Rosalie had gone through her first kidney transplant and was starting to slowly come to terms with her own mortality. She wouldn’t get sick and die, not like if she had cancer; not like a trauma situation with too much damage to fix. She was going to slowly watch her own body destroy itself. It was leaving her to get reckless.
Nowhere in the hospital was off-limits, not in the way they used to be but in the sense that she didn’t care about what she found or what trouble she got into.
Rosalie was supposed to stay in her bed for at least another 24 hours, but the time was ticking away so slowly that she couldn’t handle it anymore. Closing her IV off, because that was a waste to leave it before gently pulling it of her arm, she pulled on shoes and a thicker cardigan and left her room. She got out of the PEDs ward before she starting to feel tired, and was out of the surgical wing entirely before she acknowledged that she could feel a twinge where her stitches were.
The walls of the hospital started spinning around her before she decided that she needed to sit down. Rosalie didn’t know where she was in the hospital at this point, but she found herself somewhere to sit down before she passed out.