A/N: I lied...I'm not posting every three days...I'll be posting everyday until I tell myself to drag this story out, it's just because I am so excited about this story which will get pretty awesome if I do say so myself!

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Chapter: 7

Flashes flipped through her mind. Her earliest memories, flickering in and out of existence as her mind brought back things from her childhood. She saw herself grow up through her eyes, feel her emotions as the events of her life took place. But there were relapses, things that were blank. She remembered meeting Tim and Steph, but only remembered half of what they did together…like her mind was letting her remember only half of the story that was her, Tim and Steph, there was something missing. Nothing on her last night 'alive' or her so called friends Olivia and Zoe. Even her parents influence on her life was muted. The memories suddenly stop, only blackness is apparent, Tori could hear voices,

"…Dodge-ball," it was the coach,

"…X-ray…we should do a CT scan too, just to make sure it's nothing serious. She was suffering from memory loss and a coma…supposedly," a school nurse probably,

"We'll take her to Dr. Thompson," Thompson…that rang a bell for Tori. She tried to stay focused on the voices, but she succumbed to blackness again.

The next time she woke up she could hear loud beeping and she fully opened her eyes, freaking out when realized she was in a tubed machine,

"Let me out!" she screamed, pounding on the sides of the machine. She was suddenly pulled out and faced with blinding white lights, the anti-bacterial smell common with hospitals prominent. It made her nervous and nauseous for some reason. She blinked until she could see an old lady staring worriedly down at her,

"Are you alright dear?" she asked,

"Where am I?" she demanded,

"You're at my clinic dear. They rushed you here the moment you hit your head on the ground. I was the closest to the school and I had better equipment than the school did. Don't worry, your parents…or caretaker really have been notified. She's waiting outside," the lady said,

"What are you doing…who are you?"

"I'm Dr. Thompson, most call me Dr. Leslie. I was giving you a CT scan just to make sure nothing too bad happened to your head. We already took an X-ray,"

"Oh, okay," she said, "Sorry I freaked out,"

"It's absolutely understandable, we weren't sure whether you would wake up before, after or during the CT scan. You were stable enough for us to go right to the machine so we thought what the heck. I thought I had more time though,"

"Sorry…this whole thing is pretty unfortunate, the only good thing that came out of this is that I regained some of my memories,"

"That's great. Anything about the night of the accident?" Leslie asked,

"No…mostly just bits of my childhood," she said shrugging,

"Let's continue the scan and then I'll send you home. You'll have to come back later for the results,"

"Okay, I can do that," she said, laying back down. The scan took a while, Tori was relieved when they finally left, her stomach was tying itself in knots, like her body remembered being in the hospital and that it didn't like them.

Jess was pulling the car around when she noticed him. A guy staring at her from an alley, he was glaring at her in curiosity and she…she knew him…from somewhere,

"What are you staring at?" Jess asked,

"Hold on, I'll be right back," Tori said, walking over to where the guy disappeared into the alley. She intellectually knew that it was a stupid idea, but she…she knew that guy, Tori knew she knew him from somewhere,

"Hey!" she called, "Hey! You!" she yelled at his retreating back,

"You yelling at me?" he called, turning around, Tori rolled her eyes,

"No I'm yelling at the other guy in this alley," she said,

"What's your deal?" he asked, smirking. Tori marched right up to him,

"I know you," she said, "I know you from somewhere,"

"Do you?" he stated frowning, "You don't remember?"

"I do know you don't I?" she said, he was really frowning now, "The picture…poker," she said, his face flashed with anger…at something, but then he cracked a smile, a forced smile. Like it pained him to smile at her,

"Keep guessing, you'll get there eventually," with that he turned and headed out the other end of the alley. Frowning Tori left to Jess's car, she was so frustrated that she couldn't remember him…she knew he was connected to the other half of the memories she had with Steph and Tim…she felt it deep down…but she didn't know what those memories were, she was determined to find out the truth.

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"Unbelievable," Maud said, "You remember so much more than before," she said happily, after Tori recounted every memory she received of her childhood,

"It's amazing," Max agreed,

"I don't remember everything," Tori said, picking at her food,

"Well what you do remember is pretty amazing,"

"If only you could remember what you were doing in New York," Ali said, twirling her pasta strand around and around her fork,

"I really don't,"

"Or you're just not telling us," Ali put in,

"If I ever remember, you'll be the first to know," Tori said dryly,

"Maybe you were kidnapped," Liam suggested,

"No ransom," Max said,

"Maybe they didn't want money,"

"We saw her in the hospital…she could be a clone!" Cameron said,

"You were six! What could you remember from that moment!" Liam said,

"Wait…I was in the hospital?" Tori asked, a thought occurring,

"Yes," Maud said, "You were in the hospital, in a coma for a week before you…before you died,"

"But that's not possible…if I died, how could I end up in New York?" that thought was nagging at her…scaring her,

"It doesn't really matter, you're here now and that's all that does matter," Max said, she couldn't believe he just said that,

"You're a science professor! How could you say it doesn't really matter?" Tori exclaimed,

"I have my daughter back and that's all that matters," Max said,

"Do you hear yourself. You're saying I was buried, yet I'm sitting right here," thought still there,

"I don't understand why you're getting so worked up over this," Maud said,

"I'm getting worked up because you buried someone who shouldn't have been buried," the elephant in the room that everyone's avoiding,

"Well…"

"Well what?"

"It was a closed coffin sweetie,"

"Why, I wasn't horribly disfigured was I? I look exactly the same in all the pictures. They even took an X-Ray, no injury related to a car accident found," She did not like that they had such a lack of interest in this topic,

"Well it was a hit and run, pretty gory," Max said,

"Still what if there was someone in that coffin and it wasn't me! How could you not care,"

"We don't care for a lot of things, like losing our children, others aren't our concern,"

"Yeah, 'others aren't your concern'. I remember growing up in this dark and corrupt city constantly worried and scared for you two. Comforting my siblings constantly whenever there was a breakout, whenever the Joker got loose or Two-Face or Bane because you weren't there, you were working!" Tori said, anger rising fast, "Not caring about anything but your jobs!"

"Watch yourself young lady, everything we did was for you! All of you," Maud said angrily, pointing at each kid, who looked down at their plate, not getting angered except for Tori,

"Yeah, 'for us.' Even when I was deemed dead you tried to erase that sadness. I bet you went to work the next day, not even caring that you're leaving three children, four if you include Grant, home with only Jess to console them, nothing to remember the sister they lost by. Just an empty, quiet and sad house," Tori yelled,

"That's enough! Go to your room!" Maud snapped,

"Gladly," Tori sneered, getting up so fast her chair slapped to the ground, she was gone before anyone could blink. How could no one have thought of this before?

In the safety of her room Tori paced back and forth, biting her nails. She kept thinking about that thought over and over again. If they buried her, how could she be here? Suddenly Cameron's clone theory didn't seem so crazy. If she was here there couldn't have been a body…unless there was and someone had mistaken it for her…some poor girl's body was in a grave…someone died whose family didn't know they died. But wasn't there tests conducted to make sure the body was the correct body? Something was going on, some conspiracy…Tori needed to get to the bottom of it. To do that, she needed to go to the source, and that meant one thing…she'd need help. Snatching up her cell phone Tori typed in her desired command,

"Hey Tori, s'up?" Stephanie asked,

"Hey how do you feel about digging up a grave with me?" Tori said getting straight to the point,

"I—wait, what?" Tim's voice echoed from somewhere in the area,

"Wait…Tim are you at Stephanie's house?" Tori asked,

"No…"

"But…where are you?"

"Out," was all he said,

"It's a school night,"

"It's not that late,"

"But—that's not the point, I need you to meet me at Gotham's cemetery, I'll explain everything there,"

"Why?" Stephanie asked,

"I said I'd explain there!"

"But—,"

"I'm doing this with or without you guys," Tori said before hanging up. She gathered a shovel, flashlight and jammed on a pair of leggings, a black tank-top with a black sweatshirt thrown over it and pulled on a dark purple beanie hat. Tori then carefully inched past the dining room, sticking to the shadows, only stopping once when Jess passed by and slipped out of the penthouse. She had made sure to lock her door. Tori was getting her answers to the mystery of her mysterious death one way or another.

A/N: Well, that's illegal. Hopefully Steph and Tim can help Tori without revealing their own little secret ;) and who knew Maud and Max were such horrible parents? Originally I had thought and hoped they would be the good guys, but my imagination hijacked my motor skills of typing. REVIEW AND MAYBE I WILL POST TWO CHAPTERS TOMORROW!

P.S - tell me in the reviews if my line break isn't showing up, it's supposed to be just a bunch of dots in a row across the page. For some reason I'm having real trouble with the line break thing on the site so I tried making my own. Let me know!