A-and I shouldn't have said what I said. I shouldn't have got angry, and I shouldn't have… I was just… I was only…

[…scared and worried and frightened and scared. In lieu of finishing the sentence he jumps to his feet, squeezing Hikaru's hand a second before letting go and half-striding, half-sprinting across the room to wrap her up in a possibly-too-tight hug]

[he started to feel awful about it pretty quickly after they got Hikaru settled in the hospital; and it's been eating and eating at him that he might have lost her because of this]