Guiding Light
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Summary: Shawn Farrel has a gift, but all gifts come at a price. Or maybe this is just a down side to his gift. There's only one way to find out.
A/n: Circular updating sucks. Screw that. Haha! For the love of… DANNY! Danny's my third favorite character.
Disclaimer: The 4400 belongs to USA… and Carter belongs to the OC… even though this has nothing to do with Carter…
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"He Better Be"
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Danny hung up the phone. Uncle Tommy had sounded quite upset about something, but Danny didn't want to ask what. He had wanted Danny's mom, not Danny. So it couldn't have been that important.
Still bored senseless, Danny went back to playing video games. Mom should be home soon.
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He was right. About ten minutes later, his mother walked through door, a bunch of bags in his hand. "Danny, could you give me a hand?" she asked. Danny paused his game and set the controller down, then proceeded to help his mother carry in the multiple bags out in the car into the house.
"Thank you," his mother smiled. "Anyone call?"
"Yeah. I almost forgot!" Danny admitted, "Uncle Tommy called, he sounded kinda upset, maybe you should call him."
His mother was silent for a few seconds before nodded. "I'll call him then…"
"He said it was important mom, maybe you should call him now."
Susan eyed her son. "All right."
With that, she picked up the phone and dialed Tom's cell phone number.
Riiiiiiiiiiing…
No answer.
Riiiiinnnnnngggg…
Uncle Tommy had obviously picked up because Danny's mom began talking.
"Tom, Danny said you called…" Susan said as more of a question.
While Danny wanted to hear what was going on, but he could only hear mumbling on the other side.
Susan blinked a few times and then sat down in one of the kitchen chairs. Danny remained leaning on the kitchen, supporting his head with his hands, watching trying to read his mother's face and reactions.
Danny heard a lot of mumbling coming from the other end of the other end of the phone and watched as the smile disappeared from his mother's face and was replaced with a look of deep worry.
"What… what happened?" she asked. Danny could hear that she was getting more and more upset. Danny heard more mumbling on the other end.
"I'll, I'll be there right… I'm on my way now…" she said. More mumbling.
"Yeah, I'll… I'll be fine." With that she hung up the phone.
The two of them sat in silence for a while before Danny felt the need to break it. "What's wrong mom?" he asked.
His mom sighed. "Danny, you might not want to hear this, but something happened to… something happened to Shawn…"
Danny felt his heat sink down. Something had happened to Shawn? Those damn idiots! This was their fault. They took him and they brought him back a freak. And now, they caused him to be hurt. He caused Shawn to be hurt. He flipped out at Shawn, and caused him to run. If that hadn't had happened, then Shawn wouldn't be hurt.
It was stupid anyways. Nikki had moved down to Texas, and now nearly everything from before Shawn disappeared was gone. Except for Kyle. But he didn't quite count really.
"What happened?" Danny asked, quite confused. He was actually worried about Shawn. Quite worried.
"He doesn't know, but Shawn… he's in a… a coma."
Danny was shocked into silence. Shawn was in a coma. A coma. Like Kyle had been for those three long and hard years. Danny couldn't even think about what had happened to put Shawn into this coma.
They probably did it. That's the only explanation he could think of.
More silence.
"We should go," Susan said quietly.
"Yeah," Danny agreed. "I'll drive."
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The drive to the hospital took longer than either of them had expected. Tom was standing there as they parked. Susan jumped out of the car and rushed over to her brother. Danny moved slower, not slow, just not as fast as his mother. He turned the car off and put the keys into his pocket as he got out of the car.
He slammed the door without realizing it. Both his mother and Uncle Tommy turned to look at him as he walked across the parking lot. He could feel his uncle's penetrating gaze and realized how much it must suck to be Kyle and have to put up with that all the time. He'd hate it.
"Where is he?" Danny asked, his voice not really sounding like his own.
"Room… one forty-one." Tom answered as the three of them began to walk into the hospital. The mood was somber. Danny didn't like it. It wasn't like Shawn had died or anything.
They walked down the halls of the hospital.
135…
137…
139…
141…
The three of them walked to find the scene much like when Tom had left. Jordan Collier was sitting peacefully in his chair. Kyle was sitting in the other chair, looking between Collier and Shawn. And Shawn. Shawn hadn't changed one bit. Tom had kind of hoped that he would have miraculously woken up while he had been gone, but he hadn't.
Danny was in shock. He hadn't seen his brother in well over a year. And he hadn't changed that much, physically. No. He looked like virtually the same Shawn from before they took him. But he still couldn't get rid of this feeling that his brother had changed. And that was why he was lying on that hospital bed, all those tubes and wires all around him.
Just like Kyle had been. Danny slowly walked over to Shawn. "What'd you do this time you idiot?" he said with a laugh. "You're quite good at getting yourself into trouble. Broke your leg jumping out of your window… got yourself abducted by whatever the hell took you for three years, leaving Kyle in a coma… now you're stuck there. You're something special that's for sure," he laughed. It was a forced laugh, but he felt it was necessary.
Suddenly, Kyle just appeared behind him. "He'll be fine Danny," he said, grabbing his younger cousin's shoulder.
"He better be," Tom added, glaring at Collier as he said it.
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A/n: Wow, I got like… a crap load of reviews chapter 2, and where'd y'all go! I'm trying to make the chapters longer, but I kinda like them shorter and sweeter.
Angelic Prefect - Haha. I actually have a plot for this one, believe it or not…
sarahofearth - What? In my vocab "might" is closer than probably… which is the word I usually use to describe characters who will not make it through the story… Jordan is my second favorite character (after Shawn of course)… it is like Anakin and Darth Vader… nevermind… xD…
LostAngel2 - I'd do that if I didn't already have a lOCst story out there…
rach - Nikki may come in later, I don't know. Danny is coming though because he is awesome!
One last question… in your review can you tell me who you'd rather have in here… Devon or the homeless chick from the last episode…