A/N - I decided to give you all a treat and post a second chapter really quickly, since I subjected you to Kim last chapter! HaHa! We get back to Sam and Drew in this chapter and yes, we are one step closer to Drew retrieving the memories...or are we? Guess you'll have to read to find out! ;)
Sam came bounding down the stairs of the penthouse with her phone to her ear.
"Okay, so the nanny has no idea where he was calling from?" She asks hurriedly. Her face drops when the answer on the other end of the line was no. Sam was determined to figure out where Drew had gone to have this procedure. She wanted to start last night but it was too late and she also needed to make sure her kids would be taken care of if she had to leave last minute.
"Thanks, Monica, I knew it was a long shot but I thought I would try," Sam says sadly. "Are you sure you are okay to have Scout stay there, if I end up leaving town? I may not know how long I will be gone," she continues with concern. "Okay, that's great. Yes, I know you're always happy to have her," Sam continues with a smile. "I'm going to meet with Curtis in a little bit to see if he knows anymore, yes, of course, I will keep you posted with whatever I find out. Okay, talk to you soon." Sam re-assures Monica as she hangs up the phone. Sam looks around the room and spots her keys over on the coffee table as she walks over to get them, she catches a glimpse of the Thailand tickets she had left laying there. She picks up the tickets and sits down in the chair as she flaps them back and forth. Recalling the words Drew had written to her in the letter he sent, she was angry with herself for taking so long to figure out what she wanted. Sam felt a wash of anger come over her as she scolded herself for being so preoccupied that she hadn't been there for Drew the last few months. Suddenly, Sam darts up and grabs her keys. Still holding the tickets, she walks over to the desk. Gently, she puts them in the drawer and taps on it as she closes it, as if to give them extra safekeeping. "No time for regrets right now, I've got to find Drew!" She exclaims to herself. Sam picks up her phone and dials Curtis' number.
"Hey Curtis," Sam begins, glumly. "I need to meet with you right away, yeah it's about Drew. No, no I think he's okay, but that's where I need your help. I need to find him." Sam states plainly. "Yeah, so Kelly's in a half hour? Great see you then!" Sam exclaims excitedly. She picks up her keys and opens the door to go out. Just as she steps out, she see's Jason at the door ready to knock. "Jason, hey what's up?" she asks annoyed.
"Sam, sorry, is this a bad time?" He asks hesitantly.
"Well, yeah, I mean I'm just on my way out. Does this have to do with Danny?" Sam asks with concern.
"No, no Danny's fine," Jason mutters. "I was hoping to talk to you about Carly." Jason states plainly.
Sam slightly rolls her eyes and looks past Jason down the hallway. "Look, Jason, I'm sorry, but I don't have time to worry about Carly or her problems right now," Sam blurts out as she begins pushing her way out the door closing it behind her. "I have a, a case I'm working on right now, a very important case!" Sam cries out as she hurries down the hall and out of sight. Jason stands there in the hallway looking perplexed, starting to wonder what could be up. That was the second time Sam had pretty much blew him off. Jason shrugged his shoulders slightly as he began to walk away, he needed to figure out what he was going to do about Carly, whatever was up with Sam would have to wait.
"Curtis!" Sam calls out from her seat at her table. She had came straight to Kelly's from her apartment so she had been there for several minutes already anxiously waiting for Curtis to arrive.
"Hey, Sam," Curtis replies quietly as he raised his shoulders and rubbed his hands together trying to take in the warmth, having just come in from the frigid outdoors.
"You need to tell me everything." Sam declares, referring to Curtis getting the flash drive back for Drew.
"Sam, look I already told you, Drew didn't give me too many details. He was protecting me." Curtis replies with annoyance.
"I get that, I do, but he didn't say anything else to indicate what he was doing next?" Sam asks with urgency. "What about when he talked to Jordan about Andre, were you there?"
"No. I only took Drew to meet up with Jordan, but before he talked to her, he told me he had it all under control. You know, a subtle, but not so subtle way of saying, get lost?" Curtis says with a chuckle as he takes a sip of his coffee.
"Okay, so when did he meet up with Jordan?" Sam asks impatiently.
"Let's see, it was about a week ago, maybe a little longer?" Curtis replies with an unsure tone.
"A week!" Sam exclaims, surprised. How could Sam not have known anything about this for a week? Had she not seen Drew in that long? No, she didn't think so, there was that time, she dropped Scout off, no wait, he wasn't there, hmmm, Sam thought really hard about the last time she had seen Drew. She got mad at herself when she realized it had been almost two weeks. How could she have gone so long without seeing him, especially when he was going through all that stuff with Oscar. She had told Drew she would be there for him, but she hadn't done a great job of it. Now was her chance to prove that she could do better. "Great, thanks for the information," Sam blurts out as she gets up to go.
Curtis reaches out and grabs her arm to stop her, before she can walk away.
"Wait," Curtis snaps. "What are you up to?"
"I'm trying to find Drew," Sam retorts. "I need to make sure he's okay, I need to be there for him while he does this procedure." Sam explains calmly.
Curtis' face lights up and he gets a big smile on his face. "You need to be there for him, huh?" he says slyly. "So, does this mean what I think it means?" he asks coyly.
Sam turns around to look at him with daggers in her eyes. "Curtis, it means, I need to find him, okay?" she retorts annoyed. "He's Scout's father and I just need to make sure he's around for her." Sam claps back quickly.
"Yeah, okay." Curtis quietly responds. Sam could tell by the look on his face that he didn't believe her, but she wasn't about to let anyone else butt into her personal business. She needed to find Drew first, then she could finish sorting out her feelings. Curtis could speculate all he wanted but the only person she was going to pour her heart out to was Drew.
"Curtis, I gotta go, okay, thanks for meeting with me." Sam declares as she quickly walks away. As she walks out of Kelly's she searches her phone for Jordan's number. Once she gets outside, she finds it and dials the phone. "Jordan? Yeah, hey it's Sam McCall, do you have time to meet with me this morning, yeah, it's about a case I'm working on." Sam explains quickly and plainly. "Great, thanks, I'll see you then." Sam smiles as she walks off into the cold morning. She was one step closer to hopefully finding Drew and hopefully before he went through with the procedure.
Drew sat at the table in his hospital room as the morning sun shone in through the blinds. He looked up from the information he was writing to let the sun warm his face through the window. Today was the day. Finally, he was fully going to be Andrew Cain, well Andrew Quartermaine, now, since he had officially changed his name. A big smile crept across his face, thinking about Monica and officially being her son. He hoped she would understand why he never said anything about getting this procedure done and that seeing the birth certificate with his name in 'black and white,' would bring her some comfort. His thoughts were interrupted when he heard the door open.
"Good Morning!" Dr. Maddox exclaimed cheerfully. "Getting your 'homework,' done?" he asked with a little laugh.
"Ha, yeah," Drew chuckles looking down at the papers in front of him. "So, doc, when are we getting started with me getting my memories back?" Drew asks as he stands up and claps his hands together. He crosses in front of Andre to walk over and lean up against the window looking out.
"The procedure is scheduled for a few hours from now." Andre explains. Sensing some apprehension in Drew, Andre continues. "Are you sure you are ready to pursue this, Drew? I mean, you have the flash drive now, we can wait on the procedure, maybe you would feel better if you actually told someone, or had some support here for you?"
Drew steps back from the window and turns to look at Andre, "No, no I don't want that. I'm fine to do this now," Drew retorts. " I, I was just curious about my current memories, the ones from the last four years? Did you figure out for sure if I will lose them or not?" Drew asks apprehensively.
"I have done more research since we spoke last and I think I will be able to merge your current memories in with your old baseline, so that you should come out with ALL of your memories in the end." Andre re-assures Drew. A delighted smile beams across Drew's face.
"Really?" he gushes, "I will remember everything and everyone?" Drew asks as he begins to think about Sam and Scout. He really didn't want to lose the memories he had of them, but he had to take the risk now to avoid his life being blown apart any more.
"I'm fairly confident," Andre replies plainly. "I have re-worked the procedure so that we can take a new baseline of your memories and then they can be merged with your old ones. I think it can work." Andre states, with a bit of apprehension in his voice.
"What, Doc? You don't sound too sure about it." Drew replies quickly. "You need to tell me everything that could go wrong, worse-case scenario this for me." Drew snaps.
Andre begins to explain, "Look, you knew there were risks even trying to reverse the original memory mapping. I now know, I can reverse that, but implanting new memories, that has never been done before," Andre cautions Drew. "Worse-case scenario is that you will lose the memories from the last 4 years and never retrieve them," Andre informs him calmly, " but I don't think that will happen," he says confidently. "Drew, I've seen you with your family and how connected you are to them, I believe that connection will be able to break through no matter what," Andre implores, "But, if you've changed your mind and you don't want to risk it then we ca…" Drew cut's Andre off quickly and angrily.
"NO! For the last time no," Drew says as he takes a deep breath and begins to calm down. "I need to do this. It will be better for my family in the long run and for me. You are right, I do have a connection with the people that I love and that connection will be there regardless of my memories." Drew insists. He turns around and walks back over to the window and begins to look out over the grounds. Andre walks up behind him and touches him on the shoulder.
"Okay, Drew I understand. We will continue preparing for the procedure. Please complete the paperwork we discussed and I'll be back before we begin to check on you." Andre says comfortingly. He turns to go out the door and pauses for a moment. Andre begins to say something but stops and just leaves quietly.
Drew stands there at the window for a few more minutes recalling all his memories with Sam, Scout, Monica, even Danny and Jake. He wanted to hold on to them all. He thought about the memories so hard as if he was trying to etch them in his mind so there was no way they could be forgotten.
"I have to do this," he commanded to himself as he turned back around and headed for the table and all the paperwork waiting there for him. Pulling the chair back out so he could sit down he picks up the pen and looks down at the papers. He starts flipping through a couple of them and then lets out a deep sigh and begins writing. "It's not much longer now," he thought to himself, "only a few more hours and then the next chapter of my life will begin."