Little Louis

Part 6

Louis remains in headspace for another two hours, he's sitting in the floor in the lounge room colouring in with Harry when he comes out. Harry and Louis have been colouring trains for the last hour.

"I love colouring with you darling, you're very good" Harry says as he watches Louis, lying on his stomach in front of him, his tongue sticking slightly out of his mouth as he concentrates on staying between the lines.

"I good?" Louis asks as he looks up st Harry.

Harry smiles and moves Louis fringe off his forehead.

"You're so good, best colorer I've seen" Harry says brightly.

Louis beams back at him.

"Hey Lou would you like to do a puzzle?" Edward asks as he finishes some work from the couch behind where Louis and Harry are playing.

"Yeah, I get it" Louis says happily as he puts his crayon down and Harry starts packing up the colouring.

"Sure, they are just in the toy box" Edward says as Louis shuffles over to the toy box, he grabs a puzzle with animals and in his excitement he accidentally flips it and the pieces go everywhere, all over the living room.

Louis stops dead in his tracks and he starts breathing heavily.

"Oh dear, what a mess, it's okay let's clean it up" Edward says.

Louis looks at him, his eyes wide and scared.

"It's okay Lou, it was an accident, don't worry, it's easily fixed" Harry says.

Louis seems to have a flashback and Harry can tell he's panicking,

"Sweetheart, calm down it's okay, you're not in trouble" Harry says as he get up to go to Louis side.

Harry reaches out for Louis but Louis flinches back quickly and places his hands over his ears.

Both boys watch on as Louis panics himself out of headspace and runs for the stairs.

"Shit Harry, what do we do?" Edward asks.

"We let him go, he's okay, just let him calm down a little" Harry says.

Edward sighs, seeing Louis so scared and upset about being in headspace, the thought of him being physically abused hurts so bad.

"We will get him through this Ed, it's okay" Harry reassures.

"Yeah, I know I just.......I put arseholes like his dad away for a living, I know what his dad is capable of and the thought of Louis having to deal with that for as long as he did,hurts so bad" Edward says.

"I know, he's got us now though and we will see to it that he's loved and safe and gets everything he deserves. It's day two at home and he just stayed in headspace for two hours, that's huge" Harry says smiling.

Edward smiles slightly back.

"Yeah, you're right, he did so well" Edward says in response.

"We should get Scotty over, maybe he could help us with a routine? He and Casey could bring over their two?" Harry says.

"Yeah, Scott called today asking how everything is going, he was going to pop by after work, we should really get Louis into a routine even if he's in headspace or not" Edward says.

"The quicker he feels comfortable the better, regardless of whether Littles are in headspace or not, they like routine and familiarity, which I'm guessing Louis has never had" Harry says.

"I'd bet a million bucks he's never even had clean clothes or a nice bed to sleep in, let alone a routine" Edward says sadly.

Harry agrees as he bends down to start picking the puzzle pieces up.