Note: so this is a day early, I'm sure you don't mind. Right? I'm having a PJ day with my boys and plan to work on my new story so thought I'd be nice and post early, especially since TheDogo insisted I'd posted a cliffie for the last chapter.
This is the scene that inspired the story, hope you enjoy my new way to whump poor Danny.
Chapter Three
Danny saunted back in to the Palace, a smile plastered across his face. He had managed to keep his promise and bring Channing to justice, and shut down a drug supplier in the process. What a great day.
"Oh look. The Super Detective returns." Kono joked.
"I just got lucky guys." Danny said waving off the praise. "The Governor let you live?" Danny said smiling at Steve.
"Yeah, just about. Let's just say I'm not his favourite person right now." Steve sighed, the dressing down he had received still ringing in his ears.
"We were just about to look into Mrs. Lomax's financials to see if we can make a good case against her on the drug charges." Kono explained.
"I still can't believe that frail old lady was growing all those drugs." Steve said shaking his head.
"Oh, she wasn't so sweet when put on the spot." Danny explained.
"She certainly wasn't an innocent old lady. Look at those payments she made to the electricity company. No way she didn't know what was happening in that room." Chin pointed out.
They all leaned over the smart table, examining the files, no one speaking until a drop of blood hitting the screen broke their concentration.
"Shit!" Danny exclaimed moving away from the table and pinching his nose.
"You ok, brah?" Chin asked concerned.
"Dose bleed." Danny responded, his voice muffled as he continued to pinch his nose attempting to stop the blood that was now freely dripping onto the floor.
"Whoa, that's one hell of a nose bleed, Danny." Steve said hurrying over to the kitchen area and grabbing some paper towels. Danny took the offered towels, and as he held them to his nose, blood poured from it like someone had turned on a faucet.
"Jesus." Steve said grabbing a chair and forcing Danny to sit down, taking over pinching his best friend's nose. "Are they always this bad?" He asked.
"I don't dormally get dem." Danny answered after swallowing some of the blood that was dripping down the back of his throat.
"Well you're certainly having a doozy of one now." Steve said batting Danny's hand away as he brought it up to take over from Steve. "Chin, does the first aid kit have any nasal packs?"
Chin grabbed the first aid kit and started to look through it.
"I've got some tampons in my locker if you want?" Kono offered with a glint in her eye.
"I dam not sticking your dady things up my dose." Danny ranted.
"Relax brah, I found some nasal packs." Chin said passing them to Steve. "Not cool cuz." He said shaking his head, and Kono shrugged her shoulders and smiled.
Steve finished inserting the second pack, and then tipped Danny's head back to soak the packs with saline solution to cause them to swell and fill Danny's nasal cavity. Danny swallowed, attempting to fight back the rising nausea that had started to creep up on him from the taste of blood. "Danks."
"No problem, bud, now why don't you go and clean up and I'll clean up here. Then we can get back to closing the case. Those things will need to stay in for a while." Steve said grabbing some more paper towels and starting to clean up the blood from the floor.
"Do Kay. Dorry." Danny said, standing and heading to the bathroom. As the door closed behind him he headed straight for the sink and washed the blood from his hands then bent down and took a mouthful of water and swilled his mouth, spitting it into the sink. He glanced in the mirror and shook his head at the sight of his reflection, the two cotton swabs, up his nose, now starting to stain pink.
Seeing as he was in the bathroom he decided to relieve himself, so headed over to the urinal and swore again as he saw his urine stained red. "What the hell?" Danny whispered to himself, concerned. Finishing up in the bathroom he made his way back to the smart table where the others were back at looking at Mrs. Lomax's financials. He was feeling tired now and his body was starting to ache, arriving at Steve's side he wobbled briefly as he suddenly felt a little lightheaded. Steve had obviously noticed as he grabbed hold of his right forearm and steadied him.
"You ok?" Steve asked concerned.
"No, I don't feel too good." Danny replied honestly as a wave of nausea swept over him.
"You look pretty pale. Do you think your nose is still bleeding?" Kono asked now equally concerned.
"I don't know but I feel sick." Danny replied before lurching forward and dropping to his knees over the waste paper bin and emptying the contents of his stomach into it. Finishing up he wiped the back of his hand across his mouth, smearing it in blood and immediately causing Steve to grab the bin and examine his vomit. "Dorry,.. I guess… I must have swallowed... too much blood... from my dose." Danny said breathlessly.
"That's too much blood to just be from a nose bleed, Danny." Steve stated while watching his best friend try to catch his breath. "Are you having trouble breathing?"
"Just took.. my breath away." Danny coughed into his fist and Steve's eyes widened in shock as speckles of blood covered it. "Chin, call an ambulance."
"On it." Chin said pulling out his phone.
"Steve, what the hell is happening?" Danny asked scared. Then he wrapped his arm around his waist as cramps ripped through his stomach, and he was forced to vomit once again.
"I don't know Danny, but we are gonna get you checked out." Steve said his eyes drawn to Danny's forearm where he had grabbed it minutes before to steady his friend. Danny's arm was already bruising with a hand print where Steve's fingers had wrapped around it. He reached out and carefully took Danny's arm to examine the bruising.
"Where did dat come from?" Danny asked shocked.
"I grabbed your arm just now." Steve explained.
"Steve, this is more than a dose bleed. There was blood in my urine doo." Danny said before a coughing fit racked his body leaving him gasping for breath, and his mouth full of blood.
"Here," Kono said turning Danny's head to her and wiping his face with a wet towel.
Danny was now as white as a sheet, and all three team members watched on as he struggled to breathe. His body was trembling from the effort it took to remain sat upright so Steve quickly moved around behind Danny and forced his friend to relax against him, and Danny practically sagged into his friend's protective embrace.
"Medics are here." Chin said leading Ani and Jonah, two familiar EMT's over to Danny.
The medics set about evaluating Danny as Steve filled them in on Danny's sudden onset of bleeding. Jonah busied himself checking Danny's vitals as Ani immediately placed an oxygen mask over Danny's face to help with his troubled breathing. Then she examined the deepening bruise on Danny's arm from where Steve had grabbed him.
"It bruised just like this straight away?" She asked concerned.
"Yeah, then he started coughing up blood."
"Ok, we need to get him to the hospital as soon as possible for blood tests and treatment." Ani explained. "Danny your blood pressure is on the low side. But given the bleeding and bruising I think something is off with your clotting so I don't want to start an IV if I don't have to. I'd rather the doctors at the hospital do that."
"K." Danny replied which set him off coughing, showering the facemask with specks of bright red blood.
Jonah brought the gurney over and moved to Danny's side to help him up and on to it. "Take it nice and steady guys, I want to limit any bruising." Ani instructed.
As Jonah readied Danny for departure, Steve pulled Ani to one side out of his friend's ear shot, and Kono and Chin joined them. "Have you any idea what's going on with him?" He asked concerned.
"It could be a few things, Steve. They will be able to do tests at the hospital." Ani explained not wanting to speculate on what was causing Danny's sudden bleeding.
"A few things, like what?" Kono asked, her eyes wide with concern as Jonah quickly wiped the mask clean and replaced it over Danny's face.
"Guys, it's not my place to say. With a sudden onset of bleeding from multiple sources I can only presume something is wrong with his clotting, what is causing that I don't know." Ani tried to explain.
"His clotting? The bruising? God Ani, could we be looking at something like leukaemia?" Steve asked.
"It's one of the possibilities." Ani stated before retuning to Danny's side to check his oxygen levels before transporting him.
TBC