Summary: Sebastian wakes with no memory of the past two years and no recollection of Annette or Kathryn.
Authors Note: For purposes of this story Sebastian and Kathryn met less that two years ago, after all I didn't want to make it too easy for them. Where's the fun in that?
Chapter 2: Minor Miracle
Annette stared at him completely stupefied. Was he kidding? "Sebastian it's me, Annette."
"Annette?" He repeated as if the word was completely foreign to him. "Annette who?"
"Your girlfriend" she explained softly touching his arm. "All the drugs they've been pumping through your system must have made you a little light headed. It doesn't matter though. The important thing is you're alive and we can be together now."
As she leaned in to hug him Sebastian jumped away and sat up. A couple of the tubes hooked up to him broke off but he didn't seem to care. "Listen sweetheart I have no idea who you are or what you're after but I have never seen you before in my life. So explain to me again how you think you know me and please tell me what the fuck I'm doing in the hospital and why..ow!" Clutching his side Sebastian winced in pain and demanded "what the hell happened to me?"
Annette was startled to say the least over his attitude but she remained calm. "Sebastian you have to calm down. You were in an accident. You were fighting with Ronald-"
"Who's Ronald?"
"You don't remember? You were fighting and you got hit by a car. The doctors didn't think you were going to make it after you came out of surgery but you proved them wrong."
"Go me" he muttered sarcastically. "Once again who are you? You say you're my girlfriend but the thing is I don't have girlfriends. Did we fuck or something and I didn't call?"
Annette winced "no it wasn't like that...you don't remember me at all?"
"Nope can't say I do."
Now Annette was officially freaking out. She thought he was joking around at first or maybe it was just a side affect of the drugs but apparently not. Getting up from her seat Annette walked out of the room and had the nurse page the doctor. He arrived moments later almost as surprised as Annette had been to see Sebastian awake. "Well this is certainly unexpected but fantastic news. Your parents will be thrilled."
"Parents?" He repeated "my mothers dead."
"Your father and step mother Sebastian" she explained.
"Step mother? What the fuck?"
The doctor looked over at Annette confused. "He doesn't remember me or anyone else. Do you know what's causing this?"
He turned to his patient and asked "Sebastian how old are you?"
"Last time I checked sixteen."
Annette nearly gasped at this making Sebastian look over at her confused. "What?"
"You're eighteen"
He shook his head at her "I think I know how old I am thank you."
Ignoring his nastiness she continued "where do you live?"
"85th and Park"
"No" she whispered as a tear formed in her eyes "you use to live there. You live at 81st and Madison with you dad and step mother and Kathryn."
"Who the fuck is Kathryn?"
Well there was one piece of good news in all of this Annette thought. He didn't remember that witch any more than he remembered her. Still Annette was freaking out. She was happy Sebastian was alive but it killed her to think he couldn't recall a single moment they shared together.
The doctor sighed "it appears you're suffering from a form of amnesia Sebastian. You can't recall anything of the past two years?"
For the first time that morning Sebastian appeared genuinely afraid "no I guess not."
"Well rest assured we'll run plenty of tests and get to the bottom of this. In many cases this kind of thing is common after an accident or trauma and will go away after a few days."
"What if it doesn't go away in a few days?" Annette asked unable to keep the fear from her voice.
Gravely Dr. Prescott responded "then those memories might be lost forever."
* * * * * *
"Blaine what are you doing here?" Kathryn asked as she looked up to see the well groomed bleach blond come swaggering into the waiting room.
"One of my oldest friends is in the hospital of course I'm going to pay him a visit."
Kathryn noticed he was holding a get well soon bag and promptly took it from him. When she looked inside and saw a box of condoms she cocked an eyebrow and asked "condoms?"
"Its Sebastian, what am I going to get him candy and flowers?"
For the first time that day Kathryn smiled "true."
"Anyway, after that phone call I got from you last night I had to come down and see for myself your grieving sister act."
She sighed as she recalled the message she had left on his answering machine the previous night. Drunk and too out of it to care she called Blaine and told him about Sebastian. "What exactly did I say to you last night?"
He smirked "well from what I could make out from it Sebastian got hit by a car saving 'Betty the white-trash-hick'. Then you rambled something about Ronald and how it was all your fault."
"Well do me a favor and just erase the message, it never happened."
"Sure" he replied sitting down beside her. "Soon as you tell me exactly what you did."
Avoiding his eyes she said "I didn't do anything."
Blaine snickered "Kathryn you aren't the type to leave long drunken, rambling messages on phone machines. This I know, so unless you want everyone to hear exactly what you said..."
"Ok fine" she said getting up suddenly. It wasn't like she thought Blaine would really let anyone hear it but Kathryn felt like getting this off her chest. He was right, getting wasted over things wasn't normally her style. She needed to regain some control again.
"So you know how Sebastian has been seeing this girl Annette?"
"Yeah I think he mentioned her once or twice or a hundred times before."
Kathryn rolled her eyes in disgust "he fell in love with her."
Blaine laughed "oh Kathryn this is hardly the first time. He gets infatuated with someone for a week and then after he nails her he just-"
"No Blaine it was different with this one. He screwed her and he still wanted her. Sebastian actually turned me down for her."
His eyebrows went up in alarm "this is serious but it does explain his rush to play hero all of a sudden. So how exactly does this amount to your responsibility?"
"Well I gave Sebastian a little push to break up with the girl. He did and then afterwards he had the gall to demand I go to bed with him. He actually thought after the way he treated me I would flop on my back like some sort of-"
"Kathryn" Blaine interrupted "get to the point."
Turning away from him she continued "we got into an argument. I was pissed...said some things." Whipping around she coldly spat "and I meant most of them. Anyway he left and went to chase after her...again. So I told Ronald Clifford a little white lie."
"How little?"
Kathryn shrugged "I told him Sebastian smacked me. Then I sort of told him about how he fucked Cecile, but that part was true!"
Rubbing his temples Blaine said "ok let me get this straight. You got this Clifford guy all riled up on some bullshit and sent him out after Sebastian, to do what exactly?"
"Kick his ass in"
"Oh Christ Kathryn..."
"What? He deserved it Blaine for the way he treated me after everything we've been through. I didn't mean for this to happen, I just wanted to hurt him a little bit." When Blaine said nothing but stared up at her incredulously she said in a softer voice "you blame me too don't you? Well you mine as well Annette does even though this is mostly HER fault."
"You aren't completely blameless here princess but it's not totally your fault either."
Kathryn smiled "so you don't hate me?"
"No more than usual. Sebastian on the other hand is a different story. I mean when he recovers from all of this Kathryn he's going to be out for blood. You do realize that don't you?"
"I know" she sighed as she started to pace the empty room. She had been in there on and off all night after only getting to see Sebastian on one of the rare occasions Annette wasn't guarding him. It had been with her mother and step father who arrived home early but only stopped in once to see their son. Tee times and martini hour apparently took precedent over their children.
As she sat in that small room for hours on end she thought about what would happen when Sebastian woke up. He undoubtedly would want revenge and would go about it in the most messy way possible. Still at the moment Kathryn was more worried about Sebastian making it through this ok then their feud.
"Remember that time you put that tiny scratch in his car? Remember how he retaliated?"
"Yes" Kathryn responded shuddering at the memory. Just because she borrowed his car and then put the tiniest mark on it Sebastian decided to humiliate her by showing their parents a videotape of her having a threesome...on their bed. Her mother had shut down her account for a week after that.
"Well you almost killed him. Imagine how he'll respond to that? I mean he knows more about you then even I do. Just think about what he could do-"
"Ok Blaine, I get it!" She exclaimed "don't you think I know what he could and most likely will do to me? But at the moment I don't really care. All I want is Sebastian to pull through this, that's all that matters."
Blaine regarded her with shock. When Kathryn noticed him gawking at her she demanded "what?"
"Nothing, it's just I never knew you cared about him like that."
"I'm not a total heartless bitch" she muttered.
A moment of silence fell between the two as they sat side by side in the waiting room alone. Some time later Dr. Prescott arrived and Kathryn sprang up immediately "what's going on? Is he ok?"
The doctor smiled "yes I am happy to say it looks like your brother will make a full recovery."
A giant weight seemed to lift off of Kathryn at this news. "That's great! Can we see him now?"
"Just a moment, there is one problem."
"What?"
"Well your brother is fine physically. However when he awoke he didn't know where he was or how he got here."
"Isn't that common? He's been out of it for almost two days."
He nodded "yes but he had no idea who his girlfriend was or his step mother or you for that matter. It seems Sebastian doesn't recall the past two years."
For a moment Kathryn honestly believed she had misunderstood him. Had he just told her Sebastian wouldn't know who she was? Judging by the equally stunned look on Blaine's face he had. When Kathryn didn't say anything Blaine asked "so your saying he has amnesia?"
"Yes it appears that way. We aren't sure if he'll ever recover his memories or not, we're still running tests. When your parents come back have them page me, there are some things we need to go over. Something like this can be quite traumatic and a patient sometimes has trouble adjusting. It will be up to Sebastians loved ones to help him cope with this."
Kathryn nodded dumbly as she took all this in "I understand, thank you doctor."
When Dr. Prescott left Blaine looked over at her and sighed "you must be the luckiest bitch walking this earth."
"Come again?"
"Kathryn" Blaine whispered stepping closer to you "not only is Sebastian all right but now he has no memory of all the shit you pulled on him. Consider all your worries gone."
Shaking her head she replied almost sadly "yeah but he has no idea who I am. The closest person in my life is a complete stranger."
"Well perk up, now you'll have time to get reacquainted again. I'd also like to remind you that not only does he not remember you but the same goes for Annette. Their so called love appears to have come to an end."
As she looked up at him a slow smile spread across her face "you got a point there. Why don't we go pay my dear brother a visit."
"Now you're talking" he said putting his arm around her as they headed down the hall to Sebastians room.
Just as Kathryn started to open the door Annette suddenly appeared and blocked it. Her face was red from crying and she looked like she hadn't slept in days but that same glimmer of anger was clearly visible in her eyes. "Where do you think your going?" she demanded.
"We're going to see my brother" Kathryn replied just as coldly.
"Like hell" Annette hissed back. "Blaine can but I won't have you any where near him."
"I just talked with the doctor. He told me Sebastian can't recall anything of the past two years...including you."
"And you" Annette shot back. "I asked him point blank if he remembered you and he hadn't the foggiest idea who you were."
Kathryn felt a pang but remained in her ice princess mode "maybe not but he will. You see I'm part of his family and you are not. You have no say in who gets to see him. I don't care what you think you two shared but it's over now Annette, so move out of my way."
"No"
Sensing the tension between the two was about to explode Blaine interrupted "ladies this isn't the best place for this."
Kathryn ignored him "I'm going in there."
"No you are not" Annette blocked the door.
She was about to push right past the little blond bitch when her cell phone went off. "You better answer that" Annette suggested with fake sweetness.
Kathryn really wanted to ignore it but she realized it was from her mother. Rolling her eyes she turned away from them and answered it while Blaine pushed past Annette and went into the room.
As soon as he walked in Sebastian perked up "Blaine! Finally someone I know!"
"Nice to see you to Valmont. I see your feeling better."
Indeed Sebastian was now sitting up in bed reading through some books Annette had brought for him. "Well aside for not being able to remember the past two years of my life I'm fine."
"There are a couple of years I'd like to forget about." Handing him the get well bag he said "here, brought you a gift."
When Sebastian pulled the box of condoms out he smiled "finally something I can actually use."
Annette who had been standing towards the back of the room winced at the remark. It had taken her awhile to pick out those books and she had spent a small fortune in the hospital gift shop buying candy and balloons. Noticing the slight pain on her face Sebastian offered "I didn't mean your stuff."
"It's ok" Annette muttered somewhat awkwardly.
Turning back to his old friend Sebastian asked "so what has happened in the past two years? Anything interesting?"
Blaine shrugged "not really. Oh remember Johnny Richard's? Well he's now Jenny Richard's and your father remarried a couple of times."
"Same old same old" Sebastian replied bored.
"And I've been screwing Greg McConnel for the past four months."
He laughed "your shitting me? Always thought that boy was checking out my ass when he claimed to want to kick it."
"Yeah well he's of course still in the closet but I have high hopes about forcing his tight little ass out." Looking over at Sebastian Blaine realized his attention was elsewhere. He was staring out at Kathryn who was pacing in the hallway talking on her cell phone. A slow smile formed on Sebastians lips "who is that? She seems so familiar..."
Blaine looked up at Annette who replied quickly "that's Kathryn, your sister."
"Stepsister" Blaine interjected. "For a little over a year. Do you recognize her?"
Sebastian's eyes remained glued to Kathryn much to Annette's dismay. There was something about the way he was staring at his step sister that made her nervous. "No, it's just there's something about her. Can't put my finger on it." Leaning back towards Blaine he asked "did I fuck her?"
Blaine grinned "no but not for a lack of trying. However you and Kathryn were very close."
"Did I hear my name?" Kathryn asked as she stood in the doorway with a slight smile on her lips.
Annette was right away going to order her to leave when Kathryn beat her to it. "Get out. I need to speak to my step brother alone."
"I don't think that's a good idea" Annette replied trying her damnedest to stand her ground.
"It's ok" Sebastian told her while gazing at Kathryn. "Give us a minute."
Before Annette could protest Blaine lead her out of the room and Kathryn closed the door behind them. "At last, I was starting to think I'd never get you alone again."
"Well Annette is very protective of me."
"Yes" Kathryn agreed turning up her nose "one might say even a little too protective. Anyway I just wanted to stop by and check on my dear step brother. Mother and father were so worried about you as was I. Since you've been here I've prayed for you every night hoping against hope you would recover and luckily god smiled on us. This truly is a miracle."
Sebastian who had been listening to her with an amused smiled asked "Kathryn tell me something, does everyone by this bullshit you spout?"
She couldn't help but smile at him, he never did by into her good girl routine before and she was happy nothing had changed. "Most people do" she replied confidently.
"Most people are morons."
"I would tend to agree with you dear brother." They both grinned at one another just as they had a million times before. "Now if you're a good boy I'll give you a surprise."
As Kathryn leaned over him and turned off the smoke detector Sebastian eyed her appreciably "does it include a lap dance of some sort?" She laughed as she pulled out a cigarette and lighter from her purse. Sebastian's eyes lit up like a kid at Christmas "oh that's almost as good."
He lit up the cigarette and took a long satisfying drag as Kathryn sat down beside him on the bed. Shaking her head she told him "you certainly sound like your old self."
"That's good" he replied as he shared the cigarette with her and a comfortable silence fell between the two. Finally Sebastian asked "so tell me about my new family. I want to know all about my step sister."
"Lets see, your father married my mother almost two years ago. They met in Greece and got engaged three months afterwards."
"Well that's better than my last step mother who he married after the first date. So what's the deal with your mother? Gold digger?"
"Hardly, mother came from money and my dearly departed father left her a sizable fortune."
Sebastian nodded in approval "my father marries within his class, that has to be a first. How's the marriage going."
Kathryn shrugged as she leaned back on her hand "it's as close to being on the rocks as it can be without the lawyers getting involved. Needless to say your father has a roaming eye much like his son."
"So my reputation..."
"Is a complete atrocity" she grinned. "If it wasn't for the fact that dear, sweet Kathryn is your step sister you would have been shipped off to military school long ago."
Sebastian grinned "lucky me. So according to Blaine you and I are very close" he whispered seductively as he caressed her bare leg. His touch sent a shiver down Kathryn's spine as she recalled the countless times before he had done this same thing. "How close are we?"
Touching the top of his hand she replied "close enough that you've never been completely satisfied."
They gazed at each other for awhile before Kathryn got off the bed. "Well I should be going now you need your rest."
"One last thing, what's the deal with me and this Annette person? Since when do I have girlfriends?"
"She said she was your girlfriend?" She asked wondering what else Annette told him.
"Yeah is it true?"
Right then Kathryn was handed a golden opportunity. She now had the chance to get Annette out of Sebastian's life for god and she was going to take it. With a cool expression she responded "no she's not. You slept with her once, I believe over the summer. She was staying at your aunt's, that's where you two met. Anyway you seduced her, popped her cherry and the poor girl hasn't been able to let you go since then. You even broke up with her but I guess she didn't get the hint."
"Christ" Sebastian sighed "I have to figure out a way to get rid of her."
"Don't worry" Kathryn told him as she caressed his face "I'll take care of it. You should get some rest though, I'll be back later."
"Good, I look forward to it."
Smiling she leaned down and kissed him softly on the cheek so that her lips gently grazed the tip of his. "Welcome back Sebastian" she whispered.
He looked up at her with a curious smile as she walked out of the room. As soon as she left Annette was right in her face. "Is he ok?"
"He was until I suffocated him with the pillow." When her eyes went wide in surprise Kathryn laughed "of course he's ok, we just talked."
"About what?"
"Well not that it's any of your business but if you must know him, me, our family, and you. He was wondering who the annoying blond was that kept buzzing around him. I assured him I would take care of her and I fully plan to."
Annette shook her head "don't threaten me."
"Or what?"
Her blue eyes lit up with confidence as she replied "or I'll make sure everyone sees what Sebastian wrote in his journal, including Sebastian."
At that Kathryn froze. Fuck she had forgot all about that damn journal! If Sebastian did find out what she did to him she would never be able to reconnect with him and he just might remember what he once felt for the blond bimbo.
"What no witty comeback? I'm shocked Kathryn. You can be as nasty as you want but keep in mind so can I. Sebastian will remember eventually, I'll make sure of it and when he does you better pray he doesn't retaliate for what you did to him."
Without another word Annette walked past her and back into Sebastian's room, while Kathryn marched back down the hall all the while trying to figure out how to run down that bitch before she could hurt her.
As she walked past the visitors room she noticed Blaine inside. He sprang from his seat as she approached "how did it go?"
Kathryn nodded "good, actually it was like nothing had changed."
"Well that is good. Everything worked out ok after all."
"Well there's one more bug left to squash. I have to get Sebastian's journal back from Annette."
"How do plan on doing that?"
A slow smirk spread across her lips as she asked "are you up for a little breaking and entering?"
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