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Chapter 12
Draco took his dinner in his room that night because he literally couldn't move. Even then he didn't eat very much. Severus really couldn't figure out what was wrong other than a migraine and nauseousness. He figured if Draco hadn't improved by Saturday he'd take him to Saint Andrews for a consult.
At Black Manor on Friday morning Harry was having a wonderful sleep. Sirius had promised that they would spend the day riding around the large expanse of the property. They had only seen a fraction of the grounds the previous day and Harry had seen some rather large hills and small mountains not far from the manor and couldn't wait to get up there.
Draco woke up on Friday morning feeling no better but no worse than the previous day. He didn't know what was wrong with him and that was really unnerving but knew that his father wouldn't wait long before doing something.
Draco fell back asleep really not having the energy to keep his eyes open any longer. Some time later Draco felt his father's cool fingers brushing on his forehead and opened his eyes and said,
"Hi Dad."
"Hi son, feeling any better?"
Draco weakly shook his head and said,
"Not really, the light is too bright it hurts my eyes to have them open."
Severus nodded and went over to the window and drew the heavy drapes effectively blocking out the majority of the sunlight. Draco weakly smiled and sighed and said,
"Thanks Dad, much better."
"Sure Draco, now I've brought up a little food that you need to try and eat what you can."
Draco nodded and finished most of the bowl of porridge that his father had brought and managed to keep it down until it was almost lunchtime when his will lost the battle with his stomach and brought it all up.
Meanwhile at Black Manor Harry and Sirius were riding and thoroughly having fun. Sirius never knew that Harry was such a good rider. They stopped along the trail for a picnic lunch and continued riding peacefully into the afternoon and evening. The shade from the trees kept the temperature at a reasonable temperature. Sirius had also brought a picnic supper as well and they arrived back at the manor well into the night. After the long day Harry was exhausted and his muscles were slightly sore so he bid Sirius good night and went to take a warm bath in his Jacuzzi like bathtub and climbed into his bed and was soon fast asleep dreaming pleasant things.
Back at Snape Manor, Draco wasn't doing so well. He had eaten a bit of lunch and dinner but had ended up losing that as well because the pain in his abdomen was worsening. His fever had climbed again and his headache worsened. Severus knew without a doubt that he would have to take Draco to the hospital tomorrow. Severus stayed in Draco's room that night.
Saturday morning dawned bright and beautiful but Severus and Draco didn't notice it at all. Draco had had a very rough night and Severus was getting ready to portkey himself and Draco to the hospital. Severus figured once he knew what was wrong he would floo Sirius and let Harry know.
Meanwhile Harry was still sleeping completely oblivious to anything else that was going on. After their long day outside Sirius decided that it'd be best to spend the day inside. Sirius had promised to teach Harry how to fence since he hadn't had the chance to all summer at his father's. He knew that Draco and his father already knew how and were very good at it so he wanted to surprise them. Harry felt a twinge when he thought about his brother because he hoped that he was feeling better by the time he got home the next afternoon.
Severus had flooed ahead and notified the hospital that he was on his way in with Draco. They both felt the familiar tug behind their navels and were soon deposited in the emergency room. Severus helped Draco over to the nurse's station and told the nurse that was standing there. The nurse took one look at Draco, waved over a doctor and immediately took the two over to a bed in a curtained off area.
Severus helped Draco sit on the bed and the doctor said,
"So what seems to be the problem?"
"Well Draco was sick for about a week but has been better since last week. He came to me a couple of days ago and told me that he wasn't feeling well that he had pain in his stomach and a very bad headache. He's been running a temperature as well and has been vomiting since yesterday." Severus responded.
The doctor nodded, raised up the bed a bit and said,
"All right Draco lay back for me."
Draco did so and the doctor started putting slight amounts of pressure on the lower part of Draco's abdomen, when he got over to the right side Draco screamed weakly from the pain. Immediately Severus knew what was wrong and the doctor said,
"Well Draco has appendicitis and it looks like if we don't hurry it'll burst. Now Draco when did it start hurting down there?"
"I noticed it either monday or tuesday but I thought it was a stomachache or something left over from being sick before."
The doctor nodded and said,
"All right, now I'm going to call up to the OR and I'll leave you in the capable hands of this nurse and we'll get you moved and that appendix taken care of."
Draco nodded and the doctor gave the nurse orders of what he wanted done and left. The nurse helped Draco into a hospital gown and got an IV going. Severus kept a tight grip onto Draco's hand and was smoothing the boy's scraggly hair back, he kept telling Draco not to worry and that everything would be fine.
Draco didn't notice much of any of this because the pain was mounting and seemed to be the only thing that would allow him to focus on. He didn't even notice that he had been moved until he vaguely felt that his father wasn't there and holding his hand anymore. The lights were too bright for Draco so he had closed his eyes as soon as he could have.
Draco heard going through a rather thick set of doors and he opened up his eyes to see that they had arrived into the room and got everything quickly set up and the surgeon said,
"Hello Mr. Snape I'm going to take care of this and don't worry it's very simple and shouldn't take long."
Draco nodded and felt himself drifting off to sleep. As soon as he was fully asleep the surgeon worked as quickly as he could because from what the doctor had told him they were going to be cutting it very close and the appendix could burst at almost literally any moment. The surgeon worked as quickly as possible and just as he got to the offending organ it burst. Had the surgeon been younger and not as much experience he would have freaked out but he stayed calm and collected and quickly finished everything up. The surgeon knew from experience that the infection would set in extremely quickly and what to expect.
He gave instructions to the assistants and nurses and went out to speak to Severus. He entered the waiting room and as Severus stood up he said,
"Perhaps you should sit down."
Severus got a slightly confused look on his face but complied with the doctor's wishes. The surgeon took a deep breath and began.
"I'll not beat around the bush, before I could get the appendix out it burst. I'm sure you understand how serious this is. Now we've moved Draco to the surgical ICU to keep an eye on him. Hopefully it won't be so bad, only a little bit of the infected fluid leaked into his system but since he just got over being sick his immune system might not be back up to full strength."
Severus got a grip on himself and said,
"Draco's got a very strong immune system, probably one of the strongest I've ever seen."
The surgeon nodded and said,
"It should be a bit before you can go and see him."
Severus nodded and said,
"That's fine, I have to go contact my other son and tell him what's going on, he's at his Godfather's house and doesn't know what's going on."
"All right. There's a floo junction right outside here that you can use and by the time you're done you should be able to see your son."
Severus nodded and went outside to the floo junctionand called Sirius' house. When he didn't receive an answer he flooed to the Manor and was met by a house elf who said,
"What can I be doing for you sir?"
"I need to see Harry, it's urgent."
The elf nodded and bowed itself out and a few minutes later a very sweaty Harry emerged and said,
"Dad what's going on? I was told it was urgent."
Severus pulled his sweaty son into a hug and said,
"Draco's appendix burst in surgery before they could get it out."
Severus felt Harry stiffen and he finally said,
"Is that why he was sick?"
Severus nodded and said, "Yes it was. He just got out of surgery and was moving him when I came here."
"Let me get my stuff really quick and tell Sirius and I'll come back with you. He's always been there for me so I'm gonna do the same."
Severus squeezed Harry and released the boy who quickly retreated. Soon Sirius walked in the room and said,
"Harry just told me about Draco and for what it's worth I'm sorry."
"I appreciate it Black and I'm sorry that I have to cut your time short with Harry."
"Oh don't worry about it Severus. He was going to be leaving tomorrow anyways. Just go be with Draco." Sirius said slightly dismissively
Just then Harry bounded back into the room with his duffel bag and gave Sirius a hug and said,
"I had a great time Sirius, thanks for everything and letting me come."
"Anytime kid-o, you know you're welcome here whenever."
Harry nodded and flooed out to the hospital and Severus following after giving a brief nod to Sirius. Severus landed in the waiting room and went up and made his way upstairs to the surgical intensive care unit. Harry couldn't repress a shudder at the remembrance of being in this place but at least he wasn't the one in the bed. They got up to the ward and the nurse took down both of their names and lead them to Draco's room.
For Severus it was almost like the time Harry was in that almost same exact position and situation. For Harry it was wierd because he didn't know how he must've looked when he came out of his surgery but knew it had to be close to what he was seeing with his brother. Draco looked almost as white as the sheets he was laying on and very weak.
'At least he's not on a vent.' Harry thought wryly to himself. Severus had sat himself in the chair by Draco's bed and Harry in the other chair on the other side. Harry did what his father and brother had done for him and grabbed onto Draco's hand, squeezed and was very happy to feel a small one back as if acknowledging he was there. Harry of course couldn't remember anything from his time being unconscious after that but was pretty sure that he had at least some semblance of awareness while he was. Severus squeezed Draco's other hand and said,
"Draco, Harry and I are here and we're not going anywhere. Just rest and relax and you'll be better and out of here before you know it." He received a squeeze back as his response.
The rest of the afternoon whiled on with Harry and Severus both talking to Draco. Trying to give him support thinking that he might have more willpower to fight off the massive infection ravaging his system. Harry was happy that they had gotten his appendix out in time and voiced this to his father. Severus agreed and then gently told him that he might not have made it if that was the case because he was so ill without that added problem. After that little statement the two lapsed into silence and spent the rest of the evening quietly, watching to see if there was any change in Draco.
A/N: All right. I finished that chapter and I hope you're all happy! See?! Didn't I tell you it wouldn't be long before I got the next chapter out. You're just lucky I didn't have a lot of work to do these last couple of days but that work is going to pick up again. But now that you're done reading that chapter you need to push that little 'go' button and tell me what you think but ABSOLUTELY NO FLAMES OR NEGATIVE STUFF!!!! I don't like it and it just makes me sad and want to stop writing so please be nice and only tell me nice things :-D So I hope that chapter was okay and have satisfied those people who wants 'poor ickle Harry' to have a break. Besides I like writing Harry introspection so I can have some fun with this. So push the little go button and leave me a review and tell me what you all think.
Chapter 12
Draco took his dinner in his room that night because he literally couldn't move. Even then he didn't eat very much. Severus really couldn't figure out what was wrong other than a migraine and nauseousness. He figured if Draco hadn't improved by Saturday he'd take him to Saint Andrews for a consult.
At Black Manor on Friday morning Harry was having a wonderful sleep. Sirius had promised that they would spend the day riding around the large expanse of the property. They had only seen a fraction of the grounds the previous day and Harry had seen some rather large hills and small mountains not far from the manor and couldn't wait to get up there.
Draco woke up on Friday morning feeling no better but no worse than the previous day. He didn't know what was wrong with him and that was really unnerving but knew that his father wouldn't wait long before doing something.
Draco fell back asleep really not having the energy to keep his eyes open any longer. Some time later Draco felt his father's cool fingers brushing on his forehead and opened his eyes and said,
"Hi Dad."
"Hi son, feeling any better?"
Draco weakly shook his head and said,
"Not really, the light is too bright it hurts my eyes to have them open."
Severus nodded and went over to the window and drew the heavy drapes effectively blocking out the majority of the sunlight. Draco weakly smiled and sighed and said,
"Thanks Dad, much better."
"Sure Draco, now I've brought up a little food that you need to try and eat what you can."
Draco nodded and finished most of the bowl of porridge that his father had brought and managed to keep it down until it was almost lunchtime when his will lost the battle with his stomach and brought it all up.
Meanwhile at Black Manor Harry and Sirius were riding and thoroughly having fun. Sirius never knew that Harry was such a good rider. They stopped along the trail for a picnic lunch and continued riding peacefully into the afternoon and evening. The shade from the trees kept the temperature at a reasonable temperature. Sirius had also brought a picnic supper as well and they arrived back at the manor well into the night. After the long day Harry was exhausted and his muscles were slightly sore so he bid Sirius good night and went to take a warm bath in his Jacuzzi like bathtub and climbed into his bed and was soon fast asleep dreaming pleasant things.
Back at Snape Manor, Draco wasn't doing so well. He had eaten a bit of lunch and dinner but had ended up losing that as well because the pain in his abdomen was worsening. His fever had climbed again and his headache worsened. Severus knew without a doubt that he would have to take Draco to the hospital tomorrow. Severus stayed in Draco's room that night.
Saturday morning dawned bright and beautiful but Severus and Draco didn't notice it at all. Draco had had a very rough night and Severus was getting ready to portkey himself and Draco to the hospital. Severus figured once he knew what was wrong he would floo Sirius and let Harry know.
Meanwhile Harry was still sleeping completely oblivious to anything else that was going on. After their long day outside Sirius decided that it'd be best to spend the day inside. Sirius had promised to teach Harry how to fence since he hadn't had the chance to all summer at his father's. He knew that Draco and his father already knew how and were very good at it so he wanted to surprise them. Harry felt a twinge when he thought about his brother because he hoped that he was feeling better by the time he got home the next afternoon.
Severus had flooed ahead and notified the hospital that he was on his way in with Draco. They both felt the familiar tug behind their navels and were soon deposited in the emergency room. Severus helped Draco over to the nurse's station and told the nurse that was standing there. The nurse took one look at Draco, waved over a doctor and immediately took the two over to a bed in a curtained off area.
Severus helped Draco sit on the bed and the doctor said,
"So what seems to be the problem?"
"Well Draco was sick for about a week but has been better since last week. He came to me a couple of days ago and told me that he wasn't feeling well that he had pain in his stomach and a very bad headache. He's been running a temperature as well and has been vomiting since yesterday." Severus responded.
The doctor nodded, raised up the bed a bit and said,
"All right Draco lay back for me."
Draco did so and the doctor started putting slight amounts of pressure on the lower part of Draco's abdomen, when he got over to the right side Draco screamed weakly from the pain. Immediately Severus knew what was wrong and the doctor said,
"Well Draco has appendicitis and it looks like if we don't hurry it'll burst. Now Draco when did it start hurting down there?"
"I noticed it either monday or tuesday but I thought it was a stomachache or something left over from being sick before."
The doctor nodded and said,
"All right, now I'm going to call up to the OR and I'll leave you in the capable hands of this nurse and we'll get you moved and that appendix taken care of."
Draco nodded and the doctor gave the nurse orders of what he wanted done and left. The nurse helped Draco into a hospital gown and got an IV going. Severus kept a tight grip onto Draco's hand and was smoothing the boy's scraggly hair back, he kept telling Draco not to worry and that everything would be fine.
Draco didn't notice much of any of this because the pain was mounting and seemed to be the only thing that would allow him to focus on. He didn't even notice that he had been moved until he vaguely felt that his father wasn't there and holding his hand anymore. The lights were too bright for Draco so he had closed his eyes as soon as he could have.
Draco heard going through a rather thick set of doors and he opened up his eyes to see that they had arrived into the room and got everything quickly set up and the surgeon said,
"Hello Mr. Snape I'm going to take care of this and don't worry it's very simple and shouldn't take long."
Draco nodded and felt himself drifting off to sleep. As soon as he was fully asleep the surgeon worked as quickly as he could because from what the doctor had told him they were going to be cutting it very close and the appendix could burst at almost literally any moment. The surgeon worked as quickly as possible and just as he got to the offending organ it burst. Had the surgeon been younger and not as much experience he would have freaked out but he stayed calm and collected and quickly finished everything up. The surgeon knew from experience that the infection would set in extremely quickly and what to expect.
He gave instructions to the assistants and nurses and went out to speak to Severus. He entered the waiting room and as Severus stood up he said,
"Perhaps you should sit down."
Severus got a slightly confused look on his face but complied with the doctor's wishes. The surgeon took a deep breath and began.
"I'll not beat around the bush, before I could get the appendix out it burst. I'm sure you understand how serious this is. Now we've moved Draco to the surgical ICU to keep an eye on him. Hopefully it won't be so bad, only a little bit of the infected fluid leaked into his system but since he just got over being sick his immune system might not be back up to full strength."
Severus got a grip on himself and said,
"Draco's got a very strong immune system, probably one of the strongest I've ever seen."
The surgeon nodded and said,
"It should be a bit before you can go and see him."
Severus nodded and said,
"That's fine, I have to go contact my other son and tell him what's going on, he's at his Godfather's house and doesn't know what's going on."
"All right. There's a floo junction right outside here that you can use and by the time you're done you should be able to see your son."
Severus nodded and went outside to the floo junctionand called Sirius' house. When he didn't receive an answer he flooed to the Manor and was met by a house elf who said,
"What can I be doing for you sir?"
"I need to see Harry, it's urgent."
The elf nodded and bowed itself out and a few minutes later a very sweaty Harry emerged and said,
"Dad what's going on? I was told it was urgent."
Severus pulled his sweaty son into a hug and said,
"Draco's appendix burst in surgery before they could get it out."
Severus felt Harry stiffen and he finally said,
"Is that why he was sick?"
Severus nodded and said, "Yes it was. He just got out of surgery and was moving him when I came here."
"Let me get my stuff really quick and tell Sirius and I'll come back with you. He's always been there for me so I'm gonna do the same."
Severus squeezed Harry and released the boy who quickly retreated. Soon Sirius walked in the room and said,
"Harry just told me about Draco and for what it's worth I'm sorry."
"I appreciate it Black and I'm sorry that I have to cut your time short with Harry."
"Oh don't worry about it Severus. He was going to be leaving tomorrow anyways. Just go be with Draco." Sirius said slightly dismissively
Just then Harry bounded back into the room with his duffel bag and gave Sirius a hug and said,
"I had a great time Sirius, thanks for everything and letting me come."
"Anytime kid-o, you know you're welcome here whenever."
Harry nodded and flooed out to the hospital and Severus following after giving a brief nod to Sirius. Severus landed in the waiting room and went up and made his way upstairs to the surgical intensive care unit. Harry couldn't repress a shudder at the remembrance of being in this place but at least he wasn't the one in the bed. They got up to the ward and the nurse took down both of their names and lead them to Draco's room.
For Severus it was almost like the time Harry was in that almost same exact position and situation. For Harry it was wierd because he didn't know how he must've looked when he came out of his surgery but knew it had to be close to what he was seeing with his brother. Draco looked almost as white as the sheets he was laying on and very weak.
'At least he's not on a vent.' Harry thought wryly to himself. Severus had sat himself in the chair by Draco's bed and Harry in the other chair on the other side. Harry did what his father and brother had done for him and grabbed onto Draco's hand, squeezed and was very happy to feel a small one back as if acknowledging he was there. Harry of course couldn't remember anything from his time being unconscious after that but was pretty sure that he had at least some semblance of awareness while he was. Severus squeezed Draco's other hand and said,
"Draco, Harry and I are here and we're not going anywhere. Just rest and relax and you'll be better and out of here before you know it." He received a squeeze back as his response.
The rest of the afternoon whiled on with Harry and Severus both talking to Draco. Trying to give him support thinking that he might have more willpower to fight off the massive infection ravaging his system. Harry was happy that they had gotten his appendix out in time and voiced this to his father. Severus agreed and then gently told him that he might not have made it if that was the case because he was so ill without that added problem. After that little statement the two lapsed into silence and spent the rest of the evening quietly, watching to see if there was any change in Draco.
A/N: All right. I finished that chapter and I hope you're all happy! See?! Didn't I tell you it wouldn't be long before I got the next chapter out. You're just lucky I didn't have a lot of work to do these last couple of days but that work is going to pick up again. But now that you're done reading that chapter you need to push that little 'go' button and tell me what you think but ABSOLUTELY NO FLAMES OR NEGATIVE STUFF!!!! I don't like it and it just makes me sad and want to stop writing so please be nice and only tell me nice things :-D So I hope that chapter was okay and have satisfied those people who wants 'poor ickle Harry' to have a break. Besides I like writing Harry introspection so I can have some fun with this. So push the little go button and leave me a review and tell me what you all think.
