A/N : So the overwhelming consensus was to keep it going straight through. I am going to do that but for the sake of a good story there will be a short time jump in this chapter. It will basically just skip over Paige's recovery time. As a side note a lot of the things that Paige remembers from 2009 are from personal experience. My best friend died April 2nd of 2009 and these are all of the things I did with her.

Previously:

"Your girlfriend, she probably likes your sense of humor."

"Sir, I don't have a girlfriend, I am completely and 100% heterosexual." Emily's eyes started to well up as her fears came to life. Dr. Khana looked at her and she just shook her head. "Paige can you answer me one more question, what year is it?"

Paige laughed a little bit, "Damn, I wish my classes were this easy, its 2009"

Emily didn't know if she should be relieved because her Paige didn't just reject her or completely worried because 2009 Paige had no idea they were together. On top of that, 2009 Paige hadn't come out yet, hell 2009 Emily hadn't come out yet. Emily was taken out of her thoughts by Paige's loud cough.

"You're staring at me, and it is starting to creep me out." Emily looked any other way and her face turned blood red. "I'm sorry."

Paige turned to the doctor, "I am fine for right now, or at least for the next five minutes can I talk to her for a second, alone." He left the room promising to be back to check on her. As soon as the door shut, Paige went on the offensive. "I really don't know why you are here, but I'm going to take a stab at it, no pun intended, and I just want you to listen." Emily couldn't form words anyways so she just nodded. "The only person who hates me enough to do this is Ali, so did she and I get in a fight that turned sour? Let me guess, I went over to her house to tell her to back off and she wanted to prove that she owned me. Did she think if she sent you here I wouldn't tell anybody and just say it was an accident? And that stunt you just tried to pull kissing me was that all part of the plan too. Get leverage against me so I wouldn't talk." Emily's eyes began to well up. She hadn't realized how much Ali must have tortured Paige. "Well you're both lucky, I don't remember a God damn thing so you're off the hook." Paige had just realized Emily was crying and even with no memory it hurt to see her upset. "I'm sorry for yelling but was I close? Did I finally foil the great Ali's plan?"

Emily couldn't handle her emotions and she didn't want Paige to see the full on water works. She saw the doctor approaching the door and knew this was her only chance to escape. She started walking towards the door but Paige wanted an answer. "Don't run away from me, you coward. You're probably off to go kiss some more of Allison ass, right?" Emily turned around. "You have no idea what you are talking about Paige. It's 2012, Ali is dead, and contrary to popular belief you are my girlfriend." The doctor had just opened the door and Emily stormed past him.

She couldn't exactly remember all the ends and outs of the hospital but she remembered how she got there last night. She kept her head down until she could contain her crying but she couldn't exactly see where she was going. This caused her to run into a man walking the other way. "I'm so sor…" She was stopped mid-sentence when she realized she had just run into Paige's dad. "You." The hatred in his voice was very similar to what Emily had just heard from Paige. He pushed his finger into her sternum and pinned her against the wall. "This is all your fault. I never wanted her hanging out with you to begin with and now she is in the hospital! Was making her gay not enough for you, so you had to go and almost get her killed?" Emily couldn't make eye contact with him and picked a point at the floor and just stared at it. He grabbed her shoulders and shook her. "Answer me!"

"Nick! Whatever happened wasn't Emily's fault." Paige's mom grabbed his arm. He took a step back but Emily still kept herself pressed against the wall. "He is completely right. This is my fault and I'm sorry, but you don't have to worry about me being around anymore because Paige doesn't even know who I am to her." His rage turned to fear. "What do you mean she doesn't know?"

"Paige thinks it's 2009. I hope you're happy." Emily walked away and towards the nurse's station. She borrowed a phone and called her mom to pick her up. She didn't mention the amnesia or running into Paige's parents but she needed to go home and was the past 24 hours away.

Paige had been answering the doctor's questions for 10 minutes but she still didn't understand everything that was going on. "What is your favorite song right now?"

"Don't trust me by 3OH3. You said I was physically fine so is with all these questions?"

"Your body is responding well to the surgery and medication but the head trauma is worrisome. I am asking you all these questions so I can gauge when exactly your last memory is. You said that the last movie you saw was Race to Witch Mountain what about the last big tabloid story you read?"

"That octo-mom had her kids." At this point, Paige's parents had made their way to her room. They both rushed to her side and were spouting out their "I love you's"

"Dr. Khana was just about to tell me why I can't remember anything."

"Well your memory seems to be dating back to early 2009. What I don't understand is why your memory is blocked out so specifically. In most cases people either lose their memory of people and experiences but keep their learned abilities, or lose the ability to form new memories. In your case, you have lost a specific set of memories. You still are able to do trig problems even though you last remember only taking Algebra. This tells me that you have not lost your learned abilities. My conclusion would be that you are regressing your memories."

"Can it be fixed?"

"The only cure would be time. You also have to realize that there is a possibility you might not gain back everything. The best thing for you to do right now is recover from your physical injuries and then work out what is mentally wrong."

"Sir can we talk to you outside."

They all left and Paige was left to her own thoughts. She still hadn't been told what exactly had happened to her, or why it had happened. She tried to focus all of her brain power on remembering anything but every time she came up against a black wall. There were some things she needed to figure out first: when did Ali die, when did she come out as gay, and how in the world was Emily Fields her girlfriend. Just thinking about everything made her head burst into pain so she decided to focus on her biggest problem: how to get her memories back.

Outside her parents were being briefed on exactly what had happened to Paige. "The police report will be thorough but from what I heard directly from Ms. Fields is that Paige and she were kid knapped by a boy who went by the name Nate St. Germain. Emily was able to escape but the boy ran after her. Paige somehow also escaped and found where the other two were. There was a scuffle and Paige received multiple blows to the head and was ultimately stabbed. That is when I got her last night. There was no damage to any organs and her most pressing problem is that head injury."

Nick nodded and tried processing all of the information. "And for what it is worth, Paige might have saved Ms. Field's life, but if Emily hadn't applied pressure to Paige's wound there is a great chance we would be talking outside of the morgue rather than a hospital room."

"So we should be thankful that Emily saved her life after putting it in danger in the first place?"

"Sir, I'm saying you should be aware that Ms. Fields did not leave your daughter's side the entire night so she wouldn't wake up alone."

"Dr. Khana I want my daughter's papers to be released to Abington Hospital. We have a house out in Montgomery County and I would like to transfer her care there."

"Sir, I don't think she should be transferred at this moment we still need to run a few tests."

"Good thing you are no longer her doctor, so you can leave your professional and personal advice to someone else."

Nick got out his phone to make a few calls and Dr. Khana went to file the release paperwork.

Emily had been in the shower for thirty minutes and the water started to get cold. The first 5 or so minutes she let the water rush over her and the blood in her hair and on her body circled the drain. She began singing to take her mind off of everything but every song that came to mind was about love.

"You're a rich girl, but you've gone too far..." She knew she was out of tune but Hall and Oates always made her feel good. "You can rely on your old man's money; you can rely on your old man's money." She shampooed her hair and continued singing. "It's a bitch girl, but it's gone too far cause you know it don't matter any way…" She washed the soap out of her eyes and reached for the conditioner. "You can say money money, won't get you to far, get you to far…" she could hear the guitar solo in her head and she started swaying as she rubbed conditioner in her hair. "Don't you know, don't you know that its wrong…" *knock**knock* Emily stopped what she was doing. "Emily are you almost done we need to talk."

"Mom I just need a few more minutes, and then I promise we will talk." Her mom's interruption brought her back to reality and she quickly finished and shut off the water. She dried off and threw on a pair of swim sweats and pulled on the sweat shirt that was on her bed. It happened to be one that Paige had left at her house after a date a few days before. It smelled just like her and she stood there breathing in her scent. She made her way down stairs and found one of the police officers from the night before sitting on her couch.

"Emily this is Officer Wallace, he needs to take your statement and he was gracious enough to come her to do it rather than making you go down to the station." Emily continued her way down the stairs and sat opposite of Wallace. She went through the events of the night before up to when she left the hospital that morning. "Did you believe this boy was a threat before?"

"He told me he was my ex-girlfriends cousin, and I had no reason not to believe him. She had told me that she had a stalker and I realized last night that Nate was him."

"I think I am done her, but we might need you to tell us this again. Your friend Caleb will not be charged with murder but we will need your testimony just in case this boy's parents try to bring a suit."

Officer Wallace left and Emily started to fall asleep. Pam didn't disturb her. Emily woke up at 6 in the evening and couldn't believe how long she had slept. She forgot she didn't have a phone so she called her friends to tell them she was on her way back to the hospital. She told them that she needed to talk to them in person soon.

When she got to the hospital, she made her way to Paige's room but it was empty. She ran to the nurse's table and saw Jane from the night before. "The girl in room 413 what happened to her? They said she was going to be fine." Dr. Khana saw Emily and came over to her. "Ms. Fields right?" Emily nodded. "Paige is fine, but her father requested her to be transferred to a different hospital."

"Which one?"

"I am so sorry but I cannot tell you. Her father made me sign a contract that completely enforces patient confidentiality. I am so sorry." He walked back through the OR doors and left Emily standing there in awe.

"Can I please use your phone again?" She called her friends and asked them to meet at her house. When she arrived her mom had already let them in and they were all sitting in her room.

"Emily what is wrong you sounded so upset over the phone?" Spencer was surprisingly the most concerned even though she was still nursing a busted nose and a black eye.

"Paige's dad moved her to a different hospital and they can't tell me where." Tears started to slowly leak from the corner of her eyes. "Emily don't worry, Paige will probably call as soon as she gets there and tell you." That made Emily start to cry harder. "That's the other thing I didn't tell you, Paige's memory…" She choked on her words and Hanna grabbed her hand. "she doesn't know that we are together. She thought it was 2009 and that Ali had put her in the hospital. She yelled at me." The girls realized how serious the situation was and huddled together into a hug. Aria broke first and made Emily look into her eyes, "Emily, Paige loves you all she needs is time. It may be tomorrow, a week from now, or God help us, a month from now, but she will remember."

"What if I can't wait that long, what if she can't wait that long?"

"Then we will all be her anyways to support you."

6 weeks later

Paige was walked into the Rustic bar and searched for a booth. She was so nervous and she ordered two waters. As she fiddled with her fingers, she looked up and saw the most beautiful sight in the world walking towards her. The girl sat down and conversation flowed between them. This had been their spot for more than a year and every month they would meet up on the third Thursday to have dinner.

"How's your dad?"

"Well, he is still an ass but he is definitely coming around to the whole 'I'm gay' thing. Yesterday he even had dinner with his friends and he talked about me being gay." She smiled because her dad was finally learning to accept her.

"The more important question of the night is, are you ready?" It was Paige's turn to pick the song and she had already signed up when she got there.

"I'm really not feeling it tonight."

"Well it's a good thing that I don't care." Paige ran up to the little stage and grabbed both microphones. The song began playing and she started swaying back and forth. "Ladies and gentleman we are back to debut our new single but alas my wonderful partner has decided to be shy. If you all could please help me get her on stage that would be fantastic."

"I come home in the morning light, My mother says when you gonna live your life right, Oh mother dear we're not the fortunate ones. And girls they want to have fun, Oh girls just want to have fun" She jumped off the stage and sexily swayed towards her target. "Come on Emily!" Emily swiped the mic out of her hand and put her hand to her ear. "The phone rings in the middle of the night, My father yells what you gonna do with your life.Oh daddy dear you know you're still number one
But girls they want to have fun. Oh girls just want to have." Emily grabbed Paige's hand and they both made it back on to the stage. "That's all they really want, Some fun.When the working day is done
Girls - they want to have fun, Oh girls just want to have fun" Paige grabbed Emily's had and spun her around. They were laughing and barely made it to the next verse. Paige pointed at Emily and sang, "Some boys take a beautiful girl, And hide her away from the rest of the world" Emily took her hand and put it to her heart. "Not me, I want to be the one to walk in the sun, Oh girls they want to have fun" They both continued singing very out of key and jumping around. "Oh girls just want to have,That's all they really want, Some fun" Paige put her hand on either side of Emily's hips and moved them in time with music. "When the working day is done, Girls - they want to have fun, Oh girls just want to have fun, They want to have fun, They want to have fun." The crowd applauded loudly and they both bowed hand-in-hand. They put the mics back in their stand and headed out the back door. Paige was still hyped up and jumping around. She laced her fingers in Emily's and twirled her around again. "Paige if you don't stop I'm going to throw up." They both laughed as they approached Paige's car. She twirled her one more time and penned her against the car.

"We definitely wouldn't want you getting sick." They both stared into each other's eyes and smiled.

"You are amazing", Emily whispered into the air. "I had a good teacher." Paige closed her eyes and leaned in and Emily met her in the middle for a soft kiss that slowly grew passionate.

A crash of thunder made Paige's eyes jut open. She looked around and realized she wasn't in some parking lot but in her bed. She breathed heavily and grabbed a notebook sitting on her night stand. She opened to a new page and wrote everything she could remember. She looked at the page and was satisfied with what she had put down On the top of the page she scribbled a short sentence: dream or memory?

A/N so I might even update again tonight because I got really into this story today. Btw this time jump just allows me tell a more coherent story that isn't Emily and Nick arguing for 4 or 5 chapters. Trust me you will not be disappointed with the next chapter. Hint: Halloween episode!

Quick Question:

Would you rather me have A in the plot at all or just focus on Pailey. I want to have that theme there but I'm afraid that it is so complex it will eat the rest of the story. I love feedback!