xxPUDDxx - hmmm could be :P
274 Harrys POV
The whole morning I had being playing my own personal game of 'keep Dougie distracted so he doesn't think anything is wrong' and it had been working pretty well. I had gotten a text earlier on from Danny saying he was going to spend today with Tom, so we were staying at home and leaving them to do whatever it was they were doing. I just hoped that nothing too bad had happened at the theatre, or when they got home.
Anyway, at the moment, Dougie was happily watching a random episode from the Life In Cold Blood series (from one of the vast collection of David Attenborough DVDs we owned) while feeding one of his bearded dragons, named Riddecka (we had thought it was a boy, turned out it was a girl, so it was called Riddick before Riddecka). This wasn't an unusual sight around here, because I was used to seeing this particular series of David Attenborough, and Dougie to be having one of his moments with his lizards while watching this series, because it seemed to fit in quite well. I myself was playing with our dog Flea, he hadn't been getting much attention from us recently, so I think he appreciated it a lot.
Flea was laying on top of my lap, letting me scratch his ears and generally make a fuss of him. He barked happily and licked my face as I gave him another treat, just for simply letting me play with him. "don't give him too many! He'll get fat!" Dougie warned with a laugh, putting down Riddecka in her cage, pausing his DVD, though he could already quote it, word for word. "no he won't, its only a special treat today, cause we haven't spent much time with him, isn't it boy?" I laughed, getting another face lick from the chocolate brown Labrador.
Dougie laughed as well, making me grin, I missed being able to hear him laugh, seeing him so relaxed and happy, I think we would have to take a few more days to ourselves like this! Flea took my momentary pause to run off outside, Dougie soon replacing his spot on my lap. "I've missed things like this." He whispered, wiping my cheek with his sleeve. "so have I, I've missed them so much." I sighed, resting our heads together, "do you want to stay home tomorrow as well? Or go out somewhere together? Maybe see George or some other family." I suggested, reaching out and taking Dougies hand, entwining our fingers together. "yeah, I would like that. Could we do that?" Dougie smiled, I nodded. "of course we can. Anywhere special you would like to go?" I asked, quite proud of myself for distracting Dougie from thinking about yesterday.
"no, anywhere...wait, do you think Tom and Danny got on alright at the theatre last night?" Dougie broke a bit of my pride, at least he didn't sound too worried. "yeah, I recon they're alright. We would have heard something by now if they weren't." I lied a little, knowing that Danny probably would have tried to keep things under control by himself, like he did at the last hospital trip, which he managed quite well. "you sure?" Dougie bit his lip, leaning on my shoulder a little more, his hand tightening around my own. "yeah, I'm sure. It'll be fine." I lied again, hoping it was alright over the road, but still a little wary, you never knew when something could trigger either Tom or Danny, so I hoped they were still okay, and not falling apart.
275 Dougies POV
The rest of the day was spent cuddled up on the front room floor, watching David Attenborough DVDs, glancing out the window 100 times a minute to see either Dannys car or him and Tom walking past for whatever reason. Luckily, around 4ish, I did see Dannys car drive past, and from the quick 2 second glance I got of them, Tom and Danny looked okay. So my nerves calmed down a little, and I went back to concentrating on the TV. And so we sat there, all day, only moving to either get food, to play with Flea, or to change the DVD. To be honest, I couldn't have really asked for anything more right now, so I fell asleep happily around 11, curled up in Harrys arms, feeling safe and loved, and most importantly, calm.
Waking up I still felt the same calm, though now I wasn't curled up in Harrys arms, now I was curled up in blankets without anyone else there. "Harry? Where have you gone now?" I called out, sitting up and yawning. "go back to bed Dougs, breakfast isn't ready yet!" Harry answered with a shout from downstairs. "okay thanks!" I flopped against the bed, feeling too tired to even move, the thought of a hopefully large breakfast on my mind.
I dozed for a few more minutes, and when I woke up properly, I wasn't disappointed, I was finally called downstairs, I found a fry up on the table. "oh my god, you are such a legend." I grinned, leaning up on tip toes to gently kiss Harry as thanks. "thank you, just thought you would like a big breakfast, you're looking skinny." Harry ran his hands over my back, poking my side. "I'm always skinny, you know that." I squeaked as his finger poked me, playfully hitting his chest. "I know, doesn't stop me worrying about you, go eat for me, okay?" Harry kissed my forehead and sat us down on the kitchen chairs, the both of us tucking in to our huge breakfast. I happily finished it within minutes, thinking that if today went on like this, then we would be having a great day like yesterday.
"so, are we going out today or are we going to stay in?" I asked around a sausage, feeding the other half to Flea as he looked up at me pleadingly. "its up to you Dougs. Whatever makes you happy." Harry answered, he always let me choose where we went, I don't know why, he just always let me choose. "cool, how about spending the day down at the park with Flea? He needs a good run around instead of just being walked." I suggested, Flea barked in agreement. "alright, we'll give Flea a run around for a while." Harry smiled, putting Fleas collar on, waiting for me to get my shoes on before walking, hand in hand with me down to the park, like we did when we first got him as a puppy.
"does this remind you of when we first got him and we took him for his first walk down here?" I asked, throwing a ball for Flea, laughing as he bounded over to it so excitedly he almost fell over. "yeah, hard to believe that was 4 years ago now." Harry rubbed my side, throwing the ball again as Flea ran back. "I know, everything was so much happier then." I sighed, wishing we could just go back to how happy we were then. Tom and Danny had been together for a year, Tom was over his eating disorder and happy, me and Harry had gotten engaged only a few weeks beforehand, everything had been so much easier then, I just wished it could go back to that. "we'll go back to that someday Dougs, I promise. We'll get back to it someday."