because I’m mean, something that’s not a priority at the moment and probably won’t be for a while, due to … reasons!
Fuck, now he’s thinking about it, about the strange frowny face Liam gets when Louis goofs off too much, or he’s worried they might not be good enough to stay on the show, or Harry takes his trousers off too near a camera. Liam gets the weird frowny face a lot, come to think of it, and it mostly makes Louis want to kiss it away. That’s the crux of the problem, the part where he wants to kiss Liam all the time, because Liam would never go in for it—Louis is a devil, first off, and Liam won’t want to risk screwing up the band either, and besides, it’s entirely possible he doesn’t like Louis at all.
It was a stupid assignment to begin with! He could corrupt Niall, maybe, corrupt him properly, or even Zayn. (Though if Zayn’s mortal, Louis’s not sure how that would work. He’s still skeptical about Zayn’s claims he’s mortal, to be honest.) But Liam? He says things that are a little bit cheeky occasionally and it’s so surprising Louis nearly falls over every time. There’s no way anyone could ever convince him to be properly evil, and it’s not like the bosses don’t all know Louis’s a bit rubbish at corruption anyway.
This is probably a test; he’s on probation now and if he doesn’t manage to make Liam all evil and mischievous and—and cheeky and stuff, he’ll get fired.
In hindsight, Liam’s shoulder was probably not the best place to have a cry about this. But he’d come over to Louis all scrunchy-faced and sympathetic and what was Louis supposed to do but press his face against Liam’s neck and try not to have a complete meltdown.
