Magnolia General Hospital

Pieces

         I can’t let that happen again! I dropped my head on my desk. I am so stupid! To have fallen asleep is one thing, but to end up on top of him! That was a completely different story! He had been so warm and he had looked at me like he really cared but there was no way that he actually did. He just needed to seem normal so I would discharge him. I lifted my head from my desk and grabbed his file. Finally! How long had I been waiting for this? I stared at it. It felt wrong now; it felt like I was sneaking around. But I wasn’t, he had said I could look at it so that’s what I’m going to do. Look at it. I took a deep breath and opened the file. There was a picture of him in his uniform. The blue mad his hair stand out more than it already did. He wasn’t smiling but you could see how happy he was, he had gotten the job. The first page had all the standard information. Name, date of birth, profession, address, social security number, driver’s license, insurance info and emergency contacts.  The last was finally something new. The first contact listed was Igneel Dragneel, relationship: Father, the second was Lisanna Strauss, Relationship: Common Law. He had a partner? Was she related to Mira? Did she leave him? Where is she? I flipped the page. This one had his work information. His Rank and title, his main cases and his law enforcement partner, Lisanna Strauss. Clipped to the page was a letter.

                Dear Mr. Natsu Dragneel,

The Magnolia Fairy Tail Police Department requires you to attend the funeral for Lisanna Strauss…

         She had died! No wonder he doesn’t want to talk to me about work. I put the letter down; it isn’t something I should read. They had been partners at home and at work and she had died, ‘Killed In Action’ the letter had highlighted. I flipped the page. The next page was medical files. The most recent date was eight days ago when he was admitted into Magnolia General Hospital for the psych ward two days before we started our sessions. The next date was eleven months ago. He had been admitted with three bullets penetrating his body, one through that abdomen, the other two in the chest. Luckily the chest wounds had missed vital organs though the third had hit his spleen. He’d been put through a CT scan, and MRI and a normal X-Ray. No head wound reported other than a concussion. The CT showed major internal bleeding while the X-Ray showed a broken femur, clavicle and humerus all on the left side of his body. He had been discharged after a month of recovery. There were other dates from when he was younger; he’d had a broken nose once, a wrist at one point. Came to the emerge a couple of times for the flu, probably scared it was appendicitis. The next page was school records, transcripts and what not. He had actually been pretty smart, I was impressed. He had mostly ‘A’s and ‘B’s. There were silly things, voted class clown and a nomination for Prom King with Lisanna as the Queen. So he had known her in high school as well?

                So, what all did I know? Natsu had lost his partner in life and work who was also related to Mira, maybe. She had been killed on duty by a gang, Raven, and since all this happened he had gone downhill but what had he done to get himself brought in? I would just have to drill him tomorrow. I put everything away in my bag but my notes and left the office. It was late, around six; everyone from my ward had gone home. I pushed the button for the elevator and pushed the main floor button. As soon as the doors opened I saw her. That red head, what was her name? She was walking past the elevator when she saw me.

                “Oh, hey! Funny seeing you again!” she walked over to me. “Have much fun today?”

                “Ya, loads, you?” I still didn’t see how anyone could perceive my ward as fun.

                “Oh ya, emergency is the best! You get all the fun cases! You know, the ones with all the blood, my fav!” my mouth dropped a little, I couldn’t think of a response. She bent down and looked at my papers. A little too late I brought them up to my chest to hide them, I don’t know how much see saw. “Ooh! Natsu Dragneel! Is that the cop?” shit, why did she have to see that?

                “Sorry, I don’t disclose information like that,” I tried to walk away.

                “It says he was in the hospital a little under a year ago, what for?” she tried to make her face look concerned but it didn’t quite work.

                “Sorry, but I have to go,” I started walking and didn’t stop when she tried to talk to me. I went straight to my car and locked the doors once I was in. I threw the car into drive and got away from the hospital as fast as I could. Once home I went straight to my couch and lay down. I had slept most of the day but I was still exhausted. I grabbed the tv remote and clicked the on button. It was on the news. The reporter was talking about how the police must have caught an arsonist in the area; he had been setting fires every other day but for the past week he had just stopped. After ten minutes of listening to her ramble I turned off the tv and went to bed. I set my alarm but didn’t even bother changing or letting out my hair.

                I had made it through the night with no sleep disruptions except the alarm clock. I hit the off button but stayed in bed. What if I called in and took a sick day? I lay in bed until twenty minutes before I should leave. I heaved myself out of bed and went into my closet. I grabbed a white loose tank and a red long cardigan and my soft blue boyfriend jeans. I made sure I had real shoes on, a pair of ankle boots and went into the bathroom. My hair had half fallen out of the bun. I took out what was left and scrunched a bit of gel into it. It actually looked kind of nice being messy curly. I smiled to myself and set off for the hospital. I pulled into the parking lot and thought about what would happen today. Would he get mad when I bring her up? I took a deep breath and exited my car. I hope not.