A/N: Thank you very much to all of those reading…

As in the previous chapter, this chapter could be a bit uncomfortable for some, since it deals with Danny just starting his recovery from this scary situation, so be warned in advance.

Danny woke up suddenly. The feeling of a soft unfamiliar bed bringing him back to Ally's room, injured, in pain and locked up against his will. He tried to sit up, opening his eyes to a dark, blurry room. His movements were stopped by a strong hand on his shoulder and a familiar voice calmed his fears. "Calm down, Danny… You're alright…"

He slumped back in the bed, blinking to bring the familiar face into focus. "Chin? Wha' you doing here?"

Chin sat down on a chair next to Danny's bed. "Just checking out on you, brah… come on, it's almost 4… Get some more sleep…"

Danny frowned. "You don't have to stay… You should go home…"

Chin smiled at his injured friend. "Don't worry brah. Let us watch over you for a while, we'll back off once you're better, ok? Now get some rest…"

Danny sighed, shifting until he found a more comfortable position. "I don't know why I even bother… Thanks babe…" He said, before closing his eyes again.

Some time later, Danny roused enough to hear someone coming into the room. He could hear them talking to Chin, but he was too tired to open his eyes.

"-check his BP and temperature…"

"- try not to startle him, please…"

Danny could hear someone moving to the side of his bed, he heard them moving about and what sounded like writing on a piece of paper, and let himself drift back to sleep, figuring that it must be a nurse.

He was startled awake a minute later, when he felt a sharp pain on his shoulder. He jumped, opening his eyes to find the source of his discomfort. When the dim lighting of the room showed him a blurry blond figure standing next to his bed, all rational thought left him in a rush. "NO! STAY AWAY!" He screamed, using his good arm to push the blond figure away.

Danny scrambled away from the blond figure that was coming back to his side. He tried to kick the figure away, but he could barely lift his casted left foot, so he tried to crawl away instead.

Another figure came from Danny's right, and he threw a punch in that direction, not really listening to the jumbled words he could hear them speaking.

Using the few seconds of distraction, he crawled away, falling to the ground once he reached the edge of the bed. He didn't register the pain of the ripped IVs on his arm, or from the rough handling of his broken shoulder and leg, he just needed to get away from her, he needed to escape.

He tried to stand, but between his broken bones, his scrambled brain and the panic currently consuming him, he was lucky to be able to crawl backwards until he collided with a wall.

He looked up and they were coming, she was coming back to bring him to her house, she was here and he would never get away from her. She reached out but he fought them off with all he had. "NO! STAY THE FUCK AWAY! DON'T TOUCH ME!"

Now more people were coming closer, but he couldn't see their faces, he couldn't breathe, he could barely scream. She was here, he needed to get away but he couldn't run. He needed to run.

Suddenly one of the figures moved forward and took hold of his good arm, pinning him against the wall. He tried to kick them away, but they had pinned his legs too. "NO! DON'T! STOP!"

Someone kept talking to him, one of those holding him down. He knew that voice, and tried to make sense of what they were saying. He focused on the face, and realized that Chin was here, he could help him. "CHIN! HELP ME! WE NEED TO LEAVE! DON'T LET HER COME! PLEASE!" He screamed, latching his hand on his friend's arm and trying to curl closer to the only protection he had.

At least Chin got part of the message, because he was shielding him from the other people in the room, but he was making no move to get him out of there. Instead he kept speaking to him in a calm and soft tone, which did nothing to reassure Danny. He made the effort to listen to what his friend was saying, and finally was able to understand the soft words that he kept repeating. "Danny, calm down, you're safe. You need to calm down…"

Danny shook his head frantically, trying to make Chin see the danger they were in. "She's here Chin! Please help me! We need to leave!"

Chin just wouldn't listen, trying to calm his down with his soft words and holding him still. "Danny, she's not here. I promise that you are safe, Danny."

Another figure kneeled next to them, using the same soft tone of voice as Chin. "Danny, I'm Doctor Owen. I'm going to give you something to help you calm down a bit, alright?"

He shook his head, trying to move closer to Chin, hoping he would protect him. "No… I don't want it…"

The doctor didn't listen to Danny, directing two other people to take his leg so that he could inject him with the drugs. Danny tried to fight them off, but there were too many of them. "NO! Please! Need to get out!"

Danny squeezed Chin's hand weakly, trying to fight off the effect of the drugs. "Chin… Please, help me!"

Chin rubbed his arm comfortingly and kept repeating the same comforting words over and over again. "You're safe, Danny, everything is gonna be alright…"

Danny knew it was a lie, and as sleep finally claimed him, he knew that she would be there the next time he awoke.

He woke up slowly, feeling warm and safe. He couldn't remember where he was, and in any case, he really didn't care, since he was really comfortable.

The only strange thing was his pillow, which, come to think about it, really didn't feel like a pillow at all. For once, pillows didn't come with a heartbeat or breath sounds. They also didn't move to draw you closer and rub your back when you shifted a bit.

"Danno, are you awake?" Well, that answered the question about the nature of Danny's pillow.

Danny sighed, not bothering to open his eyes. "Didn't I tell you to go home and sleep?" He didn't remember much of the last time he was awake, but he remembered sending Steve home.

He could hear Steve giving a relieved sigh and chuckling. "I went home and slept, Danno…"

Danny opened his eyes and looked up at his partner. "Sure you did. Did you come back here before or after sunrise? I guess I should be thankful that you at least took one of your 3 minute showers…"

Before Steve could reply, Chin's voice came from the chair next to Danny's bed. "I called him, Danny…"

Danny looked up to Chin and all the events from the previous night came back to him. He pushed away from Steve, looking around the room worriedly. The sight of restrains attached to the railing of his bed made him try to sit up. "Shit! Wha… What'd I do?" He asked his friends, while trying not to panic.

Steve moved quickly, pushing Danny back down on the bed. "It's alright, Danno, you did nothing wrong…"

Danny gave his partner an 'are you kidding me?' look. "I… I thought she was here. I kicked and screamed at her, and I may have been in the middle of an embarrassing tantrum, but I'm pretty sure I hit flesh, Steven! Now I want to know what did I do!"

Chin stood up and moved to Danny's side. "A nurse came in and told me she would check your bandages, temperature and BP. I expressly asked her not to do anything that might startle you, but she must have not listened, because the next thing I know you had pushed her away, were falling off the bed and had started a painful shuffle to the nearest wall. You were really frightened and wouldn't let anyone come near you. After a few minutes you recognized me and jumped at me, asking me to take you away…" He said, looking down at his hands.

"I tried to calm you down, but it wasn't working. By then a doctor came into the room with some sedatives. He tried to explain to you what he was doing, but you were too scared to understand. We had to hold you down while he injected you… I stayed with you on the ground until you fell asleep and then, after we moved you back to the bed, I called Steve." Chin said, finally lifting his eyes to look at Danny.

They saw Danny looking at the restrains. "By the time I had gotten here, they had already cleaned you up and made sure you were not seriously hurt, but they wanted to keep you in those. We told them they were not necessary, but they said that they'll decide once you woke up, if you were distressed and wanted to bolt again, then they'd have to use them." Steve said, in a soft voice.

Danny took a deep breath, passing a trembling hand down his face. "Alright, you guys should go…"

He got a "What?" in stereo, from the two other men in the room.

Danny didn't lift his eyes to look at them, but would not be persuaded by the other men's outbursts. "You need to go. Go home and get some rest. I'll be alright… Just… Just tell a nurse to come and tie these things up… That way I won't hurt anyone…" He said, looking at the restrains, his voice cracking at the end.

Before Chin could protest again, Steve was talking to him. "Chin, could you go downstairs to the cafeteria and tell Rachel to take Gracie back home? Tell her that Danny doesn't want to see her…"

Danny's protest was loud and immediate. "Wait, what? What the hell is the matter with you! You're not telling her anything of the sort!"

Steve turned to Danny, a surprised expression on his face. "I thought you wanted to be left alone, Danny…"

Danny pinched the bridge of his nose, not really knowing what to do. "No… I… Damn… Not if it was Gracie… I just… No, you're right… She can't come…" He said, trying to control his breathing.

Steve regained his seat at the side of his friend's bed and squeezed Danny's arm to catch his attention. "Danny… If this is about you possibly hurting Gracie, you know better than no one that that's something you'd be incapable of doing, so what is it? Why don't you want her to come up?"

Danny finally uncovered his face and looked at Steve. "Look at me, Steve…" He said, motioning at his bandaged arm and at all the cables, tubes and machines currently attached to him. "I'm… I'm not really in a good place right now, so there's no way to know whether I could hurt her or not… and eve if I don't… I… I can't protect her like this… "

Steve moved to squeeze his friend's shoulder. "Well, what if you let us protect you two for a while? Make sure that nothing happens to Grace and to you?"

Danny looked from Steve's to Chin's faces, seeing nothing but support and understanding, and knew not for the first time that they would always do their best to keep Grace safe, and him as well. His decision made, he nodded. "Alright, tell Gracie that her Danno is waiting for her… and… you guys can stay too… if you want to…"

Steve smiled, while Chin left the room in search for Danno's monkey. "We'd love to, brah."

Rachel and Grace came into the room 10 minutes later. The minute Grace saw her dad she rushed to his side. "Danno!"

She was barely stopped from leaping over the bed by Steve's gentle hand. "Easy Gracie. Danno needs gentle care, ok?" He said, while he picked her up and placed her gently next to her dad on the bed.

Grace just sat there, looking at her dad, trying to find a way to give him a hug without getting in the way of the bandages, cables and machines attached to him. Danny made the decision for her, drawing her close against his side. "Hey Monkey…" He said, in a choked up voice.

"Danno? Mom said that you were lost, but that Uncles Steve and Chin and Aunties Kono and Lori were looking for you… How'd you get lost? I missed you! I don't want you to get lost again, ok?" Gracie asked, curling closer to her dad.

Danny squeezed his little girl as tightly as he could manage without causing either of them pain. "I'm sorry Monkey. A lady wanted me to stay over at her place, but she was not very nice and she didn't want to let me leave, but your aunts and uncles were looking for me and found me, you see?"

Grace looked at the bandages covering her Danno's body. "She hit you too? She's really mean! She shouldn't have made you stay at her house if you didn't want to!"

Danny shook his head. "No, Monkey. I was in a car accident before she took me to her place. I'm sure she knows by now that she shouldn't do that anymore." He said, looking at Steve, hoping he wouldn't say anything to contradict his story.

Fortunately, Steve didn't seem inclined to make any comments, and was in fact prevented from doing anything by Rachel's voice. "Grace, would you like to give your father the things we brought for him?" She said, looking at her daughter. She turned to Danny with a smile. "I'm glad you're looking better, Danny…"

Grace jumped from the bed, moving to take a bag from her mom. "Danno! We brought you a 'care package'!" She said, looking for her mom's confirmation.

Danny smiled at his ex wife and looked at his daughter, his mood lifting instantly at hearing her excitement. "A care package? And what's in that care package of yours?"

Grace picked up the bag and placed it at the foot of Danny's bed. "Well, Uncle Steve told my mom that you were really missing your bed, so I thought it would be a good idea to bring you at least your pillow, so you wouldn't miss it so much…" She said, taking his old and battered pillow from the bag and passing it to Steve. "Uncle Steve, could you help Danno to put his pillow under his head?"

Danny chuckled, allowing Steve to place the pillow. If he was being honest to himself, he had been having a lot of trouble every time he woke up, thinking he was back at Ally's, so maybe his Monkey's idea was not too bad after all.

Grace continued revealing her care package. "And last time you were stuck in here you said that you hated the hospital food, so I asked Kamekona if he could make you that yummy chicken soup that he sent the last time I had the flu, so he sent this for you!" she said, taking a plastic container with some liquid inside. "He said to heat it before you eat it, though or it would look and taste icky…"

Danny smiled, nodding his head. "Duly noted, Monkey.,,"

Gracie still had more things to give to her Danno. "And Mommy said that you'd have to stay here for a few days, and that you'd been alone at that nasty lady's place, and since I don't like to feel lonely at night, I brought you someone to keep you company…" She finished, taking out of the bag an old, battered and torn blue bunny.

Danny raised his eyebrows. "Little Cottontail? I didn't know you still had him Monkey…"

Gracie nodded, moving to place the bunny next to her dad. "Yeah, I just don't sleep with him anymore, 'cause I didn't want him to come apart… But he can sleep with you, because you don't move so much and you'll take good care of him!" She said, settling again next to her dad and cuddling close.

Danny leaned forward and kissed his girl's forehead. "Thank you, Monkey…"

He really had a lot to thank her, especially since her sole presence helped Danny to restore at least part of his sanity. He drew her close, fighting the sleep that wanted to take over yet again.

Apparently both Steve and Grace noticed, because Danny's partner pulled at his blankets to tuck them tightly around him and Grace squeezed him gently, leaning to whisper in his ear. "Go to sleep, Danno… Me and Uncle Steve will look after you…"

Danny decided to listen to his little girl's advice, knowing that both Steve and Chin were around and that they'd keep their promise of keeping Gracie safe. Finally able to breathe easily, he decided that getting some sleep wouldn't be such a bad idea after all…

TBC...

A/N: Thank you very much for reading!

I know I keep saying this, but the next chapter should be the last one… unless it takes a life of its own, like this one did.

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