Iero's Family!

It was closer to two hours before Gerard began to regain consciousness, and Frank never left his side once during that time.
As he started to come around, his eyelids fluttering, and his lips parting, a small moan escaping from between them, Frank stood and leaned in close to him.

"Gerard?.. Baby wake up.. Come on.. Come back baby."

Gerard whimpered slightly and Dr. Sager checked his obs.

"Come on Gee. Time to wake up bro."

Mikey murmured.
Lucas sat quietly watching. He'd spent the last two hours on his phone, looking up all the information he could regarding hermaphroditism, and he was still no closer to understanding it.
Of course, he could've just asked Dr. Sager to explain it more, but she had told them that she was not an expert, and that there were probably more answers online than she could give anyway.

Gerard's eyes slowly fluttered open, and a small smile spread on his lips as Frank grinned down at him.

"Welcome back beautiful.."

He murmured, leaning down to press their lips together.

"How do you feel?"

Gerard smiled weakly.

"Tired, but better."

His eyes flicked around the room, and widened when he realised that he was in a hospital.

"Frank?"

He whimpered, dragging scared eyes back to his husband's.

"Shh.. It's ok baby."

Frank cooed, gently stroking Gerard's hair from his face.

"You're ok."

Gerard whined slightly, gripping Frank's hand, tight.

"Baby, do you remember us taking you back to see Doc Brown?.."

Gerard nodded, a little unsurely.

"And the doc telling us about the blood results?.."

Gerard frowned slightly and shook his head. Frank sighed.

"You were pretty out of it."

He took a second to gather his thoughts, gently stroking Gerard's hand, and smiling at him reassuringly.

"The results said that you had a high level of a hormone that you shouldn't have any of, so Doc Brown sent us here. We're in Billings Medical Centre."

He looked up at Dr. Sager, then back at Gerard.

"The hormone specialist here ran some tests, and did a scan of your belly, because you were in pain before.. He found something unexpected, so he called in another doctor.. Baby, this is Dr. Sager.."

He looked back at her and smiled.

"And she's going to explain what's going on.. Ok?"

Gerard nodded slightly, and turned nervous eyes toward the small blonde woman.
Dr. Sager smiled softly at him.

"Hello Gerard. I'm Dr. Sager, but you can call me Nadine."

Gerard smiled minutely, and the doctor continued.

"As Frank said, your care has been passed over to me now."

She pushed her glasses up her nose and cleared her throat.

"I repeated the scan that my colleague carried out, and was equally as surprised as he was by the results."

She looked down at her hands for a moment, then looked back up.

"Gerard, you have never had a blood test before, am I right?"

Gerard nodded slightly.

"And you have never been admitted to hospital before?"

He shook his head and looked at Frank for reassurance. Frank smiled softly. Gerard looked back at the doctor.

"Well, we discovered something that you couldn't possibly know about, unless you'd had a blood test.. We discovered that you are what is commonly known as Intersex. Do you know what that means?"

Gerard shook his head. Frank could feel his hand trembling.

"You might know it better by its old name.."

She took a breath, knowing that she was about to change Gerard's very image of himself, and who he is.

"It used to be called hermaphroditism. Do you know what that means?"

Gerard's eyes grew wide and frightened, and he turned to look at Frank, his whole body now shaking.

"Shh baby.. It's ok.. Don't cry."

Gerard whimpered and tried to press himself closer to Frank. Frank knew Gerard was panicking now, and made a quick decision, climbing onto the bed and wrapping his arms carefully around him.

"Shh baby.. You're ok.. Shh."

Dr. Sager cleared her throat, and Frank held up a finger, asking for a minute. The doctor nodded, and waited, patiently. Frank cooed and comforted Gerard, reassuring him that nothing had changed between them, until the younger man calmed down and started to relax.

"Baby?"

Gerard looked up through his tears.

"There's more."

Gerard whimpered, but nodded and turned his head toward the doctor.
Dr. Sager smiled gently at him.

"Gerard, you could've gone your entire life without knowing about this, but your sickness made that impossible. Now, it turns out that you're not actually ill.. Gerard, you are pregnant."

Gerard's eyes went impossibly wide, then rolled back in his head as he passed out.
Frank cradled him against his chest and rocked him gently.. It was exactly the reaction he'd expected.

Notes

Hi there Chipmunks.. How are you?..

Gerard's reaction.. As you expected?

Anyway.. Please comment, stay safe, and peace out babies!
<3 Love ya!