"Okay Miss Jenkins, now please stay in your bed this time. If you need anything just press your call button and one of us will come." Dawn fluffed the pillows on the bed before leaving the room. She started to head back to Mr. Angel's room, but paused outside another door. She peered in. "Miss Burkle? How are you today?"
Fred jumped. "W-who are you? what do you want?" she asked, inching back towards the wall.
Buffy clicked her tongue as she looked over her clipboard and then back to Angel. "My my my, I bet it gets lonely, doesn't it, Angel?"
He looked at her confused "What do you mean?"
Dawn held out a hand in front of her. "It's okay, Miss Burkle. You're in the hospital, you have been here for over a week. Although this is the first day you've been out of bed," she added.
"Why am I here? I-I don't like being alone, you know...do you have anything to write with?" Fred asked quickly.
"Miss Burkle, you should really be in bed. None of us really know why you are here. The police found you wandering on the road last week and brought you to us."
"NO! no I-I'm fine! I can't be here...need out..." Fred said.
Buffy smirked, "What I mean to say is," she walked closer to the bed, "I could keep you company if you want."
"I'm sorry, but I can't let you leave, not until the doctor's release you. It would help if you told me why you were out on the street in the middle of the night," Dawn suggested.
"I...I don't remember...but, but I don't wanna be left alone again!" Fred said almost to the point of terror.
"It's okay, I'm not going to leave you alone. My name is Dawn, I'm a nurse here. I want to help you. What is the last thing you do remember?" she asked kindly.
Not too long after Dawn had left the room, Anya began punching the nurse button. "SOON! You have to help them!" She called out.
Angel scooted farther over on the bed to get away. Now he was really confused. "Um are you allowed to do that, and when am I going to know why I can't remember anything and why I cant feel my legs? Who am I?"
"Demons...I...I was a cow...ran...ran and ran and hid...and then I was here..." Fred said slowly, trying to remember.
Dawn heard her pager beeping softly but decided to ignore it for now, this was the first response anyone had gotten from Winifred Burkle in the time she had been here. "Okay, what else can you tell me?"
"I'm the head nurse," Buffy said waving to her badge, "I can do anything I want." She groaned when she heard the buzzing, indicating a patient needed a nurse. She gave a grin to Angel and then walked over to Anya's room, "What do you want?" she snapped once she made her way inside.
"I...I don't remember anything. are...are we still in Pylea? is it safe here?" Fred asked.
"What's Pylea? No, this is Los Angeles, California. And yes, you are perfectly safe here," Dawn said soothingly.
Angel let a sigh of relief out when the nurse left, she kinda creeped him out. He decided that he wasn't going to let himself be refined to the bed. So, with all the arm strength he had he tried to push himself off the bed, which just made him fall on the floor with a large thud and cracking noise coming from his wrist. He immediately pulled the nurse helping string as he yelled out in pain.
"Los Angeles...that sounds so familiar... Pylea is where I'm from. I...I must have escaped or somethin', cause there's no 'Los Angeles' in Pylea." Fred sounded somewhat relieved.
"Witch!" Anya barked. "Witch, you must help them! They're with the bunnies. Crying for help!"
Dawn started when she heard her pager buzz again, accompanied by a scream from down the hall. "Miss Burkle, I am so sorry, I have to go. I'm going to leave the door open, so you won't feel so alone. I will be back, and we can continue our talk," she said as she rushed from the room.
Buffy glared and punched Anya in the face, "Shut up, you shut up."
Fred watched Dawn leave, before she started for the door. Maybe there were other people from Pylea here..
Anya quickly covered her nose and screamed. "With the bunnies Witch! With the bunnies!" She still shouted.
Buffy then smoothed her uniform back to it's crisp position and said, "Anya, if you don't stop it, I will hit you again, but this time..." she smiled, "I won't hold back."
