Bringing it back - Nightmare [Sickbay, open-ish]

[de_forest]

Deep down, De hadn't wanted Len and Bill to leave, as they did, to leave him there, alone, lost on the biobed. He wanted so much to reach out to them, to just extend his arms and to feel the two of them envelop him in a hug. As if that would make it all alright. He could open his arms, feel them there against in shoulders, and it would all be okay

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[dctr_mccoy]

Bones was in the mess hall having lunch with Jim when he got the message. "Gotta run," he told him, standing and giving Jim's shoulder a squeeze before heading out the door, leaving his tray on the table behind him.

Once in Sickbay, he looked at the reading on the bed. Mr. Kelley was still asleep, still agitated, but the nurse near him trying to calm him down. She saw McCoy and sighed, glancing over at a hypo, prepared and ready. "No," he told her, eyes fixed on De's face. "It might be better for him to wake up now. I'll wait with him," he added, then sat down, placing one of his hands on top of De's.

[canadianbill]

Bill and Leonard arrived at Sickbay at a very literal run, slowing to something closer to an agitated walk as they neared the door. McCoy, it seemed, had beaten them to it, and was now sitting by De's bed, hand on De's in a gesture that made Bill's chest clench a little. De had been so adamant that he wanted to be left alone, but then - he had been asking for them...

"What's happened? Is he awake?" Bill asked, hesitating just inside the room.

[dctr_mccoy]

"Not yet, but almost," Bones told him, glad that they were here.

He stood, giving up the chair to one of them as he walked to the doorway. "The notes on his chart say he began moving a few minutes ago, and that he was calling out for you two, and Carolyn," he frowned.

[de_forest]

De twisted again, brow furrowed, still muttering, when he suddenly jolted upright, eyes wide, forehead beaded with sweat. "No!" he shouted, before breathing in with jumpy breaths, panicked.