disclaimer; I don't own anything but the idea for the fanfiction, 'kay?


I slowly opened my eyes, then sharply closed them as all the white coloring made my head spin, "Ugh..." I remembered absolutely nothing but, facts, words, numbers, mathematics, history? These were all things I knew I hadn't known before, so why did I know them now? Hell I didn't even know who I was before waking today! Just things I figured other people knew from education or something nondescript like that, was fixed within my mind.

Names?

Name?

What was my name!?

For someone reason this was very important so I ignored what that person had said- said to fully awaken me from a content sleep except for the pain. So what was my name? Names...? I needed names, names, names, which one fit? Which was mine, which was mine? The head trauma returned full force this time but it seemed familiar- like I'd experienced it before, but-

Beyond Birthday--

The pain died down the second the I saw the words that had floated inside of mind, was it normal for people to see words clearly within their mind? I didn't know, because there were some things I didn't know. Right now; I would learn those soon enough. The name... That name... Beyond Birthday, had it been? That was my name, I was Beyond Birthday is who I am. At least I had an identity, it is always important to have something to call yourself. However, I just knew this was my real, original name.

When an older man's cries of, "My son! My son! He woke up, I know it!" Flooded my senses, I groaned and stirred, finally opening my eyes without the white walls spinning around me. "See!? I told you, his eyes are open! He woke up!" The same voice came from a very well-kept black-haired individual, who was smiling proudly in my direction.

I stared at him blankly before asking, "Who are you?"

His look is horrified and he turns to a man in a white coat ('the doctor' some other sense supplied sarcastically, as if mocking the fact that I couldn't completely orient myself). "Don't worry, Mr. Birthday, it is simply amnesia from the blow to the head, it should wear off eventually, and even if it doesn't his feelings towards people he had previously met will be the same," Dr. Carp informed in a professional manner. I decided I did not like the man at all and set a furious glare, wishing this Dr. Carp would just drop of a heart attack ('irony' the same other sense mocked). Then I stopped as I saw what was floating above his head- why hadn't I noticed that before?

Calvin Carp

I simply stared, what? Carp was his last name, so did that mean Calvin was Dr. Carp's real name? How strange! Could I see his real name? Did that I mean I could see anyone's real name? My eyes swiveled over to the man who had called me his son (I didn't know if I could call him 'father' yet). There indeed, was a name and the long stream of numbers.

Lucas Birthday

What I didn't know was what the numbers meant, why didn't I know that? Why did it not seem like ordinary numbers, why? For some reason, not knowing it frustrated me because I felt like I should know and I didn't know why. So frustrating, but this Lucas Birthday chose to speak, "Beyond, son, I'm your father, don't you remember?"

I blinked, "No."

Lucas Birthday gasped, and looked about to start when Dr. Carp calmly lead the raging man out of the door so only Dr. Carp and I were in the room. "O-kay, Beyond, I'm just going to ask you some question. I'm Dr. Carp, and I'm going to see what things you remember that most children know, alright?" He split up the syllables for each word, and this annoyed me greatly, but I made no move to show it.

"Yes," I answered, keeping my tone in a child's monotone which must have spooked Dr. Carp a tad because he glanced at me uncertainly.

"Alright, please repeat the alphabet for me," the doctor asked.

My lip twitched faintly, why was he throwing an easy question out at me? Oh wait- wasn't I only four? Then why did the doctor regard me as if I were an unstable adult...? Musing over this for about a second I answered dully, "A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, & Z."

He scribbled something down on his notepad and asked me his next question, "How do you spell your name, Beyond Birthday?"

"B-E-Y-O-N-D B-I-R-T-H-D-A-Y." Every time I answered a question he'd scribble down on his notepad.

"What is five times five?"

"25."

"Name three Olympus Gods."

"Hades, Poseidon, Zeus."

"7x-120?"

"x3."

"1 3 + 1 3?"

"BB."

"13:11?"

"Midkine."

"1 4 + 5 + 1 + 1 8?"

"Near."

"H2O?"

"Water."

"Element lighter than oxygen?"

"Helium."

"What is the meaning of panoply?"

"A splendid or impressive array."

Questions like these when about for an hour and I just wanted to see this Calvin Carp rotting in the jaws of cannibals that second. I slowly began bored with the questions he asked me; I already know the answers, and finally he gives a breath of awe and stares at me in disbelief. "Well, I'm sure your family will be pleased," he muttered sarcastically, shaking his head as he collected his things and walked out of the door.

I was baffled, was I not like this before? Who was the four year-old that lived in this body be for this Beyond Birthday, me came along? Was I completely different than I was before? I did not know, and I don't think I would ever know to the truth who I was before I had forgotten. And learned things I supposedly couldn't possibly have learned before.

Well. They would just have to live with this Beyond Birthday instead.

-

"Beyond, son, this woman is your soon-to-be stepmother, Mrs. Lilac Leaf. Lilac, this is my son, Beyond Birthday," the man- no, my father introduced me as I entered the backseat of the car to be taken home.

"Hello, BB! It's nice to meet you, I'm Lilac, I hope we'll get along well," she said, overly false cheerfulness effectively pissing me off, so I refused to speak with her anymore than the occasional 'yes', or 'no'.

When we got to the- our house I was guided to my room and told to go to sleep. Uh, what? Well turns out as soon as I hit the pillows I was down like a rock, this small fact irked me.

Did I dream peaceful dreams? Did I dream of sweet things children fantasize over all the time? No. I had a nightmare, a horrible one too.

I was walking... alone, no one near, I could even hear my breathing echoing throughout the space. Wherever I was it was freezing- cold enough that I could see my breath and my teeth were chattering with a steady rhythm. Suddenly panic overwhelmed me as I felt a presence come nearer, an overpowering presence and a tried to run but found nothing around me changed. Was I stuck in this dull, bland gray world?

You...

I froze. Something had spoken to me, but why? Why would anything be here that I couldn't see, could something be here that was not seen? Thoughts buzzed about but none seemed to have any logical path. Wait, 'you'? As in, 'me'?

Will...

I will what? What will I do- I wanted to know so bad, what was this dark presence telling me.

Find him...

Find 'him'? Who was him? Did I know him? Where, when, why how? Most importantly who was 'him'?

L Lawliet...

Then there was laughter, a haunting chill chorus of the same monotone laugh.

I woke up in cold sweat, shuddering and looking wide-eyed around the room. It was hardly a scary nightmare, it was just... It had seemed so familiar that it had freaked me out. It was the barren landscape that had surrounded me, the thought of something that humans could not see that horrified me in more ways than one.

Then, more importantly, who was this 'L Lawliet'?


a/n; Heh... Heh... BB's dad's initials are 'LB'. -gigglefit- And he's marrying a woman with the initials are 'LL' and will be changed to 'LB' as well... -goes into hysterics-

Uhm, now that that's over with I really don't have much to add. So that's that, I guess. Some questions I will not answer, 'cause there being planned to be explained, okays? Okay.

BB; So how did my original mother die?

Jam; ...

BB; Jam... -threatens-

Jam; ... Childbirth.

BB; What? Why that, of all things?

Jam; ... You are an unlucky child?

BB; -glare-

Jam; So if you don't hear from me ever again... BB killed me. :D

Ja ne! R & R please and thank you!