the second part to Too Close For Comfort has been uploaded if anybody is interested!
462 Harrys POV
Dannys head smacked against the pillow as he groaned loudly, refusing to get up. "come on! Its two in the afternoon, come on!" I encouraged, shaking his shoulder. "no! We're tired!" Danny whined, turning over and laying his head on Toms shoulder. He himself was still laying down, hiding his face with his hands. "how are you still tired? You've been in bed for hours!" Dougie laughed, sounding like he didn't believe them. "cause we are! Now shh!" Danny giggled a little, wrapping his arms around Toms body.
"but Danny, Tom needs his vitamins." It was true, Tom should have taken his 2-hourly dose of medication about three times by now. We called the medication 'vitamins' in case Tom thought the worst of his new medication. But, we hated lying to him, but what else could we say that was make sure that Tom would take it? We didn't want to leave Tom without anything, in case he would get out of control, or worse in any way, so we had to give it to him, even though we didn't really want to. "sh*t...fine, I'll be back in a minute Tom. Just lay here with Dougie for a few minutes." Danny swore, kissing Toms cheek before getting up and wandering downstairs with me.
"thanks for reminding me, I completely forgot. I got caught up with cuddling and sleeping..." Danny trailed off, getting the blister pack out of the cupboard, chewing on his lip. "doesn't matter. We've got it now, so its fine." I shrugged, trying to stop him feeling guilty. "yeah, still should have remembered. Oh well, might explain why he didn't want to get out of bed." Danny sighed, grabbing a bottle of water. "yeah probably... how are you holding up by the way? I haven't had the chance to ask." I asked, sitting up on the counter.
"alright." Danny jumped up with me, he seemed quite happy, though I still worried that it was sometimes an act to stop Tom from worried. "you sure?" I nudged his shoulder. "yeah, I'm alright. I'm alright as long as Tom is. And he's alright, he's happy, eating, laughing...thats all the matters really. And I have a few things up my sleeve to help him." Danny smiled, hopping off the counter, starting to wander upstairs. "but Toms not you, and he's ill, we don't know he's actually happy, or whats going on in his head apart from the things he says." I sighed, because we didn't really know what Tom was thinking, we just knew that he laughed and ate. "he's happy, I can tell. Its in his eyes, he's happy. And I'm happy too, I have my boyfriend back, who smiles, laughs, eats and hugs again. He's sleeping in a bed again, and right now, he's still in bed, cuddling with Dougie, I didn't think he was going to do anything like that for years, but he is, and it makes me so happy to see it, thats all that matters to me." Danny gave a little smile, effectively killing the conversation by going back into the bedroom.
We found Tom and Dougie in the bed still, curled up under the duvet. Dougie had decided to cuddle up with Tom, his head pressed into the older blondes chest, his tiny hands holding Toms arms like he was trying to make sure Tom stayed where he was. I couldn't blame him, Tom actually had his arms around him, not holding on tightly, but he still had his arms around him, which was a start. "hey Tommy, we're back." Danny crawled onto the bed again, getting in behind Tom, wrapping his arms around him. "mmm." Tom mumbled, half turning his head from leaning on Dougies.
"sit up a minute, you need to take you're vitamins." Danny sighed, making Tom sit up. "no, wanna sleep!" Tom whined, leaning on Dannys shoulder. "I know, but you've got to take this, it'll make you feel better, I promise." Danny held out his hand, holding the tablet in his hand. "go on Tom. Take it." Dougie encouraged, holding onto my hands and looking up pleadingly at Tom. So he did, swallowing down his medication before curling up to Danny again. "good boy, come here." Danny kissed Toms head, hugging the small blonde.
463 Dougies POV
After about half an hour, Tom seemed to perk up a little, deciding that he felt like moving from the bed, pulling Danny upstairs, going to the room where Tom kept some of his toys. Mostly the ones he didn't play with much, but liked to keep them out, just in case. "what do you want in here Tom?" Danny asked, stroking Toms side with his fingers. "army men." Tom mumbled, toddling over to his army men, dropping to his skinny knees with a crunch that really didn't sound healthy. "want to go play with him Doug?" Harry asked, making the same motions on my side that Danny had been doing.
"no, I'm alright." I shook my head, looking at Danny as he dropped next to Tom, playing with soldiers too. He was a bit hesitant on what to do, but seemed to get used to it, carefully moving the pieces as Tom did. "shall we leave them to it then?" Harry suggested. "yeah, okay." I took him downstairs, wanting to know what Danny had said to Harry when he talked to him. "Dannys fine, he's happy as long as Tom is fine. He's fine, honestly, he is." Harry explained, seemingly knowing exactly what I wanted before I said it.
"are you sure? I know he looks fine, but what if he's secretly worrying himself a lot over Tom?" I worried, biting at my lip. "Doug, Danny always worries over Tom, he wouldn't be himself if he didn't. They're fine, I promise." Harry pulled my lip from between my teeth, hugging me in the way he always did when he knew that I was worried. I mean, I knew that Danny was sort of okay, because he had cheered up massively since coming home, but, Tom was so different I was scared that he would make Danny worry so much he would snap. "he better be okay, I just want them to be okay, be happy and normal again." I whispered, wanting nothing more than to see Tom and Danny normal again. "they're already happy Dougie, I'm sure they're happy right now." Harry smiled, hugging me for hours until Danny appeared in the door way.
"just running down for some food, Toms decided he's hungry, and he needs his medication." Danny explained, bouncing into the kitchen. "is he alright on his own?" I asked, Danny never left Tom by himself usually. "yeah, he's alright. Carries with him, its all good." Danny smiled, going to run back up the stairs. "what do you have planned? You mentioned it earlier, and didn't explain." Harry stopped him. "I have something planned for tonight, that I've talked to Carrie about, that should hopefully feed him up some more, and make his brain work some more." Danny smiled like he did when he had a great idea, starting to explain his plan, and it was brilliant. "that is genius, completely genius, and it could help, help a lot actually." Harry commented, making Danny grin. "thanks, took us a while to work out, I can tell you. We had a late one that night." Danny laughed a little, "well, I better get back upstairs. See you later!" he bounced up the stairs, and didn't come back down again until the early evening, this time followed by Tom.
They ran straight through the room, laughing hysterically, Tom in the lead, Danny clearly slowing down so he was in front. "I'm going to catch you Tommy! The tickle monsters coming!" Danny giggled, Tom squealed loudly, almost tripping himself up as he legged it out the room. Danny pelted off after him, laughing manically like an evil villain. "don't tickle me no!" Tom squeaked, managing to dodge Danny and run back through the front room.