So, finally the first real chapter. Took me longer than expected to translate.
It's much longer than the Prologue, which isn't really
Just to warn you: I'm don't know much about medicine so I apologize if anything I tell about amnesia is wrong. Hope if there are any mistakes they aren't to serious.
So nontheless: have fun reading!
Disclaimer: Hey, anyone out there who would believe me if I said I owned Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's? No? Hm, I probably wouldn't as well.
Chapter 1: Past's Representatives
The woman's eyes widened from shock. The Man looked distressed as well. Turning to her husband the tears still streaming down her cheeks the woman searched for his eyes. "Darling..."
The door opened and a nurse entered the room.
"Oh, Mr. and Mrs. Taheki. Would you please come with me for a moment?"
The woman flashed her husband a glance, then she nodded.
Still curious the girl observed both adults. Who the hell could they be?
They followed the nurse out of the room, leaving the girl behind; alone with her thoughts.
The nurse led the married couple to a little office where a young female doctor awaited them.
She raised to greet them. "Nice to meet you, I'm Dr Kano. I'm taking care of your daughter." The husband shook her extended hand. "I assume you are Mrs and Mr Taheki." she added.
The man nodded. He wrapped his arm around the shoulder of his wife and led her to the couch.
"So you're the parents of patient 53786. How was her real name again?" the doctor wanted to know.
"Selena." the woman answered with weak voice. "Selena Taheki."
Taking out a pen the doctor added the real name to the patient record.
"Okay. I'm really glad we eventually found relatives. I heard you have already visited your daughter. That's a little unfortunate. Because you probably already noticed that she is suffering from amnesia.
She isn't remembering anything, nor, where she comes from, neither if she has any relatives or what has happened. A stranger brought her to us, a few days ago. She was bruised and much to cold. The stranger said, he had found her at the waterside of an nearby river, unconscious.
We soon noticed, that she had lost her memory. She didn't know the answer to any of our questions such as where she lived or how she was called.
This advertisement was our last hope to find out something about her past. I have to emphasize again, how glad we are that you found your way to us.", the doctor explained. "I'm sorry, just to be sure: The girl in the room, is definitely your daughter?"
"Hundred percent.", the man assured.
"Good, then you should visit her from time to time from now on. Sadly we aren't able to release her right now. You know, it is really difficult to treat patients with amnesia. Most recover their memory, if they are in familiar environment, but they still should remember one or two things before going there, otherwise the "familiar environment" might lead to a stimulus satiation, meaning she isn't able to handle all the 'new' information, which would only worsen her state. Unfortunately she isn't showing any signs of a returning memory so far."
Silence followed.
The married couple had to process everything they had just learned about.
The woman had stopped crying by now.
"Okay.", she said. "We definitely will visit her. You will inform us about any change in her condition, won't you?"
The doctor smiled. "Of course I will."
In front of the room the nurse stopped them. "You know about her condition by now but there is one more thing: Because she's suffering from amnesia but hadn't got any documents or an identity we gave her a … 'temporary-name'. Well, it isn't exactly inspiring confidence if you are called with a number or 'hey you' after having lost your memory.", the nurse explained.
"Should we address her with that "temporary-name" from now on?", the man wanted to know.
"Gosh, no! It is really important for her to get used to her old name once again. Of course she knows about her amnesia so she will probably accept her real name without any problem, she just might not react to it as fast as to her 'temporary-name.'"
"And how did you call her?", the woman asked.
The nurse let out a little laugh. "Well, we figured out our very unique system for naming patients. It is to complicated to explain it right now, but the name we came up for your daughter is 'Fate'."
Then she turned around and opened the door to the girl's room.
"Fate.", the nurse addressed her involuntary. "Er, I mean Sela. Your parents are here."
The girl lifted her head and looked at them surprised. "My … parents...?"
"Yes.", the nurse answered with a broad smile. "Your parents. Now I'll leave you alone."
With this words she retrieved.
Unsure the man and the woman stood in the middle of the room, feeling visibly uncomfortable.
"Please sit down.", the girl suggested and gestured to the chairs.
"Eh, thanks.", meant the woman.
Silence.
A unbearable silence
"How are you Sela?", the man asked.
"I'm okay. My body feels a little heavy but nothing really hurts.", the girl answered.
Silence again.
"Sela.", she noted, intending to start a conversation herself "So that's my real name?"
"Not exactly. Your actual name is Selena. But you always call yourself Sela.", the woman explained with a gentle smile.
"Hmm.."
A real conversation just wasn't about to get started.
Before she had been bored but now she would prefer it to the embarrassed silence.
Finally the man sighed. "You really don't remember anything?"
The desperation in his voice hurt her, even if she didn't know him.
With a sad smile she shook her head. "I haven't got any memory, I didn't even know my name. But I haven't lost any of my abilities like reading, writing or other things. Even though these other things kinda confuse me."
"Why?", the woman asked.
"Well, I figured out by now that dueling is really important and thus it isn't surprising for me to remember the rules but I don't only know the rules, but a lot of other stuff about it as well, like where the first card was drawn or when Pegasus found the first drawing of a duelmonster in Egypt. And I have to admit I haven't figured out by now how this knowledge connects to my old life."
The man smiled. "That's no surprise. Actually it's good that you haven't forgot. After all your studying duel-history as main subject on the Duel-University."
"Oh."
"Any other questions?", the woman asked. "I'm sure we'll be able to answer them."
The girl thought about anything to ask but in front of being able to voice any question the door flew open a second time this day and two children raced in, obviously twins.
„Sela!", a boy with green hair exclaimed and ran to her bed.
"Here you are." Overly happy he hugged her as good as it was possible with her lying in bed.
Even though she didn't recognize them she chuckled.
"Rua! She's in hospital. You should calm down a little!", the girl rebuked her brother.
"Of course, Ruka...", he replied but focused on the girl once again. "You okay?"
She smiled. "Mostly." Instinctively she petted his head.
"That's great! Then you'll soon be coming home with us, won't you?"
"Huh?", she answered dumbly, being a little confused.
She was living with those two children? Were they her siblings? They weren't resembling the couple which seemed to be her parents the least bit. Perhaps they were adopted?
Seeking for help she looked at the married couple.
Understanding her glance instantly the man stood up and led the children outside with a short excuse.
Now it was only her and the woman left.
"Rua and Ruka are the children of the president of a big company, Katsuo Atsushi who is an old friend of our family. Thus we already know the twins since they've been babies. And since you're quite some years older you've often been watching after them over the last years.
You have to know, their parents are away on business trips most of time so they kinda employed you as some sort of nanny. You shall represent a parental person so they won't get lonely and have someone to talk and help them with their problems.
Therefore you moved out of our house and are only visiting us on the weekends from time to time.", the woman explained and the girl thought she had heard a little pain in the voice of the woman when she had told her about the moving-out part.
"So I'm living with them.", she summed the information she had just got up to handle it. Suddenly a uncomfortable thought came to her mind. "Does that mean they are all alone now?", she worried.
"No need to worry.", the woman tried to soothe her. "First, the twins are used to be alone. You moved to them about half a year ago and they've been alone all the time before you did so it's no problem for them.
And secondly, they aren't alone. The twins convinced their parents to allow another person to live at their place and their driver is regularly looking after them as well."
"Oh. That's good.", the girl said as she laid back down.
"Will... your husband explain them that I've got amnesia?
She felt remorseful for not calling the man 'dad' but it felt wrong to call someone she had met mere hours ago that way.
The woman noticed how she had searched for an appropriate word and her eyes brimmed with the hint of sadness. She nodded. "Yeah, he's gonna tell them. They aren't babies anymore; they'll understand."
A few minutes passed before the man and the twins returned.
"Hey.", she greeted them.
"Do you know, who we are?", the boy, who apparently was called Rua, asked.
His sister, Ruka, slammed her elbow into his side and hissed a rebuke. The girl was sure she had heard her hiss something about "She's got amnesia! Isn't it obvious she doesn't remember?"
"I know who you are. But only because I've been told just now.", the girl admitted.
The children looked at her sadly. "I'm sorry.", Ruka murmured.
"Oh, you don't need to be. It isn't your fault after all. And the doctor said the amnesia will go away."
The mood of the children lightened up immediately. "That's great! Then we're gonna visit you everyday from now on.", Rua announced excited. "Of course only if that isn't to exhausting for you.", Ruka added.
"Don't worry. I'm happy about every distraction.", the girl said.
Before she was able to say anything else the door opened and her nurse came in.
"Fate, it's time for your checkup. I'm sorry but the visiting time is over.", she explained the visitors.
"Understood.", the man said and raised.
"See you tomorrow.", Rua exclaimed.
"Till Tomorrow.", Ruka told her as well.
"So, do they seem familiar to you?", the nurse asked as she put on the blood pressure meter.
The girl already knew this routine. After all it was one of the only things she had any real memory of, since she had to endure it every day.
"No, I don't know them. Not a little bit. But I like them, especially the children.", she said, glancing out of the window deep in thoughts.
"Might that be a sign that I've known them before?", she voiced the idea as it crossed her mind.
"Possible. It's common for amnesia-patients to instinctively like persons they knew before.", the nurse agreed. "Could you please take of your top for a moment?"
Without any protest she followed the instruction. This was how her evenings always went.
Carefully the nurse touched the countless bruises. The girl winced and let out a little whimper.
The nurse sighed. "What the hell happened to you, Fate?"
It was a rhetorical question, but the girl answered nonetheless. "I've got no idea. But it definitely isn't feeling good."
"No surprise, you look like you've been beaten up and discarded into the river afterwards. 'Cause these cuts and abrasions clearly look like you've fell down from something.", the young woman guessed.
She had been treating the girl since she had been brought here, so the two of them were quite familiar by now and the girl wasn't surprised as she added with a broad grin: "Like a fallen Angel. A fallen angel of destiny. Like we said: Fate."
The girl laughed but since her whole body started to ache from the sudden movement she clasped her arms around her waist.
"Of course, that would explain everything.", she replied ironically with a grin as she had had to stop laughing.
"Oh, I'm happy I could be a help to you."
The nurse put an ointment on the wounds, then she pulled back.
"Guess we're ready for today, Fate."
The girl put her top on again.
Suddenly the exhaustion hit her and she yawned.
The nurse looked at her sympathetically. "It was a quite exiting day for you. You better rest now."
The girl nodded.
Flashing her a last smile the nurse went to leave the room.
In the door frame she stopped and turned to the girl once again. "Good night Fate. Or should I call you with your right name from now on?", she wondered.
The girl shook her head. "I prefer not. Perhaps later, when I get used to it. Right now I'd like to keep a familiar name. After all everyone else will call me Sela from now on. But I guess that's okay since I actually like that name."
"Yeah, it's quite nice.", the nurse agreed. "See you tomorrow."
"Till tomorrow.", the girl answered. She had already laid back and closed her eyes.
As she heard the clicking noise of the closing door, she turned to look out of the window.
She left the curtains open most of the time so she could see the moon and the stars if she woke up in the middle of the night.
Right now the street lamps were emitting orange light like every evening.
It had been an eventful day for her.
Her old life had appeared or at least its representatives.
Of course she had been wondering where she had come from. If she had had family? Friends? How her social surrounding had been or if she had been rich or poor, reputable or disdained?
But all the information had been a little to much for her
Nonetheless she looked forward to the visit of the twins tomorrow.
The only thing which made her feel a little uneasy was the fact her parents didn't even seem common to her.
She could only hope the doctor was right with saying this fact would change.
Now she leaned back and closed the eyes again.
A few seconds later she fell asleep.
One Day in the story, one chapter. Fits perfectly, doesn't it?
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Next chapter will probably need more than two weeks since I haven't even written it in german and translating seems to take its time.
One last thing: Anyone who'd like to beta me a little? Just scamming through a chapter for rough translation mistakes. I'd really appreciate it since I always think I suck at translation after finishing one.
