Danny's POV:
I was woken up in the early hours of the morning by Dougie wriggling around uncontrollably by my side. He had his eyes closed but tears were escaping them and rolling fast down his face. The thing that worried me the most was how he was biting down on his bottom lip so hard that it had bled all down his chin and onto the pillow, still without waking him up. I didn't know what to do and so I went and shook the other two awake, gently but quickly.
'Guys... Guys please wake up... You've got to help me! Dougie's having a nightmare and he's biting his lip and it's bleeding.' I said hurriedly to them. They both instantly sat up and rushed over to the bed.
'Shit! What do we do?! It's like he's having some kind of seizure!' Tom said worriedly, before Harry pushed past him and gently began stroking Dougie's hair softly.
'It's not a seizure, it's just a nightmare, like when Dan used to have them remember? You used to bite your lip aswell Dan. We've just got to try and soothe him, make him more comfortable and stuff like that. Stroking his hair is what used to work for Danny.' Harry said calmly, still gently stroking Dougie's hair and forehead. Luckily, Dougie calmed down a little and grabbed on to Harry's arm.
'Mummy... I hurting...' He muttered, shuffling in closer to Harry. Harry wrapped his free arm around the still-sleeping Dougie before gently laying him back down in bed.
'He should be okay now, I think we should wake him up though, just because of his lip, and then we'll put him back to sleep.' Harry said to us, standing up and walking away from the sleeping boy. Tom nodded and went to gently wake Dougie up.
'Dougie? Dougs.. Wake up mate..' He said quietly, causing Dougie to open his eyes and sit up.
'Tom? Hawwy? Danny? Why I get up? It still dark...' He asked confused.
'I know Dougs, you can go back to sleep in a minute, you've just cut your lip a little bit so we're going to clean it up for you, okay?' I replied quietly, sitting him up in bed. Harry came through a second later with a small bowl of water and a flannel. He sat on the bed beside me and Dougie and gently began to dab on Dougie's lip with the cloth. Dougie took one of my fingers in his small hand and squeezed it tightly.
'Ow... Hawwy that hurts..' He mumbled, dribbling slightly due to him not being able to close his mouth as he spoke.
'I know Dougs.. But I won't take much longer now I promise.' Harry replied sympathetically, making his actions on Dougie's lip softer and more careful. Within a couple of minutes he was done.
'Well done Dougs, you can go back to sleep now.' He said happily to Dougie before walking back into the bathroom and putting the cloth and water back. Dougie lay back down in bed and I hopped in beside him.
'Danny?' Dougie asked quietly.
'Yeah Dougs?' I whispered back to him as Tom and Harry got back in bed and fell asleep again almost instantly.
'You pwomise never to hurt me or leave me? Because I wuv you lots and lots and I don't never ever want you to leave.' He asked me sweetly, wrapping his arms around me and curling up to my chest.
'Of course I'll never hurt you Dougs! I'll be here for you forever, I'll be like your big brother.' I said softly to him, hugging him closer to me and gently kissing his head.
'You absowutewy pwomise?' He asked again, just to be sure, struggling to get the word 'absolutely' off his tongue.
'I absolutely promise Dougie. Now should we go back to sleep so we can wake up early and go on loads of awesome rides?' I asked grinning at him. He nodded and shut his eyes, falling to sleep within seconds. I made sure that he was comfortable before also closing my eyes, and falling to sleep slowly beside my new little brother.