"So I guess we're agreed that you'll always need the crutch and brace, but that as time moves on it won't be needed as frequently, at least for the crutch, the brace however..."

"Will always be needed due to the damage done to my leg"

"Exactly...how have you been watching the trials?"

"I think I'm still missing something important that my mind isn't ready for me to consciously remember, but remembering most of the six years I've been missing has helped me greatly in reconnecting with my friends and family back home"

"How so?"

"It not only allows them to freely talk to me about the searches they did for me but also allows them to talk about what they've been through these past six years that I've been gone, especially my Japanese friends who found out about me before Taiwan and Hong Kong did, they had a heavier burden because of that"

"I see, um Li, the officers were talking to me about your health and...while you can't testify in court the judges are beginning to think that the jury needs to see the victim that was imprisoned the longest, but at the same time with part of your memory still missing..."

"You're worried I might be triggered and discover what I've forgotten and you doctors are not telling me still"

"Exactly, and if it should happen in court..."

"I know...unfortunately I highly doubt the courts would like someone to use something to make me remember forcefully, that could get the whole case thrown out"

"Exactly, which means we're in a pickle unless we can figure out a solution"

Everyone thinks on it and then Li hits upon the solution

"I have it, can you ask the judges if there's a way for me to be in a separate court room with just a lawyer and any doctors that you feel are necessary?"

"Why do you ask?"

"Video conferences, I can be in one room and everyone else can be in another, plus my end can be muted so that I don't hear anything that could trigger a flashback and if there's any videos you can control if I see said videos or not, that ways I'll be an actual person to the jury and yet not have any memories tampered with, which will keep the case clean and still allow me to remember what I've forgotten on my own, and with earpieces any questions asked can be asked to me and I can answer it depending on if my lawyer will allow it"

"We'll ask the judge about it and go from there"

"Okay, let me know when we have an answer okay?"

"Need time with a lawyer to prepare?"

"Yes, especially after being away from the court system for so long"

"Once we know what the judge says we'll have everything else prepared"

Two days later and Li finds out his suggestion was accepted by the judge, who understood that it was time for the final victim in this case to speak for himself and yet be protected from memories his mind was still blocking, the judge was aware that watching recordings of the trial so far had triggered memories but the judge had also been informed that he was starting to remember anyways through dreams and thus knew that the case wasn't actually tainted

"So...how do we go about implementing my plan?"

"There's a special room that is used for closed court cases, cases where the public isn't allowed to view anything, not even family of the victims are allowed in, that's the room you'll be in at the time of your participation, only the lawyer you've been assigned, two police officers as guards and the primary doctor in charge of your care will be allowed in that court room"

"Understood"

Three days later and it was time for Li to be in court and the jury to see the final victim, and when his name was mentioned the people arrested paled because they knew that Li was alive, but they didn't think that the things done to him were part of the counts of charges against them because Li hadn't been the only person raped by the group, just the most frequent person they had raped. It was then explained that Li would be attending via a video conference from another room in the courthouse and once that explanation was done Li was on the screen

"Mr. Li, I understand that rules have been established for your safety correct?"

Everyone except the judge expected Li to answer immediately but instead Li turned to the lawyer close to him and simply waited until the Lawyer was finished talking

"That's correct, the people on this end will control not only any video I see but will also relay any questions to me and will decide if it's better that I not answer"

And so for two hours everyone was in the courthouse discussing the case and the charges with Li giving testimony regarding what he remembered, and then the judge called for a two hour recess since it was getting close to lunch time and he knew that the lawyer with Li needed to take care of something in the office that fortunately wouldn't take longer than half an hour but considering the office was a fifteen minute drive from the courthouse on a good day he was giving the lawyer some leeway to get what needed done, done and also have lunch himself. During the lunch break is when Li would have the final trigger for his missing memories, though no one knew it immediately not even him, instead what happened was that a customer tried to force themselves onto a waitress and the waitress needed rescuing with help from not only a nearby waiter but also the manager, but the intervention almost came too late and the position the two were in made it obvious what would have happened. When back in the courthouse the trial continued and then was suspended for the rest of the day at five, and the next two days were the same, and then the night of the third day of the trial Li was with his lawyer at the lawyer's office late due to needing to discuss things regarding the trial that was known to Li when suddenly an innocent remark from one of the officers that was his driver sent Li into a full flashback

"So I just discovered that our late night on my wife's birthday is going to make me a father"

"Wait, your wife's pregnant?"

"Yeah, we're still young but we've been trying for a trial for a bit now, it's still early in the pregnancy but we're both happy"

"I'm glad, Li I know that...Li?...Li?...Li are you okay?"

It took the lawyer and the police officer five minutes of gentle coaxing but finally they could tell that he was back in the present because the look in his eyes said that he hadn't been

"Hey, you okay now?"

"Sorry about that I...I remember now what the doctors have been keeping from me, why I had more blood work than most people during the dialysis period"

"I see...how much have you remembered about what's been kept from you so far?"

"Every incident I was awake for, they...they paralyzed me while they raped me a few times, where I was fully conscious of what was happening to me but I couldn't move my body to fight back, even if I had wanted to"

The officer and lawyer both sigh at that and then the officer speaks up first

"I'm sorry for bringing up those memories before you were ready"

"I was already starting to remember after that incident at the restaurant the first day of the trial that I attended during the two hour lunch break"

"Oh...that incident, I'm glad...I'm glad it isn't a complete shock then since I'm sure the memories have been more nightmares than actual memories"
"Exactly"

The lawyer speaks up next

"I suppose this means that you can testify in court without using the video conference method, and the counts of rape regarding you can be spoken in front of you without the judge worrying about tainted evidence"

"Depends on what the judge thinks since I want you to tell him exactly how I regained my memories"

"Understood, I'll call him tonight and find out for sure"

Fifteen minutes later and Li found out that the judge decided that Li could testify in person, due to the circumstances of his memory being triggered it was still legal for him to testify seeing as how it was outside forces that made him remember and not anything that could be considered memory modification

"However the case is being delayed two days, power outage with another case in the later part of the day means that the courthouse is shut down until we know what happened and have a temporary fix"

"How can so much happen for one case?"

"No idea, but that's probably going to be investigated soon especially since there's a couple of other high profile cases going on right now that are being affected"

"Can I help?"

"Sorry, but this is something we Americans have to do ourselves"

"Understood"

Two days later and everyone was surprised when Li was on the witness stand in person instead of through the video link that they'd been doing for the past few days of the trial