"Hermione? are you alright?" she heard a sleepy voice from the hallway. She looked up to see fred standing in her doorway, his pajama bottoms rumpled and his hair mussed. "i could hear you tossing and turning through the walls. "
"can't sleep. Nightmares." she whispered. fred slowly shuffled further into her bedroom at Grimmauld place, where everyone was staying after the attack on the Burrow.
"you too? " he said as he walked over to the bed and lifted the covers. "Get over then."
"Fred, what are you doing?" Hermione asked as he made to get into the bed.
"helping you sleep, now roll over. " He slid in beside her and she did as he asked. He gently slid one arm under the pillow her head rested on and slotted himself in behind her. He placed the other arm over her shoulder in an odd sort of hug. "now go to sleep."
Surprisingly she did. feeling safe with his arm over her, his warmth against her back and his nose just touching the bare back of her neck. When she woke, he was gone and she realized he had willingly slept with his back exposed to a room. Something none of the current occupants of grimmauld felt comfortable doing anymore.
