Lindsay was numb; the only thing on her body she could feel was her heart beating painfully against her chest. She knew Flack's hand was squeezing her shoulder, she sensed him there, but could not feel it. The only thing she wanted to do right now was to have the feeling of Danny after crawling in bed with him after a long day at the lab. She would do anything the put her head on his chest and have him tell her everything is going to be ok. The tears were still flowing down her face but she made no sound. Lindsay sat in the uncomfortable chair in the waiting room just staring off to infinity, searching for something to pull her back. People walked to her and gave her loving comforting hugs but she didn't acknowledge them she felt as if she was too far gone. Too exhausted, both mentally and physically.
In the operating room, Danny's body was still in shock. There had been no change for over twenty mintues. Dr. Stevens has sweat dripping down him face, he has been working with Danny since he had come in. Not only was he a good cop, he was a good kid. It was killing him to know that, not only was his fiance pregnant, he was young. Dr. Stevens had a son about the same age as Danny; every time he looked at him he had tears in his eyes knowing the pain he was going through. With the staggering beat of his heart monitor, Stevens knew that he was getting worse.
"Charge to 360... Clear." Danny's body rocked at the shock of the paddles. "Ok, Come on Danny Boy don't give up yet! Charge again... Clear!" His body rocked again, with no luck, the monitor didnt change.
"Dr. Stevens, it's been twenty minutes. What do you want to do?" At first he hesitated then he launched into action.
"He's thirty-three, and he has a baby on the way... charge again." With the paddles charged, he shocked Danny's limp broken body again.
"We have a heart beat. BP 110/70... he's... he's stablizing?" The Nurse said in a shocked tone, it had been a miracle he had come back and so strong.
Stevens smiled and quietly said to himself, "I knew you could do it kid..." he looked up at the surrounding doctors and nurses and continued, "Alright lets finish him up and get him out of this hospital." He said while smiling under his mask.
"What's it gunna be Messer? Life or Death?" Aiden asked him once more.
"I love you Aiden, you're like the sister I never wanted." Danny said with a smile spread across his face. "But..."
Aiden interupted before he finished. "I know D, thats why I'm here. I don't want you to come with me. I'm here to make you fight, for Lindsay and that baby." She paused then continued, "I have to show you something..." they turned away from Lindsay and Flack, and turned and walked into the operating room.
Danny saw for the first time, the gravity of the situation. His lifeless body was lying on the table, being shocked over and over, while Dr. Stevens issued orders as people ran around trying to get his heart to beat again. "You see Danny, no one wants to loose you. Stevens is a good man, I have been watching over you since you got here, and that man has done anything and everything to get you better and out of here. He thinks of you like a son. Everyone is going to suffer if you give up."
Danny was almost in as much shock as his body on the table. The blood dripping down the side of the table and the blood on the hands of the doctors and nurses working on him. This face was grey and the tubes coming out of his nose and mouth made him look dead already. All of a sudden Danny could feel the pain his body was in, and doubled from the blood he suddenly felt on his stomach.
"Aid... whats happening to me? Make it stop!" Danny said as he dropped to his knees. "I don't want to die, please... help me!" There were tears running down his cheeks, Danny suddenly realized he wasn't ready to give up; to leave everything behind.
"Then don't... I love you D. It's time to go. Go home, get healthy... take care of that baby, live a long life. You'll see me eventually, I promise." Aiden said as she bent down beside him and wiped the tears from his eyes. "I'll always be with you, and I'll watch out for that kid. That's a promise."
"Aid, I'm sorry you died so young, I wish... I wish I could have been there. But-"
"I know, but you gotta go..." Stevens shocked his body and nothing happened. He was rounding for another shock, Aiden grabbed Danny by the shoulders and lifted him up. She took him in a huge hug and whispered in his ear. "Don't say I never gave you anything!"
"Love you Aid. Good-bye."
"No good-bye's, only see you later." Aiden winked at him and placed her hand on his forhead as his eyes rolled back into his head... the monitors calmed and his heart beat was back to normal. "See ya D."
