Love Will Overtake Us Both
The impossible was unfortunately possible
~Frank’s POV~
“Frank! Frank, we need to go home, like now!” Leila shouted from inside the villa we were staying in for our honeymoon.
I rushed back inside to see her pacing the bedroom, crying hysterically. I looked over to the bed and she’d packed our bags.
“Leil babe, hey, what’s wrong?” I asked as I stopped her and wrapped my arms tightly around her shaking body.
“It’s Alexa… sh-she’s in h-h-hospital!” She stuttered and I gasped out loud.
“Shit babe, what happened to her? Did Ray and Mikey tell you?”
“No, they didn’t want me to worry so I called Gerard…” she said but couldn’t finish as she’d started crying again.
“Okay, just get into the car and I’ll get our bags okay?” I said and she nodded, walking out of my embrace and out of the room.
I quickly threw everything left into the other bag we brought, checked every room for anything Leila had missed, locked all the doors, threw our bags into the trunk, jumped into the driver’s seat of my car and sped off toward home.
We arrived at the hospital a couple hours later with tear-stained faces and Gerard was in the waiting room. The moment he saw us, he ran over and threw his arms around Leila and I before running down the halls in the direction of Alexa’s room.
When we got to the room, Gerard turned to look at us. “She’s got meningitis… she just deteriorated really quickly. She was fine when you left her with us and you saw that. However, a few days later, she was running a really high fever so we closely monitored her but she just got worse. We took her to the doctor but they said she was fine… if they’d have found something, it wouldn’t have gotten this bad…” Gerard said, trailing off towards the end.
“Wait, what do you mean ‘wouldn’t have gotten this bad’?” I demanded.
“She’s only got a 25% chance of survival… I’m so sorry,” he said and Leila just dropped to the floor in absolute hysterics.
I pushed past Gerard and entered her room and she looked so sick and I just broke down, unable to take in the fact that my little girl might die…
--Time lapse – 3 months--
~Ray’s POV~
Alexa-Rose was slowly getting better and her survival rate was increasing each month. She now had a survival rate of 65% so we were preparing her bedroom for when she was allowed to come home because she was staying in Frank and Leila’s room but she was going to be way too big for the crib now so we thought it’d be a good time to move her when she is able to come home. We had the baby monitors all set up and a rota for feeding Alex. Leila, Frank, Mikey and I decided to split it between the four of us so that we could all get experience of looking after a baby long-term.
--Time lapse – 3 more months--
~Leila’s POV~
We were finally allowed to bring Alex home as she was really healthy and we all got to spend time with her. Mikey and Ray offered to help us out with feeding her and looking after her because they wanted experience with kids before adopting one of their own.
By now, Alexa was so close to talking so we would all talk to her all day; to see if she could repeat simple words or phrases and her first word was ‘sky’.
Our little Alex was slowly learning to walk and it wasn’t long after that that her 1st birthday was just a few days away.
*******
Frank and I were so proud of our little girl, she went through so much but she pulled through and she kept on making progress until she could hold a full conversation with each of us, until she could walk through the house without support… we looked after her and supported her as she quickly grew up and went through school…
When Alexa-Rose Iero was born, Frank and I promised to stay with her until she no longer needed us and we kept that promise… we dreaded the day she left home, we dreaded the day where she got married and moved in with her husband because we knew that our time to look after our little girl was up and it was time for her to become independent and experience the real world on her own…
“Frank! Frank, we need to go home, like now!” Leila shouted from inside the villa we were staying in for our honeymoon.
I rushed back inside to see her pacing the bedroom, crying hysterically. I looked over to the bed and she’d packed our bags.
“Leil babe, hey, what’s wrong?” I asked as I stopped her and wrapped my arms tightly around her shaking body.
“It’s Alexa… sh-she’s in h-h-hospital!” She stuttered and I gasped out loud.
“Shit babe, what happened to her? Did Ray and Mikey tell you?”
“No, they didn’t want me to worry so I called Gerard…” she said but couldn’t finish as she’d started crying again.
“Okay, just get into the car and I’ll get our bags okay?” I said and she nodded, walking out of my embrace and out of the room.
I quickly threw everything left into the other bag we brought, checked every room for anything Leila had missed, locked all the doors, threw our bags into the trunk, jumped into the driver’s seat of my car and sped off toward home.
We arrived at the hospital a couple hours later with tear-stained faces and Gerard was in the waiting room. The moment he saw us, he ran over and threw his arms around Leila and I before running down the halls in the direction of Alexa’s room.
When we got to the room, Gerard turned to look at us. “She’s got meningitis… she just deteriorated really quickly. She was fine when you left her with us and you saw that. However, a few days later, she was running a really high fever so we closely monitored her but she just got worse. We took her to the doctor but they said she was fine… if they’d have found something, it wouldn’t have gotten this bad…” Gerard said, trailing off towards the end.
“Wait, what do you mean ‘wouldn’t have gotten this bad’?” I demanded.
“She’s only got a 25% chance of survival… I’m so sorry,” he said and Leila just dropped to the floor in absolute hysterics.
I pushed past Gerard and entered her room and she looked so sick and I just broke down, unable to take in the fact that my little girl might die…
--Time lapse – 3 months--
~Ray’s POV~
Alexa-Rose was slowly getting better and her survival rate was increasing each month. She now had a survival rate of 65% so we were preparing her bedroom for when she was allowed to come home because she was staying in Frank and Leila’s room but she was going to be way too big for the crib now so we thought it’d be a good time to move her when she is able to come home. We had the baby monitors all set up and a rota for feeding Alex. Leila, Frank, Mikey and I decided to split it between the four of us so that we could all get experience of looking after a baby long-term.
--Time lapse – 3 more months--
~Leila’s POV~
We were finally allowed to bring Alex home as she was really healthy and we all got to spend time with her. Mikey and Ray offered to help us out with feeding her and looking after her because they wanted experience with kids before adopting one of their own.
By now, Alexa was so close to talking so we would all talk to her all day; to see if she could repeat simple words or phrases and her first word was ‘sky’.
Our little Alex was slowly learning to walk and it wasn’t long after that that her 1st birthday was just a few days away.
*******
Frank and I were so proud of our little girl, she went through so much but she pulled through and she kept on making progress until she could hold a full conversation with each of us, until she could walk through the house without support… we looked after her and supported her as she quickly grew up and went through school…
When Alexa-Rose Iero was born, Frank and I promised to stay with her until she no longer needed us and we kept that promise… we dreaded the day she left home, we dreaded the day where she got married and moved in with her husband because we knew that our time to look after our little girl was up and it was time for her to become independent and experience the real world on her own…
Notes
The final chapter... *wipes away tears*
This fanfic was the first one I ever started writing so it's followed me from December last year up until now so it's really sad to let it go but I guess this is how it should naturally end...
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~Electric-Revenge~
Thanks! I'm writing the next chapter now so hopefully I'll put it up in a couple hours... it may be a filler or it may be the honeymoon :)
7/22/14