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The morning after the study, Leon felt more drained than he did when he first got there. And as he was on the phone with Ocha and Kank, he was packing up his things and changed into his spare clothes, he was looking forward to getting home and taking a nap with his favorite people.
Pulling up to the house, he could see the door open and a flash of brown dart out, screaming could be heard before a 'keep it down' followed from Kankuro as it closed the front door. But that didn't stop the screaming in excitement again when Leon opened the car door, making her attempt to climb in with him.
With a dramatic groan, he picked the near hyperventilating child and held her close, kissing her cheek in the process. "Ohhhh— hello to you, too, honey, I missed you,too—"Everything was going fine and dandy until her giggling started to turn into wet sniffles, causing Leon and Kank to make an 'aw' sound in unison, Kank scratching at her hair while Leon rubbed at her back.
"What's the matter? Why you cryin'?"He asked as he pulled away to look at her, who had the deepest frown as she looked at him with the most glossy doe eyes.Ocha tried to get out that she missed him, but all that came out was a few mumbled out sounds around some more sniffles as she broke eye contact, looking at anything but her daddy.
There was a few minutes of poking and prodding and tickling before Ocha got out what she was trying to say before around laughter and giggling, pushing his hands away as she caught her breath for a second. "I missed you," opening her arms as wide as she could, accidentally honking the horn in the process. "—this much, dada!" And that was a lot to a little kid.
There was a gasp as Leon watched her, grabbing at her hands and bringing them to his mouth to kiss at her knuckles. " You did? That's a lot, sweetie, but I think I missed you more, though." Unbuckling his seatbelt, he started to get out and popped the trunk in the process, in which Kank got his bag as Ocha talked about what they did while he was gone, hanging onto the neck of his shirt the entire time.
Group nap time came soon after breakfast and a much needed shower, all of them huddled onto their mattress, snoring and little hands and feet in faces between having a mouth full of fine hair in each of their mouths. And that didn't seem to wake any of them up at all, which was surprising to whoever decided to look in from the outside.
The whole nap lasted three hours, Kankuro being the first one to wake up. And as it laid there and watched its family sleep, it noticed that Leon's face was moving more strangely than usual, it was like he was trying to make a face but failing to make it land in the way that he wanted it to. And that's what was making it worse, it was looking like he was starting to stiffen up in , causing Kank to sit up and watch closer, wanting to see if its eyes were telling the truth or not. And to its surprise, they were telling the truth.
Getting up and pulling Ochako into its spot, circling around the foot of the bed after onto Leon's side of the bed, leaning over his sleeping body to give his face a closer watch, feeling his bicep contract and become as tight as a drawn bow under its hand. "Leon." There was no response. After a few seconds it tried again, but more stern. "Leon, are you with me?"
A groan through gritted teeth as his legs started to buckle under the blankets, small globs of bubbled saliva mixed with blood started to dribble out and land onto his pillow, causing a wave of panic to sweep through Kank's chest as it tried to think of what to do, and what it didn't want to do was leave Leon so close to the edge of the bed, pulling a swear out as it started to look around to look for something.
Pulling the blanket and pillows off the bed, Kankuro lined them up on the floor and up around the edge of the night stand before rushing to get its phone, taking a glance at its alarm clock as it pulled up its stop watch, pressing start. At the three minute mark is when Leon's body started to release and look more relaxed, but the stress of the seizing caused him to come to in a way that had him go into fight or flight, and naturally he went into fight mode.
There was a few minutes where Kankuro had to talk him and a now awake, confused and also panicking toddler down before it could even think about calling paramedics to their house. So now all they could do is wait and try to lighten the situation.
"It's okay, honey, you can come over now. Daddies brain just panicked for a second, he wasn't going to do anything to me." It stretched out a hand towards Ocha, who was sitting up now on the other side of the bed, finally calmed down enough to be reasoned with. "You gotta be gentle, though. His brain isn't feeling too good."The cogs in her little mind could be seen moving as she looked between the hand, Kank's face, and then Leon's before scooting over without the help, sitting down next to Leon's chest, getting a good look at his face now. To which her dad still looked out of it and foggy, but he was coherent enough for her to understand.
"Yeah, d'ddy hears th'm. M'brain doesn' feel too good so Papa called help, 'member?" The sirens that were getting closer had brought up some questions and he did what he could do to answer them for her. "'M gonna go for a ride, and you and papa are gonna come see me later when they aren' lookin' at me." Which got some nods and confirmation noises, all while she messed with the stubble on his jaw as there were knocks on their front door.