Prologue
I was walking down the main road, cars passing me by. It was just after four so lots of people were heading home after work, or school. Just like me. Suddenly, out of nowhere I felt a hand cover my mouth with a cloth that smelt rank and then all that enveloped me was darkness and the stench of some chemical.
BPOV
I was asleep, or at least I wished I was. Everything hurt. Every time I moved my muscles and joints ached. I had vague fuzzy memories about why I was here but I was just too tired to think about it.
I woke up, again I think, a few hours later, but it only felt like minutes. There was a doctor standing at the foot of my bed looking at my chart. He had the most stunning face I had ever seen; blonde hair, piercing blue eyes, and chiselled cheekbones. Definitely a heartbreaker with the nurses around here. I noticed the wedding band he wore. She was a lucky woman to be sure.
'Ah, I see you are awake Miss. Swan. My name is Dr. Carlisle Cullen. Your parents have been very worried about you and the police are here to see you as well. Don't worry I won't let them question you until you feel ready.' He smiled at me and I felt oddly reassured but at the same time panicked. Why were the police here? I racked my brain to see what I could possibly have done in the last few days that would warrant a police visit but all I got were fuzzy images. I realised that Dr. Cullen was still talking. '…you have been here for three days, unconscious for all of them. The painkillers we have given you may dull some of your memories but they will come back slowly. I am not sure how much you remember but you were missing for two days and you were found lying on the side of the road wearing nothing but scraps of clothes and severely injured. If it's alright I am going to tell your parents that you are awake now and that they can come and see you.'
Dr. Cullen smiled again and left swiftly, but quietly, out the door not waiting for a reply. I wasn't sure if I was capable of replying let alone shaking my head. I seemed to be completely immobile.
I stared silently at the white ceiling, listening for the footsteps that would bring my parents. I don't even remember being missing for two days, or where I was, or even who with. All I could get were fuzzy images of a dark room and a man and just the memory of blinding pain all over my body, or maybe that was just me moving too much, I was interrupted in my thoughts by the sound of voices outside my room. Dr. Cullen and another boy, whose voice slid over my ears like velvet, so smooth.
"How is she dad? I've never seen anything like that in my life. Who could do that to someone and then leave her in the ditch?' the velvet voice said, I assumed he was talking about me as I recalled Dr. Cullen saying I had been found somewhere like that.
"You know Edward I can't discuss my patients with you. If you want to know then you will have to ask her yourself.'
'But I was the one that found her, do you not think that I deserve some consideration for that? Every time I close my eyes all I can see is her crumpled body and her eyes which just seemed to look right through me.'
'I know, I remember Dr. Smilks' reaction when you brought her in. You know the, trainee doctor we have here right now. You will just have to wait until she feels ready for more visitors and until she has spoken to the police about what happened to her.'
I lay there listening to this conversation. This Edward guy, the son of my Dr found me. By the sounds of things I was not a pretty sight when I arrived at the hospital. I've been here a number of timed from my clumsiness but I couldn't remember a Dr. Smilks. I wonder what his reaction was.