Chapter Three

Blood from a Brother

"Paul?" the Doctor said quietly as he reached them.

Paul turned to the doctor and quickly stood up, "Dr. Rain-how's Joe?"

The doctor didn't answer right away since his eyes landed on Nick, "Is he alright?"

Kevin slowly nodded as he continued to help Nick drink the soda, "I think so, he's a diabetic, his blood sugar is just really low. What about Joe?"

The doctor's face went grim once again, "I'm going to be honest with you, he might not make it. The bullet did a lot of damage to his kidneys but right now it's the blood loss I'm worried about, Joe has lost a lot, he needs blood-now."

Kevin sighed as Nick's head fell on his shoulder once again unable to drink any more, "Then take mine."

"Kevin-are you sure?" Denise asked looking at her oldest son in fear.

"Mom, I'm the only one who can," Kevin said looking from his mother to the doctor, "I have the same blood type as Joe, so does Nick but he can't do it at the moment, and our parents can't do it because we have another little brother at home they need to check up on every now and then, so-take mine."

"We can do it right there in the room, you'll be with your family the whole time, I'll even put an extra bed in there for Nick," the doctor said motioning towards Nick who was still leaning on Kevin's shoulder.

"Hum?" Nick mumbled, since he had heard his name.

"Nothing Nick," Kevin said handing the empty soda can to their father, "I wonder if he is even going to remember this."

"I don't know," Paul said as he watched Kevin poke Nick's finger again, this time he was doing it all on his own, Nick was out.

"Okay, its up to 43, that's a little better," Kevin said as he put the stuff away and handed it back to their father.

"Here, I'll take you to Joe now, you might need this though," the doctor said with a small smile as he brought over a wheelchair.

"Thank you, but I can carry him," Kevin said as he put one arm around Nick's shoulder blades and the other under his legs and lifted him into his arms.

"Are you sure?" the doctor asked though he could tell just by looking at him that Nick really was a small boy.

"Yeah, he only weighs 110 pounds," Kevin said as they followed the doctor down the hall and into one of the larger rooms that had three beds, but at the moment only the one near the wall was full.

"You can put Nick, on that bed right there," the doctor said pointing at the bed closest to the shaded window.

Kevin nodded and gently placed Nick on the bed, took off his shoes and put a blanket over him, then turned to his parents, "Dad, you might want to give him the emergency glucose, he's not looking to good."

"We'll keep an eye on him, you don't have to worry about that," Paul said as he handed the kit to Denise.

"Kevin, are you really?" the doctor asked who was now standing by Joe.

"Could I see Joe for minute first?" Kevin asked walking towards his brother's bed.

"Of course," the doctor said with a knowing smile, "I'll go see if I can help Nick at all."

Kevin nodded and walked over to Joe and picked up his limp hand, "Joe-you sure know how to scare a brother you know that? When I saw all that blood-I thought-I thought you were already dead, and I have to tell you Joe, I have never been so scared in all my life. Not even when Nick was diagnosed with diabetes, or when you nearly broke you're neck falling from that wall in J.O.N.A.S. training. No this tops it all, but you're not dead, you're alive and I plan to keep it that way, even if I have to give you ever bit of my blood to do it. You are not going to die Joe Jonas, not like this, you hear me little brother? Not like this."

Kevin choked on a sob when he felt a hand on his shoulder, he turned around to see the doctor standing beside him, "I'm sorry Kevin, but we have to do it now, if it's going to help Joe."

Kevin nodded and followed the doctor over to the bathroom, he handed Kevin the stupid hospital gown and Kevin groaned, he hated these things but knew he had to wear it, luckily though it wasn't one of the ones that was open in the back so that made him feel better. Once he was changed he came back out and got on the bed in between his brothers and looked at the doctor again.

"Okay Kevin, the way this is going to work, you are going to have these two needles in your arm and once there're in, try not to move your arm as much as possible alright?" Doctor Rain said holding up to long needles so Kevin could see them.

As soon as Kevin saw the needles he gulped, they really weren't that big, but to Kevin who hated needles and blood to begin with, they were huge.

"Alright Kevin, are you ready?" Doctor Rain asked as he uncapped the first needle, watching Kevin carefully.

Kevin wasn't sure he could do this anymore those needles were huge, he swallowed hard again, trying not to throw up. Then he looked over at Joe, so helpless and weak, and he knew he had to do it, so he slowly nodded his head as he squeezed his eyes shut.

Paul and Denise came over to the bed, Paul squeezed Kevin's shoulder, and Denise picked up his hand.

"Alright, just so you know the one needle is sending the blood to your brother the other is controlling how much you are giving, alright here we go," Doctor Rain said as he stuck the first needle into Kevin's arm making him wince as the needle went all the way in, as soon as it was in Doctor Rain taped it down so it would stay in one place but Kevin still had to be careful not to move his arm he then moved on to the next needle, "Okay Kevin, just one more to go," the next needle went in a little easier since it didn't have to go all the way in as the last one had, the second needle was also taped down and the small amount of pain seem to subside for a the moment.

"Alright, I'm going to connect Joe now, it will only take a second," Doctor Rain said as he moved over to Joe.

Kevin opened his eyes looked at his parents who gave him small smiles, then he turned towards Joe and watched from his bed as Doctor Rain gently let the tube between the two brothers hang down as he made his way to Joe's bed and as gently as possible put the needles into his arm as well, taping them down and then taking the tube and attaching it to the machine that was in between Kevin and Joe. Kevin took a deep breath, for once he wasn't afraid to admit that he was scared.

Doctor Rain saw this but had no choice, Joe needed the blood now, "Kevin, are you ready?"

Kevin looked over at Joe, he hadn't seen his baby brother so helpless in a long time, he was going to help him and he wasn't going to let a few needles and some blood stop him, he nodded that he was ready, he wanted to close his eyes but he for some reason he couldn't take his eyes off of his brother.

Doctor Rain nodded and turned on the machine and went back to make sure Nick was responding to the glucose he had gotten, luckily he was.

The doctor came back over to Kevin, "Good news, Nick seems to be doing much better and his blood sugar is up to 68."

Kevin sighed with relief, "Good."

"How are you doing? Now that it's on you shouldn't be feeling anything," Doctor Rain said looking at Kevin with a small smile.

"Yeah, I'm fine, as long as I don't look at it," Kevin said with a small laugh.

"I'll be back later, I have rounds to make, just relax Kevin and don't try to get up," Doctor Rain said with a smile as he left the room.

"I'm going to go call home, give them an update and check on Frankie, will you two be okay?" Denise asked looking at Kevin and Paul.

Kevin nodded and Paul said, "Don't worry sweetheart, they're all going to be fine."

Denise nodded and with a small smile and left the room

"Dad?" Paul turned back to Kevin.

"What is it Kevin?" Paul asked gently sitting down on the chair beside him.

"You, have an idea, who did this don't you?" Kevin said he knew that look in his father's eyes, he was mad, not at Kevin, but at the person who had done this to Joe in the first place.

Paul nodded, he leaded over and whispered into Kevin's ear five letters, "J.O.N.A.S."

Kevin's eyes widened, who ever had done this had something to do with him and Joe being Junior Operative spies.

"Dad are you sure?" Kevin asked looking at his father again.

Paul nodded, "Speaking of the agency, I have to call them back, will you be alright for minute?"

Kevin nodded and Paul squeezed his shoulder and left the room. Kevin looked over at Nick, some color was coming back into his face, which was a good sign, "Good, hopefully his blood sugar is coming up now."

Kevin's head turned to look at Joe, he didn't look any different but at lease he wasn't looking worse. Kevin took a deep breath and then finally brought himself to look at the tubes and needles that connected him to his brother, bad mistake, just seeing the blood in the tube and the needles in his arm made him woozy, "I love you Joe," Kevin whispered right before he passed out.