It had been a long and hard time for Danny. He sat in his kitchen staring at the wall opposite. The blond sighed deeply, his chest rising and falling slowly. Closing his eyes Danny dipped his head and put both hands in his hair, gripping handfuls of it in his fists. Pulling, Danny gritted his teeth in with the pain. Danny opened his eyes and glared at the wall his eyes welling up with tears.
He was stupid to have told Ruben to carry on pedalling on his bike. The two of them had gone to the church to get Ruben's bike blessed by the Priest. It was on their way back, Danny saw a commotion and phoned Mac for back up, and told Ruben who was cycling to carry on home. The commotion was a robbery at a grocery store. And one of the people who owned it, in trying to shoot the robber shot Ruben instead. She didn't mean too. Ruben had been in the wrong place at the wrong time. If he hadn't of listened to Danny and stopped, he would have been fine. But because Danny told him to carry on, he did. Danny blamed himself. He hated telling Ruben's mother Riki, she cried and screamed. Danny spent half the night opposite their apartment crying on the floor against the wall. He loved that kid. He was amazing and so excited and enthusiastic all the time. His dark hair and smiling bright eyes were the memory that was stuck permanently in Danny's brain. It took him a while, before he could pass the apartment and not break down in tears at the thought of not seeing Ruben come out asking to play catch with him after his shift.
It was then that a knock came at his door. Getting up Danny walked out of his kitchen and into the hallway. He was dressed in sweat pants and a white wife beater, his dog tags rustled as he walked slowly toward the door. Opening it Danny saw a pair of feet in black boots. Frowning slightly Danny let his eyes travel up the body that was dressed in a dark blue suit. His eyes reached the face. Detective Don Flack was standing at his doorstep looking a little uncomfortable. Danny realized he hadn't said anything and connected his own with Flack's similar baby blue eyes. He moved to let Flack in. Flack moved into Danny's apartment. Once in the living room, Flack turned to the blond with a solemn face. The guy was still broken up over the kid Ruben. Flack could see it in his eyes, the fact that they were red with tears and that when Danny looked at the files in the morgue and Ruben's file fell out Danny snatched it up thrust it back into the cabinet and went out of the morgue the door banging behind him, he avoided meeting Flack's eyes. Flack felt for him. He cared about his younger colleague. Danny said something about coffee and moved into the kitchen. Flack followed silently. Sitting at the table Flack watched as Danny took two cups from the cupboard. Flack noted that Danny's hands were shaking slightly as he took items out of various places. He got the ingredients for a cup of coffee and then it happened. Danny dropped the blue cup he picked up from the side table. It smashed. Danny just looked at it.
"Danny?" Flack asked, looking from the shattered pieces to his colleague.
"I need help," Danny said simply looking up from the floor to meet Flack's eyes.
Fin.
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