Who: Boyd and Daniel What: A visit Where: R1 When: After the ambulance comes for Esme Warnings: None?
It was dark outside, and Boyd was still carrying things from 1007 to 601. She'd heard the sound of the ambulances earlier - it was impossible not to - and she'd run downstairs immediately to make sure it wasn't Daniel. Her heart had been pounding furiously in her chest, and she was fairly certain she'd stopped breathing for a few minutes.
She didn't recognize the woman on the stretcher, and she didn't recognize the woman who'd been talking to the paramedics, so she'd gone back upstairs. It wasn't long after that she'd climbed the stairs to the roof and knocked on the door. She expected Vlad to answer (since it was his watch), and she expected to have to stomp and demand to go inside, but she'd just had a panic attack thinking that something had happened to Daniel again, and if she had to stomp and demand, she would.
She tried the knob and, surprisingly, it turned. She pushed the door open, and she had a terrible sense of deja vu as she walked into the empty apartment and went down the still-silent hall to Daniel's bedroom. "Daniel?" she whispered, tentative, from the doorway.