So, I spent alot of time reading up on the different types of epilespy in children. I'm no doctor so it's possible some of my information is wrong...but i did my best in researching...I can't thank you all enough for sticking with me through this story. :)

Chapter 12

BPOV

Febrile seizures often occur in children who have no history of seizures, but according to the doctor's Mikey was an exception. His fever had just jumped too high, so quickly, that it caused him to seize. Still, they were going to perform more tests on him.

I sat holding his hand in the hospital room as he slept. I had been in the ambulance with him and about five minutes into the ride to the hospital his body settled. It was something I would never forget seeing. It was terrifying I could only imagine how it was for Mikey. He was so helpless…and as I watch him sleep I realize that he's still just as helpless.

I wish there was something I could do for him. I wish that he wasn't hooked up to anything so that I could just hold him. That's all I wanted to do for the time being. I just wanted to comfort him and promise him everything would be alright. Then again it would be more for me then Mikey because he had no relocation of the seizure. He was so confused when he stopped seizing and was in the ambulance.

I squeezed his hand trying to hold back my tears.

"Mommy…" He whispered. I wiped my eyes and gave him a smile.

"Yes, baby?"

"Don't cry, Mommy." He sighed. "I'm so tired, and I wanna go home." He pouted.

"They just want to do a few more tests on you then I promise we can go home." I said to him.

"Okay." He nodded. He was such a brave little boy.

I jumped a little when I felt a hand on my shoulder. I looked behind me to find Edward, his green eyes filled with worry. I offered him a small smile in which he returned with one of his own.

"The nurse said they'll be taking him to do those tests soon…" Edward's voice was hoarse. He looked so tired, but imagined that I did as well. We had been at the hospital for hours, just waiting until they could run those tests on our boy.

"Good." I nodded.

The next couple of hours I sat in the waiting room with my husband on one side and my oldest son on the other. I sighed and both of them reached over and grabbed one of my hands. I squeezed them both tightly.

I glanced over at Edward and then over at Masen. They were so much alike in their attitudes and features, that it was sometimes scary.

"Mr. and Mrs. Cullen?" My head shot up at the doctor's voice. He walked over towards us as Edward and I both stood up. Masen stayed sitting since he had Alexa in his lap. She had refused to stay at the house with Lane once the ambulance arrived. Alison and Grace were such heavy sleepers that they had just slept through the entire thing.

The doctor started talking and his news just told us that Mikey just had a febrile seizure, which we had already known. He then told us that he wants to up his medication. I know it's for his own good but he's already so tired all of the time. He goes on to tell us that often children's seizure types change since their brain is still developing so it is possible that Mikey could be suffering from Myoclonic seizures. Children with childhood absence epilepsy are also prone to develop myoclonic epilepsy. All of that means that Mikey is just going to need to be watched even closer.

My head is spinning with all of this new information. I feel like I'm going to fall so I lean over into Edward. He wraps his arm around my waste and helps hold my shaking body up.

"When can we go home?" I ask the doctor after he is done explaining everything to us.

"I want to keep him here for another 24 hours to keep his fever level." He tells us. I just nod.

A few minutes later Edward and I go up to Mikey's room. I sent Masen home with Alexa. I had to promise my daughter that she could come back up to the hospital and visit her brother in the morning.

The nurse brought in an extra cot so that we could stay over night. I climbed into the cot alone, Edward ended up in the chair so he could be closer to Mikey. He was so worried about our son. He didn't need to voice it, I could just tell in the way he was acting.

"…yes Mom…he's sleeping right now…you don't need to come home…" I walked into the kitchen an hour after we arrived back home from the hospital. It seemed all of that rest in the hospital wore Mikey out because he was back asleep not ten minutes after being home.

I walked over to where Edward was sitting at the bar. He was holding his head in his free palm with his elbow propped up on the bar while he held the phone up to his ear with his other hand.

"I will call you if anything else happens…love you, too." He quickly hung up and then lifted up his head. He grabbed me and pulled me into his arms. "I love you so much, Bella." He whispered into my neck. I wrapped both of my arms around him.

"I love you, too." I told him. "Come on, let's go rest with Mikey." I sighed pulling away from him. He nodded and stood up. I took his hand and lead him towards our bedroom. Mikey was sound asleep in the middle of our bed. I smiled and crawled in next to him. I just didn't feel comfortable with him being upstairs in his bedroom alone. I didn't mind sharing the bed with him and I knew Edward was feeling the exact same way I was.

I watched Mikey sleep as I thought about the past 24 hours. His fever had gone down amazingly over his stay in the hospital and kept level for over five hours.

This was possibly the worst flu I've ever been through with any of my kids and most definitely the scariest.

The three of us woke up a few hours later to a busy house. Mikey was fever free and he was starting to look so much better. He seemed to be feeling better as well. I just hoped that it stayed that way.

"Alice is here with the boys. Rose and Emmett are on their way. Also, Charlie called and said he'll be over as soon as possible." Lane relayed everything to as we exited our bedroom.

"Thank you, Lane." I smiled. I took Mikey's hand and led him upstairs to get some new clothes on. Edward was close behind us.

"Mama, is Izzy here?" Mikey's eyes lit up when we walked down the stairs and he saw Emmett holding Elijah in the foyer.

"Mikey!" I heard the little girls giggle before I saw her. She started off in a run before Emmett told her to slow down. "Sorry." She blushed. I just laughed. She was adorable, looking everything like her mother.

Once Izzy reached us she took Mikey's empty hand. I saw her whisper something to Mikey, which in turn made him giggle.

"I made Mikey his favorite for dinner." Masen announced once we finally made it to the kitchen. I looked down at Mikey and saw he had a huge grin on his face. I sat him up at the kitchen table. Masen set a plate of grilled cheese and macaroni in front of him. He dug right in. It was the first time in days that I'd seen him actually eat anything on his own.

"I remember the first time Masen made me grilled cheese." Lane laughed out of nowhere. Everyone in the kitchen turned to look at her, all but Mikey anyway. He was focused completely on the cheesy goodness on his plate.

"Our second date." Masen spoke. Everyone's eyes went to Masen next. "I burned it." He laughed.

"He smoked out my kitchen. My Dad came home to us standing out on the front lawn. He was so angry with us." Lane giggled. I widened my eyes unsure of what the heck was going on. They hadn't interacted this way since they got here. I was just completely surprised.

"Wait, second date?" That's when everyone's eyes went to Cassie. "You two…?" She pointed at Masen and then Lane.

Oh this wasn't going to be good because in the next moment Lucas was asking the same thing.

"Wait, you're seriously saying you had no idea that Lane and Masen were together before?" Emmett's laugh boomed through the silent kitchen. "Oh this is better then TV." In the next second we all heard Rosalie's hand smack up against the back of Emmett's head.

"Maybe we should go in the living room and leave them to talk." Edward suggested. I just nodded then looked at Mikey. His face was covered in cheese. Edward scooped him up and said he was going to give him a bath. I wanted to spend a little time with the girls and the rest of my family, so I ended up just going into the living room with everyone else. I couldn't help but worry about Mikey the entire time though.