(Just a short chapter. I'm trying to motivate myself to continue writing.)

Eric and Greta stood in the waiting room with Kate. Kate was miserable. She should be able to do something for her boy. Lucas was the loyal, good son and if there was anything that she could do for him, she would in a heartbeat. But standing outside his hospital room just wasn't working for her. She had to do something to help. Suddenly she turned towards Eric and Greta and told them, "You two come with me. We have work to do."

Eric and Greta just looked at each other before following Kate down the hall.

Meanwhile inside Lucas' body finally allowed the medication to relax him enough so the doctor's could operate. Sami held his hand and every so often she'd whisper to him, "If you don't remember me soon, I'm going to kill you."

Lucas kept having this crazy dream. He married Sami next to a cliff. Then suddenly he was holding a Will doll trying to get Sami to jump off the cliff. Then the next second Sami would yell at him that she was going to kill him if he didn't remember. The scene then switched to the bedroom where Sami started taking off his tie, trying to seduce him before she'd say to him, "You'll never get your son back. I've won." The world kept spinning more and more, but the one constant was that Sami kept telling him to remember or she'd kill him.

After the procedure the head doctor told Sami, "He must not have any stress right now. His injuries reopened because he was on edge. It's dangerous for him to be told anything shocking."

Sami asked the doctor a little stressed herself, "How do we keep him stress free when he thinks that he's married to someone that he hates. When he was married to Nicole he almost drank himself to death because he was miserable. Then there is me. We're married now, but at the point of his memories all he remembers is that we hated each other. I was delusional back then thinking his brother was the one for me. Oh and let's not forget that Nicole is using Lucas' memory loss to win back my brother. So how are we to keep this from him?"

The doctor told her, "Je ne sais pas. Bonne chance."

Sami rolled her eyes in annoyance at the doctor's blaze attitude towards the situation. Where was Mike, her mom, or even Lexie at the moment to tell her how to avoid the stress? They had to know since she once had amnesia herself and everyone lied to her. Of course it took an electrical shock to help her memory. Sami looked at Lucas' sleeping form and wondered for a second if she holding his hand to the socket would help him? But of course she decided against it since he was extremely weak at the moment. She could try later since the Salemites are pretty handy at surviving electrical currents.

She followed him through the recovery room and then back to his personal room. Everyone else seemed to have left, and she wanted to be here in case he woke up.

Meanwhile Carrie and Austin weren't ready to stop. Making out in the park like 11th graders was absolutely a fun and intoxicating. Neither of them wanted to stop for even a second because stopping might give him or her a chance to remember all the reasons that getting together was absolutely stupid.

Someone tapped Austin's shoulder from the back and told them both, "Move along you too."

Carrie felt like someone ripped Austin from her arms and that she was going to lose him again. So instead of thinking, she told Austin, "Let's go back to my room and finish."

In the back of his head Austin felt a throbbing that was warning him that he was going to fast and he needed to calm down. But instead of listening to that voice he held Carrie close to him and whispered his answer, "If we skate home is fifteen minutes, but if we drive it's twenty."

Carrie told him, "But if you drive then I get to distract you until we get home."

He laughed, but guided her towards the car.

Kate, Eric and Greta stood outside Nicole's hotel room. Kate had a plan to rid Nicole from Lucas' life, and Eric was perfect. The only fly in the ointment was that Greta wasn't agreeing to the perfect plan. Greta stood in the hallway and told Kate and Eric, "No. Absolutely no."

Kate told Greta, "Lucas is sick right now, but he needs a divorce from the harlot immediately. All I want is for Eric to give Nicole some motivation."

Greta shook her head firmly and said, "No!"

Eric had remained silent during the entire encounter. If he agreed to lie to Nicole then his sister's life would return to normal, but if he agreed Greta would be furious. But in the end Greta should understand that he wanted to help his sister out. He told Kate and Greta, "OK I'm in, but you better get in there when I call for you."

Greta told Eric, "I cannot stand by and watch this again. Eric, if you go in there, we have no future."

Instead of listening to Greta's warning, Eric felt like he was going to do something needed today. So he kissed Greta on her head and told her, "Nicole means nothing. As soon as I get Nicole's signature, then we'll never have to see her again."

Greta was steaming. She was about to relive her worst nightmare. She married Eric, ready to throw all these doubts and fears out. But he was choosing Nicole again. Sure he might not be saying that right now, but every bone in her body felt the betrayal just the same. She couldn't stay and watch this. But she breathed in and out once and said, "I'm going home."

She turned and walked away. Eric told her departing figure, "I'll meet you there."

Greta couldn't stop her tears. Nicole was about to win again. She needed to avoid being the loser again. So she went home to pack.

As Greta was walking to her room, she stopped on the stairs. Carrie and Austin were in Carrie's room and it was obvious that they were being intimate. If two people were going to be happy in Paris, Carrie and Austin were the ones that deserved it. In Greta's mind she assumed that Nicole and Eric were probably going to reconcile, and she hated them all over again. There was a small voice telling her that she was being ridiculous and that Eric swore his undying love. But her doubts countered that he swore his love before and that didn't work out so well for her last time either. So she grabbed a backpack, her computer and started to leave. She stopped long enough to write a note for Eric, but she didn't expect to see him again. She quietly walked out of her room, down the stairs and out the door.

Carrie sat up in bed for a minute and asked Austin, "Is someone at the door?"

Austin traced his finger on Carrie's bare shoulder as they listened in silence for a minute. He then said, "It was probably one of the maids or something."

Carrie nodded her agreement and settled back down. Making love to Austin again was probably a stupid fantasy, but she was going to enjoy every moment that she could.

Back at the hospital Lucas started to wake up. His vision was cloudy at first. And his head throbbed. He slowly realized that Sami was in the room and he didn't know if he was happy or angry at the vision. Nothing made sense. So he continued to lie there.

Sami walked to his bedside and saw a flicker of movement and asked, "Lucas, are you awake?"

Her hand was on the bed. Lucas didn't know how to answer Sami's question because he didn't know how he was supposed to feel about her. Everything was jumbled in his head. So he moved his hand to put it on top of hers.

Sami felt his warm hand. She didn't know what it meant, but she prayed with every fiber of her soul that Lucas was coming back to her.