Melanie lay still as she listened to the sound of her heartbeat. Every part of her body hurt ached. She tried shifting in her bed but was to weak to even move her hand, so she settled on just opening her eyes - which took a lot more effort than expected-. The first thing she noticed was that the lights were dim
MEL's P.O.V
"Good morning" I looked over to see a man. Who was he? Where am I? Who am I? I started to panic and try to move, but I couldn't move my legs. Which only made me panic more.
"Wh-Wh-Who are you, why can't I move my legs? Who am I." I started breathing faster, which just brought on a cough attack. The man put a mask on my face which was blowing air through it. I inhaled the much needed air and stopped coughing.
"You don't remember me?" he asked once I had calmed down a little. I looked at the man again. He had short black hair and a goatee mustache beard combo thing. Then something caught my eye. A faint blue circle in the middle of his chest. I looked down at my chest, no blue circle just a bunch of wires.
"I don't remember anything." I said quietly not making eye contact.
"Do you remember your name?" he asked very calmly. I shook my head.
"Jarvis, get Bruce down here." He said a bit panicked and apparently talking to the air. I was beginning to think this guy was crazy, when the air responded.
"I alerted as soon as our guest awoke, he should be arriving shortly." and with that another man stepped out of the elevator. He was an older looking man probably late 30's early 40's, with brown hair and dusting of grey. He had a kind face but his eyes have seen too much.
"Well look who woke up." The man who I am guessing is Bruce. He walked over to me and looked at the machines I was hooked up to pushed a couple buttons and then looked to the first man.
"Bruce, she can't remember anything." Said man #1 said looking at me questionally. I nodded agreeingly. My energy quickly diminishing, but I fought off sleeping because I need to know Who I am, why I am here, and why I can't move my legs.
"You should rest, it's been an exciting day for you, we will answer all your questions once you wake up," Bruce said, I nodded as I gave up fighting and let the darkness surround me.
3rd PERSON POV
"Tony talk to me." Bruce said
"I don't know, I was down here working on a new repulsor when she woke up and said she couldn't remember anything or move her legs." Tony replied
"Ok, well let's start with a new set of scans, Jarvis if you would be so kind." Bruce said running his hand through his hair. trying to stay calm.
"Of course Dr. Banner the X-rays should be up on the screen behind you in just a second." Jarvis said as the screen lit up.
"Well there's nothing on the X-rays not surprising" Tony said and bruce nodded in agreeance. The next two scans popped up.
"And I can't find a thing on the MRI or CAT. it's probably trauma induced amnesia but let's wait a couple of days and see if anything comes back." Bruce said
"Ok well now that that's sorted let's move onto her legs, now did she say she couldn't move them or couldn't feel them?"
"She said she couldn't move them." Tony replied looking at the scans again.
"Well it's probably atrophy from being in the coma for 10 months" Bruce said
"Someone should probably tell steve she's awake, but before we do that I have an idea to run past you" Tony said
"Well let's hear it." Bruce said
"We know that this girl was abused almost her whole life, and she can't remember a
thing at the moment. I think until we know for sure whether or not her memory is coming back. Maybe we shouldn't tell her about her old life. I know this sound crazy and really selfish but if I could forget about the abuse from my own childhood, I wouldn't even think twice about it." Tony said barely making eye contact.
"It's not crazy. I would do the same." Bruce replied with full eye contact.
"Were still going to have to talk this over with the team especially steve, he's going to beat himself up enough that he wasn't here when she woke up." Bruce said
And with that both men went back looking at the brain scans that Jarvis had taken to make sure they had as much information to give the team as possible.