Once Upon A Straight Tequila Night

Chapter 59 - The Emergency Room

Penelope's POV

I have just finished running some searches and relaying the information to Hotch I sit quietly in my office and just listen to the baby monitors that are in the kids rooms when I hear someone let out a loud cry so I exit my office and run up the stairs I check in the girls room no all quiet in there and then I get to the boys room and there is Little Aaron standing at the side of his crib crying I rush to his crib and pick him up and I can immediately feel that he his burning up the heat radiating from his little body can be felt through his pajama's so I take him in to our bedroom and lay him on our bed while I get the thermometer.

Aaron is laying in the middle of our bed so I climb on the bed and gently place the thermometer in his ear and wait for it beep I hear the beep and look at the display and it says 102.5 degrees Fahrenheit (39.1 degrees Celsius) so I begin to remove his clothing so that he can begin to cool down and then I thought about sponging him off with a luke warm face cloth so I run back to the bathroom and get the face cloth ready I walk back into the bedroom and notice that my little man's legs are rigid his little hands balled up above him and his whole body shaking I quickly clim up on to the bed and pick him up and lay him in my lap while trying not to cry at the sight before me and within a minute he stops shaking and his little eyes are closing I move to the edge of the bed and grab the phone and dial 911.

The Operator on the other end of the line says "Police, Fire or EMT" I say "I need an ambulance my 1 year old son has just had a seizure and he also has a fever of 102.5" the operator says "I need your address so that I can have a EMT vehicle respond" I reply "my address is 1344 Charming Circle" she then says "EMT's are on the way they will be there in a few minutes" I hang up and dial Derek's cell he answers on the second ring and says "hey baby girl did you miss me" but now I have no words and I burst into tears and then he says "Baby Girl your scaring me what's going on" I try and pull myself together and say "Derek I am so scared, it's Aaron he has had fever of 102.5 and he has had a seizure of some sort and I have called 911 but I need you here with me" I hear Derek say something to Hotch and I hear Hotch say "go the jet is still at the airfield take it I don't care what the baureu has to say about it" and then Derek comes back to me and says "I am coming home but I will call Mamma so that she can come and watch the triplets while we find out what is going on with Aaron and Baby I will be there as soon as I can, I love you."

The EMT's arrive and have made my way down stairs, just they begin to check him over Fran comes running into the house and wraps me in her arms and says "Penelope everything is going to be ok, I will stay here with the triplets and you go with him he will need you when he wakes up and Derek is on his way back and we will get through this ok" the EMT's have put an IV cannula into the back of his little hand and are giving him fluids and some medication they then put him on the bed, he is stating to come to and begins calling out "Mama mama mama" and tries to get up off the bed so I say "is there anyway for me to sit with him on the bed so that he doesn't try and pull the IV out" the EMT officer says "that is fine ma'am" I gently pick up Aaron and get on the stretcher and lay him against my chest as the officers strap both of in so that we don't fall off.

Arriving at the hospital we are wheeled into the Emergency Room where Aaron is move into a small hospital crib and attached up to different monitors and the IV my heart is breaking as I watch his little body being poked and prodded by a pediatric doctor who is checking his throat, nose and ears to make sure that there is no infection present and when the doctor check his ears Aaron become hysterical and calls out "Dada, Dada, Dada" I try to hold the tears back but it is futile so I just let the flow as I reach for his tiny hand and say "Dada is on his way little man Dada is on his way" the doctor turns to me and says "Mrs Morgan you son has a perforated ear drum so that is why when I was touching it he got upset, have you noticed in the last few days him tugging on his ears" I shake my head and say "no because he has always played with his ear when he was tired or need comforting he has done that ever since he was 6 months old so I it was nothing out of the ordinary to see him playing with his ears."

The doctor says "no worries Mrs. Morgan we will get him fixed up and try to get his fever down, now another question were you able to give him anything medication to reduce his fever before he had his seizure" I again shake my head and say "no I went to get it out of the bathroom and when I came back his legs were rigid and his little hands were balled up above his body and his little body shaking and once he stopped shaking I call 911 and here we are, can you tell me what happened to son please" the doctor says "Mrs. Morgan you son had what we call a febrile seizure and the fever he has was caused the infection in his ear and being that you were unaware that there was any problem with his ears the middle ear infection went unnoticed until tonight when the pressure build up in his ear finally perforated the ear drum, we will need to keep him here for a few days to make sure that he does not get another fever and have another febrile seizure."

Derek's POV

I am working on this case in Tennessee when I hear my cell phone ring I knew that it would be my baby girl and I said "hey baby girl did you miss me" but there was no sass, there was nothing but sobbing on the other end of the phone so I said "Baby Girl your scaring me what's going on" she say "Derek I am so scared, it's Aaron he has had fever of 102.5 and he has had a seizure of some sort and I have called 911 but I need you here with me" I turn to Hotch and say "Hotch I need to go Aaron is really sick he has a 102.5 fever and he has had a seizure of some sort he then says "go the jet is still at the airfield take it I don't care what the Baureu has to say about it and I say "I am coming home but I will call Mamma so that she can come and watch the triplets while we find out what is going on with Aaron and Baby I will be there as soon as I can, I love you."

Rossi looks at me gathering everything (well except my go bag but I don't care about that Rossi can bring it back for me) and he says "Derek what is wrong is your Mother, Penelope or one of the kids" I look at him and say "it little Aaron he has a 102.5 fever and he has had a seizure of some sort and is on his way to the hospital can you drive me back to the air field Hotch said I could take the jet and he doesn't care what the Baureu says about it" Rossi just nods and grabs a set of car keys and we take off out of there Rossi jumps in the driver seat as I am in no fit state to drive right now, I pull out my cell phone and call Mamma she answers on the fourth ring and I say "Mamma I need you to make your way over to our house, little Aaron is really sick Penelope has called 911 because he has 102.5 fever and has had a seizure of some sort" Mamma says "alright I will make my way over and look after the triplets."

Finally I arrive at the air field and I see the BAU jet and the pilot is standing there talking to someone so I say to the guard I need to get in I need to get to the jet as I show him my credentials he opens the gate and I run for the jet and when I reach the jet and the pilot I show him my credentials too and I say "can you fly me back to Virginia please it is a medical emergency" the pilot didn't hesitate and we climbed the steps and board the plane and makes all his necessary arrangement with the control tower and I feel the plane begin to move towards the runway, it is only a 30 minute flight from Tennessee to Virginia so I will be with my wife and son soon enough and before I know it we are in the air.

This has to be the longest 30 minute flight ever, I notice the plane is starting to descend so I look out the window and I see the air field my SUV is already here so I don't have to worry about a vehicle, we have may our touch down on the runway and we are being taxied in to the hanger and I am waiting for the plane to come to a stop so that I can open the door and bolt down those steps and run like the wind to my SUV, finally the plane stops and I open the door and take off down the steps and run across the air field to where I parked I quickly jump in the drivers seat and head for the gate I flash my creds at the guard and he opens the gate and I drive to toward the hospital.

I arrive at the hospital and enter the emergency room and head to the desk and say "can you please tell me where my son Aaron Morgan is please" the woman begins typing and says "he is just through those door on your left I say "thank you very much" I make my way through the doors and turn to my left and sure enough there is my baby girl her hand in Aaron's and her head resting on her forearm and my little man is laying there in nothing but a diaper and a t-shirt gripping his Mama's finger as though it were a lifeline for him, I enter the room and Aaron sees me and calls out "Dada, Dada" Penelope lifts her head and calms him by saying "Dada will be here soon" I then say "I already am I just got here" she lets go of Aaron's hand and gets out of her seat and wraps her arms around me and buries her face in my chest and begins to cry while saying "I am such a bad mother I didn't even know my baby was sick and now he is here" I move my hands to her cheeks and step back a little and say "baby you are not a bad mother you are a fantastic mother and he wasn't showing any signs of being sick neither of us knew he was sick."

I say "Baby girl have they said what is wrong with him" she nods and says "the doctor said that he had a febrile seizure which was caused by the high fever and the high fever was caused by a perforated ear drum and the doctor asked me if I noticed him playing with his ears and I told him that he has done that since he was 6 months old and it was sign for being tired or he wanted comforting and that it was nothing out of the ordinary for him" I wrap my arms around her waist and take her back over to where she was sitting and I sit down on the chair and pull her into my lap as I take Aaron's hand in mine and say to him "hey there little man Dada's here now" I watch as Aaron closes his eyes and drifts off to sleep.