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224 Dougies POV

The photo shoot didn't go too badly to be honest, it was a quick one too, so we were out of there and on our way home only 2 hours after we arrived. Nothing bad happened that day at all, or for the next few weeks. We did a few more littler shows, did a few interviews and a few shoots, but that was really about it. It was like 2 years ago, only now Tom was almost silent, literally, during interviews he mostly kept his mouth shut, at photo shoots he actually did remain silent unless someone was directly talking to him. But, at concerts he was quite loud, having a blast like normal, it was sort of like how I used to be at 15. Silent during everything, then on stage loud and quite clearly enjoying myself, through all the nerves.

Before I knew it, it was time to take Tom back to the hospital to get his cast off, and to have his stitches taken out. "want us all to come with you?" I asked. "no, we'll over crowd him with all 3 of us. You guys stay at home today, I'll look after Tom at the hospital, and me and Carrie will look after him at home if he needs it." Danny declined, I could hear him moving around, probably getting dressed while talking to us on the phone.

"alright, call us if you need us round though, we'll be hanging around here." Harry smiled a little, running his fingers over my side, bringing me a little closer to him. "yeah, I will, have fun you two." Danny shut the phone off, and I shuffled closer to my husband. "day to ourselves, what are we going to do then?" I asked, wondering if I could spend the day laying in bed. "I dunno, lay in bed all day and pretend that the outside world doesn't exist?" Harry shrugged, pulling the covers over our heads and pulling me into his embrace even more, so we were almost plastered together.

"hmmm, I like that idea." I had missed being able to sometimes be able to lay with Harry, forgetting about the world outside. We sometimes did manage to lay by ourselves, cuddled up under the covers, not even saying a word, just happily laying together, relaxing, but it was rare now, I missed it. "yep, well thats todays plan done, I'm not getting up unless we get a phone call. Which we probably won't get, Danny can handle Tom for a few hours at the hospital, I'm sure." Harry sighed, almost sinking into the covers. "yeah, he can." I agreed, barely even mumbling anymore, just wanting to relax into pleasant silence, enjoying some time with my husband, like we were supposed to.

225 Harrys POV

I spent all day cuddling with Dougie, he didn't even bother getting out of bed at all for the whole day, even when I went to get us food when we got hungry. He literally, just laid there, using my arm as a pillow, his legs tangled with mine, whispering random thoughts to me, sometimes repeating a few. "would you still love me if I dyed my hair purple again?" Dougie whispered at least 3 times. "yes, we started dating when you had purple hair, I would still love you now if you dyed it back like that." I answered 3 times. I knew sometimes Dougie would distract himself from worrying by asking random questions.

"do you think we should get a new dog? Or reptile?" Dougie asked, nuzzling into my chest. "I don't know Doug, its up to you. Do we have room for another reptile?" I replied, giving him something to think about, knowing that around this time Tom and Danny were probably in hospital, getting the cast off. "no, I don't think so. But, we could get another dog, that'll be cool." Dougie shook his head, falling silent again, "do you think that Toms alright at the moment?" there we go, the question I was waiting for. "yeah, I recon so. Dannys there, I'm sure he'll be okay."I smiled, trying to give Dougie a bit of reassurance, he had been calm all morning, I didn't want that to be shattered. "you sure? He doesn't like people touching him, and they've got to touch him to get the cast and stitches off." Dougie tensed a little, I started to run my fingers over his back, trying to relax him again.

"yeah, he'll be fine, I'm sure. Danny will keep him from harm, Tom may not let him hold him during the day much, but he does during the night, and when he's scared." That was one thing I had noticed, on a normal day, while hanging around the house, Tom didn't look comfortable, but let Danny touch him. If he felt ashamed or guilt, he wouldn't let him or anyone touch him, and a lot of the time wouldn't even stay in the same room. When Tom got scared, or upset, or was in pain, he cuddled up to Danny and couldn't let him go. But at night, Tom let Danny hold him fine, cuddled almost straight away, without a seconds hesitance. It was strange, how the time of day and his mood effected Toms level of tolerance to touch and comfort. "yeah, good point. I hope Danny can keep him calm, so the hospital don't think he's crazy...even though he is a little bit." Dougie sighed and broke my heart a little bit. He knew Tom was a little bit crazy, which wasn't exactly far off the mark, Tom wasn't crazy, he was...troubled. Very troubled, and needed our help to get better. He just needed love, attention and a lot of patience, and our help, to build up his confidence.

I managed to keep Dougie calm and distracted from worrying too much for another 2 hours, then finally got a phone call from Danny. "how is he?" I asked, doubtfully putting the phone on speaker so we could both hear. "Toms...alright, I guess. The stitches are out and the cast is off." Danny sighed, he didn't sound that happy, something had happened. "you don't sound alright, what happened?" I regretted putting the phone on speaker as soon as Dougie tensed up, whimpering into my chest. "Tom didn't particularly like the doctors touching him, so he panicked a little. They've given him something, to calm him down. Its...he's, drowsy, and not exactly with it, but not completely knocked out." Danny whimpered too. "ouch, but, he'll be okay, right?" Dougie piped up, his little hands tightening their grip on me. "yeah, I think so. Its just a matter of waiting for the drug to wear off I think." Danny answered, I heard his car start up.

"want us to come round?" I quickly said before he shut the phone off. "no, we'll be fine. I'm taking him to mine, he'll be alright there." Danny sighed again, and cut off the call before I could ask if he would be alright.