Waking up in a daze, Jay Gatsby looks around to see where he is. He is in a hospital ward, lying in a bed with casts on his left arm and right leg, elevated above his head. He looks to his right to see his battalion member John Gellar. John was a tall, slightly overweight man. He had a cast on each of his legs and was missing his left arm. Gatsby has returned home from the Great War, after he had sustained injuries and was transferred back to the military ward in a hospital Arlington Virginia.
"So, finally awake huh?" John says.
"Yep," Gatsby replies. "So, what happened to us, old sport?"
"I'm not entirely sure of what happened to me, but you were blasted almost 20 feet in the air from a grenade blast. You hit the opposite side of the trench and shattered your arm; when you fell to the ground, you broke your shin. Then, I remember being in the infirmary with a nurse standing over me. Saying something I couldn't understand. Then I blacked out, and now I'm here."
A young, blonde woman in a blue sundress walks down the hallway to the military ward of the hospital. She walks up to a nurse and asks her a question. The nurse sluggishly gestures in a certain direction and then walks away. Her name was Daisy Fay, soon to be Mrs. Daisy Buchanan, wife of Tom Buchanan. Her cousin John had received a purple heart for his service in the Great War and Daisy was coming to congratulate him. As Daisy approached John's room, she stopped to listen to a conversation he was having with someone with a very familiar voice.
"So, John, what do you plan on doing once you get leave this place?" Gatsby inquired.
"I intend to go back to my cottage up in Mass to see my wife and children. Then, I'm going to get a job at some sort of factory to support them. What about you Jay?"
"Well, I am still a young man, so I'm going to try to find someone. I might just form a family of my own."
Daisy walks into the room in the middle of what Gatsby was saying. She began to grin. The more she tried to suppress her grin, the harder it became.
"Daisy?" Gatsby says.
Daisy then turns around and leaves the room quivering and mumbling.