Hey guys, so this is my first fanfic, sorry if it isn't that great. But I already have the whole thing written out and finished and started another one, so advice on how to make it better/suggestions would really help the next story out. Thanks! I hope you enjoy, there's some Maltara in here ;)
She woke up in a hospital bed, slightly disoriented. There were several men huddled in a corner of the room, who turned abruptly when they heard her trying to sit up. One came over and pushed her gently back into a lying position. When questioned where she was, the doctors murmured vaguely and then wrote the dreaded word down on the clipboard. Amnesia.
Mal was summoned, after staying in the waiting room for hours, waiting to see if she was alright. She had been hit by the suspect, lost her balance, and tumbled over the railing of a steep flight of stairs.
They said it was a miracle she was alive.
He was still blaming himself.
As he walked into the room number 204, his pained expression softened a bit when her eyes opened, slowly focusing on his face. He doctors tried to stop him from rushing over, but failed.
"Natara! Thank God! I was so worried I…."
He broke off at the sight of the puzzled expression and her furrowed brow.
"I'm sorry," she whispered softly, "But who are you again?"
He hesitated before answering, "Nat, I-I'm Mal? You're partner? Your best friend?" He lurched forward abruptly and grabbed her shoulders, shaking her, "What's wrong with her? What happened? Natara!"
"I…" she stuttered, "I… Is that my name? Natara?"
Mal rounded on the doctors, "What the hell is wrong with her?"
"It appears she has a very severe case of amnesia," a doctor with brown hair, standing towards the back of the group responded, and continued in reply to Mal's terrified expression, "It's when your memory gets…"
"Lost, I know what amnesia is, doctor," he says, rougher than intended. "Well when will she be alright again?
"Well as Dr. Everdeen said, the case is quite severe. You're looking at several months, maybe years," says a blonde doctor in front, with a nametag reading Dr. Mellark.
"YEARS?" yells Mal, making Natara jump in her bed behind him.
"Actually," replied the doctor with a pained and apologetic expression, "There is a slight possibility… She may never regain her memory completely."