Sunstreaker's Charge ✔️

Ch. 65 Medical Emergency

Sunstreaker's P.O.V.
Lily hasn't been feeling great today. Though it's June,  our friends, Sideswipe, and I assume she has a cold. Until I walk into the bedroom and hear her throwing up, I look in the bathroom and see she's in pain. When she's not throwing up, she's holding her abdomen.
"You need to go to the medbay," I tell her.
"No, I'm fine," she argues before throwing up again. 
I could carry her, but I know throwing up while sick with a cold is possible.

I wait until she's asleep to check her abdomen. It's swollen to the point where she looks pregnant. I don't even touch her to feel if she's warm before she moans and rolls to her side, clearly trying to deal with pain.  That doesn't last long before she gets up and tries to get to the bathroom but falls onto the floor and throws up before moaning in pain.
"Lily? I have to take you to the medbay," I explain.
"No," she cries, "it's just a stomach ache."
Even I know a stomach ache doesn't cause this much pain.
Sunstreaker: Emergency Ratchet, I have a feeling you'll need help. I'll be in the medbay in five minutes.
Even with her pain, I didn't think Lily would scream as I pick her up. I worry about what's going on and being accused of fragging her, considering the small bump caused by the swelling, and I've been staying in her room for two weeks now.

Sideswipe is already waiting by our room and rushes down the hall with me.
Lily is covered in sweat by the time we get to the medbay.  Ratchet and jolt are horrified and skip the part where I tell them what happened. Sideswipe and I are locked out of the medbay.
"What happened?" Sideswipe asks.
"I assumed she had a cold, and now she's dying."

Ratchet's P.O.V.
Lily is in too much pain to stay still and let Jolt, and I examine her. We had to use sedation.
"What the?!" Jolt explains, "that bastard raped her!"
"Hold on; I fear this is something else."
I get the portable ultrasound, and we quickly discover the problem.
"What the frag is happening?" Jolt asks.
"Something tells me Fred thought the nanobots would deactivate and go through Lily's system, but something happened. We'll find out during surgery."

As we're doing surgery, this does seem we're only dealing with appendicitis. The organ does look like it would have ruptured soon.  I go to the lab to examine the organ while Jolt ensures Lily remains stable. We might stay in the medbay overnight.

Jolt's P.O.V.
It's scary not knowing if this is appendicitis with the additional issue of nanobots  or something more serious. For now, Lily is stable. 
Ratchet walks in a half-hour later, confirming the nanobots strangely attacked the appendix, and Lily's immune system tried to fight back.
"So we have no idea if she'll be ok," I sigh.
"For now, this does seem like typical appendicitis with the addition of nanobots attaching themselves to the appendix. Lily should be ok though I suspect Sunstreaker will want to stay here."

Still hard to believe Sunstreaker cares about Lily. The twins are shocked at what we found. As Ratchet thought, Sunstreaker wants to stay with Lily even though she's sedated.

Sunstreaker's P.O.V.
I can't believe this. Things were getting better, but I failed Lily, and she almost died.
"Are you blaming yourself?" Sideswipe asks.
"Seriously?" Ratchet asks, "did she act like she only had a stomach ache?"
"Yes," I reply, "but her behavior seemed off as the time passed."
"Unfortunately, that's often how appendicitis is discovered. Just be happy that's how her body responded to the nanobots. Though nanobots in a human body is unheard of, this could have been worse. Those are gone now."
Ratchet leaves the room as I sit on the chair by the bed.
"I'm going back to our room so you can sleep on the other bed. Take that as another good sign. You know the ICU rooms only have one bed. Good night."
Sideswipe leaves the room, but I'm not ready to sleep.  Even if she's not on life support, I hate seeing Lily in the medbay.

"Have you been up all night?" Ratchet asks when he walks in at six in the morning.
"I don't know when I finally fell asleep," I admit, "maybe three hours ago."
"She'll be ok. This isn't like after she was attacked. She'll be released in two days."
Ratchet removed the empty bag that was the sedation medicine and starts a slow infusion of pain relief. He tells me Lily can have what she wants for breakfast and to try to get her to eat before going to his office.

Waiting three hours for Lily to wake up is torture. She didn't think I'd be in the room.
"Seriously?" I smile, "you have no idea how worried I've been."
I kiss her before asking what she wants for breakfast.

Lily smiles as I walk into the room with breakfast. I set up the table for her to stay in bed. I don't know what to talk about, so we're eating in silence until Lily asks me about working out with me.
"Even I know you can't do any workouts for a while," I point out, "and I'm not cleared yet, either. I'll get our art supplies after breakfast."

Lily's P.O.V.
I look at how banged my abdomen is once Sunstreaker leaves, worried about what happened that required surgery. A little worried about what Jolt and Ratchet did.  Jasmine walks in to check on the incision and knew what I'd ask.  I couldn't help but laugh at how Jolt and Ratchet are embarrassed to talk about it.
"....even though all they did was remove your appendix," she finishes.
Jasmine checks the incision and changes the bandages before leaving the room. 

Sunstreaker returns with a bag full of art supplies. He got both our sketchbooks and pens and colored pencils.
"I'm not sure if we can work on a project together, but we can work on our own art project." 

Sunstreaker's P.O.V.
Two hours fly by. I talk to Ratchet about lunch and working out. 
Ratchet says my lunch plan is fine, but I still can't work out. I can't believe he said I should think this is good. More time with Lily before she leaves. I'm somewhat happy that Lily can still go to camp though I'll miss her.