daniel_marlow: (Hospital Beds)
After twelve hours of life-saving surgery, during which Danny tried to die a grand total of four more times, Danny was pronounced if not out of the woods, at least stable. He was being kept in intensive care, his body full of tubes, a breathing mask over his face. He would stay there until he was well enough to be moved into the psych ward, but that could take a while; possibly weeks.

Danny finally woke up, twenty-seven hours after electrocuting himself, his body too weak to move. Even if he had had the ability to do so, his arms and legs had been restrained, lest he be upset about the fact that he wasn't dead, and try again.

His eyes rested on a fuzzy image of the doctor as the woman explained there had been damage to his heart and one day he would likely need a transplant. His brain felt heavy and slow and he didn't even remember what had happened, so it was hardly surprising that he couldn't comprehend that he had irreparably damaged his body.

Somewhere in the middle of the woman's explanation, Danny fell asleep again. A few hours later he woke up again, his eyes focusing on the other people in the room; the only people allowed to visit him in the ICU, his family. "Mm. Hey," he muttered to them, his tongue refusing to work right, and the words were further muffled by the oxygen mask on his face. "Ev'rything hurts."

Date: 2014-08-28 12:41 pm (UTC)From: [identity profile] createdwebs.insanejournal.com
It took a selfishly long time before Val could bring herself to reenter her son's hospital room. She'd stood at the end of the hall to watch his door in case Cai left him - she wouldn't have Danny left on his own - but the door remained closed and anything passing between the boys were theirs alone.

When she came back into the room the both of them were asleep and her lips almost found a smile but couldn't quite reach it. Instead she picked up one of the spare blankets and draped it around Cai, touching his hair lightly. A sweet boy, he was.

She didn't touch Danny. She didn't dare to wake him right now. Instead she went to the chair in the corner of the room and there she sat watching Danny sleep and coming to slow and painful decisions.

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