Danny held Aiden's good hand as the doctor re-sutured her wound. "How you doing Aiden?" he asked noticing that her eyes were open.
"I'm okay," Aiden said silently she was making an obvious attempt to repress her tears. "What happened? Where am I?"
"Your at the hospital Miss Burn," the doctor said cleaning the blood away as he finished. "You torn your stitches open, most likely while sleeping. If your friend didn't come this could have been a much larger problem. But you are okay and we are going to clean you up and you can go home."
"I'll take you home," Danny said helping Aiden sit up. He braced her with both hands making sure that she didn't fall over. "Careful." Danny helped Aiden into the wheel chair the nurse had brought. The nurse wheeled Aiden outside while Danny hailed down a cab. He had come in the bus and although he didn't like cab he figured it was best to just get Aiden home. "You okay?" he asked noticing in the cab that she was leaning heavily on him.
"Just tired." Danny slipped his hands around Aiden's body when they reached her apartment and lifted her out of the cab. "Messer put me down."
"Doc said no strenuous activity and walking up four flights of stairs I think falls under that category." Danny although not being the most muscular made it into Aiden's apartment and got her into her bedroom. "You want me to get you anything?"
"Nah I'm good you can go."
"Not happening, I'm going to crash on your couch."
"I'm fine Danny."
"Aiden you could have bled out if I didn't come when I did. Now be a good girl and go to sleep."
"Messer…"
"Not going to happen, night Aiden." Danny closed the door on his way out and put himself down on the couch.
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"Hey Messer," Aiden said rubbing his head waking him up. "You want some breakfast before I kick you out of here?"
"Sounds good," Messer said rubbing his eyes getting up. "How you…"
"Doing? Just fine thank you." Aiden smiled and threw her bagels into the toaster. "Hey what happened to Flack last night? Wasn't he supposed to come last night too?"
"He got called out on a case."
"Ah, here," Aiden passed Danny a bagel and pulled some cream cheese out of the fridge. "There is juice in the fridge." Aiden turned around to get a glass out of the cupboard and bumped into Danny.
"Are you okay?" Danny asked in a panic that he may have hurt Aiden.
"I'm not made of glass."
"I know, just checking," Danny said running his hand along her uninjured arm. "Have a told you lately that I care about you and don't like to see you hurt." Danny brushed a few stray hairs out of her face and smiled. "I miss having you at work, it's not a fun without you there as my partner. We work well together."
"Messer," Aiden whispered, as they got closer. She continued to move in closer towards Danny and placed her head on his shoulder.
"I should really get going," Danny said.
"Sure, take breakfast to go. I don't want Mac riding you on account of me," Aiden smiled. "Thanks Danny, for everything."
"Anytime."
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO"Hey Aiden if you don't open this door in the next two minutes I'm going to break it down!" Flack said from in the hallway outside of Aiden's door. Danny told him what happened to Aiden last night and he decided he would check up on her on his break, it had been a slow day anyway.
"Keep your pants on Flack!" Aiden yelled opening the door. "You checking up on me Flack?"
"Yes."
"I thought at least you'd tried to hide it like you've been doing the past couple of days."
Flackput his hands in frontof him revealing a potted plant. "I little get well present."
"Thanks Flack, you wanna come in?" she asked.
"Sure," Flack said walking over the threshold. "Messer told me what happened last night seems I missed all the fun. How are you doing?"
"I've had better days." Aiden sat down on the couch. "I can't sleep, I'm afraid I'll rip my stitches again," Aiden confessed as Flack took a seat next to her. "And I can't even change my own bandages because I only have one hand."
"I could do it, if you're okay…nah I don't want to make you uncomfortable, forget it."
"Would you Flack? I don't want to bother any of my family and I'm certainly not going back to the hospital to get it done," Aiden rationalized to her friend.
"Sure, where are your bandages?"
"In the bathroom."
"Okay, I'll be right back." Flack got up off the couch and headed off to grab the supplies. He found them easily, they were all sitting on the edge of the bathtub. He grabbed them up in his hands and went back into the living room where Aiden was struggling to get out of her sling. "Here I'll get it," he said loosening the straps and carefully removing it. "You got something under this?" he asked nervously.
"Yeah, don't be so squeamish. This isn't a big deal." Aiden unzipped her sweater and squirmed out of it. "Lets get this over with please." Aiden lay back on the couch and rolled up her tank top where a white piece of gaze.
"You want me to do this first or should I do this arm?"
"Arm, save the best for last."
"Okay, here we go." Flack cautiously started by pealing away the bandages. He did his best to ignore Aiden's various noises of pain. "You doing okay up there?"
"Not really, but keep going."
"I'll get you a glass of water."
"Thanks." Aiden took a deep breath and tried to calm her body, which has trembling. She took the glass that Flack gave her and took tiny sips. "Thanks for doing this Flack, it means a lot to me."
"No prob, ready for me to continue?"
"Yeah," Aiden slid up her tank top and let Flack continue. After a few minutes Flack was almost finished when Aiden began to get dizzy. "Stop for a minute Flack."
"You okay?"
"Yes just give me a second." Aiden sat up and steadied herself with the edge of the couch.
"Here stay there all I've got to do is put some fresh gaze on and… we are done." Flack sat next to Aiden and put his arm around her shoulders. "You're done." Aiden didn't give a verbal response she began crying. She placed her head on Flack's shoulder and let everything she was holding in out. Flack caught off guard by Aiden's moment of weakness carefully rubbed her back and whispered reassurances to her. After about five minutes he had her head resting in his lap while he stroked her hair. "It's okay," he said brushing the tears off his cheek with his thumb.
"Sorry to go all emotionally unstable on you Flack," Aiden said sitting up. "You must think I'm such a nut job."
"Aiden I don't think you're a nut job. You've just gone through some heavy shit and it's going to come up. You got to know it's okay to let it out." Flack smiled at Aiden he felt so bad that he hadn't helped her, that he didn't notice she was carrying the weight of the world on her shoulders. "You know what you need? A night on the town, get your mind off things. What do you think?"
"Like a date?"
"Yeah, nothing to fancy, and not to late because you need your rest. I know this great restaurant. What do ya say?"
"I say yes. I'm not going to turn down a night out." Aiden smiled.