Lost Memories
Part Three: The Visit
By: Deadly_Leo
Author's note's: I DO NOT OWN GUNDAM WING!!! Ok, notes for this chapter are extremely short. All I have to say this time is..enjoy!!
~*~*~*~ "Excuse me, could you please tell me where I can find Dr. O'Neil," Lady Une asked the young man at the front desk.
"His office is on the fourth floor. You'll find a directory right next to the elevators. I'll need you to sign in here," he said handing her a clipboard and a pen, "So.who are you here to visit?" he asked with a smile, attempting to work up to getting her number.
"My fiancé," she said as she quickly signed her name and glanced towards the elevators, anxious to see Treize again. Most only knew her as Colonel or Lady Une, so she would use her married name.
"Oh, I hope that he's going to be alright," he said when he took the clipboard back. At this point all hopes for a date where squashed.
"Yes, I think so, it wasn't anything too serious," she said as she very slowly began to move in the direction of the elevators.
"That's good. Well, Lady Khushrenada have a good evening," the man said after looking at his clipboard.
"Thank you." Une said as she turned quickly and headed off in the indicated direction.
"You're welcome," he said as he watched her walk off.
'Damn, that is one fine ass,' he noted of Une's backside before he turned back to his work.
Une might have chosen to ignore the way the man was looking at her, but had Treize been there he most certainly would not have, and probably knocked him out cold for it.
~*~*~*~ "Hmmm," Une said as she stepped off the elevator and consulted the directory.
"His office should be six doors down to the left," she murmured as she turned and headed that way.
"Come in," Dr. O'Neil said without looking up from his work, after hearing a knock at his door.
"Excuse me doctor," Une said as she opened the door and walked into the well-furnished room.
"Mrs. Khushrenada, please come in. Here have a seat," he said as he rose from his desk and ushered her into a chair.
"I am glad that you could come so soon ma'am," he said as he seated himself opposite her.
"Thank you. Before we discuss anything else doctor, I have to ask you a few questions," she said preparing herself to interrogate the young man.
"Please, let me stop you there. I can guess what you are probably about to ask. Ma'am I have made absolutely sure that no other doctors except myself have seen your husband. Any personnel that were in the emergency room last night that saw him have been told that your husband was not who he really is. As far as I can tell they all believe this. Only two other people, who also believe the lie, have seen your husband. His name on his charts has been changed. I have taken every precaution that I can think of to make absolutely sure that no one knows he is alive," he said.
"Well.that was what I was about to ask. If you are sure that no one knows, then I will take your word. How did you know that it was Treize, that it really wasn't someone who looks like him?" she asked.
"I looked in his medical files. It said that he had a small scar on his right ankle, so I checked and he did. After I made sure that his records were blocked so that no one could access them," the doctor said as he leaned back in his chair.
"A doctor that can put up firewalls and take security precautions. Something tells me that you have had some experience with this type of thing," Une said with a smile.
"You've got me," he said as he smiled and raised his hands in mock defeat, "I worked as a computer specialist for a medical supply company all through medical school. I was also a doctor with Oz for a few years, but after the coup I decided to leave. When I confirmed that it really was his Excellency I knew that we would have a major problem if this information leaked out," he said with a smile.
"I see. Then calling me Colonel will be fine Thank you very much it looks like you have everything under control with the security. May I ask about my husband's condition now?" she asked.
"Oh, of course Colonel. Like I said on the phone earlier I have been reviewing his Excellency's charts and as soon as he awakens and I am able to examine him he should be able to leave," he said closing a folder, "Would you like to see him?" he asked.
"Yes please," she said as she rose from her seat, the doctor following.
"This way please," he said as he led her from the room and down the hall, stopping at the room on the end near the stairs.
"In here," he said stepping aside to let Une enter the room.
"I'll leave the two of you alone for now," he said as he left, gently closing the door.
Une entered the room to find a man lying in a bed with a section of his abdomen wrapped in white bandages and fluid bags hanging on posts next to him.
Une looked at the face. There was not mistaking it, that was definitely Treize. He was lying very still, apparently asleep.
'Oh thank God you are alive,' Une thought as she walked to Treize's bedside, pulled up a chair and sat down taking her husband's hand.
"Treize," she whispered, not knowing if he could hear her, "Treize.I'm so glad that you are alive. Never frighten me like that again. I won't be as forgiving next time. If you ever feel that you need to fight again, I am going to stop you any way that I can. I won't let you take any more chances like that again.. oh please Treize wake up," she said as tears spilled over her long lashes and down her cheeks.
Lady tenderly stroked his hand as she looked at his face. He had not been burned there. Most of the burns centered around his abdomen with a few small one on his arms. Other then that he was unharmed.
She was glad that she had insisted that he wear his space suit. If she hadn't he wouldn't be alive to be unconscious and she wouldn't be waiting for him to wake up.
Lady Une kissed Treize's hand then gently released it and crossed to the other side of the room to look out of the window. Crossing her arms over her chest she looked out at L3. She had a perfect view of the entire colony. It was night now and the colony glowed with an energetic light.
Neon signs flashed before her and the distant downtown district shown brightly. The whole colony was alive with life and was thriving as she stood with her forehead pressed to the window praying that the man in the bed behind her would awaken.
Their was a soft knock to the door pulling lady from her revelry as the doctor entered followed by a prim looking nurse pulling a cart of bandages and ointments behind her.
"Excuse me ma'am," he said moving towards Treize, "We have to change his bandages now. I am also sorry to say that visiting hours are over. Are you going back to Earth tonight ma'am or staying here?" he asked as he began to unwind the white cloth from around Treize's body.
"No, I am staying here for a few days," she said as she crossed the room to stand beside her husband.
"I'll be back in the morning," she said looking down at his sleeping form. "What time do visiting hours begin tomorrow?" she asked, addressing the doctor.
"They begin at eight and end at twelve, then begin at one and end at five, then again at six and end at ten," the nurse said, speaking for the first time, "Are you his wife?" she asked as doctor O'Neil rotated Treize so she could salve his back with a thick neon blue ointment.
"No, I'm his sister. Doctor, I'll call when I return to my hotel and give you my cell phone number so you may contact me at anytime about any improvement. Goodnight," she said as she left the room and headed towards the elevators. ~*~*~*~ "Hello," Lieutenant Jamison said as he answered his phone.
"Yeah Nick, it's Tom," the man on the other end said excitedly.
"Tom? What's up?" he asked as he sat in his desk chair.
"Nothing much, Mom wanted me to call and find out why her baby's not here. It's Christmas! Time for family and friends," he said jovially.
"Man, I already told her that I have work that I have to do. I can't leave," he said.
"You know that excuse will never fly, but I'll tell her anyway. So how's life been treating you?" Tom said as he also sat in a chair. He was calling from L3.
"Nothing much, just paperwork to do every since his Excellency was killed. And you?" Jamison replied.
"Nothing here either. They changed my shifts at the hospital. Thanks to that I met this gorgeous chick today at work," he said thinking back to his brief conversation with Une.
"Yeah, so what did she look like? Don't leave me hanging," he said as he sat back into the chair prepared to picture the 'gorgeous chick'.
"Well, she had long brown hair, and matching eyes. Oh, can't forget the best part. She had this body that made you want to sit up and beg for it like a dog. She looked a lot like this Colonel Une chick I used to see on TV every now and then. Let me see, her name was Lady.Lady Khushrenada," he said.
"What?" Jamison said sitting bolt upright in his chair. 'Why would Une be in the colonies,' he thought as his brother continued. Treize and Une's wedding had been large, but there had been no press and only the people who where there knew about it. The rest of the military personnel who knew had figured it out when Une and Treize didn't show up for work for four weeks and had come back wearing wedding rings. They where all loyal enough not to say anything.
"She said she was visiting her fiancé. Shit, I have to go. My shift starts at six tomorrow, and if I don't get some sleep I'm going to die from overexertion," Tom said as he waited for his brother to say goodbye so he could hang up the phone.
"Well, I'll let you go then. Goodnight and Merry Christmas," Jamison said as his brother wished him the same and he hung up the phone.
Jamison got up from his desk and walked to his coffee table and started to sift through a pile of files removing certain ones marked with a red X as his phone rang again.
This time it was Colonel Armsfield.
"Hello Colonel," Jamison said, recognizing the voice.
"Jamison, do you have the files that I requested?" he asked quickly. He wanted to get this done and over with so he could go to bed.
"Yes sir, I am looking at them now. How did it go with Une this morning?" Jamison asked.
"She got a phone call then ran upstairs. I figure that there will be other chances. About those files," Armsfeild said before being cut off.
"Sir, I just received a phone call from my brother. He says that Colonel Une was in the hospital on L3. Could that be what her phone call was about?" he asked his superior.
"Could be. Ask him to keep an eye on her, see where she goes," he said, "Now onto the files. This is what I need done with them," Armsfield said starting another line of conversation. ~*~*~*~ "Well, good morning Lady Khushrenada. How are you this morning?" Tom asked Une as she walked to the visitor desk to sign in.
"Fine, and you?" she asked surprised that she had been remembered, as she handed the clipboard back.
"Alright. How's your fiancé?" he asked, remembering their conversation from the night before.
Tom had been surprised last night when his brother had called him back and asked him to watch for Ms. Khushrenada. He wanted Tom to find out where she went. He had even asked him to take a picture of whom she visited. The reason for which he wasn't quite sure of.
"Fine, thank you. Well, have a nice day," Une said as she moved towards the elevators.
Tom watched her go. When the doors had closed he asked one of the people he was working with if they could watch the desk and took a backpack from under the counter and headed towards the stairs. ~*~*~*~ After catching his breath on the last step Lieutenant Jamison's brother opened the door at the landing and peaked around the corner looking down the fourth floor hallway.
It was completely disserted except for one occupant, Colonel Une. She was just stepping off the elevator and heading his way.
'This is going to be easier then I thought. Should I be worried,' he wondered as Une came closer and closer.
Tom closed the door a little and watched as she entered the room closest to the stairs, and closed the door. He quickly took his backpack and trekked the short distance to the room and opened the door just enough to look in.
Peaking in he saw Une take a chair and place it by the bedside. A man lay in the bed, completely unmoving beside the gentle rise and fall of his chest as he breathed.
'That must be her fiancé,' he thought as he took his camera out of his backpack and angled it so he could get a perfect view of the room's two occupants.
'Wonder what she's saying,' he thought as he began to take the pictures.
~*~*~*~ "Treize," Une said gently, "Treize if you can hear me I want you to pay close attention to me. Sweetheart, I can't stay here forever. I have to go back to Earth very soon and I refuse to leave you here. That's why I need you to wake up," she said as she gently caressed her husband's cheek.
"I need you to wake up so we can go back to Earth and be a family again. I won't leave you here, but I have to go. Now please.please wake up," Une asked the sleeping form.
As if complying with the request Treize's body began to stir and his eyelids began to flutter, then opened fully.
"Treize!!!" Une exclaimed happily through tear-filled eyes, as she brushed her husband's hair from his forehead so she could kiss it.
"Who?" Treize asked as tried to sit up and failed. "Wh.what? St...stay right here and don.don't move," Une stuttered with horror as she quickly rose from her chair and headed for the door.
~*~*~*~ "Shit," Tom whispered as he grabbed his things and sprinted for the stair door closing it just in time, as Une exited Treize's room and walked towards the doctor's office.
Tom put his camera away and nudged the door open, peering out to see Une knock on a door down the hall and watched in horror as a man opened the door, exchanged a few words with Une and started heading his way.
'Did she see me?' Tom asked as Une and the man drew closer. 'Better not stick around to find out,' he decided as he closed the door and dashed down the steps, back to the first floor. ~*~*~*~ "Hello," Treize said as Dr. O'Neil entered the room flanked by Une and removed his stethoscope from around his neck, and crossed the room to examine Treize.
"Do you remember your name?" he asked as he took a penlight from his lab coat pocket and flashed it in each one of Treize's eyes.
"I am...I am.I can't remember. Who am I?" Treize asked in return. He knew that at one time he had known, he could feel it, but when he tried to remember, it was blank.
"Do you know who this women is?" O'Neil asked, indicating Une who had moved to a corner of the room to stand patiently awaiting the end of Treize's examination.
"No. Is she a very important person?" the patient asked, now focusing his attention on the man in front of him.
Une bit her lower lip to keep the tears from coming. She knew what was wrong with Treize. She knew that he hadn't meant to hurt her, but her husband's denial that he knew her had hurt her beyond belief.
"Stay here for a moment, please," Dr. O'Neil said to Treize. "Colonel, I would like to speak to you for a moment in my office," he said as Une sadly nodded and flowed him out of the room and down the hall.
She knew that this was not going to be good. She could tell what was going to happen next, and she didn't want it to come.
'Oh God, please don't let him tell me that Treize has what I think he has,' Une thought as she closed the doctor's office door and sat in the same chair as the night before.
"Colonel, I hate to have to tell you this," he said gathering his will. He really did hate to have to tell her, but he had no other choice, "but I believe your husband has amnesia. I want to run a few more tests to make absolutely sure."
"Will his memory ever return?" Une asked, still fighting back tears.
"I wish I could give you a definite answer," he said slowly, "but the truth is I just don't know. He may be able to remember some things, others he may not be able to remember. Only time will tell," he finished.
"Is their anything that I could do to help bring his memory back?" Une asked as she allowed a single tear to make it's way down her cheek.
"There's not much that I can tell you. His memory may never come back, and if it does it could take weeks, months, even years. All I can tell you to do is to make him as comfortable as possible and try to surround him with familiar sites and sounds," he said as he leaned back in his chair.
"Colonel I know this must be very hard for you. This is only going to get harder. He might be able to remember some things or none at all. This is going to be emotionally taxing and it might be helpful to have someone there. I could send a live in nurse if you like," he offered.
"No thank you," Une said, "When do you think that he will be able to leave?" she asked as she stood to leave.
"I can have him ready in an hour. I still have a few tests to run," he said as he stood to follow Une to the elevators.
"Colonel, are you sure that you won't reconsider about the nurse?" he asked again, as Une pushed the down button.
"No thank you," she said as the elevator doors opened, and she stepped in and pushed the button for the first floor, "I'll be back in an hour," she said as the doors closed, leaving the doctor to stand alone.
Une knew she had to do this on her own. It was going to be extremely hard keeping this from the public, but she could do it. She could handle Treize.
'I can handle this,' Une thought as she stepped off the elevator and walked outside to her rental car.
Driving back to her hotel, Une reminded herself that she was an ex-colonel and if she could handle thousands of troops she could handle her own husband. To Be Continued.
Author's note's: I DO NOT OWN GUNDAM WING!!! Ok, notes for this chapter are extremely short. All I have to say this time is..enjoy!!
~*~*~*~ "Excuse me, could you please tell me where I can find Dr. O'Neil," Lady Une asked the young man at the front desk.
"His office is on the fourth floor. You'll find a directory right next to the elevators. I'll need you to sign in here," he said handing her a clipboard and a pen, "So.who are you here to visit?" he asked with a smile, attempting to work up to getting her number.
"My fiancé," she said as she quickly signed her name and glanced towards the elevators, anxious to see Treize again. Most only knew her as Colonel or Lady Une, so she would use her married name.
"Oh, I hope that he's going to be alright," he said when he took the clipboard back. At this point all hopes for a date where squashed.
"Yes, I think so, it wasn't anything too serious," she said as she very slowly began to move in the direction of the elevators.
"That's good. Well, Lady Khushrenada have a good evening," the man said after looking at his clipboard.
"Thank you." Une said as she turned quickly and headed off in the indicated direction.
"You're welcome," he said as he watched her walk off.
'Damn, that is one fine ass,' he noted of Une's backside before he turned back to his work.
Une might have chosen to ignore the way the man was looking at her, but had Treize been there he most certainly would not have, and probably knocked him out cold for it.
~*~*~*~ "Hmmm," Une said as she stepped off the elevator and consulted the directory.
"His office should be six doors down to the left," she murmured as she turned and headed that way.
"Come in," Dr. O'Neil said without looking up from his work, after hearing a knock at his door.
"Excuse me doctor," Une said as she opened the door and walked into the well-furnished room.
"Mrs. Khushrenada, please come in. Here have a seat," he said as he rose from his desk and ushered her into a chair.
"I am glad that you could come so soon ma'am," he said as he seated himself opposite her.
"Thank you. Before we discuss anything else doctor, I have to ask you a few questions," she said preparing herself to interrogate the young man.
"Please, let me stop you there. I can guess what you are probably about to ask. Ma'am I have made absolutely sure that no other doctors except myself have seen your husband. Any personnel that were in the emergency room last night that saw him have been told that your husband was not who he really is. As far as I can tell they all believe this. Only two other people, who also believe the lie, have seen your husband. His name on his charts has been changed. I have taken every precaution that I can think of to make absolutely sure that no one knows he is alive," he said.
"Well.that was what I was about to ask. If you are sure that no one knows, then I will take your word. How did you know that it was Treize, that it really wasn't someone who looks like him?" she asked.
"I looked in his medical files. It said that he had a small scar on his right ankle, so I checked and he did. After I made sure that his records were blocked so that no one could access them," the doctor said as he leaned back in his chair.
"A doctor that can put up firewalls and take security precautions. Something tells me that you have had some experience with this type of thing," Une said with a smile.
"You've got me," he said as he smiled and raised his hands in mock defeat, "I worked as a computer specialist for a medical supply company all through medical school. I was also a doctor with Oz for a few years, but after the coup I decided to leave. When I confirmed that it really was his Excellency I knew that we would have a major problem if this information leaked out," he said with a smile.
"I see. Then calling me Colonel will be fine Thank you very much it looks like you have everything under control with the security. May I ask about my husband's condition now?" she asked.
"Oh, of course Colonel. Like I said on the phone earlier I have been reviewing his Excellency's charts and as soon as he awakens and I am able to examine him he should be able to leave," he said closing a folder, "Would you like to see him?" he asked.
"Yes please," she said as she rose from her seat, the doctor following.
"This way please," he said as he led her from the room and down the hall, stopping at the room on the end near the stairs.
"In here," he said stepping aside to let Une enter the room.
"I'll leave the two of you alone for now," he said as he left, gently closing the door.
Une entered the room to find a man lying in a bed with a section of his abdomen wrapped in white bandages and fluid bags hanging on posts next to him.
Une looked at the face. There was not mistaking it, that was definitely Treize. He was lying very still, apparently asleep.
'Oh thank God you are alive,' Une thought as she walked to Treize's bedside, pulled up a chair and sat down taking her husband's hand.
"Treize," she whispered, not knowing if he could hear her, "Treize.I'm so glad that you are alive. Never frighten me like that again. I won't be as forgiving next time. If you ever feel that you need to fight again, I am going to stop you any way that I can. I won't let you take any more chances like that again.. oh please Treize wake up," she said as tears spilled over her long lashes and down her cheeks.
Lady tenderly stroked his hand as she looked at his face. He had not been burned there. Most of the burns centered around his abdomen with a few small one on his arms. Other then that he was unharmed.
She was glad that she had insisted that he wear his space suit. If she hadn't he wouldn't be alive to be unconscious and she wouldn't be waiting for him to wake up.
Lady Une kissed Treize's hand then gently released it and crossed to the other side of the room to look out of the window. Crossing her arms over her chest she looked out at L3. She had a perfect view of the entire colony. It was night now and the colony glowed with an energetic light.
Neon signs flashed before her and the distant downtown district shown brightly. The whole colony was alive with life and was thriving as she stood with her forehead pressed to the window praying that the man in the bed behind her would awaken.
Their was a soft knock to the door pulling lady from her revelry as the doctor entered followed by a prim looking nurse pulling a cart of bandages and ointments behind her.
"Excuse me ma'am," he said moving towards Treize, "We have to change his bandages now. I am also sorry to say that visiting hours are over. Are you going back to Earth tonight ma'am or staying here?" he asked as he began to unwind the white cloth from around Treize's body.
"No, I am staying here for a few days," she said as she crossed the room to stand beside her husband.
"I'll be back in the morning," she said looking down at his sleeping form. "What time do visiting hours begin tomorrow?" she asked, addressing the doctor.
"They begin at eight and end at twelve, then begin at one and end at five, then again at six and end at ten," the nurse said, speaking for the first time, "Are you his wife?" she asked as doctor O'Neil rotated Treize so she could salve his back with a thick neon blue ointment.
"No, I'm his sister. Doctor, I'll call when I return to my hotel and give you my cell phone number so you may contact me at anytime about any improvement. Goodnight," she said as she left the room and headed towards the elevators. ~*~*~*~ "Hello," Lieutenant Jamison said as he answered his phone.
"Yeah Nick, it's Tom," the man on the other end said excitedly.
"Tom? What's up?" he asked as he sat in his desk chair.
"Nothing much, Mom wanted me to call and find out why her baby's not here. It's Christmas! Time for family and friends," he said jovially.
"Man, I already told her that I have work that I have to do. I can't leave," he said.
"You know that excuse will never fly, but I'll tell her anyway. So how's life been treating you?" Tom said as he also sat in a chair. He was calling from L3.
"Nothing much, just paperwork to do every since his Excellency was killed. And you?" Jamison replied.
"Nothing here either. They changed my shifts at the hospital. Thanks to that I met this gorgeous chick today at work," he said thinking back to his brief conversation with Une.
"Yeah, so what did she look like? Don't leave me hanging," he said as he sat back into the chair prepared to picture the 'gorgeous chick'.
"Well, she had long brown hair, and matching eyes. Oh, can't forget the best part. She had this body that made you want to sit up and beg for it like a dog. She looked a lot like this Colonel Une chick I used to see on TV every now and then. Let me see, her name was Lady.Lady Khushrenada," he said.
"What?" Jamison said sitting bolt upright in his chair. 'Why would Une be in the colonies,' he thought as his brother continued. Treize and Une's wedding had been large, but there had been no press and only the people who where there knew about it. The rest of the military personnel who knew had figured it out when Une and Treize didn't show up for work for four weeks and had come back wearing wedding rings. They where all loyal enough not to say anything.
"She said she was visiting her fiancé. Shit, I have to go. My shift starts at six tomorrow, and if I don't get some sleep I'm going to die from overexertion," Tom said as he waited for his brother to say goodbye so he could hang up the phone.
"Well, I'll let you go then. Goodnight and Merry Christmas," Jamison said as his brother wished him the same and he hung up the phone.
Jamison got up from his desk and walked to his coffee table and started to sift through a pile of files removing certain ones marked with a red X as his phone rang again.
This time it was Colonel Armsfield.
"Hello Colonel," Jamison said, recognizing the voice.
"Jamison, do you have the files that I requested?" he asked quickly. He wanted to get this done and over with so he could go to bed.
"Yes sir, I am looking at them now. How did it go with Une this morning?" Jamison asked.
"She got a phone call then ran upstairs. I figure that there will be other chances. About those files," Armsfeild said before being cut off.
"Sir, I just received a phone call from my brother. He says that Colonel Une was in the hospital on L3. Could that be what her phone call was about?" he asked his superior.
"Could be. Ask him to keep an eye on her, see where she goes," he said, "Now onto the files. This is what I need done with them," Armsfield said starting another line of conversation. ~*~*~*~ "Well, good morning Lady Khushrenada. How are you this morning?" Tom asked Une as she walked to the visitor desk to sign in.
"Fine, and you?" she asked surprised that she had been remembered, as she handed the clipboard back.
"Alright. How's your fiancé?" he asked, remembering their conversation from the night before.
Tom had been surprised last night when his brother had called him back and asked him to watch for Ms. Khushrenada. He wanted Tom to find out where she went. He had even asked him to take a picture of whom she visited. The reason for which he wasn't quite sure of.
"Fine, thank you. Well, have a nice day," Une said as she moved towards the elevators.
Tom watched her go. When the doors had closed he asked one of the people he was working with if they could watch the desk and took a backpack from under the counter and headed towards the stairs. ~*~*~*~ After catching his breath on the last step Lieutenant Jamison's brother opened the door at the landing and peaked around the corner looking down the fourth floor hallway.
It was completely disserted except for one occupant, Colonel Une. She was just stepping off the elevator and heading his way.
'This is going to be easier then I thought. Should I be worried,' he wondered as Une came closer and closer.
Tom closed the door a little and watched as she entered the room closest to the stairs, and closed the door. He quickly took his backpack and trekked the short distance to the room and opened the door just enough to look in.
Peaking in he saw Une take a chair and place it by the bedside. A man lay in the bed, completely unmoving beside the gentle rise and fall of his chest as he breathed.
'That must be her fiancé,' he thought as he took his camera out of his backpack and angled it so he could get a perfect view of the room's two occupants.
'Wonder what she's saying,' he thought as he began to take the pictures.
~*~*~*~ "Treize," Une said gently, "Treize if you can hear me I want you to pay close attention to me. Sweetheart, I can't stay here forever. I have to go back to Earth very soon and I refuse to leave you here. That's why I need you to wake up," she said as she gently caressed her husband's cheek.
"I need you to wake up so we can go back to Earth and be a family again. I won't leave you here, but I have to go. Now please.please wake up," Une asked the sleeping form.
As if complying with the request Treize's body began to stir and his eyelids began to flutter, then opened fully.
"Treize!!!" Une exclaimed happily through tear-filled eyes, as she brushed her husband's hair from his forehead so she could kiss it.
"Who?" Treize asked as tried to sit up and failed. "Wh.what? St...stay right here and don.don't move," Une stuttered with horror as she quickly rose from her chair and headed for the door.
~*~*~*~ "Shit," Tom whispered as he grabbed his things and sprinted for the stair door closing it just in time, as Une exited Treize's room and walked towards the doctor's office.
Tom put his camera away and nudged the door open, peering out to see Une knock on a door down the hall and watched in horror as a man opened the door, exchanged a few words with Une and started heading his way.
'Did she see me?' Tom asked as Une and the man drew closer. 'Better not stick around to find out,' he decided as he closed the door and dashed down the steps, back to the first floor. ~*~*~*~ "Hello," Treize said as Dr. O'Neil entered the room flanked by Une and removed his stethoscope from around his neck, and crossed the room to examine Treize.
"Do you remember your name?" he asked as he took a penlight from his lab coat pocket and flashed it in each one of Treize's eyes.
"I am...I am.I can't remember. Who am I?" Treize asked in return. He knew that at one time he had known, he could feel it, but when he tried to remember, it was blank.
"Do you know who this women is?" O'Neil asked, indicating Une who had moved to a corner of the room to stand patiently awaiting the end of Treize's examination.
"No. Is she a very important person?" the patient asked, now focusing his attention on the man in front of him.
Une bit her lower lip to keep the tears from coming. She knew what was wrong with Treize. She knew that he hadn't meant to hurt her, but her husband's denial that he knew her had hurt her beyond belief.
"Stay here for a moment, please," Dr. O'Neil said to Treize. "Colonel, I would like to speak to you for a moment in my office," he said as Une sadly nodded and flowed him out of the room and down the hall.
She knew that this was not going to be good. She could tell what was going to happen next, and she didn't want it to come.
'Oh God, please don't let him tell me that Treize has what I think he has,' Une thought as she closed the doctor's office door and sat in the same chair as the night before.
"Colonel, I hate to have to tell you this," he said gathering his will. He really did hate to have to tell her, but he had no other choice, "but I believe your husband has amnesia. I want to run a few more tests to make absolutely sure."
"Will his memory ever return?" Une asked, still fighting back tears.
"I wish I could give you a definite answer," he said slowly, "but the truth is I just don't know. He may be able to remember some things, others he may not be able to remember. Only time will tell," he finished.
"Is their anything that I could do to help bring his memory back?" Une asked as she allowed a single tear to make it's way down her cheek.
"There's not much that I can tell you. His memory may never come back, and if it does it could take weeks, months, even years. All I can tell you to do is to make him as comfortable as possible and try to surround him with familiar sites and sounds," he said as he leaned back in his chair.
"Colonel I know this must be very hard for you. This is only going to get harder. He might be able to remember some things or none at all. This is going to be emotionally taxing and it might be helpful to have someone there. I could send a live in nurse if you like," he offered.
"No thank you," Une said, "When do you think that he will be able to leave?" she asked as she stood to leave.
"I can have him ready in an hour. I still have a few tests to run," he said as he stood to follow Une to the elevators.
"Colonel, are you sure that you won't reconsider about the nurse?" he asked again, as Une pushed the down button.
"No thank you," she said as the elevator doors opened, and she stepped in and pushed the button for the first floor, "I'll be back in an hour," she said as the doors closed, leaving the doctor to stand alone.
Une knew she had to do this on her own. It was going to be extremely hard keeping this from the public, but she could do it. She could handle Treize.
'I can handle this,' Une thought as she stepped off the elevator and walked outside to her rental car.
Driving back to her hotel, Une reminded herself that she was an ex-colonel and if she could handle thousands of troops she could handle her own husband. To Be Continued.
