Chapter 8
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Just as Mac hung up from talking to Don when Nancy (Danny's recover nurse) came into the waiting room to let him know that Danny was being moved to his room in the ICU.
"Thank you. How soon until we can see him?"
"Give the staff about 15 minutes to get him settled and check his vitals." Nancy said.
"We will do that. Please be sure to pass along all our thanks to the rest of the surgical staff." Mac told her.
"I'll be sure to do that Detective Taylor and would you please tell Nola or Adam if they needs anything to please call me."
"I will do that, I'm sure they'll appreciate it." Mac nodded a final goodbye to the nurse as she left.
"I tell you Mac, the staff at this hospital certainly goes out of their way to be nice." Logan commented.
"That's way it's the top hospital in the city, after all it the one that all the rich and famous comes to."
"I guess I should have remember that." Logan said glumly.
Mac turned to look at her. "You have trouble remember things?"
Logan took a deep breath. "Yeah after the attack certain parts of my long term memory was been affected. Thank God it's mostly small stuff. Things like dates, sometimes I can remember someone's name, but not where I know them from. Then there are times I can recall where I know someone from and the fact they have family, but not their names. But I think the scariest thing is not remember my times and division tables."
Mac shook his head sadly. "I have a dear friend that is the same way."
"It can be devastating. I try not to let it get me down and thankfully my closest and trusted friends know and they do the best to lend a helping hand."
"It doesn't seem to have affected your job?"
"It doesn't, but I have to have check-ups every six months. To be sure that I'm not, how I should I say this 'losing my mind' as one of my friends say." Logan said with a laugh.
"I have a feeling that you don't have to worry about that." Mac said with a smile. "Now let's go see Danny."
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After processing Mac and Danny's apartment Stella, Don, Jessica and Officer Behr took what they had found and dropped it of at the labs and after signing the form for Don, Sr. they went their separate ways. Jessica and Officer Behr went to the police station to file their reports as Don and Stella grabbed quick showers, changed their clothes and after grabbing something to eat headed back to the hospital.
Mac made sure to call everyone to tell them that Danny had finally been moved to room 443 and that they would be allowed to see him, but they would have to meet first and talk over a few of the hospital rules. Once the entire team arrived Mac remained them that only two people could go in at one time and only stay for 5 minutes every hour.
"So we are going to have to come up with some kind of schedule, that way we can take turns going home or running personal errands while some of us stay here."
"So how do we come up with a schedule?" Adam asked.
"Well I know for a fact that Stella, Don and Mac haven't had any sleep since this thing began so.." Sid began.
"They should go home." Sheldon jumped in.
Mac, Stella and Don all looked at the rest of the team and finally agree that maybe they really did need to go a get some sleep.
"Now that just leaves the four of us." Lindsey said.
"Three." Sid threw in.
"Huh?"
"I got a call and I'm need for a special autopsy." Sid explained.
"Special autopsy?" Sheldon asked.
"It's the body of an inmate from the state prison." Sid shrugged.
"We don't usually handle those." Sheldon said.
"Usually, but this inmate was threatened by not only several other prisoners, but he had trouble with at least two guards."
"Oops, that's not good." Sheldon commented.
"That's why I'm handling it. The warren requested that this lab handles the investigation. Now just because the rest of you have the day off, doesn't mean we all do." Sid said trying to sound hurt.
"Hey what do you say I come help you and then we can come back in lets said two hours and see Danny then." Sheldon said.
"That sounds like a good idea. That way Adam and Lindsey will be here to see him whenever they are allowed."
After everyone agreed that was the way to go. Stella, Don and Mac went to get some sleep. Sid and Sheldon headed out to do the autopsy while Lindsey and Adam stayed behind.
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Mac had gotten Sid's keys from him and headed to his place. While Stella and Don went to their own homes. Mac found Sid's home to be quite comfortable and after having a long hot shower. He went grabbed a beer out of Sid's refrigerator and went into the guest bedroom and after getting comfortable he turned on the TV to catch up on the news and before he knew it he had fallen asleep. Don had already taken a hot shower, so he just fell into bed totally wiped out and didn't have any trouble falling to sleep. Stella made herself a cup of tea before settling down in bed and picked up the latest romance novel she was reading and she too fell quickly to sleep.
Back at the hospital Lindsey and Adam watched as the clock in the ICU waiting room clicked off another minute slowly getting closer to the moment when they would be allowed to see Danny.
"God, I hate waiting." Adam sighed.
"I know it's never easy." Lindsey agreed.
"I just keep see him the way he was in the ambulance. He was so freaked out, Lindsey. I could tell he wanted to tell me what happened, but he lost consciousness before he could."
"When he wakes up and he will. We'll get that information and make an arrest."
Adam nodded his head in agreement. "I know it's just he was in so much pain and I have never seen him so scared."
Suddenly several people stood up. Adam looked at the woman next to him with a quizzical look on his face until he noticed Lindsey also standing.
"Come on Adam let's go see Danny."
"Yeah let's do that." He agreed.
Adam was taken aback by what he saw when he walked into the room, Danny was so pale he didn't stand out very well against the white of the sheets. He was surrounded by every medical machine known to man. Tubes and wires went everywhere. And yet he had to undergo several more procedures before he was finished.
Adam walked up to the bed took Danny's right hand, leaned over the bed and whispered in Danny's ear. "I'm here buddy." Before standing up and taking a step back to allow Lindsey to take his hand.
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Danny was surrounded by darkness. Where every he was it was soft and warm, but he couldn't wake up, couldn't move, couldn't open his eyes. 'What the hell is going on?' He thought to himself. 'Why can't I move? Come on Messer, think. How come I can't wake up? Wait, Adam is that you? Adam help me, please. I don't understand. No Adam don't leave me.'
Lindsey stepped up next to the bed and took Danny's hand. "Hey you hang in there Danny, OK?"
'Montanta? Help me! Damn why won't someone help me. Mac where are you. Mac help me. MAC!!!
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Mac was just beginning to wake up when he thought he heard someone calling his name. His mind began to try to figure out who was calling to him. 'Mac help me. MAC!!!' Mac sit upright in the bed. "Danny." He whispered as he wiped his hands across his face. "I'm coming Danny, hang on."
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It took Sid and Sheldon an hour and a half to complete the autopsy on the dead inmate and an half an hour to completed the paperwork before releasing the body back to the state for a 'free' burial, seeing that there was no one to claim the body. Five minutes after signing the paperwork Sid and Sheldon was on the way back to the hospital.
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"Calm down Danny." Lindsey was telling Danny as doctors and nurse ran into his room in response to all the alarms going off.
"Please step out of the room." Dr. Hartney yelled at Lindsey and Adam. "Out now!!!"
Lindsey and Adam where rushed from the room by a nurse and now they stood outside watching the Doctors and nurse trying to calm Danny down. Mac rushed up to where to them. "What's happening?"
"We where only in there a couple minutes?" Adam said trancelike. "We just said hi!"
"Lindsey?"
"Yeah we barely got a chance to say anything before he became agitated and all kinds of alarms started going off."
Mac nodded to let them know he had heard what they said, but he too was concentrating on what was going on in the room of the man who he considered his son. 'Please Danny hang on. I can't live without you.'
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