Prinxiety The Prince and the Patient

Mean Dragon

Virgil POV
Rosie and I walk down the stairs back down to the second floor. We walk downstairs and down the hallway to Romans room. We stop outside of the room.
"You ready to go in and see Ro?" I ask looking down at the 4 year old. She looks at me scared and nods her head.
"We don't have to if your not ready. We can go to the cafeteria or go see Mr. Wizard again?" I say to her and she shakes her head.
"No I wanna see Prince Ro Ro." She says gripping my hand tighter.
"Alright ready?" I say and she shakes her head yes. I open the door and see Reggie and 2 other adults staring at me with Rosie. The woman in the room walks towards me. She tall and even taller with the heels she's wearing. She's tan and dressed very fancy.
"¡¿quién eres tú?! ¿Por qué tienes a mi hija? ¿Qué le pasó a Roman?" The women walks over to me screaming spanish which I don't understand. She grabs Rosie arm and forces it to her.
"Darling calm down!" The man screams at her and she stops yelling at me and gives him a cruel glare. Reggie is sitting in the chair next to the bed holding Romans hand. The man and woman start fighting while the woman holds Rosie by her arm. Rosie keeps squirming.
"Mama! Let go!" She yells and the woman lets go of her arm and she falls to the floor. That must be Romans mom. Mrs. Kingsley continues to scream at Mr. Kingsley in spanish. Rosie gets up off the floor in tears and runs over to me. I pick her up and hug her tight. She starts to sob into my hoodie.
"Shhh shhhh it's okay." I say rubbing circles into her back. The arguing stops when Roman wakes up and throws up into the bucket next to him. Reggie jumps up and rubs Romans back. He looks panicked. Roman stops throwing up and puts the bucket next to him.
"Why is it pink?" Reggie asks looking into the bucket disgusted.
"Because I chugged a bottle of pepto bismol before school." Roman says to Reggie with almost no voice. He looks over at me and Rosie and looks sad.
"Come here." Roman says sitting up a bit. I walk over to him and sit next to him with Rosie in my lap.
"Stop crying Princess. Prince Ro Ro is fine." He says wiping the tears off her face.
"What's wrong with Ro Ro's tummy?" She asks looking at Roman who has his hand wrapped around his abdomen.
"I-Uh...ummm-"
"It's a big mean dragon!" I say cutting Ro off. The room goes silent and everyone's staring at me.
"It's a big mean dragon. Blowing fire in Romans belly making him all sick and icky. But don't worry the doctors are gonna take it out of him. Then he'll be back to ole Prince Ro Ro!" I say with a smile. Roman looks at me and slightly smiles.
The nurse walks in with Romans chart and looks at the family.
"Are you the Kingsley family?" She asked looking up at the parents
"Yes, that's us." Mr. Kingsley says crossing his arms.
"Okay well, we're gonna take Roman up for a CT and make sure his appendix hasn't burst. Then if it hasn't we'll take him to surgery. I just need you to fill out these forms." The nurse says handing Mr. Kingsley a stack of paper.
"And Roman you need to change into a gown for the MRI. Leave your undergarments on and your socks." She says handing Roman a gown.
Roman takes it and tries to sit up. He stops and winces in pain. I sits up all the way and turns so his legs are dangling off the hospital bed. He looks at Reggie for help. Reggie gets up and grabs Romans hands and pulls him up. Roman stumbles a bit and then balances himself on Reggie. They walk into the bathroom and shut the door.
Mrs. Kingsley glares directly at me.
"Who is you?!" She yells in a very thick spanish accent.
"Virgil Storm.." I say with a nervous smile.
"This is knight Virgil. He is very nice and sweet. He is very kind to me, Roman, and Reggie. Please be nice to him." Rosie says cuddling into me more. I look at the two parents with a nervous smile.
"We were in English and-and he passed out. I-I carries him to the n-nurses office and then he woke up screaming, then we called the ambulance." I say explaining to the confused parents.
"Thank you son." Mr. Kingsley says with a problem and the door opens. Reggie walks out backwards while trying to lead Roman. Roman looks god awful. He's pale and shaky. His eyes are red and he's sweating a lot. Roman stops and his eyes start to roll. I pull Rosie off of me and rush over to Roman. I catch him just in time. He passes out into arms. I pick him up bridle style into my arms.
"Can you grab his IV and bring it over to the bed?" I ask Reggie and he nods.
I walk over slowly to the bed as Reggie follows behind with his IV and fluids. I don't want his IV to fall out. I place him down gently and hit the call nurse button. The nurse walks in with his chart.
"Hello how can I help you?" The nurse asks with a smile.
"He passed out again. His fever is too high. Is there any chance you can give him more acetaminophen?" I ask moving Rosie on the bed.
"Umm yes we can. Why did the nurse only give him 2 doses?" She asks herself. She walks over to the cart in the hallway and pulls out a needle and a small jar of acetaminophen. She puts the needle into the jar and I watch as it slowly fills up the needle. She takes the needle and puts it into Ro's IV.
"There! That should be good. Hit that button again if you all need anything or have questions." She says as she walks out of the room.
"Why do you know so much about this stuff?" Reggie asks me confused.
"Let's just say I've been here a lot." I say with a smirk.
Roman wakes up, sits up, and throws up more in the bucket. Reggie gets up and sits next to him and rubs his back.
"Hello is he- oh dear." The nurse says while walking in. Roman stops throwing up and puts the bucket back.
"Roman you ready for CT?" The nurse asks with a smile. Roman wipes his mouth with his arm and nods. Another nurse comes in with a wheelchair. Reggie picks up Roman and puts him in the wheelchair. Roman still looks awful but not as awful as before.
"Are we ready?" The nurse asks Roman.
"Y-yeah hold on." Roman says and he looks at me and Reggie.
"Reggie and Virgil, don't bring Rosie on an elevator because she's scared because of the mall accident. Virgil, my mom doesn't speak English very well and can't pronounce Gs well. So, she might call you Viril. Rosies toy bag is under my bed and Disney is channel 106. Virgil ask my dad or my brother to translate if my mom talks to you. Ummm I think that's it...OH...uh someone call....Ree...please. That's it all let's go." He says to us fast. He's more like the parent than his parents.
"Alright after CT we'll bring you back here and prep you for surgery and then we'll explain how this is gonna work. We'll be back in an hour." The nurse says wheeling Roman out of the room.
The room is dead silent.
"I'll go call Remus." Reggie mumbles and stands up and walks out into the hallway. I hear a sniff and soft sobs and I look over and see Rosie sobbing sitting in Romans spot on the bed.
"Hey hey princess what's wrong? Why are you crying?" I say sitting on the bed next to her. She sits up and hugs me and sobs.
"I-I don't want Ro Ro to d-die.." she says through sobs. I hug her tight and wipe her tears.
"Darling, Prince Ro Ro's not gonna die. He'll be fine. Here, okay. The doctors are gonna make 4 little tiny cuts on Ro's belly and take lil tiny iddybitty tweezers and pull out that mean dragon." I say and she smiles and hugs me tighter.
"Thank you Knight Virgil." She says quietly. My phone starts to buzz and rings in my pocket. I take it out and look at the ID.
"Oop sorry Rosie I have to take this. I'll be back in a moment." I say and she nods and let's go of me. I stand up and walk into the hallway and stand a little bit aways from Reggie.
Me: Hello?
D: Hey Vee it's Dante. Where tf are you?
Me: uuuuhuhhhhhhhhhh at the hospital. It's not me I promise!
D: Vee I promised you we would go see Logan after school. Instead you leave 2nd period and go to the hospital. What is-
Me: Roman has appendicitis and passed out in English. I took him to the hospital. I helped watch his sister until his brother and his parents got here. I'm sorry I missed school.
D: oh ummm okay... is he okay?
Me: kind of. He's in pain. He's had a seizure and is throwing up a lot. They took him for a CT and is gonna take him to surgery after the CT. He's scared Dante. You should have seen how he spoke to his family. He spoke to them like he was the adult.
D: Alright Alright I'll tell mom your not here but your going to school tomorrow!
Me: Alright love ya bye
Call ended
I look over at Reggie who is still waiting on the phone.
"Hey Ree it's Reggie. Romans at the hospital getting his appendix out and he wanted me to call you. Please call me back when you get a chance. Love you. Bye." Reggie says hanging up the phone. He spots me looking at him.
"He doesn't pick up the phone a lot and he's in class. So that wasn't a surprise when he didn't pick up." Reggie says in a defeated tone.
"I'm sorry.." I say to him with a sigh.
"It's fine.." Reggie says with a slight smile.
Roman POV
"Alright Roman do you know what's happening?" The nurse asks me. I am confused as all hell. I'm in a metal tube like thingy that's like a spaceship.
"Umm not really.." I say kind of concerned.
"Well this machine is called a CT. It's basically a giant XRay that scans your entire body in every point of view, but we're just scanning your stomach area. Now you can't move. Otherwise the scans will be blurry." She says hitting the button and I start to slide into the machine more.
"Okay thank you.." I say quietly. I hear the door shut and the machine starts making noise and lighting up. I'm cold again, like really cold. My head hurts, like someone's pounding a nail into the top. The lights are hurting my eyes. Everything hurts.
Then suddenly,
Black
No POV
Roman blacked out in the CT machine.
"Roman are you okay?" One of the doctors say in room looking into the CT room where Roman is.
He gets no response. Romans head starts to jerk and then his hand.
"HES SEIZING!" The doctor yells running into the CT room. He hits the button on the machine and it turns off and slides Roman back out. The doctor promptly flips Roman on his side and checks his eyes.
"I NEED 5 OF LORAZEPAM, NOW!!" The doctor screams and and intern hands it to him. He injects it into Romans IV and he gradually starts to stop.
"This kids temp is sky rocketed. Why did no one give him acetaminophen?" The doctor asks with a stern look.
"I did sir. An hour ago and his temperature went down." The nurse says.
"Get some blood and send it to labs please." The doctor says putting Roman in the wheel chair.
When Roman is put in the wheelchair he wakes up scared and swatting at the air. His breathing speeds up and he starts hyperventilating.
"Roman my name is Dr. Reynolds. Can you hear me?" The Dr. that took Roman out of the machine says to him. Roman nods as he grabs his side and sobs.
"Okay Roman were gonna give you more painkillers and a sedative to relax you." Dr. Reynolds says and Roman shakes his head yes with tears streaming down his face and still shaking. Romans eyes start to blink slowly and he falls asleep in the wheelchair.
Virgil POV
I walk back into the room with Reggie. Rosie is sitting on the bed watching Mickey Mouse. Mr. and Mrs. Kingsley are both screaming at each other.
My phone dings and I pull it out of my pocket and see it's a text from Logan.
Logan:
Salutations Virgil. I am packing up to be discharged from the hospital. Would you like to come up and keep me company.
Me: sure be there in a sec

I put my phone back in my pocket and look at Reggie. Reggie looks stressed and uncomfortable while his parents scream and argue.
"Hey my other friend is here and he's being discharged. Can I go say bye? I'll be back down after." I say and Reggie gets up and picks up Rosie.
"Take us with you please?" Reggie says holding Rosie. I nod and walk out the door.
Time skip
We make it upstairs to and walk down the hall to the last room. I knock and I hear a distinct come in. I open the door slightly and see Logan sitting on his bed with regular clothes on. He turns his head towards me and smiles.
"Are you up for more visitors?" I ask and he looks at me confused and nods. I open the door more and Reggie walks in holding Rosie in his arms.
"Logan this is Romans older brother Reggie and you already met Rosie. They took Roman for a CT scan about a half hour ago and they wanted to get out of the room. I hope you don't mind." I say with a small nervous chuckle. Logan smiles. He looks exhausted, he has bags under his eyes, with a tussle of messy hair on his head, and his hand burnt and swollen.
"It's fine. Nice to meet you Reggie." Logan says holding out his non wounded hand.
"Nice to meet you to Mr. Wizard." Reggie says with a smirk.
"Heh..It's Logan." Logan says with a smile.
"Where's your dad?" I ask Logan as his dad was no where to be seen.
"He had to go. He was on a business trip and left in the middle of it. Patton said I could stay with him til my dad gets back though." Logan says with a bit of a blush when he says Patton's name.
"Oh well that's good. How's your hand?" I ask looking at his really burnt and bandaged hand.
"Fine..." Logan says looking away holding his arm.
"Sorry." I say sadly because I know it made him uncomfortable.
"It's Fine.. Anyway! Reggie, tell me about yourself." Logan says changing the subject away from his hand.
"I-Umm I go to FGD college in the next town over for graphic design. When we were in Maine I was a fire fighter but then tore my ACL and couldn't keep going. We moved here 3 months ago because I got into college here, my mom has a company down here, and Remus' school is just a state over." Reggie says while sitting Rosie down on the bed next to Lo.
"Your from main?" I ask
"You were a firefighter?" Logan asks
"Can you do magic?" Rosie asks Logan while scooting over in front of him.
"Heh.. Yes Rosie I can do magic. I am a wizard after all." Logan says with a smile. Rosies face lights up and hugs Logan.
"I'm surprised Roman didn't tell you we were from Maine. Roman was the one who took it the hardest when we had to move." Reggie explains to us.
"Huh. He has never mentioned anything about Maine." I mumble while fiddling with my sleeve.
Logan's phone begins to ring on the nightstand next to him. He picks it up and answers it.
"Hello? Oh hey Pat! Alright I'll be down in a minute. Love you too bye." Logan says over the phone.
"Well I need to go. Thanks for seeing me. It's was nice to meet you two. I'm sure I'll see you both around maybe." Logan says getting up and grabbing his things.
"Alright we'll go back down stairs to see if Romans back. Bye Lo I'll see you tomorrow!" I say picking up Rosie and walking towards the door. Logan waves bye and we walk back out to the hall, down the stairs and back to Romans room. Before I walk into Romans room I hear screaming in Spanish. Mrs. Kingsley storms out of the room and down the hall. Reggie walks into the room and looks around.
"What was her excuse this time?" Reggie asks in a quiet monotone voice.
"Tomorrow was the night of the show and her model threatened to quit if she wasn't there." Mr. Kingsley says in a defeated tone.
Roman is rolled into the room in wheel chair. Roman looks bad but not as bad as before. He's still pale and shaky but he has a little more color back. Reggie walks over picks him up and places him on the bed carefully.
"Alright Roman we got your blood back from your blood draw..." the doctor says walking into the room. She looks at us with a smile. That's not a good smile. That's the smiles that says 'I'm going to say something and you are not gonna like it.'
"Roman you have a condition called Ultrarapid metabolizer.."