As part of a wellbeing assignment for school, Danny's class went to visit some really sick kids in a hospital. The goal was to see if laughter really was the best (or at least most fun) medicine. Even in the waiting room, the class was split into a social hierarchy. Everyone grabbed a seat in the middle of the room, but the Golden Trio, being the mysterious group, sat on the outside and talked amongst themselves. Around ten minutes after they'd all arrived, a nurse came in with a genuinely bright smile. "Hi!" She greeted. "I'm Nurse Joy, and I'm going to be introducing you to the kids." She told the... slightly older kids. "We'll have to split you up into groups so none of the kids feel left out, though. Okay?" She waited for the students to nod. She proceeded to read out the groups and the children they'd see. Sam and Tucker were in the same group while Danny was separated from them. Aw, rats.
The last group consisted of Danny, Dash, Kwan and Paulina. There were four children they were going to play with: Samuel, Drew, Kelly and Paulette. Before walking in, Nurse Joy explained something. "I just want you all to know that all the kids are completely recovering... except Sammy. He's a bit younger than the others and doesn't talk much." Nurse Joy regained her cheerful tone and opened the door. "Guess what?" She exclaimed to the kids. "We have some visitors!" Three of the kids cheered, while one with thin, raven black hair faced the wall. Nurse Joy reminded the visitors, "I'll just run some quick errands. I'll be back around the end of the day!"
Paulina immediately attached to Paulette, while Kwan played with Kelly and Drew was drawn to Dash. Danny stood in Samuel's corner, seemingly not paying attention to him. The little kids found board games, hair accessories, dress-ups and colouring books and began to play with the big kids. Just as the others were going to say something, the boy with thin, black hair turned around. He looked at Danny with his big green eyes and did something the others hadn't done yet; he smiled, and gave out a laugh.
"Hi! I'm Samuel, call me Sammy but not Sam." He said, still in the corner. Danny laughed at the kid's little sentence. "Hi! I'm Daniel. You can call me Danny, but never Dan." He retorted playfully. Instead of going to the activity corner with the other six, Sammy and Danny just... connected. The steady drip of the IV began to feel like a song. There was a sort of... thickening atmosphere in the room, and suddenly the two began to speak another language. The boy started, chattering excitedly at his company, and the emotion was continued by Danny, who laughed occasionally at what seemed like jokes. At 1:15pm The atmosphere grew a little more Tense and Cold. The boy asked a question, bowing his head a little. Danny looked... Guiltily? Sheepishly? At the others, who went quiet in suspense.
With a little sigh, Danny said something in the weird language and mimed a ten with his fingers, looking down. Dash could've sworn he saw a small tear drop from Danny's lowered eye. Suddenly, the little boy hugged Danny adorably and said, in English, "Thanks."
At 1:24pm, as the class was about to leave, Danny jerked up as if remembering something. Some of the students next to him could've sworn they felt a little temperature drop or a sudden, thin mist in the room. He stuck his hand up and said, "I need to visit Sammy right now. Please!" He sounded so frantic, panicked even, that Lancer allowed it as the bus was running late. Most students followed him up the stairs, all the while Danny ran at speeds rivalled only by athletes.
Danny burst in, startling the kid, at 1:25pm. He ran over, skidding on the floor, and frantically searched the cupboards near the child as the heart monitor gradually flatlined. Danny looked over at Sammy, and gave up his search of the cupboards. Instead, he opted to use his hands. He began pressing his hands onto the kid's chest, every once in a while checking for breath and a pulse, until finally, he stopped. Sammy got up, coughing, the monitor started regularly beeping again, and some shocked nurses came rushing into the room to find a 15-year-old boy finishing up on some CPR. Nurse Joy was the leader. She exclaimed between breaths, "Did you just -pant- restart Sammy's heart?!" Danny nodded sheepishly and rubbed the back of his neck. "I... um... know some basic CPR, and I didn't see anyone coming, so I just acted of my own accord." A doctor, his name-tag too messy to read, stated, "That was a little reckless, kiddo, but I think we can all agree a person's life is a bit more important than whether a decision was a bit risky or not." Danny let out the slow breath he didn't know he'd been holding, shook and high-fived some hands, and returned to the class.
Later that day, as Danny was in the process of stuffing twenty books into his purple backpack, Dash stomped over. Danny quickly hastened in closing his lock; he was not in the mood to be shoved into his own locker today. Dash looked behind him, where just down the hall some A-listers gave him thumbs up. Dash could've sworn the skinny kid snickered. "Yeah, Dash?" Fenton said tiredly. "I'm gonna have to wail on you double as hard tomorrow to make up for this, but how did you know about the kid's heart?" Danny looked like he was thinking for a split second, and coolly replied, "Oh, you know, I know a bit about heart rates and stuff considering how my parents are scientists as well as ghost hunters. I could tell his pulse was a little too low." Quick thinking saves the day yet again. Dash frowned acceptingly and walked away. Danny discreetly watched as Dash walked down the hallway to his friends, making motions towards his heart while Danny assumed he was recounting the falsified tale.
How did Danny really know about the child?
Well, when a very faint ghost sense leads you to a human child in a hospital, you know something's wrong.
A/N: Yup, I rewrote the chapter. I knew my 'idea' was quite borrowed in many aspects, but when I wrote this chapter the first time, it was 11:30 pm and I was tired and wanted to finish up. Well, it's 9:17 and I got around to publishing the altered version with my own idea.
See ya next time!