AN: Sorry for the lack of updates: I'll give you a nice, plot-twist filled chapter today to make up for it. Love you all so much. Thanks for reading thus far:)
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Healing.
Meredith said it was happening, but Tootsie didn't feel it.
Healing.
What did that mean?
He was remembering? He knew all about his old life?
He didn't feel like he had regained any of his memory. And knowing about his life? His life before the accident? That wasn't healing. That was reading a story that may or may not be true, and accepting it as his past.
One day, however, something went wrong. Or right. Tootsie couldn't tell anymore.
He woke up screaming, thrashing, yelling a name. But when he was conscious, he stopped, and just cried.
Meredith came rushing in. "What seems to be the problem, Toot-sie? Has your hue-man imagination frightened your hue-man imagination again?"
"I NEED TO FIND HER," he sobbed. "SHE LOST HER FAMILY. SHE LOST HER MIND. I AM HER. SHE IS ME. HELP ME!" He began to cry even harder as Meredith awkwardly hugged him.
"Who is this hue-man of which you speak?"
"I have... have seen her before. I have met her before. In the war. In battle. She was...a... a hostage." It was coming at him, fast. He could remember... he could remember...
Meredith's normally-expressionless eyes widened, but she quickly put them back into their proper, programmed position. "It was just a dream, Toot-sie. Go back to sleep. It is too early."
"BUT I REMEMBER!" He was yelling again.
Meredith left the room.
"HANNAH!"
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Meredith walked quickly to the phone in her workroom (her personal messaging device had been deactivated by the doctors in fear of her) and called the GLEE hospital and the extension for Tootsie's main doctor.
"Hello, Meredith," Dr. Watson replied. "Is everything okay?"
"Tootsie knows," Meredith replied.
There was a pause on the other hand. "Which part?" asked Dr. Watson
"About the hostage. The lost hostage. Hannah Winchester."
"Winchester? She was taken by the GLEE laboratories for testing. I do not know further of her story."
"Right," Meredith paused, "but the part about her wasn't in the memories you gave Tootsie to be his past."
"Those are true," said the doctor. He sounded a bit angry.
"Yes, but not the WHOLE truth. Tootsie's finding out more about his past, the parts YOU didn't WANT him to find out about."
"I am under direct GLEE orders. He cannot know about some things! If he's ever going to work for us..."
"We need those memories back!"
"Dammit Meredith, your mind is too independent. If I think you're a threat to the plans of the GLEE, you'll be deprogrammed and sent to die. Do you want that? Besides, Tootsie can't find out that we sent those robots to capture those people. If he finds out, with his connections, do you know what he can achieve? He could overthrow the whole GLEE? Do you want that on your conscience, Meredith? Really?"
Meredith sighed. "Well then, we'll just have to do it on our own."
"MERED-" but Dr. Watson was cut off as Meredith slammed the phone down. She walked down the hall and into Tootsie's room, where he was sitting up and staring off into space.
She shook his shoulder. "Tootsie?"
He blinked. "Hm?"
"Pack your things. We're going to have to leave."
"Where?"
"Just leave," said Meredith, sighing. "We're wanted now."
She left him to figure that out as she walked back to her workroom. She took a deep breath, or used as much battery power as she could in one run, and snapped the wire that connected her to the GLEE.
Now they were really in trouble.
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