Shawn Michaels was led by a nurse to where his nephew's hospital room was and walked in to see the boy asleep in the bed. On both sides of him were his brothers who looked to be trying to protect him from any dangers. Not far from the three boys on a foldable bed was Stephanie and Hunter also asleep after a long night. Quietly Shawn went over to get a look at Dean and frowned at the mask that rested on the boy's face along with all the wires connected to him. At a nurse coming in with a tray of food, Shawn saw Hunter start to wake up at the sound.

"Shawn?" Hunter looked at his teammate and wrestling brother as he sat up a little.

"My flight just got in and I came to see how Dean is doing."

"He's sleeping and the doctor said that he should be fine." Hunter said. "Steph stayed the night here with him and I got here with the boys a couple hours ago. They fell back asleep when we got here and I didn't sleep much last night."

"And the mask?" Shawn asked to see Hunter look over at his still asleep sons.

"Until his breathing is better, he can't take it off." Hunter answered as he carefully got off the bed without waking his wife. "Vince and Shane went home too and will be back soon when Linda arrives back from her meeting."

"How are you holding up? Sean told me that you're scared and struggling."

"I'm better now. Dean has been getting a little stronger since I first got here, but the doctor is still confused on what happened. He wants to run a test to see if maybe Dean has asthma and wasn't found."

"What about wrestling for him?" Shawn asked at knowing wrestling was the boy's life.

"He will be fine. The doctor will explain everything he can and can't do. Dean will understand if he has to give up wrestling."

"I hope he doesn't."

"Daddy."

Turning around to the bed, the men saw that Seth had woken up and was rubbing at his eyes. Hunter went over to lift his son off the bed and carry over to the bathroom door where the boy's crutches were. Once settled with them, Seth went into the bathroom to close the door behind him for privacy.

"Excuse me Mr. Helmsley, but I need to check Dean and don't want to scare him." the nurse said after she came back in with a cart.

"I'll wake him up." Hunter assured and went over to the bed.

He rubbed Roman's arm that was draped over his little brother to wake the oldest boy who looked at his dad confused. At his dad telling him that Dean needed to wake up, the oldest moved to get off of the hospital bed very carefully and Hunter ran his hands through Dean's hair.

"Daddy?"

"Hey buddy. The nurse needs to check you out and doesn't want to scare you by doing it when you're sleeping."

"Stay with me daddy." Dean whispered weakly.

"Of course my little lunatic." Hunter kissed his hair as Roman went to stand with his Uncle Shawn.

"What's going on?" Seth asked as he came out of the bathroom.

"A nurse is checking out your brother." Shawn informed as Roman had Seth lean on him.

"I'm just going to close this curtain for several minutes." the nurse informed the others and pulled the curtain around Dean's bed. "Okay little guy, I need to take some blood to run test."

"No." Dean weakly said with a scared look.

"It's okay Dean. Now be my tough little lunatic fringe and let her take the blood." Hunter instructed his son and sat down on the bed to hold his son close.

"Lunatic fringe? That's a cute nickname for you." the nurse told the boy as she prepared the equipment to take blood. "Why does your dad call you that?"

"Because I never stay still for very long and look like a lunatic. He calls my oldest brother Rome, powerhouse due to him being strong and my twin older brother Seth, architect from him always thinking up ways to get into trouble." Dean explained as his arm was taken to be cleaned.

"What do you want to be when older?"

"A wrestler like my dad and Uncle Shawn." Dean answered and didn't notice the needle in his arm.

"Interesting job. Are you and your brothers going to be a team?"

"Yep. We're still coming up with names."

"I think your nicknames would fit into wrestling." the nurse told him as she took the needle out and then put a bandage over the area.

"See Dean no problem." Hunter smiled down at his son.

"I didn't even know."

"Thank you for doing that. He and Seth have always been scared of needles." Hunter told the nurse who just gave him a smile.

"I hate seeing little kids cry and have worked hard to make them not." the nurse informed and then went back to the cart. "Now I need to check his heartbeat."

The nurse put a stethoscope to Dean's chest and instructed him to take some deep breathes. At him starting to cough from taking the deep breathes, a sad look came to the nurse's face as she found his heartbeat was good. Hunter rubbed his son's back to comfort him as the nurse continued to do her test and soon was done for her to pull the curtain back for Roman and Seth to get back on the bed with their brother. Though for some reason Dean started to try taking the mask off and Roman stopped him as Seth called for their dad. Hunter moved to grab Dean's hands as the boy started to cry and that didn't help with him being able to breath.

"Dean, you need calm down my little lunatic."

"I don't to wear this anymore."

"You have to Dean." Hunter informed as he wiped some tears away.

"I want to go home daddy."

At hearing that Hunter sat down on the bed as Seth and Roman made room for him. Both watched their dad pull Dean close to his chest to run his fingers through the messy dirty blonde hair.

"I want to take you home too, but until you're better you can't."

"Am I going to have to stay here forever?" Dean asked in a scared tone.

"No baby." Stephanie answered as she came over. "Once you're better, we are going to take you right home."

"Not going to abandon me?" Dean asked for his brothers to look down in guilt at having told him that years ago.

"Never would we abandon any of you." Stephanie promised as she set a hand on Seth and Roman's joined hands. "Are you guys hungry?"

"Yes." all three said at the same time.

"How is Dean going to eat with the mask on?" Seth asked and they looked to the nurse.

"He can eat normally right?" Hunter asked nervous of them saying he would need an IV.

"We're going to be putting him on an IV, but the doctor said as long as you or your wife is at least present, the mask can come off for him to eat." the nurse explained to them. "Though a nasal cannula has to be at least in his nose to give him some oxygen."

Carefully the mask was removed for Dean to then have the cannula put on that made him a little uncomfortable. He was showed the breakfast that had been brought for him by the nurse and he looked to not want to eat.

"You need to eat Dean or won't get any better." Stephanie told her son.

"I want your pancakes mom." Dean informed.

"You can have them when you get home." she promised.

As Dean was eating, the nurse got ready the IV and Hunter knew why she was waiting. He tapped his son on the shoulder to get him to look at him as the nurse came closer and Roman clamped a hand over Seth's mouth who was about to scream at seeing a needle. From being focused on his dad, Dean didn't feel the IV's needle be put in his arm. The boy ate the food as the door opened for his grandfather and Uncle Shane to come in along with his grandmother.

"I brought something from our house Dean." Linda told her grandson.

From behind her back, Linda pulled out an old teddy bear that made a smile come to Dean's face as he thanked her. The bear was his that was kept at his grandparents' house whenever his brothers or him stayed there over night. Stephanie thanked her mom for doing that and she ran her fingers through Dean's hair. When the boy was done eating, he had the mask put back on as he rubbed at his eyes feeling very tired. Soon Dean was fast asleep as the others ate their own food that had been picked up.

"How long is Dean going to be here mom?" Seth asked with his voice down to not wake his brother.

"I don't know my little architect. Once the doctor knows what happened, he should be able to go home." Stephanie answered.

At a knock on the door, they turned to see the doctor come inside with a small smile to the family. He held a folder that he opened while going over to sit down next to Dean on the bed and began to look him over.

"How is he feeling today?"

"Tired." Stephanie answered as she watched the doctor carefully check on Dean without waking the boy.

Looking at the machines, the man then heard some coughs come from the boy who remained asleep. He asked how Dean had slept and Stephanie informed that he coughed while asleep.

"I want to see if perhaps a vapor can clear his airways for him." the doctor told the parents as he looked at the folder to write something down.

"Okay." Hunter nodded.

When the doctor came back with the equipment needed, he hooked a new kind of mask up on Dean for a vapor to start being released. After a few minutes, it looked like the vapor was working on Dean's coughs and the boy slept still.

"I want to keep him another night just for monitoring. The IV will give him some medicine to help him, but it will make him sleep."

"Thank you." Hunter told the doctor and shook his hand.

"I talked to a friend of mine who works with kids who suffer from asthma to see if perhaps he might know. He said that it shares the symptoms of asthma, but it should've been seen with test. There is a condition similar to asthma that is hard to discover unless the person has an incident. My friend said to try a vapor if he is still coughing that will help with relaxing his airways. If this does work for your son, I'm going to prescribe an inhaler for him to be used if needed."

"What about physical activity?" Shawn asked as he looked nervous on what the answer will be.

"He will need to take it easy for a couple of weeks, but should be able to do whatever he wants after that. Even wrestle like his dad and uncle."

"That's a relief." Shawn sighed as he saw Seth crawl into the bed next to Dean.

"I would like to speak with the two of you in private about something I have found out." the doctor said to Hunter and Stephanie.

Both followed him out of the room at knowing it had to do with the boys' genetics and they were handed a paper. On it were dates that both Stephanie and Hunter knew very well and hated to think about.

"These dates are of two times you were in the hospital Mrs. Helmsley."

"Yes. Me and Hunter had two close calls, but both times during delivery our babies didn't make it." Stephanie answered with tears in her eyes. "No one except us knew that I was pregnant due to me not showing very much."

"The doctors did c-sections both times and when our babies were born premature, it hurt us to hear that they died during birth."

"No, they didn't. I had that friend of mine also look into this a couple years ago of people pretending to be doctors and nurses. This was what told me that those three boys are actually your sons. Their genetics are a match to yours, but it appeared bugs in our machines messed up with the first readings of Dean's and with the second blood test it was confirmed. I looked into your other two sons for you."

"You mean our babies didn't die." Stephanie was in shock at that news.

"Premature babies are hard to determine, but it would appear that your sons had been transferred to another area of the hospital after Dean and Seth was born. For Roman, it would seem he was left there when the two people had gone to take more babies."

"This explains so much. I mean all three have always shown resemblances to us, but we could never understand why." Hunter hugged his wife.

"Now you don't ever have to worry about telling them that they're adopted, because they're not."

"Thank you for all you have done." Stephanie hugged the doctor.

The two went back into the room and informed the others of what they had found out. Of course Stephanie's parents and brother weren't happy with her having hid the pregnancies from them, but forgave her quick. Shawn set a hand on Hunter having had guessed something bad had happened at those times from his friend's change in mood. They all turned to the bed to see Seth start to fall asleep next to his brother without getting in the way of the mask, IV or wires. When the boy was asleep, Hunter pulled the blanket over both boys as the others watched the sleeping boys. An arm was put around Roman by both of his parents as him and his family continued eating.


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