Whatever It Takes ~ larry mpreg au

6. You two need to stop this nonsense

Acute myeloid leukemia.

That was the kind of leukemia Matty had, it was the second most common leukemia on children according to Zayn.

After the diagnosis was made, Zayn said that they needed to do more tests to determine what sub type of AML (as Zayn called it) Matty had, and how much it had spread. So the entire day consisted on doctors and nurses coming and going and people taking Matty to other rooms and more blood being drawn, and Louis just had to let all of that happen, even though he knew Matty was done with everything. The little boy had asked Louis when they were going home probably 20 times already and it hurt everytime he told him they couldn't go yet, because the sad look on Matty's eyes was heartbreaking.

A day had passed since the diagnosis, it was Thursday now, and it was the day everything was supposed to be settled, Zayn was meeting with a couple more doctors to determine what the right course of treatment was for Matty. Liam had explained that it was going to be chemotherapy, but that there were different chemotherapy drugs and those usually got combined considering the kind of cancer, how advanced was it and other factors, so it was not a simple thing.

Right now, Louis was with Liam and Niall in Matty's hospital room, Louis hadn't gone home since they got there two days ago. Niall had come especially to stay with Matty for a few hours so Louis could go home for a bit to rest and have a shower, but Louis just couldn't leave his baby.

Niall was sitting on Matty's bed and they were both coloring on the folding table where Matty had his meals, and the little boy kept telling his godfather he wanted to go to his house to play with Jace because he was bored of being in that room.

"You have to stay here for a while longer Matty" Niall said gently.

"Bu' no want to" Matty pouted.

"We can do loads of fun stuff here" Niall said "We can play with your toys, we can watch movies, eat yummy food that uncle Liam is happy to get for us, you name it".

"Jace come pway wif me?"

"I don't know if it's allowed love" Niall said.

"Why?" Matty asked tilting his head to the side.

"Because... uhm..." Niall looked at Liam to get him to help.

"I'm going to ask Dr. Z if it's okay for Jace to visit" Liam said "And if he says yes we'll bring him during the weekend, okay Matty?".

"Kay" Matty nodded and continued coloring with his crayons.

Louis was watching this interaction from the corner of his eye while he sat on the recliner and worked on his laptop. He had a million events programmed for the next few weeks, and Niall and the other planners were handling them, but he was very meticulous (others would use the word control freak) about how he liked things done and nobody did things the same way as him, and he didn't want to disappoint his clients.

"Hey if you don't want to bring Jace here it's fine, I understand" Louis whispered to Liam who had come sit next to him.

"Why wouldn't we want to bring him?" Liam asked confused.

"Because it's a hospital and it's like depressing and maybe he'll get traumatized or something" Louis answered.

"Don't be ridiculous Louis" Liam laughed.

"But it can happen, I started coming to the hospital when I was ten to see my mum, and it went on for four years until she died, and I think you know how much I hate hospitals now" Louis sighed "I don't want that to happen to Jace if something were to happen to Matty".

"Louis don't talk like that! Nothing's going to happen to Matty other that him getting better" said Liam.

"Yeah, you're right, I'm being stupid, he's going to be okay" Louis said.