Jyn heard her surroundings before she saw them. The bustle of people, the beeping of machines, conversations in Basic. Then she registered that there was something stuck in her arm. Panic made her open her eyes and sit up instantly. She looked down. She was not wearing the clothes she had on Scarif but instead had on a gown, flat and shapeless, covered in an odd and sterile pattern of blue dots. Her eyes followed the item stuck in her arm, a tube which trailed all the way up to a clear pouch that was suspended from a metal stand. On her other side, screens beeping and all around her, a curtain in some shade of dirty teal that cut her vision off from anything beyond.

She barely had to think as she twisted herself off the bed, pulled out the tube, and stood up. At once she was struck with something so dizzy that it made her head spin and Jyn had to force herself to stay standing. Then she walked down to the end of the bed and forced the curtain open.

Around her were other cubicles just like her own, all walled off by curtains.

Cassian, she thought. Need to find Cassian.

The floor was cold on her feet but it barely registered for her as she turned down the corridor between the cubicles and pressed ahead.

"Miss?" she head a voice say. She ignored it and continued to walk the length of the room.

"Miss?" said the voice again.

She heard footsteps walking fast behind her and she picked up the pace in kind until she was out of the room and in another corridor. People in white coats and shifts took no notice of her and continued about their business. She looked left and right. Directions pointing right indicated cardiology, A&E, West Wing whilst directions pointing left were labelled with restaurant and Children's ward.

Jyn felt a hand on her arm and without thinking she jerked her arm back. The hand relinquished but instead she was confronted by a woman in a white coat: tall, dark skinned, a frown gracing her face.

"What are you doing out of bed?" she asked.

"Where am I?" said Jyn, ignoring the question.

"Royal Guildshire Hospital," the Doctor said without thinking. "I'm going to have to ask you to get back in the bed, Miss."

She tried to lean around the woman, but the woman blocked her view.

"I need to find my friend," said Jyn. "He's hurt - was hurt - I don't know. Do you know where he is?"

The woman's eyes ran over her face, and then she softened.

"If you get back in your bed, I'll help you find your friend. Okay?"

Jyn didn't move.

"He had a shot wound to the lower abdomen," she said. The doctor's eyes widened.

"That one?" came the reply. "He's out of surgery, resting in another ward."

"Can I go and see him, please?"

"You haven't been checked up, miss. If you'll please sit back in your bed I'll have someone get you checked up before seeing if you can be escorted to see your friend."

In another world, another life, perhaps - Jyn still wasn't sure - she would have kicked and punched her way out of the situation, but in truth her head was starting to spin again, her muscles screamed in pain and hunger gnawed in her belly.

"My friend is alright?" she asked again, needing to be sure.

"He's stable, out of critical condition, yes," said the woman, gently taking her arm.

Jyn allowed herself to be led back to her cubicle, back to her bed, and she feel back into sleep before her head hit the pillow.

She woke up again with a start at a heavy metallic sound that made her jerk up defensively. There was a nurse beside her, looking over at her colleague in the cubicle next door who had dropped a dish on the floor.

"Are you alright?" asked the nurse. He smiled at her through tired eyes. "You've had some sleep."

"Will you take me to see my friend?" she asked. "One of the doctors said you'd be able to."

The nurse nodded.

"I know, she told me. You're friends with that one, the one that got himself all vicious, am I right? Whole hospital's been buzzing about that one."

Jyn frowned, trying to place his accent in case that helped her identify where she was. When it didn't she pressed on.

"Will I be able to go and see him now?" she said, allowing some desperation - something Jyn would not usually let herself show - come through her eyes in case that helped her case.

The nurse bent his arm into a crook.

"Come on then," he said sympathetically. "You're friend's been resting easy."

She memorised every turn in the corridor, every elevator up and every button press and clearance.

Then they were in front of a door. There were signs on it in - Jyn jolted... was that High Galactic? But the moment passed as though the window panel she caught Cassian lying on a bed dressed in the same unflattering smock she was. She breathed such a heavy sign of relief that she thought it would tear right through her.

The nurse quietly opened the door and allowed her to walk inside. She rushed forwards, ignoring the pain in her calves as she did so, and grasped his hand.

"Cassian," she said quickly. "Cassian, it's me, Jyn."

When he did not stir, she looked over at the nurse, who still stood respectfully by the door.

"You're sure he's alright?" she said, worried.

"Sure he is," the Nurse replied. "He's just been due a whole backlog of rest, that's all."

She breathed in and out. And then, in her hands she felt fingers twitch.

Jyn was once more close in at his side in a flash.

"Jyn," she heard him breathe. The noise calmed her soul.

"Yes, Cas," she said. "It's me."

"I knew you would come," he said, his eyes still shut. "I knew you wouldn't leave me alone."

She squeezed his hand. Her eyes felt rather hot all of a sudden.

"Home, remember?"

"Yes," he said, his eyes slowly opening. A lazy grin spread across his face.

"How are you feeling?" she replied.

"Good," he said. "Now better, to see a friendly face."

She saw his eyes flicker over to the door, where the nurse still stood, right foot tapping on the cold floor absentmindedly.

"Did you figure out where we are yet?" he whispered.

"Not yet," she replied. "We're in the Royal Guildshire Hospital, which I think is in Fordham, but I don't know what those words mean. What system we're in, what planet? I've no idea."

Cassian nodded.

"I'm in a different ward to you," she said. "You're lucky, with a room all to yourself."

He laughed until it burst into coughing and he clutched his chest.

"Good for listening opportunities though," he said.

Jyn nodded. She would get herself and Cassian out of his place when he was better and then, so help all the moons and stars in the galaxy, she would once and for all find out what was going on.