Chapter 4

Missing 5 hours

"Jack, we got a location!" Sam said excitedly. "The signal came from only two blocks south of the school. He must of walked away; the cell location came from the Bronx Park."

Finally, Jack had hope; he was going to find Danny. The team rushed to the cars and sped towards the park. It took them only ten minutes to get there, when they finally came to a screeching halt at their location. Eagerly jumping out of the car, Jack looked around for his missing agent.

"Danny! Danny are you here?" Jack yelled. It was almost dawn and he was hoping to see Danny somewhere.

He suddenly spotted a familiar object in the middle of the road. Walking up to it, he squatted and sighed as realization hit him. It was the battered remains of Danny's cell. Looking up, he scanned the area. Nothing. He had to be around somewhere.

"Should we get more agents out here to search the park?" Viv asked.

Jack nodded and Vivian took out her cell to call for a search party.

Ten minutes later, there were agents swarming the Bronx Park, but Jack and his team were the ones who kept the sharpest eye. Danny had to be around here somewhere; he just hoped he wasn't injured to badly. Suddenly after three hours of searching, Jack spotted something out of the ordinary between some bushes. His heart raced once he realized what it was. It was a leg; a human leg. Rushing over, he fell to his knees and moved some of the brush away. Sure enough, it was Danny. He finally found him.

"I GOT HIM! Call an ambulance!" Jack yelled excitedly. Viv, Sam, and Martian rushed over to where Jack was while another agent called for the EMT's.

Jack sobbed as he a Martian gently dragged him out of the bushes. They all just hoped he was still alive. Putting two fingers to Danny's ice cold neck, he felt a very weak, but steady pulse. Danny was still alive. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief they never knew they were holding.

"Danny! Danny, wake up, you're gonna be okay." Jack reassured. He gently tapped Danny's pale, cold face.

"Danny, please wake up," Sam pleaded.

But before anything could happen, they heard the piercing sound of sirens getting closer. Seconds later, EMT's rushed over and began to help Danny. The team stepped back and let them do their job. They watched as they cut Danny's wet clothes off and put an oxygen mask on his face. Jack caught a glimpse of Danny's injuries. There were dark purple and blue bruises on his chest and near his lower ribs. His arm was black and blue and there was a huge gash on the the back of his head. In five minutes flat, they had Danny covered in woolen blankets and had him wheeling out of the park on a gurney into the ambulance.

"Can I come with him?" asked Jack shakily? The EMT nodded and Jack told the rest of his team that he'd meet him at St. Louis' hospital; and with that the ambulance rushed away to the hospital.

Jack looked at Danny with guilt. It was his fault he ended up this way. Now that Jack had a closer look at Danny, he could see that he was covered in dark blue bruises; he had dark shadows under his eyes and his face was paler than the sheets covering him, along with small cuts that covered his cheeks. Jack blamed himself; if he wasn't so hard on Danny, if he actually sat down and talked to him to ask what was wrong, maybe Danny wouldn't be in this mess.

Suddenly, Danny's heart rate increased and his eyes popped open; wide in fear. Jack gasped as he saw this. He could see the panic and terror in Danny's eyes, so he tried to calm him down.

"Danny, you're okay. It's okay, you're in an ambulance. We found you, Danny, you're gonna be alright!" Jack yelled.

Danny looked at him with wide, tear-filled eyes, then looked away to scan his surroundings, shivering uncontrollably. Sure enough he was in an ambulance. Why was he in an ambulance? More tears escaped and tried to make sense of what happened.

Jack saw the fear on Danny's face and took his cold hand in his, "It's okay, Danny, you're going to be okay."

Just as Danny was about to look at him again, one of the EMT's inserted a sedative into Danny's I.V. His eyes slowly shut and he went limp. Jack wiped the tears on his face that began to fall as he squeezed Danny's hand. He had to live, he had to make it through this so he could apologize for what he'd said to him earlier. He just wished the ambulance would go faster.