"time to wake up and take your meds"
"Who are you?"
"I'm your doctor"
"what's a... Doctor?"
He sighed, ever since she had been attacked, she had been like this. Every day they had gone through a similar routine with similar questions and answers being given every time. While he was certain the memories were still in tact, the attack had rendered her unable to access them. "I'm going to take your blood pressure and pulse"
"what am I doing here"
"you were attacked" he didn't even see the point in using her name to get her attention, he knew it wouldn't work, he knew she didn't even know that. "one of your friends came along and left this for you though"
"what is it?"
"a photo album, it might help you regain some of your memories"because the only two people who know exactly what happened that night have both lost their memories. On the one hand we've got an amnesiac victim who can't even remember her best friend's name and on the other we've got an amnesiac offender who her closest friends claim was having difficulty with her past and flashbacks and that she wouldn't have ever attacked this girl if she knew who she was so that indicated to them that she was in this supposed delusional state?the doctor resisted the urge to shake his headwhat a mess he thought,and us doctors are the ones expected to clean it up
"oh. Thank you" she opened it to the first page and there was a picture of four people standing in front of a massive animal, "who are these people?"
"can't you remember them?"
"no" she paused and immediately began tracing her face, "this... This is me?"
"yes"
"but who am I?"
The doctor resisted the urge to facepalm. "you still don't remember?"
"no"
"oh well it's only been about six months"
"six months since what?"
"You were attacked"
"who attacked me?" she growled, "are they in jail?"
"In a manner of speaking"
*
"how is she?" an older woman walked up to them, to anyone other than the girl sitting in the bed, she would've been immediately recognisable as Chief Lin Beifong
"Chief! What are you doing here?"
"it should be obvious"
"excuse me, do I know you?"
"Yes, you do, you've just forgotten me"
"Oh. Right. Well according tohim" she pointed at the doctor, "I'm forgetting a lot at the moment"
"don't worry, we'll help you recover your memories, and prove your best friend's innocence at the same time"
"What best friend?"
Lin gently took her hand and put her finger over the face of another girl in the picture she was staring at, the second picture is the group which was of a group of girls standing and laughing, clearly they were enjoying life. "her"
The woman couldn't help but notice that both this person who was visiting her and herself were in this picture together. "She's my best friend? But I don't even know her name!"
"She doesn't know yours either" Lin whispered regretfully,I wish I'd listened to them both now, I wish I'd insisted that knucklehead airbender had kept Kya closer to their rooms then we might not be in this mess. I didn't even know she could bloodbend but I guess I should've seen it coming since she mastered every other waterbending skill by the time she was something like eight
"well we're screwed then. I'd like to see my best friend"
"you can't!" the doctor went red in the face when Lin held up her hand to shut him up
"She doesn't know you any more than you know her, but I suppose a face to face meeting may get some recognition"
"you can't bring that bloodbending monster in here!" the doctor barked
*
Suddenly the doctor realised just how tall and imposing Lin Beifong could be if she wanted to be, "you think you know the situation better than me?" she hissed, to the doctor it was as if tangible rage was seeping out of every single one of her pores and her words felt as if they were lashes from a whip. "you think you know what happened better than me?" she clenched her fist around the doctor's tie, "you think you know what they were both like before this happened? Before you met her? Before you met her best friend?" her voice had gone calm, but the doctor knew she was anything but calm.
He found himself shrinking, his shoulders rising up and he realised how much of a shell of his former proud self he had become when a tiny voice answered "no" squeakily
"good" Lin opened her hand to release the man's tie and he stumbled back a few steps, hit by her words more than anything else
"I'll leave you two alone" he squeaked
"good." Lin turned back to the girl in the bed, "you know to call me if anything changes? I'd quite like to be able to put this case behind me and get them reunited" the nurse nodded and left, "Mako and Bolin send their love as does everyone else" she had finally lowered her eyes to meet green
"Her as well?" the woman indicated one of the other girls in another picture where there were more people at some kind of event where there was a bald child, she didn't know if they were male or female with blue tattoos all over their body, a lot of other people dressed in similar clothes to the child, five people dressed in blue, one dressed in red and four dressed in greens, as well as a bloke in purple who, in the woman's own words 'stuck out like a sore thumb'. She indicated the one person which gave Lin a jolt of hopefulness, out of everyone in that picture she had pointed to that person
"not exactly, but I'm sure if she was able to she would have done so" Lin sighed, she placed her hand on top of the younger woman's, "I've got to get back to the station now, but I'm going to come back later alright?"
"alright" the woman replied sadly. Lin had noticed that she was no longer tracing her own face but the face of someone she couldn't even remember, Lin was proud of the fact that nothing got past her, not even the smallest gesture and she felt hopeful for the first time in six months