Author's Note: I'm so happy! I got 6 reviews in the first 3 hours of the last chapter! Lol, that's a record. Just to clear some things up, Riku is NOT a scientific testing subject or anything like that.
Oh, and FYI, Remeron is an anti-depressant drug...and dissociative amnesia/memory loss is when a person kind of pushes a painful/traumatic memory to the back of their mind. Like, they forget, but it's not completely gone.
Disclaimer: I happen to love my hunk of cheese.
TDIN: 12.5.
"Tape 10, session 9, 1:30 PM, today is December 5th. Subject shows no signs of minor improvement overnight. Symptoms of insomnia and nightmares persist."
-crackle-
"Hello Riku, how was your lunch?"
-silence-
The boy sits still on the leather couch. The breeze from the window rustles his silver hair. He looks at his hands, never moving his azure eyes.
"...I'm going to have to ask you some hard questions today. Are you okay with that? If you want to stop at any point, just raise your hand. We'll stop."
When the mop of silver hair nods, Dr. Leonhart continues, picking his words carefully, hesitantly.
"Riku...how did you get that bottle of Remeron? You weren't diagnosed with depression back then and... No one you knew had a bottle..."
Riku recoils from the professor's voice and starts fiddling with the navy blue edge of his t-shirt. He clenches his fist until the whites of his knuckles show...but he doesn't raise his hand.
Seeing his hands, the doctor pauses and continues.
"Riku, if talking doesn't work for you... can you write?"
After some time, the boy cautiously nods his head. The doctor smiles and he holds out a fresh notepad with wooden pencils.
Riku holds the pencil nervously and slowly starts writing in big clumsy letters. After five minutes, he hands back the notepad to the waiting doctor.
Dr. Leonhart reads the font and frowns slightly.
There, in clumsy letters, Riku had written, "I HAD REMERON?"
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-cracklecrackle-
"Subject may be experiencing dissociative memory loss of Remeron episode."
-click-
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Riku is crying.
He's lying on his bed and softly crying.
And he doesn't know why.
Author's Note: Please review!!! Pwetty pwease...-big shiny watering anime eyes-
Hmm, my chapters are pretty short...