The first thing he noticed was his head hurt, his mind was foggy and the disinfectant smell of a hospital invaded his senses. He tried to calculate just how bad his situation was, he experimentally tried to move and the pain erupted like a volcano trying to smother him back into the darkness. He groaned with the effort, muffled words echoed above him and familiar hands anchored him in place.

"He's Awake!...Boss?"

"Steve? Steve!...come on brah wake up for us!"

He groaned again trying to push past the darkness and listen to the familiar voices.

"Come on Boss wake up you've been asleep too long already"

"Yeah Steve you better listen to Kono, you really have been sleeping too long, you need to wake up!…come on….open your eyes!"

He moved his head in the direction of the voices, they were making him dizzy…why couldn't they stand on the same side, at least that way he didn't have to move so much. His body was on fire, he obviously didn't have a load of the good stuff on board or he wouldn't be feeling this bad. Open his eyes? That he could do, or at least he could try…."shit!" ok that wasn't good, now his head was going to explode and his body would follow.

"Kono dim the lights!"

"Ok Brah try that again"

He experimentally opened his eyes part way, the brightness was gone and the blurry shapes with familiar voices loomed over him. He blinked several times to clear his vision.

"Hey Steve…. how are you feeling?"

"shit!"

"That would be an understatement Brah"

Steve looked at him asking the unspoken question

"You're going to be ok…you have a concussion … a couple of broken ribs and you got yourself banged up pretty bad…they haven't given you anything for the pain yet, they needed you to wake up first….so you'll be in for the good stuff here real soon"

Steve nodded his head and winced….ok moving really was too much, it made him feel sick and he was barely keeping it at bay. Now if he could just remember what happened…..he looked to Chin again.

"Konos gone to let the nurses know you're awake….the doctor will be here soon"

Steve closed his eyes "mmmm" slowly he moved his head back and forth, blinked several times and looked back to Chin…..if Danny was here he would know what he wanted, he could read him like a book….Danny? …where was Danny? He frowned.

"Steve? Steve?

He looked back at Chin

"Hey Brah we don't know what happened…we're hoping you can fill us in…Steve? Hey focus for a minute brah….where's Danny?"