I don't own these characters just a fan wanting to tell a story. Hope you enjoy!
He came in later than usual, he looked exhausted, but there was a piece about him. He sat by her bed.
"We caught the guy," he said, "He was a physical therapist who bought prescriptions off of patients. The son of a bitch wasn't even remorseful about how many kids had died."
He took her hand. It was warm and soft but limp, only a constant reminder that she wasn't truly there.
"Maria, you have to beat this, this bastard too so much from everyone don't let him take you too." Danny pleaded, her first name foreign on his lips, "I can't lose another friend, I lost too many of them already, Joe, Linda, and-" he thought of each of his military buddies he had lost, the nineteen-year-old who had died because he was filling in for him, and each and every other one. He still didn't talk about Iraq, it was too fresh, the pain and death he saw there, and if he had ever seen a godforsaken place it would have been there. The heat, the sun, the sand, the death, all of it had been too much, how could he talk about the one thing in life he wanted to forget. Linda had tried to get him to talk, and some he had shared but the deepest darkness that lay in his heart had yet to ever see the light of day. Seeing Maria lying there just reminded him of all the death he had seen and all the death he caused.
"When I was in Irag, I lost my friends…. To a landmine, I should have died too, no one knows how I avoided the blast, I guess my guardian angel was working very hard. I had to deal with the fact I was the only one left, I didn't know why until I started doing good as a cop, that's why I survived. You need to survive you still need, I still need you." Danny said, his voice full of emotion.
Danny tried to read his book but he couldn't he just kept watching her face looking for movement the slightest sign she might be awake. He fell asleep by her bedside, and he woke up when a nurse came in to change the IV bag.
Danny saw it was time for him to head home and get ready for work; he reluctantly let her hand go.
"Get better," He said, but it was more of an order. He lent over the bed and placed a soft kiss on her head and he hurried out of the hospital, loosening his already lose tie.
I hope you liked that, sorry for not updating sooner, I've been busy writing another fan fiction and forgot that I had this one :) Love you guys!