Author's Note:
Thank you to waistcoat35 for being my beta reader. Cool writer, you should check her out. And this story was inspired by LucarioMaster41's story "Welcome to Zootopia?". Wonderful story. Okay, here we go.
PAIN, unbelievable pain, and then... nothing. I float in a never ending river of black, when suddenly, Heat washes over me in waves. I gasp and choke as I'm pulled from the river and thrown down.
I force my eyes open and see a clear blue sky above me, and hear someone yelling, "Kid…. Kid!" I groan as pain engulfs my senses and the world starts fading from view.
"Hang on, kid- the ambulance will arrive soon." I look and see a bunny cop spin in and out of focus. Through the haze I make out two amethyst eyes and silver fur The name Judy pops into my mind, my mouth opens and speaks without my consent. I don't know what I said, but it caused Judy to jump bac with surprise. The world fades out, and the last thing I see is the flashing lights of an ambulance.
Beep... Beep... Beep...
I groan and cover my face in a pillow, cursing the constant sound resonating through my skull. I sigh and open my eyes, the world slowly coming into focus.
Wait, where am I? I try to sit up and pain racks my body as I slump back down. I look around as best I can while laying down and see that I'm lying in a hospital bed, hooked up to an IV drip and a heart monitor. "Okay," I mumble while looking at the heart rate monitor "So that's what was beeping at me in my sleep..." I keep looking around. There's a little TV tuned to a news station with a moose reporting on an accident. "It has been almost three weeks since the devastating car accident that almost took the life of a young bunny. He has been in a deep coma, which doctors say was caused by his skull colliding with the bumper of a pick-up truck, causing a severe head injury. He has been recovering at Zootopia central Hospital. The driver still has yet to give an official testimony except for this." The screen cut to a black panther saying "I never saw him in the crosswalk. It's like he just appeared out of thin air!".
I saw the remote lying next to me and turned off the TV, confusion running through my head. Are they talking about me? They must be. I've been in a coma for three weeks? I pause, trying to think. Okay, so - what happened is that apparently I was hit by a car. What was I doing before that? I try to remember what I was doing before the accident, but can't. I slowly realize that, besides the rabbit and flashing lights, I can't remember a thing! I see movement out of the corner of my eye, and turn my head to look. It's that same bunny I saw before! She's curled up in a chair with her ears covering her face. I think she's sleeping. I decide to let her sleep. A gazelle dressed in a nurse uniform enters the room, and walks over to the sleeping bunny.The nurse gently shakes her saying "Come on, officer - I'm afraid visiting hours are almost over". As Judy gets up she looks over at me and gasps. "He - he's awake!" I give a start and a nervous smile as she instructs the nurse to get the doctor. The nurse looks at me, then at Judy and gallops out of the room. "Uh, h-h-hi?" I stutter as Judy focuses her violet eyes on me. "Ok, talk. How do you know my father - and come to think of it, how do you know I'm working with Nick, and what he said to me?" I open my mouth to answer her "I can't remember anything besides you telling me about the ambulance, and the flashing lights when It got there." Judy looks at me with concern written on her features, "well, you mentioned my dad and a conversation nick and I had in private. Are you telling me you don't remember anything before the accident?"
"I'm not surprised," a voice says from the hallway. I turn to see a lion standing in the doorway. "Our dreamer awakes at last," he chuckles and holds out his paw. "I am doctor Leon, I have been keeping an eye on you for the past three weeks." I reach up and shake his hand. "As I was saying," he continued, "I am not surprised that you don't remember anything due to what happened."
"And what exactly happened?" I asked. "Well, you suffered swelling within your temporal lobe, that's where your memories are stored. Because of this swelling many of your neurons were cut off from blood supply, causing them to die. So, I was not surprised to find that you are suffering from memory loss. "Doctor?" Judy pipes up "will he get his memories back?" Leon shakes his head "My dear, I regret to inform you that any neuron patterns that have been killed cannot come back, ever. He will never remember who he was."