Color Outside The Lines (l.s)

Chapter Seventeen

The next few weeks go by and harry's ready to give up, quit because he's so tired he doesn't know what to do anymore.

Its currently three in the morning and he's rocking his sobbing baby, trying to keep her quiet so she doesn't wake up louis.

"Shhh Rory" he soothes and he walks around, rocking her gently as he does, circling the room, patting her back gently and eventually she calms down, still making little upset sounds as harry rubs her back gently.

When he finally gets her back to sleep, he puts her back in her crib, making sure the baby monitor is on before trudging back to bed, crawling back into bed. Louis sleepily pulls him back to his chest

"Hungry?" he asks

"Hungry" harry confirms "and she needed a diaper change" He says and louis nods hooking his chin on the top of harry's head. Harry rolls over then, and louis throws a leg over his hip to pull him closer and soon they're back to sleep, only to be woken up a few hour later by the baby once again.

This time Louis gets up carefully, removing his leg from harry before creeping quickly out of the room and into the nursery, picking up his baby and lifting her to his nose, smelling the dirty diaper through her onesie. His face contorts in disgust as he walks her over to the change table and lays her down, unbuttoning her onesie and pulling it off her little kicking legs before undoing her diaper and folding it over before tucking it under her bum. He cleans her up before dumping the diaper into the smell eliminating garbage bin harry had insisted on buying. He wraps her snugly in a new diaper before buttoning her onesie back up and kissing her little cheek, rocking her back to sleep before returning to bed again.

Morning rolls around and both harry and louis are dead on their feet. They shuffle around, feeding the baby, changing the baby and placing the baby in her rocking seat. Harry and Louis flopped down on the couch in unison, and begin to laugh hysterically. Harry flips on top of louis, and they go from there.

They almost miss the baby crying afterwards, having fallen asleep. Harry sits up, pulling his pants back on before going to his baby and rocking her gently. he sighs, trying to keep his eyes open. He sits on the floor, leaning back against the couch were louis' still asleep, and closes his eyes for just a second with a quiet Ellory rested in his arms, on his shoulder.

It turns out its not just a second. He wakes up an hour and a half later, curled up on his side on the floor, his back aching. His vision is blocked by a soft something, which he realizes is his baby's onesie clad arm. He couldn't believe what he had just done. He had fallen asleep, fallen sideways onto the floor and began to cuddle the tiny squirming body beside him. He sits up quickly, rubbing his head, then he picks Ellory up off the floor, tucking her into his arms again sighing and waking louis

"Wake up..." he mutters "we fell asleep again" he says and louis rolls over grumbling

"Louis!" harry scolds slapping his fiancee on the arm, making him pull himself to his feet grumpily, muttering under his breath

"Excuse me?" harry asks, hoping he didn't hear what he though he did

"Nothing" louis grunts "you have vomit in your hair" then he walks into the kitchen and turns on the kettle. Harrys fingers goes up to his hair, touching the wet spot in his hair, near his ear where he usually burped the baby. He rolled his eyes before walking into the kitchen, placing Ellory in her swing on his way.

"You said you didn't sign up for this shit!" harry said crossing his arms, and glaring at louis

"Because i didnt!" he yells "I didn't sign up for this level of exhaustion, i didn't sign up for shit piss and vomit every 2 hours! I didn't sign up for a baby!" Louis screams and Ellory begins to cry, not liking the noise level