Chapter Eleven

Hope you are enjoying where this is leading and still sticking with it! Please keep reading and please review! ! Not too many reviews for the last chapter :-( I hope that it doesnt mean that you arent enjoying this anymore!

Chapter Eleven

"Any update?" Steve asked as Chin walked into the room. Chin shook his head in frustration.

"Not really boss, Simon Turner has disappeared off of the face of the earth. He had not taken a flight and he has not taken a boat, so either he is still on the Islands or he has smuggled himself" Chin told his friend. "The guys we busted are not talking, and his cell phone has not made or received any calls for the last ten days" he continued.

"So basically were at a dead end?" Steve questioned, annoyed that they couldn't capture Turner to give his friend some much needed closure.

"Yep! Danny's looking a bit better" Chin commented.

"Thanks" a low voice replied from the apparently awake patient.

"Hey Danno! Didn't realise you were awake! Sorry man" Steve spoke, concerned that Danny had heard the update in relation to his attacker.

"It's ok" Danny replied, his voice much stronger than before. He was sat up slightly now so that he could see his two colleagues without straining.

"How you feeling? Do you need some more pain meds?" Steve questioned, keen that his friend didn't suffer needlessly.

"Na, I'm good" he replied. "What day is it?" he asked.

"Monday morning" Steve replied.

"I missed my weekend with Grace" Danny commented sadly.

"I spoke with Rachel and as soon as you are up to it she is going to bring Grace to visit you" Steve told him, hoping that the news would boost his spirits slightly. Horror struck eyes turned towards the seal.

"What did you tell Rachel?" Danny asked, a new level of fear in his eyes.

"Hey it's ok man I didn't tell her everything. I told you had been snatched and beaten but nothing further than that" Steve informed him, and Danny released a breath, his shame as to his ordeal burning deep within him.

"Thanks" he replied softly, pleased that only his immediate colleagues knew the full extent of what happened- if only he could delete it from his own mind.

"Hey we're here for you, you know?" Steve comforted him. Danny nodded tiredly.

"Haven't you got anywhere else to be? Can't spend all your time here watching me sleep" he commented, not really wanting them to leave but also not wishing to be a burden.

"Nowhere else I would rather be" Steve replied, and Chin nodded in agreement.

50-50-50-50-50-50-50

"We are going to have to talk to him about what has happened sooner or later" Chin urged Steve, knowing that the seal would not want to push his friend into talking about the ridiculously hard subject, but he also knew that he would have to. Steve sighed loudly.

"You know Danny, as much as he rants he hates to talk" he replied, knowing that his friend hated talking about really personal things.

"Maybe I should talk to him?" Kono interjected.

"You'd do that?" Chin asked the rookie.

"Hey he's my friend too" she replied, feeling in her gut that her friend might find it easier to talk to the female officer.

"I know kid, just I think it will be hard that's all" Chin commented. Kono felt her resolve strengthen at his words.

"Danny's worth it" she replied. "You two go and get some dinner, and come back later tonight- I will stay with Danny and talk with him when he wakes up" she told them, ushering them towards the door before either man had a chance to object.

50-50-50-50-50-50-50

Pure terror ran through the mind of the captive man, he lay bound and helpless, he bucked against the man advancing on him only to receive punch after punch to the ribs for his efforts. He pleaded with them to stop and kicked out using every ounce of his remaining strength to fight them off, suddenly his head lifted and a death grip on his hair pushed his face back onto the cold tiled floor. "I told you Danny, no point in resisting" the voice cackled from behind him, just as his trousers were ripped and pulled over his slim hips.

"NO!" Danny screamed his body arching and writhing against the invisible attacked that assailed him. Kono leapt forward.

"Danny! Danny! Calm down hun, come on bruh you're safe" she soothed the man. Unseeing eyes staring at her. "It's ok, I've got you" she told him as he continued to struggle and the alarm from the heart monitor began beeping frantically. Running out of ideas Kono carefully eased herself onto the bed beside her friend, and eased his bandaged head gently against her shoulder, hoping that the female touch would assist in soothing him. "Danny it's Kono. I've got you" she whispered ruffling his hair where it poked out from the bandages.

"Kono?" he questioned, finally making it to awareness.

"Shh, it's ok I'm here" she told him.

"Sorry" he whispered, ashamed of his weakness that he had so clearly shown to the rookie.

"Hey! What you saying sorry for? You have nearly died Danny! It's natural to have nightmares" she told him hoping that her words would at least ease his burden slightly. She looked up upon hearing the door come open.

"Everything ok?" an out of breath Dr Lewis asked softly, his eyebrow quirked at seeing how the two officers were currently laid on the bed.

"Just a dream" Kono replied softly. The doctor nodded, then set about checking all of the monitors and noting the results down on a chart.

"Danny, now that you are awake I'll send one of the nurses in to change the dressings. It may be a bit uncomfortable" the doctor told the patient before him. Danny nodded wordlessly, still catching his breath from the nightmare that had left him reeling. He turned his head slightly, taking comfort in the warmth of his friend, at his action Kono tightened her grip on the detective desperate for him to know that she was there for him. Within a moment the nurse entered the room and Kono disentangled herself from her friend to allow the medical team to work.

"Now Detective Williams, Dr Lewis has also instructed a CAT scan to check on any more swelling to your brain, and x-rays in relation to your knee and ribs" the nurse informed her patient. Danny groaned, he hated being prodded and poked. The nurse laughed lightly in response "Not much more Detective" she told him softly as she removed the bandages from around his head. Kono winced to herself at seeing the bruising and ragged cuts to her friends head.

"That bad huh?" he asked softly, the ever observant Jersey native noticing her reaction.

"You might want to wait before going on the pull" she replied, not willing to lie to her friend. He smiled lightly and closed his eyes against the nurses ministrations. Just as she finished an orderly appeared to escort the patient for his scans and x-rays. Kono got to her feet to go with him

"You don't have to babysit me" Danny commented and Kono rolled her eyes in response.

"That bruh is exactly what I have to do" she replied, meaning every word.

50-50-50-50-50-50-50

By the time the duo made it back to the room, Danny was exhausted. Kono sighed, she still intended on speaking with him but she also didnt want to push him too far.

"You comfortable?" she asked him softly.

"As I am going to be" he replied, his voice weary.

"Listen Danny, I was just wondering if you would talk to me" she commented, wincing at how stupid that sounded.

"What about?" he asked cautiously, feeling in his gut where this was heading.

"Well, how about the dream that you had earlier. What was it about?" she asked cautiously. Danny sighed, hesitant to verbalise his thoughts and feelings for fear that speaking about it would drive it back to the forefront of his mind.

"I don't know" he replied, his thoughts a jumble of emotions.

"Danny, you should talk about things" she replied.

"It was about the attack ok?" he told her, his voice heavy with pain.

"What happened?" she probed softly.

"They held me down" he replied, his voice cracking with emotion "They held me down and I tried to stop them, I swear to god I tried. I kicked them and I pushed at them, but they were too strong" he told her, his eyes closed in an attempt to block out the anguish that he felt to his soul. Kono remained silent, not wishing to interrupt him now he had started opening up to her. "They started ripping at my clothing and I was too weak to stop them" he continued, his voice a bare whisper and tears streaming freely down his face. Kono closed her eyes feeling her friend's pain as if it were her own. "Simon called it day three" he told her, his face breaking and his breath hitched. Kono moved forwards and once more eased herself onto the bed next to her friend and held him to her as he sobbed his heart out.

End Chapter Eleven

Please review!