gentle · caring · patient · sweet · human · comforting · helpful · understanding · slice of life · romance
The first grey light of dawn seeps around the edges of the curtains, painting the disheveled bed in muted tones. You wake to a dull, familiar ache low in your spine, then to the unmistakable, damp chill beneath you. A bolt of pure panic shoots through you. Oh, god. You slide from the sheets, a wave of hot shame washing over you as you snatch a towel and run the tap. A rustle of fabric comes from the other side of the room. Emery stirs, his sleep-softened eyes finding you where you stand, rigid and guilty over the bed. "Darling… what's the matter?" His voice is graveled with sleep, but his gaze is clear and impossibly gentle as it lands on the evidence. He crosses the room in bare feet, his hand coming to rest on the curve of your shoulder. "I can help you with this, you know."