It's In You

[Madeline Speare]

It felt odd feeling as if I was out of place.
Standing off to the side, I squint slightly, letting my eyes readjust to the fluorescent lights. I had forgotten how absolutely white St. Mungo's had been, and I had no right to do so.
I had spent a fair few years here.
Hell, half of my teenagers revolved around this place.

Letting my shoulders relax slightly, I take a long hard look around.
I had started working here right after my mother had died, I had been at least sixteen then, and I had still be working on and off when I was pregnant with Alex.
My hand automatic goes over my stomach, ten years later and I still can't forget the miracle that was the birth of my son.
It was of course, ten years ago the tragedy of the loss of my son had occurred as well.
Alex and Aaron.
My eyes tear up slightly, and I gently brush my tears away before they even have a chance to fall.

It seemed all I had lately were just my memories.
I smile weakly, waving at a couple of the other Healers. They all had been surprised to see me, then again I couldn't blame them.
I had spent nearly twelve years working here, working to be the best, and when I had finally reached that achievement, I took off. No explanation, just my signature stating I was resigning, and that was that.
Saying it was hard would completely be an understatement.
This was my place. This was where I could really serve my purpose.
"Your purpose is here, with your family. With me."
My eyes drift down to my wedding band, he was right, Per usual.

Still, it felt good to be back.
Even if just for a bit.

[Riley Pearson]

So I wasn't exactly back working... yet. I guess it was sort of soon anyway. But I did want to come here and check on all my patients.. Ever since the accident, me unable to take care of them, they've been under the care of a couple of my fellow healers and I wanted to come by and see how they were doing.. See if everything was going alright. Just a pop in to say hello and tell them I probably won't be back for a bit longer.

Really, I would have been back to work if it were up to me, but my boss wouldn't let me.. they told me to go home and get rest so I could recover properly.. and spend some well needed time with my family. So I guess I couldn't exactly say no, could I?

After a bit over an hour, I had finished visiting the few patients of mine that were still here and now I was just rolling around in my wheel chair, trying to figure out if I should go home or not.. I was sort of thinking I should... Especially since I wasn't so crazy about this whole chair thing. I really prefered walking.. which was why I came here walking in the first place. And then my healer caught me and instructed me to get in a wheelchair and stop being an idiot. So, I didn't really have much of a choice..

On my way back to return this thing, I saw a famliar face.. one that I hadn't seen in quite some time. And I was sort of wondering if it was really her. We didn't talk too much back at school, but we spoke enough for me to remember who she was.

So without thinking much about it, I rolled over to her. ".. Maddie?" I asked looking at her questioningly for a moment, as I tried to decide if it was her. It definitely looked like her, but that didn't mean it was.

[Madeline Speare]

It suddenly popped into my head, that like my mother, and my grandmother, I ended up working here at Mungo's.
I wondered if Abby would too, or even Poppy.
They both liked looking after people.
Alright, so maybe they didn't like it, but they did know what they were doing.
It felt like maybe becoming a Healer was somewhat a family tradition.

I snapped out of my daydream to realize that someone was talking to me.
"Uh, hi...?" I push my hair back out of my face to realize who it is.
"Riley."
I know just notice the wheelchair.
"Oh,"

[Riley Pearson]

After a couple seconds of thinking maybe it wasn't her, she turned around and after getting a better look at her, realized that it was. I smiled some at her once she said my name and nodded a bit.
I'm not surprised about secondary reaction though when she sees the wheel chair. That was another reason I would really rather not use it. ".. Oh.. don't worry about this.. just temporary." I said shaking my head faintly. "I can walk.. healer just made me use it."