24 Hypo oh? - 5sos Medical

Fen slowly made his way downstairs when he heard the front door being closed with a loud slam. It was 4 a.m. who on earth could that be?

Fen was 10 years old and got adopted by Calum and Ashton when he was 2 years old. He had two older brothers, Luke and Michael, who got adopted as well.

As Fen closely stepped into the living room he found his drunken brother standing in the middle of the room singing and dancing. Fen wasn't the only one that woke up to a drunken Luke because a sudden flicker of light shot into their eyes.

"What on fucking earth is going on," Ashton semi yelled to his two sons. Fen looked at Ashton with wide eyes while Luke just kept on singing. Ashton noticed that Fen was shivering and looked extremely pale. He immediately forgot about Luke because he knew his other son needed medical attention right now.

"Luke," Ashton stated as he kept a close eye on Fen, "go and move your ass to your bedroom. I'll talk to you in the morning." Luke huffed but eventually made his way upstairs.

Once Luke left the room, Ashtons attention was full on Fen. "Alright boy tell me how you feel," Ashton wanted to know while he grabbed his phone. While Fen was still standing against the wall to keep him steady, Ashton scanned Fen his glucose meter on his arm. After 7 seconds an alarming 1.8 popped up on his screen.

Ashton hurried towards the cabinet where he kept the dextro and other things for Fens diabetes. "Take 5 of these and I'll set up a shot again." Fen was too far away to even respond so he swallowed the sugar tablets he got from his dad. Ashton was prepping a shot with pure glucose in order to keep his levels high enough. After Fen had swallowed his last dextro, Ashton inserted the glucose into his blood.

"You'll be fine," he softly spoke as he stroke through Fens hair. Fen was diagnosed with diabetes type 1 at the age of 8. He got it pretty severe so Ashton and Calum (both trauma surgeons) were always alert. Luke was way to inresponsable to keep an eye on Fen alone because he just didn't seem to care about his little brothers condition. Michael on the other hand was overprotective and insisted on installing the scanning app as well so he could always see the sugar levels of Fen.

After Ashton injected the glucose he immediately checked Fens levels. It was still dangerously low but alright enough to let Fen sleep again. Ashton lifted Fen up and walked him up the stairs. While walking towards Fen his bedroom, Ashton bumped into Michael who just got from the toilet. "Hey what's going on?" Michael whispered as he saw his brother being carried up the stairs and a scared looking Ashton.

"He's on 1.8," Ashton sighed. Michael nervously looked at the floor. "So what's the plan?" He wanted to know.

"Yeah," Ashton whispered, "I'll stay up all night and check on him." Michael's head shot up.

"No papa I'm not letting you. You've a broken shift tommorow so you need to rest as much as you can. I'll stay with Fen so you and dad can sleep and if something is wrong with him then I'll immediately alarm you." Ashton wanted to refuse but knew Michael was right. He had a shift from 7 am till 1 pm and had to work from 10 pm till 6 am so he indeed needed his rest. Ashton eventually gave in because he had stayed up all night waiting for eldest to come home.          " Promise?" Michael nodded and lifted an almost limb Fen out of his papa's arms. "Sleep tight dad," he said before he closed the door.

Ashton walked into his bedroom and layed back down. Calum got woken up by it and snuggled into his husband's torso. Ashton sighed and played with Calums hair.

"What's wrong?" Calum wanted to know as he flicked on his bed light. He saw that Ashton had been crying. "I got up to use the toilet but I heard singing coming from downstairs. It was Luke who was drunk again but the worst thing was that Fen was down as well. He was shaking and looking pale, his levels were 1.8. I wanted to stay by him to keep a close eye on him but Michael who woke up as well insisted he would do that."

Calum sighed as well, kissed Asthon goodnight and went back to sleep.

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" Get your ass out of the bed," Ashton said as he flicked the light on of his eldest son bedroom. It was currently 6.30 am and Ashton was about to leave for his shift.

"Your dad and I are having a night shift tonight. Michael is having a hockey game and Fen is very low in his levels so you have to keep an eye on him." Luke growned and turned around because he wanted to sleep further.

"And second of all," Ashton said sternly as he pulled off the duvet causing Luke to whine, "you're getting out off bed and I expect you down within 5 minutes because don't you think that you'll be getting away with it so easily."

Luke huffed and got up. Ashton smiled satisfied and walked towards the room of Michael.

Michael was curled up with Fen sleeping in his thigh. Fen looked pale and Ashton wanted to check his level. He scanned it and 5 seconds later Michaels phone lighted up as well. It was 2.5 so it was still way too low. Ashton got up and walked towards the bathroom of him and Calum. He opened a cabinet and grabbed the needed medical supplies. He set up an syringe with glucagon and made his way back to Michael and Fen.

Fen was still sleeping and Michael also wasn't making any gesture of waking up. When Ashton almost was inserting the needle, Fen began to move around.

Luckily he was just turning over so Ashton could still inject the much needed glucagon into his youngest son in order not to carry him inside the hospital laying in coma due to a dangerous hypo.

After Ashton injected Fen with he glucagon he made his way down the stairs.

When he was down in the living he found Luke asleep in the couch.

"Wake up," Ashton said not feeling pitty for the boy. Luke groaned and walked behind his dad.

"You're cleaning the pool and than you'll start clean the attic and reorganise it. Also your handing in your phone to me," Ashton said while he summed up the corches he expected his eldest to do. Luke groaned, handed over his phone and started. Ashton smiled satisfied and left for his work.

Three hours later Michael woke up as well. He turned around and Fen snuggled further into Michael's bare chest. Michael grabbed his phone and scanned the sugar levels of Fen. It was 4.0 so that meant that he didn't have a hypo. He was glad until suddenly the graph of last night popped onto his screen. He jumped out of bed and ran towards the room of his dad and papa.

"Dad," Michael immediately yelled when he threw the door open. Calum immediately shot up and saw the panic in the eyes of his son. He immediately knew that something was wrong with Fen and followed Michael to his bedroom. Fen wasn't awake but looked pale and was sweating. Calum sighed and opened the scanning app on his phone, he saw the graph as well.

"Fen could you open your eyes for me love," Calum soflty spoke as he stroke through Fen his hair. Fen slowly opened his eyes and looked a bit groccy towards his dad. "Good kid," Calum responded, "dress up because you need some food in you my love." Fen nodded and Calum kissed his forehead before he left the room with Michael.

"I'm calling myself in," Calum said as he softly closed the door. "No dad I will," Michael offered, "when you call yourself in there are more life's in danger than Fen's. If I call myself in at the game they'll understand and I can even take him to hockey. And I think we need to give Luke a change to make a difference in a good way and let him watch Fen." Calum agreed and made his way downstairs. Only not to know the worst was yet to come.

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The day went fine. Fen was really hangy towards Michael, Luke did his chores and once Ashton was home he made sure that he finished everything. Ashton was proud of his son who finally seemed to have learned the lesson.

"Papa can Tobias come over tonight," Luke pleaded. Ashton looked firmly towards him. "Onyl if you promise you won't consume any alcohol and you remember your brother because you have to babysit him for roughly two hours," Ashton gave in.

Luke hung around his papa's neck. He repeatedly said thanks. Calum also made his way down and set the table up for dinner. Because Calum and Ashton had to work and Michael had a match, the family had early dinner which wasn't quite efficient for Fen his levels. It was pizza tonight so that meant a boost of carbohydrates which would be great for Fen but meant checking and more insuline for the other family members.

Michael sat down in the couch together with Fen who wasn't planning on letting go. They were watching the house of anubis together, Luke also made his way.

"Really," he sighed, "again?" Fen excitedly nodded and Michael quickly checked his sugar levels before his dinner was ready. After 5 seconds a good looking 5.2 was on his screen. He wrapped his arms tighter around Fen his waist. Fen got cozier and was glued to the TV, Michael looked to his right and saw Luke watching in interest towards the screen.

Ashton also walked into the room and cooed at the scene, he quickly snapped a picture and called the Boys for dinner.

"Yeahhh pizzaaaa," Fen said as he ran towards the dinner table where Calum was just cutting slices when all the other ones sat down.

"Alright you three are going to behave because your dad and I will be going out now to work and will be back by 6 am. Michael you go to your hockey while Luke watches Fen. If something happens with him call us immediately. Here is a meter so you can scan his levels. You know what to do."

To be fair, Luke had no idea but thought things would be all fine since nothing had ever happened to Fen when his parents were away.

All the boys were eating their pizza in quite. When everyone was finished Calum and Ashton got up to get their jackets in order to kiss the boys a farewell.

"Oww Luke, Fen has to get his insuline around 7 so make sure you remember. Fen knows the amount of insulin he needs."

Michael got up as well and kissed Fen his forehead. It was currently 5.30 p.m. and he needed to leave for hockey.

"Here Fen," Michael said as he passed his insuline pen, "don't forget that I already put the correct of insuline on it so you only have to inject it at the right time then it will be easy peasy." Fen nodded and Michael got his bike out of the shed in order to leave for his match that was held 7.00 p.m. Normally his dad would bring him but now he had to cycle half an hour since he played the highest league in Australia, so that meant playing in Sydney by the best U17 team of the city. Michael was mid mid and usually the stopper by corners.

Luke got up as well because he was cleaning the table. He had clearly learned from his mistake last night. Fen was just drawing and looking towards Luke.

"How about we're going to watch a movie together," Luke suggest.

Fen shook his head. "Anubis?" he softly asked. Luke couldn't resist his younger brother and gave in. He really began to regret the times that he was gone.

"Hey Troy," Luke said as he opened the door to reveal his best friend, "good to see you mate." The boys bro hugged each other. Fen was upstairs playing with his cars because Luke and he had just finished the fourth episode of the house of anubis. He knew that Troy was coming over so he asked Luke if he could play with his cars instead.

Luke had set an alarm for Fen to inject his insuline. Troy and he were talking and watching a serie on Netflix when suddenly his alarm went off.

"what's that for?" Troy wanted to know.

"For Fen," Luke answered while he got up to call his brother down stairs, "he needs his insulin." Troy nodded knowing about the whole diabetes situation.

"Alright Fen," Luke asked, "how muchbdo you need?" Fen started to think because he knew that Michael said something about it but he couldn't get his finger on it.

"7," he answered. Luke nodded and turned the insuline 7 times. Neither did Luke know is that Michael had done the same thing already whxih meant that if Fen was going to inject the insuline he would be getting a hypo with fatal causes is he didn't act quickly. Luke passed the pen towards Fen who injected it into his thigh.

"I'm upstairs playing," he called out before he ran back upstairs.

It was 30 minutes after Fen injected the insuline. He suddenly started to feel really weird. He felt his leg muscles weaken and he couldn't hold his cars anymore in his hand because his arms couldn't lift them. He began to sweat extremely and had a weird feeling on his tongue. He knew he needed sugar immediately.

He carefully got up and walked down stairs. He had a hard time staying straight and had to grab the railing for extra support.

Once he entered the living room his vision wasn't clear anymore. Troy looked up and was beyond shocked when he saw the state that Fen was in. He rushed towards the brother of his best mate who was making drinks for both of them. As Troy reached the extremely shaking and pale looking Fen, he immediately collapsed into his arms.

"LUKE GET HERE NOW!" Troy yelled as he laid an unconscious Fen on the ground. Luke put the drinks away and sprinted towards his younger brother.

"Hey open your eyes for me," Luke tried with no luck. He dialed both for his parents phone numbers but neither of them picked up.

"FUCK," he yelled out of frustration, "They're not picking up."

Troy shot a look towards the clock. "Get your ass in your car and drive towards the hockey, Michael will probably having a break so you can catch up with him and get him here asap."

Luke nodded towards the comment made by his best friend and got up. He quickly grabbed his keys, knokking over some things that laid in his way, and drove away with an amazing speed.

Troy held Fen close. He felt sorry for the young boy and silently cried and prayed for him that he would be alright.

Luke parked his car right in front of the entrance of the hockeyclub. He didn't know which field Michael was playing so he practically ran towards the kantine. "Boys under 17," Luke managed to choke out. The lady behind the bar looked at him if he just spoke fluent flemish to her. "Where are the boys from the under 17," Luke soad trying to make himself more clear. "Last field," the women said as she turned around to help other customers.

Luke cursed under his breath but ran for his life towards the last field. He saw that the referee was about to restart the game but reconsidered his decision after Luke yelled "STOP!"

Michael recognized that voice and looked in the direction where the sound came from. He saw his older brother running towards him and he immediately knew something was wrong.

Michael turned around to his coach and asked his permission to leave. Michael's coach also saw Luke running towards them and nodded. Michael thanked his coach and ran across the field towards his brother.

"Luke what's wrong," Michael wanted to know. "It's Fen. I'll fill you in when we're in the car."

Michael agreed and ran together with Luke towards the car. The boys practically jumped in and drove away with an amazing speed.

Back at home, Troy was still holding an unconscious Fen. Luke was gone for 20 minutes already so he had to come home within any minute.

Troy heard a car pulling up the drive way and the front door being unlocked. Michael immediately ran towards a cabinet not even noticing Fen and Troy.

He came back with an empty insuline pen. "What did you do with it?" Michael wanted to know.

"I asked Fen how much he needed and he said 7 so I turned it 7 times," Luke reponed. Michael's eyes widened and immediately grabbed his phone and scanned the level sof Fen. After a few seconds the screen told him that he wasnt able to read it due to a way to low level.

" Fuck," Michael yelled," Luke lay him in your car we need to get him to the hospital."

Luke nodded and Troy lifted Fen up. Michael ran towards the kitchen and sat up a shot of glucagon in order to keep his brother alive until he reached the hospital.

He ran behind the two others. Troy and Luke took place in the front while Fen was laid across the backseat with his head in Michael's lap.

When Michael took place, Luke drove away. Michael quickly grabbed the shot he made and injected it into Fens leg. He wished he was on time but to be fair he had a hard time believing it. He silently cried in the back.

Ashton was fixing some paperwork in an empty ER room when he suddenly heard commotion at the front desk. As he peeked out of the room he saw his sons holding an unconscious body. After looking for a second time he recognized Fen. Ashton didn't think twice and made his way towards the front desk.

"Gurney," Ashton yelled while he ran through the hallway. He showed up from behind Luke.

"Give me him," Ashton ordered Troy. Troy handed Fen over to Ashton who laid him on the gurney.

"Follow me now," Ashton ordered the boys who ran behind him. Ashton pulled Fen into the ER room where we was doing his paperwork.

"Explain me right now what's going on," Ashton ordered.

Michael was the one that spoke. "Fen got 14x insuline instead of 7. He got into a hypo and Luke tried to call you but neither of you picked up so he got me from my match and we immediately drove Fen to here."

"Did you inject glucagon?" Michael nodded.

Ashton wrote some things down and took some bloodsamples.

"Because you injected the glucagon he's not in danger of falling into a coma. I'll inject some more and than before you know it he'll be fine."

Luke walked up towards his dad and went into full sobbing mode.

"I thought he was going to die." Ashton sussed his eldest by telling everything was going to be fine and he had done the right thing.

"Promise?" Luke asked looking up.

"Promise."