Author's Notes: This idea has been beating at the back of brain forever and while trying to avoid studying for my criminology class I thought I would get in down so to speak. Enjoy Lady of Castillo

Ryo woke up with an abrupt start as the telephone started to ring shrilly interrupting his sleep

Ryo wondered who could be calling at this time of night. It better not be Dee, as he the night shift this evening after some sort of blackmail trade off with Ted. Ryo hoped Dee learned never to drink is the presence of the other detective again because it always got him into some sort of trouble.

But after being married with the dark hair man for a little over a year Ryo was used to Dee's mini escapades. Even though it took him over two years to admit to himself he was in love with Dee and another year to finally get the courage to ask Dee to marry him, he was finally content in his life. Ryo fondly remember the day he asked Dee to marry him, the dark haired detective was thrown for a loop because like everyone else he thought he would be the one to ask for the next step in their relationship. But for once Ryo wanted to take the initiative and did it ever pay off.

The phone rang again and Ryo thought he ought to answer the damn thing before the answering machine picked it up. Grudgingly Ryo rolled over and snatch the phone off of the receiver.

"Hello." Ryo mumbled with little enthusiasm

"May I please speak with Mr.Ryo McLean?" a clearly female voiced asked.

"Speaking."

"This is Dr. Linden from The NYU downtown hospital, I have been asked by Berkley Rose to contact you about the admittance of Dee McLean."

As soon as Ryo heard the word hopistal and Dee his felt like someone had thrown a rather large stone at his gut. His mind started to race through terrible possibilities of what could have happened to Dee. Was he seriously hurt, and what had happened to him? Ryo didn't know what he would do if anything serious had happened to Dee.

"Mr. McLean are you still there?"

That snapped Ryo to attention again.

"Yes, yes I am. Is Dee all right, do you know what happened? Do I need to come down right away?" Ryo replied in a frantic and rushed sentence.

"I can assure you your partner is fine, but he has suffered from a concussion. A mild one we believe but he has yet to wake up, which we are hoping will happen within the next hour or so. I am not sure of the events pertaining to the injury but I would appreciate if you could come down here as soon as possible," the Doctor slowly explained to a rattled Ryo.

"Alright I will be there as soon as I can. Thank you very much for calling Dr. Liden."

With that Ryo hung up the phone and rushed to the front door to grab his jacket and car keys. To Ryo's relief Bicky was spending the night at Lass' house so he wouldn't have to worry about waking Bicky about and informing him of the situation when he barely knew what the hell was going on.

Realizing he hadn't even left Bikky some sort of note telling him where he was going, Ryo rushed back into the kitchen and hastily scribbled a note saying something about being at NYU and Dee being in an accident at work. The note really wasn't that coherent but Ryo didn't really care, his main focus was making sure that his husband was in fact in one piece like the Doctor had promised him.

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On his way over to the hospital thoughts about Dee's accident consumed Ryo. How could this have happened to Dee Ryo wondered. He wasn't even supposed to leave his desk tonight except for the occasional cup of coffee. Dee was slated to be catching up on the paper work from their last major case involving the murders of young women working as carriers for a drug operation.

As far as Ryo knew the only major case that was in the works right now was Drake and JJ's case on a prostitution ring where young men and women were captured and sold to the highest bidder over seas. If they had no interested bidders within a few months the victims were killed for fear of punching a hole in the operation. But Ryo quickly remembered intelligence was still being gathered on this sketchy case and a bust wasn't scheduled for at least another week or two. This lead Ryo to wonder what the hell had happened to Dee.

'God I knew Dee was impulsive but what could he have gotten into sitting at his desk to end up in the hospital again?'

About nine months previously the handsome detective had been playing a very rough game of ball with Bicky and tried to end the game with some patended jump shot he had supposedly invented all on his own. As cool as the shot had looked midair Dee had ended up with a badly broken ankle from the oh so graceful landing. All Bicky could do was laugh his ass off all the way to the hospital angering Dee more causing further injury to the already mangled ankle. Dee ended up needing both surgery and a lengthy stay in the hospital. After that incident Ryo hoped to never see Dee in the hospital gain. But as fate would have it his rather lucky streak as of late had come to an abrupt end.

After all of this rather hectic thinking the trip to the hospital seemed amazingly short. All Ryo had to do was find a spot in the maze of a parking lot.

"God," Roy muttered to himself "You think out of this huge lot I could find one spot slightly closer to the door than the other end of the lot."

It seemed to Ryo whenever you need a good spot one was never around. Finally he spotted an elderly man who was leaving relatively close to the door. The only problem was his was taking forever and a day just to move.

'Heh I guess they were right in that 20/20 special that when your waiting for a spot the person leaving draws out leaving as much as he can possible can,' Ryo thought to himself crossly.

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After finally getting his spot Ryo rushed to the ER to find is partner had been moved to another floor for observation. Finally after waiting for the elevator for another eternity Ryo made it to the right floor and could see Berkley just down the hall with Drake and JJ. Just as Ryo had thought something went down with the traders case.

When Ryo reached the other men he began to fire off his first question rather angrily.

"I don't want any excuses just tell me what the hell happened to my husband this time?" Ryo asked.

"Ummm well you see," Drake began, whom JJ quickly interrupted.

"We got the guy you know," he said with a bit of anxiousness in his voice.

"That is not what is asked you Adams! For the last time what did you do to Dee!"

With the tone Ryo was using both detectives cowered into the wall hoping to avoid the wrath of a usually calmly tempered Ryo.

"Let me take it from here boys," Berkley interjected "Why don't you guys get some coffee or something while I explain what happened to Ryo."

With that the two partners took off in search of the rather foul tasting coffee dispensed in the hospital and thanking God over and over again for not letting Ryo chew them out for their stupidity.

Berkley motioned for Ryo to sit down and started to explain what had transpired in the late hours of the night.

"As you know we have been working on a prostitution trading ring but had insuffienct intelligence to perform a bust," Berkley started calmly. "But because of some startling information provided by our insider informant earlier this evening, we believe it was an optimal time to go in for the kill so to speak. We gathered all of the men on duty and on call and proceeded to stake out the location and set up for the bust. Everything went as planned except for your idiot partner who tried to tackle one of the suspects that evaded our initial blockade. He managed to tackle the suspect but banged his head on the concrete in the process landing him here."

"So this was just some stupid accident," Ryo asked cautiously.

"Yes, and I hope you remind your partner about controlling his rather impulsive behaviors when he wakes up with a massive headache," Berkley replied with some annoyance in his voice.

With a brief nod to Berkley Ryo went to the nurse's station to check on Dee's condition and fill out the piles of paper work associated with one visit.

"Hello Ms…" Ryo had to quickly look at the young nurse's name tag "Trina, I was wondering if you could tell me the condition my partner Dee McLean?"

"Of course sir, I will inform Dr. Linden you are here and she will be with your shortly. If you could go back to the waiting room and fill out some of these forms while you are waiting for the doctor I would appreciate it," the nurse replied kindly.

Ryo took the huge pile of paper work and began to fill out the tedious forms all the while worry about his banged up lover. Form after form asked tedious information Ryo was forced to spit out, what was his lover's birth date, allergies, and insurance information. It was all beginning to become too much for the blond man when Dee supposed doctor arrived.

"Mr. McLean," a rather petite woman asked.

"That would be me, Dr. Linden I presume," Ryo stated quite calmly in contrast to how he really felt. Until he could see Dee was all right with his own eyes he would continue to worry about his lover.

"Well I assume you have gotten the full story from Commissioner Rose about what happened so I will cut to the chase. Your partner received a blow to the head, which as I told you earlier we believe to be a mild concussion. We had to put in a few stitches at the site of impact, but those should be able to come out in a few weeks. He has not woken up yet. But I believe he should shortly. You can go sit with him, and talk to him. That might even help him regain consciousness faster"

"So he should be fine then?" Ryo asked as relief flooded his body and he finally felt a bit more at peace than he had been since receiving the initial phone call.

"I assure you, Dee will be fine. But I think seeing him would do more good than me telling you; these forms can wait for later. Please just push the nurse's button above the bed when Dee wakes up so I can check him over, alright?"

With a quick nod Ryo went off the finally see Dee and make sure once and for all his worrying had been for nothing.

Ryo located Dee's room and entered slowly. He saw his husband out cold on one of the uncomfortable hospital beds wearing the customary sky blue gown. Besides looking a tad pale Dee seemed fine. With a sigh of relief Ryo sat down in the chair next to the bed and grabbed Dee's limp hand.

"God Dee, you had me so friggen worried tonight," Ryo whispered quietly "Don't you ever try and do something dumb like that again. Leave the tackling to the younger cops with less gray hair"

Ryo laughed softly to himself with that remark. He didn't think Dee would get gray hair for a long time, but it was nice to pretend Dee wouldn't be so over enthusiastic in getting the "bad guy" the next time. With a slight smile Ryo squeezed Dee's hand hoping to get some sort of response. To his surprise Ryo felt a small squeeze back.

'Thank God,' Ryo though 'Dee is finally waking up.'

"Come on baby," Ryo urged softly "Just open your eyes a little bit to show you are with me." With a few more soft calls and another hand squeeze Dee's brilliant but slightly glazed eyes opened slowly. Ryo gently pushed a few dark hairs off of Dee's face.

"Hey lover how are you feeling," Ryo enquired gently. Dee still looked awfully dazed and didn't reply so Ryo tried again.

"You got a nasty bump on the head chasing down a suspect earlier tonight, do you remember what happened," Ryo slowly asked while stroking Dee's cheek.

All at once it seemed if Dee came aware of his surroundings and looked slightly panicked.

"Dee," Ryo cautiously asked.

"Who the hell is Dee," the panicked man replied "Where am I? Better yet who the hell are you and why do you keep touching me!"

At that point all of the color drained from Ryo's faced and he quickly pushed the nurse's call button. What had happened to his lover?

TBC

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Shit am I evil or what? If you want to find out what happens to our poor detectives in the next chapter send in some reviews so I feel loved lol. Just kidding I do love reviews of any kind as long as they are not flames. Helpful criticism is good and makes me a better writer so I like it.

It would also be great if someone wanted to help me out a little and read over my work before posting it unlike this chapter, which probably has a mass of errors.

Cheers! Hope I can get the next chapter up soon. Lady of Castillo