"Come on young man, time for bed" Nikki told her youngest son as she picked up the fifteen month old up off the floor.
"No mama" Thomas shook his head, his blonde hair swaying slightly with the action "Pway"
"We'll play tomorrow" Nikki replied as Harry chuckled at the pair from where he was sitting on the sofa. Thomas never wanted to go to sleep, even if was only for a nap during the day, and always put up a fuss. Apparently it was something that he'd grow out of. "Say night to daddy"
"No" the young boy pouted and crossed his arms over his chest, his grumpy look just making Nikki chuckle quietly. "No sweep, wan' pway"
"Thomas if you don't sleep now you won't be able to see the planes tomorrow" Harry told his son as he stood up and walked over to his wife and their youngest "Only boys who sleep can see the planes"
"No sweep, wan' pwanes" Thomas sulked as he buried his face in Nikki's shoulder.
"Well Nathanial, Theo and Sammy are going to see the planes" Nikki told the young boy as she put him down on the floor with a shrug "Because they are good and went to bed, you can play now but there won't be any planes"
"Wan' pwanes" Thomas cried, tears rolling down his cheeks "No sweep"
Nikki sighed and shook her head at Harry who crouched down and picked up their son, holding him gently to him and making the boy look at him, tears still falling down the child's red cheeks as he sobbed quietly.
"Now young man listen to me" Harry said sternly and Thomas shook his head "Thomas"
"No" the boy cried and Harry refused to let him go, even when he bag to wiggle and push away from his father, tears falling down his cheek.
Harry just waited patiently until his son had tired himself out and paced the room with him in his arms, giving Nikki an apologetic smile as she walked through the door. He knew that she didn't need this right now but she was putting on a brave face to stop herself crying.
"Are you ready to listen now?" Harry asked Thomas five minutes later as the child wore himself out and just clung to Harry. Nikki having left them and gone upstairs to check on their other children to see if they had been woken by their younger brother's screaming. "Mummy doesn't need you being a naughty boy, okay? She's been poorly hasn't she?"
Thomas nodded and Harry continued.
"She doesn't like to see you like this, it makes mummy sad and we don't want mummy upset, do we?"
"No da" Thomas whispered as he wiped his face on Harry's shirt, making his father roll his eyes at him.
"No, so we're going to go upstairs and you're going to say sorry to mummy" Harry told the young boy as he walked from the living room and upstairs to find Nikki. "and then you're going to go to bed like a good boy and in the morning we can go and see the planes"
"Okay" Thomas nodded and gripped at Harry's shirt as they walked into the bedroom where Nikki was standing at the end of their bed, folding clean clothes up ready to be put away in the morning. "Mama"
Nikki turned when she heard her son's voice and smiled slightly as her little boy held his arms out to her, his red face still stained with tears and his eyes red.
"Sowwy mama, I bad boy" Thomas sniffed as he buried his face in Nikki's shoulder "I sowwy"
"It's okay baby" Nikki whispered as he cradled her son close and kissed his head gently.
"You sad mama?"
"When I see you like that yes" Nikki nodded, kissing him again as he fiddled with her pyjama top "It's not very nice"
"Sowwy mama" Thomas sniffed again as Harry took off his shirt and put it in the wash bin.
"It's alright Tommy" Nikki told the boy and stroked his blonde hair lovingly, giving him another kiss "Now are you going to go to bed like a good boy?"
"Uh hu" her son nodded and looked up at her before pressing his lips to her cheek and giving her a sloppy kiss. Nikki couldn't help but grin and laugh at the boy and Thomas clapped his hands when he saw that he had made his mummy happy again.
"Come on then, say night to daddy"
"Nigh' da" Thomas smiled as Nikki held him out for Harry and he wrapped his arms around his father's neck, Nikki still holding him. Harry hugged his little boy gently and pressed a kiss onto his hair.
"Night Tommy, sleep well and be good okay"
"Uh hu" Thomas smiled and then wrapped his arms around Nikki's neck again as she walked from the room and down the hallway to his bedroom.
"He'll grow out of it" Harry told Nikki when they were curled up together in bed, Harry's arms protectively around his wife's waist, holding her close to him. "The other boys did"
"I know" Nikki sighed, nodding her head against the pillow as she spoke "But he's stubborn like his daddy, if he doesn't want to do something then he won't"
"I was thinking that was you" Harry chuckled and Nikki giggled sleepily "I think we're both like that"
"God help us if all our children turn out stubborn like us"
"Let's not even think about it" Harry suggested with a laugh and Nikki sighed contentedly and nodded.
"Can we try for another baby?" Nikki suddenly asked quietly and Harry looked down at her with a frown.
"Are you sure?"
"Hmm" Nikki nodded as she turned in his arms and rested her head on the pillow next to him, draping one arm around his body as Harry wrapped one of his around her back, stroking it gently.
Harry wasn't sure, of course he wanted another baby with his wife, but her miscarriage two months before had thrown them both and had disheartened Nikki a lot. In the first few days after it had happened she had refused to eat and had refused to see her other children. Harry knew she had been punishing herself but nothing he had said had snapped her out of it. Nikki had then broken down slightly and told him through all her tears and sobbing that she was useless and had lost their child and wasn't fit to be a mother. Harry had made her see otherwise, it had taken almost a week after her mini breakdown but finally she had realised what a brilliant mother she was.
"I want another baby" she told him forcibly "I'm scared that I might...lose another one but we won't know until we try and anyway I want to give you more children"
"Nikki if it's going to harm you then I don't.."
"Harry please" Nikki begged him and ran her hand through his hair as she spoke "Do you want another baby with me?"
"I want lots more babies with you sweetheart"
"Good" Nikki smiled and reached down to the waistband of his tracksuit bottoms where she could already feel his growing arousal pressed up against her leg. Harry smirked at her and rolled them both over so he was straddling her before leaning down and kissing her passionately.
No idea where this fic came from, it just refused to leave me alone until I wrote it.
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