Chapter 2

Among some of firsts things Danny noticed as he arouse to a state of awareness was that his body hurt, but that was not new to him, he felt ridiculously warm and somewhere near him he could hear a consistent beeping, it made him curious. When he opened his eyes his vision was at first blurry but cleared up fast so he could see his surroundings. Discovering his whereabouts did nothing in giving him happiness, but did a big number in creating distress.

Even in darkness it was still easy for him to see all the whiteness of the room and all variety in machines and tools around him, it was easy to understand that it was a hospital room. He still felt groggy from whatever was done or given to him but that didn't stop his wish to leave. It took longer time then he liked to just sit up in bed and his chest felt tight.

He was wearing a blue T-shirt with buttons on. It was big and somewhat nice in touch but wasn't tight at all. So Danny concluded it had to be something under it that created that tight feeling and buttoned it open. Under it was a big amount of bandage going round and round over his whole body, from shoulders down to his waistband, with red in some places. And he wanted to scream but instead was near to cry again.

Remembering what had happened before when he saved that adult and how she and a giant of an adult took him to somewhere warm and nice and gave him chocolate. He also remembered how they had found out about his damage. Letting out a sign, now understanding why he was in a hospital, it was time to leave. Or try to while still very groggy, which was odd as normally that kind of thing goes away a lot faster because of his blood.

All process in getting up and out summed up to getting so far as leaning a little over one bedside before a dizzy-spell hit and got Danny to crash back down to where he started when first waking up. It also resulted in someone hearing and coming in to check on him. A person who was male and adult and wearing some grey uniform looked at first from the door-frame and at seeing Danny awake in bed disappeared from sight. Moments later an other taller male with a long white coat came in alone with the one from earlier, and they walked towards him.

He didn't like it and tried even harder in getting off the bed and away from them. The one in gray attempted to get to him but the other one stopped him and made so they stood still at some distance. When it was clear they would not get any nearer to him Danny calmed down. After laying still for a time the taller one started to get closer again but spoke nicely to him and stood still from time to time. When finally near enough to the bed, he reached to a machine that lead to Danny and pushed at something.

The groggy and dizzy feeling from before got stronger but then they went over into drowsiness instead and Danny fell back to sleep.

Next time Danny resurfaced from the drug induced sleep there where others in the room with him. The tall male from before and two females, one in a gray uniform like that other male had, an other in black trousers and a leather jacket. Grey was sturdy but looked nice, while leather jacket had an odd haircut similar to his own, just shorter, she looked angry and cold. She managed in frightening him.

They hadn't noticed yet that he was awake as they continued with their conversation.

"Even if you want to hurry it up it will not change ours opinion. There is something in him that is messing up with the given medicine. For god's sake, he woke up in middle on the night when the morphine should have kept him under till a good bit after dawn. And there is no telling how well or even if the pain killers does anything to lower his pain from the injury. No we are not waking him up."

"Listen here ace, someone have obvious done more then just hurting and bruising here. I need to know who and why, and the best way to start that is to interview the kid." Even thought she stood perfectly still he could see her frustration. "We haven't managed to dig up anything. Neither about him or who could have done it to him. And the faster we do get something, anything, to go by the better."

"So may be the case for you, but for me it's to make certain that his not suffering as well as to help him heal. You are not even supposed to be in here, neither before or after he wakes up. It will put unnecessary strain on him."

Danny was now starting to get a picture of it all. He was in a hospital after those nice people had given him chocolate and found his injury. And he had woken up long before he should have and had been dizzy and sleepy, thankfully that was part did not apply anymore, which had worried mister white coat. The had also found that something inside him is odd which is bad. Lady leather jacket wanted to know why he's there and he also get the feeling she wants those who hurt him. That won't do at all.

Mister white coat was also worried about him being in pain, he probably should tell them that his fine. It hurts a little but that doesn't matter if it's him that hurts. His different after all. So he will tell them his fine and then ask if he can leave, but both adults were still going at each other and he didn't want to get their anger directed to himself. Still he knew that it had to be done. He sat up and started to try in getting there attention, which he failed in when they started to yell louder at one another.

But to his luck so did someone else notice his new state of wakefulness. And got him to flinch quiet badly as she greeted him.

"Hi there. How do you feel?"

She sounded nice and friendly so he understands that it most likely was by mistake when she scared him. He was about to answer the grey one when lady leather jacket talked.

"He's awake?"

"He shouldn't be, not yet. Hell the unknown most be what caused this. How do you feel, are you hurting?"

Even if mister white coat meant well, it was still uncomfortable when he dived in so close to him. It also concerned him that both have now asked how he feel.

"I'm fine. Can I go now?"

His answer seamed to baffle them. But he was really fine, well, kind of fine, he was fine enough to be able to stand. His attempt to get out of the bed again was stopped by mister white coat.

"No. You shouldn't move around, you shouldn't even be sitting up." He showed Danny back down on his back. "Are you hurting? Or feeling anything out of place?"

The showing him back down was not a good thing to do as he started to feel panic. He couldn't help it as memories of being bound to a table and if sharp things getting closer to him. Attempting to getaway he started to wring under the adults hold, and making more and more sounds of distress as the hold stayed.

Then the lady in leather jacket was by his bed and tearing the others hands away from him, hissing.

"What the hell do you think your doing? Any idiot could see that holding him down does nothing but scaring, and so hurting, him. So back of." She said with a final shove to the man in a white coat. But her attention turned to Danny as he tried to sit up again. "And you stay down. Even if you don't like it, you are going to stay flat in that bed. Am we clear?"

Danny whimpered and nodded his head. She really was scary and he didn't want her anymore angry at him, he didn't want to be hurt further.

"Good. I am lieutenant Eve Dallas, and I want you to answer some questions."

And so she went ahead with asking him a lot of things, about his name, where he came from, if he know what happened with him and about his parents. He ended up with not answering any of them, not even the one about his name. It was sad really, because he could see and hear how she tried. She was trying to have as little scary face as possible, speaking as kindly as she could, avoiding in making any accusations. She even shifted how she asked her questions, from open ones to ones that only needed a yes or no. But it didn't help as he continued being scared of her and when she started to ask about his home and family he panicked. And the only thing they got out of him then was.

"I want to go home. Please. I can go home on my own, really. Please, I just want to get home." And feeling scared and alone, he cried. With gave Eve some panic.

In the end they got nothing and the doctor sedated him again, which got him even more scared. The last thing he heard before he went under was how Eve said that a doctor Mira would talk with him when he wakes up again. Whimpering he fell asleep again.