Okay so I wanted to write this bc Louis got his wisdom teeth out today and I wanted to write about what it would be like if Harry took care of him.

Edit: this was written a while ago but I've only now uploaded it

3rd person P.O.V

Harry was leaning against his Range Rover as he waited for the doctors to bring his loopy husband out of surgery, he was supposed to wait inside but it was extremely crowded so the doctor offered to bring Louis out to the car when he was okay to leave.

Soon enough he saw a doctor helping a very high looking Louis walk out of the building, Louis had the gauze in his mouth making it open slightly. "He's from that band! One direction!" Louis mumbled around the gauze as soon as he saw Harry by the car. "Oh wait." He squinted his eyes slightly. "He's my husband!"

"Hello Mr Tomlinson." The doctor greeted Harry while trying not to laugh before shaking his hand while also trying to keep Louis steady. "Louis' surgery went well but I've got him on some pain medication for when the anaesthetic starts to wear off and then when the pain becomes more bearable you can switch to normal pain meds like ibuprofen and paracetamol."

Harry nodded as he reached his arm over to Louis and wrapped it around his waist as Louis giggled a little. "The swelling should start to go down after 48 hours but just makes sure he gets as much rest as he can the next few days that will help with the recovery." The doctor said as he handed Harry a paper bag with pain meds in. "He also needs to keep his gauze in for usually around 3-4 hours to stop the bleeding. He's already tried to take it out twice so you might want to keep an eye on him." Harry nodded as he heard Louis giggle again beside him, the doctor had an amused look on his face before continuing. "So you should check the gauze every twenty minutes or so and you can change it if you need to but he can't sleep with it in. And you can't really control this but try and make sure he doesn't spit or gargle for a little while."

"Okay, got it." Harry smiled and shook the doctors hand once more before he told Harry what Louis could and couldn't eat or drink before he opened their car door. "Cmon Lou, let's go home." Harry whispered as Louis was tugging on Harry's hair.

Surprisingly Louis was easy to get into the car but it was when Harry tried to put his seatbelt on that things got difficult. "Louis, I need to put your seatbelt on. Sit back." Harry said as he tried to get Louis' hands away from the buckle.

"Where are you taking me?" Louis mumbled as the gauze was in his mouth.

"Home, love. We're gonna go home." Harry said softly as he looked into Louis' blue eyes. "So can you let go of the seatbelt so I can make sure we don't have a car crash and you get hurt."

Louis eyes widened. "I had a car crash?!" He asked as he gauze slipped out of his mouth slightly, Harry carefully pushed it back so it was where it was supposed to be before shaking his head.

"No, love, you weren't in a car crash but you had your wisdom teeth out."

"Me teef?" Louis asked as his hand went to go touch his mouth.

"No, don't do that." Harry quickly grabbed his wrist and placed his hand back in his lap. "You can't touch your mouth."

"They took me teef! Harreh he has my teef, get them back." Louis pointed to the doctor who was watching with an amused face behind Harry.

"Lou, it's fine. Just don't talk too much it." Harry said as he tried to calm Louis by gently rubbing his thumb in circles on Louis' thigh, it seemed to work because in the next minute Louis had calmed down and just looked a little spaced out as he looked around.

Harry managed to get his seatbelt on easily before closing the car door. "Thank you." Harry breathed out as he faced the doctor.

"No problem Mr Tomlinson. Good luck with him." He chuckled as he pointed to Louis.

"I need it." Harry joked before he walked round to the drivers side and got in, he waved to the doctor before he started the car and pulled out of the parking space. "You okay, Lou?"

"Mhm."

Harry looked over at him briefly to see him trying to touch his mouth, Harry took his left hand off the steering wheel and gently smacked Louis' hand making the blue eyed boy pull it away. "No." Harry said sternly.

"But I can't feel ma face." Louis slurred as he tried to touch his face again, only to be slapped away by Harry's hand.

"That's normal, it's just numb, love."

"Harreh, I can't feel ma thongue!" Louis exclaimed. "They took it, they took it I don't haf it anymore I can't feel it." His eyes started to get teary and Harry immediately wished he got someone else to drive them so he could sit with Louis.

"Louis your tongue is still there, it's just numb." Harry said as Louis slowly shook his head.

"No, ith gone."

"Lou don't put your fingers in your mouth." Harry said once he saw from the corner of his eye that the older lad was trying to feel if his tongue was still there.

Louis tilted his head down as if he was trying to look down at his mouth, as he did one of the gauze fell out and Louis' eyes widened more as in his hazy state the bloody cotton looked like a tongue.

"Ma tongue fell out!" He mumbled as he stared at the bloody gauze in his lap and more tears formed in his eyes.

"Fuck." Harry muttered under his breath as he pulled over to the side of the road before looking at Louis and stopping him from once agin trying to take the other gauze out or touching his mouth. "Love, it's not your tongue, it's just some cotton that catches the blood in your mouth and you need to keep it in your mouth." Harry said as he picked up the gauze and carefully put it back in Louis' mouth. "Now keep it in there."

"Not my tongue?"

"No. Your tongue is still in your mouth."

Louis smiled at that and nodded as Harry breathed out a sigh of relief before staring the car again, they still had around 15 minutes before they got home, and boy was it going to be a long drive.

"Harreh?" Louis spoke up again from where he was sat.

Harry hummed and looked over at Louis to see him touching his cheeks, he sighed and reached over to pull his hands away.

"Ma cheeks are so fat." He mumbled, the gauze slipping out his mouth again but he pushed it back in.

"It's just swollen, love, it'll go down."

"I look like a chipmunk. Gimme your phone."

Harry just pointed to his phone that was sat in the console in between them. Louis reached to grab it before he looked at it confused. "It's locked."

"Do the password." Harry said as he kept his eyes on the road.

"What ith it?" Louis asked even though Harry was sure he knew.

"568429"

Louis chuckled as he typed it in and then he found the camera app and started taking a load of pictures and Harry could hear the click every few seconds and could see Louis in the corner of his eye.

"I'm gonna call Lottie." Louis said.

"Love, wait til we get home please." Harry said, not really wanting Louis to call anyone while they're in the car and he's driving so he can't stop Louis from doing something stupid.

"No." Louis huffed.

"Lou, please, just wait til we get home then you can call her, okay?"

"No."

"Louis. Wait until we get home." Harry said more stern this time that Louis put his phone back where he got it from and leant back in his seat with a mad face.

It was quiet in the car for a few more minutes until Louis spoke again. "Can we go to McDonald's?"

"Okay, what do you want?" Harry asked as he made a turn so he would head towards McDonald's.

"Milkshake."

"Love, are you sure? Last time you didn't like it." Harry said remembering when they went to McDonald's with James and the boys in carpool karaoke.

"I want a fucking milkshake." Louis said as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"Okay." Harry breathed out as he pulled up into the drive thru.

They got through quickly enough and Louis had his milkshake, he took one sip of it before looking at Harry with furrowed brows. "I don't like it."

Harry chuckled a little as he took the milkshake from his husband and took a sip before placing it in the cup holder.

"I have 28 teeth." Louis randomly said after a few minutes of silence.

"Huh?"

"I have 28 teeth."

Harry glanced over at his husband to see his eyes tearing up. "Are you crying?" He was trying not to laugh but it was incredibly difficult.

"Stop laughing Harreh, it's emotional." Louis slurred as he turned his head away from Harry. The gauze was making it hard to understand but Harry knew what he was saying.

"Sorry, love." Harry coughed to cover up his laugh. "Why is it emotional?"

"Because I haf 28 teeth!" He was almost yelling at this point and he looked like he was about to cry. "28! My number! Our number!"

Harry just nodded as he was afraid he would laugh if he opened his mouth. His husband is sat next to him almost crying because he has 28 teeth.

Louis somehow stayed quiet for the rest of the drive until they got home. "Cmon Lou, let's get inside." Harry said as he got out the car and walk round to Louis who was struggling to get his seatbelt off.

Harry helped him and took his hand as he stood up and walked into their house. "Harreh can I take this out now?" Louis asked as he pointed to his mouth, probably referring to the gauze.

"Alright, love, we'll see if it's stopped bleeding. If not we have to put a new one in." Harry said as Louis nodded and turned to face him.

Louis spit the gauze out as Harry made sure he wasn't bleeding. "It is still bleeding, not much but a little."

Harry grabbed the fresh gauzes he had and put them into Louis' mouth. "Bite down gently." Suddenly he pulled his fingers away from his husbands mouth. "Ow! The gauze not my fingers."

Louis just chuckled and sat down on the bar stool with the fresh gauze in his mouth. They went and sat in the living room as Harry turned on the tv and let Louis pick a film to watch.

"Do you want a smoothie?" Harry asked after half and hour as he remembered Louis only had one small sip of the milkshake when they were in the car. Louis nodded so Harry made one and gave it to Louis after he took gauzes out. "You're not allowed to use a straw though, something about the healing." Harry said as he passed a pouting Louis the drink.

Once Louis was done they walked back into the living room and sat down on the couch, he curled his body into Harry's side while also avoiding resting his cheek on his shoulder.

They sat there for around half an hour before Louis started to fidget more. "Love, are you alright?" Harry asked as he looked down at his husband knowing he had been quiet for a little while now.

"Kinda hurts." Louis mumbled like a child would as Harry gently kissed his temple and stood up. He walked back into the living room with the paper bag of medication and a water bottle.

"Here take this." Harry handed Louis two pills and held the water for him until he needed it.

Once Louis swallowed the pills he handed the bottle back to Harry who placed it on the coffee table in front of them.

Harry wrapped his arms around his husband and made sure he was comfortable before he turned his attention back to the tv.

The anaesthetic was wearing off quickly and so Louis was less loopy than he was around 3 or 4 hours ago, he was mainly just tired now.

Louis was still slightly loopy for the rest of the night and Harry recorded some pretty weird and funny videos of him while they were on the couch, he was mainly babbling rubbish and even said he would leave Harry for Tom holland. He said something about Spider-Man turns him on.

And if Harry ended up sending the videos to family and a few friends then Louis didn't have to know.

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It was the morning after Louis got his wisdom teeth out and he struggled to get to sleep last night as he wasn't allowed to sleep on his side because his cheek would be on the pillow and it caused a lot of pain.

Harry's stayed up with him until he was able to fall asleep which was around 3am, apparently Louis isn't very good at falling asleep on his back. But he was secretly glad that Harry stayed up with him even though he told him he could just go to bed. But of course Harry being Harry said he would stay awake until he was sure Louis was asleep.

"Morning, love." Harry's deep voice filled the room as he sat up from where he was laying down next to Louis. "How you feeling?"

"In pain." Louis mumbled as he sat up. "My cheeks are still swollen too." He poked them before he winced in pain.

"The doctor said that pressing a cold cloth to your face can help the swelling go down." Harry said as he stood up and grabbed a pair of sweatpants from the floor, he wasn't sure if they were his own or Louis', he didn't really care either.

"I'll look dumb." Louis mumbled quietly as he crossed his arms over his chest.

"Do you want the swelling to go down or not?"

Louis pouted as he stared down at the duvet, not saying anything for a few minutes before mumbling a quiet, "Yes."

"Then wait here." Harry walked into their en-suite bathroom and grabbed a wash cloth before running it under the tap. He walked back into their bedroom and sat down beside Louis, he gently pressed the cold cloth against Louis' cheeks for a few minutes before Louis complained about being too cold so Harry took the cloth away.

"Okay, I'm going to get you breakfast." Harry kissed Louis' forehead before walking out the room.

He returned a few minutes later with a bowl and cup in his hands, he walked over to Louis and sat down. "Here, love, you can't eat many normal foods for a little while, so I got you some yoghurt and a smoothie, and we can have snacks later on if you get hungry." Harry handed Louis the bowl and placed the cup onto the bedside table.

"Thanks." Louis spoke quietly as he smiled a little at his husband.

"You're going to be resting a lot this next week." Harry spoke as he sat down.

"I know, I'm gonna be bored."

"Not if I can keep you company." Harry smiled as he moved closer to Louis and leaned against the headboard of the bed. "Honey, do you want more pain meds? I think I left some in the bathroom."

"Yes please." Louis said as Harry smiled sadly at his husband, he could tell Louis was in pain and he hated seeing it. It made him want to cuddle and kiss him until the pain disappeared but he couldn't, all he could do was give him medication and sit with him. So that's what he was going to do.

Harry pressed a gentle kiss to Louis' feathery hair before standing up and getting the pain medication, he walked back over to the bed and handed Louis some ibuprofen. "This should help for now, let me know when you need more, okay?"

Louis nodded and smiled at Harry before taking the medication. "Thanks, I love you." Louis whispered after swallowing.

"I love you too."

After breakfast the two went downstairs and Harry gave Louis plenty of blankets as he sat down on the couch and he turned on the tv. They spent the day watching movies and Harry admitted to sending some videos of a loopy Louis to Anne, Jay, Lottie and Gemma. He didn't mention the others though, he figured Louis would find out when the boys call later to check on him.

That's how the next week went, watching movies, sleeping, and Harry was there for Louis every time he needed more pain meds or something else.

Louis was glad he had someone like Harry who could do things for him when he was in pain or less capable and he loved him for it. Harry was caring and sweet and Louis wouldn't change anything about him.

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I was going to make this longer but it would kinda just be boring stuff and I didn't really know how to carry it on so sorry for the rushed ending :(

Anyway I hope you are all okay and you've eaten and drunk something today. I love you <333

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