AN:

I do not own a single thing when it comes to the show and I have not bought the characters that have not been on the show.

I also don't know if there is a boat in the Mediterranean that's called Lovingly Yours.

I have not read French for quite some time now, so I'm using Google translate for that particular part of this chapter, if there's anything wrong, let me know and I'll fix it!

Conversations taking place in another language in the part that takes place on January 18th is in Swedish and there will be a translation in the AN at the end of the chapter.

Yes, apparently Steffy speaks french.

Floating Memories

Chapter one

December 4th 2017

Mediterranean Sea

Lovingly Yours

5:32 am

Marcus Ericsson and his friends are on their way back to Monte Carlo when they come across a woman floating in the Mediterranean Sea.

"Woman overboard!" He jumps in and gets to her and notice that she is breathing, but he can't make any contact with her. Then he notices the cut on the side of her head.

He pulls her with him and as he reaches Lovingly Yours he notice that his friends have gathered to help him out.

"There's a cut on her head" He sees Michael put his hands under her arms and gently pull her towards him, Alexander then grabs a hold of her legs and they put her on one of the tanning chairs they had put there.

"I wonder who she is."

Maria comes walking down the stairs and hears the bewilderment in her brothers voice. "She kind of looks familiar."

"We need to get her to a hospital." He looks over at his sister. "Can you go tell the captain to get us back to harbour?"

"Sure thing!" Maria walks back up the stairs. She hears him call out to her to get some clothes as well to get the woman out of the wet night gown she's wearing.

She walks to the captains quarters first and knocks gently at the door.

The captain comes and opens the door. "Hi! We need to get to a harbour near a hospital as soon as we can, we just picked up a woman floating in the ocean and she's got a cut on her head."

The captain just nods his head and walks up to the deck and starts to navigate towards the nearest harbour.

Maria makes her way to her cabin and finds a pair of sweats, a hoodie and a bikini, then she walks back to the back of the boat.

"Hey boys, you might want to leave for this." She raises her eyebrows when they look at her questioningly. "That's a woman, you three are men, you really think she'd want you to see her private parts? Besides, I'm a nurse, I've seen worse."

She then waves her arms to make them leave. "Shoo!"

She watches them leave before she starts reaching up under the nightgown and pulls the womans underwear off, then takes the bikinibottoms and pulls them up her legs, then she pulls the sweatpants up her legs before turning her attention over to the nightgown itself.

She pulls it up so that it covers the womans breasts, then puts the bikini top on her and then pulls the nightgown of. She puts the hoodie on her and then goes and gets a blanket to warm her up even more. She sees the boys on her way back to the woman.

"We might have to put her in a bed or something that looks like a bed."

Alexander points to the couch at the front of the boat and Maria nods her head and throws the blanket towards him.

"You two come with me!"

Michael and Marcus follows behind her as she explains what she wants them to do.

When they come back, they're carrying the tanningbed with the woman still on it and they see that Alexander had laid the blanket so that they could lay the woman down on it and then fold it over her as well. He had also gone and gotten some more blankets and a pillow for her to rest her head on, there was also a towel laid on top of the pillow laying so it could be put over the womans head.

~Floating memories~

January 4th 2018

Princess Grace Hospital

Monaco

She had stopped floating and the cold that had been there was gone. There were voices talking around her, but she didn't want to wake up. She had no idea where she was and she didn't really want to find out.

"Regardez, elle ouvre les yeux!"

She just groans and closes her eyes again, drifting back off to sleep. Her head is hurting and she really doesn't want to come back to reality.

"Que devrions-nous faire, Docteur?"

The doctor answers the nurse saying that they can't do much more until the mystery woman decides to open her eyes and talk to them. They just need to take their time with this one.

"Mais elle est là depuis plus d'un mois!"

"Oui, mais on ne peut pas la forcer. Elle n'est pas encore prête!"

The nurse then let´s it go.

~Floating memories~

An hour or so later, she can feel that she's alone, so she opens her eyes and looks around the hospital room.

The reason she didn't want to wake up was because she had no idea who she was. The woman she sees when she looks into the mirror is a complete stranger to her and she has no idea what her name is or even what the tattoo that's on her hip means.

She knows she's probably been married before because there are the tell tell signs of a ring on her ringfinger, then there's the tattoo that's been removed as well.

"No, mais regarde, elle a ouvert les yeux. Comment ca va?" The nurse from before has poked her head through the door and then comes walking into the room smiling.

"Excusez-moi? Qui suis je?" The nurse looks at her with confusion in her eyes.

"Que veux-tu dire?"

"Sais-tu qui je suis?" The woman looks at the nurse with herbig brown eyes with tears in them.

"Non, malheureusement pas!" The nurse walks over to the bed and sits down.

"Comment suis-je arrivé ici?"

"Un groupe de jeunes cous a trouvé flottant au milieu de la Méditerranée. Ils cous ont amené ici et maintenant cous êtes ici depuis une mois."

"D'accord!" The woman curls up in a fetal position on the bed and starts crying.

~Floating memories~

On the other side of the Atlantic, Liam Spencer was going crazy having not heard from his wife for the last four and a half weeks.

Steffy had not said how long she'd be gone, but she had never missed a phone call to let him know she was okay before and now she hadn't answered her phone in over four and half weeks.

He didn't even know where she'd gone so he couldn't call around to hospitals in the region to find out if they had a patient there matching the description of his wife.

When his father came home a week after Steffy stopped calling him, he had been even more skiddish then before he left for a trip a few days before Steffy did. If you walked up on him and even remotely scared him he'd jump out of his skin and then start yelling at you.

He was acting weird and it was getting on Liam´s nerves.

He had spent days trying to get information from Steffy's parents and her brother, but they didn't know anything either.

He had reported her disappearance to the police and he had even called Hope in a desperate attemtpt to find his missing wife. When they hung up, neither of them knew that Steffy was just over four hours down the railway from Hope.

Liam just knew that Steffy wasn't doing this on purpose, he knew there was no way she was punishing him for the kisses he'd shared with Sally Spectra. Something had happened and there had to be something he could do.

There just had to be. So he did what ever he could think of.

~Floating memories~

January 5th 2018

Paris, France

Taylor Hamilton was only going through the motions now, her daughter was missing and no one knew where she was. When she'd called Ridge to ask what buying trip he had sent her on, he had no idea what she was talking about causing the riddle to increase in size even more.

She had called Bill Spencer and asked that he did the best he could to find out where Steffy was, he just grunted and said that Steffy had probably had enough of Liam´s crap and then he hung up causing Taylor to wonder what was wrong with the man.

She had called Wyatt and asked if he felt Bill was acting strange and he agreed with her and told her about a few times when Bill had acted really strange and how he acted every time Steffy´s name was mentioned.

Because of all this, Taylor had started to believe that Bill was somehow involved, she couldn't be sure however.

Taylor had sent out a 'Missing person'-flyer to all the hospitals in France in the hope that she'd find her daughter, she also sent one to the hospitals in Italy.

But no one got back to her and the hope of finding her daughter alive diminished greatly every day.

~Floating memories~

January 18th 2018

Skånes University Hospital, Malmö

Maria Ericsson was doing her normal rounds at the hospital she worked at when she saw the flyer. She took a picture of it and sent it to her brother, asking if this wasn't the woman they had fished out of the ocean a few weeks ago.

He calls her back instantly.

"Jo, det är det! Du borde ringa till det där numret och prata med den där Taylor!"

"Okej! Då gör jag det nu!"

They hang up and Maria calls the number listed to call.

"Hello?"

"Hi, is this Taylor Hamilton?"

"It is, how can I help you?"

"My name is Maria Ericsson and I believe that we fished your daughter out of the Mediterranean a little over six weeks ago." She can hear the gasp on the other side.

"Are you sure?"

"If you give me your e-mail address I can send you a picture of the woman?"

Taylor gives Maria her email and twenty seconds later, she has confirmation in her hands.

"Do you know where she is?"

"We took her to the emergency room at Pricess Grace Hospital in Monaco, I don't know if she's still there, she was unconcious the whole time while with us. She had a cut on the side of her head, but she was breathing just fine."

"Thank you for letting me know."

"You're welcome!"

She sends a text to her brother.

~Floating Memories~

January 14th

Princess Grace Hospital Monaco

The memories were so close she could touch them, some time during the last ten days, she'd started thinking in English and it made her believe she wasn't from France or Monaco. The names Bill, Liam and Steffy kept floating around in her head and she somehow connected that she was probably Steffy, but she had no last name and she couldn't place the other two names.

The nurse she had been talking to when she first got herself out of the daze she'd been in tried to help her as best she could, but nothing helped.

Once in a while she could sense someones hands on her body and someones lips on hers, but she felt like they didn't belong to the same person. One made her feel disgusted and one made her feel like she was home.

Over the last two nights she'd had a dream that felt like a memory. She walked onto a private yet with a man she had no face on, she knows she doesn't really want to be there, but feels forced to and every time this man puts his hands on her, she just wants to throw up. They walk off the yet and a car drives them to a marina, where they get onto a yacht and said yacht puddles off into the sunset.

Then everything moves fast forwards until she's standing on the safe side of the railing ready to climb over, she feels her head starting to hurt and then she wakes up, and when she does she's drenched in sweat and shaking all over.

She starts wondering if there's someone out there who knows who she is and if they're wondering where she is. She's remembering a pair of pale blue eyes looking at her both with love and disappointment and feeling devastated that she made them look at her like that.

~Floating memories~

January 19th 2018

Monaco

She had finally gotten a ticket on the train down to Monaco, and was waiting nervously for it to arrive at it's destination.

It takes almost 12 hours, she knows she should've taken a plane, but she'd rather not when she doesn't have to. When she arrives, she finds a cab and goes straight to the hospital.

She finds out that they do have a woman who resembles the picture of her daughter, but that this woman has amnesia and doesn't remember much of her previous life.

She follows the nurse to a doctors office and sits down waiting for the doctor who's been treating the woman.

She sits there waiting while getting more nervous with every minute passing. She hadn't called Liam in fear of it not being Steffy, but she would the moment she knew it was her.

The doorhandle starts turning and a man in his late fifties walk through the door.

"Hello Ms Hamilton!"

"Hello!"

"If I'm correct, you believe that you are the mother of the woman who is admitted to this hospital that has amnesia and doesn't remember anything almost at all?"

"Yes, she has a tattoo on her right hip, which she hasn't told me the significance of, she also has had a ring tattoed on her ringfinger removed after her marriage to her then husband ended." The doctor recognizes that this woman knows specific details they knew because of their treatments and he believes he can trust her.

"Okey, let's go see if the woman is your daughter."

They leave the office and walk back a few doors down the corridor. He opens the door and the woman sitting on the bed turns her head towards him and then she turns to the woman next to him, looks into her pale blue eyes and she starts crying.

Taylor is overwhelmed looking at her daughter sitting in the bed starting to cry.

"Mom?"

"Yes honey." Taylor chokes on the last word, Steffy opens her arms and Taylor rushes into them. "What were you doing in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea?"

"I wish I could remember. But if my dreams are anything to go by, I was there with a man and I had decided to tell someone the truth about something. What that something is I have no idea."

"Well then, I guess we can put your name on your chart then Ms Hamilton." The doctor looks at Steffy with a smile on his lips.

"Well, actually..." Taylor turns her head towards the doctor. "...it's Mrs Spencer. Stephanie Spencer."

Steffy´s eyes starts rapidly moving from the left to the right. "Bill Spencer, that's who I was with. Is he my husband?"

Taylor´s mouth drops.

"Why would you be in the middle of the Mediterranean with him?"

"I have no idea."

Things are starting to fall into place for Taylor. Bill did have something to do with this and she had a pretty good feeling that it was linked to everything that went down at the end of October and the whole of November, but she couldn't be sure until Steffy told her everything.

"Okey, so, I'm guessing that Ms Hamilton would like to bring Mrs Spencer with her to Paris?" The doctorn looked over at the older of the two when he asks.

"Yes, I'd like that very much. Thank you." Taylor nods her head and Steffy does the same.

"Good, then I'd need to speak to you about some things."

Taylor gives her daughter one last hug while telling her that she will be back, then she follows the doctor back to his office.

Back in Steffy´s room, she's about to have a visitor.

"Hey!" The nurse peaks her head through the door. "I heard your mother came down here from Paris to bring you home with her!"

Steffy breaks out one of her sparkling smiles.

"She did, she's with the doctor now talking about something."

They continue talking until Taylor appears by the door again.

"Rachelle, meet my mother!"

The two women shake hands.

"Thank you for taking such good care of my daughter!"

"It was my pleasure! Remember to write me!" She directs her first answer to Taylor, then directs the rest to Steffy.

"Will do!"

Taylor smiles at the nurse and then turns to Steffy. "So, you've been discharged and the bill is payed. Are you ready to go?"

Steffy nods her head.

They check into a hotell and Steffy sleeps for most of the day. In the mean time, Taylor calls Liam.

It takes him two rings to answer.

"Hello Taylor!"

"Hi Liam! Are you alone right now?"

"Yes, I'm sitting on the livingroom couch at home."

"Good, I don't want your father to find out about this. You need to promise me that you won't tell him!"

"Okey, I promise!"

"I have found Steffy and I'm in the process of bringing her home to Paris with me and I intend to keep her there until it's safe for her to fly back to LA. I do not want you to come here, but I wanted you to know that she's safe. Do not under any circumstances tell your father about this, I do not want him to know! You'll figure it out when you see Steffy after her memory comes back."

"What do you mean you don't want me to come? Of course I'm coming to Paris if Steffy is there!" She can hear that Liam is getting aggravated.

"Liam!" She hears him quiet down. "I do not want you to come because she doesn't remember you and until she remembers who you are, we both need you to stay away. I'll send you updates and let you know when you can come, but the last seven years are totally gone! She doesn't remember anything. Let's just take this as it comes."

"But why call me at all?"

"Because you're her husband and you deserved to know that she's safe!" She holds on to the biggest of the secrets she's found out today, if he were to find out, he'd get on the plane anyway.

"Okey, thank you for letting me know. At least I don't have to worry she's dead anymore!"

"Exactly!" Steffy comes into the room.

"Mom, who are you talking to on the phone?"

Taylor can hear that Liam heard Steffy through the phone and she hates that she has to lie to her daughter, but she's not really lying.

"Just a friend that wanted to know what's going on. We were just about to say good bye!"

"Can I speak to them?"

"Are you sure you're up for that?" She directs the question to both parties. Hearing Liam say yes while Steffy nods her head, she hands over the phone.

What follows is two hours of Steffy talking to Liam and Liam not mentioning that he's her husband.

They say good bye and Steffy turns to her mother. "He's nice! He reminds me of someone."

Steffy turns the phone off and hands it to her mother with a small smile on her lips.

"What are we having for dinner? I'm hungry!"

"Let's just order something from roomservice." Steffy nods her head at her mothers suggestion so she walks over to the table by the window and looks over the menu. She then calls in their order and then they wait for the food.

Steffy turns on the tv and watches some strange tv show about a family called Brooks and another family called Thorne that battle it out on the runway that reminds her of her own family, well, as she knows it at least.

~Floating memories~

AN:

So, the translation for the French and Swedish sentences:

French:

"Regardez, elle ouvre les yeux!" means Look, she's opening her eyes!

"Que devrions-nous faire, Docteur?" means What are we going to do now, Doctor?

"Mais elle est là depuis plus d'un mois!" means But she's been here a month!

"Oui, mais on ne peut pas la forcer. Elle n'est pas encore prête!" means Yes, but we can't force her. She's not ready yet.

"No, mais regarde, elle a ouvert les yeux. Comment ca va?" means Well, look who's opening her eyes. How are you?

"Excusez-moi? Qui suis je?" means Excuse me? Who am I?

"Que veux-tu dire?" means What do you mean?

"Sais-tu qui je suis?" means Do you know who I am?

"Non, malheureusement pas!" means Unfortunately no!

"Comment suis-je arrivé ici?"means How did I get here?

"Un groupe de jeunes cous a trouvé flottant au milieu de la Méditerranée. Ils cous ont amené ici et maintenant cous êtes ici depuis un mois." means A group of young people found you floating around in the middle of the Mediterranean. They brought you here and now you've been here a

"D'accord!" means Okey.

Swedish:

"Jo, det är det! Du borde ringa till det där numret och prata med den där Taylor!"means Yes, it is! You should call that number and talk to that Taylor-person!

"Okej! Då gör jag det nu!" means Okey, I'll do that now then!