We MaDe It

5.

"Daddy?"

"Go to sleep, Elijah"

"One more question. Please?"

Harry sighed deeply. It's not like lying in bed with eyes closed was any indication he's meditating than actually being desperate for sleep.

"Go on.."

Elijah was lying horizontally on the bed, near his parent's feet. He rolled from his back to lie onto his side, his arm bent at the elbow, head propped on his fist. He gazed down at Harry who looked peaceful, his hands were resting on his chest and eyes shut.

"When you were young, what was your dream? What did you want to be when you grow up?"

"I wanted to be a father to children that never bothered me while I'm trying to sleep. But one can only dream." Harry answered.

"you're funny." Elijah laughed, "You know what I want to be when I'm old?"

"Let me guess.." Harry said.

Elijah waited for a minute before pushing for answer. "Well?"

"I'm guessing in my head.."

Elijah smiled shaking his head. "You are supposed to say your guesses out loud."

"I offered to guess, you didn't ask me to. You don't get to make the rules."

Elijah looked at him with awe, "I wanna be like you, daddy. You're so cool."

"Enough with the arse kissing, say what you want, Elijah"

"When you away for the weekend, can I be in charge? And be like the man of the house and shit-"

"No swearing"

"I'll apologise if you say I can"

Harry opened eye to look at him raising his brow.

"I'm sorry" Elijah apologised.

"Go to bed."

Harry closed his eye wishing him away..but Elijah was relentless.

"I will in a minute but, can I say something?"

"If you must.."

"Okay, here's the thing that concerns me, daddy. What if someone notice you and your husband are away, leaving us alone, then maybe that someone leave an anonymous tip to the social services? People are not who they seem you know."

"Are you talking about yourself in third person?"

"Why would you think about your son doing something like that? But seriously, daddy, make me in charge to prevent that happening. That's all me, myself and I are saying."

"I miss the days all you did was eat, sleep and wouldn't utter a single word. You know we once thought you couldn't talk. How wrong were we, huh" Harry said opening his eyes, looking at him.

"I was talking in my head, just could not be bothered to say it out loud. You feel me?" Elijah grinned

Harry sighed loudly. The birth of his children is the best thing to happen to him, next to Zayn of course. He loves them, and never saw them as a nuisance. But when you're tired after a day's work wanting nothing but to curl up and sleep, it was hard not to see Elijah as that. He could throw him out of his bedroom, but decided to entertain him instead.

"Mary will be here, Eli. She'll be in charge. We trust her enough to know she's capable. She's done so before, this time is no different."

"Yes she's done it before that's true, but all those times you've only been a few hour's drive away. This time you're going out of country, daddy. What if there's an emergency?"