He woke up gasping for breath. "Mr. Williams? Is everything alright?" A nurse ran to him and checked his temperature with the back of her hand.
He thought for a moment. "Mr. Williams. That's my name, isn't it?" He looked around the room as he sat up in the hospital bed.
"What do you think your name is?" The nurse asked hiding her worry as best she could.
"Umm... I don't remember...wait..." It hit him. "My name's Rory!"
"Anything else you seem to be having trouble remembering?" The nurse pressed a button to call in a doctor.
"I don't know how I got here." Rory looked around a little worried. "Where's my wife?" he asked.
A doctor walked into the room and the nurse gave him the update. "His memory is coming and going. It seems to be short term memory. It took him a moment but he remembered his name and his wife but not how he got here"
"Can you remember anything that happened in the hospital attack?" The doctor asked as he walked towards Rory.
"Umm... I really have no idea what you're talking about." Rory's head was banging. "I'm a nurse, aren't I?" He smiled a little remembering "I'm a nurse at the hospital on the other side of town."
"That's right." The doctor shook his head yes. "We believe you came to work and that's when the attack took place."
"I don't remember going to work." Rory tried to put the pieces together. "I remember coming home from work and being very tired and I had this banging in my head" He held his banging head as he said it. "I don't know if this is it or if this is something else"
"Is there a banging in your head still?" The doctor asked.
"Maybe" Rory was having a hard time telling. "Did I get hit in the head or something?"
"That's what we're trying to figure out." The doctor explained. "Here you are waking up after being unresponsive for hours and you seem to have lost some of your memory. But you have no injuries to your head; none that any x-ray or CAT scan could detect anyway."
"Should I call his wife?" The nurse jumped in "I promised her I'd let her know when he woke up."
Rory couldn't grab hold of any memories for too long and it was driving him crazy. Mostly memories of Amy; memories from their childhood together. He loved her; he remembered that much for sure. But the details; he couldn't pin them down.
"I have to get out of here" Rory was feeling uneasy. "Where's my wife?"
"She's on her way. We just called her" The nurse tried to calm him. "No, don't... stay in bed, please"
"I just... I can't just sit here." Something inside Rory made him want to push her out of the way; to watch her hit the wall and collapse. It scared him. "I'm sorry" he calmly sat back down. "I'm just a little on edge, you know. This is all a bit strange."
"I'm sure it is." The nurse gave him an empathetic smile. "I'm sure you'll be just fine with a little more rest."
He felt like he was having memories flash by that weren't even his. Problem was everything in his head felt so jumbled up he couldn't distinguish between what was truly his and what wasn't. He suddenly remembered Amy cheating on him and it punched him in the gut. He remembered hitting her and throwing her to the ground.
"No, I didn't...that's not... " Rory said out loud.
"Sorry?" The nurse turned around as she was halfway out the door.
"Nothing. I'm thinking out loud." Rory smiled "Maybe that'll help sort out whatever's going on up here" He knocked on his head like he was knocking on the front door waiting for an answer. She nurse smiled and left the room.
Amy grabbed the keys to their little red sports car and hit the gas as soon as she got the news. The Doctor held on to his seat; afraid to speak a word. They ran down the halls in the hospital till they reached Rory's room.
Rory watched her walk in but for a moment he didn't know who he was looking at. "Amy...?"
Amy burst into tears and ran to his bed; holding him tight in a great big hug.
"I'm ok." Rory ran his fingers through her hair as she cried into his shoulder. "Really, I'm fine. I just... everything's a little fuzzy."
"But you're my Rory again, right?" Amy wiped the tears from her eyes.
"Am I?" Rory asked a little puzzled.
"He may have a little memory loss." The Doctor whispered.
"You don't remember me?" Amy couldn't help but laugh a little through the tears. "I forgot you once, remember that? You didn't exist and then you did. You were a Roman soldier and you nearly killed me; remember."
"Remember when the Normans torched the whole city?" Rory asked "No, wait... You weren't there; were you? I feel like I've lived so many lives that I can't ... How do you do it, Doctor?"
The Doctor smiled sheepishly and sighed "It's the curse us Time Lords have to bear."
"Us?" Rory looked puzzled. "But I'm not a Time Lord; I'm just a human." His head started banging. "Ugh, this headache!" He rubbed his temples with his fingertips. "I do remember I had this headache right before I forgot everything."
Memories of hurting Amy flashed by in his mind's eye. He suddenly remembered killing 1/10th of the world's population. "Doctor, what's going on" Rory's eyes were watering. "I keep getting these nightmares and I'm not sure what's real and what isn't." A tear ran down his face.
Amy put her hand in his trying to comfort him. "What sort of nightmares?"
"Nightmares where I kill people. I have dreams where I'm a murderer and it feels normal to me. Like, I kill and feel nothing. Why do I keep having such terrible dreams." Rory can't control the tears streaming down his face. "Doctor, what happened to me? How did I get here? They keep saying there was an attack at the hospital but I don't remember it."