Revelatory two parter.
Hyperventilate (Shock, 1)
December 19, 2013
The rings finished traveling their course and he fell back to the floor. For a long moment, he refused to look up.
When he did, fear was evident in his deep blue eyes. Slowly, his breathing pattern escalated until after a minute of tense silence, he was hyperventilating.
The person watching him knelt and reached out a hand, but the now black-haired Danny Fenton scuttled backward to avoid the touch. It was not reassuring. Not calming. If anything, it made him panic more.
"Oh no, oh no, oh no" he managed to repeat, as if that phrase could stop everything.
Struggled with that last line. Alternate word choices: save him / reverse time