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

Operation Niall

Louis' point of view

"Dad, Papa." I heard Niall cry out in the middle of the night. I hadn't yet fallen asleep as I had just been thinking about the fact that Niall's getting surgery and I would do anything to change places with him.

Bearing in mind I was already awake I decided to get up and go over to Niall's room as it was useless Liam being overly tired tomorrow as well. Someone needed to be awake enough to pay attention tomorrow.

"What is it bug?" I asked walking into Niall's room where he was sat up in bed with tears flowing down his face. As soon as he heard my voice however he reached for me and I wasted no time in sitting down on his bed and carefully placing him on my lap being careful of his knee.

"Did you just want a cuddle?" I asked softly kissing his hair and I felt him nod against my chest.

"Scared." I heard Niall mumble then and I sighed.

"I know baby, but your going to be absolutely fine and dad and I will be there with you before you go down and then we'll be there when you wake up." I explained as Liam and I had sat Niall down last night when we got home and explained to him what was going to happen. Let's just say there were a lot of tears and I'm not going to lie they weren't just from Niall.

"Can you sleep here with me the rest of the night?" Niall asked me and I smiled and nodded.

"Course I can, does you knee hurt or anything?" I asked but he shook his head. I was kind of expecting that answer though as he was on some strong painkillers that the doctor yesterday had given us and Liam had tried to secure his knee as best he could last night to try and stop it hurting.

"Alright that's good let's try and get some sleep then." I said and Niall nodded as I carefully got him lying down before I led down and Niall curled into my side resting his head on my chest. I smiled at him sadly as I heard him sniffle and gently played with his hair until he was sound asleep.

***
"What you doing in here?" I heard Liam ask the next morning and I just looked up at him tiredly. I could hardly keep my eyes open.

"Please tell me you haven't been awake all night?" Liam asked me and I just nodded.

"What time is it?" I mumbled looking down at Niall who was still sound asleep.

"Just gone 5:30 so we need to start getting ready as we need to be back at the hospital by 7." Liam said and I nodded.

"He'll be fine lou, children have surgery all the time." Liam reassured me and I just sniffled carefully worming my way out of Niall's bed and went over to Liam who hugged me tightly.

"Go on go and have a shower while I pack some things for Niall and get him ready." Liam said and I nodded heading towards mine and Liam's room bumping into Geoff on the way.

"You Alright lou?" He asked and I just shrugged.

"Not really I haven't slept a wink all night." I said rubbing my eyes and Geoff smiled sadly at me.

"He'll be fine honest. You being like this shows how good of a parent you are and the only reason why Liam isn't as worried as you is because he's a doctor." Geoff said and I nodded.

"I guess I just want it to be over." I said.

"It will go by so quick trust me. Can you remember when Liam broke his arm?" Geoff asked and I nodded, we hadn't known each other very long at the time but I can still remember it pretty well.

"Well he needed surgery for that and I was if possible more worried than you are now but everything worked out fine and before I knew it he was back on the ward with us. Yes he was upset and scared and it was quite a long recovery but he was absolutely fine and that's probably another reason why he's not as worried as you as he's been through it himself." Geoff explained.