A/N: Thank you very much for the reviews. I appreciate them.
I cry because of you.
None of the hospital staff, not even the older and most experienced personnel, has ever in their lives treated a case like this. They had seen worse injuries, yes, but no one of them came with this background. As soon as they were notified of the oncoming patient and his condition, they organized a quick reunion to create a work team and assign functions.
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There were so many lights. So many sounds, too loud for his liking. So many movements. So many spoken words flying all over him. Most of them seemed to be instructions or orders, but he couldn´t really understand their meaning. Everything he tried to focus on exceeded him. It was all too much. From the most maddening loneliness to the most frantic present, it was making him scared. He could feel his heart speed up and that made him more nervous.
The sensation of being moved on the air and placed on another surface, and then rushed, made him open his eyes again. Shapes of people became blurry colors at his sides, mostly white and blue. Air became a cold whistle that made him shudder. A blanket was miraculously placed on top of him at that exact moment.
The sensation of being the center of the attention but at the same time being alone among all the chaos was baffling. He closed his eyes, only to open them again when he felt a warm hand on his brow and a thumb start caressing his frown, while another equally warm hand emulated the same action on his arm. Through gummy lashes, Danny´s eyes partially managed to focus on a face that was close to his, directly on his line of sight. He had probably never seen a kinder face on his entire life, or maybe it was because of the lack of human contact these past months, but this woman´s smile was an oasis and provided him the calmness he totally lacked at the moment.
"Hello sweetie, my name is Iolana. Everything is fine". The powerful Hawaiian woman, apparently a nurse, addressed him directly in a firm and confident voice, taking for herself the task to decrease his anxiety and distress. Beautiful but anguished and reddish blue eyes stared her back, giving away his entire soul through his vulnerability. "Your friends are right here with you, see?" She moved a little to the side and Steve´s forced smile appeared behind her shoulder. Why was this goof crying? Danny couldn´t make his brain to function any longer, so when he shut his eyes again, he shut everything else out with them.