Zianourry Family Fluff (One Direction)

the best things happen when you least expect them (ii)

Zayn: 10 years old

Harry: 11 years old

Louis: 11 years old

Liam: Papa

Niall: Dad

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Being in hospitals is nothing new for Zayn– hell, he's pretty sure he's spent more time in hospitals than he has in his own home– but that doesn't make going to a hospital any less scary really. This trip to the hospital, however, has to be the scariest visit of them all because this time the boy was going into a very extensive and long surgery that will be putting him off his feet for at the very least a few months. To make matters worse, though, it was all being done in a hospital he's never been to, with doctors he's never met, and without his father or coach– who has acted as more of a father than Yaser has– by his side. So yeah, Zayn was scared.

But he wasn't going to go around telling people that.

"All right, kiddo, it's time for us to go to the room so you can get settled and into your surgery gown," Liam says in a gentle voice as he approaches his deep in thought nephew.

"Ya know, I was thinking, Tío, and I don't think I need to get the surgery after all. My leg doesn't hurt all that much really. I just won't play football anymore," Zayn says as he looks up to his uncle with a very serious face on.

At that the uncle can only give a small laugh along with a sympathetic smile because, for one, he can tell that Zayn is just scared shitless, but alongside that he knows that Zayn would never be able to fully give up on football as much as he wanted to.

"Everything's gonna be fine, baby, I promise. Your doctor is a good friend of mine, so you're in great hands. Plus once you're awake me, Uncle Niall, Louis, and Harry will all be here to make sure you don't need to lift a pinky," Liam says as he lifts the boy up along with his crutches seeing as he could tell the boy wouldn't willingly follow after him.

So now the two were set up in a room and Liam had just finished helping Zayn into his surgery gown. They didn't have to wait long though before the doctor and his assistants were entering the room to explain what was going to happen, and before Zayn could even blink he was being rolled away from his uncle and into the scary operating room.

"Alright Zayn, you won't even feel a thing. We'll see you in a couple hours, bud," the doctor says with a smile, and next thing Zayn knows is his eyes are closing shut.

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"Do you think the surgery shrunk him?"

"No Louis, Zayn's always been this little."

"Do you think when he wakes up he'll like start speaking in French? Or Chinese? That happens sometimes, ya know?"

"Harry, no more Grey's Anatomy for you."

"S'going on?" A groggy Zayn finally mumbles as the persistent talking wouldn't allow him to fall back to sleep.

"Hey, bud, how ya feeling? Do you want to sleep more?" Liam says with a smile as he places a gentle hand on his nephews cheek.

Slowly Zayn manages to open his eyes completely and begins to turn his head around the room as if trying to figure out where he is. Finally the boy's eyes land on his uncles and cousins and he can't help but allow for a small half grin to spread across his face.

"M'okay," Zayn says as he rubs his eyes a bit. "Did the surgery already finish?

"Yeah they had to cut off your leg, dude. It was wicked," Louis says with a devilish grin that then turns into a hysterical laughter upon seeing the look of utter fear and worry on his cousin's face as he ripped the blanket from his legs. "Just kidding. At least you're more awake now, though."