
As James and Laura are about to exit the hospital, Laura asks him to pick up a nonexistent letter from Mary inside a room. James accuses her of lying when she explains her connection to Mary, but he then apologizes for his outburst. Eventually, James finds her inside a room playing with teddy bears on the first floor. Laura finds a way to Carroll Street by squeezing through a narrow space between Heaven's Night and a wall, then enters Brookhaven Hospital. Outside, James pursues her at Maria's request. Once James appears, Laura rolls a bowling ball towards James and Eddie and then flees the building. She asks Eddie why he can't just apologize for what he has done, to which he responds by saying that nobody will forgive him. Laura then confides that she too runs away a lot. Eddie tells her that he is running from the police, and Laura calls him a "gutless fatso" as he eats a pizza. She appears next at Pete's Bowl-O-Rama with Eddie. She then reveals to James that she knows of Mary, but then jumps off the other side of the wall before James can get anymore information from her. He confronts her in frustration and Laura taunts him by claiming she only 'may' have stomped on his hand. After he leaves the apartment complex, he finds her humming to herself on a graffiti-covered wall. James first encounters Laura in the Wood Side Apartments, where she kicks a key out of his reach and stomps on his hand while mocking him before running away. It is confirmed by the Book of Lost Memories that the pair crossed paths with one another on the way to Silent Hill and then traveled there together. In the introduction video, Eddie is seen sitting beside a van holding a large map with his finger pointed at it. It is implied Eddie helped her travel to Silent Hill, whom she met by chance on the way to Silent Hill. Laura somehow finds her way to Silent Hill, having apparently ran away from the orphanage or hospital she was staying at. Laura seems to love stuffed animals, such as teddy bears, and shows interest in drawing. In Room 312, she asks James to leave the hotel with her when they didn't find Mary there. In the Lakeview Hotel, she gives him more details about Mary and runs away to find a letter from Mary that she dropped. Even though Laura is first perceived as impolite, she is not malevolent-spirited.Īs the game progresses, Laura becomes much less discourteous towards James. With James, she is motivated by the belief that he did not really love Mary, due to the fact that he rarely visited her in the hospital. Laura is rude and bratty to James Sunderland and Eddie Dombrowski, the two people she encounters consistently during her journey through the town, calling them a "fartface" and "gutless fatso" respectively. Mary described Silent Hill as a beautiful place and showed Laura many pictures of the town during her hospitalization. Jerome's Hospital in Ashfield) and under the care of the same nurse, identified as Rachel. She and Mary were patients of the same unspecified hospital (possibly St. How Laura's parents died and why she was in a hospital is never revealed. Laura is an orphan who befriended Mary Shepherd-Sunderland a year prior to the events of Silent Hill 2, and she became attached to Mary as if she were her own mother.
