Basic Story Line:

Charlie wakes up after a 3 month long coma, due to Jake shooting her, in a hospital in Queensland Australia, with no memory of her previous life . She is then informed by doctors that her name is in fact Claudia Harper age 29, who was involved in a horrific car crash, causing her to lose all memory of her loved ones and friends. Soon enough she acquaints Brad, a 30 year old male who was victim of a head on crash into a Truck, losing his family in the process.

With no one to lean on but each other, these two rely on each other to get through the hard ships and find a new place to call home...

Title: Stolen Lives

Main Characters: Charlie Buckton & Darryl Braxton

Chapter 1: Awakening.

Claudia (Charlie):

I opened my eyes to find everything around me blurry and disfigured; I closed my eyes again before reopening them to find things less blurry. I sat up, to realise I was in some sort of hospital bed with wires, drips and machines all around me, I didn't recognise anything, anything at all. Soon enough I looked over to see this man, also in a hospital bed staring at me, my eyes went wide as I looked at him, he had a broken arm and leg, both done up in a cast and supported by pillows and cushions.

"Ah welcome back to the real world." He smiled.

"Excuse me?" I asked.

"I've been in this room for the past 3 months watching you in eternal sleep; I'd never thought you'd wake up." He laughed; this guy was very bubbly and actually quite good looking. God damn it, stop checking him out.

"Who are you?" I questioned, I had never seen this man in my life.

"Oh, so sorry. My name is Bradley Campbell, but just call me Brad." He smiled...

"Oh and who am I?" I questioned, quite a weird question to be asking.

"Oh um your name is Claudia Harper." He smiled, raising his eyebrows at me and laughing.

I actually was now half tempted to get to my feet and hit him, why did he laugh at everything?

I looked around the small room, the walls were a pale white colour the floors were lino and the windows blocked by curtains, it was all very confusing. There was large arch way that led into some kind of hall way or corridor with busy nurses walking past. Until one stopped and noticed that the woman who had been asleep for 3 months straight was now conscious and talking, she put her hand over her mouth and quickly rushed off. Soon enough a tall man walked in through the door, mostly likely a doctor seeing he was wearing a white coat over a very formal shirt and tie. He grabbed my chart before reading the machine and beginning to talk.

"Welcome back to the real world Claudia..."

The doctor talked to me for at least 2 hours explaining everything. Turns out my name is Claudia Harper, I'm 29 years old and right now I'm in a hospital in Queensland Australia. I was involved in a horrific car crash which caused me to lose all my memories, not my knowledge of how to read and write etc but my memories of anything to do with family or my life before the crash.

But it's not like it matters because apparently I was orphaned as a young child, both my parents killed in a bank robbery and I have no other siblings or relatives what so ever...

I have been unconscious and in a coma for 3 and ½ months, my chances were very slim of ever regaining consciousness but here I am sitting up and digesting what I've just been told.

I got to know a fair bit about Brad also; he thought that seeing he knew so much about me that I should know something about him. He is 30, also involved in car crash and has lost all his long term memories, he had a wife and kids who were tragically taken from him when the truck hit their family vehicle, killing all three kids instantly and having his wife take at least 2 hours to bleed out inside their mangled car.

He jokes about it, I guess it's just the way he tries to deal with something he can't remember, something that was such a huge part of his life and he can't even recall a single thing. What his wife's name was what she looked like, when his children were born or something as simple as what gender they were. It must have been tough being told that you've lost everything you've ever known, even though you can't remember it. Luckily for me I guess that I'm all alone in this world, my accident wouldn't have even worried or affected anyone else...

Brax P.O.V

-3 months beforehand-

For 2 days I watched my girlfriend's life slip further and further into the unknown. Watched the glow disappear from her skin, watched the beauty get taken away with her life. I can't handle this, I can't handle that her own daughter is giving up, is ready to flick the switch and take her life. Charlie was still fighting so we should be to, but seeing Ruby and everyone else had given up, there was only me let to fight for her and fight for her I did.

I did some pretty irrational stuff, for one locking myself in her room, I don't know why I thought that would help the situation, I don't know how I thought that doing that would bring my girlfriends life back out from the deep end she had been thrown in. I knew what needed to happen, what needed to be done; I just wanted to delay it, in some miracle that she'll come back to me. So I can see her beautiful eyes, hear her voice and feel her warmth... I was just delaying the inevitable, not wanting to face this harsh reality that she died the moment she hit the ground, the moment those two bullets pierced her body, the moment she bled out on her floor...

Ruby P.O.V

-Charlie's Funeral-

I sat there on the cold wooden seat in the church watching Brax, standing behind the microphone struggling to keep himself together, not wanting to break down in the middle of his speech in front of a church filled with people. He didn't care if at least 100 hundred people saw the notorious, tough River Boy cry, he cared because he didn't want to stuff this up, he wanted everyone to hear what he thought about Charlie and how much he loved her.

"Charlie was such a beautiful woman, she was brave, smart, funny and cheeky, by god she was cheeky. When I first saw her, back in Angelo's, I knew I had to have her she was just too perfect to pass up, I knew I'd have my work cut out for me. But after many months of hard chasing and changing of my ways I got her, I got the woman I loved, my first love and most likely my last. It is because of her that I am the way I am today, she changed me for the good for the better, and she helped me and supported me the whole time, through thick and thin and until now I don't think I ever really appreciated it enough. Charlie was an amazing person and an even better mother; she was always willing to put her well being behind others in need of help, not because she had to because of her job but because she wanted to." He sighed and looked at the ground before continuing.

"I loved her, more than anything in the world. And I can't imagine where I'd be without her or how I was truly ever happy before I met her. I still think of what our future would have been like, living together, finally as a real couple, our love was impenetrable and unbreakable, I would have been more than happy to call her my wife to call her the mother of my children." He said with confidence, he then shook his head as if he was going off topic. He looked out towards the crowd and then at me, I smiled weakly up at him, my smile trembling and my eyes sore from crying.

"I don't want people to remember Charlie as what they saw of her lying on that hospital bed. I want all of you's to leave today with Charlie in mind as a young, strong, beautiful, brave, courageous and somewhat stubborn women whose heart was only filled with love. One day I will see her again. Until then it's not goodbye Charlie, it's I'll see you later. " he finished before walking back down and taking his seat, I felt Casey arm restrict around me as I looked at his sad, broken brother take a seat about 2 metres away from me and continue to look at the photo of Charlie displayed on her coffin.

I looked around to everyone in the church, to everyone I knew and then I realised something. I had Casey, Indy had Romeo, Bianca had Liam, Irene had April, Sasha had Sid and Dex, Morag had Alf, Leah had VJ... Brax had no body, I looked back towards him, his eyes filled with tears, one slowly making its way down his cheek and crashing onto the wooden floor. Everyone here had someone, someone to hug and hold and to comfort them but Brax... he had no one.

He sat there now looking down at the booklet provided to every single one of the guests, the booklet with a picture of Charlie smiling, happy and healthy displayed on the front. His thumb slowly tracing over her face, trying to remember what she felt like, I looked at Casey and once I had his attention I looked towards Brax. Showing him what I saw, his gaze dropped in sadness, seeing his big brother the one he had depended on for all these years, the strong father figure reduced to rubble and tears...

I slid over on the wooden chairs and next to Brax, before taking his hand and intertwining our fingers. He looked up at me and I smiled, he smiled back briefly for only a second and the sadness invaded his face again. He then finally broke, breaking down in tears and sobbing; I took his head and held him to me. Letting him cry, knowing that nobody thinks less of him as a man, but probably think more.

He was broken... sad... and lost... in need of his lover... of his best friend... Of Charlie...

Okay guys, just to clear up any confusion about this story.

Charlie was put into witness protection after being shot, her death was faked along with her funeral, Brax, Ruby and the rest of the world are completely clueless that she isn't dead but very much alive. High powers of government decided it would be in the best interest of the Summer Bay community to remove Charlie until all threats were taken care of, although to make this successful and to make sure Charlie didn't blow the plan up they had to wipe clean her memory, leaving her clueless about her previous life and the people she left behind.

Also, before you's ask. Yes eventually Charlie will reunited with her loved ones, but how that happens will remain a secret, mostly because I haven't worked out that far into this story yet... Ha ha ha.

This story will only be continued if I hear of people liking it. I went out on a limb with this story not sure if it would work or not, hopefully it will because I have some interesting places to take this. So if you want to see another chapter send me a PM or review what you like (or dislike) about this story and if I get enough positive reviews that insure me people are liking it I will continue. Thanks SummerLove_199