'Cause lately I've been craving more | Boy's Dormitory | Doc

[Doc Dearborn]

He had to smile gratefully as Hestia helped settle his hair (Rhi didn't need to formulate any sorts of pictures), a smile that only grew at her laughter. He'd always loved her laugh, since the first time he'd gotten it out of her with a lame joke all those years ago. Who would've thought then, on his first trainride to Hogwarts, he'd one day be loved by the girl with the blue eyes too endearingly big for her face and the blunt words that even then had caught him off guard in the best way. "You'll get an earful of it and be all caught up with her feelings on the issue, I promise," Doc replied. She followed him out of his bed, surprising him with a tight hug around his middle. It brought a tender smile to the bloke's face - who even though smiles had been hard to come by lately, he couldn't keep one from showing now - as he hugged her back, nuzzling into her soft hair. He was somehow in even less of a hurry to leave the burrow by the time she spoke.

"Only you could make that sound like a good thing, caridad," Doc said, giving her hand a squeeze as he laughed. "About to get my head chewed off by a diminutive invalid, I am - so feeling the love here." He was only teasing, of course, and after a slight tickle war, the two were on their way to the Hospital Wing. Needless to say, Rhiannon was overjoyed to see them and hear their progress. A tossing-of-a-pillow-at-his-head was deemed the proper christening of the news by the little one, and by the end of the visit the three had convinced dear ol' Poppy that it really was in Rhi's best interest to take a few more days in bed. And if Doc had anything to say about it, the newly official couple would be spending a few days in bed themselves.