Daniel Seavey
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part two for i don't know
(y/n) has been in rehab for five months now. She's never minded the simple room that she calls her own, though the window has been here favorite part ever since she moved in.
As soon as she wakes up in the mornings, she's sitting at the window. In-between memory replacement sessions, she's at the window. At night before her nurse comes in to tell her to go to bed, she's at the window.
It's not much of a view at all - it's just the side of another wing of the rehab building and then the woods beyond it - but it (y/n)'s most beloved spot all the same.
She stares out at the sunrise just like she has been for days, upon weeks, upon months. Her nurse always tells her that sleep is too important for the state of body she's currently in to be getting up just to watch something as natural as the sky, but (y/n) manages to do it anyway once or twice a week.
When it happens, it's not drawn out. It's an unimportant moment where her eyes gaze at the sky and her thoughts are absentmindedly resting on the beautiful boy with brown hair and blue eyes- the boy she's finding herself to be falling in love with. It's nothing, but it's a second that will change her life.
Something inside her brain shifts, and a memory that she's been trying to pull forward for months rushes through her.
I rest my eyes with my back pressed against the grass, breathing deeply, content.
The sound of the back door sliding open reaches my ears.
"Where's (y/n)?" my boyfriend calls, his voice obviously still pointed inside the house, probably asking the boys.
"Where's my bay-bay?!" he repeats in a very weird, very drawn out voice.
"How about you use your eyes and look outside, Daniel," Zach yells with a fake scoff.
Daniel laughs. The door slams shut and then I hear his beautiful voice as he makes his way across the yard towards me.
"Awe, there she is," he says sweetly.
I sit up slowly and shoot him a lazy smile as he plops down next to me. My facial expression causes him to chuckle before he pulls me into his arms.
With his chin resting on the top of my head, he sighs quietly.
"How could I forget something like this?" I mumble, more to myself than anyone, but Daniel catches it.
"What?"
"It's just... have you ever been in a seemingly perfect moment - like now, for instance - and just thought, 'How could I ever forget this moment? How could I not remember every detail and second?' I don't know if that's ever happened to you, but... that's what I'm thinking right now."
Daniel places a light kiss on my head.
"No, I understand completely," he says. "Sometimes... sometimes the inconsequential moments matter the most."
***
When Daniel walks into (y/n)'s room, he doesn't expect her to be in his arms instantly.
He rushed to the rehab building as soon as he received her call. She was crying and muttering a whole string of unintelligible words, which caused his worry to spike. He drove as fast as he possibly could through the streets of L.A. to get here.
Now, he's standing just inside the doorway, holding the trembling girl before him. They've hugged before, but never like this. She holds onto him desperately, and though he doesn't understand, he does the same to her.
Minutes later, (y/n) forces herself to pull away from him, still at arm's length.
Caught up in the moment, Daniel doesn't hesitate to bring his hand up to cup her cheek gently.
"Are you alright?" he asks quietly.
She nods, heart beaming, eyes dancing.
"I remember, Daniel," she whispers.
His eyes go wide and his heart begins to race.
"What?" he says, doubting he heard her correctly.
"I remember us."
That hits Daniel like a truck. After months of waiting for the love of his life to come back to him, the day has finally come.
He picks her up in a fit of unbelieving, relieved, emotional laughter. She holds onto the back of his head, smiling so much, it hurts.
He sets her down, and after just a moment of hesitation, leans down to kiss her.
She kisses back and is sad to let him go when they pull away.
"You remember," he whispers, grinning as their foreheads are pressed together.
She nods slowly.
"And I'm never forgetting again."
