Friends and Lovers
By Misha

Author's Notes- There have been a lot of requests for me to either repost this story or tell you where you can find it, so I decided to post the link here. You can find chapters 1-28 at http://www.geocities.com/chloephilip/Fanfiction/friendindex.html, I'll try to repost the rest as soon as I can. I also wanted to thank everyone for all the wonderful feedback this story has gotten, it means a lot to me. Thank you so much! Well, that's all for now, enjoy!

Chapter Thirty-Five

Friday, January 19th 2001

September 10th.

That was the day it all started, Shawn remembered. That was the day that he had asked Chloe to meet him before school the next morning and the day that Phillip had called her up and asked her out.

Shawn wondered why she had forgotten everything that happened since then and what she remembered about that day.

"Phillip, why don't you go get the doctor?" He suggested.

Phillip glared at him, but silently did as he was told.

A minute later, the doctor and Chloe's parents followed Phillip into the room.

"What's going on?" Chloe asked. "Why am I in the hospital and why is Shawn's arm broken?"

"You were in an accident." Nancy said quietly.

"Oh." Chloe said softly. "I was?"

"Yes." The doctor confirmed. "Chloe, what's the last thing you remember?"

Chloe bit her lip. "Shawn gave me a ride home from Dot.Com, we had spent the afternoon hanging out there, and when he dropped me off, he asked me to meet him at school the next day before class. Everything after that is a blank."

Shawn took a deep breath. Oh, boy.

The doctor nodded. "Thank you, Chloe." He turned to the others. "Can I speak to you outside for a moment?"

They all nodded and followed the doctor out into the hall. "Did anything significant happen after the point in time that Chloe remembers?"

"Yeah, I asked her out for the first time." Phillip said quietly. "That was the start of our relationship."

The doctor was quiet for a minute. "I see. This is a personal question, but did you father her child?"

Phillip nodded. "Yeah."

The doctor nodded as well. "I thought so. I think I know what the problem is. The trauma of the miscarriage has caused Chloe to block out any memories at all related to the baby, and that includes her entire relationship with you."

Shawn gulped and looked at Phillip. He actually felt sorry for him, he looked horrible, as if his entire world had just been shattered.

Which, in a way, Shawn supposed it had.

After all, he had lost the child he hadn't even known about and now Chloe didn't remember anything they had shared. Shawn couldn't even begin to imagine how horrible that would be.

I just wonder what's going to happen now. He thought, casting a look towards Chloe's room. Because suddenly, it's a whole new ball game.
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Mimi, Belle, and Jason waited in the waiting room for any word on Chloe.

She's got to be okay. Mimi thought. She just has to be.

She couldn't believe that Chloe was in the hospital fighting for her life, it didn't seem fair.

Suddenly, Shawn entered the room.

"Is there any word?" Mimi asked, jumping up out of her chair.

"She woke up." Shawn told her.

Mimi started to cry. "Thank God."

Belle and Jason echoed her statements.

"But," Shawn continued.

"But what?" Mimi asked him, scared once more.

Shawn took a deep breath. "I don't know if I should be telling you this, but since you're Chloe's closest friends, I will. She was pregnant and she lost the baby."

"Oh, God." Belle whispered. "She must be devastated."

"She doesn't know." Shawn told her. "See, there's more. She has partial amnesia, she doesn't remember she was ever pregnant. In fact, she doesn't remember anything prior to September 10th of last year, the day before her relationship with Phillip began."

Everyone stared at him.

"What?" Mimi asked. "She's forgotten everything that happened? How?"

"The doctors think it was the trauma of the miscarriage." Shawn explained. "She doesn't want to deal with it, so she blocked it all out."

"Poor Phillip." Jason said in a peculiar voice. "He must be devastated."

"Yeah." Shawn agreed. "Anyway, Meems, she's asking for you."

"Okay." Mimi said, grabbing her purse. "I'll go see her."

"Wait." Shawn told her. "Meems, remember she doesn't know that you and Jason aren't together. She knows she has amnesia, but the doctor said to try and make sure that she received no major shocks. So, be careful how you tell her, okay?"

"Yeah." Mimi said quietly. "I will."

Shawn nodded. "Good."

"I should go." Belle said suddenly. "Since she doesn't remember me, I don't think she'd want me to visit her. And if I did show up, I'd have to explain, and that probably wouldn't help her."

"Probably not." Shawn agreed. "I'll call you later, okay?"

"Okay." Belle told him, before turning and leaving.

Mimi watched her go and then turned to Shawn. "I'm gonna go see Chloe now, okay?"

"Okay." Shawn told her.

"Wait." Jason said. "Mimi before you do, can I talk to you alone?"

"Sure." Mimi told him, waiting for him to approach her before the two of them went into the hall. "What is it?"

"This." Jason told her, kissing her suddenly.

Mimi responded eagerly, but then she pulled away.

"What was that?" She asked. "Jase, you were the one who didn't want to get back together, so what was that?"

"I love you." He told her. "When I heard about Chloe, I thought about how devastated Phillip must be and how glad I was that it wasn't you. It was then that I realized that I never want to lose you again. Yes, we have problems, but we can work them out, I know we can. So, how about it, do you still want to give it another go?"

"I do." Mimi said quietly, tears of joy in her eyes. "I love you Jason Welles. I always have."

Jason leaned down and kissed her again. "I love you too, Miriam Lockhart, always and forever."
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Belle sat on her bed and just stared into space. She couldn't believe what had just happened.

Chloe had been pregnant. She lost the baby. She had amnesia.

None of it seemed real.

But then again, she thought, nothing that's happened lately seems real.

She felt so bad for Phillip. How horrible it must be that his girlfriend didn't remember him.

But then again, her best friend didn't remember her. She felt so alone.

Chloe was her best friend, her only real friend in Salem. She just hung out with the others because of Chloe and now...

Now, she had no one.

"Stop thinking like that." She told herself. "Chloe will get her memory back in time and everything will be okay. Besides, once she gets out of the hospital, it'll be okay to tell her what she forgot. Everything will be okay."

But somehow, even as Belle said the words, she didn't really believe them.
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