The young man laying on the gray bed in the surprisingly gray room woke up with a sharp gasp for air. He took in another large gulp of air with a second gasp as he tried to sit up and bed but found that his head couldn't quite lift up properly on the account of the burning sharp pain in his right shoulder.

"Where the fuck am I|?" The young man thought as he eyes looked around the room. "Okay, better question, who the fuck am I?"

The young man looked around the room taking in his surroundings. He was in a closed room, looks like a hospital room. Window to the outside on one wall. A gray couch with a young girl with wearing a grey outfit sleeping on the couch a tv on the wall-

"Wait, I can't see colors! That's why everything is gray. Okay that makes a lot more sense than this place have the most depressing color palette of any hospital ever." He thought

The young man turned his attention to young girl on the couch, she was wearing, well no point dwelling on the the girl was was wearing a think tank top and pajama pants. She was showing just the right amount of skin. The girl slept with her back facing the back of the couch. She had short hair cut into a bob cut that went to the bottom of her next, she had a darker shade of hair, and the way she was sleeping allowed him a pretty good view down her-

"Oh look at that wall over there, it has a painting of a squirrel on it!" The Young man thought as he was also now also very heavily blushing at what he just briefly saw.

Finally deciding that he would have better luck figuring things out he sat up, he used his uninjured arm to pull himself upright. As he sat he took notice of the lack of shirt on him. He also took stock of the small scar on his chest and bandages over his right shoulder "Huh, a scar and a fresh injury, a girl on the couch... how in the fuck did I end up- JERK! My name is Jerk!"

"Why is my name Jerk?" Jerk thought to himself, as he kept looking around the room, he saw that the girl had a bag that was opened with extra sleepwear and some cleaning items... "Oh so you brought your overnight bag, I kinda hope your not my sister now otherwise I'd feel pretty shitty at the moment..."

Jerk keeps looking around here while he kept thinking to himself "Okay so all things considered I seem to be in a safe spot. I'm also thinking I'm starting to figure things out. I got a 'Please don't be my sister' on the couch nearby. I can't see colors. I'm injured from... Something I'll get back to that." Jerk tried to speak and noted nothing came out. "I'm also fucking mute, fantastic!"

The girl started to stir, apparently stirring due to Jerk making too much noise as he pulled himself up in bed. The girl looked at him blinking and signed out a [Oh hey you're awake?]

Jerk's face sank "She's mute as well, fuck she's my sister, i'm at half mast from looking at my sister." Jerk waived and signed out a [Uh, just woke up too.] before thinking "I know sign language? Awesome!"

The girl stood up stretching out as she took a couple steps over to him and kissed him on the lips before signing [Back in a sec, got to use the bathroom] and walking off.

"Oh sweet Jesus were those kind of siblings!" Jerk thought in mind numbing horror.

As Jerk thought for a few minutes the girl came back out and looked at Jerk with a puzzled expression [Uh, Jaune you okay?]

"Oh my name is Jaune? I guess that makes more sense than being named 'Jerk'." he thought tapping his chin before signing after trying to speak forgetting he can't actually do that. [Uh yeah, I'm fine, how are you?]

The girl came back out with a playful smirk on her face [Oh well, you know my neck is just killing me from sleeping on that couch, mind kissing it and making it better?]

Jaune thought to himself "Okay, hard choice now, I don't want to let slip that I forgot who I was! But I'm not sucking on my sister's neck no matter how a great way to maintain cover it may seem!". In a act of desperation he instead shot a winning smile [If your neck is bugging you I can give you a neck rub?]

The girl smiled and sat on the edge of his bed and leaned her head forward so he could get started with a decent neck rub. As Jaune started with giving her a, at least in his own mind a quality neck rub he thought "Dammit, stop enjoying this Jaune! If that's even my real name!". Eventually the girl stopped took his hand and sat closer to him [Sorry I know i'm being kinda weird but I had to watch you sleep off the anesthetics for the last few hours with you shirtless.]

Jaune looked down at his own chest, except for he scar he figured he had a nice enough chest, then he looked her arm and noticed a pretty nasty scar on his right arm. Jaune had a thought about all of this "Okay it's official we're criminals, were likely holding this entire hospital hostage while I get treated for a fight injury." Jaune shook his head "Must have something to do with the fact i'm fooling around with my sister."

The girl looks at him closely [Your acting weird, you still coming down from the anesthetics in your system?]

[Yeah I guess I am, Just being me and my usual wacky self right?] Jaune signed before finger gunning at her.

The girl blinked at him for a second. [Yeah... I'm going to have the desk nurse call your mom in.]

Jaune shot the girl a thumbs up as he thought "Okay, she said 'your mom' that means she's not my sister! It's okay to think she's hot now!'

Jaune leaned back into the bed and waited...


Thirty minutes later. The girl came back in with a man in a doctor's coat and a older looking woman who smiled at Jaune when she came in and called him "Sweetie". The doctor asked a few basic questions that Jaune tried to answer the best of his knowledge.

"Yeah, looks like the Anesthetics haven't fully cycled out of him and the parts of his brain that govern long term memories havant woken up yet, he'll be find in about 12 hours give or take." the doctor said before excusing himself.

The girl sighed out as she signed [Well that explains why he looked weirded out when I kissed him when he woke up.]

His mother chuckled with a shit eating grin on his face "Well that's good, maybe if were lucky he won't remember what happened in the spring of 1997"

Jaune stared at the two women with a confused look on his face [Wait, what happened in the spring of 1997?]

The person he believes to have been his mother. "Well I mean I'm surprised you don't remember causing the second worst nuclear disaster in the history on the United States."

[I did what!] Jaune signed with a look of pure shock.

[Yeah I remember that, We went to a class field trip at Hanford. You were messing around with things you weren't supposed to and pulled a level that cause a reaction.] Ruby paused and rested a hand on her lower belly [It's why I can never have kids, or you for that matter, or anyone living in fifteen miles of the Hanford Nuclear reservation] The girl said.

"What Anna Marie here is saying, is that it was bad... like really, really bad." His so called mother said.

Jaune stared at the two girls with a look of pure horror. [How am I not in prison?]

[Oh you were, we actually broke you out, that's why your here, you just had facial reconstruction surgery to change your appearance.] Anna Marie said. [Also Anna is not my real name. But yeah. How in the hell do you think I got this scar?] she signed before holding up her arm.

"Okay can we go back to where I was sleeping with my sister?" Jaune thought.

The two girls started cracking up not able to hold it back anymore. Anna started to lougly laugh as she bent over holding his stomach while Mina quietly giggled out a quick "Jaune it's okay, none of that happened were just messing with you, you'll remember why you kinda deserved it in a few hours but go ahead and get some rest while I buy Ruby some dinner."

Jaune blinked ant thought "I hate the both of you so goddamn much right now."


Ten hours later in the early hours of January 4th, Jaune woke up with his memories working as they did the other 99.9% Of his life. Ruby was sleeping on on the couch under a warm blanket and and a pillow, and was sleeping contently.

The problem was, he remembered the prank that his mother and "Anna Marie" played on him a few hours ago. Jaune woke up his girlfriend with a well aimed plastic spoon from his earlier diner much to her annoyance. Ruby shot straight up with a look of shock and annoyance as saw her boyfriend was up. Her face contorted slightly with just a hint of anger for being woken up..

Ruby looked at the time saw it was somewhere in the ballpark of five in the morning and just shot a dirty glare at Jaune [Dude, what the fuck?]

[Sorry I had a nightmare to that time I caused a nuclear explosion, Anna Marie can you come give me a hug?] Jaune said with a sarcastic smirk.

Ruby got up as she rubbed her eyes and climbed into the hospital bed with Jaune snuggling up next to him signing [I'm going to rip your IV out while I do this and make it look like an accident, just so you know].

Jaune silently chucked and joked [That's fine, I still hate you and my mother for that prank.]

[It was a little funny you have to admit] Ruby signed with one hand as she snuggled up close to Jaune

[Almost as funny as when I thought you were my sister for a minute there...] Jaune signed and silently chuckled.

Ruby made an exaggerated shudder of disgust [How? Why? How?]

[Do you see a mirror in here? I just figured I can't talk, you can't talk, we were clearly related.] Jaune signed out with a giggled

[Oh god and I kissed you right after you woke up.] Ruby signed while cringe giggling.

[Yeah I honestly was thinking 'Oh god, were that kind of siblings!'] Jaune said as his body shook with a silent giggle.

Ruby giggled with him until a nurse came in looking worried. "Oh, uh, hey it's okay for you guys to snuggle, but can you not unplug his heartbeat sensor? We just had a slight panic attack out here"

Both looked kinda embarrassed as Jaune translated for her and had her sit up so he could plug it back in and signed a quick "Sorry"

The nurse nodded "Okay, and uh, don't do anything to spike your heart rate, we might mistake that for a heart attack and come knocking as well."

Jaune gave the nurse a thumbs up as Ruby got comfy again. Jaune told her what the nurse said causing Ruby's cheeks to turn red.

Ruby smiled and signed [Love you] Before settling down in for a bit more sleep.

Jaune smiled and kissed her forehead and before trying to go back to sleep himself, he'd be out of the hospital later on that day. Then he would need to restart physical therapy on the shoulder that thankfully Ruby wasn't laying on... But he could worry about that later.

For right now, the world had four walls and a population of two.


Okay I'm not going to lie, this really does nothing to advance the overall story, but I thought it'd be funny as shit, their is cases of people suffering short term amnesia just after an operation from the anesthetics they use, and I decided to run with it.

I ha a brief conversation in my PM box the other day as to why I set this in the 90's. Rather than actually just repost what I said to that user (Dharshan) I'm just going to go ahead and sum it like by saying "Because I wanted to make Jaune's life as difficult as I could". I did explain how I felt like if the cast had "easy" access to cellphones that would remove allot of the challenges in communicative that ironically makes the fact that they became such close friends better.

Real talk, I never mind someone PMing me or Commenting me questions, I'm normally happy to answer as long as you don't mind them often being shot from the hip on a 15 minute break at work hours later. But other than that, Thanks again for reading, and I'll see you all later.