30 minutes later and they were at hospital, during that time the initial shock of pain Alex had felt had faded and he was now in the same half asleep stupor he was in before.

"Hello Alex, Are you feeling any better today?" The doctor asked caringly as Mr Wolff helped Alex sit on the bed.

"It still hurts too much," Alex sniffed

"You look completely jaded, Alex…" She said quietly.

"What does that mean?" Alex asked sniffing loudly trying to stop crying.

"Tired, you look tired Alex." She said quietly.

"The pain isn't letting Alex sleep." Mr Wolff said shortly.

"I don't want to give Alex anything stronger because he is so small," The doctor said quietly. "I also don't want to mix medication,"

Mr Wolff nodded, it looked like they would have to wait until Alex eventually feel asleep.

"Are you going to be a brave guy for me, while I take of your bandages?" she asked looking into Alex's eyes. She knew it could be very painful if the bandage stuck to the skin.

Alex nodded sniffing some more.

Mr Wolff grabbed Alex's other hand.

"Just squeeze it hard if it hurts, ok Alex?"

Alex nodded once more.

The doctor started unwrapping the bandage on Alex's arm. As she moved up Alex's arm, he started squeezing his dads hand hard. Alex started crying in pain the more she moved up towards the shoulder.

"Please stop!" Alex cried out loudly when she was almost at the armpit.

Mr Wolff sat down beside Alex and had Alex rest his head in his chest. He took off Alex's do rag and began to stroke Alex's hair.

Alex jerked his arm and screamed out in pain as she finished taking the bandage off his arm.

"I'm sorry Alex, but I have to," She said quietly.

She started to unwrap the bandage around Alex's torso. Alex kept crying into his dads chest, he wished the pain would go away.

"You're supposed to make the hurting stop," Alex cried harder into his dads chest.

The doctor sighed, she realized how much it must hurt a little kid. After more crying and more resistance she finally managed to get all the bandages off Alex.

"Huh, that doesn't look good," The doctor said having a clear view of Alex's burns.

"What doesn't," Mr Wolff asked cautiously as Alex continued to cry into his chest.

"I think we should have kept him overnight last night, his burns got infected." She said quietly.

The doctor left the room for two minutes coming back with a second doctor.

"Hmmm, I don't like the looks of that," the 2nd doctor said examining the infection. "I think you should admit him overnight and run a course of antibiotics through an IV,"

The doctor went around to face Alex, while the 2nd doctor talked to Mr Wolff.

"Hey Alex, do you think you can be a brave boy again while I put new bandages on?" she asked kindly.

Alex nodded with tears still coming out of his eyes.

"What's inflickishun?" Alex asked crying.

"Infection? It means something got into your burns and is stopping it getting better, but we will get rid of it," The doctor said giving Alex a reassuring smile.

The doctor waited until Mr Wolff and the other doctor and finished talking, before she started by putting a burn relief cream over Alex's burns.

Alex gasped as he felt cool relief on his burns, which soon faded and turned back to back to a slightly lesser degree of pain as the doctor put on the bandages.

Mr Wolff took that time to ring home.

"Hello Onitia,"

"Hey Sonny, what's up?"

"Alex's burns got infected, so they are going to keep him over night,"

"Oh, that's not good, what hospital are you at? I'll come down with Little Grace,"

"Mt Sinai. Could you also bring Alex's bear with you, thanks."

Mr Wolff looked back at Alex.

"Here you go Alex, this is for being so brave," The doctor said giving Alex five lollipops.

She then took Alex and Mr Wolff up to the third floor where they had room ready for Alex.

"Do you want to try and get some sleep?" Mr Wolff said kindly as Alex laid face down on the bed.

"I want to," Alex said tiredly, but he was too uncomfortable and sore to actually do so.