Our Heart and Home

6

Harry woke up to shifting in his bed. After a second he realized it's a body moving into his bed. The person moved back the covers to get in and Harry, after blinking in the dark to try to see who it was, calmly helped them when he realized what's going on. The person gets in with some struggling and covers their body with the comforter. They next shift in the bed to cuddle their body against Harrys and rests their head on his chest. After getting comfortable against Harry the person lets out a content sigh with a puffy nose.

Harry wrapped his arms around them tightly for a hug to comfort them for a second. The two people in bed both enjoy the cuddle for some time in the darkness. His hand then comes up to the person's head to push their hair back and it just confirms his thoughts on who it was. Harry holds the back of their head for them to come up and nuzzle safely into the crook of Harry's neck.

"I got you, baby" Harry lovingly comforted them while resting his head on their head, gently and slowly swaying both of us back and forth as much as he could. "I'm right here."

"Dad," Crew murmured tearfully into his fathers neck, holding onto him tightly.

Harry frowned pitifully, not liking Crew in pain.

"Rough night, huh?" The still sleepy father sleepily rumbles to him in his raspy morning voice, offering him the chance to tell Harry on his own if he wants.

"Mhm" He hums while sniffilly.

Harry would bet if he could get a look at his son's face he'd have tears silently streaming down his face, cheeks flushed and red from his pillows, and a little bit of snot running from his nose. That should probably disgust Harry while Crew's head is literally in his neck but it doesn't.

Crew doesn't say anything else so Harry knows not to push him to explain his nightmare. The father-son duo lay there snuggling in the quiet, taking comfort from each other. Harry has one hand rubbing Crew's back and the other hand going through his son's hair to soothe him. Crew just lays there rubbing his check into Harry's sleep shirt, fisting his eyes, and sniffing, trying to calm down. After a while Harry looked over at the clock on his nightstand to see it's 3am.

"You wanna sleep in here for the rest of the night?" Harry quietly asks him in the dark.

Crew sleepily hums. Harry looks down at him and sees he's already half asleep.

He smiles, kisses Crew on the forehead and tries to move to get more comfortable to go to sleep. After trying to shift in bed for a while he sees he can't from all the dead weight on him. So he just relaxed into the mattress going back to sleep holding onto his son tightly.

Waking up a few hours later and slowly opening his eyes, Harry looks around to see that he and Crew haven't moved an inch in their sleep. He's still tightly wrapped around Harry, which Harry realizes is a problem at that exact moment. Normally he wouldn't mind waking up like this any day but his bladder has another idea.

He tried to carefully get out of bed by slowly inching his legs over the bed and his chest out from under Crew. Crew sleepily mumbles trying to search for Harry to get back to cuddling and getting his warmth back so Harry grabs an extra pillow for him to cuddle with. Harry put his hand on Crew's head and pushes his hair back saying, "It's okay amore mio, go back to sleep"

Crew settles down after a minute of Harry dragging his hand through his head of hair. Harry removed his hand carefully and got up to go to the bathroom. He does his business, washes his hands, and while he's in the bathroom already he brushes his teeth.

After he's done he starts to walk through the house quietly. He tries to tiptoe quietly to the rooms across the hall. After getting to one bedroom door, Harry slowly turns the doorknob and opens the door just as slow. He peaks into the little girls room seeing her passed out. She somehow turned around in her bed in her sleep so her head was at the foot of the bed and her feet at the top of the bed. She has her butt in the air with no blanket on her body. Her beloved moose is tucked between her arms while she sucks on her dummy in her sleep.