A/N: Hey guys! I haven't forgotten you, things have just been crazy here because the semester is going so fast and there's lots of work to get done. But enough rambling, I'm on spring break this week and have time to write, so I think I'm going to post a few one-shots that have been in my head for a while. Only 3 more episodes until the big A reveal/Ezria juiciness, I can't wait! Can you?

Disclaimer: I wish. Because if I did own any of this, I would've told you who A was a longgg time ago :)

Enjoy!

When the initial shock finally wears off and Ian is sure he has a good grip on himself, he turns at the corner of the hall and slowly makes his way back to the waiting room. He's upset and he's nervous and scared, but he can't let anyone see him break down. Not here. Not with how badly Lucy needs him.

So Ian takes a long deep breath and musters up as much courage as he can. He greets Lucy's mother and sister once again in the waiting room and picks up his daughter and kisses her on her head.

He's got to do this for her just like Maggie said earlier.

"Daddy, when can I see Mommy?" Four-year-old little Aria asks him. Her innocent gray eyes stare up at him curiously and Ian struggles to bite back a sob.

"I don't know, princess." Ian answers truthfully, shaking his head. "The doctor said Mommy's resting right now."

Unsatisfied with this answer, Aria pouts and Ian can't help feeling guilty. He hasn't exactly been completely honest but he also doesn't want to hurt her. It's hard enough knowing that Lucy won't remember him, how he is supposed to tell his daughter that her mother will have no recollection of who she is either?

"I'm sorry, baby." Ian kisses his daughter's head once more. She's too young to understand the enormity of his words or even the situation at hand, still she can figure out enough without anyone telling her.

Lucy's mother, Julie immediately senses this so rather than wait another moment or beat around the bush, she nudges her older daughter, Maggie to take Aria for a few minutes. The young blonde obliges and rather than protest any further with no answers, her niece stands up from her father's lap and accompanies her to the cafeteria. Meanwhile, Julie stares intently toward Ian willing him to speak.

"I ran into Lucy's doctor." He says. "She's fine, she just has a concussion...and..."

"And what?" Julie replies alarmed. Ian told her Lucy was fine barely a second ago, now why was he suddenly changing his tune? Or could there be more to the story?

"And...memory loss. She won't remember anything from before the accident..."

"What?"

"She..."

"She..."

"Yeah..."

Ian finally sheds a tear and Julie does as well. Neither of them want to be dealing with this situation at the present moment, although they really don't have much choice.

"What do we do about Aria?" Ian swipes under his eyes and sniffles. "Because I'm really not sure."

"I don't know either." Julie shrugged. "Maybe you can have someone watch her for a few days?"

"I guess." Ian sighed. "But we can't keep her sheltered from this forever..."

"Also true." Julie nodded. "Don't worry though, Ian, we'll figure something out..."

"I hope so..."

-::-

Ian doesn't figure anything out right away and with an extremely long night ahead of him at the hospital, he resolves to leave Aria with Ashley and Tyler. It's by no means an easy decision (and Aria's crying certainly doesn't help, either); nevertheless, he needs some time to think.

He sits outside the Blackburn's' house, listening to his daughter's tearful screams of "Daddy" and "Daddy please" for about an hour. Then afterwards when he can take it no longer, he drives home in the silence of the late evening. He trudges inside and collapses into his bed far away from Aria and her cries and far away from the hospital room where Lucy still lies half-conscious and completely unaware if who he is.

He curls up into a ball and holds a hand to his throbbing temples, wondering what he ever did to make things so damn complicated. Then Ian remembers where he's supposed to be.

-::-

After a stressful drive back to the hospital, complete with the awful sounds of Aria's sobs still filling his ears and a shooting pain pulsating throughout his head, Ian collapses into a chair by Lucy's bedside. She's just stirring awake and judging by the look on her face, she's quite surprised to see him sitting there. She really doesn't remember him.

"Who are you?" She says groggily, rubbing her eyes before glancing over at Ian curiously. He clears his throat nervously as he scratches the back of his neck a little unsure how to proceed. It isn't exactly easy to tell someone you're married when they think that you've both only just met.

"I'm Ian." He finally replies, gulping loudly. "Your husband..."

The confusion clearly registers on Lucy's face and she shakes her head adamantly. "That's impossible." She denies it. "I don't even..." But then Lucy takes notice of the two sparkly diamonds sitting on the fourth finger of her left hand: an engagement ring and a wedding band.

"Impossible." She says again.

A/N: Not sure when the next one will be out, so please be patient with me. I haven't seen The Vow so I don't exactly know the way the plot shifts or if Rachel McAdams's character gets her memory back in the end. I'm just totally making this up as I go along, yay or nay?