Chapter 6: The night.
Severus woke to the sounds of wimpering, taking a quick glance out of his window told him it was still night or very early morning, jumping out of bed he headed to the direction of the noises, Emrys room.
Upon entering he noticed Emrys on the floor next to his bed, thrashing around, all the time wimpering.
Afraid for his son, Severus knelt down next to him, in an attempt to gently ease him out of his fitful sleep. Emry's woke with a start.
"mm sorry, sorry, sorry" Emrys whispered fretfully.
"It's okay Emrys, " Severus gently told his son, "What's wrong, a nightmare, It's okay."
"s'nothing, sorry for waking you." Emrys timidly answered.
"What was the dream about Emrys?"
"Uncle..." Emrys answered very quietly.
"It's okay, you'll never be near him again, you're safe now, here with me and Sean, were a family together, understand? Through everything, we'll be here."
"But why doesn't people love me" Emrys began to cry.
Severus could feel his heart breaking and the pain his poor child must feel, "I love you, I will always love you, I'm sorry I wasn't there before I couldn't control that but I have always and will always love you."
Emrys gave timid smile to his newly found father, a whispered, "Daddy" was heard.
Severus, seeing the circles under Emrys eyes gently picked him up, feeling his wet bottoms, he realized that Emrys would not heal overnight, it would take time, love, understanding and a lot of effort.
He gently lay Emrys down on his bed, peeling the wet articles of his skeletal body and finding fresh garments for the child he gently picked him up once more, and brought him to his own room, tucked him into himself in his own bed, and father and son began the healing process that night, arms wrapped around each other.
As Severus once more awoke around 8:00AM he gently pulled away from Emrys and headed to the shower. Once refreshed he headed downstairs to begin breakfast for the three. Sean was already awake watching cartoons as usual. He begain a breakfast of eggs, sausage, bacon, ham and toast and Emrys came and sat at the table all by himself with no prompting, a giant leap in Severus's eyes.
As they started breakfast, Emrys looked confused as to how to serve himself, Severus, piled a bit of everything onto his plate. At the same time Severus also glanced over at Sean, who was eating so fast and so much.
"Sean buddy, slow down, I think you've had enough."
"I'm hungry still..."
"Sean no, you've had enough, why don't you run upstairs to get dressed."
"FINE!".
As Severus finished his meal, Emrys had only eaten a bit of toast and was staring at the mound of food in front of him. Severus sighed, and with a wave of his wand the dished were clean. He proceeded with Emrys up the stairs to get ready for their shopping trip.