Cherry Blossom | TRACOB

Eight

Troye did not expect to be awoken by a crash, but that's exactly what happened. Both him and Jacob jolted awake, looking at each other with shocked eyes for a second before jumping out of bed and hurrying to the boy's room. "What are you- oh my god Joel!" The neko was sat in the middle of the room clutching his arm while bawling his eyes out, his arm sporting a very unnatural bump. He just cried harder when Troye and Jacob came into the room.

"It hurts!" he cried, his ears folded down to the sides and his tail stiff.

"That is broken," Troye said, staring at his son's arm horrified. He never was good with looking at injuries, especially after everything he had went through alongside Connor. "Oh gosh Jacob, what do we do?"

"Tell Hari that we have to take Joel to the emergency room and that we are going to leave Riley here with her," Jacob instructed. Troye nodded and hurried off, meeting Hari in the hallway.

"What on earth is going on?" Hari asked, looking at Troye's panicked eyes.

"Jacob told me to tell you that we are taking Joel to the doctors and that we are leaving Riley here," Troye said in a hurry, tail tucked between his legs and eyes huge. "He fell and hurt his arm real bad, Jay says it's broken."

"How did he manage that?" Hari asked. Troye just shrugged in response. He had not really thought about that.

"Come on Kitty," Jacob said, nodding towards the stairs. He had  put on jeans and a t-shirt. Troye nodded and ran to their bedroom, grabbing the first piece of clothing he saw. He pulled on the short cut-off jean shorts and grabbed his purse (which still only held little knickknacks like lip balm and the phone he almost never used) before running down the stairs and out the door to the car where Jacob already was.

"I know it hurts sweetie, we're going to get it fixed," Jacob said as Troye arrived, deciding to sit in the backseat with Joel. He held onto Joel's good hand as Jacob also got into the car and started it, backing out of the driveway.

"You'll be okay," Troye said, petting Joel's ears softly. "The doctors will fix your arm and make you feel all better. Then we can get a treat, yeah?"

Joel nodded, still crying.

"We can go to the bakery and you can choose out a cake."

"C-can I?" Joel asked, looking up at his dad hopefully.

"Of course you can. Look, we're almost already to the doctors!"

Joel just nodded with a sniffle, leaning his head against Troye's shoulder. "It hurts," he whined.

"I know it does," Troye said. It defiantly was not a pretty sight, it was already bruising badly. They should have grabbed an ice pack before leaving, but they were lucky that Troye even had clothes on. "Look! See, There's the hospital. We'll get you in there and all taken care of.

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"There is a greenstick fracture right here," the doctor said. He was a nice enough guy in his mid forties, and was walking Troye and Joel through everything so Jacob would not have to later. The two had their ears pricked forward and eyes wide as they looked at Joel's x-ray. Troye had never seen anything like this, and he was very curious. Sometimes that little streak of curiosity came back and he started resembling the kittens. "We will get you a cast and some medicine to help with the swelling and pain and you will be on your way."

Troye's eyes followed the doctor's every move as he got Joel ready to go home. He had to swallow a few hisses as Joel whimpered quietly every few moments. The doctor would apologize and Jacob would pat Troye's curls gently. "Look at that," the doctor said enthusiastically when his job was done, admiring his work momentarily.

"Thank you!" Joel said, smiling up at the doctor sweetly. "Look Dad! Look how cool this is!"

Jacob raised his eyebrows and Troye frowned, not finding it as 'cool' as Joel did. "Very nice," Jacob said, not wanting to upset Joel. "Are you ready to get going?"

Joel nodded and slipped off the bed, scampering across the room to go choose a treat. The doctor handed Jacob a slip of paper that had information on cast care and websites that would help more if needed. "Make sure he keeps his weight off of it, and remember the doses of his medication. You can also reach me at this number. Other than that, I think you're good."

"Thank you," Jacob said, shaking the doctors hand before the man left the room. "Come along Joel." Joel thanked the nurse who had let him take a sticker and a sucker before hurrying after his dads as they made their way back to the car. Joel looked like he was about to go for Troye's tail so Jacob grabbed his good arm before that could happen, shaking his head with a sigh. Joel just pouted and held his lollipop out to Troye, silently asking him to unwrap it. Troye did so, stealing a lick of the sucker before giving it to Joel, who stuck his tongue out and popped it into his mouth. Some days it did feel like Jacob had three kittens instead of two, and today looked like it was going to be one of them.

Troye looked tired and worried, and that usually led to him acting hyper and bratty.

"To the baker place now?" Joel asked as he was buckled in, holding his tail in his good hand.

"Of course, you were very good." Jacob smiled and pet Joel between his ears before getting into the car beside Troye and driving them towards a certain sugar rush.

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pls i wasnt gonna kill joel he's my fave