xxPUDDxx - thanks! i found it quite a challenge to write Tom's POV if i'm honest, i'm glad you enjoyed it! :)

494 Harrys POV

As it started to lightly spit with rain, we decided between us that it was still alright to still be outside. Tom liked the rain anyway, and it wasn't heavy enough to cause him a cold, so Danny wasn't worried it...much. "Danny, will you stop chewing off your fingers?! Tom is fine, and if it starts raining harder, we'll go inside and get him dried and changed, alright? So stop it, sit down and relax!" I grabbed his hand and pulled it away from his mouth before he broke the skin. "sorry, I can't help it. I'm worried, as usual." Danny sighed, moving his arms to cross across his chest.

"I know, just breathe alright? Toms not going to spontaneously combust and rip himself to pieces. He's going to be just fine, he doesn't need constant supervision where you're not even a foot away." I encouraged, knowing sort of how Danny felt. Way back when we all moved in with each other, when Dougie had only been 15, I spent most of my time running around looking after him, making sure he was okay. Inside my head, I had known that he was okay, and that he could look after himself and didn't need me with him every second of the day, but I felt like he needed it. It was like, if I wasn't there, if something did happen, and I wasn't there, I wouldn't forgive myself. Even now, when Dougie was a happy 24 year old guy, who could look after himself, I still couldn't let myself think that, my head still shouted at me that he was 15, that he needed to be looked after.

So, when Dougie came back over, I pulled him straight into my arms, holding him tight. "hey welcome back." I smiled, kissing his head. "hey, well, that was fruitful. Got no speech at all." Dougie sighed, laying on my shoulder. "ah well, you tried Dougs, thats all that matters." I kissed his head again, rubbing his back gently. "you'll get there Dougs, it takes a little time. Thats all." Danny sighed, sitting on the table next to Carrie. Tom carried on crawling around the garden, he didn't even seem to notice that no-one else was with him. He just carried on crawling around the floor, getting his hands and pyjama bottoms filthy, he seemed completely fine with it, like he was crawling around the floor inside. So we left him to it, letting him crawl around after Marvin, trying to catch him, never managing to get the fluff ball.

Tom stayed at it for hours, getting up and running at one point, stopping when the rain got harder, looking up at the sky to watch the drops fall from the sky. "right, time to go inside Tommy, before you catch a cold!" Danny ran over at the speed of light, pulling Tom inside, much to his whining. Though, he stopped within minutes, letting Danny get him dried and changed into clean pyjama bottoms, and a tshirt, considering it was still a hot day. Almost automatically, Danny was towel drying his hair, making it stick up at the weirdest angles I had ever seen before it was smoothed down again. "there you go, all warm and dry!" Danny smiled, pulling Tom downstairs to a sofa, making him rest him against his chest.

Finally, Danny looked relaxed again, he hadn't relaxed at all outside, he was only relaxed when he was in close proximity to his boyfriend. Said boyfriend was looking sleepy actually, Toms eyes were closing, his head lolling up and down as he forced himself to stay awake. "aw, go to sleep Tommy, we'll all still be here." Danny smiled, kissing Toms hair, moving him round and rubbing his back gently until he was asleep.

495 Toms POV

A whining sound came out of me as I felt something moving, and the warmth around me moving. "shh Tommy, we're just going to bed, go back to sleep." Danny said, in the same voice he always used when I was sleepy. The warmth went away as my back rested on something soft, another soft thing resting on top of me. Things rustled somewhere, before the thing on top of me moved, warmth touching me as warm things came around me. "there we go, comfy again, go back to sleep Tommy, its bed time now." Dannys lips pressed to my cheek, his head staying next to mine.

He started making funny noises soon, like the ones he always made when it was his bed time. I opened my eyes to see our room, Dannys arms on my middle, and the orange fluffy thing I was following today was here! It walked up my legs and sat on my middle too, below Dannys arms. I picked it up and hugged it, it was soft too, and really warm. But it didn't like it and ran away, I wanted to cuddle it! I got out of Dannys arms and followed the orange thing, going downstairs after it, trying to grab it so I could cuddle.

It went outside, through a little door that Danny said I couldn't go through, but he never said anything about going through the big door... that one I could go through, so I did, following the little orange thing through the garden, the green floor was cold on my sock covered feet. It didn't feel nice. The orange thing didn't care though, it just walked around more, on all four of its feet. Why did it do that? It wasn't easier, I did it earlier, it hurt after a while! It was a silly thing, for walking on all four of its feet. Maybe if I showed it to walk on two it would be happier and would want a cuddle!

I dropped to the floor, grabbing it, it was fuzzy in my hands, and really, really soft and warm. But it ran out of my hands before I could do anything! It went through the bushes, but the yellow haired boy told me to not go through the bushes... but the orange fluff ball needed to be told it was easier to walk on two feet! I ran through the bushes, needing to do something to help it! "stop! I need to help you!" I called, running across the big floor, into a bit filled with trees. Dark trees. I slowed down, it was dark here...really dark. I didn't like it much, the dark wasn't nice. And the orange fluff ball had gone! Where had it gone?!

"fluffy! Fluffy!" I called for it, I didn't know if it had a name, maybe it liked being called fluffy? "fluffy where are you?" I asked, walking through the trees, getting scared. It was too dark here, things were breaking under my feet and it hurt, I heard noises of things too, I had no idea what they were. "fluffy come back!" I wanted to go home, but I didn't know where I was, it all looked the same. It was so dark, I couldn't see where I was, it was dark and blurry. I didn't like it! I wanted to go home now, and go to bed, and hug Danny, he was warm and safe. It was cold and scary out here!

"fluffy!" I called again, standing by a tree, feeling my body start to shake. It was so cold out here! I had been hot earlier, but now it was cold. It was so cold! "going home fluffy!" I walked back the way I think I came from, but I never got anywhere near the green open floor! All there was was trees! Loads and loads of trees! So many trees! So many dark and cold trees! I really didn't like it here anymore! Why couldn't I get out? Why were there so many trees? Why couldn't I go home?!

I felt water start to fall from my eyes over my cheeks, my chest going thump thump again, I was lost! I didn't want to be lost, I wanted to go home!