A/N: WARNING this is gonna be a bit of a long authors note, since I haven't been on for a while, so feel free not to read it :)

So guys, remember when I said the next update would be a lot faster, yeah I lied :) I'm sorry guys, but I've been at school and so I haven't had any time, but now it's holidays (yay!) so hopefully I'll be a lot better, and update my other stories too :) i also got a bit distracted with a later chapter so that's kind of an excuse :)

The idea for this chapter came from like nowhere, because I started working on it ages ago, but I got stuck, so I left it for a bit, and then came back to it like yesterday, and I was thinking about Little House On The Prarie, and yeah, if you watch it, it's when Charles was trying to get the kite back in season 1.

Omg did you guys watch Big Time Surprise! Eek! Who's he gonna pick? Ahh I don't know! Leave how you want it to turn out in your reviews if you like :) OK. That's the end of my A/N, so onto the chapter!

Chapter 12: It's Not Dangerous

"Lacey, baby," Jo chuckled, taking the bauble from her daughter's hands as Lacey tried to put it in her mouth "you're not helping," Jo set the bauble into the plastic box beside her, and continued to take down golden ornaments as Kendall stood on a ladder, unwinding Christmas lights from balcony near the swirly slide.

"Kendall," Jo huffed, and Kendall looked down to see that Lacey had pulled herself to her feet, and was clinging to a row of tinsel that was close to the bottom of the tree. She began to lose her balance, however, toppling into a sitting position and taking the tinsel with her. Kendall chuckled as he made his way down the ladder and over to Lacey "Control your daughter, please?" Kendall bend down, wrenching the tinsel from Lacey's grasp and hoisting her onto his hip.

"Oh, so she's my daughter, now?" he asked.

"Only when she breaks things," Jo smirked "she got that from you,"

"No, I think she got that from her Uncle Carlos, she good her good looks from me," Jo snickered "and her beautiful mother, of course," he said as he walked back over to the swirly slide.

"Flattery will get you nowhere, Kendall Knight," Jo followed him to the ladder "so don't you dare take our baby up that ladder,"

"Oh, come on," Kendall whined, and Jo scoffed "I'll be watching her the whole time! And she won't be in the way up here!"

"Yeah, but she almost pulled the Christmas tree on herself before, imagine what she could do to herself if she was up there! What if she fell, or-?"

"Jo!" Kendall interrupted "she can barely stand up, there's no way she's gonna fall. But, if it's worrying you that much," he said gently, setting Lacey down on the floor, where she spotted her new teddy bear and crawled over to it "then I won't take her,"

"Thanks," Jo smiled, relieved "Now, you'd better get those decorations down before the guys get here, or they'll be there till next summer,"

"Sure," Kendall said "but, uh, Jo?" Jo turned to see where Kendall was pointing to see that Lacey had crawled over to the decorations box and was now throwing them all over the room.

"Oh!" Jo groaned, grabbing Lacey and taking the ornaments from her grasp.

"How are you gonna cope when she learns to walk?" Kendall chuckled, turning back to the Christmas lights.

"That'll be your job," Jo told him, putting Lacey into her play pen, where she grabbed her stuffed cat and began thrashing it around.

"That's the hockey player in her," Kendall said proudly, beginning to climb down the ladder with an armful of Christmas lights "she's got the urge to destroy things,"

"And a hatred for cats," Jo added with a smirk as she continued to take down decorations "but I'm not sure I wan't our baby playing hockey, it's dangerous!"

"Oh, come on!" Kendall replied, scoffing "Dangerous? Look at me, I've been playing hockey ever since I was in middle school, and I'm fine!"

"I know," Jo said, "but, still, it's a rough sport, she could get hurt-" there was a shout, a crash, a thump, and a groan as Jo whipped around to see Kendall sprawled on his back on the ground, covered in the Christmas lights, the ladder lying on him and his arm bend at an odd angle.

"Kendall!" Jo cried, rushing to his side as tears stung her eyes and a lump formed in her throat "Are you OK?" she pushed the ladder off him with all her might and grabbed the Christmas lights.

"Yeah," Kendall grunted as he tried to sit up "Ow!" he lay back onto the ground "No,"

"Oh, my God!" Jo cried "Your arm!" she put her hands over her mouth in shock as she noticed the grotesque way his arm was bend up by his head.

"Yeah, that's not right," Kendall smiled, but it turned into a grimace of pain.

"This isn't funny!" Jo cried, getting up "I'm calling an ambulance!" she said as Lacey began to cry in her playpen,

"Better take care of Lace first," Kendall groaned as he tried to get up again.

"No," Jo told him, holding her phone to ear "you stay, I'll fix it," she bent down to Lacey's crib and grabbed her with one arm, hoisting the little girl onto her hip, and bouncing her up and down to calm her "Hello?" she said into the phone "Yeah, I need an ambulance, yep, OK. I'm at the Palm Woods hotel, apartment 2J, my boyfriend fell off a ladder. OK, thanks," she hung up her phone and tossed it onto the couch, holding a whimpering Lacey to her chest "It's OK, honey, daddy'll be fine,"

"What did they say?" Kendall asked, inhaling sharply as he tried to shift his weight so he could face Jo "How long are they gonna be? I can hardly move!"

"Don't," Jo told him gently "you'll just make it worse. They won't be long, OK? So, just-"

"What? Lay on the floor?" Kendall asked in frustration as there was a knock at the door.

"Well there's not much else you can do!" Jo said as Camille appeared in the doorway,

"What happened?" she gasped.

"A little decorating accident," Jo explained, her voice shaking.

"Did you call the paramedics?" Camille asked worriedly.

"Yeah, they'll be here in a sec, but-"

"You want me to take care of Lacey?" Camille guessed, smiling.

"Yes, please," Jo sighed in relief, but her stomach still lurched as the door burst open, and two men in blue overalls arrived, carrying a gurney. They laid it on the ground, and one of them squatted down to Kendall's level, while the other came over to Jo.

"How did this happen?" he asked.

"H-he-ladder, and-" Jo stuttered, unaware of how much she was shaking until Camille put a hand on her arm and answered for her.

"He was pulling down Christmas decorations, and he fell of the ladder," she explained calmly.

"Thank you," the paramedic said before turning to help his partner lift Kendall onto the gurney, and Jo's heart ached at the way he moaned with every movement.

"Is there a back way out of here?" the other paramedic asked "we can't really take him through the lobby,"

"There's a side door to the left of the elevators, it leads around the back of the pool, and you just follow the path up the stairs and out to the front of the pool." Camille explained.

"Thank you," he turned back to the gurney and lifted it as it's wheels unfolded underneath it. Jo followed the paramedics as they wheeled Kendall out of the apartment, but stopped outside the door as Camille gripped his elbow.

"Uh, Jo?" Camille asked, her eyes on Lacey, smiling as Jo realized,

"Oh, right!" she said, handing Lacey over and thanking Camille as she headed out the door. "Oh, Camille?" Jo turned in the doorway.

"Yeah?"

"You'd better call his mom,"

A/N: Do you guys feel like they pretty much live in the hospital? Cause I do :/ anyway, I hope this chapter doesn't suck too much, and I'm gonna start working on the next one now :)