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The ungrateful man drove off, but they caught him quickly.” She clicks her tongue. “So much blood. So much blood.”
“Tricia,” another nurse says sharply. The look on her face clearly shows that Tricia, the nurse I spoke to, shouldn’t have said anything.
“Oh,” she slaps her palm across her mouth. “Sorry. You’re Lily, right?” Tricia forces a smile. “You came for a check-up. Dr. Michael is out at the moment, but if you could wait for him here—”
But I lose her halfway. I stop hearing her speak halfway through the sentence as her words begin to take shape in my head, creating images at first and a scene.
A scene in a hospital… gray walls. I’m running down the hallway, following a man on a stretcher as nurses try to hold me back. For some reason, I know he’s been shot. I see blood—on my hands and his clothes, and I’m sure it’s from a gunshot wound.
Tears are running down my face, and there’s panic in my chest, gripping my throat tight and keeping air trapped—unable to get in or out. I’m reaching out to the man, calling a name I can't make out.
He means a lot to me, but I don’t know our relationship. I know that I feel a heavy sense of grief at the thought of losing him.
“Lily?”
I feel a familiar hand on my shoulder, dragging me back to reality. But I’m not ready to leave where I was, so my body breaks down… my knees giving out.
Strong hands catch me before I hit the ground, cradling me against a firm chest.
“Lily. Hey.” I hear the familiar voice of Logan Fraiser. “What’s wrong? Are you okay?”
I shake my head, trembling in his arms as tears spill down my face.
“I’m not. I’m not. I think I remembered something, Logan. Something terrible.”
He doesn’t say anything, but leads me quietly through the hallways until we get outside and then to the car. Logan opens the door, helps me in, and goes to the other side.
I feel the car lower as he gets in, but the tears refuse to stop pouring.
“Whatever happened, you’re safe,” he says but doesn’t reach out to touch me. “You’re safe now, Lily. Nothing can hurt you. Nothing is going to hurt you.”
It doesn’t stop the tears that pour down my cheeks, but I feel less terrified at his words and take comfort in his words on the way home.
He hurries to open my door when we get to the cabin but still doesn’t attempt to touch me. I drag my legs from the car into the house, and it’s only when I sit on the couch that I remember Madison.
“Where’s Madison?” I ask.
“She’s shopping with Mrs. Owen. I dropped her off at the hospital and thought to check on you. When I saw you staring off into space, standing at the nurses’ station, I was worried. Thankfully—”
“You were there before I hit the ground,” I finish. “Thank you. You didn’t have to do all of that.”
He shakes his head and goes to sit on another chair. “It’s fine. I’m glad I could be there to help.”
I sigh.
I ought to tell him.If there’s anyone that I’m sure will at least take stock in my flashback, or whatever that was, it’s Logan.
“You know that a doctor was shot, right?” I begin.
He nods. “Yes. Gruesome. Did you see him?”
I shake my head. “No. I didn’t. I was in Doctor Owen’s office. But I heard what happened from one of the nurses. However,” I exhale, “something happened to me when she explained it.
I think… I think it’s happened before, Logan. To me, I mean. I had a flashback here before you caught me.”
“What happened?”
“I was in a hospital, and they were wheeling a bloodied man who was shot to the OR. I had blood on my hands, and I was scared that he might die. I was so scared I couldn’t breathe. Idon’t know how, but I know he was shot, too. A gunshot wound to the stomach.”
