Liam's Little Sister

Knee ch. 40

"Ni you okay?" Liam asks still holding Niall up.

"Yeah, just walk me to the sofa." He instructs Liam. Taylor gets up from ontop of me and runs and gets Niall a bag of ice. I get up and help Liam and Niall slowly and carefully walk Niall over to the couch and sit him down.

"Here Ni," Taylor says gently placing the bag of ice on Niall's knee. He winces at first but then relaxes.

"Thanks Tay, the ice is helping." He says and she gives him a reassuring smile and she sits beside him. Taylor holds Niall's hand in hers and he smiles at her.

"Do you want us to call 999?" She asks him he gives her a nod with his head and Harry dials the number and puts the phone to his ear and walks out of the room. We over hear him in the other room giving the operator our location and Niall's information.

"Yeah his name is Niall Horan and he is 20 years of age....yeah he dislocated his knee as a child and he and another one of my mates were chasing one another and Niall stopped running and grabbed a hold of his knee and was in sudden serious pain...yeah we gave him a bag of ice and he is sitting on the sofa...okay thank you." He says and ends the phone call.

"Zayn! Perrie! Get down here!" Harry shouts up the stairs.

"What mate?!" Zayn shouts as he and Perrie come out of his room and walk down the stairs.

"Do me a favor and open the gate when the ambulance get here." Zayn doesn't ask any questions he just does as instructed, Perrie follows behind him. In about five minutes the ambulance come tearing up our driveway and come through our front door. Liam guiding them to Niall. They ask Niall a few questions to which he answers yes to all. The medics lift Niall from the sofa and onto the gurney and wheel him out the front door loading him into the ambulance.

"I'll go with Niall, we'll see you guys at the hospital yeah?" Taylor says.

"Yeah we'll follow you." Liam tells her and he runs inside to grab his keys. Taylor hops into the ambulance and they shut the door behind here before running the sirens and speeding away.

Liam opens the door, locking it and running towards the rest of us. "Zayn, you take Perrie and Harry and I'll drive Louis. Here are your keys." He says tossing them to Zayn.

"Yeah, yeah we'll follow you guys." Zayn says and we all load up in to our cars. Liam and I get in his car and pull out of the driveway pulling forwards so Zayn can get behind us.

Liam and I's ride to the hospital was quiet as both of us were worrying about Niall's health. We arrive at the hospital and pull into the parking structure. Zayn parks beside us and we all walk into the hospital together. We reach the entrance desk and ask for Niall. They tell us he's in the ER and that we have to wait for him to come out.

Taylor comes out of the doors wiping away the few tears that have fallen.

"He's gonna be alright he just dislocated his knee where he did as a kid. Their gonna have to do an emergency knee operation." she tells us.

"I'll call Maura." Harry volunteers.

"I'll call Bobby." Zayn volunteers.

"I'll go call Greg." Taylor volunteers.

All three of them split up and call Niall's family. Taylor sits on my lap and I rub her back as she dials Greg. I wipe away the tear that slowly rolls down her face.

"Greg, hey it's Taylor, Niall's in the ER..." She says snuffling and I continue rubbing her back, I lean her body against mine so she is be supported by my body instead of her own. "Yeah he's fine, it's his knee, he and Liam were chasing one another around the flat and then he stopped running and grabbed a hold of his knee..." she takes in a deep breath releasing it slowly."Their gonna operate." she says trying to stay strong but her tears continue to fall. I kiss her forehead and more tears fall. "Greg the pain is getting worse, every morning he wakes up and takes pain medication and he's fine for the day but then somedays he over does it and then this happens." she says now sobbing. "Harry us calling your mum and Zayn is calling your dad, so don't worry about calling them, just try and get down here if you can okay?" He says something that causes her to smile lightly. Then she says "I love you too, see you in a little while." She says wiping away her tears and ends the phone call. Then she sits up and cries into my shoulder.

"He's gonna be okay." I tell her rubbing her back in slow relaxing circles.

"Maura is on her way." Harry says with red teary eyes. "She'll be her in an hour or so. What about Greg?" he asks Taylor.

"Yeah, he said he'll get her as soon as he can." she says wiping away her tears and sniffling just a little.

"Bobby said he's on his way but he's not gonna be her for two hours." Zayn tells us.

"And Maura and Greg are on their way." Harry says informing Zayn.

We sit in silence waiting for news of Niall and the arrival of his family.

"Taylor Payne?" The nurse calls and we all look up. Taylor stands up wiping away her tears and walks towards the nurse.

*****Taylor's POV*****

I walk towards the nurse wiping away my fallen tears. She open the door to the emergency rooms and we walk down the hallway stoping in front of Niall's door.

"Good news and bad news, Niall is good for surgery, but he will have to recover for quite some time." The nurse tells me.

"How long is some time exactly?" I ask.

"Well he has to stay on bed rest for three days doing nothing but resting, then he'll be on crutches for about a month, then he will be okay to walk again by himself he'll just need a knee brace that he wears all of the time and nothing strenuous."

"How long does he have to wear the knee brace for?"

"Until it's completely healed. Which depends on wether or not he does what we insist he does."

"How long is the procedure gonna take?"

"The actual surgery is going to take about a half an hour, but it takes about twenty minutes to prep him for surgery, then time for the anesthesia to wear off then he'll wake up and you can come see him again. So about an hour and a half, roughly."

"I won't be able to see him?"

"I'm afraid not sweetheart. But, if you want we can see him before he goes under."

"Yeah if you don't mind."

"No not at all, go in ahead, I'll give the two of you some alone time."

"Oh, we're not...."

"Course not sweetie." She says with a wink. I shake my head in confusion and open the door to Niall's room.

"Hey," I say as I open the door to his room.

"Hey!" He says when he sees me. "Sit down." He says and I take a seat beside him on his tiny hospital bed.

"You okay?" I ask him taking my hand in his.

"Yeah I'm great!"

"Really? Your about to go under for a hour and a half."

"I know but this way I don't have knee pains anymore!"

"True, but your gonna be on crutches and in a knee brace for over two months."

"Totally worth it!"

"Okay, well I guess I'm not gonna convince you."

"Nope!" he says and we laugh.

"Your mum and dad are gonna get here while your in surgery but they'll be here when you wake up."

"What about Greg?"

"He's on his way, he should be here in maybe an hour, he's not really sure, but he'll be here, I swear." I say and holding his hand and squeezing it.

"Don't worry about me Taylor, I'm gonna be fine. I want this over and done with. I don't care how long it takes." he says with a light smile.

There is a knock on the door and the nurse enters.

"Niall, were all set and ready when you are."

"Oh okay great! Bye Tay." he says giving me a kiss on my cheek.

"See ya later Niall. I love you."

"I love you too. I'll be fine don't worry." he says and I kiss his cheek.

"I'm not worried." I say and get up off his bed.

"I love you Taylor!" he says as they wheel him out the door and down the hall to surgery.

"I love you Niall!" I say and make my way back to the waiting area.