I mumbled and I heard her scoff from the bathroom. I'd forgotten about what today was, what it meant. I didn't want to let that maniac anywhere near my Misty, but she was stubborn. I had to let her go, but I didn't have to like it.

*Misty's POV*

I put my clothes on hurriedly.

"You're so lucky you don't have to do anything to get ready in the morning."I said turning to Harry who had his back turned away from me. His hands covered his eyes that were tightly squeezed shut much like a child who was the seeker in a game of hide and seek.

"There are upsides and downsides of every type of life, even the afterlife."He said.

"You can open your eyes now."He spun around to face me.

"You're gorgeous as always."I felt a blush creeping to my cheeks."You should buy a corset and dress like when I'm from."He smiled."You could go out for Halloween like that and then we would match."I laughed.

"Good luck getting me into a corset."He scoffed.

"I will have you know that tightening stays is something I am very good at. I'd tell you to ask my sister, but she's dead."He remarked."I could get you into a corset. Don't underestimate my talent."I raised my eyebrows.

"Oh believe me, I won't. However, I meant there was no way I was wearing a corset not that you couldn't get me into one."He raised his eyebrows.

"I see."

"Wait, you wanted to see me in a corset didn't you?"I asked stepping towards him.

"What? No, I didn't."He stepped back flustered and his face glowed slightly pink. I grabbed his face and made him look at me.

"Harry."He knitted his eyebrows together and huffed.

"OK, I might have sort of wanted to see you in a corset."He said darting his eyes away from me.

"Why would you want that?"He huffed again.

"Do I really have to explain, it isn't appropriate to discuss such things."

"It is in this century."He sighed.

"Forgive me mother."He whispered then he turned his eyes towards the floor."In the century I grew up in it was a thing, for a married man and woman, for him to reach around her like so."He slid his hands around my waist and pressed them against my back."To undo her stays and it gives him an opportunity to pull her close to him and do this."He then pulled me in until I was pressed against his chest. He bent his head to my neck and began to brush his lips lightly against my skin before pressing them down in several places. The ends of his curls brushed my face and I wondered if he could feel my heart beating against my ribcage.

"Is this 19th century foreplay?"I whispered.

"No, this is 19th century for, please, can we please do something tonight."I chuckled.

"Ah, so this is 19th century begging."

"Basically."He pulled away from me smiling and tapping my nose with his index finger."That's why I wanted you to wear one. I always wanted to do that with Rachel and now I have you so."He mumbled still unable to look me in the eye. He was such a gentleman.

"I'm still thinking it's not going to happen."I said."Just so we're clear."He nodded looking slightly disappointed.

"I understand, they were massively uncomfortable according to my sister."He looked up at me grinning. I let out a frustrated sigh.

"Come on Harry let's go. You can't distract me from going."He frowned but followed me out the door anyway.