Warm Hands - Part 3
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Pairing: Din Djarin x Fem!Reader Warnings: Menstruation/Periods, Period Cramps, Blood, bleeding through clothing on your period, some cursing Words: 1.3k Tags: Extremely self-indulgent, established relationship, comfort, fluff, supportive partner, author is touch starved and it shows lmao
It was early when you woke up, groggy for several long moments before the familiar and uncomfortable feeling in your core and the ache in your lower back came into focus.
You grimaced, the warmth and wetness concerning enough that you knew you needed to go to the restroom to check. Hopefully, you at least had woken up early enough to not have bled through to the sheets.
Din’s arm was slung over your belly, as he snored lightly as he lay beside you. His solid and warm presence had been apparently enough to help keep the worst of the cramps at bay while you slept even when the pain killers had worn off.
With all the stress of recent events, your monthly cycles had been thrown off a bit and it just seemed to make your periods — when you got them — particularly horrendous. Thus you had gone to bed with not only Din and his comforting presence, but also enough pain meds to help with the edge, a nice heating pad, your reusable period absorbing underwear.
Your riduur grumbled as you moved his arm and got up, but a gentle shush from you, telling him that you’ll be right back to bed, settled him back into the bed.
As you stood up you had to catch yourself from swearing aloud, the feeling of the ship’s artificial gravity encouraging your period to well… travel downwards and out. Maker be damned… this was not feeling promising.
You did a quick pat-down of your side of the bed in the dark. The sheets were warm, but it was thankfully not wet. Though it would not be the first time you had bled all over the sheets it just was not something you wanted to have to deal with in the middle of the night if you didn’t have to.
Fumbling in the dark you make your way for the refresher, not even bothering to put on “proper” pants. The metal floor was cold beneath your feet, as you became more sure your underwear was feeling very, very… soggy.
Rushing for the toilet, you stripped and actually cursed this time.
There was no delicate way about it, your flow had very clearly been too much for your reusable period underwear. Blood seemed to be literally everywhere. It had smeared on the insides of your upper thighs, dripped onto the toilet seat as well as onto the floor as you pulled your underwear down. Fucking huzzah.
As you sat on the cool metal of the toilet, you tried to plot out what to do next. Seeing as it was the fucking middle of the night you hadn’t thought to grab another pair of underwear much less pants.
Sliding the underwear all the way off you let them land in the bottom of the sink and started the cold water going to try and rinse out of the worst of it. Maker, it looked like you had committed a murder or something with how much bright red blood was swirling down the drain.
Groaning, you leaned forward over your legs as your cramps also reared their painful head again. The pain killers were obviously needing to be retaken and seeing as you didn’t have your space heater of a riduur like you had in bed at the moment? Well, your body was letting it be known it was not happy with the current situation. It just fucking sucked and you weren’t exactly sure what you were going to do next. Sure you could get a shower, but you also needed clean clothes as well now.
A quiet rapping at the door, made you jump slightly even though you logically knew it only could be Din.
“Cyare? You alright? Are you feeling sick? You didn’t come back to bed.” You heard your husband’s concern even through the door as he waited for your answer.
Still bent over your legs, you turned and gave a half-smile to the door and your husband on the other side. You should have known he wouldn’t have actually gone back to sleep when you had gotten up. He knew how bad your monthly cycles could be, and while he tried not to worry and he did try to be helpful and supportive when you needed him.
“I’m okay… just… a little overwhelmed,” you replied. “My flow is heavier than I anticipated so it got sort of everywhere. Can you get me some new underwear and my backup period leggings? They’re in the top drawer.”
The door opened just a crack as you were talking as Din listened to your instructions.
“That bad?” the concern in his voice clear.
“Yeah,” you said, grimacing when you saw the blood on the floor again. “Actually, could you get me a new shirt too? And check I didn’t bleed on the sheets? I didn’t find any earlier, but it was dark. I think I need to hop in the shower and just start over tonight.”
He hummed in response, you could clearly imagine the thoughtful look that you knew was on his face.
“You want me to grab some pain meds too?”
“That would be amazing,” you respond, feeling a bit of the stress start to ease from your shoulders.
As Din went off to collect the supplies and clothing that you needed, you hurried to turn the shower on and got the water running as hot as you could handle. There were some tried to true ways you could find relief from cramps and hot showers always were a favorite.
Tonight though you made sure your hair was all up and out of the way so you could focus on washing your body. Thankfully the blood was easy enough to wash off.
As you stepped out of the shower, toweling off as quickly you were surprised to see that your bloody underwear was nowhere to be seen, instead of having been replaced with your requested clean clothing and a little cup with the pain medication.
The floor had also already been cleaned up, your riduur having apparently worked quickly and unobtrusive while you had showered. If you hadn’t already been in love with Din Djarin, this was certainly something that would have made it inevitable.
As you finished dressing, you peeked around the door, looking for your husband. He was waiting for you, leaning against the wall and hands stuffed into the pockets of his sweatpants, just like you knew he would be.
“Hi,” you said, slightly shyly even as you went to him.
“Hi, sweetheart. Feeling any better?”
Stepping into Din’s welcoming arms, his strong body warm against you even as you still radiated heat from your shower, you hummed at the simple pleasure.
“Vor entye, ner kar'ta,” you murmured into Din’s sleep shirt as you leaned more heavily into him. His presence and scent, as always, were a grounding comfort.
He pressed a long kiss into your hair, just as content to be with you like this for the time being as the water recyclers hummed to life further in the ship.
“You’re always there for me when I hurt,” he explained frankly. “I’m glad I can help you when you need it too.”
You gave a huff of laughter even as you snuggled into him more as you teased, “True, you do get blood on stuff sometimes more often than I do.”
Your riduur gave a gruff laugh, his hands pressing firmly into the two spots in your lower back that made you melt and purr in his arms.
“Come on, back to bed with you,” he ordered softly.
“Can I get more snuggles?” You ask, looking at him with large pleading eyes. Not that you needed to, you knew Din wouldn’t say no to such a request.
He smiled at you, affectionally bumping your chin with his knuckle.
“I think that can be arranged.”
Translations:
Cyare - beloved Riduur - spouse Vor entye, ner kar'ta - thank you my heart
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