He woke again to new revelations, just as he did every morning. And, just as he did every morning, he talked to his nurse about them.
She walked over on this sunny morning and greeted him. 'Morning; anything new?'
He sat up in bed; he wasn't far from the large window that allowed the warm morning sunlight in, and he now basked in the warm rays. A few days previous, he had remembered his typical morning routine of tanning, and he hated the fact he couldn't continue it, being bedridden and all. So he enjoyed the sunshine as a temporary replacement.
' I remember a hand symbol, like this,' On his left hand, he curled up his pinky, ring finger, and thumb, leaving his other two fingers stretched out right up against each other. 'But, I don't know how it connects, I mean, I remember a girl's name, and this makes me think of her, but it isn't clear... Then again, everything is blurry; I think I used to fight a lot, I had a gun, but...' He frowned slightly, as he usually did when the seemingly huge piece of remembered information didn't prove to be as impacting on others as he felt it would or should be.
The nurse distractedly answered as she looked at the clipboard attached to the end of the bed. 'Ah... Its a bit annoying not knowing your name...' She frowned. 'Do you remember anything about your name, perchance?'
He looked up in thought. '...Maria... Her name is similar to mine...' He comically slouched in frustration. '...But I don't remember how...'
When he looked back up, the nurse was in thought. 'Maria... Ah! Marian!'
His face brightened. 'That's it, that's my second name, last name... surname, that's the word.' He nodded and smiled approvingly.
The nurse cheerily wrote it down, and began the next phase. 'Now then, your christian name...'
'Christian name...' He looked up to see what any good catholic nurse might wear, a rosary.
His smile became even bigger. 'Cross.'
The nurse looked around, confused. 'Cross?..'
'My christian name, its Cross.' He felt accomplished, remembering his name; the unsettling feeling of not knowing who he was had started to eat at him, but no longer.
The nurse chuckled as she wrote down his full name. '...Oh, the irony...'
As the nurse left, he settled back into his pillow and decided he deserved a nap in the noonday sunlight, besides, there wasn't anything better to do.
After several more days, he was finally taken off bed rest, and so his movement improved exponentially.
On one particular day, there was a commotion at the end of the ward closest to the door; several people were being hospitalized while several more were buzzing around like bees, only to get in the nurses' way. They were all clad similarly, and Cross' personal nurse looked at him oddly when he spoke his mind.
'...Finders.' He realized afterward that the nurse had no clue what he was talking about, and that it was a bit odd that the term made perfect sense to him and came naturally.
Once the commotion calmed down, he got out of bed and walked toward the crowd, only to be pointed at and whispered about in shock as he came closer. After a moment, all the finders looked at him, mortified.
One of the bedridden ones spoke quietly, as if he would be ridiculed for seeing something imaginary and drawing attention to it. 'Ge...General.. General Marian?..'
Cross dipped his head. 'Mm. That seems about right.'
The finder spoke again. 'H... How long have you been here?..'
Cross shrugged lightly. 'Mm, maybe a month. Nasty ol' bullet wound, put me to sleep for a few days there.' He smiled widely and gently rapped the bandaged side of his head. When he opened his eyes again, the finders were paler than they had been, if that was even possible.
The finder found his voice for a third time. 'No... That can't be right... You... You were shot over a year ago...'
And time stopped.
This series is turning out to be waaay shorter than I wanted it to be...
But, a nice cliffhanger to make me want to write the next chapter, plus to make people want to read on :3
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