Can you write the first fist fight between the brothers and one of them ends up in the ER (I kinda prefer Jay). And the happy ending.
Fun fact- I'm from Alberta Canada! Anyways I don't really know how schools work in Chicago so I'm just using the Alberta system. The one I used anyways. It'll make more sense when you read. Without further ado! Here we go folks!
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"First day of school!" Ellie exclaimed as she turned the light on in Will's room and patted over to his bedside. She gave his bare shoulder a gentle shake, then pulled the blanket off her son revealing seven year old Will groaning from the sheets. "Get up mister! First day of second grade, that's a big deal!" She told him tickling his back until he sat up and sighed. "You better be out of bed by the time I get back." She demanded, leaving the door open and heading off to her second son's room. Copying her previous actions Ellie turned on the light and watched as Jay squirmed underneath the blankets. "Good morning mister!" She said excitedly, smiling as Jay sprang from his bed.
"Mama! I get to go to school!" He exclaimed joyfully.
"I know! My baby is going off to kindergarten, what am I supposed to do with myself?" She joked, taking Jays hand and leading him towards his closet to grab his uniform. She helped Jay get cleaned up, fixing his hair, making sure he brushes his teeth, goes to the bathroom before eating. She tells Jay that she'll meet him down stairs and he goes down to wait for her. "William you better be out of that bed!" She calls, entering his room swiftly a moment later.
"Mom! You have to knock!" He yells, shielding himself from her eyes.
"Hon, I changed all your diapers, nothing I haven't seen before, now hurry along and get dressed." She called at him, gently closing the door behind herself and allowing herself a soft chuckle. When she got downstairsJay was already engrossed in a bowl of cereal. She smiled, watching as he tried to read the label on the box, his eyebrows creasing in confusion. "William!" She yelled from the bottom of the stairs, pouring some cereal in the bowl for him as well.
"I'm here geez!" Will sighed, flying down the stairs and plopping down into his seat.
"Someone's grumpy." Jay noted, smiling with two missing front teeth at his clearly raging brother. "Not a morning person?" He joked again.
"Jay." Ellie said, warning him. From then on they ate in silence, the only noise being the chewing coming from both the hungry boys. "Bus comes in ten!" She reminds them. Jay eagerly hops down from his seat and Will follows tiredly behind him. They walk to the bus stop with their mother, Jay opting to hold her hand, while Will simply followed beside them. Jay accepted the kiss his mother gave him then climbed onto the bus excitedly. Even Will allowed his mother to quickly peck his forehead. "Watch out for him." She told, Will nodded.
The gym filled up quickly, students ranged from ages four all the way up to eleven. This being a kindergarten to fifth grade school. Jay hung by his older brother, being unsure of where exactly he was supposed to go. Will on the other hand wanted nothing more then for Jay to leave his side. He pointed to the general direction that Jay was supposed to go and told him to go there, he then left his little brother, lost, all by himself and joined his friends where all the second grades were.
"Umm... excuse me?" Jay asked, tugging on a young woman's skirt, showing her his famous puppy eyes. "I'm a bit lost. Can you help me?" He wondered.
"Of course sweetie. Just tell me your name." She answered politely.
"Jay Halstead."
"I didn't know Will had a brother!" She exclaimed, her face lighting up. "Come with me hunny I know exactly who your new teacher is." The woman led him to a colourful classroom, filled with books and number on the wall as well as the alphabet written in bright colours underneath. He smiled at his new teacher, she seemed nice enough. "This is Jay! Will's little brother."
"Will! One of my favourites, it's nice to meet you." The woman said. "I'm ms.Olsen. What grade is Will in now?" She asked, seeming genuinely curious.
"Second." Jay replies.
"He should have come to drop you off, tell him that I'd love to see him drop by."
"Yeah sure." He replied, hanging his head down, seeming defeated.
"Why don't you go find a seat?" She suggested and allowed Jay to go and find a spot somewhere in the classroom.
The first half of the day was fun. Jay and his new classmates learned each other's names and played a few games. They ate their lunch and then were let out to play on the playground for recess. That's when he spotted him.
Will was playing soccer with many other little boys. Jay watched as he scored a goal and got a bunch of happy cheers and claps from all his buddies. He was pissed. Why did everyone seem to fawn over his brother? He looked Will dead in the eyes and watched as Will laughed him off. Now he was really mad. Who did Will think he was, he wasn't better then him, just older. He marched over to Will, steam coming out his ears and pushed his ginger brother to the ground. The other boys stood around them looking confused. Will turned around seeing who it was and punched Jay square in the jaw. Jay let out a scream, he felt his forehead get cut open, then the blood seeping out of his head. In that moment he wanted to cry but he was nowhere near done with his brother. Jay slammed his smaller body into Will's. With both of them on their feet, they ended up falling to the ground for the second time. This time though a sickening crack came from Will, his arm was crushed underneath him. Jay stopped at the sound, looking terrified. He looked down at his brother's clearly broken appendage and gasped. It only took one look at his own arm to pass out. Just like that Will's head dropped to the concrete with another bang, his eyes simultaneously rolling back into his head.
"Will?!" Jay screamed, crawling to his brothers chest and shaking him. "WILL!" He cried this time, shaking his brother even more. A teacher had finally been alerted to the commotion and ran to the boys. He pulled a very frantic Jay away from Will and checked to make sure he was breathing. Another teacher was gathering the rest of the students, who had now formed a small crowd away from the brothers.
"Let get him to the nurse!" The teacher said, picking Will up as gently as possible. "Come on little man." He instructed Jay, who looked horrified at his limp brother. "He's going to be okay, but you've got to come with me." The teacher said, he led little Jay back to the nurse's office, where Will was laid down on the table and the nurse began cutting off his shirt, in order to see the damage.
"Someone call their parents please." The nurse said, wincing when she saw the clear deformity of Will's arm as well as the dislocation of his shoulder. She placed ice on the shoulder and arm and waited for Will to come to. In the mean time she lifted Jay onto the examination table and took a look at the large gash across his forehead. "Did you hit your head?" She asked him softly. He nodded yes but continued to stare at Will. "Okay sweetheart I'm going to put something on it that might sting but it will make it feel better later." She told him, unsurprised when she received no response. It was at this point that Ellie and Pat Halstead burst through the doors of the nurses office, looking out of breath. Pat rushed over to Will and winced when he saw the arm. Will had since woken up but was still quite out of it, he simply stared and his dad with tears brewing for later. Ellie, however went straight to Jay's side. The nurse was about to place a painful cloth on her baby's head to keep his cut clean and he needed her. As promised it did indeed hurt. Jay let out a pitiful scream the second the cloth touched his face. He cried out for his mom. All she could do then was take his small hand and allow his to squeeze her own. "Almost done love." The nurse said removing the cloth. Ellie took Jay into her protective grasp and cradled him for a moment.
"It's all done baby boy." She soothed, turning to face her husband who was stroking Will's hair in an attempt to keep him calm. "He needs to get that arm set for sure." Ellie says, knowing as a nurse that Will's arm was broken. "Jay probably needs stitches."
Pat nods and as gently as possible lifts Will from the bed. Despite Pat's best efforts Will's still cries out, burying his face into his dad's shoulder and letting a soft sob escape his lips. "I know kid." He says rubbing Will's back with his free hand. "How bout a fun trip to the ER?" He joked, getting a glare from his wife.
As promised they went to the hospital. Pat took Will up to get x-rays of his arm and shoulder, while Ellie stayed with Jay who was currently looking terrified at the needle that was there to numb him.
"I don't wanna shot." Jay whispered into his mother's chest.
"I know baby, but you need to" She told him, bringing him into a better position on her lap.
"Alright young man!" The doctor started, much to enthusiastically for his taste. "Your mommy's going to hold your hands and you are going to stay extra still for me so I can numb you up and get this head fixed alright?" Jay gave a weak nod. A nurse takes hold of his small legs, his mom wraps her arms extra tight around him, so that he can't move. A second nurse comes in and holds his head still. The doctor gets closer to him with the needle in hand before he freaks out. He tries to squirm but there are three adults holding him down and he's only four. He screams when the needle enters his already broken skin, tears freely falling from his face.
"Ow!" He yells, his face goes red and Ellie can feel the tears burning in her eyes. "Mama! Tell them to stop doing it." He cries. This goes on for two more painful minutes. When it's over, Jay calms down. The two other nurses let go of him and now it's just his mother who is holding him. She rubbed along his stomach to comfort him as the stitches were being sewn into his forehead.
Will, who is now asleep on a gurney is brought into the same room as Jay. A few new doctors join them in the room and put Will's x-rays up so that both parents can see the extent of the damage.
"So his shoulder is clearly dislocated so we are going to put a nerve block in there to numb him up before popping it back in and his radius is broken right here" The doctor points to the break, though you didn't really need a medical degree to see where it was broken. "We're going to have to cast and then set it." The doctor explains. "Can we get dr. Trey in here to do the nerve block and maybe a couple nurses to hold him still?" The doc asks, the nurse in the corner nods and leaves to get the people he's requested.
"All done!" Jays doctors says, taking his gloves off and presenting his hand for Jay to high five. He does so proudly.
"Jay?"
"Yes mama?"
"You did great !" Ellie said proudly. "But now I need to go and be with Will."
"But he can see you from here! And he has daddy." Jay tried to argue.
"Shh, don't wake him up just yet." She told Jay, glancing towards her eldest, still peacefully asleep. "What the doctor is about to do to him is going to hurt him a lot! More then what they did to your head. So he's going to need me and daddy to help him feel better okay. I'm not going anywhere, they will do it here, but he needs me."
"Well... okay" Jay sighs, hating to lose his mother's protective hold but understanding that Will needed her more in that moment. Jay suddenly felt bad about this whole ordeal, it suddenly dawned on him that this was his fault.
Ellie joined he husband at Will's side, brushing his untamed curls away from his eyes and kissing his cheek until his eyes fluttered open.
"Good morning sleepy head." Pat said, his hand attached to Will's good one. "Listen bud, the doctors going to get your arm all fixed up but they have to do something first okay?"
"What?" Will asked, sleep still etched in his voice.
Ellie took over, seeing that Pat was having a hard time with this. "Sweetie, the doctor is going to take a needle and put it in your shoulder so that it goes to sleep. Then he's going to fix it up for you!" Ellie says, trying to sound excited to ease some of the stress she could see on Will's face.
"But it doesn't hurt anymore, can't we just go home?" He lies, hating the idea of a needle going anywhere near his shoulder. Will wasn't usually scared of needles, not like Jay at least, so these nerves were new for him.
"Hey good morning Will!" The doctor says from the doorway. "We ready?" He asks, looking at Pat and Ellie, rather then Will.
"No I don't want to!" He responds, seeming to curl himself into a ball.
"Bud we have to, it'll feel better afterwards." Pat tried to explain but Will wasn't having it. A nurse took ahold of his legs, while his dad grabbed his hand and torso. Leaving only his broken arm and shoulder and head left. Ellie went to stroke his hair and try to distract him, the best she could. "Just relax" Pat said as Will squirmed as much as he could. Will feels his shoulder being cleaned off with antiseptic and starts to cry, he doesn't want this to happen. However, unable to move there isn't much he could do to stop it.
"NO!" He yells as he sees the needle in the doctor's hand. Ellie takes his face as moves it so he's facing her. She kisses his temple while his tears continue to fall. "I don't want to do it! I'm too scared! I don't want to!" He screams, breaking both his parents hearts. "Mama! Help! I don't want to!" He yells, turning again to face the needle, now uncapped and ready to be inserted. "NO NO!" He cries again. "Daddy! Help!" He trying everything but it's not working. Will tries to break free of everyone's grasp, unsuccessfully. Ellie grabs his face again, making it so that he can't see the needle seconds away from entering his swollen shoulder. "Mama!" He cries again, his chest heaving to get in a breath. "OW!" He cries, going quiet for a second when he feels the needle in him, then screaming when he feels the doctor move it within his shoulder. "Stop! Take it out!" He cries again, this time opting to not look towards his shoulder when his mother's hold on his face loosens. "It hurts! Stop doin..." his plea was interrupted with a sob and Ellie could feel her heart break. "Please st..." another desperate cry. The doctor nodded towards the parents as he slipped the large needle out of Will's shoulder, the people holding him down could clearly fell him relaxing when it's removed.
"That wasn't to bad was it?" The doctor asked, pacing the needle in the sharps tray. Will's sob answered his question and he tried offering a smile to the little boy but nothing seemed to be comforting him. Pat placed his hand along Will's back and rubbed circles into it. Will was in a full blown panic. "Let's slow down the breathing buddy." The doctor says, concern evident on his face.
"I... can't... breathe!" Will heaves, using his good hand to scratch at his bare chest.
"Yes you can baby, just calm down the worst parts over it's not going to hurt anymore I promise." Ellie tried to soothe. She kissed his now sweat covered forehead, hating that her baby was hurting. "That's it, good boy." She praised when Will is able to catch his breath.
"This shouldn't hurt okay. All I'm going to do it put your shoulder back in but it's all numb so you shouldn't even feel it." The doctor explains tugging slightly on Will's arm until a loud pop was heard. He sighed in relief and buried his head into Ellie's chest. "What colour of cast would you like?" His doctor asked.
"Green!" Will all but ceremonially cheered. The doctor left to retrieve the supplies. The cast was put on in no time and Will's arm was set without tears.
The two youngsters were discharged from the hospital, both asleep in their parents arms as they made their way to the car. Jay woke up to eat dinner but Will remained asleep, the drugs in his system making him exhausted. After dinner Jay was put to bed and in no time both of his parents went to sleep as well, the day wearing them down. At nearly two in the morning Jay woke up to moans from his brothers room. He lifted the blanket off himself and patted down the hall, opening Will's door carefully.
"Are you okay?" Jay whispered, careful not to wake their parents. Will looked up at him through tears and shook his head no. "What's wrong?"
"My shoulder is killing me! Hope you're happy!" He spat angrily.
"I'm sorry, I didn't mean to hurt you I just got mad." Jay tried to explain.
"For what? I didn't do anything to you."
"You left me!"
"I'm sorry" Will muttered under his breath.
"Me too." Jay says. He climbs onto Will's bed and gives him a hug, pulling back immediately when a scream leaves Will's lips.
Both Pat and Ellie are in Will's room within a second. Evidently, Will and Jay both have tears streaming down their faces.
"What happened?" Ellie asks as Pat leaves to go get the pain medicine that the doctor gave them. Will calms down enough to tell his mom exactly what happened. Jay snuggles into her side. Pat returns with the medicine and pushes it into Will's mouth without argument. "That should help love, anything else we can do?"
"Can I sleep in your bed tonight?" Will asks with his best puppy eyes.
"Of course baby boy." She comforts, moving so that Pat can pick Will up and carry him to their bed. "Come on mister." She says picking Jay up and carrying him to her room as well. The couple placed the two boys between them, giving each other a peck on the lips before crawling into bed next to them. "How'd I get so lucky?" Ellie asks.
"I have no clue! But I'm not complaining."
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There it is folks! So I don't really know if that's exactly what you wanted but I really tried my hardest. In these one shots, as long as they're little Pat is going to be a good dad. I personally think they're relationship went south later on so yeah. As always I hope y'all liked it! Tell me if ya did it always makes my day. Last but not least if you have a prompt for me feel free to leave it in the comments and I will get to it as quick as I can. Have a fabulous day!
~Natalie
