exhaustion. dealing with half of the aurors in his division proved to be exhausting, the work they had to do in the past few days seeming to only increase with each passing. which meant more paperwork for them and even more for him, keeping him to his desk when he felt he had other, better, things to be doing. it had been a while since he was last confined to his office like this, and it seemed he had forgotten how draining being stationary was. his day ended later than usual and his briefcase was a bit heavier, weighted with extra files he would have to go through at some point. sitting down on the couch, percival tried relaxing and forgetting, for the moment, that he had brought more work home than he wanted to. it was only when he felt two hands brushing his hair back from behind that he was finally able to relax, leaning into the touch and closing his eyes. “ you have healing hands, did you know that?? ”