Even though she knew where she was and what was happening, she couldn't stop herself from struggling a little when the doctors took her from Sam. Particularly when they started peeling Sam's jacket off of her and it pulled at the wounds on her back, pulling them open and causing them to bleed all over again. Eventually, exhaustion and pain won out and she sank into unconsciousness.

Some hours later, she woke in a hospital bed. She was curled on her side with IV tubes in one arm and wide bandages on both wrists nearly immobilizing her thumbs. Each breath pulled on the bandages on her back, but she was so heavily doped up on painkillers that it didn't hurt. It just felt weird. Several blankets were piled up on her.

The first thing she did when she could force her eyes open was look around for Sam.