Chapter 12 Brainwaves
AN: Yay I'm so happy that so many people liked the last chapter. I meant to put this chapter up at the last update, but I'd been at the computer too long. Here's what happens to Kyle.
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Italics are thoughts
Italics and bold are Kyle's thoughts
No POV
Kyle's eyes rolled back and he fell to the floor.
"Kyle!" Rosalie screamed. "Kyle!" people around them stopped what they were doing, and got off their own horses to get a closer look at what was going on. Meanwhile Rosalie got off her horse to try to help an uncontrollably shaking Kyle. Emmett saw Kyle drop, using all his control to remember to run at a human speed, and ran over to the carousel.
"Stop the ride!" Emmett shouted at the ride technician as je jumped onto the carousel to get to Kyle. Carlisle and Esme heard Rosalie's screams as well and were doing a worse job that Emmett at getting to Kyle at a human pace. When they finally arrived, the carousel had been turned off.
"Kyle!" Carlisle called and tried to examine his still shaking grandson. "He's having a seizure. I can't do anything until for him until he stops. Stay with him and keep him from hitting himself on anything." He left Esme, Rosalie and Emmett with those instructions as he left to instruct the ride technician to call for the carnivals stand by ambulance. Luckily every year the carnival borrowed an ambulance and three man team from Forks hospital. This was the first time in years they were really needed. Within a minute the ambulance was there with a stretcher, and security was trying to control the crowd that had gathered around them. That crowd cleared a little faster when a hysterical Rosalie growled and screamed for them to get out of the way, Emmett was barely holding her back from unleashing her wrath on everyone just stopping to look.
By the time the stretcher got to Kyle, he had stop seizing, and Carlisle helped load him onto the stretcher, and was preparing him for the ambulance ride. He let them leave with Kyle to the ambulance only to give instructions to Esme, Rosalie and Emmett.
"Emmett get Rosalie into the car, and I'll meet you all at the hospital." Rosalie was beginning to break down and sob; unable to keep her eyes on Kyle that was moving farther and farther away from her. "Esme you call the others and have them meet us there as well."
"Okay Carlisle." Emmett answered, still trying to comfort Rosalie.
Carlisle turned to Rosalie and took her face in his hands gently. "Look at me Rosalie. Kyle is going to be Okay. I'm going to be his doctor on this and I will make sure he'll be fine. Okay." Rosalie still wouldn't take her eyes off Kyle, that was about to be loaded into the back of the ambulance. Only tried to stop crying and nodded. Carlisle took as the only answer that he was going to get.
The crowd cleared a path for Carlisle who was shouting for the ambulance to wait for him. He stated to the medical technicians that he was a doctor, specifically Kyle's doctor, to let him go with Kyle. The MT's didn't argue with him about it. It had gotten around town that the new doctor was part of the family that moved in.
For the first time in a hundred of years, Carlisle was terrified. He felt complexly helpless. His grandson had a seizure, is now lying unconscious, and other than keeping him stabilized; there was nothing he could do about it until they get to Forks Hospital.
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Kyle lay in a hospital bed, still unconscious, with Rosalie and Emmett by his side. Rosalie was trying to remain calm; thinking it could somehow stress Kyle out. Emmett pulled her into his lap, from her chair, to rub small circles at the base of her back. Carlisle was already a staff member of the hospital of the hospital, though he wasn't meant to start for another week. Normally relatives of the patients weren't their doctors, but Rosalie went into a screaming fit at another doctor coming anywhere near Kyle, so they made an exception. The rest of the Cullens were waiting outside Kyle's room waiting nervously in a small waiting area. This was very new for them. None of them would ever need a hospital or a doctor, and never thought they would have to be here.
As Carlisle was running the necessary tests and procedures for Kyle, he was able to keep the family updated as everything was happening. Which wasn't much since most of the information they need they wouldn't be able to get until Kyle wakes up. Carlisle did mage to get some information from Rosalie before and during Kyle's seizure, and took Kyle to get a scan of his brain activity. As an unconscious Kyle was in the scanner, Carlisle was in a conjoined room with a window to monitor if Kyle woke up. When the images of Kyle's brain activity showed up on Carlisle's screen, he could only sit there baffled at what he was seeing. According to what he was seeing, Kyle's brain activity and chemical balance was working at almost ninety percent faster than any normal human. If this is Kyle's normal brain activity he should be having seizures all the time. He should of been having one right now. Again Carlisle was feeling helpless. Kyle was something completely new to him. Like any other patient Kyle should of woken up by now, and had limited options on what could be done for his grandson.
Carlisle relayed the results to the family in the waiting area.
"So… what is he just going to keep having seizures for the rest of his life?" Rosalie said whispering. If she didn't control her voice she would be yelling. She was already failing to keep herself from crying.
"Calm down Rosalie. I'm not sure of anything yet. Kyle's brain could have been like this before the seizure or just developed into this way after it." Carlisle answered. "If before, then it was most likely the flashing lights that triggered the seizure."
"How are we going to know?"
"We won't know anything until after Kyle wakes up." Carlisle was beginning to feel as if he was talking to another scared mother and unable to tell them anything. The difference being that it was his own family he was telling.
They had been there for an hour more before Alice had a clear vision of Kyle.
"He's going to wake up soon. In another 5 minutes or so…he's going to be scared." The entire family came out of their silent state to listen.
"Scared of what?" Esme asked "Was it something at the fair?"
"I don't know. It gets blurry after that. He might be in too much shock to tell us anything."
I hate not knowing what's happening with my own son! Emmett thought gloomily at the news. What could possibly of scared him under my own watch.
"He's going to want to see you two first." Alice said referring to Emmett and Rosalie. Rosalie got up from Emmetts lap and went onto Kyle's room with Emmett and Carlisle following.
"This is so weird." Jasper grumbled. "Kyle never gets sick, and the first time he does it gets him in the hospital." With his empathy, Jasper was experiencing his grief and bearing the rest of the families as well.
"Ahhhhhhh!" the Cullens all jumped at hearing Kyle's scream.
Kyle woke with the last image he'd seen before he blacked out. It took him a moment to realize he wasn't at the carnival anymore.
"Kyle." Emmett said calmly holding Kyle by the shoulders to keep him still. At the sound of his father's voice, Kyle took deep breaths to calm himself. After realizing that his father was near and saw his face looking down at him, Kyle wrapped his arms around Emmett's waist. He had a death grip on Emmett again; which meant he wanted safety instead of comfort. Emmett put his huge arms around Kyle, and ran his hands through Kyle's hair. "It's okay Kyle. You're safe now. I've got you." Kyle didn't speak. He just sat there wide eyed until he calmed down enough until he realized where he was.
"Kyle." Carlisle asked cautiously. He didn't want to scare him again. "Do you remember what happened…at the carnival?" Kyle stopped to think about what made him so scared before.
"The man…from the graduation. He was there." He answered in breaths. "He had a gun." Emmett stiffened. Neither him nor Rosalie saw who this guy actually looked like. They wouldn't of spotted him or caught his sent at the carnival.
Why does this guy want Kyle so bad that he followed us across states? Emmett thought. Better question, why does he want Kyle dead?
"What?" Rosalie asked a little shrilly.
"What else do you remember?" Carlisle wanted him to continue while he remembered.
"I got scared and couldn't breathe when I saw him again. Then when I saw the gun everything went black." He still was holding on to Emmett.
"Kyle you had a seizure." Carlisle explained, "That's when you lose control of your body for a while. You're okay now. No one is going to harm you."
"Why did he follow us here? I don't want to stay here. Can we go home? Kyle was speaking to quickly and was beginning to panic again. There was no way he was going to be able to sleep here tonight. Emmett took Kyle by the face to make him look up into his eyes.
"Son. Listen to what I'm saying. No one is going to get near you. I won't let them."
I never thought an unknown weak human would be something I would consider a threat to my son. Other vampires sure, but not some unknown human. Emmett thought." I'm going to kill this guy if I ever get within reach of him!
"Please can we go home?" he asked again? Emmett looked up at Carlisle to get his answer.
"Not tonight."
"What!" Rosalie quietly yelled. "He can't stay here with someone trying to kill him on the loose."
"Rosalie please!" Carlisle whispered in frustration. He didn't need Kyle getting scared again and possibly causing another seizure. "We need to keep Kyle calm."
"He's going to get me if I stay here?" Kyle's breathing was beginning to get shorter again.
"No one is going to get near you Kyle." Emmett answered giving Kyle an extra squeeze. "At least two of us are going to stay with you all the time.
"It's only for tonight." Carlisle reassured Kyle, but also talking to Rosalie who was staring daggers at him, and didn't want Kyle to stay here at all. "If you go into another seizure I won't have the supplies at home to help stabilize you again, and we would have to rush you back here anyway. It's safer just to monitor you for the one night here. In the morning I will release you and we'll go home." Kyle still looked at Carlisle with pleading eyes to say that he could go home. That look burned his soul. Carlisle wanted to say yes, but he was more afraid of what he had seen in Kyle's scans, and couldn't release Kyle tonight.
"Carlisle's right son." Emmett said seriously. Rosalie was shocked.
"What, you agree with this too, our son is in danger." Rosalie argued. Emmett took Kyle's face to turn it so he couldn't see his face anymore. Emmett gave Rosalie a stern 'don't argue with me on this' look. Normally Emmett went along with Rosalie, but whenever Emmett got upset Rosalie listened.
"I don't like this either, but we have to do what's best for Kyle, even if we really don't like it. You saw Kyle's scans, and if he goes into another seizure it could be really dangerous for him. It's just one night of observation." Rosalie still looked at mad, but kept quiet. Emmett took Kyle by the face again with one of his hands. This time Emmett was smiling down at him "me and your mom are going to stay all night with you." Kyle was quiet for a few moments. He had never really seen his father serious, and since they keep hiding that side of him from it, he assumed he wouldn't like seeing it.
"All night?" Kyle asked in a small voice.
"All night."
"Mom? Grandpa?" Kyle pleaded turning and asking them for the same promise. Kyle looked like a scared little boy in his father's arms. The anger at Carlisle, Emmett, and this whole situation left Rosalie. She got into the bed with Kyle and curled up next to him. Kyle loosed his grip on Emmett got into his mother's arms, but kept one hand holding onto Emmett's. Emmett pulled up a chair to sit next to them. Carlisle quietly walked out of the room with a quiet goodnight, and a promise to check in on them throughout the night.
AN: YAY another chapter. Let me know what you think. Whether good or bad.
