Chatpter 12: The Scare

Jack sat on his bed playing his gutiar and humming to himself. Dakota gave a small whimper from across the room and he sighed. He felt bad, knowing how guilty she felt for earlier. He wasn't mad at her and didn't think he could be. If ever he was mad at her, it didn't last long. He amitted to himself that it was weird seeing his baby sister kissing some boy. But then again, she wasn't a baby. She was thirteen. But she was still a baby in Bobby's eyes. Bobby also felt a bit guilty for interfering with Dakota growing up. He was just scared. Jack understood that completely. He was scared too. Things seemed to be going from bad to worse. While Dakota's father and brother were gone, they still had reason to protect her. They were starting to uncover secrets about their mothers death. They had been since Dakota was twelve. They just never told her. Things seemed to die down after a while and Bobby decided to give it time, to see how much more he could discover without having another one of his family members killed. Ever since Dakota came into their lives, the brothers tried to tone down the violence. Dakota suddenly shot up in her bed, screaming. Jack put down his gutiar and raced to her side as Bobby ran in. Bobby and Jack sat down on her bed as she looked around. She took a minute to adjust to the harsh light. Upon seeing her brothers, she looked down at her hand, as though she were ashamed. Jack cupped her chin and gently lifted her head.
"Dakota, don't be ashamed! We're not mad at you! We love you way too much to stay angry at you for more then five minutes!" Bobby told her. Jack nodded his agreement. Dakota's bottom lip quivered and she let out a small sob. Jack let go of her chin as he felt her whole body tremble. Her face seemed so pale, so sickly. He felt her head and it was on fire. He reached over to the dresser beside them and grabbed the thermometer. Seeing her lip tremble, he decided against taking her tempature orally. He lifted her arm and put the themometer under her armpit and held it there. Dakota began crying at the pain under her armpit. Bobby grabbed her arm to steady her and stop her trashing. Dakota started to couch, blood coming from her mouth.
"Jesus christ!" Bobby said. He looked at Jack, whose eyes were wide. The themometer beeped and Jack's eyes got wider.
"Its 103.3!" Jack said as he took off his jacket. He wrapped it around Dakota's fraile body and picked her up of the bed.

4 hours later

Jack sat looking at the floor, Bobby sat looking at his feet and Angel sat beside Sofi, his head in his hands. Sofi rubbed his back and sighed. A man in a white lab coat walked up to them as he flipped through papers on his clipboard.
"Are you the Mercers?" he asked. Bobby jumped up as he nodded. The doctor stuck out a hand which Bobby shook. "Well, Dakota's fever is down to 99.7! She gave us all, quite a scare. But she's fine. Its just the flu which she probably got from the kids at school." Bobby looked at the doctor as though he was lying.
"That's the flu? She coughed up blood, but that's the flu?" Bobby asked. The doctor put a hand on his shoulder.
"I'm not sure if you know, but Dakota is a preemie. With children who are born preemie, their immune system doesn't work like ours. Their systems are delayed. So, they get sicker then we do, even with the common cold!" the dotor explained. Bobby's face softened and he apologized for his outbrust.
"Can we see her?" Angel asked. The doctor nodded, warning them not to be alarmed by the many machines.

Jack walked into the room before Bobby, Angel , Sofi and Jerry(who had just arrived). He sighed as he saw machines surrounding his little sister. She looked so small and helpless as she laid there, asleep. He wanted to take her out of the bed and take her home. But he knew they needed to keep her over night to watch her. Jack reached out and took Dakota's hand. He gently rubbed it as he watched her sleep. Her chest rose and fell with each steady breath she took. A machine helped her, in case she stopped. When Dakota's father kidnapped her and her brother raped her, the Mercer brothers thought they had seen how fragile she really was. But they were wrong. Until that moment, as they sat there watching her sleep, they never realized how fragile she really was.

Sorry to cut it so short but I'm tired. I worked over time today. It wasn't easy. Lol. I'll update soon and make it longer! Until then... read and review!

Shout Outs:

Mae: I wasn't looking for a girlfriend for the brothers, but since you gave me puppy eyes(surse the puppy eyes!) You can be Bobby's girl. Jus playin'! I was going to offer the part later into the story. You won't come until chapter 14. Sorry! Thats actually when I was going to make Bobby start paying more attention to girls, so... Is that ok?

ZoeinGreece: Lol! I love when you review my stories. You always make me laugh!

Darkdestiney2000: Ok, I'll let you play Kodi's cousin. Thanks for reading and playing a part.

Elven-Princess Ginny: Every time I see a review from you it's long. Lol! I love that! Of course you can have a part. You can play Kodi's twin! That's perfect. :Claps like crazy while smiling really big:

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