our love is infinite. (an wintumn story.)

sleep well

A/N: winter helping autumn with periods is definitely such a head cannon.

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unfortunately, for autumn periods had always been a problem for her. ever since she had gotten her first one. she was 12 at the time when she had started and was home alone with reece, since she hadn't started yet, she panicked and shouted reece that she was bleeding. at first reece didn't know what was happening either till he eventually realised that she must've started her period.

he calmed her down before calling mia since mia had started hers already and knew what to do, she came over with pads, autumns favourite chocolate and a hot water bottle incase. after mia had taught everything autumn would need to know, with reece asking more questions than autumn so he could help her, mia gave them both a hug before leaving through the window before Roger came back.

he had sent autumn home a few times because of her periods when she was feeling really bad, when he would catch her fast asleep, with her head resting on the desk often holding her stomach. to which he would just wake her up and drag her into his car to drive her home as she could sometimes faint from how bad her symptoms were and he would much rather she was at home resting then at work.

so when it was 2:40pm and she woke up with pain in her lower back and stomach she knew what was coming. she checked the sheets, relieved to find them clear before going to the bathroom to sort herself out.

when she came back into the room she was relieved to find winter still fast asleep, although he was moving around, trying to find autumn in the bed with him.

she gave a small smile before creeping down the stairs to the kitchen, opening their medicine cabinet which was labelled with the medications names. her and winter were very organised people, always having their houses stocked up, cleaned and most importantly cozy. she grabbed two ibuprofen, and a glass of warm water.

one she put her glass down she was startled to feel two hands on her waist, she turned around to see winter.

"my sweet! you startled me." autumn said as she apologised for waking him up.

"it's alright my love, are you alright?" winter asked to which autumn just brushed it off with a quick nod before the went back into bed.
the medication would take about 30 to 60 minutes to kick in for autumn so much to her dismay, she was still in pain, and could not fall asleep.

she stumbled into the bathroom, sitting on the cold stone floor and holding her stomach.

about 15 minutes later, winter woke up, rubbing his eyes to see, rolling over to his bed stand to see the time on his phone, which had just passed 3:00 in the morning. as he rolled over back to bed he squinted his eyes, autumn wasn't in the bed. he felt the side that she slept on, it was cold. she must have been gone for longer than at least 5 minutes.

as winter looked over into the bathroom, the door slightly ajar with the bathroom light on. he frantically grabbed his glasses putting them on before approaching the door, where he could hear loud breaths, and whimpers from autumn.

he knocked on the door, hearing a barley audible "hmm?" from autumn. "my love, can i come in?" he said, once he heard a "yes." from autumn her opened the door straight away. when he walked in he saw autumn, against the wall next to the toilet, holding her knees with her head rested in her hands with her thumb rubbing her temples. he immediately crouched down to her level, rubbing her shoulders.

"go back to sleep my sweet." autumn said quietly while clutching her stomach, winter looking at her slightly concerned. she gave him a nod as she moved closer to him, to which he wrapped his arms around her.
"my love do you need to see a doctor?" he said to which she just sighed, "no ive just come on that's all"

"have you taken any ibuprofen?" to which autumn answers "mmm. i still have about half and hour till it will kick in." she said before resting her head on winters shoulders. "do you want to go back to bed?" he said to which autumn gave him a small nod.
he tapped her legs, signalling he was going to pick her up and asking for consent to which she did a small nod, he picked her up, bringing her to their bed, putting her in the blanket, watching as she still clutched her stomach.

he went into the bathroom,  getting her grey hot water bottle out, filling it with hot water, adding some warm water, being careful to not burn her.

as he walked in he saw her still in bed, but with the blanket wrapped around her, she had curled up into a little ball, letting out a whine. she had sweat dripping down her face and had a pained look on her face.winter grabbed her. he went into the bed, pulling the blanket off as he knew she would get hot. he sat down, resting his back on the headboard as he let her rest her head on his chest, as soon as she got comfy he lifted her top, putting the hot water bottle, pressing it lightly to her stomach, watching as she relaxed slightly "does that feel better?" he said looking at autumn and to the hot water bottle which was pressed on her stomach. she let out a small nod, discreetly trying to rub her lower back aswell without him noticing, he noticed.

he reached out moving her hand away as he begun to rub her lower back, autumn looked up to see winters eyes start to close which he figured with himself to keep them open.

"winter you have a early shift in the morning. please go to sleep." she said to which winter smiled. "so do you, i would rather be tired knowing you got a good sleep, we will see how you feel tomorow, if you still feel bad im calling you off sick." she said to which she gave him a small smile.
"i love you." words that weren't heard often from autumn, but winter knew she meant them deep down. "me to my love. me to." he said as he began to rub her lower back with one hand with his other hand in her hair. after some minutes autumn managed to drift off to sleep.

even though winter was going to be extremely exhausted in the morning with a early shift, as long as autumn got her nights rest, he would be okay with that.