A/N And here is the first chapter. We don't own Harry Potter, JK does.

Chapter 1: In the hospital

She woke up. She opened her eyes slowly and looked around. 'Where am I?' she wondered. Her left hand and her neck felt sore. She tried to move her head but the pain wouldn't let her. She realized she was in a hospital. The walls were white and there was another bed next to her. On top of it laid an unknown woman with a broken leg. That's when she realized the plaster on her arm and the collar on her neck. The only thing she remembered from the accident was a black BMW.

A nurse entered the room. "Miss Brown! You woke up. How do you feel? Can I bring you anything?"

"No, no, I'm fine. When will I be able to leave?" Lavender asked.

The nurse wouldn't hear of it. "Leave? It's still too soon. We still need to look at your scars."

The door opened and Lavender's family along with her best friend, Parvati, walked in.

"Honey, what happened to you?" Mrs Brown exclaimed "Who did this to you? What happened?"

"It's okay mom, don't worry. I'm fine." she reassured them, then in a lower voice asked. "When can I go to St. Mungo's?"

Mr Brown, however, didn't want his daughter to be hospitalized there. "You will stay here. In St. Mungo's everyone was looking at you weirdly the last time you when there. And I won't let anyone speak ill of my daughter in front of me again." he said while looking at his daughter's scars. "Madam Pomfrey should be here in three of four days to heal your wounds completely."

"It's fine daddy, I don't mind anymore. We can go there right now. There's no need to wait for Madam Pomfrey."

Parvati agreed with Mr Brown. "Oh come on Lavender! You can stay here for a few days. Muggles have this kind of injuries all the time. I don't want you to go there either."

"You're still here? The patient needs rest. You can visit her tomorrow." The nurse exclaimed after she finished checking the woman on the other bed.

Everybody had forgotten that the nurse was still in the room. Lavender bit them all goodbye and only when she closed her eyes to sleep she remembered that there was another man in the accident.

"Excuse me, nurse, can I ask you something?"

"My boy, tell me who did this to you so I can break their neck. The car is in pieces and that rascal hasn't paid anything for it yet."

"Dad, the crash was my fault."

"It was not your fault. You were in a hurry to go check on your mother. What excuse did they have?"

"Dad, I ignored the stop sign right in front of me."

"I don't care! Your mother-"

Dudley decided to zone out his father's voice. He wasn't going to change his mind any time soon. He started thinking about the girl of the other car and hoped that she, too, wasn't very injured. He only had a broken leg.

"-and that's why you had every right to ignore that stop sign." Vernon Dursley looked quite proud of his reasoning. Dudley rolled his eyes.

"Anyway, how is mom? Is she any better?"

"Yes, it was nothing serious. She just passed out from exhaustion. With a little more rest she will be okay. Your accident stressed her a little bit, but the doctors gave her some sedatives and now she's asleep."

After three days, Dudley decided that it was time to start moving again, so he went to get some coffee. He couldn't stay in bed anymore.

He exited his room and went down the hall to reach the elevator. He went in and pushed the first floor button. A lady entered right after. The doors closed and the ride began.

And then it stopped between the first and the second floor.

The girl next to him started yelling for help. It was then that Dudley noticed her for the first time. She was a little shorter than him, with curly brown hair that reached her elbows and big brown eyes that showed her fear. She also had some nasty looking scars on her face. Her hand was in a plaster and her neck was covered with a collar. She seemed familiar but he couldn't explain why.

"You idiot! Why aren't you yelling?" she seemed furious. Her face was red with anger.

"You're calling me an idiot? I'm not the one screaming 'Help, help!'" Dudley mimicked. "As if they would hear us!"

"Why wouldn't they? And I don't see you doing anything better."

"Maybe, I say maybe, we could press the emergency button?"

Lavender didn't appreciate his sarcasm. "And what are you waiting for? Just press the freaking button!"

"Why can't you press it? Do I have to do everything around here?"

"JUST. PRESS. THE. BUTTON."

The fight continued for a while, when eventually the elevator started moving again and stopped on the first floor. The movement stopped their fighting leaving them surprised. The doors opened and they saw the technician who fixed the elevator.

"Are you two okay? Why didn't you press the emergency button?" The looks they gave him left him stuttering and he quickly left them on their own.

Lavender gave Dudley a haughty look. "See? They could hear us."

And with that, they both went on different ways.