Disclaimer: I don't own Hawaii Five-0 and ... sigh... I never will.
A/N: First: thank you for all the reviews and for reading my story! It was overwhelming.
Now, I need to tell you that I have no medical knowledge whatsoever! Only Google! So please be patient with me, if I made a mess of things
As always my special thanks goes to JazzieG for beating. Thank you!
Chapter 4
When Danny made it finally to his friend's side he touched him slightly, but Steve didn't react. He was still unconscious and at that moment Danny was glad, because of this damn storm and the fact that Steve was heavier and taller than him, Danny saw no other way than to pull him to the cave.
Steve lay on his back and the branch was pushed in almost completely, and came out in front, gory and bloody.
His left leg was bent strangely and so was his left arm. And on the left side of his face was a long ugly gash.
This all made Danny sick, but he couldn't give in and puke his guts out just yet, he had to get Steve to the cave first.
Danny took a deep breath, shut out all this and took the rope still attached to his friend and wrapped it under Steve's shoulder and made a knot on his chest. Next he took his life jacket and made a cushion for Steve's head. It looked strange but it would do the job and protect Steve's head.
Finally he wrapped the rope around himself and started crawling, pulling his heavy burden towards safety. He was heavily panting when he finally reached the cave.
Danny pulled Steve's body inside and prayed to God that he didn't do any more harm to the battered body.
The odd silence in the cave brought Danny to a sudden halt. Quickly he looked around for Grace, but she was still in the same spot he had left her. He stared at his daughter then at his friend. What now?
There was Gracie, still silently crying and staring at her father and his load with huge eyes.
And there was Steve, hurting and bleeding.
Until this moment Danny had a goal and knew exactly what needed to be done, but now….now what, what to do first? Danny felt how panic slowly reared its ugly head.
No no no! Concentrate!
And he did and after a moment he hurried to the backpacks and rummaged inside until he found what he was looking for. A special flashlight lamp from Steve's backpack and the SAT phone.
"Yeah! Thank you Chin!" He took the satellite phone out of the waterproofed bag and punched Chin's number in.
After only a few seconds he was connected!
"Kelly!" came the calm voice of his Hawaiian friend over the receiver.
"Chin, thank God!" shouted into the phone.
"Danny! For God's sake where are you? Are you all right?" Chin asked worried.
"I'm fine, but… but Steve….he…it looks bad! And Grace.." Danny broke off, desperately looking at his two most precious people.
"Danny, talk to me! What is wrong with Grace?" Everyone knew how the blond Detective loved his precious daughter. Not to imagine if something should have happened to her.
"Her arm… it's broken... Chin, and Steve… what shall I do? I don't know what to do… he looks so bad and I don't know what to do." Danny's voice became frantic and Chin and Kono, who stood now next to her cousin, could hear the panic rising in their friend.
"Calm down Danny, please! I know it's hard, but please try to focus." Chin hoped to calm him some. "Danny, Steve and Gracie they need you! Do you hear me? They need you!"
"I know Chin, but… I don't know what to do!" And then completely unusually for Danny he said.
"Please Chin… help me!"
"Danny hold on. Kono is calling Malia on the other line." And after a few moments, Danny could hear Malia's voice over the phone.
"Danny, Chin and Kono told me that Grace and Steve are hurt. Tell what you know and can see."
"Thank God, Malia! …Grace broke her arm, but Steve… He looks so bad.. you .. you have to come…" Danny was now becoming completely irrational.
"Danny, Chin will send help as soon as possible, but you are there now and you can help!
You Danny! And only you! So please calm down and tell me what you know!" Malia's voice became harsher at the end, but she had to get through to him.
And it seemed to work, because after a moment, Danny said.
"I'm sorry! You're right! I'm…I'm good now!"
"Danny," Danny suddenly heard Chin's calm voice again, "do you have the first aid kit out of Steve's backpack?"
"Not yet, I'll fetch it now," after a few seconds Danny was back. "Wow that is something else."
They could hear their friend over the phone. "Danny let me know, what did you find, please" Malia was back. Danny switched the phone to speakers.
"There are bandages, gauzes, band aids, disinfectant, oh there is even a scalpel and tubes and there are lots of pain meds from Tylenol pills up to Morphine injection and … and codeine for children…" Danny gulped and looked over to Grace, who was still crying quietly.
"Okay," Malia distracted Danny from his child, but at the same time made him concentrate on his girl! "First you will give Grace two pills of Codeine! This will help to take away the pain and will help her to fall asleep! "
"Okay" Danny took the pills and turned to his daughter. "Come on Monkey. Take these – Aunt Malia said you will feel much better soon. Yeah, you are a good girl. Now lay back and try to sleep." He gently helped her to lie down and covered her with one of the blankets they packed.
"Are you staying here?" Grace looked at her Dad with watery fearful eyes.
"Yes of course , Monkey!" He said and stroked soothingly over her hair.
"And you'll take care of me and Uncle Steve?" Grace's voice wobbled.
"Yes, I will and now try to sleep and when you wake up, everything will be better!"
Malia, Chin and Kono heard what sounded like a kiss followed by a sobbed "Promise?" And a "Yes, Monkey I promise!" before Danny was back on the phone.
And so he started to describe what happened and what Grace's and what Steve's injury looked like.
"Okay listen Danny, first you have to pull the branch out of Steve's side."
"But I thought one should never remove foreign objects…" Danny trailed off confused.
"You are completely right, Danny, but in this case you have to pull it out. You see, this is a very dirty object and if you leave it inside Steve, sepsis will set in very fast. If you pull it out we can at least delay the infection or sepsis, hopefully until help is there. And Danny, as for your description of the position, I don't think any veins or arteries are injured."
"Okay. But he will not feel a thing, right?
"No Danny. He will most probably stay unconscious!"
"Thank God!"
Danny licked his lips nervously and gripped the branch with both hands, took a deep breath and pulled as hard as he could.
The branch finally slid out with an ugly pop, but it was out!
The branch was now lying next to Steve with blood and whatever else smeared on it. Danny quickly took it and flung it out of the cave into the rain.
"Done! What now?" Danny gasped and panted heavily.
"Great! Now take the disinfectant and pour it into the wound - front and back!"
Danny did as Malia told him.
This time Steve cried out and his body trembled slightly.
"Danny, Steve is coming around!"
"WHAT?" Danny almost shouted. "He can't! I'm not finished yet!"
"Danny, take one of the Morphine injections and inject it to his uninjured thigh!"
Danny immediately grabbed for the syringe.
"Danny….? Morphine? Don't need … morphine, Danny!"
Danny stared down into hazel eyes.
He should be glad Steve regained consciousness, but couldn't he just wait a tiny bit?
"Yes you do!" Danny pulled the Morphine syringe out.
"Wait! …I can… help!" His SEAL friend stammered.
"HELP?" Danny stared at his friend. "I just pulled a god damn trunk out of you, a trunk, Steven! And you want to… help?"
Steve ignored him completely and although the pain started to get to Steve he had to ask the one thing he was afraid of; "Grace? How's…. Grace…. Please tell me …if …if she's fine!"
Danny's hand with the syringe sank down and he nodded over to his daughter.
"She's fine! You did good out there, my friend!" Steve felt Danny's hand on his chest and Danny in return got courage that his friend was alive and even talking!
Steve closed relieved eyes and turned his head to where Grace lay. He watched her a moment and suddenly his smile vanished.
"Danny, … her arm!" the shock was evident in his voice – overriding the pain he was in.
"Yes! It's the same one you broke too, by the way! I gave her codeine and she is sleeping now." Danny nodded. "What you should do, too!" He lifted the syringe again.
"No, no! I'm telling you I'm fine!"
"No you are NOT, Steven!" Danny gasped in exasperation. "As I've already told you, I pulled a tree out of you! You have a broken arm, your face is saying goodbye to your hairline and your femur is saying hello! And me, Detective Williams and not Williams M.D. is going to fix that! And now I will push that damn needle into your ass, so a decent man can do his work in peace!"
Danny ranted and Steve smiled the pain taking a backseat; at least for a short moment.
"Okay… but Malia,…. said in the good thigh ….not ..not my….ass." Steve protested.
"Idiot!" Danny said grinning and pushed the morphine into Steve.
Back on Oahu, Chin and Kono grinned at each other and Malia could be heard giggling on the phone.
"Malia?"
"Yes Danny!"
"Will this shut him up?" Steve glared at his friend.
"It should… makes him sleepy Danny, but I don't know how his pain level is, so it can take a while, but it will eventually work! .. Don't worry!"
"Malia, what do I have to do next?"
Instead of Malia, Steve answered. "You.. have to set …my thigh!"
Danny stared at his friend and said in the direction of the phone, "See what I mean?" and to Steve. "I've asked Malia and if – I said IF – I should need your advice I let you know. Now shut up and let me handle this." He placed his hand on Steve's shoulder and added more gently.
"Please Steven."
*** HF0***
Danny carefully cut Steve's pants off.
"Sorry about that, but I think, where these came from there are more, right?" Danny looked up from his work when Steve didn't answer and saw that his friend's face was contorted in pain.
"I'm sorry babe!" Danny stopped and apologized. "Malia, Steve is still in excruciating pain…."
"NO! I'm…. fine…"
"Yeah, fine my ass…" The phone crackled.
"Danny, sorry, but this can't be helped. The Morphine should kick in any minute, now."
"Hope so, because … His leg….the bone… …oahggghh."
"Danny, are you okay?"
"NO! I'm sure as hell not! And you stay down, damnit!" Danny pushed Steve's head down as he tried to take a look at his leg.
"Malia, the bone is sticking out and… God I'm going to be sick…."
"No you're not! Now you will listen… You pull yourself together and set that leg!"
"WHAT? Malia, as I've already explained earlier, I have a Detective in front of my name not a M.D. behind!"
"Can talk… you …through…" came a weak voice from below.
"Steven!" Danny and Malia shouted both at once.
"Okay here it is; you are setting the leg by pulling the bone back in and setting it as good as possible, after that you have to disinfect it very thoroughly! That done you need to suture the wound! Understood?!"
Danny took a few swallowed gasps.
"Despite the danger that Chin will hit me later – I hate you Malia!"
"Sorry! Now, to the leg! Danny I know this sounds cliché, but is there something you can put between Steve's teeth? He could otherwise bite his cheek or even his tongue off."
Danny looked around and cut off a piece of the rope. He held it to Steve's mouth, who opened and took it between his teeth.
"Done!"
"Good, now take his leg in both hands and pull it till the bone disappears back in and manipulate the bone into the normal position by applying traction."
Danny looked apologetically at his best friend who gave him a short nod.
The Jersey native breathed deeply and closed his eyes for a moment, then he gripped the leg with both hands and started to pull.
Immediately Steve's body became rigid and the more and more frantic screams coming from him, almost broke Danny's heart and made him stop
"Don't stop, Danny!" Chin's voice suddenly filled the cave and made Danny carry on.
And then finally with a last desperate pain filled scream, Steve lost consciousness.
While Danny murmured over and over; thank you, thank you… and he finished his task.
"Done." The blonde's voice trembled heavily.
"Great Danny. Now disinfect it as well as possible. Infection will set in for sure, but hopefully with a bit of a delay! When you're done, please suture it up and do the same with his arm and use a splint to hold them in place."
"Okay!"
"Danny," Malia sighed "you have to set Gracie's arm, too."
Danny looked worried at his still sleeping daughter. "I know!"
"Is she still sleeping?"
"Yes."
"Okay after you sutured Steve's hairline gash and set his arm, you can do Gracie's! The Codeine you gave her should keep her asleep." Malia tried to calm her friend.
After suturing first Steve's leg and the gash , Danny managed with relative ease, to set the bone in his friend's arm and was therefore rather positive when it came to set his precious little Monkey's arm.
Luckily she only once moaned briefly, but as Malia predicted she stayed asleep.
Thank God for that.
Exhausted and completely drained both physically and even more emotionally, Danny sat down next to Steve and his daughter.
"I made it!" he breathed tired into the phone.
"Yeah you did! And you did great!" Malia praised. "And Danny, keep an eye on them and call if there is the slightest change! Steve will certainly get a fever, please keep him as cool as possible, but if he complains of any pain and I'm talking of Steve here, then call immediately."
"Yeah Danny." This was Chin's calm voice. "But unfortunately we have to keep down our calls to the minimum to save power for the SAT-phone!"
"Yeah sure, but please let me know from time to time when help will be expected, okay?"
Danny sounded forlorn.
"Certainly! And Danny, our boy and your daughter will be fine! Good job, brah! We will stay in contact!Malama pono, my friend!" With that the phone went silent.
TBC…