Rafe walked back in forth in the foreign hospital's hallway. He was in a state of shock. His best friend was under a doctor's careful hands in surgery. The Chinese doctor was delicately taking the bullets that chewed their way into Danny's insides, causing so much blood to come out.
Both Rafe's and Danny's fellow co pilots sat in a row of chairs backed against a wall. They watched in silence as their friend walked back and forth. Nothing they could say could relax him. So they continued to watch him.
"He has to live," Rafe mumbled as tears formed in his eyes. "If he dies, then Evelyn and the baby will have no father."
"Captain McCawley, what are you doing here?" a sharp fearless voice asked.
Rafe looked up, and saw the man he came to respect Doolittle. Quickly Rafe tried to wipe away the tears that may brand him a coward.
"Its Danny sir," he stiffened. "He took two bullets in the stomach for me. I didn't want him too, neither did he have too. I just don't want him to die, he can't. We all need him, I need him!" he rambled.
"McCawley, take a seat son. Everything will be fine alright, now honestly I can't promise that. But you know Walker more then I do; you know he's a fighter. And he will not give up, until it is him time. And I have a feeling telling me that he is going to pull through and be alright." the strong leader comforted.
Rafe sat down on a seat that was directly across from the door that led to where Danny was having the operation that may save his life. Rafe watched the inside of the room as fear crawled up his spine. Without warning he heard one of the most dreaded noises he ever heard, the straight noise of a beep less heart monitor. He immediately shot up out of the chair he sat on.
"Danny!!!" he screamed.
All the other pilots jumped up quickly and pulled him back down. Rafe had tears running down his cheeks as he tried to accept the thought that he had lost his best friend and his brother.
From inside the operation room, the two doctors and several nurses frantically tried to bring the young man back to life. The attempts proved to be worthless, he was already gone.