Family is all that matters - 1D kidfic (LILO)

Sickness strikes again

Liam's point of view

It was Niall who ended up waking me up during the night. It was around 2am when I felt someone shaking my shoulder and whimpering.

I slowly opened my eyes and saw a figure that was too tall to be Harry therefore it had to be Niall.

"You Okay sweetie?" I asked sitting up and rubbing my eyes.

"M-my th-thro-throat hu-rts." Niall croaked hardly getting the words out.

I looked at him concerned and got up leading him back to his room after grabbing my phone as I didn't want to wake Louis by turning a light on.

"Does anything else hurt?" I asked once I walked into Niall's room and turned the light on now seeing that he had been crying and his cheeks were red. I sighed and quickly ran out his room into the bathroom grabbing the thermometer and pain relief before going back into his room where he had curled himself into a ball on his bed.

"Ni can you sit up for me?" I asked and he slowly did as I said.

"Come here." I said and he instantly came over to me cuddling into my side while I felt his forehead which was pretty warm.

"Is it just your throat that hurts?" I asked and he shook his head.

"H-head." He said and I nodded.

"I want to check your temperature quickly and then I'll give you some pain medicine and I'll have a look at your throat Okay." I said and he nodded letting me place the thermometer in his mouth.

While we waited I wrapped my arms around him as I could tell he was feeling pretty miserable and he rested his head against my chest, moving slightly clearly trying to find my heartbeat, while I held the thermometer in place as I didn't want him knocking it out.

When it beeped I removed it and sighed seeing that it read 101.4, so that was defiantly a fever.

"Alright can you open your mouth as wide as you can for me bug?" I asked him and he nodded while I grabbed my phone turning the torch on and then looking in his mouth.

"Can you stick your tongue out and say ah." I said and he did as I said. I moved my phone around so I could see his whole throat and sighed.

"I think you've got strep baby." I said sadly as I turned my torch off and let him close his mouth, his throat was bright red along with white patches littering the back of his throat.

Niall just whimpered cuddling further into my side.

"I'm going to give you some pain relief for now and then tomorrow I'll call in work with you and I can properly look and get you some special medicine." I said knowing if it was strep he was going to need antibiotics. Niall just nodded and hesitantly took the medicine tears falling again when he swallowed.

"Aw Love it's alright, your going to be just fine." I reassured him and he just nodded obviously not wanting to talk, not that I can blame him.

"Do you want to sleep with papa and I or in here?" I asked him but the grip he had on my top made me think he was staying with me.

"You." He whispered and I nodded although decided it would be best to sleep in here with him rather than in my room as I didn't want him knocking louis' wrist by accident, plus Niall did have a double bed.