Closed Wanted: Cuddles

[Hinata Edogawa]

Hinata was in class and was never in the Student Lounge for this day.

 

[Eurydice Nightray]

Eurydice missed home. She was so tired and she had gone back to her room for a nap but she didn’t feel comfortable enough to fall asleep. She tossed and turned but nothing worked and now she just felt miserable. She tried the Common Room too, but even the fire and the couches felt too stifling. It was too warm and too cold and she hated it. It’s been hard couple of weeks between Heta Omega, her ruined tarot cards, and the awful Potions class she had. It just felt like she couldn’t catch a break. Now she just wanted to go home and curl up against her dad or her mum but she was too far from home and this was just awful. Giving up on the Hufflepuff Common Room, she made her way to the Student Lounge since that was her last chance for a place to nap in. It was then that she saw one of her older brothers. “Elio-nii,” she whined rather pitifully as she approached him.​

 

[Elio Boneheart]

The semester was certainly running by faster than he would have liked and if it wasn’t for the fact he was now in his NEWTs year he might even have tried to sleep through most of the experience. He thought he was just tired all the time, maybe a little burned out, but he supposed that happened from time to time when people just didn’t know how to relax and he was definitely one of those. He lounged on one of the couches in the student lounge, flipping through one of his textbooks casually and occasionally glancing out a window to check the passing time to know when he needed to meet up with Mikael, they had different schedules this year now with Kael’s added patrols, so it was a little harder to see where things might be heading for timings. The quiet hum of students coming and going wasn’t too distracting—he’d always liked the vibe here. His ears perked up at the familiar sound of Mikael’s sisters voice, though the whine in her tone immediately caught his attention.

Looking up, he spotted Eury approaching and his brow furrowed slightly with concern. “Hey Princess,” he said gently, putting the book aside as he sat up a little straighter. “What’s wrong?” Her pitiful expression tugged at his heart and he opened his arms in an unspoken invitation for her to come closer. He’d known Eury for years even before he’d started dating Mikael, so this wasn’t exactly a new thing. “C’mere,” he said softly. “You look like you’re about to collapse, long day?” He hated seeing her upset, and it would be just his luck that Mikael would walk in now and assume he had done something to upset her.​

 

[Eurydice Nightray]

This was just awful. Eurydice hadn't even felt this miserable last year, and it had been her first away from home and her parents and family. Sure Jai-nii and Tizi-nii hadn't lived at home for years now and Kael-nii had been going to Hogwarts for years, but she had been home and her oldest brothers could visit when she wrote and she could go to her parents when things were just not great. But she didn't have that here. Her room had people she barely knew with only one she could barely call a friend. Her stuff was getting destroyed. Classes felt awful. And sometimes it felt like she was scared to walk around the castle. Sure some of her cousins and aunts and uncles could be mean at home, but she'd never felt scared to walk alone. Here... sometimes it felt like too much and she just didn't feel right at all.

Eurydice almost teared up as Elio-nii called her Princess and opened his arms to her. She scurried over to him and immediately crawled in to snuggle against him with his arms around her. She almost wanted to tell him how awful this school was. How she thinks she's scared of seeing snakes now. And how her favorite set of tarot cards were now ruined. That she hated the professors. And especially what's been going on with the Slytherin girls from tug-of-war. She could almost tell him. But she didn't want to face how disappointed he would be with her. And then Kael-nii would have to know. And Eury definitely didn't want Kael-nii to be disappointed with her and think she was weak. "I miss Daddy," she whimpered. "I want a blanket," she felt cold and warm and clammy and it was awful and she just wanted to be at home in her bed but cuddling with Elio-nii was close enough.​

 

[Elio Boneheart]

Elio tightened his arms around Eury the moment she snuggled against him, resting his chin lightly on top of her head. He could feel how tense she was and hit made his chest hurt. She wasn’t just upset—she was really struggling. He rubbed soothing circles on her back, hoping it might help a little, but he knew he wasn’t who she really wanted, so it wasn’t going to help as much as he would like. “Hey, it’s okay, I’ve got you,” he didn’t know what was going on, but he didn’t like it. This wasn’t like the Eury he knew from before this school, and honestly it was only adding fuel to the fire inside of him about how messed up the professors in this school were that she was feeling like this. Ultimately they were here to teach and to help students when they needed it, Eury clearly needed it and this was clear evidence of that.

Hearing that she missed her parents made him sad and wasn’t really something he’d had to deal with at her age. He’d been homeschooled, so Bryce and his mum had always been around, and though he’d started missing them last year, he was grown up enough that it hardly mattered. “You’re not alone, I’m here and so is Kael, and you have Rose and Eli and Hina, and Jonah and Yuri, they’re all here to support you too, Conan is also here, but I understand your hesitation with him,” he knew it wasn’t the same, but he didn’t know what else to suggest, because he truly didn’t know. “Has something happened? Are you okay?”

When she asked about a blanket, he pulled his wand out of his pocket to summon one, placing it over her when it arrived. “Warm enough?”​