Chapter 4.
Bree's POV.
"Ondine's curse?!" Chase screamed as he started hyperventilating.
Mr. Davenport immediately ran over to him and helped him into a chair as he started calming our brother down.
"What is Ondine's curse?" Adam asked.
"Yeah, I've never heard of that." Leo agreed.
"Ondine's curse is a disorder that can keep you from breathing while asleep or unconscious. It can be deadly if you don't get treatment for it. However, people who have it normally find out at birth, and Chase is sixteen..." Mr. Davenport trailed off.
"Wait! Chase, what did Krane do to you?" I demanded.
"He-he injected me with something...I just thought it was something that would make me weak and dizzy so I couldn't escape." Chase explained.
"Wait! So you're saying that Krane injected Chase with something that gave him a deadly disorder?" Leo asked.
"Yeah we are." Mr. Davenport sighed.
"So what are we gonna do?" I asked.
"I'll call my bionic hospital and tell them that Chase and I are going there tonight. And Chase, you may wanna pack some stuff. Who knows how long we'll be there." Our "father" sighed as he left.
I walked over to my brother and laid my hand on his shoulder, making his eyes immediately snap up at me.
"You ok?"
"Yeah. Just a bit scared." He admitted as he stood up and started grabbing some of his things while shoving them into a backpack.
"It's gonna be ok, Chase. We're all here for you." Adam explained.
Chase smiled as he hugged us and whispered.
"Thank you."
We all smiled and hugged him tightly before I started helping him pack.
-Time skip-
Chase's POV.
"Alright, Chase, I'll be back with the results in a bit." Mr. Davenport's main doctor, Dr. Jackson, explained as he left, closing the door behind him.
I was currently sitting on the hospital bed, my back against the wall, getting more and more tired at the moment.
"Can we go home now?" I whined, even though I knew the answer, I just didn't want to be here anymore.
"Sorry Chase, not yet."
I sighed and hit my head into the wall, not very hard though, as I started staring at the door. After what seemed like forever, but what was more like fifteen minutes, Dr. Jackson came back.
"Well?" Mr. Davenport asked.
"Well, it's not good. You were right about your son having Ondine's curse, so we need to set up a tracheostomy tube so he can breathe while he is asleep." Dr. Jackson explained.
"I...I understand." Mr. Davenport sighed, his voice cracking.
"We'll get him checked in while I get ready for the surgery." Dr. Jackson explained as he left a second time.
Mr. Davenport sighed again as he stood up and held out his hand for me to grab onto.
"Well, you heard what he said."
I groaned, rubbed my eyes and grabbed onto it as he helped me up. I was not looking forward to getting a tube jammed into my neck.
Well, if you guys still don't know what Ondine's curse is, I copied and pasted the information from a medical site.
Failure from birth of central nervous system control over breathing while asleep. There are usually no breathing problems while awake. The involuntary (autonomic) control of respiration is impaired, but the voluntary control of ventilation which operates during waking hours is generally intact.
I hoped that helped!
I will update Big dreams, big disasters and Shattered today. If anyone has any ideas for Shattered, I'd love to hear them!
Over and out.
Susz13.