Unidentified Location- Day 2
The first noise that Lily makes upon waking sounds something like, "Nghhh." Though to back this up, she was shot in the arm with something suspicious and she does have no idea where she is. So she feels justified in making such a strange noise. However, upon waking and finding someone sitting by her bedside, she finds herself a little uncomfortable. She squints her eyes and turns on her side before sitting up.
"Hello?" she questions the woman on her bed.
"Ah, Miss Evans, I am glad to see that you are awake," the woman responds. "Let me pour you a glass of water.
Lily holds the glass of water that the woman poured in her hand, but does not take a sip.
"Where am I?" Lily asks.
"Why Miss Evans, you are at the hospital. Don't you remember anything from yesterday?" But before Lily can cut in, the woman continues. "Of course you don't, silly me, your head injury caused your forgetfulness." The woman sighs, shaking her head. "Does it feel any better now?"
"Am I in the Hospital Wing? Or St. Mungo's?" Lily refuses to be deferred.
"What is St. Mungo's, honey? You're at your hospital, in Cokeworth."
My hospital? Cokeworth? This woman must be mad. Why would they take her to Cokeworth from Hogwarts?
Hogwarts. James. The fighting. Merlin, why hadn't she thought of it before. "The- the fight, that's where I got my concussion, right?" She mumbles to herself, still fuzzy on the details.
"What fight, darling? You bumped your head when you fell off your bicycle on your way home from school. That's what the doctor told me on his last visit." The nurse smiles at her and reaches out to pat her head.
Lily ducks and pulls away. "No, you're wrong. There was a fight. It was in Hogsmeade. I was there. I remember. I was hit by that spell and-" Lily trailed off, remembering seeing the Death Eater pulling out his wand, remembering losing her balance, remembering being on the ground, remembering the wand pointed straight at her. Then, nothing. Blackness.
She stares blearily at the nurse on her bed as she pieces this together. "Who are you?" Lily questions the so-called nurse.
"I'm your nurse, Lily dear. I think you might be a tad confused. There was no fighting, no such thing as Hogsmeade, no 'spells,' as you call them. It was a simple fall to the ground. You'll be okay in a few days." There's that smile again, but Lily barely registers it.
"What? No. That's not right." Lily denies it. She remembers everything, she does. "Where's my wand?" She says suddenly.
"Your wand? Honey, I don't know what you're-"
"Don't call me 'honey!' And stop playing dumb! Where's my wand? Where did you put it? Why are you lying to me?" Lily screams. She can't stay composed. Not when this woman is outright lying to her. They must have stolen her wand. They must have taken her somewhere. She has to figure out what's going on.
"I'm not lying. I really have no idea what you're talking about. What's a 'wand?'" The woman says, looking genuinely confused.
She must be a Muggle. But why am I in a Muggle hospital?
"Look, I want to talk to the doctor."
He won't be a Muggle, right? Someone has to know where she is, who she is, right?
"The doctor's visiting another patient at the moment, but he'll probably stop by later."
Fuck. Rethink it, Lily. This woman can't be totally clueless. They must have told her something.
"Okay, well if you don't know where my wand is and the doctor's out, can you tell me why I have this concussion again?"
"Sure, honey." She looked happier about this turn in the conversation. "As far as I know, you were riding your bike home from school and apparently you hit a bump in the sidewalk and flew off. Someone found you and deposited you here to get better."
That's not true. That's not even close to the truth. This woman must be either fed wrongful information or she's just plain-out lying.
So Lily decides to try to tease the truth out a little more. "Okay, so I was riding this bicycle to school? What school was it? Hogwarts?"
"Hogwash? What's Hogwash?" The nurse looks concerned.
Okay, Evans, she's mental. Don't let it get to you. Keep trying.
"Well then what school was I coming home from?"
"Cokeworth College, that's where you go to school."
This is wrong, this all wrong. I NEED to talk to someone who understands me.
"No, you know what, I want to talk to the doctor now. Bring the doctor to me right now or I swear to Merlin, I'm going to-"
The nurse now looks vaguely uneasy. She slips off Lily's bed and steps toward the door. "Okay, okay, honey, let me go get him." She smiles again, though now her smile looks uneasy as well.
A moment later, an older man walks in. He has grey hair, a mustache and roundish spectacles and Lily places him instantly as the man who knocked her out yesterday. Didn't he look familiar to her then too? She ponders.
"Hello Miss Evans. It's good to see you sitting up. How are you feeling?"
Lily knows that she should play along with him, but she can't. She has to know what's going on. It was something that her friends always got on her case about back at Hogwarts. She always had to have someone explain what was going on if she arrived in the middle of the conversation. This is what that felt like. It felt like she was arriving in the middle of a conversation and no one was willing to tell her what was happening. And she hated it.
"A little confused to be honest." The doctor seemed to want to stop her to explain the nonsense about her concussion, but Lily was not having any of that. "And not because of this," she says, pointing to her head, "but because this nurse here does not understand my situation."
"Whatever do you mean, Miss Evans? Nurse Anderson is fully prepped with 'your situation' as you call it. She is the one who first saw you upon arriving."
"Obviously, she's not. I don't even know how to ride a bicycle, okay? Get your facts straight. I am Lily Evans. I go to Hogwarts. I was fighting and a Death Eater hit me a spell and I blacked out and now I am here. Don't tell me any of this 'bullshit' about falling off a bike or going to school at Cokeworth College, okay?" Lily maintains.
So maybe she shouldn't have given away her whole story. But obviously they know it. Maybe the nurse doesn't, but she's positive that the doctor does. He has a look in his eye that he's trying to be oblivious, but she can tell that he knows. She's always had good intuition.
"Look, Lily. You can trust me. The fall might have caused a few hallucinations. That's probably what you're remembering."
"No, you look." Lily stops him. "So maybe the nurse is a Muggle. But you aren't. I recognize you from somewhere. You are a wizard and I am a witch. And I don't know where I am or where you put my wand or why you're doing this, but just admit to me that you are a wizard and I will stop asking you questions."
"Lily, oh Lily, that fall must have been pretty hard. I am not a wizard. You are not a witch. There are no such thing as 'Muggles.' I cannot get your wand back because it does not exist. Witches and wizards are the things of fairytales." The doctor shakes his head.
"That is not true! You're lying! I can tell. I am a witch, do not dare tell me that I'm not. I'll prove it to you. I'll, I'll, just give me my wand back and I'll-" Lily becomes crazed, searching around the room and moving to get out of the bed to find that she is once again restrained.
"Oh Lily, dear. You better get rid of these strange hallucinations if you know what's good for you." The doctor smiles strangely and pushes her back down on the bed, shooting another substance into her arm in the process.
Was that a threat? Lily thinks to herself as she feels herself going under yet again.
AN: Sorry for the long wait, guys! I had this written, but I was going to try to write ahead before posting so I would have more material. Unfortunately I haven't been able to do that, so for now- I give you this! I do have almost all the chapters planned out and I'm still really excited about writing this, but it might be at a slower pace :( Thank you to everyone who followed this story! It really means a lot to me and I hope you enjoyed the chapter :)