A/N: Here's chapter two! I decided to continue! This chapter is a bit of a fill in and rather short, hopefully you guys like it? It answers a few questions that you may have but a lot more of Lauren will be revealed in later chapters I guess. Thanks for the reviews, favourites and follows, I greatly appreciate them! Hope you enjoy!
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It was the next morning before Lauren finally woke up. "It's too early to be up…" Lauren groaned as she slowly woke up, rubbing her eyes. That was her first mistake, her entire side hurt-a lot. Then she noticed the monotonous beeping noises in the background, something was taped to the back of her hand as well. To be honest she felt like someone had taken a pillow, filled it with cement, and then decided to have a pillow fight with her. In other words, everything hurt. When her eyes had finally adjusted to the light she realised that there were three people standing by her bed, one was obviously a doctor. The other two were most definitely not; the bright red jacket and the business looking attire that they were wearing gave it away. She put a hand to her head as she looked at them; she had the worst headache ever. They all just looked at her before the doctor stepped forward.
"I'm Dr. Whale, how are you feeling?" Dr. Whale looked at Lauren.
"Okay I get to ask questions first...where the hell am I?" Lauren just stared at the doctor, ignoring the pain in her side.
"You're in Storybrooke General Hospital, kid." Emma spoke up from where she was standing.
Lauren laughed at the name before quickly stopping and holding her side, "Ow!"
"You might want to take it easy, Miss. Your ribs are cracked."
"Again? Who did I get into a fight with this time?
Regina raised an eyebrow, "You were in a car crash."
Lauren looked at Regina, "Is that supposed to be funny? Because it's not."
"No it is not supposed to be funny, it's quite serious actually." Regina looked at Dr. Whale.
"I don't remember any car accident," Lauren frowned, "can I see my parents?"
Regina and Emma looked at Dr. Whale before Emma spoke up, "We'll be back in a minute."
Lauren watched them leave the room, leaning back into her pillow, she didn't remember any accident, but she didn't remember getting into a fight either.
Dr. Whale was the first to come back and Lauren looked at him, "Sore…"
"What?" Whale frowned as he looked at Lauren.
"In answer to your question…I feel sore." She grimaced slightly as she took a deep breath, wincing slightly as her ribs moved.
"I'll get the nurse to up your dosage of painkillers then, but we need to discuss your injuries and your parents."
"Let me have it." Lauren slowly sat up a bit more before looking back at him.
"Well, you took a hard blow to the head which would be why you seem to be experiencing amnesia. Your ribs are cracked as well, which if they've been broken before would explain why. You've got quite a few bruises and lacerations as well as the car rolled down the slope."
"Sounds like fun…" Lauren sighed as she looked at the ceiling.
"And your parents…were unfortunately DOA." Whale watched Lauren carefully.
"DOA? What does that mean?" Lauren opened her eyes again to look at him.
"They were dead on arrival."
Lauren opened her mouth to speak but nothing came out. Her parents were….dead? This was obviously some nightmare, she was in some place named Storybrooke, she didn't remember the accident and now her parents were dead! It had to be her imagination playing some sick trick on her. Well she hoped it was, because as much as they annoyed her sometimes they couldn't just leave her alone. She didn't have any other family! She didn't have any aunts or uncles or cousins. She didn't even have grandparents! Her parents were the only people who she could call family and she didn't have a clue what she would do without them. She was too young to live by herself, she couldn't move in to a friend's place because she didn't have any and she couldn't imagine becoming a foster kid. She was too busy caught up in her thoughts to realise Dr. Whale was staring at her. "What did you say?" Lauren swallowed the lump in her throat and looked up at him.
"I wanted to know your name." Whale gave her a small smile.
"It's Lauren, Lauren Everett. Can you leave me alone now, please?" Lauren looked up at him pleadingly.
Dr. Whale nodded, "I'll send a nurse in."
Lauren slowly turned over in her bed, being careful not to move her ribs. She didn't want anyone to see how much she was crying.
Emma and Regina had been waiting outside, looking in the window as Whale was talking to the girl.
"What did she say?" Regina grabbed Dr. Whale's arm as he came out, making sure he didn't forget to tell them what she had said.
"Not much, I just found out that her name's Lauren Everett and that's about it."
"How did she take the news?" Emma looked back into Lauren's room.
"Well she didn't burst into tears so that's a good thing. Look I need to get a nurse so if you're done asking questions I'll be off." Whale waited a few moments to see if either of them would ask something else before he walked off.
Regina watched him walk off, frowning as he disappeared from view, "That man is hopeless."
"He's a good doctor." Emma looked at Regina.
"When you're the patient, anyone else and eye contact is far from likely."
Emma snorted, causing Regina to glare at her, "Sorry.."
"We should go see Henry. He'll be dying to know everything." Regina watched as a nurse walked into the room before she brushed past Emma.
"Right…" Emma quickly followed after Regina; after all she didn't want to keep the Queen waiting.
Lauren heard the footsteps behind her as she sniffed; she guessed it was the nurse that Dr. Whale had said he would send. She heard rather than saw the nurse as she did her job. She didn't want to look at the nurse; it would only remind her of her mother. Her mum was a nurse herself, well was. She had already soaked half of her pillow; she didn't need to burst out into a fresh load of tears just because she saw a nurse. She closed her eyes as she turned her head in the nurse's direction, "Thanks…" She didn't see the nurse smile at her before she left, but it wasn't long before the pain started to diminish. At least now she could sleep, get away from the nightmare that had become her life.
Henry was back at the Charming family's apartment, sitting in Emma's room reading the book. He frowned as it started to glow again and he quickly dropped it and moved away. It was only momentarily like that and he slowly picked it up again. It didn't look any different, but he quickly flicked through all the pages, making sure nothing had changed. It was only once he got to the end that he realised what had happened. A new page had appeared; this one had a picture of Lauren in her hospital bed, her eyes closed as she was sleeping. Henry skim read the page before hearing the door open and Emma and Regina's voice. He practically bolted down the stairs with the book; this meant that it was happening, which meant that this girl really was supposed to give them their happy endings. He only hoped she would believe, but he had all the proof that was needed, right?
Well, where will Lauren stay now? Do you guys have any suggestions or requests? I have someone in mind but you guys can have input! Write a review, favourite or follow if you wish! Thanks for reading!
