Prologue
What are you doing?
Get away from there!
Do it!
Arthur watch out!
His eyes felt heavy and his mind blurry, and his orbs were racing back and forth behind the closed lids. The voices echoed in his mind, confusing him with memories that gradually became unfamiliar and contradicted themselves.
Don't die!
You're disgusting.
Please don't die.
Why don't you just disappear?
Please… come back to me…
The voices off in the distance became closer, clearer. There was a familiarity to them but he couldn't make out what they were saying, their voices were somewhat distorted.
With a gasp he forced his eyes apart as his conscious slowly returned. Arthur blinked determined against the white light that streamed in, but his eyelids demonstratively closed themselves against the luminosity, darkening his vision again. No he couldn't go back to sleep.
This time me managed to get his eyes half-lidded, blinking rapidly and lifted a hand to shadow for the dull light of the lamp above. He took a minute to calm down, his breathings rapid and loud. He didn't know where he was. His eyes sped around the room. White. White everywhere. A hospital?
He looked back and as he did he noticed his own arm. It was so thin, and pale. His eyes trailed further, staring at his own hand now. A long IV was attached to his wrist, and he turned his hand weakly in the air in wonder. His fingers felt so numb. He tried to make them move. The thumb twitched slightly. What the hell was going on? He let the hand drop.
"Arthur? Arthur Kirkland?" He let out a startled gasp and his eyes flickered around the room, until focusing on a nurse who entered from the door across the room, smiling at him. Yeah, Arthur Kirkland was his name. That's right. "How are you? Can you talk?"
Her accent. She had a British accent. That's right, he was in England. He was English. Arthur took a moment and licked his lips, before saying a rasping. "Yes."
The sound of his voice seemed to amuse her, because she let out a light chuckle. "Well, that's to be expected, you only had your tube removed yesterday." She wrote something down on a small board, and Arthur followed her movement with his eyes.
"What happened?" he rasped out, furrowing his eyebrows.
"You don't remember," the nurse said, more as a statement than a question, but Arthur decided to answer anyway.
He coughed and decided just to shake his head. The nurse nodded slowly, and wrote something else down, before she stepped even closer to Arthur and took a small pen out – except that it wasn't a pen, it was a tiny flash-light. Arthur winced when she lit it right in his eyes.
"Sorry," she mumbled, but continuously keeping it pointing right at his orbs. She sighed as she dropped the pen and wrote something down. Arthur opened his mouth to ask, but ended in another coughing fit and before he could gather himself again she was already answering. "It seems you have a case of amnesia, Mr. Kirkland."
What the bloody hell is amnesia? "What?" he rasped out.
"You lost a large part of your memory," she said and made an exaggerated dot on her page. She smiled down at him. "What's the last thing you remember?"
That was a hard one. "Um," Arthur began, rubbing his head. It was like the worst drunk-night ever, leaving a huge gab of memory. That's it! "I, um, work at a pub, in central London. I have worked there since I was eighteen."
"That's right," she nodded, but apparently it wasn't important enough to be written in the notes. "Do you remember a person named Alfred Jones?" she asked him. He furrowed his eyebrows.
"Um, no," Arthur admitted. The name wasn't familiar.
"Alright," she said, standing up again, still wearing a smile. "Please try to rest while I bring you something to eat."
"H-hold on," Arthur breathed out, and she stopped in the doorway, looking back at him in question.
"Yes?"
Arthur swallowed, before slowly managing to speak again. "Who is Alfred Jones?"
She smiled sadly at him, and held her board closer to her chest. "He's your boyfriend."
The words seemed to hang in the air for several minuets before Arthur comprehended them.
"He's my… what?"
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